Objective:To establish a method of constructing antibody microarray based on sandwich immunoassay. Methods: Modified glass slides were robotically printed with capture antibodies against MCP-1, then dilutions of the cytokine were applied to the arrays and the protein was detected with biotin-labeled antibody coupled with cy3-conjugated streptavidin. A laser confocal scanner was used to obtain the images and the signal intensity was analyzed subsequently. Various factors in the production of antibody microarrays were analyzed: the capture antibody concentrations, blocking buffers, reproducibility and quantitative ability of the system, two-cytokine analysis and shelf life of the post-printing slides. Results: The signal intensities increased with increasing capture antibody concentration; 2%BSA and 5% casein were proper as the blocking buffer for this system; The results revealed high reproducibility with regard to intra-array (1.3%) and the inter-array (8.7%) variation at the capture antibody concentration of 125ug/ml and good qualitative ability with a correlation coefficient of 0.9995 between the antigen concentration and the signal intensity; Besides, an antibody microarray for the parallel analysis of two cytokines was established and the printed arrays could be stored for at least two months without any apparent change of the performance parameters. Conclusion: A method for constructing antibody microarray based on sandwich immunoassay was established which might lay a foundation for fabrication of antibody microarray with multiplexing and quantitative capacity.


This paper proposes a model reduction method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems based on traditional modal truncation and residualization techniques. The method is applied to a body freedom flutter vehicle with coupled short period and first bending mode and also with structural bending and torsion coupling. These models describe the dynamics with considerable accuracy, but result in high-order state space models which make the controller design extremely difficult. Hence, reduced order models for control synthesis are generated by retaining a common set of states across the flight envelope. As results, full order models of 148 states are reduced to 43 states. The reduced order models capture the dynamics of interest and can be used in the synthesis of active flutter suppression controllers.


Cysteine residues in the (determined by the CDR2 is Kabat) lysine residue before or after a cysteine residue as an antibody CDR2 of the used for conjugation - a conjugate of a hapten antibody, a disulfide bond is hapten-present, the sum of a polypeptide toxin and wherein tenhwa a conjugate formed between been reported.


Influencer marketing is one of the digital marketing strategies currently used by many companies. The purpose of this research is to find out and describe the influencer marketing strategy implemented specifically by an application-based FMCG product provider (start-up company) in Indonesia to market FMCG products such as fruits, vegetables, milk, and others that have a relatively short product life, using a qualitative approach and descriptive study. The results showed that the influencer marketing strategy implemented by an application-based FMCG product provider consists of four stages: determining (making), managing relationships, monitoring, and evaluating (measuring) influencer's marketing campaigns. Research conclusion, this strategy is a repeated cycle. The last stage (evaluation or measure) is the input to determine the influencer marketing in the next campaign.


The monitoring of hard dry milling process is a key issue for ensuring better use of machine-tool capability,Finding a appropriate sensor and signal process method which is sensitive to changes of machining condition,is an essential step towards hard milling automation and computer-integration pursuing high productivity of system and quality of its products. In this study,Sensorial information from relevant sensors(accelerometer and Acoustic emission (AE))is processed by the wavelet transform and wavelet package transform,the result show that AE signal is sensitive to changes of machining parameter(machining velocity) in hard dry milling,but the vibration (acceleration) signal make a slowness responses to this .


Intel SGX is not accessible from the most privileged execution level, known as ring zero, where the operating system kernel is placed. However, it is possible to split the execution responsibility between kernel and userspace by creating a dependency among these two levels that allow internal kernel data to be stored or processed within SGX private enclaves. In this paper we present SKEEN, an enhanced way to isolate internal operating system components and structures with Intel SGX technology, preventing information leak to different components of the same operating system. A proof-of-concept is provided to exemplify its usage.


This study analyzed how smartwork environment perceived by employees in global financial service industry (GFSI) influences their organizational commitment and innovative behavior. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey from 147 respondents randomly selected from seven global financial service firms in Seoul, Korea, where all three types of smartwork setting (working at home, mobile office, and smartwork center) are utilized. We found that no specific characteristic of smartwork environment (presenteeism, IT complexity, security risks, task interdependence) was significantly related to organizational commitment. For innovative behavior, only IT complexity and security risks of smartwork environment appeared to be significantly related. Contrary to our expectations, it was found that the negative emotion and stress of employees as to the complexity of IC technology and IT security risks can actually inspire their innovative behavior.


It is of great significant meaning to study female college students and their personal relations from the perspective of social gender and Confucius culture.It is helpful to settle female students' confusion in personal communication and remove disadvantageous elements in communication and strengthen their communicative abilities.Meanwhile,it promotes their personal relations to develop in a harmonious,healthy and pleasant way.


The theoretical study on phenomena ripping up the bottom" is presented in this paper, including the incipient velocity, ascending movement, the exposed condition from the water surface, descending and longitudinal movement of deposit pieces. Based on the mechanical analysis the critical conditions, the dynamic equations and their solutions have been derived. Not only can various phenomena and field data be described in theory, but also some unknown mechanism is unveiled. Both the general principles of sediment movement and the characteristics of flow and pieces moving during the bottom ripped up are studied to expand the research field of sediment.


The invention relates to a remote control device (10) for a motor vehicle, having a transmitting device (12) by means of which for remotely controlling at least one component of the motor vehicle at least one signal (14) is to be transmitted, and with at least one switch (20), by means of which by operating the switch (20) emitting the signal (14) is effected, wherein a position detection device (24) by means of which an actual position of the remote control device (10) can be detected relative to a predetermined reference position, wherein the signal (14) in response to is to send out the detected actual position, and a method for operating such a remote control device (10).


Cotton, the king of fibers is often quoted as 'White Gold' because of its higher commercial values. It is a primary raw material in the textile industries. Cotton, cotton yarn, cotton fabrics and garments have substantial demand in the global market. Cotton is the most important fibre crop of India playing a dominant role in its agrarian and industrial economy. In the present study efforts have been made to study the cost, returns, profitability of organic and conventional cotton. The primary data required for the study were collected during year 2021-22 from 320 cotton growers of Maharashtra. Simple statistical tools like averages and percentages were used in analysing the collected data and standard cost concepts was used for analysis. The result of the study examined that, the total cost of production (cost 'C') of cotton was worked out to Rs. 87633 and Rs. 72683 in conventional irrigated and conventional rainfed cotton cultivation, respectively, the per hectare conventional rainfed cotton production was worked out to be 13.18 qtls. The per hectare conventional irrigated cotton production was worked out to be 20.95 qtls. The benefit-cost ratio was estimated to 2.09 and 1.77 for irrigated and rainfed respectively, This indicated that, organic irrigated cotton production was more profitable than organic rainfed cotton. Organic cotton farming promises to be a more sustainable form of agriculture that is aimed at producing food in a more environmentally friendly, economically viable and socially just way. Organic methods also have wider social and environmental benefits that come from the use of sustainable methods.


In the crystal structure of the title compound, [Co(H2O)6]2(C24H12O16S8)·H2O, the thiacalix[4]arenetetrasulfonate (= TCAS4−) anions adopt a cone-type conformation with an additional water molecule as a guest molecule in the hydrophobic cavity. The TCAS4− anions are arranged in layers in an up–down fashion. These anionic layers alternate with cationic layers consisting of rather regular octahedral cations (symmetry m). Several medium O—H⋯O hydrogen-bond interactions exist between the aqua ligands of the [Co(H2O)6]2+ cations and the O atoms of the sulfonate groups. In addition to the two crystallographically different Co atoms, two S and four O atoms are situated on mirror planes.


The proceedings of the conference "Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature" include the latest discussions about the political, military, cultural, economic, ideological, literary and administrative relations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel during the Second and First Millennia BC incorporating texts, art, and archaeology.


The objective of this study is to develop the gene based sequence tagged site (STS) markers in wheat. The euchromatin enriched genomic library was constructed and the STS primer sets were designed using gene based DNA sequence. The euchromatin enriched genomic (EEG) DNA library in wheat was constructed using the McrA and McrBC system in DH5a cell. The 2,166 EEG colonies have been constructed by methylated DNA exclusion. Among the colonies, 606 colonies with the size between 400 and 1200 bp of PCR products were selected for sequencing. In order to develop the gene based STS primers, blast analysis comparing between wheat genetic information and rice genome sequence was employed. The 227 STS primers mainly matched on Triticum aestivum (hexaploid), Triticum turgidum (tetraploid), Aegilops (diploid), and other plants. The polymorphisms were detected in PCR products after digestion with restriction enzymes. The eight STS markers that showed 32 polymorphisms in twelve wheat genotypes were developed using 227 STS primers. The STS primers analysis will be useful for generation of informative molecular markers in wheat. Development of gene based STS marker is to identify the genetic function through cloning of target gene and find the new allele of target trait.


Like the rest of the world, Armed Forces are also trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among their troops. One of the major challenges in implementing preventive measures is that a large proportion of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic.[1][1] To date, the role of truly asymptomatic cases in the


We have built a series of notch filter image masks that make the Lyot coronagraph less susceptible to low spatial frequency optical aberrations. In this paper we present experimental results of their performance in the lab using monochromatic light. Our tests show that these "eighth-order" masks are resistant to tilt and focus alignment errors and can generate contrast levels of 2 × 10-6 at 3λ/D and 6 × 10-7 at 10λ/D without the use of corrective optics such as deformable mirrors. This work supports recent theoretical studies suggesting that eighth-order masks can provide the Terrestrial Planet Finder-Coronagraph with a large search area, high off-axis throughput, and a practical requisite pointing accuracy.


The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre was successful in 1997 in its application to ATSIC to employ two Aboriginal women to conduct a project entitled 'Building a Safer Community'. The aims and objectives of the project are to: design, conduct and evaluate a questionnaire to survey knowledge of, and promote discussion about sexual assault within the A.C.T./Queanbeyan Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community; design a culturally appropriate sexual assault education package for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; pilot the education program with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men on topics related to gender and violence and protective behaviours; a culturally appropriate and youth specific sexual assault education package is produced. This briefing gives some details about the project.


With the development of computer technology,more and more companies expect to establish small-sized office LAN to provide better service for its production and management and to achieve higher benefit.This paper introduces each step of constructing the small-sized LAN,such as network design,domain name application,network distribution,installation of the servers,and hardware selection,connection and installation etc.This project has been implemented and tested,and all of terminal users can share network resources.It reduces the routine work cost and improves the working efficiency.


Part 1 Brake refinement: one year's experience utilizing the SAE J2521 brake noise test procedure, J.K. Thompson and C.M. Fudge towards more accurate brake testing, E.J. Slevin and H. Smales holographic interferometry used to investigate noise from a drum brake mounted on a half vehicle test rig, J.D. Fieldhouse et al modelling and simulation of the vibration and squeal of a car disc brake, H. Ouyang et al brake system noise and vibration - a review, P. Ioannidis et al evaluation of disc brake pad pressure distribution by multibody dynamic analysis, W. Rumold and R.A. Swift investigation of the time development of disc brakes generating noise using laser holography, C. Talbot and J.D. Fieldhouse stick-slip vibration in a disc brake system, Q. Cao et al brake-squeal measurement using electronic speckle pattern interferometry, R. Krupka et al. Part 2 Mechatronic braking systems: a regulatory approach to complex electronic control systems when sharing life with the braking system, A.J. Mendelson development of linear solenoid valve for brake-by-wire system, T. Miyazaki et al design and control of an electric parking brake, R. Leiter the new Range Rover - maximizing customer benefits from a slip control system, P. Thompson regenerative braking for all-electric vehicles, N. Schofield et al development of "ECB" system for hybrid vehicles, M. Soga et al enhancing road vehicle efficiency by regenerative braking, A.M. Walker et al. Part 3 Braking systems and vehicle performance: influence of tyre properties to modern vehicle control systems, K.-H. Hartmann and H. Grunberg brake performance monitoring for commercial vehicles using estimated tire-road friction information, T. Dieckmann and A. Stenman from tyre contact patch to satellite, A.R. Williams intelligent braking management for commercial vehicles, E.-C. von Glasner et al the intelligent brake system, E. Gerum current position and development trends in air-brake systems for Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles, T. Markovic wheel movement during braking, J. Klaps and A.J. Day. Part 4 Materials and modelling: simulation of brake sequences and corresponding brake wear, R. Harju analysis of automotive disc brake cooling characteristics, G. Voller et al interface temperatures in friction braking, H.S. Qi et al new development of a wet brake system, S. Nowak friction and wear of polymer matrix composite materials for automotive braking industry, P. Filip the interactions of phenolic polymers in friction materials, B.H. McCormick effect of friction lining additives on interfaces of friction components, R. Holinski.


Observations of the kinematics of H I in the disks of spiral galaxies have shown that isovelocity contours often exhibit a twisted pattern. The shape of a galaxy's gravitational potential well (whether due to luminous matter or dark matter) can be determined from the direction of the twist. If this twist is a manifestation of the precession of a nonsteady-state disk, it is shown that the twists of NGC 5033 and 5055 imply an overall prolate shape, with the major axis of the potential well aligned along the rotation axis of the disk. Therefore, the luminous disks of these galaxies must be embedded in dark halos that are prolate spheroids or prolatelike triaxial figures. 41 references.


Evaluation should be part of the management process of every public policy, including foreign aid. In this last case, there are two approaches —micro and macro— to evaluate the effectiveness of aid. The tone of results of these two approaches is different, being more optimistic the results of micro evaluations. A global perspective allows us to conclude that the positive effect of aid is not irrelevant, but it would be considerably increased if donors subject their policy to more systematic and robust evaluation.


"Learning to write coherently... is something which many people never manage in their first language [and] the process is every bit as difficult in a second language" (Nunan, 1991, p.99). As such, interest in writing amongst applied linguists has increased quite importantly during the last two or three decades; soon, the discipline has rapidly and "clearly come of age thanks to the launch of several firsts in L2 writing" (Leki, Cumming & Silva, 2008, p.1). It is within this context and with the objective to uncover what challenges learners of Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) face while learning Arabic writing that this qualitative corpus study was conducted. Three prevalent challenges emerged: one was the students' difficulty to spell Arabic words correctly; another emanated from their overall inability to learn the common Arabic order of syntactic constituents; and the other had to do with the challenge to write well-organized Arabic paragraphs.


The main objective of this study is to investigate economic analysis of beekeeping operations and determine factors affecting the production in the Mediterranean region. In this regard, the survey was conducted in 2013 and the data was obtained via face to face interviews with 139 beekeepers. In order to determine beekeeping enterprises, stratified sampling method was used in terms of owned hives. According to the results, the average honey cost in the region is 5.30 US$/kg. The average number of hives is 179.06 and the yield per hive is 12.3 kg/year. The average annual gross production value is 25029 and net profit is 19882 US$. The average relative profit was calculated as 2.70 US$/year. 15 variables were grouped under four factors affecting honey production as specific factors for enterprises, outsourcing, product diversity and auxiliary factors. In this frame, problems for beekeeping enterprises in Mediterranean region are identified, and then specific solutions are provided.


This article attempts to criticizes the thoughts of Maurice Bucaille, an Orientalist from France who doubts the authenticity of the hadits contained in the book Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, especially those relating to medicine. As the primary sources that author uses, the Book of La Bible, Le Coran, et La Science which has been translated into Indonesian by M. Rasyidi with the title Bibles, Quran, and Modern Science. This research seeks to examine and examine the thinking of Maurice Bucaille and then analyze the traditions that are doubtful of their authenticity with a medical science approach. The hadits that are authenticated by Maurice Bucaille -ḥadīth about the development of human embryos, hadits about flies, hadits about the usefulness of dates, and hadits about fever- are authentic hadits seen from a medical perspective.  In other words, the hadits is in accordance with modern science. This proves that the criticism shown by Maurice Bucaille is incorrect.


The structure of methyl 5,6-dimethoxy-3a,10-dimethyl-1-phenyl-3,3a,8,8a-tetrahydro-3,8-(epiminomethano)cyclopenta[a]indene-2-carboxylate, the product of unusual thermolysis of azacyclic allene under microvawe conditions, was studied by synchrotron X-ray diffraction.


BACKGROUND
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are among the most common injuries in adolescent athletes and result in significant financial and physical morbidity. Evidence-based programs designed to prevent ACL injury are effective. However, their adoption remains low. We sought to evaluate the awareness, evidence-based implementation, and barriers to implementation of ACL injury prevention programs (ACL-IPP) among youth athletic coaches.

HYPOTHESIS
Higher education level of the coach, higher level of training, number of teams coached, and coaching female teams would be associated with ACL-IPP implementation.

STUDY DESIGN
Cross-sectional survey.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Level 4.

METHODS
We conducted an email survey sent to all 63 school districts within Section VI of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. We employed descriptive statistics and tests of correlation to identify factors associated with ACL-IPP implementation.

RESULTS
A total of 73% of coaches said they were aware of ACL-IPP, and only 12% of coaches implemented ACL-IPP according to best evidence. Coaches of higher competitive levels were more likely to adopt ACL-IPP (P = 0.01), more likely to use them multiple times per week (P = 0.03), and for ≥1 seasons (P = 0.02). Coaches of multiple teams were more likely to adopt ACL-IPP (P = 0.01). There were no differences in evidence-based implementation of ACL-IPP with gender coached or level of education of the coach.

CONCLUSION
Overall awareness, adoption, and evidence-based implementation of ACL-IPP remain low. These results suggest that coaches at higher levels of play and multiple teams tend to use ACL-IPP more often. Gender coached and level of education do not appear to be associated with awareness or implementation.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE
Evidence-based ACL-IPP implementation remains low. Targeting coaches of younger athletes and fewer teams with local outreach programs and ACL-IPP may increase the implementation of ACL-IPP.


A panel of geographers, demographers, and political scientists discusses a broad range of issues related to the resurgence of nationalism in the USSR and its relationship to environmental protest and territorial disputes: the emergence of nationality politics; differential rates of nationality population growth and urbanization; various conceptions of (and levels of autonomy within) ethnic homelands; the spatial pattern of actual and potential territorial claims; linkages between environmentalism and nationalism (with an emphasis on the Baltic and Central Asian republics); parallels and differences between the USSR and other countries; and consequences of efforts to implement republic-level economic autonomy and khozraschet.


We propose to compute Wasserstein barycenters (WBs) by solving for Monge maps with variational principle. We discuss the metric properties of WBs and explore their connections, especially the connections of Monge WBs, to K-means clustering and co-clustering. We also discuss the feasibility of Monge WBs on unbalanced measures and spherical domains. We propose two new problems -- regularized K-means and Wasserstein barycenter compression. We demonstrate the use of VWBs in solving these clustering-related problems.


A dynamic modeling framework is presented that provides a method to estimate deposition of air emissions in soil, based on either single or multiple time-point soil measurements. These dynamic estimates, made in the context of the uncertainty and variability associated with environmental systems, differ significantly from those based on steady-state single-valued assumptions. A case study on the global mass balance for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and dibenzofurans (PCDF) illustrates that, by explicitly representing the uncertainty of the parameters used to assess mass balance, there exists a discrepancy between deposition and source emissions of between 6- and 20-fold. The uncertainty in these soil deposition estimates was most strongly dependent on two landscape properties (the deposition velocity of air particles and the thickness of the atmosphere) and three chemical properties (the organic-carbon partition coef ficient, chemical degradation within the atmosphere, and vapor pressure). Usin...


The objectives of the Consulting Assistance on Economic Reform (CAER II) project are to contribute to broad-based and sustainable economic growth and to improve the policy reform content of USAID assistance activities that aim to strengthen markets in recipient countries. Services are provided by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and its subcontractors. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research, Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development, Office of Emerging Markets, contract PCE-C-00-95-00015-00, Task Order #39. This paper also draws from the section on intergovernmental fiscal relations of the study on Tax Reform in Nepal: A Comprehensive Review, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1997. Copyright 2000 by the President and Fellows


Why Study Biodiversity in Land/Inland Water Ecotones? Patterns and Regulations of Plant Diversity in Lacustrine Ecotones. Invertebrate Biodiversity in Land-Inland Water Ecotonal Habitats. Bird Diversity in Ecotonal Habitats. Mammal Diversity in Inland Water Ecotone Habitats. Ecotonal Biodiversity and Sustainability in Unique Tropical Landscapes. Index.


Islam is a nonviolent and peaceful religion, everyone either Muslim and non-Muslim can get the safety in the shade of this religion. Allah (SWT) chose it for mankind. Its teachings are regarding the justice, equality, brotherhood, peace and harmony etc. Pakistan has been made on the name of Islam. Its rules and policies should be according to Islamic teachings, therefore. But, the present conditions are quite different. We have forgotten the sacrifices and real efforts of our elders (seniors) in getting this country, unfortunately. As well as, we also ignored the Islamic teachings, whereas our lives are entirely dependent on them. Islam advises for showing obedience concerning implemented rules of society. It needs to maintain peace and tranquil in society. But, we are not following the implemented rules. Due to which, we are facing the critical and misery situations in society, such as murder, injustice, robbery, harassment in different forms, domestic violence, acid throwing, wife beating, rape/gang rape, child harassment, child marriages and jealousy etc. Actually, due to breaking the rules, we are going towards ruin with the passage of time. However, we do not accept it and even, we are in this misconception that we are moving towards development. In reality, this thought is a reason to create an unpleasant environment in society. Although, we can eliminate disobedience only in this form that we follow the Islamic teachings strictly and give significance to the implemented rules of society. Then the creation of a pleasant atmosphere would be possible in society. The aim of this research work was to explain the circumstances of contemporary society in the light of Islamic teachings. The method of qualitative and quantitative have been used in this research work, for this purpose one hundred people of Peshawar have been taken and questionnaires have been filled by them to know their views. The majority of people gave their response that the disobedience of implemented laws of state is a main reason of violent environment in state. Therefore we should follow the implemented rules of state and strickly act upon on Islamic teachings, then we would be able to produce peace, harmony, brotherhood and justice in enironment of society. This research work may be significance due to its specific theme and field work for researchers and readers.


Central Soviet Area,in the process of anti-corruption,not only established supervisory authority agency,but also mobilized the masses to participate in the monitoring. It has achieved the effective combination of power supervision and rights monitor and reflected the breadth of supervision by the masses. It has a very profound historical enlightenment in current anti-corruption work in institutions of higher learning.


High concentration of nitrate in water either in surface or groundwater is an effect from agricultural activities, domestic use and industrial activities. Hence, removing enormous nitrate from water is necessary because it hazardous to the human health and aquatic life. The ion exchange resin is the most widely technology used in removing nitrate from water source. In this study, commercial strong anion exchange resin, Amberlite IRA 958 was used to study the efficiency of nitrate removal from aqueous solution in a fixed-bed column experiment. The influence of resin dosage (0.05 to 0.20 g), contact time (1 to 4 hours) and initial nitrate concentration (20, 50, 100 and 200 mg/L) were examined. More than 87% of nitrate removal achieved at 0.1 g of resin dosage, 3 hours of contact time and 20 mg/L of initial nitrate concentration. This promising result make that Amberlite IRA-958 can become an attractive candidate as adsorbent for nitrate removal.


ABSTRACT Person–organization (PO) fit theory assumes that employees' perception of organizational culture affects their attitudes and that this relationship is modified by individual differences. Based on the person–culture (PC) fit literature, this study defines current-ideal culture incongruence (CICI) as the extent of the discrepancy between an individual's perceptions of the current and ideal states of the same organizational culture. CICI is measured for hierarchical, rational, group, and developmental cultures with the competing values framework, which is applicable in Korean central agencies because of the Confucian tradition and NPM reforms. This study then links the CICI dimensions to job satisfaction. The OLS regression results show that the CICI dimensions are negatively associated with job satisfaction. Furthermore, this article reports that the negative associations become weaker at higher hierarchical levels. This study discusses implications of these findings for the growing literature on PC fit or PO fit and job satisfaction in public management.


The process of agricultural modernization was encouraged by the State and made viable the expansion of farming activities developed on a large scale in Brazil, as is the case the sugarcane monoculture. Thus, this article aims to analyze the impacts generated by the expansion of sugarcane in the municipality of Ouro Verde. From the reading of the selected bibliographic material and analysis of data from secondary sources, we verified that the expansion of sugarcane tillage generated significant social and environmental impacts in the municipality analyzed.


Water plays a vital role in human life. Ground water quality is an essential for healthy population. In the present study of drinking water samples for 20water sources tubewells in the Unjha field has been carried out. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the quality of water from these sources. The physical properties suchas pH and Total dissolved solids (TDS) showed the range of pH (7.24-8.48) and TDS (643.0-1208.6) mg/L which is within the permissible limits of World Health Organization (WHO) except few samples. We have measured of SO4 -2,F-, Cl- Na+,K+,Ca+2and Mg+2also. The analytical data are processed and interpretented as per slandered laboratory method of APHA.


Ultra-wideband impulse-radio has attracted attention in short range and high-speed indoor communications. The terminal is generally expected to be small-size, system simplicity and low power consumption. Therefore, the TR-PIAM (transmitted-reference pulse interval amplitude modulation) scheme had been proposed to simplify the symbol correlation process including the Rake combining and to improve the energy efficiency, but the correlation process requires estimation of the optimum integration time in multipath channels. In this paper, a TR-PIAM scheme using Time-Reversal is proposed in order to solve these problems. The performance is improved without active correlation and Rake combining process, thereby resulting in terminal system simplicity. The performance in multipath channels is investigated using computer simulation and the effectiveness is discussed.


Why and in what direction do organizations change?1 Early responses to these questions generally fell into two camps. Adaptationist scholars proposed theories based on the assumption that organizations have wide latitude to change their structure, strategy, and scope. In the adaptationist view, organizations are able to change in the direction dictated by their environment or by the choices of organizational decision makers, whether in the pursuit of rational action (e.g., Lawrence & Lorsch, 1967; Williamson, 1985) or blind action (Weick, 1979). In its extreme form, the adaptationist view implied that firms can and do adapt nearly frictionlessly, suggesting that if there is a performance penalty associated with inappropriate organization, misaligned firms will change so as to reduce or eliminate this misalignment. Alternatively, selection-based theories, notably structural inertia theory within organizational ecology, contended that inertial forces tend to stymie attempts at organizational change (Hannan & Freeman, 1984). In its extreme form, the selectionist view implied that firms can rarely change successfully; instead, if there is a performance penalty associated with misalignment, misaligned firms will be "selected out" of the population.


A pneumatic sample-transfer system is needed to be able to rapidly retrieve samples irradiated with 14-MeV neutrons at the Rotating Target Neutron Source (RTNS-I). The rabbit system, already in place for many years, has been refurbished with modern system components controlled by an LSI-11 minicomputer. Samples can now be counted three seconds after an irradiation. There are many uses for this expanded 14-MeV neutron activation capability. Several fission products difficult to isolate from mixed fission fragments can be produced instead through (n,p) or (n,..cap alpha..) reactions with stable isotopes. Mass-separated samples of Nd, Mo, and Se, for example, can be irradiated to produce Pr, Nb, and As radionuclides sufficient for decay scheme studies. The system may also be used for multielement fast-neutron activation analysis because the neutron flux is greater than 2 x 10/sup 11/ n/cm/sup 2/-sec. Single element analyses of Si and O are also possible. Finally, measurements of fast-neutron cross sections producing short-lived activation products can be performed with this system. A description of the rabbit system and instructions for its use are presented in this report.


The article explores the genesis and evolution of ideas about G.R.Derzhavin's oeuvre found in the studies of Kazan researchers at the end of the 19 th beginning of the 20 th centuries and based on the works by L.Ya.Voronova. Dr. Lyudmila Ya.Voronova has created a scientific school at the Department of Literature at Kazan University, which studies the history and theory of the Kazan School of Academic Philology. The works of this scholar, published in the proceedings of the International Derzhavin Conference hosted by Kazan University in 1993-2012, serve as a basis for this article.


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important diagnostic tool in diagnosing spinal cord tumors. But differential diagnosis is very difficult with only MRI.Spinal meningiomas account for about 10% of primary spinal cord tumors in Asia. We studied three patients with spinal meningiomas in order to show special findings. T1-weighted images showed various intensities, but their signal intensities on T2-weighted images were similar to those of the spinal cord in all cases. We considered these to be special findings with MRI in spinal meningioma. The relationship between pathological type (e. g. psammomatous type, fibroblastic type, and transitional type) and MRI was not clear. Preoperative diagnosis of ossified spinal meningioma was made from MRI.


The objective of this research was to evaluate the influence of three electrolyte balance equivalences on the response in health and productive parameters in Cobb 500 broiler chickens. 280 chickens distributed in 7 treatments were used: control T0, sodium bicarbonate T1 (NaHCO3) 240 milli equivalents (mEq / kg), sodium sesquicarbonate T2 (S-Carb) (240mEq / kg), T3 NaHCO3 (250mEq / kg), T4 S-Carb (250mEq / kg), T5 NaHCO3 (300mEq / kg) and T6 S-Carb (300mEq / kg) and 5 repetitions. The data were evaluated by ANOVA and Tukey (0.05) with the statistical package InfoStat. The variables evaluated were the weekly weight, weekly-cumulative weight gain, weekly-cumulative food consumption, abdominal fat, leg and peak pigmentation and carcass yield; in none of them were significant differences between treatments. However, the highest T5 values obtained a significant difference in the weekly-cumulative feed conversion parameter with respect to the other treatments 1.53 ± 2.38 g (P value => 0.05) for the weekly weight parameters with 2910 ± 1.06 g, weekly-cumulative weight gain 679 ± 0.02 g and yield of the channel 81.65%. In relation to the benefit-cost, treatments T1, T3 and T5 were superior to the other treatments ($ 0.19, 0.19 and 0.23 respectively). It is concluded that the use of levels of 300mEq / kg of sodium bicarbonate improves the feed conversion in the productive parameters in Cobb 500 chickens.


In this paper, a free space detection approach is proposed for the detection of drivable area in the context of autonomous driving. This approach aims to detect free space using only 3D LIDAR data as input, by organizing the LIDAR measurements in their sensor specific layer/channel representation. The unstructured 3D point cloud is converted into 2D panoramic images containing 3D coordinates related features. This representation allows employing semantic segmentation convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the detection of the free space. Using CNNs, these images are semantically segmented into two classes: road and non-road. The final output is the free space region, that can be used for potential driving assistance functions. The proposed approaches are evaluated on a manually annotated set built from the KITTI road benchmark.


The breakdown voltages in a needle-plate geometry have been measured by 50 Hz power frequency tests for the CF3I-N2 gas mixtures (5–30% CF3I) over the gas pressure from 0.1 to 0.3 MPa. The influence of different conditions on the breakdown performance is investigated. The synergistic effect of CF3I-N2 gas mixtures is verified from the respect of breakdown voltage. Moreover, the behavior of the gas mixtures in highly divergent fields is characterized by a pressure range of corona stabilization, which can explain the relation of the breakdown strength to gas pressure and mixing ratio. A comparison to the theoretical breakdown voltages in uniform electric field shows that the breakdown strength reduces with the rising non-uniform coefficient of electric field at relatively short gap distance. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the insulating ability to divergent field is weakened by the increasing CF3I ratio.


Abstract : Bacteria play a role of biological depolarizers and activators in the process of electrochemical corrosion of steel in sea water. The role of bacteria is very important in the initial period when they activate the metal surface and accelerate the formation of microgalvanic elements. Later on, corrosion of the metal becomes apparent due to increased use of molecular hydrogen and depolarization of the cathode, and due to the work of the galvanic pairs which is maintained by the anode process and by the bacteriogenic hydrogen sulfide contacting the metal. Only intensely reproducing bacteria with a well-expressed production of hydrogen sulfide or ammonia enhance the biological corrosion of carbon steel. Most of the cultures studied cause biological corrosion of carbon steel leading to a significant loss of metal.


1. An electronic device comprising: a first panel having a first display surface; ! a second panel having a second display surface; ! Third panel having a third display surface, wherein the first panel is rotatably coupled to the first edge of the second panel and wherein the third panel is rotatably coupled with the second face of the second panel; ! inclinometer disposed in the second panel and configured to detect a change in the inclination of the second panel; ! accelerometer offset from the center of the second panel to detect rotation of the second panel from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation; and! a processor configured to execute at least one software application having a graphical user interface, wherein the processor is responsive to the inclinometer and responsive to the accelerometer to redraw an image displayed at the first display surface, the second display surface, the third display surface, or any of their combination of the image in landscape display in a display image in a portrait form, when the first panel, the second panel and the third panel with is responsible, at least one predetermined folding configuration and the change in the inclination of the second panel during rotation exceeds the second threshold panel. ! 2. The electronic device according to Claim. 1, wherein the image comprises a keypad image. ! 3. The electronic device according to Claim. 1, wherein the rotating comprises rotating in a plane less than a quarter turn. ! 4. The electronic device according to Claim. 1, to a


The relation existing between anemia and various gastric affections has been a matter of great interest for many years. As early as 1860, Austin Flint1called attention to the possible dependence of certain cases of pernicious anemia on certain degenerative changes in the gastric mucosa. In 1865, Samuel Fenwick2published a memoir on "Morbid Changes in the Stomach and Intestinal Villi Present in Persons Who Have Died of Cancer" in which he observed the disappearance of the cells in the gastric tubules, granular and fatty degeneration and atrophy, and an increased formation of connective tissue with a marked thinning of the mucous membrane, and with loss of flesh. Especially did this condition occur in persons dying with cancer of the breast. He explained the anemia accompanying this disease as possibly due to the changes in the gastric tubules of the stomach. In 1875, Schumann3described a case


The ferrofluid is a kind of nanofluid that has magnetization properties in addition to excellent thermophysical properties, which has resulted in an effective performance trend in cooling applications. In the present study, experiments are conducted to investigate the heat flow characteristics of ferrofluid based on thermomagnetic convection under the influence of different magnetic field patterns. The temperature and heat dissipation characteristics are compared for ferrofluid under the influence of no-magnet, I, L, and T magnetic field patterns. The results reveal that the heat gets accumulated within ferrofluid near the heating part in the case of no magnet, whereas the heat flows through ferrofluid under the influence of different magnetic field patterns without any external force. Owing to the thermomagnetic convection characteristic of ferrofluid, the heat dissipates from the heating block and reaches the cooling block by following the path of the I magnetic field pattern. However, in the case of the L and T magnetic field patterns, the thermomagnetic convection characteristic of ferrofluid drives the heat from the heating block to the endpoint location of the pattern instead of the cooling block. The asymmetrical heat dissipation in the case of the L magnetic field pattern and the symmetrical heat dissipation in the case of the T magnetic field pattern are observed following the magnetization path of ferrofluid in the respective cases. The results confirm that the direction of heat flow could be controlled based on the type of magnetic field pattern and its path by utilizing the thermomagnetic behavior of ferrofluid. The proposed lab-scale experimental set-up and results database could be utilized to design an automatic energy transport system for the cooling of power conversion devices in electric vehicles.


An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by cystic changes and the presence of malignant glandular cells which contain intracytoplasmic mucin. It may arise from the ovary, pancreas, appendix, and lung.


Since higher performance of semiconductor devices is required, all of the semiconductor wafer manufacturers make their effort into device size reduction. However, in the latest semiconductor device, only the size reduction is not sufficient to achieve the requirement. The carrier mobility is essential to be improved. The semiconductor manufacturers, especially wet cleaning process people, try to optimize their process parameters to get smoother silicon surface. When they examine the process parameters, only Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is available to measure the roughness of silicon surface, but the throughput of AFM is quite low. To solve this problem, we present a method of measuring silicon surface roughness called micro-haze measurement. Through experiments and a correlation analysis, we confirmed that it is sensitive enough to monitor silicon surface roughness in a much shorter time than the conventional method.


This study was carried out in the agricultural area surrounding al Kufa Cement Plant in al Najaf Governorate, which is located in Al-Manatherah district. The study included the collection and analysis of soil, dust and plant samples as well as conducting some blood tests for the residents in the study area. The results showed that the mass concentration of dust suspended in the summer was higher than the rest of the other seasons in all the studied sites. The highest TSP concentration was recorded at location C, 1798.1 mg / m3, and the site D was indicated as the highest concentration of lead at 0.5623g/mCadmium recorded the highest value in site C within summer concentrations with a concentration of 1.2863 g/m . For the measurement of the heavy elements of the water extract of the plants, it was found that the leaves of the grape sample No. 2 achieved the highest concentration of heavy elements iron, cobalt, cadmium and lead which reached (0.1657, 0.3197, 0.5106, 0.2109 mg / m3 respectively). The study showed that there were clear differences in the number of infections of diseases and their proportion between the two districts ( Al-Manathera and Al Kufa), where it was found that the highest rate of bronchitis in the district of Al-Kufa, reached 48,298 in compared with the number of infections in the district of Al-Manatherah, which was 18,620. The highest number of bacteria and fungi were observed at distance of 10 km,1km (278.3 x 10 6 , 65.8 x 10 4 CFU g -1 soil) from the cement plant ,and the lowest were observed at distance of 6 km,1km (184.9x10 6 ,33.5 x10 4 CFU g 1 soil),respectively, from the cement plant.


We study fixed point theorems for maps which satisfy a property o f stretching a suitably oriented topological space Z along the paths connecting two disjoint subsets Z − l and Z − r of Z. Our results reconsider and extend previous theorems in (56, 59, 60) where the case of two-dimensional cells (that is topological spaces homeomorphic to a rectangle of the plane) was analyzed. Applications are given to topological horseshoes and to the study of the periodic points and the symbolic dynamics associated to discrete (semi)dynamical systems.


Find tools, applications, multimedia, and social media to help builders meet the growing consumer preference for homes with improved indoor air quality.


To the Editor: The excellent article by Orneholm et al. is a valuable addition to the literature concerning the diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). They nicely detail the natural history of the challenging situation which continues after successful DFU treatment and wound healing. The frequency of eventual treatment failure with subsequent ulceration of the same or contralateral foot is discouraging. But there is accumulating evidence that the DFU dilemma can be addressed with a therapeutic approach that has been subject until now to skepticism and disdain from many diabetes academicians, i.e., surgical nerve decompression (ND). High level evidence now has proven that surgical decompression by external neurolysis of peripheral nerve trunks provides subjective DSPN pain relief and suggests with less rigorous science that objective foot complications like DFU and its recurrences also succumb to external neurolysis at fibro-osseous tunnel sites. Dellon first elucidated the frequent existence of swollen peripheral nerve trunks in diabetes, since confirmed by ultrasound, and demonstrated the value of ND in treating the pain of diabetic neuropathy (DSPN). But it was a surprise to find that risk of foot complications was also influenced. After unilateral ND for pain, 30% of 50 DSPN cases had developed in the contralateral leg a DFU or had an amputation for a wound by 4.5 years postdecompression (p 0.001). At least five other reports also found that ND offers significant protection of healed DFU from subsequent ulceration risk. What might account for this apparent protection from ulceration in the operated foot? First, the ND does restore protective sensation, so the universal involvement of neuropathy in DFU development is minimized in that leg. But sensibility improvement is absent in the contralateral foot, presumably rendering it at continued risk for DFU. A second factor may involve the unexpected observation that unilateral ND often produces better leg comfort bilaterally, a finding which has now been confirmed in 2 prospective randomized control trials. The Macare van Maurik within-patient controlled study found significant pain improvement in both the ND and nonoperated legs in comparison to baseline VAS pain scores. Rozen et al. used nonoperated controls to compare to bilateral surgery cases having unilateral sham procedure and contralateral ND. Both ND and sham legs had large and significant VAS score pain reductions vs. control patients, and this relief was durable for up to 4.5 years. The sham legs had somewhat less relief than ND legs, but control subjects had no diminution of pain. So these studies have finally answered in the affirmative the question of whether ND is effective for painful nerve entrapment in diabetes. Adequate restoration of subjective comfort after only unilateral ND may tempt DSPN sufferers to decline a second contralateral procedure for their remaining, much improved pain and could explain patients' choice to forego contralateral ND. Yet we know from Aszmann et al. and Rankin et al. that a concomitant diminution of objective contralateral DFU risk is not seen as Figure 1 illustrates. The consequence implied is that despite diminished pain in both the operated and the contralateral leg, other neurally controlled factors involved in permitting ulceration do not improve bilaterally so long as nerve entrapment and compression continue in the nonoperated, contralateral leg. These are relevant, perhaps crucial, observations if we hope to minimize the DFU recurrence quandary and they beg for academic attention and investigation. This train of thought encourages further study with a randomized control protocol testing whether the published retrospective and nonrandomized prospective reports of ND protection against further DFU episodes can indeed be verified. If bilateral ND after DFU healing can be shown to limit subsequent ulceration risk, this would be a tremendous advance in limiting DFU numbers and costs, in prognosis, and perhaps in mortality as well. Along with the proven reduction in DSPN pain, such a result would call for a change in the DSPN and DFU treatment paradigm.


Abstract In 1987, the mother of a severely retarded woman (Cindy) petitioned a Pennsylvania court to have her daughter sterilized. The mother said that she noticed male patients taking a sexual interest in her daughter, who is estimated to have the mental capacities of a 5-year-old. The crucial problem for the retarded woman was severe epilepsy, which could be life-threatening if combined with a pregnancy. Because Pennsylvania law requires the appointing of a legal guardian to look after the rights of the retarded in such cases, the final order was not given until the end of 1994. And, it was 'given' only in the sense that: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to prevent the sterilization, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an emergency appeal ("Retarded woman is sterilized," 1995).


Abstract 1. 1. A summary of the technical details of the silver carbonate staining method for vaginal smears is presented and the qualities of the stain are illustrated by photomicrographs of normal, suspicious, and malignant cells. 2. 2. During three successive years (1947–1950), three different examiners evaluated smears from a total of 2,008 gynecological patients whose history or clinical findings were suspicious for carcinoma of the uterus. 3. 3. The total number of carcinoma cases in the series was 120. Of this number, 98 cases were correctly diagnosed, leaving a total of 22 (18 per cent) undetected carcinomas. In the series of 1,888 patients without pathologically diagnosed carcinoma, 22 false positive diagnoses (1.2 per cent) were submitted. The total percentage error based on the total number of cases studied was 2.2 per cent. 4. 4. It is pointed out that the accuracy attained with this procedure compares favorably with that reported by others using conventional polychrome stains. Although additional experience with the cytological method and especially with the characteristics of silver-impregnated cells may be expected to result in fewer errors, improvements in methods for obtaining the cell samplings, especially from the endometrium, will tend to reduce the number of missed carcinomas. 5. 5. The experiences of the investigators with the silver technique during this trial period suggest that it may have certain practical advantages over polychrome procedures. Among these advantages are simplicity, rapidity, ease of examination, and the facility with which nuclear aberrations are recognized. These qualities, together with the observed accuracy, should prove of value in the application of cytological methods for the detection of carcinoma.


Abstract The dissolution of many scales and deposits gives rise to the ferric ion in the solvent used for chemical cleaning. It is generally recognized that the ferric ion may be highly corrosive (under some conditions) to the equipment being cleaned as well as to the pumps and lines used to circulate the solvent. However, a review of many engineering specifications for chemical cleaning indicates the behavior of the ferric ion is not properly understood. This behavior of the ferric ion has been categorized into three empirical classifications herein for easier understanding of an otherwise rather complex subject.


Herbicides may cause toxicity to the crop and also negative effects on yield characteristics and industrial quality of sugarcane. This study evaluated the effects ametryn, trifloxysulfuron-sodium, ametryn + trifloxysulfuron-sodium and sulfentrazone herbicides over quality and stalk yield of RB867515, SP801816, SP803280, RB937570 and RB925211 cultivars. The experiment was conducted at the Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa County, Minas Gerais State. A distinct behavior was observed for the cultivars in the presence of herbicides, both for quality as for the stalk yield. The quality showed greater variability among cultivars than among herbicide treatments that act directly on stalk production and indirectly in sugar production, being ametryn and sulfentrazone herbicides the ones that caused higher negative interference. SP803280 cultivar was the genotype with the lowest susceptibility to herbicides.


Radiation sensitization of bacterial and mammalian cells by therapeutic or diagnostically active compounds has been reported. Among these are neoarsphenamine (Kligerman and Schuloff, 1969), nitrofurans (Reuvers, Chapman and Borsa, 1972), metronidazole (Foster and Willson, 1973) and iothalamic acid (Quintiliani, 1973). The advantage offered by such compounds to be used as radiosensitizers lies in their well worked out toxicology and pharmacology.


be discharged on an application by either parent. The Act does not confer any right on the father, as distinct from the child, to apply for a declaration of paternity (s.22). In general the Act achieves its purpose of removing the remaining legal disadvantages suffered by the illegitimate child; but there is one serious omission. The rule that a child born out of wedlock cannot acquire British nationality through his father remains, and it is hard to know why. There is also a notable distortion of principle in the provision (s.27) that if a husband consents to the artificial insemination of his wife by a donor the child born as a result is to be treated as the child of the married couple. The register of births will thus contain an element of deception, to the dismay of those engaged in genealogical research; but probably this is the wisest solution to what is really an intractable problem. English law in this area has now caught up with Scots law, which gave us a valuable lead a year ago (as the English Law Commission acknowledged in their Second Report and as a result of which they revised their original proposals). More important still we are no longer in breach of the European Convention on the Legal Status of Children born out of Wedlock. Yet for this necessary and belated legislation there is an unwelcome price to be paid: marriage itself may well be further undermined.


A new calorimeter has been built with the special pur- pose to determine the distribution of in industrial supercon- ducting wires. Specific heat measurements have been carried out on a series of multifilamentary wires, using a long relax- ation technique. The advantage of this technique consists in the fact that the measurement is performed in presence of the Cu-Sn matrix, i.e. the filaments are measured under the same stress con- ditions as under operation, i.e. under the same state of mechanical precompression. In addition, the distribution is obtained for the whole sample volume, ruling out shielding effects. The deconvolu- tion of the data in the region of the superconducting transition was used for getting the precise distribution of , which in turn al- lows a determination of the Sn distribution across the filaments. These data confirm previous TEM measurements showing a Sn gradient inside of the filaments of bronze route processed wires. The distribution has been determined in wires processed by Bronze Route, Internal Sn and Powder-In-Tube tech- nique. Based on this information, the various processing parame- ters can be varied to get narrower distributions at transition temperatures closer to 18 K.


Abstract : Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) proposes to lease approximately 140 acres of land within a 207- acre parcel of Area Ill for construction of a solar photovoltaic system (SPVS). The SPVS would provide Nellis AFB with a cost-efficient renewable energy source to augment the existing power supply that relies on fossil fuels. The SPVS would consist of solar panel arrays sufficient to generate up 18 MW DC, which would be transformed into 13.5 MW AC. The SPVS, comprised of solar panel arrays embedded into the ground with concrete footings, would not affect the integrity of the existing power grid. Conduit would be run underground under the proposed action and above ground in Alternative Action 1. There would be light construction activities associated with the proposed action and alternative actions 1 and 2 that would include grading, trenching, and assembly of the arrays. Under the No Action Alternative, the photovoltaic array would not be constructed. Nellis AFB would seek alternative methods to meet the requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Department of Defense and Air Force energy policy goals.


The author is trying to demystify the integration conceptualization of pluralism framework studying the relationship between Muslim and Welfare state in Sweden. The most clear evidence is that Muslim immigration are living between assimilation on several social dimension albeit those dimension like work are crucial to be integrate within the Sweden social structure. A conflict between demands of welfare state regulation and Sweden social structure and Muslim social structures. It is essential about social justice.


An improved Eulerian model is proposed to predict particle deposition velocity in a typical mechanical ventilation system of a dairy food factory. For fully developed turbulent flow, the model is modified based on the three-layer model developed by Zhao and Wu (2006a), accounting for thermophoresis as well as turbophoresis, Brownian diffusion, turbulent diffusion, and gravitational settling. Based on in-situ measurements of the aerosol size distributions, particles discussed in this article were in the size range 0.3–20 μm. The measured mass concentration and the predicted particle deposition velocity were used to calculate the deposited particle mass flux in the ventilation duct. The results indicate that the effects of temperature gradients and of surface roughness should be considered in food factories ventilation ducts. For horizontal surfaces, it is shown that even a little difference between empirical and theoretical models can lead to a 2-fold difference in the predicted deposited particle mass flux. Findings of this work may help to identify the specific parameters for cleaning procedures.


This experiment investigates the changes in the plasma leptin levels of sheep fed a diet of three energy levels (low, moderate and high). Four mature wethers were used for this experiment. For the first 4 weeks, the sheep were fed diets to provide 1.2 times the maintenance metabolizable energy requirements, low energy levels (LE). During the second 4 weeks, the sheep were fed diets to provide 1.5 times the maintenance metabolizable energy requirements, moderate energy levels (ME). During third 4-week period, the sheep were fed a diet to provide 1.8 times the maintenance metabolizable energy requirements, high energy levels (HE). Body weight was determined every week. Blood samples were collected prior to the morning meal at 3 days intervals throughout the experiment, and plasma leptin, insulin and nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) concentrations were assayed. Body weight decreased in week 1 after the start of the experiment, it continued to decrease during the LE feeding, but it gradually increased until the end of HE period. Similarly, plasma leptin concentration decreased during LE feeding, but increased during the HE feeding. Additionally, positive correlation was obtained between leptin and insulin or glucose concentrations, whereas no clear relationship with circulating NEFA was observed. In conclusion, it was suggested that plasma leptin concentrations were affected by the metabolizable energy in feed.


Silver/bismuth oxide composite thin films with Ag concentration varying from 13.2% to 59.3% were prepared by cosputtering in a multitarget magnetron sputtering system. The absorption spectra of these thin films were measured, and the absorption peaks due to surface plasmon resonance of Ag particles showed a redshift behavior with increasing Ag concentration. By using the femtosecond time-resolved optical Kerr effect technique under 800 nm wavelength, the nonlinear optical properties of these films were investigated. The Kerr signals showed an ultrafast rise, suggesting that the main physical mechanism involved in the optical nonlinearity of Ag:Bi2O3 thin films on the femtosecond scale was the pure electronic contributions. The maximum value of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of Ag:Bi2O3 thin films was 4.1×10−10 esu, and occurred at a Ag concentration of about 35.7%.


This paper is devoted to the determination of the cases where there is equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem in the case of a Robin boundary condition. For the square, we partially extend the results that were obtained by Pleijel, B\'erard--Helffer, Helffer--Persson--Sundqvist for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems.
After proving some general results that hold for any value of the Robin parameter $h$, we focus on the case when $h$ is large. We hope to come back to the analysis when $h$ is small in a second paper.
We also obtain some semi-stability results for the number of nodal domains of a Robin eigenfunction of a domain with $C^{2,\alpha}$ boundary ($\alpha >0$) as $h$ large varies.


The effect of rare earth metals (Gd, Dy, Er,) addition on the corrosion behavior of Zn has been investigated. The corrosion resistance of Zn99Gd1, Zn99Dy1, and Zn99Er1 (at%) alloys has been assessed by open circuit potential and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements carried out in a 0.1 M NaCl solution, at approximately neutral pH, without stirring and in contact with the air. For comparison, the electrochemical tests have also been carried out on unalloyed Zn. Moreover, the surface morphology and nature of the corrosion products have been investigated. The results indicated that rare earths addition significantly improves the corrosion behavior of unalloyed Zn. This improvement is most likely due to enhanced barrier properties of the corrosion products layer and additional active corrosion protection originated from the inhibiting action of the lanthanide ions entrapped as oxides/hydroxides in this surface layer.


The genus Eucalyptus (commonly known as 'eucalypts' or 'gum trees'), belongs to the large plant family Myrtaceae which consists of at least 700 species (Brooker 2000). The majority of the species are endemic to Australia with an exception of four species which are found in neighbouring Australasian islands (Ladiges et al. 2003). New species continue to be discovered and more are likely to be described in the future as robust molecular techniques become available to discriminate between similar sorts (Hill & Johnson 2000, Hill et al. 2001). Despite extensive review and taxonomic revision the taxonomy of Eucalyptus remains incomplete (Griffin et al. 1988), Angophora and Corymbia were included as subgenera (Brooker 2000). However, this was critised by Ladiges & Udovicic (2000). A view, consistent with both morphological (Hill & Johnson 1995) and molecular studies (Ladiges et al. 1995, Sale et al. 1993, Udovicic et al. 1995, Steane et al. 1999), suggests that in broad terms the eucalypts consist of three major lineages namely, the Angophora and Corymbia (bloodwoods, ghost gums) lineage and the Eucalyptus sensu stricto lineage. The latter comprises three major subgroups, namely, the Symphyomyrtus, Eudesmia, and Monocalyptus (Hill & Johnson 1995, Ladiges et al. 1995).


Several problems of(quasi-)harmonic analysis of tidal current were presented,including the number of tidal constituents,the time variation of nodal factors and nodal angles,and the accuracy of relationships between parameters.The analytic results are that the number of tidal constituents will not effect the accuracy of parameters but the analysis model,the time variation of nodal factors and nodal angles will be nothing serious when the data is less than a few years and the tidal current parameters' relationships,which are used in(quasi-)harmonic analysis,can be only determined by more accurate ones but not tidal parameters.


The symmetry of the space where a spin qubit resides plays an essential role in the manipulation of quantum entanglement, which governs the performance of quantum information systems. Application of a magnetic field, which is usually necessary for spin manipulation and readout, inevitably breaks the spatial symmetry to induce competition among quantization axes between internal and external fields, thus limiting the purity of the entanglement. If we could manipulate and readout entanglement under a zero magnetic field, we would be able to avoid the competition among quantization axes to achieve ideally high fidelity. We here demonstrate the complete Bell state measurement, which is a core element of quantum processing, of two carbon nuclear spins in the vicinity of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center. The demonstration was made possible by holonomic entanglement manipulations based on the geometric phase with a polarized microwave under a zero magnetic field, where the quantization axis is uniquely defined by the hyperfine field. The demonstrated scheme allows high-fidelity entanglement processing even when magnetic fields cannot be applied to the integration of superconducting and spin qubits, thereby paving the way for building fault-tolerant distributed quantum computers and quantum repeater networks.


The retail sector plays a key role in bridging production and consumption, and as a result has significant direct and indirect effects on the Canadian economy. This analysis is intended to help Canadian retail sector executives as well as decision makers enhance their understanding of current market trends, the strategic significance of retail sector innovation
and practices that improve business competitiveness across industries.


This research aims to study the fuel properties, performance, and exhaust of using the fuel made from wasted plastic oil blended with gasoline 91 on small gasoline engine. The demonstration was operated on the gasoline engine, one cylinder volume 118 cc., Honda GX 120 T1. The tested fuels were the wasted plastic oil blended with gasoline 91 in the ratios of 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75 and 0:100 by volume. The blended fuels were tested to determine the fuel properties following the ASTM standard. Moreover, the blended fuels were tested by operated on small gasoline engine with full load, 1500 – 1400 rpm. Torque, power, specific consumption rate and exhaust gas released (CO and HC) were measured. The results showed that when changing the speeds all of tested, the engine performances trend to be good and show no significant difference. In addition, the engine operated by wasted plastic oil showed smooth running and easy to start. The exhaust gas is within the government standard.


Among the many problems which confront the historian of Christian thought and life in the early centuries one of the most complex and difficult is that of the relations, practical as well as theoretical, between Christianity and asceticism. Since the age of the Reformation there has been incessant controversy over the question whether the anthropological assumptions which underlie ascetic morals—the dualistic conception of the constitution of human nature and the conviction that there is an irreconcilable opposition between body and spirit—are really identical with the principles of Christian anthropology so that there can be no experience of the gospel message apart from a radically pessimistic estimate of the possibilities of good inherent in human nature, and without the acceptance of a scale of ethical values based upon the progressive stages of an ascetic discipline. After centuries of acrimonious theological controversy fomented by prejudices on both sides, we are now perhaps for the first time in a position to consider objectively the historical relations between the development of ascetic ideas and the propagation of the Christian piety, and consequently to solve satisfactorily the problem of the interaction between asceticism and Christianity.


This paper presents a new basis for the analysis of Einstein's spacetime by presenting the idea of "time-points" in space consistent with "c" being a paradigm where time does not pass, and thus a potential sea of time-points in space, accounting for the idea of hidden "non-local" particles as time-points in space that interact to form mass, thus resolving Bell's Theorem.


Norris Geyser Basin is adjacent to the north rim of the Yellowstone caldera at the common intersection of the caldera rim and the Norris-Mammoth Corridor, a zone of faults, volcanic vents, and thermal activity that strikes north from the caldera rim to Mammoth Hot Springs. The dominant quartz sand is hydrothermally cemented by chalcedony and is extremely hard, thereby justifying the term hydrothermal quartzite. The fundamental water type in Norris Basin is nearly neutral in pH and high in Cl and SiO/sub 2/. Another common type of water in Norris Basin is high in SO/sub 4/ and moderately high in Cl, with Cl/SO/sub 4/ ratios differing considerably. This study provides no new conclusive data on an old problem, the source or sources of rare dissolved constitutents. An important part of this paper consists of examples of numerous changes in behavior and chemical composition of most springs and geysers, to extents not known elsewhere in the park and perhaps in the world. Hydrothermal mineralogy in core samples from three research holes drilled entirely in Lava Creek Tuff to a maximum depth of -331.6 m permits an interpretation of the hydrothermal alteration history. A model for large, long-lived, volcanic-hydrothermal activity is alsomore » suggested, involving all of the crust and upper mantle and using much recent geophysical data bearing on crust-mantle interrelations.« less


Objective To retrospectively analyze the CT appearance of sclerotic hemangioma of lung(SHL). Methods 8 cases of surgically and pathologically confirmed SHL(male,3 cases, female,5 cases5 averaging 44.38 years old) underwent CT scanning followed by 1.5mm sickness thin slice scanning of lesions and enhanced scanning by bolus injection of 100ml of non ionic contrast medium via cubital vein. Results CT scanning showed 8 cases appearing round or elliptic shape with an average diameter of 3.3cm, 2 cases of bronchus airform, 3 cases of calcification. In addition, the edges of the lesion were smooth and clear without lobulation, spicule, pleural recesses and lymphnode metastasis, however the adjacent bronchus was compressed and displaced to some extent. Homogeneous density was observed in 5 cases, while heterogenous density plus calcification in 3 cases. The average CT value of non-calcified lesion was 31.4Hu, and it increased by 58 Hu after contrast-medium was injected compared with that of CT scanning. Conclusion slowly growing solitary pulmonary nodulus with interior calcification and compression and displacement of adjacent vessels and bronchus could be a hint of sclerotic hemangioma of lung.


Abstract : The United States Army still remains the most powerful land force in the world, but it faces a number of significant changes and complex challenges after a decade at war. The Army is in a period of transition because of the U.S. Military drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the Army reverts to the same home station practices seen prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, junior leaders will no longer have the same autonomy to innovate, as they have done over the past 10 years of conflict. The experiences and immense responsibilities that junior officers had while deployed created agile and extremely creative leaders. These skills however will quickly atrophy if changes to how the Army operates within a garrison environment are not made. This large talent pool of junior leaders will shape the Army of the 21st Century -- given the chance


The aim of this work is to display the structure of economic processes in their relationship with digital technologies. The study provides a literature review and analysis of economic processes and their transformation in connection with the development of digital technologies and the transition to a digital economy. It is shown that a number of economic processes underwent significant changes in the transition to a digital economy. The paper displays the key digital technologies and their impact on specific economic processes at the enterprise level, among which external processes are highlighted, namely marketing research, investing and attracting investment capital, advertising, organization of settlements with customers, delivery of goods, as well as accounting policies and analysis performance indicators, production processes, and management. Digital technologies are represented by communications, data storage, and protection technologies, their analysis, and control technologies.


Middle school students commit suicide has become one of serious issues.Eliminating the psychological source of committing suicide is the key to prevent `students' suicide..Preventing effectively students suicide relies on national reform and innovation of school together,emphasizing the six aspects on national,society,medical science,medical school,family and students.It should improve psychological crisis intervention system in order to reduce the students' suicides.


This paper studies a most observable retrial queue via the quasi birth and death process theory.From the viewpoint of economics,we discuss decision-making problems of the customers,the society and the administrator,and obtain their optimal threshold strategies.Then,we give some numerical examples to illustrate the effect of the service payments on the three optimal threshold strategies.The results showed that customer decision threshold is the biggest one,the social decision threshold the second biggest and the monopolist decision threshold the minimum one.Finally,we gave the corresponding management enlightenment from the points of view of the social and the manager: with different service payments,respective entrance fees are charged to force the behaviors of customers to satisfy the social decision threshold and the monopolist decision threshold.


Hollow-core hexagonal photonic crystal (PhC) fiber for terahertz (THz) frequencies is realized. THz pulse propagation and transmission characteristics of the proposed PhC fiber are studied through full-wave electromagnetic computations. Including the out of plane-radiation losses, the proposed fiber exhibits transmission of more than 97.7% for transverse electric (TE) polarization at 0.210 THz for hexapole-like mode. The pulse propagation suggests the group velocity dispersion in the PhC fiber. The present work finds applications in the development of THz communication systems.


Objective To investigate the risk factors and coronary angiographic characteristics of coronary artery disease(CAD) in young women below 45 years of age.Methods The clinical data of 468 young women patients who had received coronary angiography were retrospectively analyzed.Patients were divided into two groups based on the angiographic findings:coronary artery disease group and control group.The risk factors including smoking,essential hypertension,type 2 diabetes mellitus,and dyslipidemia were explored,and their relationship with CAD were analyzed and compared.Coronary angiographic characteristics were analyzed in the coronary artery disease group.Results Compared with the control group,the coronary artery disease group had significantly higher incidences of essential hypertension,type 2 diabetes mellitus,and hypercholesteremia and significantly higher level of low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein(hs-CRP)(P0.05).Logistic regression analysis showed that type 2 diabetes mellitus,essential hypertension,and hs-CRP were independent risk factors for CAD.The incidence of single vessel disease was markedly high in coronary artery disease group(69.81%),and most of the lesions were found at left anterior descending artery(72.96%).Conclusion Type 2 diabetes mellitus,essential hypertension,and high hs-CRP are the independent risk factors for CAD in young women below 45 years,with left anterior descending artery being the most frequently affected.


Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the course of the disease and the variables of blood parameters in the light of the information obtained from patients with a positive diagnosis of Covid-19. In this way, it is thought that Covid-19 disease can be diagnosed and its prognosis can be determined as soon as possible.
Method: File records of 113 patients enrolled in a family health center between April 2020 and December 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. From biochemical blood tests, platelet (PLT), lymphocyte (LYM), lymphocyte % (LYM ½), monocytes (MONO), % monocytes (MONO ½) and neutrophil counts, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), C- Reactive Protein (CRP), Ferritin, Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), Creatine kinase (CK), Troponin, Hematocrit (HTC), and Hemoglobin (HGB) results were examined.
Findings: When compared according to gender, AST, ALT, CK, LDH, HGB, HCT, Ferritin, Monocyte and Troponin levels were found to be higher in males and lower platelet levels than females (p


PT. Fajar Graha Pena Makasssar is one of the biggest media company in South Sulawesi which starts from media print business called Fajar Newspapers. Many years ago, the company have fluctuation financial experience. But after the CEO decided to make join cooperation with Kalla Group and Jawa Pos, the company remains bigger. Many companies and Non-govermental organization wants to made join cooperation or put their investation and indeed change the bussines model, related to the asset growth, capital structure, and PT. Fajar Graha Pena profitability. The research  that has been done, by interviewing and collecting Financial report data analytical. The analysis was used by calculating related ratio with the asset growth, capital structure ratio, and profitability ratio.  Research result shows the three of the ratio had fluctuating, the asset growth"s been very good, while the capital structure and the company profitability still needs to be improved.


Guided by work engagement theory and self-control theory, this study hypothesizes that among high leader-member exchange (LMX) employees, emotional job demands are positively related to emotional engagement and negatively related to subsequent intention to quit, whereas among low-LMX employees, emotional job demands are negatively related to emotional engagement and positively related to subsequent intention to quit. Using data collected from 182 resort and casino staff at two waves, we revealed that through emotional engagement, emotional job demands have a positive indirect effect on intention to quit for low-LMX employees but a negative indirect effect for high-LMX employees. The findings carry important implications for resource-based interventions aimed at increasing emotional engagement and decreasing intention to quit among employees confronting emotional job demands.


There has been more confusion in estimating and reporting coal reserves than there has been with petroleum reserves. In the UK, for example, until 1993, resources established more than a century earlier were quoted as reserves to gain political advantage. Outside the UK, reserves declared by companies have been reasonably precise whilst outside the USA reserves on a country basis have been less reliable. As with world oil reserves, totals for regions and for the total worldwide are composed of estimates of very different quality.


1. If one was to design a hormone to protect the heart, it would have a number of features shown by the cardiac natriuretic peptides atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B‐type natriuretic peptide (BNP). These hormones are made in cardiomyocytes and are released into the circulation in response to atrial and ventricular stretch, respectively. Atrial natriuretic peptide and BNP can reduce the preload and after‐load in normal and failing hearts. They reduce blood volume over the short term by sequestering plasma and over the longer term by promoting renal salt and water excretion and by antagonizing the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system at many levels. Each of these actions affords indirect benefit to a volume‐ or pressure‐threatened heart.


Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925), the world famous logician was also a pioneer in iteration theory. His habilitation thesis "Rechnungsmethoden, die sich auf eine Erweiterung des Grössenbegriffes gründen" ("Methods of Calculation based on an Extension of the Concept of Quantity") published 1874 yields a foundation of iteration theory and dynamical systems in one and also in several variables. He considers there the translation equation f(s, f(t, x)) = f(s + t, x) and all the three so-called Aczél-Jabotinsky equations connected with the differentiable solutions of it. By this way Frege e.g. recognized also the importance of the infinitesimal generator of a dynamical system. A comprehensive presentation of this matter may be found in Gronau [4]. Frege treated in this connection also Sincov's equation Ψ(z, x) = Ψ(z, y) + Ψ(y, x) and gave its general solution almost 30 years before Sincov. The history and background of Sincov's equation is described in Gronau [5]. Here we give a detailed description of the connection between the translation equation and the Sincov equation.


Thirty years ago a special centre was created in the USSR by the government decision to centralise the collection and bibliographic control of all Soviet grey literature. The centre, now named the Scientific and Technical Information Centre of Russia (the Russian acronym ‐VNTIC) is responsible for the maintenance of the complete repository for scientific research and development reports and dissertations (candidate and doctoral). VNTIC carries out the dual function of both archiving and disseminating grey literature. A general outline of VNTIC activities is given and a brief description of VNTIC information products and services is presented.


The Bureau's impact on promoting competition in Canada can and should extend beyond standard enforcement and litigation. Mark Katz (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg)


Fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) using as pressure, temperature, and strain sensors are triumphantly applied in optical sensing fields in recent years. However, the sensitivity of a bare FBG is insensitive to the ambient environment. So it is necessary to package FBG to enhance its sensitivity. Two polymers are mixed together to package fiber grating. Pressure experiments are studied at 23℃. It can be seen that fiber grating packaged with polymers is high sensitivity for pressure in the range from 0 MPa to 10 MPa. The measured pressure sensitivity is -1.22×10 -4 /MPa, more than 62 times than that of a bare fiber grating.


Abstract No Abstract Available. *This investigation was supported by a research grant from the Division of Research Grants and Fellowships of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public...


Three theoretical benchmark models of diffusion of new technologies are the substitution, mortality and social-learning models. These models tend to generate symmetric, right-skewed and left-skewed S-curves respectively. The empirical literature has focused primarily on fitting either Logistic or Gompertz functions to real data. Given that Logistic is symmetric and Gompertz is right skewed, the former is typically matched with the substitution model and the latter with the mortality model. Neither function can be used to describe the left-skewed social-learning model. We show here how the Generalized- Extreme-Value (GEV) function – which includes Gompertz as a special case and can be either left or right skewed – is more flexible and can be matched with either the mortality or social-learning model. Using cumulative citations as a proxy for diffusion, we fit Logistic, Gompertz and GEV S-curves to 12 citations data sets. Logistic emerges as the best fit for 6 data sets and GEV for the other 6 (all of which are right skewed). It follows that the social-learning model does not fit with any of our data sets. Truncating our data sets in 1996 or 2001 in all but one case does not change the best fit function. This suggests that our fitted S-curves could be useful for modelling aspects (such as the asymptotic upper limit) of a new technology's future path.


The present invention discloses a hot stamping machine retractable membrane buffer mechanism provided between the unwinding means and winding means of hot stamping foil, a main body equipped with the negative pressure chamber located stamping film. The advantage of the present invention: simple structure, easy setting, a short response time, stable and reliable operation, no vibration, can effectively play the role of a buffer retractable film.


This article explores the comedic treatment of deindustrialization in three films: Gung Ho (US, 1986), De frigjorte (Denmark, 1993), and The Full Monty (UK, 1997). Examining the films' different ways of portraying deindustrialization, the article discusses how symptomatic it is that these films offered their audiences a form of comedic silver lining in an era when deindustrialization was still felt acutely as a crisis. Gung Ho's comedic take on the 1980s deindustrialization crisis invokes hopeful discourses of reindustrialization, De frigjorte explores a crisis of masculinity after its protagonist is laid off after two decades' employment at a local factory, and The Full Monty offers a story of men overcoming deindustrialization in a communal way. Reading these films in relation to each other, the article argues that these films offered viewers faced with the realities of deindustrialization a moment of comedic distance to economic hardship.


Acknowledgments Introduction: Picturetown, USA 1 'Have You Seen This Child?': From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abyme 2 Private Photos/Public Traumas: National Memories and Moving Images 3 Trauma and the Cellular Imaginary 4 Intervention and the Kodak Moment 5 The Architectures of Cyberdating 6 The Social Fabric of Images References


The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the theory of planned behaviour for understanding individuals' intention to accept an offer to work in a foreign country and to assess its generalisability across countries. Furthermore, we tested the direct effect of gender on expatriate intention and its determinants. To address these objectives, we used a survey sample of 896 business students in Croatia, Germany, Russia, Turkey and the USA. The theory of planned behaviour explained a substantial amount of variance in intentions to accept a foreign assignment. As proposed, attitude towards expatriation, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control significantly influence individuals' expatriation intention. Men showed stronger intentions to expatriate than women. Moreover, the theory of planned behaviour was shown to be an effective predictor of expatriation intention across countries. Implications of these results for theory and practice and directions for future research are discussed.


The complex protease,acidic protease and papain were used to hydrolyze domestic barley protein,through traditional process of liquefaction and saccharification.The results showed that choosing the combination of complex protease and a small amount of acidic protease had excellent hydrolysis efficiency,but the content of α-amino acid-N was still low.Using the new preparation process of adding a new complex protease during the pre-liquefaction and again after liquefaction in batch mode,the content of α-amino acid-N was improved,with rational Lundin fraction of water-soluble nitrogen.


This paper describes the law and procedure at hearings concerning the further retention of mentally ill inpatients who are confined at a city hospital, emphasizing the role of psychiatrists and attorneys. It is shown that the hearings are not truly adversary since neither an attorney representing the hospital nor a psychiatric witness for the patient are present. Patients are too ill to participate in their own defense and most hearings result in continued retention. The author suggests certain changes which might result in greater attention being paid to the civil and due process rights of mental patients.


The effects of composition and heat treatment at 1150{degrees}C on the creep-rupture properties of Fe{sub 3}Al-based alloys were studied. Tests of alloy FA-180 (Fe-28Al-5Cr-0.5Nb-0.8Mo-0.025Zr-0.05C-0.005B, at.%) with this heat treatment were performed in air using various test temperatures and stresses in order to obtain creep activation energies and constants. An activation energy for creep of approximately 150 kcal/mole was determined, value which is approximately twice that obtained earlier for the binary alloy heat treated at 750{degrees}C. Tests were also conducted on alloys containing various combinations of Cr, Mo, Nb, Zr, C, and B in order to better understand the effect of composition on the improved creep resistance with heat treating at 1150{degrees}C. The results suggest an interaction of Mo with Zr and Nb to produce increased creep life.


Energy storage is always a significant issue in multiple fields, such as resources, technology, and environmental conservation. Among various energy storage methods, one technology has extremely high energy efficiency, achieving up to 100%. Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) is a device that utilizes magnets made of superconducting materials. Outstanding power efficiency made this technology attractive in society. This study evaluates the SMES from multiple aspects according to published articles and data. The article introduces the benefits of this technology, including short discharge time, large power density, and long service life. On the other hand, challenges are proposed for future study. The high energy requirement of the cooling system and carbon emissions are some of the drawbacks of SMES. It's found that SMES has been put in use in many fields, such as thermal power generation and power grid. SMES can reduce much waste of power in the energy system. The article analyses superconducting magnetic energy storage technology and gives directions for future study.


Metal binding energies of various metals such as Li, Be, B, Na, Al, Mg and Ca trapped on graphene and hydrogen adsorption energies corresponding to these metals are calculated by using the density functional theory. Our results reveal that Li, Be, Na, Al and Ca are trapped on the graphene with metal binding energies of about 3.49–3.87 eV. This binding energy is high enough to hold these metals on graphene at room temperature. Moreover, we also calculated the hydrogen adsorption energy when a hydrogen molecule is adsorbed on these considered metals and found that Li gives the highest hydrogen physisorption energy compared to all considered metals, namely about 0.136 eV. Consequently, Li is regarded as the best choice for adsorbing hydrogen molecule.


The methods for determining the dependence of the Debye temperature (Θ) on temperature (T) are critically analyzed. It is shown that the modern procedures for reproducing Θ(T) dependences from experimental temperature-dependent parameters do not conform to the fundamental thermodynamic laws. Equations were obtained that the Θ(T) dependence should obey so that the thermodynamic functions calculated from it satisfy both the third law of thermodynamics and the law of energy equipartition over degrees of freedom. A general equation for Θ(T) was derived; the equation was tested by applying it to rare-earth metal oxides.


Atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary artery disease (CAD) are commonly associated. Cotreatment with multiple antithrombotic agents can increase the risk of bleeding. We sought to evaluate patient‐centered outcomes in patients with AF on double therapy with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) compared to patients with standard triple therapy, [a vitamin K antagonist (VKA) plus dual antiplatelet therapy].


Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. reopened its train service on the entire line on June 26, 1995, i.e. 160 days after the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, which was followed by execution of work in the vicinity of Ishiyagawa Station and Ishiyagawa Depot. With revision of the train operation diagram and commissioning of newly built vehicles on March 20, 1996, the company has completed all the restoration. This paper describes an outline of damage caused to the facilities by the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and the method of restorations.


Objiective To make sure taxonomy of a pink strain XTD510 isolated from Dermacentor nuttalli in Tacheng area of Xinjiang.Methods 16S rDNA sequence analysis,homology search and bacterial morphology were used.Results A pink-pigmented bacterial strain,named XTD510,was of gram negative,strictly aerobic coccobacillus.The bacterial colonies on LB plate displayed shiny and pale-pink in color.Comparative 16S rDNA sequences analyses revealed that stain XTD510 was most closely related to several species of Roseomonas.The highest similarity value between XTD510 stain and members of Roseomonas could reach up to 99%.Conclusions Based on its morphology and the 16S rDNA sequence analysis results,stain XTD510 is suggested to be species of genus Roseomonas.