The purpose of this paper is to derive the monetary values of pork safety in China using choice experiments questionnaires. The survey data were analyzed by conjoint analysis method with multinomial logit model. Those of all other estimates were turned out be positive while its sign of the price var...


Due the lack of registered products for Scaptocoris castanea, new insecticides need to be developed in order to facilitate growing crops in these heavy soil pests' areas. The aim of these studies were to evaluate the performance of insecticides applied at the sowing time (in furrow spray) and in seed treatment for soil brown stink bug control (S. castanea) and their effect over the plant development and productivity in corn crop in two locations in Goias State. The treatments were: Untreated check, Durivo (chlorantraniliprole + thiamethoxam) at 100, 200 and 300 mL of comercial product/ha applied in furrow, Cruiser 350 FS (thiamethoxam) in seed treatment at 120 mL/ha + Durivo (chlorantraniliprole + thiamethoxam) 200 mL/ha in furrow spray and Cropstar (Imidacloprid + thiodicarb) in seed treatment at 300 mL/ha + Astro (clorpyryfos) in furrow spray at 1500 mL/ha (standard). The trials were carried out in Edeia and Rio Verde, in Goias State (areas with heavy pressure of S. castanea). Trial design was randomized block with six treatments and four replicates. The plot size was five rows with 45 cm as row spacing by seven meters length. The results demonstrated that Durivo (chlorantraniliprole + thiamethoxam) at 300 mL/ha in furrow spray and the combination of Cruiser 350 FS (thiamethoxam) at 120 mL/ha + Durivo (chlorantraniliprole + thiamethoxam) at 200 mL/ha have been effective for the S. castanea control in both trials (Edeia and Rio Verde) showing average control around 71% at 14 days after emergence, and increments of 110% in stand, 56% in plant height, 70% in root dry matter contents, 52% in aereal part dry matter contents and around 71% of yield increase. The data has shown significant correlation (R2>0.8) for all parameter assessed in Edeia, where there was higher pest pressure. Durivo (Chlorantraniliprole + thiamethoxam) presents itself as an important tool, within S. castanea IPM concept due the effectiveness, low dose per hectare, favorable toxicological profile and it is registered for this pest control and application method.


The appearance of food affects its taste. Many studies have examined how to improve the taste of foods by manipulating their appearance. Most of those studies have focused on static appearances, such as color and texture; however, the impact of the dynamic appearance has not been explored. In this study, the perceptions (sweetness, sourness, saltiness, spiciness, temperature, deliciousness) and value judgments (the price of food, appetite) perceived from food before and after tasting with a projection-based dynamic boiling texture were investigated. The results revealed that the dynamic texture influences expectations for saltiness, spiciness, temperature, deliciousness, price, and appetite before eating the meal and perceived saltiness, spiciness, and appetite when eating. In addition, its influence on the consumers' behavior was also investigated through an empirical user study in a restaurant. The results indicated that the consumers had a greater tendency to order the meal when they saw it with the projection-based boiling effect. From these, this study demonstrates the effect of projection mapping of a boiling effect on food expectation, perception and consumer behavior.


In business terms, the ideal model that can be effectively outsourced is one that is easily transportable, offers low risk, and is standardized, focused, and cost effective. Beginning with the export of information technology and call center jobs, outsourcing has now expanded its grip to include surgery, even plastic surgery. Several developments have facilitated this trend. Prohibitive health care costs at home, long waiting times, denial of insurance claims, increasing overall demand for plastic surgery, the availability of trained surgeons abroad, and, lastly, cost savings have all paved the way. Under the umbrella of "medical tourism," the outsourcing strategy (a business decision) has been applied to plastic surgery (a profession). This aberration makes for an uncomfortable match. On the one hand, both the uncertainty of quality of care and the risks associated with poor outcomes and complications make the risk not worth taking. On the other hand, the huge cost savings shine an irresistible lure. It is imperative that we gear up to the challenges this expanding phenomenon poses to our practice. Anything less would be too little and too late. The magnitude of this outflow is telling. While the number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States increased by 44 percent in 2004 (American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), the glaringly less noticed fact is that the number of plastic surgical procedures performed abroad on Americans traveling internationally has tripled. Thailand, Singapore, and India rank among the top three destinations, with up to 150,000 to 600,000 foreign patients in each country being operated on for plastic and other surgical procedures.1 An independent study by McKinsey and the Confederation of Indian Industry predicts the growth of outsourced health care to reach an annual revenue of $2.1 billion by 2012.2 An analysis of patient surveys yields three recurring elements that patients are most impressed with: personalized and "caring" health care delivered by U.S.-trained physicians at rockbottom prices. In addition, the package covers extras such as tourist attractions, spa access, free transportation, and hotel arrangements. Local governments pitch in by providing loan incentives for entrepreneurs to set up medical tourism facilities, called "medical cities," that attract outsourced foreign currency in terms of health dollars. Even airlines provide a concession by offering a special package for follow-up visits when they are necessary. It seems that the entire system is geared toward attracting foreign patients, in order to facilitate the outsourcing model. In sharp contrast, our situation here seems lamentable. Rising costs of health care, inflexible hospital systems, ever-expanding regulatory burdens, sky-rocketing medical malpractice premiums, frivolous litigation, and decreasing insurance reimbursements have all served to increase the cost of care to the patient, in either higher direct fees or higher hospital charges. On the face of it, the competition could soon become insurmountable for physicians in the United States. What, then, are the solutions to stem this hemorrhage?


Unlike the temporary short-term drug scarcities discussed by Rosoff (2012), long-term universal shortages in novel drugs are looming. With the patent cliff upon us, one would think that a new generation of blockbuster medications would be emerging; however Big Pharma's pipelines are drier than ever. Pharmaceutical companies and the biotechnology startups that feed them rely heavily on the patent system to promote investment. Could this current trend be related to inefficiencies in the patent system, and will new patent legislation help or hinder further development? The biotech revolution of the last quarter century is rife with media-hyped guarantees of new technologies that promised to fill the pharmaceutical companies' pipelines with drugs and innovation, yet these pipelines have remained mostly dry (Cressy 2011). The rate of new drug discovery in the period from 2000 to 2010 was so minimal, and the return on research and development (R&D) capital so poor, that it was dubbed, by one chief executive officer, the "lost decade" (Booz & Company 2011). In 2010, one of the worst years for drug companies in that decade, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received only 23 applications for new drug approvals (KPMG). We seem to be heading toward a real and long-term drug shortage. Tens if not hundreds of academic papers, media reports, and blog posts have been written speculating as to the reasons behind what seems to be a failure of the pharmaceutical industry to move beyond its fading models of R&D. This piece adds to the speculation, suggesting that perhaps the current state of U.S. patent protection is at least partially at fault for the current state of affairs in the pharmaceutical industry. Strong patent protection and guaranteed profits are a powerful incentive for continued innovation into new products; conversely, without guaranteed monopolistic protection for their expensive drugs, the pharmaceutical companies are loath to invest in research and development for new drugs. Bolstering this claim is the reality that patents are often considered much more important to the pharmaceutical industry than most other industries (Grabowski 2002).


In recent years both the Commission and the Council have been establishing and de facto delegating (executive and administrative) powers and tasks to what are formally termed the 'decentralised agencies' of the European Union. Such bodies are non-majoritarian in nature and are established in order to perform defined tasks in a relatively autonomous fashion at the European level. How does this affect the underlying principles of balance of powers among the institutions according to the original Treaty design? And how do the Commission and the Council as principals ensure that their agents do not drift away from the principals ? To what extent can one speak of mechanisms of accountability (political, administrative and public) in the institutional design and subsequent practices of non-majoritarian decentralised European Union agencies? This paper examine the 'practices' with regard to a number of fairly exemplary and/or new agencies with a view to shedding some light on the type of measures that are adopted in practice in order to enable principals to retain some degree of control over the exercise of discretion by the agency in question.


A 79-year-old asymptomatic white woman without personal or family history of tuberous sclerosis was brought to clinical attention for evaluation of incidentally discovered 2 left renal masses. She chose surgical management. Upon laparoscopic transperitoneal radical left nephrectomy, 2 white firm nodules were noted in the lower pole and mid aspect of the specimen, 3.8 and 1.3 cm in greatest dimension, respectively. Both nodules showed microscopic composition of bland spindle cells with patchy HMB-45 positivity, admixed with dysplastic, thick-walled blood vessels. A diagnosis of bifocal angiomyolipoma was made. The patient was lost to follow-up. Angiomyolipomas are relatively rare, usually benign mesenchymal neoplasms best known in the kidneys and for their association with tuberous sclerosis. They have been reported in nearly every organ system. The diagnosis is straightforward in the typical variant. The more clinically aggressive atypical or epithelioid variant and some of the novel histologic variants can pose more of a diagnostic challenge. Thorough review of each patient's clinical presentation, past medical and family history, gross specimen examination, and sampling and use of ancillary studies such as immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy can be helpful in challenging cases. Therapy consists of watchful waiting versus management with angioembolization or surgery. Generally, asymptomatic patients are followed clinically, whereas those with tumor-related symptoms are selected for intervention. Ongoing basic science and clinical research have uncovered a potential new role for chemotherapy in management of angiomyolipomas.


Band structure calculations in p-Al x Ga1−x As/GaAs1−y P y /n-Al x Ga1−x As heterostructure under uni-axial compression in the 1 1 0 direction indicates an increase in the optical energy gap with dE ph/dP ≈ 85 meV GPa−1, a decrease in the quantum well barriers and light hole–heavy hole crossover at uniaxial stress P ≈ 450–500 MPa. The observed increase in electroluminescence intensity and photon energy shift under uni-axial compression are explained by numerical calculation data.


Highly photosensitive low band gap (≥1.5 eV) hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a‐Si:H) films have been developed by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition using helium dilution of the process gas, silane at substrate temperature 210 °C. Low band gap of a‐Si:H films is achieved by reducing bonded hydrogen content and hence by increasing compactness of the films. At the optical gap ∼1.5 eV, a‐Si:H film has high mobility lifetime product, ημτ (8×10−5 cm−2 V−1) and photosensitivity (≳7×104) values. The defect density of the material is as low as 7.8×1015 cm−3 eV−1 and hydrogen content is 4.54 at. %. Low band gap amorphous silicon germanium (a‐SiGe:H) films reported so far do not have such high ημτ and photosensitivity values at 1.5 eV optical gap. Thus, this low band gap a‐Si:H films can be used as intrinsic layer in the bottom cell of a multijunction solar cell replacing a‐SiGe:H alloy films.


After antigen particles are deposited on the nasal mucosa of a sensitized individual, they attach to specific IgE receptors on mast cells and lead to the release of inflammatory mediators which, in turn, are responsible for symptoms of allergic rhinitis. Several cytokines, proinflammatory substances that modulate immune function, are also generated. They have an important role in chemotaxis and survival of the many inflammatory cells that contribute to the allergic reaction. Furthermore, neural mechanisms and reflexes propagate the allergic response. That several newly identified neuropeptides can produce rhinitic symptoms if administered exogenously demonstrates their importance in allergic rhinitis. Available information about these mediators of the allergic response is reviewed with special emphasis on recent developments.


Objective To investigate the effects of statins on aortic remodeling in NO deficient hypertension and the possible mechanisms. Methods Cerivastatin (0 1 mgkg -1 ·d -1 , L+C group) or simvastatin (5 mg·kg -1 ·d -1 , L+S group) was given to NO deficient hypertensive rats induced by L NAME (50 mg.kg -1 ·d -1 , L group). After 8 weeks, aorta remodeling was quantified with ratio of wall to cross section area (W/L). The expression and activity of NOS, MDA in aorta and NOx in serum were measured. Results Compared with controls, administration of L NAME induced persistent hypertension and aortic remodeling; Expressions of eNOS and iNOS protein and MDA content in aorta were increased while NOS activity in aorta and NOx level in serum were decreased. Lipid profile showed little changes of hyperlipidemia. In the absence of lowering effect on SBP and lipid, cerivastatin and simvastatin significantly attenuated aortic remodeling (each P 0 01) and inhibited the overexpressions of eNOS( P 0 05 and 0 01, respectively) and iNOS protein( P 0 01); Meanwhile, MDA content in aorta was reduced and NOS activity was enhanced (each P 0 01) without increasing NOx level in serum ( P =NS). Conclusion Cerivastatin and simvastatin therapy ameliorate aortic remodeling in NO deficient hypertension in the absence of BP and lipid lowering, which may be due to improvement of NO availability and reduction of oxidative damage.


A long-red awn weedy rice and rice cultivars named Ken99004(ZC1), Crossing-503(ZC2), Ken Sticky Rice(ZC3), Shashani(ZC4), Long-Grain Aromatic Rice(ZC5) were used to study typical wild traits of weedy rice and to identify the cold resistance of all genotypes. The results showed that the stem of long-red awn weedy rice was the weakest. No difference was found in the early stage of rice growth, e.g. the vegetable growth stage, between long-red awn weedy rice and other rice cultivars in the stem rigidity, but in the later stage, or reproductive growth stage, their leaves and stems were senescent rapidly because of the speedy supply of nutrients for panicle growth, meanwhile the rigidity of stem was reduced sharply just as withered weeds. The germination rate of long- red awn weedy rice was the highest in cold condition, and in turn were ZC1, ZC2, ZC3, ZC4, ZC5, respectively. The performances of genotypes in cold tolerance were identical, those with a high ability of germination in low temperature also showed a strong cold tolerance in main traits in whole growth period, the order from strong to weak in the extent of cold tolerance were long-red awn weedy rice, ZC1, ZC2, ZC3, ZC4, ZC5, respectively.


Atoms in molecules do not retain the shape of the free atoms. The space filling of a molecule is due to the bonding and nonbonding clouds of electron pairs rather than the van der Waals radii and internuclear distances (as in most physical models).


abstract:This article focuses on stains, blushes, flushes, and other nonphonetic marks such as scriptural signifiers in Our Mutual Friend. These metonymic markings help constitute what Dickens called the "main line" of the novel's development. This line turns rhizomorphic as it figuratively begins with the rope line salvaging the stained corpse in the novel's fifth paragraph and extends to the later lines ironically salvaging Gaffer Hexam's own marked corpse and the dead-alive Rogue Riderhood's body as examples of the death-by-drowning with the possibility of resurrection motif. But the fifth paragraph also anticipates other significant signifying tropes and events in Our Mutual Friend as the meaning of all such signifiers, whether finally legible or illegible, requires close reading by the novel's characters and readers alike. And other Dickens novels, like Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, provide a significantly larger context for the stains and other markings in Our Mutual Friend. According to the problematic principle of the inside outside the outside, surface signifiers, particularly somatic signifiers, often become self-defining indicators of nearly all the novel's characters and their interrelationships.


Germany hosted the annual Group of 20 (G-20) summit on July 7-8 in Hamburg. The G-20 is a forum for advancing international economic cooperation and coordination among 20 major economies, including the United States, that together account for about 85% of global economic output. In recent years, the G-20 has also increasingly become a forum for discussing pressing foreign policy issues. The agenda for the 2017 summit included a broad mix of economic and foreign policy issues: international trade, global economic growth, the global financial system, climate policy, development, health, women's economic empowerment, refugee flows, and counter-terrorism.


The author proposes the model of forming the structure of oregenic geochemical field and substantiates its relation with mineralization scale. The article demonstrates the vortex structure of anomalous geochemical fields of different hierarchical levels by the example of hydrothermal gold deposits. The structure is conditioned by convective-vortex character of hydrothermal fluid flow, contingency of their upward and down flows, leaching and redeposition of chemical elements. The author determines space relation of geochemical anomalies with ring structures identified on satellite images.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of "paduko" system and the factors that affect the effectiveness of population document services through the paduko system at the Padang Panjang population and civil registration office and to determine the obstacles that occurred when implementing the paduko system in the city of Padang Panjang. This research uses qualitative research with descriptive methods carried out by purposive sampling. Data collection techniques were carried out by interview and documentation study with informants of several Padang Panjang Population and Civil Registry Offices and several people who had used paduko. Paduko is an online population document service made to make it easier for people to manage population documents with paduko being able to manage population documents anytime and anywhere as easily as shopping online without having to come directly to the population service office, but in practice there are still many people who do not understand how to use paduko, especially people who are elderly because not everyone is literate about existing technology.


The research for monitoring and recognizing personal behaviors from various digital sensors has recently been doing in a variety of fields. We address this for "lifelog" - all of the digital information about personal daily life. The research typically focuses on collecting personal lifelog, managing huge amount of lifelog data, and recognizing activities and behavior patterns from them. The methods of extracting key features and characterizing patterns would be crucial for finding meaningful information from huge and complex lifelog data. The research is a significant challenge because individual's lifelog data would be useful to provide personal life services such as healthcare. In this paper, we propose the process for predicting personal future behavior by tracing back to the past experiences. The behavior prediction process is composed of five stages. Firstly, physical activities through various sensors are collected and then, major physical activities are extracted through feature selection. Secondly, behavioral context information such as location, time and object is annotated to each activity for recognizing the behavior states more exactly. Then all sequences of physical activities with contextual information are divided into each daily set. Thirdly, behavior patterns from them are extracted by analyzing key features. After that, all daily sequences are transferred as the set of semantic activities for presenting major behavior states. Fourthly, from the set of semantic activities, based on the behavior probability to be used for the behavior prediction in next step, a sequence tree is generated. Finally, the highest predicted activities can be shown in a user interface from the query based on `Time' or `Event'. In a user interface, the functions for retrieving past and current behaviors and searching the predicted behaviors will be provided by choosing specific point in time or the specific event. Currently we are building a system for processing the proposed behavior prediction.


It is reported an InGaAsP-InP MQW electrorefraction optical intensity modulator without interferometric device for 1.55 /spl mu/m. Extinction ratio of 17.0 dB at 3.0 V, insertion loss of 2.0 dB, bandwidth of 30 GHz, and 4 /spl Aring/ of optical tuning have been predicted for a device 220 /spl mu/m long. The modulator can also be fabricated in tandem for application in WDM systems.


Objective To investigate the nature and nursing care of postoperative bleeding in patients undergone tonsillectomy.Methods From January 2009 to June 2010,205 consecutive patients uderwent tonsillectomy were studied retrospectively.The nature of postoperative bleeding in patients undergone tonsillectomy and the corresponding nursing management were studied.Results Twelve cases underwent tonsillectomy occurred postoperative bleeding,the rate was 5.85%.Of them,10 cases were primary bleeding,2 secondary bleeding.The postoperative bleeding patients were treated in time and uneventfully.Conclusion Understanding the nature of the postoperative bleeding in patients undergone tonsillectomy by nurse would help to reduce the opportunity of postoperative bleeding.


The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of quantum skills training on thinking style and knowledge sharing behavior of girls' high school principals in Isfahan. This research is a type of exploratory combined research that has a quantitative and qualitative nature. In the qualitative part, the theme analysis method was used inductively and in the quantitative part, the quasi-experimental method was used with the control group.. The statistical population of the quantitative part of this study consisted of all principals of the first and second secondary schools for girls in Isfahan in 1399, whose number included 228 people and 40 of them were selected as a sample as available. In the present study, first the educational content of quantum leadership skills was obtained through the analysis of Atrid Sterling and finally the educational content of a comprehensive theme (quantum leadership skills), seven organizing themes (quantum vision skills, quantum thinking, Quantum sense, quantum cognition, quantum action, quantum trust, and quantum bio) and 32 basic themes were formed and validated. The total content validity index of the theme template was 0.85 and the value of Holst coefficient (0.96) was estimated. Also, the correlation coefficient of the two disciplines obtained from the training package was estimated to be 1.78 and the internal and external validity of the quantum leadership skills training content was confirmed. Measurement tools in this study are Sternberg-Wagner Thinking Styles Questionnaire, the content validity of which has been approved by experts and has a reliability of more than 0.70, and the Wenden Hoff and Van Winen Knowledge Sharing Behavior Questionnaire with Factor load coefficients were higher than 0.6 and reliability was 0.86. Based on the results, the difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of thinking styles, knowledge presentation and total knowledge sharing score was significant (P≤0.05). However, the difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of knowledge acquisition was not significant (P= 0.06) and training in quantum leadership skills was not effective in receiving knowledge.


To the Editor. —Causes of abduction deficits include various congenital and acquired syndromes of the extraocular muscles and the sixth cranial nerve. We describe a patient with an abduction deficit secondary to a presumed, spontaneous bacterial dacryoadenitis that responded promptly to appropriate intravenous antibiotics. Report of a Case. —A 20-year-old woman developed discomfort on right gaze, and mild right upper eyelid swelling, which was initially treated with topical vasocidin. During the next two days as the pain increased and a mucopurulent discharge developed, she experienced horizontal binocular diplopia worse on right gaze. Naphazoline hydrochloride (Naphcon-A) and erythromycin (Ilotycin) therapy was started and the patient was referred to our unit. Uncorrected visual acuity was 20/30 bilaterally. Right upper eyelid edema, erythema, ptosis, and a mucopurulent discharge were present in association with an abduction deficit of the right eye (Fig 1). No predisposing skin lesions or signs of local trauma were found.


This paper reports on new results of the characteristics of photo- and radioluminescence emissions at 865 nm and 910 nm emitted by potassium-rich feldspars (KAlSi3O8). For the physical interpretation of its behaviour, the IR luminescence in potassium-rich feldspars is compared to a well investigated IR luminescence occurring in lead-doped potassium chloride (KCl:Pb) and to a study on the IR luminescence of lead-rich KAlSi3O8 (amazonite). The emissions in both materials, potassium-rich feldspar and potassium chloride, are most likely due to electron transitions in Pb+ from the 72P1/2 and 72S1/2 excited states to the 62S1/2 ground state of Pb+. Pb+ originates from interaction processes of Pb2+ cations, substituted for K+ cations in the tetrahedral feldspar framework or the cubic lattice of KCl, with ionising radiation (Pb2+ + β, γ, … Pb+). Another result of the experiments reported is the fact, that this radiatively induced conversion is reversed by thermal treatment of the minerals (Pb+ + T Pb2+). Also, the Pb+ centres can be "optically bleached", which is also interpreted as reversed conversion Pb+ + ħω Pb2+. The conclusions of this paper have important implications for the physical precision of a recently developed luminescence dating method for the determination of the deposition time of Quaternary sediments using the infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) of potassium-rich feldspar grains. (© 2003 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Abstract The population of alewives Alosa pseudoharengus in Lake Ontario is of great concern to fishery managers because alewives are the principal prey of introduced salmonines and because alewives negatively influence many endemic fishes. We used spring bottom trawl catches of alewives to investigate the roles of stock size, climate, predation, and lake trophic status on recruitment of alewives to age 2 in Lake Ontario during 1978–2000. Climate was indexed from the temperature of water entering a south-shore municipal treatment plant, lake trophic status was indexed by the mean concentration of total phosphorus (TP) in surface water in spring, and predation was indexed by the product of the number of salmonines stocked and relative, first-year survival of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. A Ricker-type parent–progeny model suggested that peak production of age-1 alewives could occur over a broad range of spawning stock sizes, and the fit of the model was improved most by the addition of terms for...


A new version of IM1 including SC3DMC is updated and is available on the SVN. The full set of conformance bitstreams is generated.


The study is carried out to investigate change of the intestinal structure liver tissue antioxidant capacity of rabbit under heat stress,and the regulation mechanism of the Chinese herbal compound.The 35-day-old New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into the control group and the heat stress group,the Chinese herb group.The control group was fed at 25 ℃~28 ℃,65% humidity,the model group and the Chinese medicine group were fed at high temperature(30 ℃~37 ℃,65% in humidity)environment.After 21 days,the samples were collected and determined,and the result shows that:Heat stress could cause the structure damage to the duodenum and jejunum in rabbit,which leads to damages of the intestinal mucosal mechanical barrier;The Chinese herbal compound group could maintain mechanical barrier at a normal level.Heat stress could also lead to decreases of liver tissue T-AOC and SOD,while MDA content increased in rabbit,which led to a decline in the antioxidant capacity of rabbit body;Chinese medicine compound could maintain antioxidant ability at a normal level in rabbit under heat stress.


The utility model relates to an inspection robot for a cable tunnel, which comprises a robot body, an autonomous mobile device and a mechanical arm, wherein the autonomous mobile device is installed on the robot body, is installed on a rail in a suspended manner and moves along the rail; the mechanical arm is installed on the robot body, and a holder is arranged at the tail end of the mechanical arm; the robot body is provided with a control device and a power supply device, the power supply device is electrically connected with a cable in an inductive manner, and the cable is connected with an external power supply cabinet. The inspection robot has the advantages of higher waterproof and electromagnetic interference-resistant levels, safe power supply and reliable communication, therefore, the limit to the movement ability of the robot due to complex ground environment can be overcome, dead angle-free images monitoring of the equipment in the tunnel can be realized, damaged and thermal defect positions of the equipment can be detected and positioned, and the whole environment in the tunnel can be monitored.


The invention discloses a belt pulley used for an engine. The belt pulley is characterized in that a wheel body is provided with multiple wheel grooves, the wheel body is fixedly connected with the engine, at least one wheel groove is an active wheel groove, and the active wheel groove can be separated from the wheel body; the belt pulley and the engine are fixed and can synchronously rotate, and the engine can respectively drive a radiator, a water pump and a generator through multiple wheel grooves of the belt pulley; when the engine operates, the leather belt in the active wheel groove drives a compressor belt pulley to rotate; when a compressor needs to operate, the active wheel groove and the wheel body can synchronously rotate, the compressor belt pulley is driven to operate, and the refrigeration of an air conditioner is realized; when the compressor does not need to operate, the active wheel groove is separated from the wheel body, the active wheel groove and the wheel body cannot synchronously rotate, the compressor belt pulley cannot generate idle running, and the power consumption of the engine is reduced; and meanwhile, the abrasion between the compressor belt pulley and the leather belt is lowered, and the service life of the compressor drive components such as the leather belt and the belt pulley is prolonged.


The 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC) was held at the Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, United States from October 19 to 20, 2017. The city of Boston, with its historical relevance to anesthesia, was the ideal host for anesthesiology meeting of international standards. The theme of this year's meeting was Brains and Machines and was jointly provided by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the SNACC. This 2-day meeting witnessed 350 attendees from across the world. The organizing committee of the 45th Annual Meeting laid out a very comprehensive scientific schedule that highlighted latest innovations and advances in the fields of neuroanesthesia and neurosciences. The scientific schedule progressed smoothly from workshops to basic and clinical sciences on day 1 and from general sessions to neurosciences sessions on day 2. The official meeting of SNACC commenced on Thursday afternoon, the 19th of October. Three workshops were conducted concurrently with a basic science symposium and a clinical science symposium followed by a dinner symposium. The Ultrasound in OR and ICU workshop was moderated by Drs. Wael M. Ali SakrEsa, David Anthony, Hesham Elsharkawy, and Ehab S. Farag, and it was extremely clinically oriented and practical in approach. The workshop provided attendees with excellent hands-on experience of various central venous and arterial cannulation sites and respective ultrasonographic views. Delegates also had the opportunity to try their hands at lung ultrasound and intracranial pressure assessment by optic nerve sheath ultrasonography. Participants also had first-hand experience of various views of transthoracic echocardiography and assessment of volume responsiveness based on inferior vena cava diameter. Ultrasound for gastric content was a new and interesting aspect of the workshop that discussed identification of full stomach by ultrasound and estimation of volume of gastric contents. The workshop on Simulation in Neurosciences conducted offsite at Boston Children's Hospital was moderated by Drs. Michael L. James, Marco A. Maurtua, Colleen M. Moran, and Elizabeth H. Sinz. The simulation workshop discussed the goals and advantages of simulation training, aspects of adult learning, technical aspects of simulation, designing scenarios, resource management, and simulation with mannequin. The third workshop was on Career Development. It was moderated by Drs. William M. Armstead, PhD, and Chanannait Paisansathan. Dr. Robert Tamburro discussed the National Institute of Health Funding Opportunities and Challenges. This was followed by an interactive discussion by a panel that included Drs. William M. Armstead, Chanannait Paisansathan, and Robert Tamburro. This year's basic science symposium was on Fluid Therapy and was moderated by Dr. William M. Armstead, PhD. The first lecturer, Dr. Michael J. Souter, professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Washington, reviewed body fluid homeostasis and discussed the various types of fluids available and their physiological effects in neurologically injured patients. He discussed the special challenges and reasons why homeostasis is impaired in neurologically injured patients and that external correction requires detailed assessment of these perturbations. The following lecture by Dr. Fitz Roy E. Curry, PhD, discussed the Revised Starling Principle of transvascular fluid exchange. He emphasized that the classical Starling principle is far from correct. According to Revised Starling Principle, fluid retention depends on filtration rate that can be altered by vasoconstriction, and not on oncotic pressure differences between plasma and interstitial fluid. The last lecture by Dr. Martin Smith from United Kingdom reviewed the role of lactate as an energy substrate in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the importance of functional mitochondria in this context. He also discussed emerging evidence regarding the role of lactate supplementation and its potential to reduce the incidence of cognitive impairment after TBI. The clinical science symposium on Neuromonitoring was moderated by Drs. Linda S. Aglio and Antoun Koht. The first lecture was by Dr. Stacie G. Deiner on depth of anesthesia. Dr. Deiner discussed the recommendations made by different societies regarding monitoring of depth of anesthesia. Ongoing trials and various resources available for


Quantification of Lithium is drawing interest because of its industrial usefulness, physiological and biological importance. Flame emission spectrophotometry is mainly used for the analysis of many metals that undergo ionization in a flame. Flame photometric analysis is an easy and sensitive analytical technique for determinations of group one and two metal ions. Li content within the samples of red kidney beans, Lentils have been analyzed .Also teen talav water sample ,collected from Chembur area immediately after Ganesha Visarjan have been analyzed for Lithium content the amount of lithium in the water sample was estimated to be 4 ppm. The utilization of flame emission measurements, however would offer a speedy analysis of Lithium in different samples.


Because of the often remote and fledgling character of Canada's aboriginal tourism attractions, developing alliances with knowledgeable and culturally sensitive distribution channel operators are especially important. The distribution channels developed can affect the patterns of destination use, target markets attracted, and economic impact created for aboriginal communities. This research describes the structure and perspectives of the European tour operator industry as it relates to the distribution of North American aboriginal tourism experiences to European travelers. The findings suggest strategies for working with tour operators in configuring, positioning, promoting, and delivering aboriginal tourism.


Organised capitalism, as a distinct mode of political economy, is generally held to be under serious threat, not least from the apparently inexorable logic and pressures of "globalisation". The challenge represented by these forces is intensified in Germany by the constraints imposed by the requirement to fulfil those Maastricht Treaty criteria appertaining to establishing Economic and Monetary Union. However, Germany additionally faces the unprecedented task of integrating the former GDR, a regime which was both literally and metaphorically bankrupt in so many respects. So far, that integration has not succeeded, least of all industrially. The implications are manifold and complex ‐ yet what seems to be quite certain is that the combined, accumulated burden of all the relevant problems and difficulties has come to bear primarily on working people in Germany and on their representative organisations. This first paper represents an initial exploration of key parameters affecting labour, the second proposes to do so both more broadly and in greater depth.


Soluble solids content is an important index for fruit quality. One of the traditional methods in determining soluble solids content of fruits is refractometry which measures the refractive index in visible or near infrared. Here we reported the use of terahertz time-domain transmission spectroscopy (THz-TDTS) technique for the determination of soluble solids content in apple products. Not only the refractive index, but also the absorption coefficient is used in regression model. In method one, sucrose solutions were for the calibration set , root mean square of validation set (RMSEP) was 0.168% for absorption coefficient model, 0.741% for refractive index model. In method two, apple products were for the calibration set, RMSEP was 0.143% for absorption coefficient model, 0.648% for refractive index model. Less absolute error of 0.2% between predicted and refractometer value has been both obtained from two methods with absorption coefficient model. This result proved the THz-TDS technique is quite potential for nondestructive detection on food quality.


We consider hadronic axion models that extend the Standard Model by one complex scalar field and one or more new heavy quarks, i.e. $N_\mathcal{Q} \geq 1$. We review previously suggested selection criteria as well as categorize and catalog all possible models for $N_\mathcal{Q} \leq 9$. In particular, allowing for $N_\mathcal{Q}>1$ can introduce models that spoil the axion solution of the strong CP problem. Demanding that Landau poles do not appear below some energy scale limits the number of preferred models to a finite number. For our choice of criteria, we find that $N_\mathcal{Q} \leq 28$ and only 820 different anomaly ratios $E/N$ exist (443 when considering additive representations, 12 when all new quarks transform under the same representation). We analyze the ensuing $E/N$ distributions, which can be used to construct informative priors on the axion-photon coupling. The hadronic axion model band may be defined as the central region of one of these distributions, and we show how the band for equally probable, preferred models compares to present and future experimental constraints.


Frontal-midline theta (FMT) oscillations are increased in amplitude during cognitive control tasks. Since these tasks often conflate cognitive control and cognitive effort, it remains unknown if FMT amplitude maps onto cognitive control or effort. To address this gap, we utilized the glucose facilitation effect to manipulate cognitive effort without changing cognitive control demands. We performed a single-blind, cross-over human study in which we provided participants with a glucose drink (control session: volume-matched water) to reduce cognitive effort and improve performance on a visuospatial working memory task. Following glucose consumption, participants performed the working memory task at multiple timepoints of a three-hour window to sample across the rise and fall of blood glucose. Using high-density electroencephalography (EEG), we calculated FMT amplitude during the delay period of a working memory task. Source localization analysis revealed that FMT oscillations originated from bilateral prefrontal cortex. We found that glucose increased working memory accuracy during the high working memory load condition, but decreased FMT amplitude. The decrease in FMT amplitude coincided with both peak blood glucose elevation and peak performance enhancement for glucose relative to water. Therefore, the inverse association between glucose and task performance provided causal evidence that the amplitude of FMT oscillations may correspond to cognitive effort, rather than cognitive control. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, data collection was terminated prematurely; the preliminary nature of these findings due to small sample size should be contextualized by rigorous experimental design and use of a novel causal perturbation to dissociate cognitive effort and cognitive control.


We propose that impurity-induced electronic nematic state is realized above the orthorhombic structure transition temperature $T_S$ in iron-pnictide superconductors. In the presence of strong orbital fluctuations near $T_S$, it is theoretically revealed that a single impurity induces non-local orbital order with $C_2$-symmetry, consistently with recent STM/STS measurements. Each impurity-induced $C_2$ orbital order aligns along a-axis by applying tiny uniaxial pressure along b-axis. In this impurity-induced nematic phase, the resistivity shows sizable in-plane anisotropy ($\rho_b/\rho_a \sim 2$) even above $T_S$, actually observed in various "detwinned" samples. The present study indicates the existence of strong orbital fluctuations in iron-pnictide superconductors.


Isotope reference materials IRMM-3636 was prepared by gravimetrically mixing of solutions from highly enriched 99.96% U (IRMM-3630) and highly enriched 99.97% U (IRMM-3660) in order to obtain an isotopic ratio n(U)/n(U) close to unity. IRMM-3636a and IRMM-3636b were prepared from IRMM-3636 by gravimetrical dilution. The primary solution, IRMM-3636 is for the time being not yet available for external users. The certified isotope content values for IRMM-3636a of 4.27988(54)⋅10 mol U per g of solution and for IRMM- 3636b of 2.21802(61)⋅10 mol U per g of solution and the certified isotope amount ratios have been established by mass metrology, subsequently the primary solution IRMM-3636 was verified by isotope mass spectrometry. The methodology used in the preparation and certification was similar to that of comparable uranium mixtures made in the past. The uncertainties contributing to the final uncertainties of the isotopic ratios are the weighing errors, the measured impurities in each starting material, the stoichiometry of the oxides and the isotopic abundances of each of the starting materials. The method for the preparation and mixing is described and the certification and verification procedures are reported. Verification of IRMM-3636 was performed by TRITON TIMS measurements using Faraday collectors and secondary electron multiplier in combination with an RPQ energy filter for improved abundance sensitivity. The results agreed well with the certified values obtained from the mixing calculations. By mixing the n(U)/n(U) double spike with a sample and applying internal mass fractionation correction, the n(U)/n(U) ratio of a given sample can be determined with the highest possible accuracy. The Isotopic Reference Materials IRMM-3636a and IRMM-3636b are part of a systematic IRMM programme to supply Isotopic Reference Materials of various isotopes at different concentrations The Isotopic Reference Material is supplied in a sealed quartz ampoule containing 1 mL of a 1 M nitric acid solution. How to obtain EU publications Our priced publications are available from EU Bookshop (http://bookshop.europa.eu), where you can place an order with the sales agent of your choice. The Publications Office has a worldwide network of sales agents. You can obtain their contact details by sending a fax to (352) 29 29-42758. The mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies. As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national. LA - N A - 2408- EN - C


Hematopoiesis governs the generation of immune cells through differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells into various progenitor cells, a process controlled by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Among extrinsic factors influencing hematopoiesis is microbiota, the collection of microorganism presents in various body sites. The microbiota has profound impact on host homeostasis by virtue of its ability to release various molecules and structural components which promotes normal organ function. In this review, we will discuss the role of microbiota in influencing hematopoiesis, how disrupting microbiota/host network could lead to hematological malignancies and highlight important knowledge gaps to move this field of research forward.


This communication introduces an experimental setup for investigating the effect of solar radiation on the reduction of transmission heat losses and the steady state thermal conductance of uninsulated and insulated multi-layer wall samples. The setup consists of two adjacent climatic chambers, which share a common wall, in which the multi-layer wall samples are mounted. A solar simulator is applied within the outdoor air climatic chamber, whose radiation spectrum and radiation intensity are approximately equivalent to those of the sun. The first tests have been carried out on a wall sample with a typical structure of existing buildings from the year 1930 in Germany. In addition, a high-performance insulating plaster layer has been applied on a basic test sample (with existing building structure) to replicate and assess the refurbished scenario. Furthermore, a numerical investigation on the transient heat transfer process is carried out by using the simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics®. The experimental results of both uninsulated and insulated wall samples are validated against 1D and 3D models. As seen, the uninsulated wall, whose thermal conductance was experimentally determined to be equal to 1.79 W/(m²K), absorbs a heat flux of 208 W/m² through its external wall surface over a period of 8 hours. A fraction of 9.8 % of the absorbed heat arrives as a gain on the internal wall and reduces the transmission heat losses by 11.7 % over a period of 55 hours. On the other hand, the thermal conductivity of the insulation layer of the refurbished wall sample with micro hollow glass spheres was estimated by a parameter estimation procedure using the 3D model and the obtained experimental data. Using the estimated thermal conductivity, a thermal conductance of 0.42 W/(m²K) has been obtained for the refurbished wall sample.


Abstract The spatial variability of seasonal mean sea level pressure (SLP) and 500 mb height anomalies are determined using eigenvector analysis. Previously, spatial variability had only been analyzed in such a manner during winter months, and the time coefficients of the eigenvectors of SLP and 500 mb heights were not compared. The eigenvectors of SLP and 500 mb heights obtained here are compared during each season, and the vectors are compared between seasons. Surface and 500 mb level eigenvector coefficients are found to be correlated and they are correlated in some seasons to air temperatures at surface stations. The data used were National Meteorological Center analyses of daily SLP and 500 mb heights between 1946 and 1977. The eigenvectors are determined for the covariance matrices of seasonal mean pressure and height departures from the 31 or 32 year long term normal over a 132 grid-point network. The coefficients of the first eigenvector of 500 mb heights are most highly correlated to the coeffici...


Lightweight encryption circuits are crucial to ensure adequate information security in emerging millimeter-scale platforms for the Internet of Things, which are required to deliver moderately high throughput under stringent area and energy budgets. This requires the adoption of specialized AES accelerators, as they offer orders of magnitude energy improvements over microcontroller-based implementations. In this paper, we present the architectural exploration of lightweight AES accelerators with the goal of minimizing the energy consumption. Also, the lower bound of the number of cycles per encryption in lightweight AES designs is estimated as a function of the number of available S-boxes. Combined with sub-/near-threshold circuit techniques, we present a low-cost ultra energy-efficient AES encryption core for cubic-millimeter platforms. Our test chip achieves high energy efficiency of 0.83 pJ/bit at 0.32 V, which outperforms the state-of-the-art low-cost AES designs by 7×.


The practice of gift-giving was omnipresent in trans-Saharan embassies. Gifts were the material expression of the political dialogue between rulers. Their quality and quantity was a good barometer of relations between rulers. A close analysis of the gifts sent or received by the Borno rulers (present-day Nigeria) between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals a system of norms and customs on the part of the Borno chancellery. Their material value also raises the question of their economic dimension and how they were recycled. By focusing on the embassies between Tripoli and Borno in the early modern period, the aim of this article is to demonstrate that the gifts were a part of a normalized practice of diplomacy. Beyond the message carried by the gifts themselves, the Borno sultans mixed economic and political interests by integrating the exchanges of gifts into the wider trans-Saharan trade.


The interest in scientific research of the self-efficacy phenomenon provides new data and reveals further relationships between this phenomenon and the functioning of the individual in the society. The Albert Bandura's socio-cognitive theory presents its important and the most popular theoretical construct self-efficacy, which is a part of the cognitive components of personality. It is an assessment of the individual's competences, its conviction about the possibility of managing planned activities in a given field. Studies on the relationship between coping with the learning process and self-efficacy seem to be particularly interesting. In the analysis of the problem, there are a number of personality variables that could be important for undertaking and continuing education and training in adulthood, which is particularly important among people performing medical professions, including midwives. Motivation,


Retinoic acid receptors (RAR), retinoid X receptors (RXR) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are transcription factors involved in many cellular processes including learning and memory. These nuclear receptors can be divided into three isotypes: alpha, beta and gamma for RAR and RXR, and alpha, beta/delta and gamma for PPAR. The levels of mRNA for RARs and RXRs decline with ageing, and this decrease can be reversed by treatment with retinoic acid [1, 2], which is an agonist at these receptors. Treatment with retinoic acid also alleviates agerelated memory defi cits. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) also act as endogenous ligands at PPAR and RXR. We investigated by western blot analysis of rat forebrain if an age-related decline occurred in RAR, RXR and PPAR protein levels, and whether dietary supplementation with EPA and DHA infl uenced this decline. Twenty-four month-old male Wistar rats were fed a standard diet or a diet supplemented with EPA and DHA for 12 weeks. The average daily intake was 145-160 mg EPA and 95-110 mg DHA/kg rat, with an omega-6/omega-3 ratio of 1, provided by the addition of Maxepa® oil to the diet. The control group received the standard diet, with an omega-6/omega-3 ratio of 14. With ageing there were decreases in the protein levels of RARalpha (18%), RARgamma (14%), RXRalpha (36%), RXRbeta (47%) and PPARgamma (40%). Some of these decreases reached signifi cance (P < 0.05 vs. adult controls). They were fully reversed by supplementation with omega-3 PUFA. These observations support the neuroprotective potential of omega-3 fatty acids in ageing and suggest that reversal of age-related changes in retinoid signalling may be involved in their therapeutic effect.


Basing upon multi-agent systems, we show that an explicit representation of accountabilities and responsibility assumptions gives the right abstractions for properly specifying who should provide feedback to whom, about the execution of its duties, both at the level of design and at the level of programming. For the latter, we explain a programming pattern for developing accountable agents, and illustrate the approach in JaCaMo. The paper takes into account business processes as a motivating scenario.


Project Description The project includes an immersed tunnel for a twotracked road between Preveza and Aktio. The total length of the link is about 4.7 km. The immersed part of each tunnel tube is 909 m and linked to a 150 m long cut & cover tunnel in one end and to a 500 m long cut & cover tunnel performed with diaphragm walls in the other end. The rest of the link consists of slip roads. The project includes service buildings, access roads and links to the regional network Scope of Services The contributions include examinations of the design from the contractor and also supervision and construction management.


Coproscopic examination, using the Willis-Schlaf flotation method, was performed in 122 cows imported to Poland from the Czech Republic, 28 from France, and 27 from Germany. The mean prevalence of infection with Eimeria protozoa in cows imported to Poland was 20.90%. Infections were found in 51.85% of animals imported form Germany, 28.57% from France, and 12.30% from the Czech Republic. Five species of coccidia (E. bovis, E. auburnensis, E. ellipsoidalis, E. subspherica, and E. zurnii) were isolated from the faeces of cows imported from the Czech Republic, four species (E. bovis, E. auburnensis, E. ellipsoidalis, and E. zurnii) from French cows, and seven species (E. bovis, E. auburnensis, E. ellipsoidalis, E. canadensis, E. cylindrica, E. alabamensis, and E. zurnii) from German cows. The analysed animals were found to have mixed (mostly two- and three- species) coccidial infections. When importing cattle to Poland, special attention should be given to Eimeria protozoa because of the high prevalence of infection with species such as E. zurnii and E. bovis, which are responsible for the incidence of clinical coccidiosis in the geoclimatic conditions of Poland.


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Using a panel data of over 30 thousand Chinese manufacturing firms during 2000—2007,we construct indicators which include information from internal funds,trade debit,credit criteria,and others.The estimations based on a Heckman selection model show that firms with better access to financial resources have greater probabilities and volumes of export.The financial improvement has greater impact on foreign firms than on domestic firms in export.Although private firms do face tougher financial constraints compared with SOEs,their performances in export are not worse.The export-promoting effect of a better financial status is more significant in sectors that depend more on external finance.


Bayesian ying-yang (BYY) supervised learning system and theory is further re-elaborated, and the previous results of its uses on mixture-of-expert models, radial basis functions and three layer nets are systematically summarized. Moreover, new results on three layer net are presented. Using Taylor expansion on the distribution of the output layer, we find that maximum likelihood (ML) learning on a net with a probabilistic hidden layer is equivalent to adding a regularization to its counterpart with a deterministic hidden layer, which leads us not only an adaptive EM-like algorithm for ML learning on three layer net, but also a new type of regularization technique. Furthermore, an improved BYY criterion is obtained for selecting the number of hidden units.


A method is described which yields the expectation value of an operator for an ensemble in a pure state and within which the initial and final quantum states are different. The treatment is given in the density matrix formalism and appears particularly useful for treating such time dependent problems as are encountered in non-linear phenomena.


In The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne taps on the possibility of new future history writing through the contemporary experimental movement of utopian community based on transcendentalism. In this work, he throws the question whether Americans can reach millennium by simply establishing a structural reformation through moving into the country from the city under the optimistic and superficial understanding of human nature, and whether new history writing experiment can succeed without first correctly reading the past history and completely rewriting it. Hawthorne acknowledges that the Blithedale communiity has established the idealistic ideal of brotherhood/sisterhood and harmony of body and spirit against the existing society dominated by the evils of industrial capitalism and technological civilization. However, he also points out that as the result of this experimental community's tendencies to forget the past and mythify it through its ignorance of the fact and the cause of the failure of American history, it inevitably repeats the pattern of the corrupted existing history and fails to become a model of alternative society. That is, Hollingsworth and Coverdale directly or indirectly oppress Zenobia who represents 'the other' that can change the society through passion and sense of reality, and transform Priscilla into the object of abstract appropriation and economical tool, thus, unable to overcome the existing values of male ego's selfish will to power and rationalize. Through this work, Hawthorne emphasizes that it is only through historical consciousness that new history of American can be written. In other words, America will be a truly better society only when she faces the hidden historical truths honestly, acknowledges the fact that Americans are also imperfect and cannot be exceptions to historical continuity, and accepts 'otherness' in the self and the need to respect 'others' as well as the self.


Modeling a given quality factor Q with a relaxation spectrum is important to time-domain simulations of wave propagation in a viscoelastic medium. In this paper, we present an optimal scheme of modeling the quality factor with a relaxation spectrum based on a generalized linear solid, which is available for both constant and frequency-dependent Q. A detailed study is conducted on the distribution of stress relaxation times and the error in the modeling scheme. From the study, we find that the error will be larger if the distribution range is too small or too wide, especially, the error is always larger if the distribution range equals the frequency range of interest. Since seeking the distribution range that yields the highest accuracy needs a series of calculation, for convenience, we suggest distributing the reciprocals of stress relaxation times logarithmically over the range from half the minimal frequency of interest to twice the maximal frequency of interest, which always yields a high accuracy. The value of the frequency-independent Q has little effect on the error. Moreover, effect of the number of SLSs (short for standard linear solid, a spring and a dashpot in parallel in series with a spring) on the accuracy is studied. We find that employing at least 5 SLSs leads to a higher accuracy. With this scheme, we model the frequency-dependent Q functions. The modeling result shows the validity of the scheme, and the error is larger when modeling some Q functions that decrease with frequency.


''Rules of thumb'' have been used to make oil and gas acquisition investment decisions for many years. This paper will illustrate those factors which significantly impact certain ''rules of thumb'' in property evaluations, and identify potentially erroneous conclusions drawn from them. It will also discuss partnership arrangements and the affect of their structure on the promoted partner's return. In summary, a simple method is suggested to estimate property value for initial screening purposes and indicate an estimated range of return to a promoted partner.


Presentation of Case A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of seizures. There was a long history of psychologic troubles, with multiple bouts of depression, intermittent abuse of alcohol and frequent complaints of pain in the left anterior portion of the chest accompanied by dyspnea, for which she had been seen repeatedly at the emergency ward of another hospital. One year before admission a clinically benign gastric ulcer was found. Five weeks before entry abdominal pain developed. Several days later the patient vomited bright-red material and was admitted to the other hospital. Physical examination revealed that the blood . . .


Along the past two or three decades, the international dimension has become an integral part of education activities and scientific research, giving rise to the notion of internationalization. In this article, the internationalization rationale and mechanisms implemented by the top graduate programs in Brazil those which have received scores 6 and 7 in the 2010 triennial evaluation of recognized graduate programs are examined. Graduate directors of 322 programs were asked to respond to a web questionnaire organized in three content sections that deal with different aspects of their internationalization efforts, namely: meaning(s) and justifications; strategies, initiatives and partners; and facilitating and inhibiting factors. After validation, 66 remained valid questionnaires and form the dataset used to develop the study. A prevalence of an activity-oriented conception of internationalization was detected amongst those programs. Outward mobility is seen as the main mechanism to boost international experience, network building and research collaboration. Albeit incipient, initiatives to attract foreign scholars and efforts towards "internationalization at home" are gaining momentum. The presence of faculty members who are trained abroad, and can mobilize their networks to establish scientific exchanges and partnerships, is considered a key condition for internationalization. However, the lack of a national strategy, appropriate administrative systems and institutional policies in most Brazilian higher education institutions hamper the development of those connections into more meaningful and sustained cooperation.


The aim of the present study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory action of Biofield Energy Healing (the Trivedi Effect®) Treatment to the animals and to the novel proprietary test formulation in tri-nitro benzene sulphonic acid (TNBS)-induced male Sprague Dawley rats. The test formulation consists of minerals (zinc, magnesium, iron, and copper) and vitamins (B6 , B12, and D3 ). Each ingredient of the test formulation was divided into two parts. One part was denoted as the control without any Biofield Energy Healing Treatment, while the other part was defined as the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment by a renowned Biofield Energy Healer, Mr. Mahendra Kumar Trivedi. Additionally, three group of animals were also received Biofield Energy Treatment per se under similar conditions. The cellular biomarkers like cluster of differentiation-4 (CD4+ ), CD8+ , and CD28+ , biochemistry and hematology along with histopathologic profile were evaluated. The percentage of CD4+ count was increased by 8.87% in the G6 (Biofield Energy Treatment per se at day -15) group as compared to the untreated test formulation (G4) group. While the expression of CD8+ count was increased by 10.12% and 13.01% in the G6 and G7 (Biofield Energy Treated test formulation at day -15) groups, respectively as compared with the disease control (G2) group. Moreover, the level of CD28+ was significantly (p≤0.001) increased by 15.50% in the G5 (Biofield Energy Treated test formulation) group compared to the G2 group. In hematological analysis, platelet count was increased in the G7 by 8% compared with the G4. The level of uric acid was decreased by 40.47%, 13.8%, and 14.28% in the G6, G8 (Biofield Energy Treatment per se to animals plus Biofield Energy Treated test formulation at -15 day), and G9 (Biofield Energy Treatment per se to animals plus untreated test formulation) groups, respectively as compared with the G4 group. Histopathologic findings of all the tested groups did not show any abnormal findings with respect to the safe and nontoxic treatment strategies, which indicated that, the test formulation and Biofield Energy Treatment per se ameliorates colon inflammation in the TNBS-induced colitis rats by decreasing histopathologic lesions. Overall, the experimental data concluded that the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation showed considerable improved cellular and humoral immune response as compared with the untreated test formulation. Thus, the Trivedi Effect®-Biofield Energy Healing Treatment per se and the test formulation considerable improved cellular immune response, immunomodulatory effect, and gut health function.


The extracellular lipase Lip2 from Yarrowia lipolytica (YlLip2) has been widely used as a catalyst in industry for biodiesel production, esters synthesis and optical resolution of chiral compounds. YlLip2 was successfully expressed in Pichia pastoris under the control of the AOX1 promoter. To further improve lipase production in P. pastoris, we constructed multi‐copy lipase gene Lip2 clones using high Zeocin concentration screening. Two clones which can resist 1000 µg/mL Zeocin showed higher lipase production in shaking flasks. Southern blot analysis showed that three lipase genes were integrated into the genome of P. pastoris GS115. Low temperature (25°C) could also improve the extracellular lipase yield. A high lipase activity of 42 900 U/mL (3.4 g total protein and 2.16 g lipase per liter) was obtained using the three copy integration clone in fed‐batch fermentation using basal salt medium, which was 2.5‐fold higher than that using a single copy clone. The high yield of lipase YlLip2 in P. pastoris could decrease the price of this biocatalyst and accelerate its industrial applications.


This book presents the findings from excavation in advance of the High Speed 1 and South Thameside Development Route 4, and post-excavation analysis and dating of the prehistoric sedimentary sequences and sites found along the route, notably at the Ebbsfleet River Crossing site. The volume is of particular interest due to both the nature of scale of the HS1 development and its relevance in the light of recent announcements regarding HS2
Chapter 15 Springhead (Zone 11) by Barnett et al included in this substantial research monograph incorporates a series of specialist subchapters as outlined in below. Together they form a substantial contribution to our understanding of prehistoric environmental and geoarchaeological change across the area which provided the arena for human occupation.
Introduction
The Ebbsfleet River Crossing (ARC ERC01)
 Introduction
 Lithological succession by Catherine Barnett, David Norcott and Elizabeth Stafford
 Dating by Catherine Barnett
 Pollen by Rob Scaife
 Molluscs by Sarah F Wyles
The prehistoric spring side sequences (ARC SPH00)
 Introduction
 Lithological succession by Catherine Barnett, David Norcott and Elizabeth Stafford
 Dating by Catherine Barnett
 Micromorphology and soil chemistry by Richard I Macphail and John Crowther
 Molluscs by Sarah F Wyles

Appendix G Radiocarbon dating by Catherine Barnett and Elizabeth Stafford
Appendix P Wood species analysis by Catherine Barnett and Denise Druce
Appendix Q Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett


Records developed during a product development project are usually archived for long-term storage when the project is completed. Achieving a reduction in volume of those records is desirable to minimize both preparation and storage costs. The content of the records to be archived and the format for archiving those records are addressed, seeking improvements over current practice. Special attention is given to files that originate in electronic form, e.g., software, safety analysis results, or word processor files. While the governing documents for 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality assurance (QA) programs do not address which portion of project record files should be retained for long-term storage, other industry documents supply useful guidance in this regard. It is concluded that files containing information (including applicable codes and standards used in design) about the delivered product should be archived for long-term storage, while those that describe the process, such as procedures, audits, and QA manuals, that was followed to yield the quality product and files containing information about earlier developmental versions of the product need not be retained. The use of compact disk (CD) technology for archiving project records has several advantages compared to using hard copy or microfiche. The volume of information is substantially reduced, the information is much easier to search and access, and, since so much information now originates in electronic form, the preparation of the CD form is more direct. Approaches to ensuring long-term retrievability and readability of CD files are discussed.


The study aimed to investigate the phytochemical profiles, in vitro antioxidant activity, and in silico molecular docking antidiabetic activity of the aqueous root extracts of Ruellia tuberosa L. The phytochemical qualitative tests revealed the positive detections of tannins, flavonoids, ascorbic acid, and phenolic compounds. Using Liquid chromatographyhigh-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) analysis, 12 compounds were tentatively identified in the extracts. The major compounds were tentatively identified as betaine, daidzein, hispidulin, α-linoleic acid, and 4-coumaric acid. The aqueous root extracts have high antioxidant activity with the IC50 value of 15.2 mg/ml against DPPH free radicals. The major putatively identified compounds were docked to human pancreatic α-amylase protein, to investigate their inhibitory activities to this enzyme. The interaction between betaine, daidzein, and hispidulin in docking with human pancreatic a-amylase showed different binding sites to the protein. In addition, the types of bonds involved were mostly hydrogen and hydrophobic bonds which show the interactions between three ligands and α-amylase. Energy generated from docking between betaine, daidzein, and hispidulin with α-amylase was −137.6, −245.8, and −236.7 cal/mol, respectively. This study concludes that the aqueous root extracts of R. tuberosa L. have prospective as an inhibitor for a-amylase protein and to be used as antidiabetic agent. Further, in vitro and in vivo studies are needed to confirm this work.


Objective To establish a method of high resolution DNA typing for HLA B40 cross reactive groups (CREG) in Chinese with polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primers (PCR SSP). Methods A panel of 10 standard DNAs, and 164 individuals identified serologically as B40 positive were selected from 483 kidney donor recipients. Genomic DNAs were prepared with a rapid salting out method. A rapid high resolution DNA typing for HLA B40 CREG by PCR SSP was set up with designed and synthesized 13 specific primers and 1 pair of internal control primer, combining in 8 one step reactions. Results HLA B40 alleles were successfully typed with PCR SSP in 164 clinical samples and 10 standard DNAs. All alleles of HLA B40 could be accurately distinguished. No false positive or false negative typing results were obtained. The overall time for DNA typing was 4~5 hours. The reproducibility was 100% in all standard DNAs and 10 clinical samples typed on 5 separate occasions. The results of clinical samples typed with DNA typing and comparison with serology showed that the B40 positive individuals in Chinese accounted 33%, and the most frequent allele found was B60 accounting for 67.3%. Comparing the DNA based typing results for B40 with those of serology in 10%, a discrepancy was found. DNA typing could accurately discriminate the B40 alleles in all homozygous or heterozygous samples, that are difficult, ambiguous or impossible for identification in serology. Conclusion High resolution DNA typing for HLA B40 CREG by PCR SSP has proved to be a high resolution, high specificity, rapid and accurate technique, suitable for clinical application with a greater precision than serological method.


The time-dependent surface flux (t-SURFF) method is extended to single and double ionization of two-electron systems. Fully differential double emission spectra by strong pulses at extreme UV and infrared wavelengths are calculated using simulation volumes that only accommodate the effective range of the atomic binding potential and the quiver radius of free electrons in the external field. For a model system, we found a pronounced dependence of shake-up and non-sequential double ionization on the phase and duration of the laser pulse. The extension to fully three-dimensional calculations is discussed.


AbstractThe solidification process in some binary copper alloys was studied and special attention was devoted to the growth conditions of the primary phase (cells or dendrites). The actual growth temperature of crystals growing from the mould wall and inwards was measured as a function of constitution, composition, and rate of heat extraction and the morphology of the growing crystals was revealed by metallographic techniques on 'frozen in' samples. The formation and growth of 'inner equiaxed' crystals is closely coupled to the development of the columnar crystals and the relationship between the growth conditions of the different crystal types has been studied. In the same manner a number of commercial copper alloys were examined under varying casting conditions and the results referred to the findings from the binary alloys.


In analyzing project regressions, automation has emerged as a major agenda in managing changes in software which requires minimum manual intervention. For rapid testing environment, software development processes such as Agile, Scrum, and XP processes depend on continuous integration tools. There is no single tool to handle the project automation, and the main challenge is dependency on multiple tools. The proposed automation tool should support configuration, execution, and debugging facility. Integrating the project automation works such as software configuration management tools Mercurial and Git, job scheduling tools like Jenkins and Apache Continuum, test management tools like TestNG and Selenium need tight integration which is a challenge. The existing PKI infrastructure for access control does not share data among the software tools and processes increasing the complexity when an organization needs to leverage the existing cloud services. The proposed approach optimizes the execution time by taking single CSV with input test case and metadata information and efficiently group and executes the tests automatically. The proposed method includes implementation of security access control mechanism for the jobs execution platform in cloud environment.


Abstract Wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is becoming the most important metal additive manufacturing process in many industries. In this paper, one of the common problems of irregularity in the metal deposition in WAAM has been addressed and solved using machine learning (ML). A deep learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to classify the two classes of deposited beads, i.e. 'regular bead' and 'irregular bead'. A digital camera was installed with a WAAM setup to obtain the images of beads after deposition. A single layer of deposition was conducted on a substrate using aluminium 5356 alloy filler wire using robotic-controlled gas-metal arc welding (GMAW) setup. The performance of the ML model was validated using classification accuracy and processing time. The developed CNN model was checked with three types of proposed datasets. The dataset containing the training and testing ratio of 60:40 achieved an accuracy of 86.53% and 88.08% with 30 and 60 epochs respectively for testing. The proposed ML model was successful in anomaly detection in the deposited bead of WAAM and hence it helps in improving the quality of deposited layers and mechanical properties of fabricated parts.


Objective: Short-term blood pressure variability (BPV) is affected by multiple factors including the sympathetic nervous system drive. Regarding the latter, the novel interventional technology of renal denervation (RDN), by modulating the sympathetic system activation, could have a beneficial impact on BPV. The aim of the present study is to review and meta-analyze the available evidence on the effect of RDN on short term BPV. Design and method: We searched Medline/PubMed database until October 2016 for studies with eligible content. We performed random-effects meta-analyses for 10 outcomes of interest: a) the standard deviation (SD) of systolic blood pressure (SBP) (24-h, daytime and nighttime) b) the SD of diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (24-h, daytime and nighttime) c) the coefficient of variation of SBP (24-h,daytime) and d) the average real variability of SBP and DBP across 24-h. Results: RDN reduced the standard deviation (SD) of systolic blood pressure (SBP) across 24-h (mean change in SD of 24-h SBP: -1.212 [95% confidence intervals: -2.354/-0.071], p = 0.037) and marginally decreased the SD of systolic daytime BP (mean difference: -1.054 [95% confidence intervals: -2.258/0.150], p = 0.086) and diastolic daytime BP (mean difference: -1.845[95% confidence intervals: -3.675/-0.015], p = 0.048). The effect of RDN in reducing SD of SBP across 24-h or DBP across daytime was not influenced by absolute or relative reduction in SBP and DBP indices. (p > 0.1 for all). Conclusions: Catheter-based RDN in resistant hypertensive patients can favorably affect short-term BPV, independent of the level of BP reduction. Further investigation of the effect of RDN on BPV is needed in large randomized trials.


— Sensor is a small device for communication and computation by capturing information regarding temperature, humidity, pressure etc... Wireless sensor network lies of single sensor or nodes that corporate to execute certain task and these nodes use wireless communication to enable their coactions. These sensor nodes have a limited transmission range; processing; storage capacity and energy resources like computation with limited efficiency. Due to these constraints, network lifetime plays vital role in the functionality of any wireless sensor network. To increase a network lifetime of network, it is required to analyze routing protocols because the transmission of information from one node to another, consumes maximum resources. There are main seven categories: Location-based Protocols, Data-centric Protocols, Hierarchical Protocols, Mobility-based Protocols, Multipathbased Protocols, Heterogeneity-based Protocols, QoS-based protocols. Among all these routing protocols, hierarchical routing protocols used in most of the recent WSNs. In this paper we study the recent hierarchical routing protocol for WSNs. The goal of this study is to analyze and compare the performance of different hierarchical routing protocols for wireless sensor networks. The study will help researchers and developers to use different routing algorithm in different scenarios.


Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) confers a risk for developing type 2 diabetes later in life, but the risk of developing type 1 diabetes is also increased. In this study we have evaluated the clinical use of C‐peptide and β‐cell specific autoantibodies during pregnancy with GDM as predictors for later development of diabetes.


The recent observations of ferromagnetic order in several two-dimensional (2D) materials have generated an enormous interest in the physical mechanisms underlying 2D magnetism. In the present Prospective Article, we show that Density Functional Theory combined with either classical Monte Carlo simulations or renormalized spin-wave theory can predict Curie temperatures for ferromagnetic insulators that are in quantitative agreement with experiments. The case of materials with in-plane anisotropy is then discussed, and it is argued that finite size effects may lead to observable magnetic order in macroscopic samples even if long range magnetic order is forbidden by the Mermin–Wagner theorem.


Introduction: Patellar dislocation typically occurs during sports-related activities in young active people. The typical mechanism for injury has been described as internal femoral rotation with the quadriceps engaged, with dislocation occurring between 20 and 30° of tibiofemoral (TF) flexion [1]. After initial dislocation has occurred, the incidence of reoccurrence is high (44%) [2]. As such, dislocation can be a debilitating injury which often hinders or prevents further sporting participation. In the normal patellofemoral (PF) joint, passive patellar stability is provided by a combination of constraint from articular surface contact, and medial soft-tissue structures notably the medial PF ligament (MPFL) which cadaveric studies have reported as providing between 50 to 60% of the medial restraining force on the patella [2, 3]. Predisposing factors for recurrent lateral patellar dislocation include increased femoral anteversion, trochlear dysplasia, increased quadriceps angle (Q-angle), vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) weakness and damage to the MPFL, which is commonly ruptured (up to 94%) during the initial incidence of patellar dislocation [4-6]. Surgical interventions to correct for recurrent lateral dislocation include MPFL reconstruction, tibial tubercle osteotomy and sulcus-deepening trochleoplasty [7]. However, relationships between patellar dislocation and PF anatomy, muscle loading and soft-tissue integrity are not fully understood, and hence surgical decision-making on a patient-specific basis has not been perfected. The objective of the present study was to determine the influence of several predisposing factors on PF mechanics for a patient with previous patellar dislocation and a size-matched control without patellofemoral pathology.


Feeding habits of chimpanzees, red-tail and blue monkeys on figs (Ficus) were studied in compartment N3 of Budongo Forest Reserve, western Uganda, from September 1997 to March 1998. The aim was to examine the spatial and temporal foraging habits of chimpanzees, red-tail monkeys and blue monkeys on figs in the forest reserve. Both scan and focal sampling methods were used to assess the foraging habits of the primates. It was found that the primates fed on emerging leaves of Ficus mucuso Ficalho, F. varifolia Warb. and F. exasperata Vahl. They also preferred ripe fruits to emerging, young and unripe fruits. The primates spent 78% of the morning eating fruits and leaves and inhabited fig trees with fruits for about 4 h. Fig trees with ripe fruits attracted larger numbers of primate groups. It is concluded that information on the feeding habits of chimpanzees and monkeys is required in order to have a clear understanding of the social behaviour and pattern of movement of the primates and to assist in predicting the likely impacts of poor forest management, forest degradation and loss of food resources on their populations.

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On a etudie les habitudes alimentaires des chimpanzes, des red tails et des cercopitheques a diademe dans les figuiers (Ficus), dans le compartiment N3 de la Reserve Forestiere de Budongo, a l'ouest de l'Ouganda, de septembre 1997 a mars 1998. Le but etait d'examiner les habitudes alimentaires, dans l'espace et dans le temps, des chimpanzes, des red tails et des cercopitheques a diademe, dans les figuiers de la reserve forestiere. On a utilise les methodes par scanner et par echantillonnage focal pour evaluer les habitudes alimentaires des primates. On a decouvert que les primates se nourrissaient des jeunes feuilles de Ficus mucoso Ficalho, de F.varifolia Warb et de F.exasperata Vahl. Ils preferaient aussi les fruits murs aux fruits verts. Les primates passaient 78% de la matinee a manger des fruits et des feuilles et restaient environ 4 heures dans les figuiers qui avaient des fruits. Les figuiers dont les fruits etaient murs attiraient un plus grand nombre de groupes de primates. On en a conclu qu'il etait necessaire d'avoir des informations sur les habitudes alimentaires des chimpanzes et des singes pour bien comprendre le comportement social et schema de deplacement des primates et pour aider a prevoir les impacts eventuels d'une pietre gestion forestiere, de la degradation de la foret et de la disparition des ressources alimentaires sur leurs populations.


Acid brings the oxygen: a general method for palladium-catalyzed C-H oxygenation has been developed for the facile synthesis of a wide range of functionalized phenols with readily available aryl ketones, benzoates, benzamides, acetanilides, and sulfonamides. A trifluoroacetic acid/trifluoroacetic acid anhydride solvent system serves as the oxygen source and is the critical factor for C-H activation.


Among the most noteworthy phenomena of modern times are the extensive exploitation of new and thinly settled countries by citizens of countries older and more thoroughly developed, and the vast increase in international trade. These movements are, of course, due largely to the improved facilities for travel and communication, which have brought nations together and made their interests coincide in a way and to an extent unknown to former generations. One of the resulting problems is the question as to the attitude which a given country is to take towards its citizens who have settled permanently in foreign lands, without any definite intention of obtaining naturalization as citizens thereof, and particularly whether it is to undertake to extend its protection to them, and, if so, to what extent.


We present the first systematic study into the political effects of wartime sexual violence. Connecting unobtrusive measures from a list experiment to individual survivors' political action, we show that personal experience of sexual violence increases political participation. This effect is substantial in size, holds for institutionalized and non-institutionalized forms of political action, and is robust to unobserved confounding or sample selection bias. To understand why sexual victimization leads to political activism, we derive mechanisms from work on the legacies of violent conflict. Causal mediation analyses suggest that social preferences or 'post-traumatic growth' are insufficient explanations for the mobilizing effect of wartime sexual violence. Instead, survivors of sexual violence are mobilized through their involvement in civic networks. Stressing the agency of survivors, we contribute to the understanding of wartime sexual violence, the role of civil society in post-conflict politics and humanitarian policy.


To verify newly derived formulas for the power spectra of some randomised switching schemes reported in the power electronics literature, the authors develop and apply a Monte-Carlo simulation procedure. Analytical and simulation results are compared on a common illustrative example.<<ETX>>


The complications of lymphography with oily contrast media are usually mild and transitory, e.g. general malaise, nausea, headache, elevated temperature, and in some instances allergic cutaneous reactions (DOLAN 1966). At the first International Symposium on Lymphology, July 1966, in Zurich (PROGRESS IN LYMPHOLOGY) serious sequelae were reported in 198 out of 16 501 lymphographies (18 with a fatal outcome). These consisted of pulmonary infarcts (96 cases) I pneumonia (27 cases), pulmonary oedema (10 cases), cerebral affections (8 cases), and other serious conditions (e.g. anuria, hyperor hypotensive CrISIS, acute cardiac failure, and venous and arterial thrombosis) (57 cases). The cerebral complications manifest themselves in various neurologic signs, such as changes in consciousness, confusion, excitement followed by stupor and possibly coma depending upon the severity and localization of the cerebral anoxaemia (EMSON 1961). One case of cerebral complications and retinal fat emboli has occurred in some 750 lymphographies of the present material.


Women in Cognitive Science sponsored interactive panel discussion: Professional advancement, leadership and international collaboration Laurie Beth Feldman (email@example.com) Department of Psychology; SS 369 The University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222, USA Janet van Hell (email@example.com) Moore Building Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 USA Judith Kroll (email@example.com) Moore Building Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 USA Suparna Rajaram (email@example.com) Department of Psychology Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500 USA Keywords: cross cultural diversity; networking; participation; professional development; research collaboration. the 2012 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Sapporo, Japan. Speakers include Sanae Ariga (Hokkaido U), Mutsumi Imai (Keio U), Noriko Hoshino (Kobe U Foreign Studies), Naomi Miyake (U Tokyo), Hanako Yoshida (Houston), Laurie Feldman (U Albany & Haskins Labs) and Betty Tuller (NSF). These scientists represent American and Japanese junior and senior researchers, university administrators and program officers/directors of NSF. Speakers will discuss cross-cultural solutions to foster research productivity and visibility for women scientists. One major theme will be leadership, both how to identify and assume positions that help to develop leadership skills for professional advancement. A related theme is how those experiences do and do not differ across cultures. A second major theme will be how to develop new research collaborations outside of one's primary institution, including international collaborations. All acknowledge that this is not a simple process and often evolves slowly, out of more social networking connections. While such solutions generally occur on an ad hoc basis and vary across individuals, the aim of the WICS workshop is to enable discussion of possible solutions so as to enhance the productivity and visibility for women scientists in cognitive science. Social Hour and refreshments to follow. Women in Cognitive Science conducts panels at yearly meetings of several professional societies. Their goal is to increase attention to the situation of women cognitive scientists, to better understand the reasons for existing problems of under representation in key positions, and to provide a forum for professional development that encourages both junior and senior scientists to consider the ways in which they might work with their own home institutions to effect change. Specific topics have addressed networking and collaboration, best practices for institutional transformation, and issues of family and academic careers. Speakers and panelists have included both women and men who represented senior and junior scientists and topics have focused on the experience of both faculty and administration in negotiating these issues and in developing policies that are likely to support women's success. Its history demonstrates that WICS is in a unique position to address the concerns of junior as well as senior scientists in their professional careers. The goal of a small Connections conference sponsored by the US National Science Foundation in Japan and the Japan Science and Technology Agency of Japan in 2010 was to establish networking connections between researchers and to strengthen international partnerships for collaboration. American and Japanese participants represented a variety of STEM disciplines. The primary goal of that meeting was to foster the research agendas of the participants. A secondary goal was to help develop future leaders in science and engineering by encouraging discussion on the institutional environment and culture that are conducive to nurturing women STEM leaders. Acknowledgments Women in Cognitive Science (WICS) was founded in 2001 by Judith Kroll (Penn State), Randi Martin (Rice University), and Suparna Rajaram (Stony Brook) with NSF ADVANCE Funds. From 2007 onwards, Laurie Feldman (Albany) and Janet van Hell (Penn State) have assumed a leadership role within the group. In 2012, Natasha Tokowitz joined the group. Partial funding for this event comes from NSF Award BCS-1049764 and is organized in conjunction with the Tokyo office of the NSF Office of International Science and The Interactive Panel Discussion: Professional advancement, leadership and international collaboration seeks to build on this momentum by bringing together American and Japanese researchers in Cognitive Science at


Blog articles by tourists contain interesting and personal experiences of where and how they have gone, what they have done and what they thought. Such individual experiences are helpful in many cases compared to the general and official information about the tourist resort by tourist agents. However, it is not easy to choose related articles and to extract still more nearly required information from these unsorted blog articles. We have proposed a method of feature extraction by dependency analysis of those sentences that describe tourist behavior. This paper apply the proposed method to 7,917,385 blog articles on Kyushu area and shows the evaluation about the obtained resources for tourism.


The observating on the implementation of the corruption investigation by KPK and POLRI, is the title chosen by the author, with reason, there is a conflict in the implementation of criminal investigations of corruption by both of the state institutions. Based on data which obtained from law literatures, by searching from the current applicable legislations, law books, law journals and the mass mediarelated to the thesis' topic. The conclusion obtained from this thesis is kpk has the authority to conduct an investigation to corruption cases which involving state officials, law enforcement officers and all the related parties, as well as the corruption case that cost the state, over 1 billion rupiahs. POLRI and Presecutors, still available to conduct an investigate moving to some corruption cases, but in practice, they must make a coordination with kpk which is a state agency that possesses a great authority in the investigation and prosecution of corruption cases. The advice in this thesis, is they are need a good coordination between them about their capacity in an investigation of corruption case, and must there's a good cooperation, therefore a mutual trust between law enforcement agencies is important.