Background: Yakson's is a Korean therapeutic touch given to neonates and infants in which one hand caresses their tummy while the other rests on their back to reduce pain and quiet them down. It could significantly decrease the level of stress hormones and increase sleep efficiency during and after the intervention which improve preterm neonate's health and relaxation. Objective : was to investigate the effect of Yakson's therapeutic touch on vital signs, growth measurements and behavioral state of preterm neonates. Setting : This study was conducted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Alexandria University Maternity Hospital (AUMH) -El Shatby and Smouha Children's University Hospital (SCUH). Subjects: A convenient sample of 60 preterm neonates who were randomly allocated to two equal groups (control and study). Tools : Three tools were used; preterm neonate's perinatal and admission data assessment sheet, preterm neonates' vital signs and growth measurements record and Anderson behavioral state scale (ABSS). Results : Very large effect size of Yakson therapeutic touch was found regarding preterm neonates' behavioral state (Cohen's D=3.58), mid arm circumference (Cohen's D=1.52) and the vital signs. Moreover, large effect size of Yakson's therapeutic touch was found on preterm neonates' length, chest and head circumference throughout the study phases (Cohen's D=0.88, Cohen's D=1.13, Cohen's D=1.02 respectively). Conclusion: Yakson's therapeutic touch has a significant effect on preterm neonates' vital signs stability, growth measurements increase and behavioral state score decrease.


The design introduces automation control and computer management of PLC system to coal ground water supply,and selected wireless improved water supply system.Through rational cooperate of software and hardware,realize system local and remote control,at time ensure system stabilize and reliable.


Sixtyone examples related to the ancient sea level during 6 500~5 000a(BP) in the South China Sea area are enumerated in this paper. Among them, the relics with positive elevation have forty samples and those with negative or zero elevation have twenty one samples .The relics with negative elevation account for 26% of the total examples ,which gives us a general impression on the high sea level during middle Holocene. The differentiation in elevation of the relics of ancient sea level is a result of uplift and (subsidence) of tectonic movement .According to the different elevations of the relics,the distribution of the examples of ancient sea level can be divided into five regions.The highest elevation of 12~20m of the relics occurs in the southern part of Taiwan Island .The relics with lowest elevation of (0~1m) distribute in the Sorth China Seabasin.In Sunda Islands the relics appear higher elevation of 3.0~6.5m,but the elevation is only 0.4~1.8m in the northern region nearby the South China Sea.In the Indochina Peninsula and Malay Peninsula,the elevation of relics is similar to that of coastal zone of South China.The general elevation of the former is 2.0~3.0m and 1.0~3.0m of the latter,but the higher elevation is 5.0~6.0m both of the two regions. The examples with negative elevation distribute mainly in the five large deltas along the coast of South China and Indochina Peninsula.The elevation of relics is lower in South China,for example,it is -5.5~-16.6m in Hanjiang Delta and -2.5~-7.4m in Zhujiang Delta .However the elevation is not so low in Indochina Peninsula,-1.6m in Red River Delta,-1.0~-4.0m in Mekong River Delta and -0.6m in Chao Phraya Delta,respectively. The present elevation of relics can not be regarded directly as the height of ancient sea level.How to calculate the real position of ancient sea level is still a problem.However it is necessary to collect as far as posible the data about the relics of sea level and to analyse the relation between the relics and tectonic movement.


Network pruning has been widely used in model compression techniques, and offers a promising prospect for deploying models on devices with limited resources. Nevertheless, existing pruning methods merely consider the importance of feature maps and filters in the spatial domain. In this paper, we re-consider the model characteristics and propose a novel filter pruning method that corresponds to the human visual system, termed Low Frequency Preference (LFP), in the frequency domain. It is essentially an indicator that determines the importance of a filter based on the relative low-frequency components across channels, which can be intuitively understood as a measurement of the "low-frequency components". When the feature map of a filter has more low-frequency components than the other feature maps, it is considered more crucial and should be preserved during the pruning process. We conduct the proposed LFP on three different scales of datasets through several models and achieve superior performances. The experimental results obtained on the CIFAR datasets and ImageNet dataset demonstrate that our method significantly reduces the model size and FLOPs. The results on the UC Merced dataset show that our approach is also significant for remote sensing image classification.


This study is an experimental study, data collected by observation. Data processed by the Friedman test and Wilcoxon test. From the results of this research note there is a difference between Spin Echo T1 artifact lumbar MRI with pre saturation and Spin Echo T1 without pre-saturation. These results can be seen from the average value of the overall test Friedman test with p value < 0.001 in axial cuts and sagittal cuts. Then the ratio of artifacts to see the value of the Wilcoxon test performed two variables, to determine the differences of each placement pre saturation. Values obtained in the setting of artifacts terkecul Anterior presaturasi in both sagittal and axial to pieces.


The subject of the study is to analyse any critical factors related to the use and abuse of digital tools in the workplace, to assess their impact on work in terms of health and safety and to identify appropriate prevention and protection measures. This work aims to improve well-being and the performance of workers and organizations in relation to ongoing changes and challenges. For this purpose, a systematic international literature review was carried out with a special attention to the analysis of the validated questionnaires used in European and international contexts related to the evaluation of the impact of digital on working life quality and new risk factors. In this context, the digital transformation in the organizations, due also to the increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT), determines changes in the workforce and management practices, with important effects, in terms of risks and benefits, on job characteristics and on the working life's quality too.


Following perinatal brain lesions, disneuroontogenetic phenomena in infantile cerebral palsy (CP) cause the formation of a multisystem neurological pathology in the residual period of this disease, which manifests itself in complex, often specific, clinical phenomena that distinguish the neurological chemotics of cerebral palsy. As clinical experience shows, along with well-known central disorders of the animal nervous system, in the general syndromology of cerebral palsy of the late period, a certain place can be occupied by secondary, disneuroontogenetically determined lesions of the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems.


The operation of self-efficacy beliefs was investigated in a group of 81 participants between 73 and 97 years of age with intensive time samples including activities carried out at the moment a signal was received, their subjective difficulty, and concurrent mood in everyday life. In a two-level approach, occasion-level and person-level effects could be modelled simultaneously. Within individuals, productive activities were perceived more difficult, on average, than nonproductive ones. Furthermore, perceived difficulty was lower the more positive concurrent mood was rated. Variance in these intra-individual slopes was partially explained by inter-individual differences in self-belief of efficacy regarding everyday activities.


Knowledge management ca be seen as the pragmatic evolution of ideas in the field of organizational learning. Its main interest is the improvement of organizational capabilities on all levels of the organization through better use of the resource 'knowledge'.


For the dielectric slab it is shown that 1) the dispersion curve for the nth surface wave can be found using parametric equations in which the normalized inside wavenumber K/sub xl/ and the mode number are the parameters, 2) the dispersion curve for the nth surface wave mode can also be found by using parametric equations in which the mode number and a modified wavenumber x' with common domain [0, pi/2] are the parameters, and 3) an TE or all TM dispersion curves for surface waves are related to each other by a simple algebraic equation using the mode numbers and the normalized propagation constants K/sub 0/ and Beta as the variables.


Aims Background Alder Hey is a tertiary children's hospital in North-West England with co-located Intensive Care and High Dependency units, covering North West England, North Wales and Isle of Man. PIMS-TS is a new multisystem inflammatory condition which has led to an increased demand on critical care beds. Some children presenting with PIMS-TS need haemodynamic support in the form of inotropes, which would traditionally need an PICU bed. Aim Review of all patients managed on Critical Care with PIMS-TS. Methods All patients in the region were discussed in a PIMSTS multidisciplinary meeting attended by Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Cardiology and Critical Care daily. Patients across the region needing haemodynamic support or cardiology evaluation were highlighted as, in need of either HDU or PICU bed and transferred by the North West & Wales Paediatric Transport Service (NWTS). This is a retrospective analysis of all children admitted to HDU or PICU with a diagnosis of PIMS-TS, from October 2020-December 2021. Results Thirty (10%) patients were admitted to HDU from the 300 patients discussed over the 15month period. 16 (53%) of patients were female. Mean age was 10 years (range 3-17). Median length of stay (LOS) on HDU was 2 days (range 1-8) with a median hospital LOS of 6 days (range 2- 10). All patients admitted were monitored appropriately and had full echocardiography assessment. Twenty nine (97%) patients admitted to HDU required inotropic support, twelve (40%) patients required a single agent and seventeen (57%) required double agents with a combination of adrenaline, noradrenaline and milrinone. Median fluid resuscitation was 40mls/kg (range 20-70mls/ kg). Eight patients (27%) were escalated to PICU for either invasive ventilation (4) or higher inotropic requirements of 0.2micrograms/kg/minute. There were no adverse events. Conclusion Most children with PIMS-TS have low to moderate haemodynamic instability that can be safely managed on HDU with appropriate monitoring and agreed limits to vasopressor therapy. Our experience in managing with these patients successfully and safely in a high dependency setting has helped in the use of a critical care bed efficiently, thus reducing dependency on the availability of a PICU bed.


Mould swabbing compounds are typically suspected of being the primary cause of black spots in glass but there are many other potential causes. We outline causes of black spots and what can be done to eliminate them, particularly in the manufacture of mayonnaise jars in which, because the contents are white, any black spots are particularly obvious


The design of optimal opportunistic multicast scheduling (OMS) that maximizes the throughput of cellular networks is investigated. In a cellular network, the base station (BS) transmits the same information to multiple users within a cell. Recently, Gopala et al. proposed a median-user static OMS scheme in which a BS selects and broadcasts to the best 50% users in each transmission until all users are served. This scheduling scheme has been shown to exploit both the multiuser diversity and the multicasting gain simultaneously. In this work, we examine the optimal user selection ratio in each transmission. Based on extreme value theory, we first derive the limiting distribution of the maximum decodable rate of the M-th best user and the corresponding average number of transmissions required to serve all users. Then, the optimal selection ratio is established by maximizing the average network throughput. Furthermore, a dynamic selection algorithm is proposed to adjust the user selection ratio adaptively in each transmission. It is shown by simulation results that the OMS scheme with optimized static and dynamic selected ratios outperform the conventional unicast, multicast and the median-user static OMS schemes.


On 3 February 1975, German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comments on how the new trade relations will work between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) countries.


The possibilities of using the measurement of the ranges to a pair of satellites to give an observer his position have been extensively studied, and expressions giving latitude and longitude have been derived. These since they involve powers of the fourth order are somewhat cumbersome, but given the appropriate computer on his craft an observer at a known distance from the centre of the Earth can obtain track data by measuring the ranges and continuously calculating his position. Alternatively, he may measure the incremental changes in these quantities from their value at the starting point which avoids (if a synchronous time or frequency technique is used) the necessity for continual two-way exchange of signals between the craft and the satellite, but the real-time solution of relatively complicated equations still has to be done.


The use of progressive, on-demand image dissemination techniques can support efficient dissemination of very large images across networks. In this paper we examine the effectiveness of various design options in developing such on-demand dissemination systems. We show that the choice of the design options can have a profound impact on the efficient use of client, server, and network resources. Based on our performance evaluation experiments, we recommend that efficient dissemination can be achieved by tiling images with a session-based progressive wavelet compression algorithm, delivering the compressed data to tiles in a round-robin manner, and performing custom client-side virtual memory management for image data to improve image data retrieval speed.


ABSTRACT This article explores the placement practices of students into different educational programs in PreK–first grade, including two bilingual education programs and an ESL "mainstream" classroom. We then examine the discourse practices of four third-grade teachers and the school principal. Our findings suggest that initial program placement resulted in a perception that students were tracked by ability, and educator discourses on student ability reflected long-term consequences of these initial placement practices. We conclude with both theoretical implications and practical suggestions for the development of equitable dual language bilingual education program implementation.


The utility model discloses an LED strip panel employing a gluing manner, which aims to solve the problems that an LED in an existing LED strip panel is poor in radiation and cost of an employed surface-mounted LED is increased. The LED strip panel comprises an elongated printing circuit board, the printing circuit board comprises welding disks and a printing circuit printed on a substrate, a plurality of conductive adhesives or insulating adhesives for LEDs are adhered or welded on the welding disks respectively so that the LEDs are sequentially arranged on the printed circuit board in a multi-group parallel connection or serial connection mode, and the welding disks are connected to an external power source through the printed circuit and wires to obtain the voltage enabling the LEDs to work. The LED strip panel is characterized in that a layer of radiating copper foil is further covered on the printed circuit board and covered on the areas except for the welding disks and the circuit, and each LED is wrapped by a hemispherical colloid formed by gluing and solidifying. The LED strip panel can be used as a light source for various LED lamps.


It is a coordinate measuring machine presented which an elongate slide (4) which is guided relative to a bearing component (3) is movably and can be moved with a drive in its direction of movement, wherein the drive comprises a strained belt (5) provided with its one end is fixed in a first end of the elongated slide and is fastened with its other end in the second, opposite end region of the elongate slide, wherein the bearing member (3), a drive motor (6) is mounted which moves the belt (5). In order to avoid that a torque is introduced into the elongated slide by the pulling force of the tensioned belt, which leads to bending of the elongate slide (4), it is proposed in the first or the second end region of the elongate slide a rotatably mounted on the elongate slide, the rocker-like transverse web to provide (10), on the one rocker arm (22) the belt (5) is mounted and at the other rocker arm (23) a counter-clamping device (13) is fixed, which in turn (with its other end into the opposite end region of the elongate slide 4) is fixed and on the side opposite the hinge side of the elongate slide causes the tape caused by the torque on the elongate slide a counter torque.


OBJECTIVE
The measuring time and measuring intervals to evaluate different type of air cleaner performance to remove formaldehyde were provided.

METHODS
The natural decay measurement and formaldehyde removal measurement were conducted in 1.5 m3 and 30 m3 test chamber.

RESULTS
The natural decay rate was determined by acquiring formaldehyde concentration data at 15 minute intervals for 2.5 hours. The measured decay rate was determined by acquiring formaldehyde concentration data at 5 minute intervals for 1.2 hours. When the wind power of air cleaner is smaller than 30 m3/h or measuring performance of no wind power air clearing product, the 1.5 m3 test chamber can be used. Both the natural decay rate and the measured decay rate are determined by acquiring formaldehyde concentration data at 8 minute intervals for 64 minutes.

CONCLUSION
There were different measuring time and measuring intervals to evaluate different type of air cleaner performance to remove formaldehyde.


This study suggests a methodology for the decision of water quality measurement locations in order to identify water quality problems within a pipe network system under abnormal conditions. A water supply system conversion due to the occurrence of tank or pump problems between water supply zones was set as a possible abnormal scenario and the water flow direction sensitivity of the pipeline was quantified to estimate the water quality monitoring priority. The proposed methodology was applied to a new city, A, in South Korea, and the results are analyzed in detail and presented. The proposed methodology can be used as a method to select water quality monitoring points when establishing an operation plan for emergency link pipes. It is also expected that it can be applied in the evaluation of the adequacy of the previously established emergency link pipe operation plan.


Evaluating the career and scholarship of Mikhail Nikolaevitch Pokrovsky, the onetime dean of Soviet historians, has confronted Soviet historiography with many problems. Lavishly exalted in the 1920s, calumnied in the 1930s, unmentioned throughout the 1940s, Pokrovsky has undergone a partial rehabilitation in the post-Stalin years. Pokrovsky's early career, like that of many of the leading figures of the October Revolution, followed a tortuous path to Marxism-Leninism. In 1904 Pokrovsky contributed a series of articles to Pravda, a largely Menshevik literary monthly (1904-1907), whose editor, Alexander Bogdanov, held views opposed to the then current Bolshevik party line.1 A year later Pokrovsky participated in the Trotskyite journal Borba and continued to associate with the "renegade" Trotsky through 1912.2 His collaboration with these publications and the lectures he delivered on revolutionary history at Capri and Bologna, rival establishments of the official Bolshevik school at Longjumneau, provided ammunition for those who later sought to vilify his reputation.3 These critics would also remember that ill 1918 Pokrovsky, who was a delegate at the negotiations with the Germans, sided with the left communist opposition to the harsh peace of Brest-Litovsk.


Current road traffic safety situation is still challenging globally and needs continuous public attention. Exploring the characteristics of road traffic accidents could improve the understanding of accident causation mechanism and help develop countermeasures to reduce the accident occurrences. The paper first explores the general characteristics of urban road traffic accidents from the perspectives of temporal, spatial, and personal distributions. Random Forest (RF) Model is then utilized to identify important features affecting the occurrence of traffic accidents. Accordant countermeasures are finally discussed and proposed.


In a recent study [D. J. Sharf and P. J. Benson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71, 1008–1015 (1982)], adults were found to reliably identify synthesized /r‐w/ continua modeled after adult and child vocal tracts after one testing session. In order to determine the stability of children's perception of these continua, we tested ten 6–7‐year‐old subjects with normal articulation and hearing. After passing a criterion test of at least 90% correct identifications of the end‐point stimuli, each child listened to randomizations of the stimuli from the adult and child continua on two separate days. The results showed no significant difference in category boundaries between the two testing sessions for both adult and child continua. The children correctly identified the three stimuli at each end of the adult and child continua at least at the 95% level and the category boundary occurred within the three middle stimuli. These findings suggest that children are at least as reliable as adults in their responses to variations i...


The purpose of this study is to describe a new, minimally invasive massive rotator cuff tear reconstruction technique that uses the biceps tendon and
to compare the results of this novel technique with primer repair. Eighteen patients were operated on a minimally invasive biological reconstruction
of the massive rotator cuff tear using the biceps tendon, together with tenodesis. A further 23 patients underwent operations using anchors during
the same period. The difference in postoperative UCLA scores between the two groups was not statistically signicant, but the postoperative
Constant score was signicantly higher for the new technique, while the postoperative VAS score was signicantly lower for the new technique.
Massive rotator cuff tear reconstruction using the biceps tendon as a graft, together with tenodesis, was feasible using the technique described here
and was associated with good middle term clinical and functional outcomes, with a low re-rupture rate.


Laterite deposits are discovered and utilized by many industries of the world. Present study is aimed at understanding the geology and geochemistry of Nagar Parkar laterite for providing the basis to explore economic potential of laterite deposits of study area. Nagar Parkar laterite occurs in the form of pockets or lenses capping the kaolinite deposits. Six laterite samples were collected from various parts of Nagar Parkar area. The chemical composition of laterite samples was investigated by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). The results show varying concentration of Al2O3 (2.09-34.16%), SiO2 (8.94-40.41%), Fe2O3(8.34-76.98%) and TiO2 (0.84-2.08%). However, CaO, Na2O and K2O contents are only reported in one sample with very low amount (8.13%, 8.44% and 0.96% respectively). Due to varying content of Al2O3, SiO2 and Fe2O3, half of the collected samples are described as ferruginous laterite and the remaining half as aluminous laterite. Based on mineralogy, two out of six laterite samples having more than 60% hematite are referred to as ferrite and remaining four with less than 60% of either hematite, gibbsite and kaolinite are referred as laterite.


After analyzing the traditional load balancing strategies in CORBA system and using the Policy design pattern, this paper designs andimplements a CORBA load balancing system. Furthermore it introduces a load balancing policy interface, which provides the possibility for differentapplications to set proper load balancing policy according to their requirements. Comparing with a special CORBA load balancing system, thissystem has significant flexibility.


Very steep latitudinal electron-density gradients are found to occur in the topside F layer at high latitudes. They occur either associated with the trough (>6% km−1) or within the auroral zone (>60% km−1). The electron-density scale height at 1000 km may be nearly constant across these gradients.


Unprecedented breakthroughs in the development of graphical processing systems have led to great potential for deep learning (DL) algorithms in analyzing visual anatomy from high-resolution medical images. Recently, in digital pathology, the use of DL technologies has drawn a substantial amount of attention for use in the effective diagnosis of various cancer types, especially colorectal cancer (CRC), which is regarded as one of the dominant causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. This review provides an in-depth perspective on recently published research articles on DL-based CRC diagnosis and prognosis. Overall, we provide a retrospective synopsis of simple image-processing-based and machine learning (ML)-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, followed by a comprehensive appraisal of use cases with different types of state-of-the-art DL algorithms for detecting malignancies. We first list multiple standardized and publicly available CRC datasets from two imaging types: colonoscopy and histopathology. Secondly, we categorize the studies based on the different types of CRC detected (tumor tissue, microsatellite instability, and polyps), and we assess the data preprocessing steps and the adopted DL architectures before presenting the optimum diagnostic results. CRC diagnosis with DL algorithms is still in the preclinical phase, and therefore, we point out some open issues and provide some insights into the practicability and development of robust diagnostic systems in future health care and oncology.


This work reports a sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector (HPLC-DAD) and high-performance thin-layer chromatography with diode-array scanning (HPTLC-DAD) methods for the determination of ten pesticides belonging to different chemical classes in wines samples. The proposed method makes use of a solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure with C18 Polar Plus and C18/SDB-1 cartridges for isolation and concentration of analytes. Acceptable average recoveries for nearly all pesticides measured at concentration level 200 ng mL−1 of wine were in the range 69–119%. In HPLC-DAD method, limits of detection (LODs) were in the range 0.03–0.27 µg mL−1 and limits of quantification (LOQs) were in the range 0.10–0.81 µg mL−1. Whereas, in HPTLC-DAD method, LOD was equal 0.11 µg per spot and LOQ was 0.33 µg per spot for prometryn identified in wine samples, respectively. The quantities of the pesticides determined were in the range 1.5–2.0 ng mL−1 of wine (n = 5).


In this study the use of graphite and sintered bronze with E-Glass fiber reinforced epoxy composite was investigated. The tensile, density, Rockwell hardness and Izod impact tests were carried out as per the ASTM standards. The results showed that the increased percentage of bronze (10-20 vol %) with fixed 10 vol% of E-glass fiber enhanced tensile strength (44.7 MPa) and modulus (4.8 GPa) of the composite. At the same time decrease in percentage of bronze (20-10 vol %) decreased the density of the composite. The electron microscopic images were discussed to interpret the effect of solid lubricant on strength of composite.


Here, for the time being at least, is a new column. Its main purpose is to introduce some more ballads which for one reason or another never got included in Francis Child's canon of 305 ballad clusters. As you will see, there are many fine songs in that category, and here are four (one with two different versions.) When I was at Keele University in North Staffordshire, England, in the early 1960s, I ran the Folk Club there for a while. One of the finest singers we ever brought in to sing was Anne Briggs, who came, I think, once with Bert Jansch and once without. (She also performed at a Folk Festival which was held at the Keele campus during those years). I took down several songs from Anne's singing, three of which are featured here. My favourite, despite the rather silly story, was "Polly Vaughan", which I loved for the gorgeous tune. I went out and sang it to the swans which used to swim on the beautiful lake on campus, but none of them turned into Polly. I also took down by ear the tune and words of "Rosemary Lane", but never actually learned or performed it until very recently, when I was going through my repertoire and also found a very similar version in Milner & Kaplan's Songs of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Bonnie Bunch of Roses (Oak Publications, 1983). This is the version transcribed here; the text (which is slightly different from what Anne sang) is said to be from a broadside by Disley, and the tune (almost identical to the one I took down from Anne's singing) learned from Brian Brooks. The first version printed here of the wonderful and ominous "Reynardine" story is the one which was current around English folk clubs in the 1960s. I learned text and tune from Anne Briggs, who herself likely learned it from A. L. (Bert) Lloyd; he was something of a mentor to Anne. For a long time I sang only this version; later I found the Irish version also reproduced here, in Stephen Sedley's 1967 edition of The Seeds of Love (Essex Music Limited, in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society). I like them both; Anne's version seems to me more mysterious; Sedley's version has a lilting, courtly quality, without losing sight of the inherently dangerous nature of this encounter with the supernatural. The text here is collated from two (English) nineteenth-century broadsides by Such and Pitts, plus sets collected in Ireland by Joyce and Hughes and also A. L. Lloyd's version, which he had heard sung by Tom Cook of Eastbridge, Suffolk. The tune is said to have been collected by Percy Merrick from a Sussex farmer called Henry Hills―it still sounds very Irish to me and well-suited to a text which mentions "Fermoy" as the location of the action. Rosie Anderson's sad story I learned from the singing of Paddy Tutty; it was collected by Gavin Greig and published in Folk Song of the North East. Rosie seems to me to be one of a kind with Thackeray's Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair; I believe the cautionary tale of her ill-fated attempt to escape a safe but stuffy union is based on a real life series of incidents and perhaps involves the Lord Elgin who bought (stole?) the Elgin Marbles―he was clearly a smooth talker. That's it for now―more in the pipeline.


The task of autonomous and robust design cannot be regarded as a single task, but consists of two tasks that have to be accomplished concurrently. First, the design should be found autonomously; this indicates the existence of a method which is able to find the optimal design choice automatically. Second, the design should be robust; in other words, the design should be safeguarded against uncertain perturbations. Traditional modelling of uncertainties faces several problems. The lack of knowledge about distributions of uncertain variables or about correlations between uncertain data, respectively, typically leads to underestimation of error probabilities. Moreover, in higher dimensions the numerical computation of the error probabilities is very expensive, if not impossible, even provided the knowledge of the multivariate probability distributions. Based on the clouds formalism we have developed new methodologies to gather all available uncertainty information from expert engineers, process it to a reliable worst-case analysis and finally optimise the design seeking the optimal robust design.


This paper deals with the problem of the autoregressive model identification using KDD methods. In the considered problem, the autoregressive models are applied to describe dynamics processes of various technical systems. In particular, a method of functional dependencies discovering was presented. The method was designed for exploring data sets gathered by industrial SCADA systems. For the problem of the identification of pump temperature changes model, the method was verified. For this particular reason, a set of data was used which was gathered by submersible pumping station SCADA system. The assumptions, the exemplary results of the conducted research and conclusions were presented, as well.


When disaster strikes your nation, who can you call on for help? During the past few decades, the number of natural disasters occurring has quadrupled. 1 With increasing collaboration between countries, the need for better humanitarian relief assistance is becoming ever more important. 2 Supply chain management entails more than delivering goods to the consumer. The process is an orchestration between transportation, distribution, delivery and storage, while minimizing costs and serving the greatest number of consumers possible. Supply chain management is a "desperate balancing act when human life is at stake." 3 The entire focus of disaster response is on the supply chain. But moving relief items into a disaster affected area is considerably more arduous than any typical commercial supply chain operation. 4 Through this interview with Mr. Kevin Horrocks, Logistics Manager for Samaritan's Purse, one can see a personal account of the planning that takes place for an emergency relief operation with a successful non-profit organization.


Image segmentation is very important when detecting the presence of tumor in the human brain. Despite classifying Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images into the presence or absence of a brain tumor, it is also necessary to be able to specify which region in the images is the tumor located. In this paper, we have performed the segmentation of MRI images by making use of different architectures. The architectures tested are the classical Unet, SegNet, LWBNA-Unet, and variant of Unet architectures with pretrained models as a backbone. The models' performance was evaluated on the testing dataset using intersection over union (IoU) and dice coefficient. The comparative analysis suggested that ResNet5$0_{-}$Unet architecture has shown relatively better performance with an IoU of 0.9863 and a dice coefficient of 0.9924.


A disassembly line is an industrialized and automated production line which should be scheduled with high production efficiency. Although many disassembly line balancing optimization studies are contributed recently, they increase or reduce the number of workstations to balance the disassembly line. From real-world managerial settings, an increase or decrease workstations, is too expensive and not realistic. The bucket brigades' disassembly line is self-balancing and self-organizing, which is not constrained by the workstation beat time and only needs to distribute workers on the line according to certain rules to achieve line balancing after a period of time. In this article, a bucket brigades disassembly line balancing optimization method considering uncertainty is proposed, in which a cloud model is used to represent the uncertain disassembly time. The proposed model handles multiple objectives including smoothness, disassembly cost and disassembly energy consumption to be minimized. To solve this complex problem, this article innovates a new heuristic method based on the social engineering optimizer as an enhanced local search metaheuristic. Finally, a ball collector is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and extensive analysis is done to compare the performance of proposed model with other recent algorithms.


Recently, applications of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for enhancing the efficiency of photosynthesis have attracted the attentions by many researchers and agriculturalists. In the present study, we proposed both empirical (experimental) and simulative evaluations of chlorophyll-targeting monochromic and white fluorescence-type LEDs as the light sources for algal photosynthesis based on the evolution of O 2 by Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.


SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) is most commonly used as a standard protocol for effective network management by supporting the increasing size of the network and the variety of network elements such as router, switch, server and so on. However, SNMP has performance drawbacks of network overhead, processing latency, and the inefficiency in data retrieval. In this paper, we propose two schemes to improve the performance of SNMP; 1) the first scheme to reduce the amount of redundant OID information within a SNMP-GetBulk response message, 2) the second scheme of newly proposed SNMP-GetUpdate message combined with the cache in MNS. Through the analysis with real experiments, we show that our first scheme reduces the network overhead and the second scheme improves the processing latency and the retrieval of SNMP MB tables. And, therefore the scalability of network management can be improved.


Optimization of market making strategy is a vital issue for participants in security markets. Traditional strategies are mostly designed manually, and orders are mechanically issued according to rules based on predefined market conditions. On one hand, market conditions cannot be well represented by arbitrarily defined indicators, and on the other hand, rule-based strategies cannot fully capture relations between the market conditions and strategies' actions. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate how to incorporate deep reinforcement learning model to address those issues. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning market making model, i.e., Deep Reinforcement Learning Market Making. It exploits long short-term memory network to extract temporal patterns of the market directly from limit order books, and it learns state-action relations via a reinforcement learning approach. In order to control inventory risk and information asymmetry, a deep Q-network is introduced to adaptively select different action subsets and train the market making agent according to the inventory states. Experiments are conducted on a six-month Level-2 data set, including 10 stock, from Shanghai Stock Exchange in China. Our model is compared with a conventional market making baseline and a state-of-the-art market making model. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the benchmarks over 10 stocks by at least 10.63%.


With the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infection getting higher and higher, the number of children with respiratory syncytial virus infection in acute bronchiolitis has also increased, which has a strong impact on the growth of children.This paper is a summary of the domestic and foreign literatures on RSV infection by collecting metabolic histology techniques published in recent years to sum up the metabolic changes that occur in the body, tissues and cells of respiratory syncytial virus infection.Through Investigating the changes of metabolic pathways such as energy, lipids and amino acids in patients with RSV infection from the perspective of metabolomics we can further understands the pathogenesis of RSV infection and the course of the disease and the progress of the process and provide a better program for its diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Key words:
Respiratory syncytial virus; Metabolomics; Metabolites


The new genus Baimashania and the new species B. pulvinata and B. wangii are described. The relationships and characters distinguishing Baimashania from Solmslaubachia, Leiospora, and Pycnoplinthus are discussed. During a recent revision of Solmslaubachia Muschler for the forthcoming account of the Brassicaceae for the Flora of China, Al-Shehbaz and Yang (2000) excluded three collections previously misidentified as S. ciliaris (Bureau & Franchet) Botschantsev from the genus for subsequent studies. These three collections are placed herein in the new genus Baimashania. Except for the smaller flower size, the type specimen of S. ciliaris is indistinguishable in all other morphological aspects from that of the earlier published S. pulcherrima Muschler, a species highly variable in petal length and color. In fact, the type of S. ciliaris has petals ca. 1.5 cm long, while S. pulcherrima has petals (1.5-)1.7-2(-2.5) cm long. Therefore, the two are considered to be conspecific. The recognition of Solmslaubachia ciliaris in various works (e.g., Lan & Cheo, 1981; Kuan, 1985; Lan, 1987; Wang, 1993; Ying et al., 1993; Li et al., 1995; Huang, 1997; Tan et al., 1999) basically followed Botschantsev (1955), who did not examine the type material of the species and erroneously interpreted its limits. In fact, illustrations and descriptions of S. ciliaris in these works are based on species of different genera. For example, the accounts in Kuan (1985), Wang (1993), and Ying et al. (1993) were based on one collection, QinghaiXizang Team 73-399 (KUN, PE), which is a misidentified young plant of Leiospora pamirica (Botschantsev & Vvedensky) Botschantsev & Pachomova. By contrast, the descriptions and illustrations in Lan and Cheo (1981), Lan (1987), Li et al. (1995), and Tan et al. (1999) are based on a new species in a new genus herein described as Baimashania pulvinata, whereas the account in Huang (1997) is based on the new species B. wangii. Baimashania is named after Baima Shan (sometimes spelled Beima Shan, Beimashan, or Paimashan), a mountain in northwestern Yunnan from which four of the five known collections of the genus are known. It differs from all nine species of Solmslaubachia (China, Sikkim) and six species of Leiospora (C. A. Meyer) Dvofik (China, Himalayas, and central Asia) in having median nectar glands confluent with the laterals, distinct and slender styles, flowers only to 4 mm long, fruit septa with a distinct midvein, obscurely veined, flat-margined fruit valves that are readily detached from replum at the fruit apex, replums readily distinguished from the valve margins, and narrow fruits (1-1.3 mm wide) persistent on the pedicel apex. By contrast, Solmslaubachia and Leiospora lack the median nectar glands and styles, and have much larger flowers 10-26 mm long, veinless fruit septa, prominently veined, marginally strongly angled fruit valves apically adnate to the replum, replums concealed by the valve margins, and broad fruits, (3-)5-15(-20) mm wide, readily detached from the pedicel apex. Furthermore, Baimashania also differs from Solmslaubachia by having forked trichomes mixed with simple ones and minutely reticulate seeds, while Solmslaubachia is glabrous or has only simple trichomes and has papillate, rugose, or coarsely reticulate seeds. It also differs from Leiospora by having entire stigmas, 6to 12ovuled ovaries, nonsaccate lateral sepals, and wingless seeds. Leiospora has prominently 2-lobed stigmas, 18to 50-ovuled ovaries, saccate lateral sepals, and often winged seeds. The first collection of Baimashania, Forrest 19605 (see below), in July 1921 was misidentified by Edgar Evans as "Braya sp. aff. forrestii W. W. Smith." Baimashania pulvinata differs from Braya forrestii in having flattened, linear fruits, accumbent cotyledons, forked and simple trichomes, a confluent nectar ring, and much smaller, solitary flowers. By contrast, Braya forrestii has terete, ovoid fruits, incumbent cotyledons, exclusively simple trichomes, four separate nectar glands, and larger flowers in distinct racemes. In my opinion, Baimashania and Braya Sternberg & Hoppe are not related. Perhaps Baimashania is most similar to Pycnoplinthus 0. E. Schulz (one species; China, India, Kashmir, Pakistan), with which it shares the perennial, pulvinate, scapose habit, solitary pink flowers, persistent entire leaves, thickened petioles, obtuse NovoN 10: 320-322. 2000. This content downloaded from 18.104.22.168 on Thu, 26 May 2016 06:08:39 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Volume 10, Number 4 2000 Al-Shehbaz Baimashania from China 321 anthers, 6to 12-ovuled ovaries, linear flattened fruits, entire stigmas, and uniseriate wingless seeds. However, it differs by having branched trichomes, free sepals, distinct median glands confluent with the laterals, obscurely veined valves, and accumbent cotyledons. Pycnoplinthus consists of glabrous plants with united sepals, no median nectar glands, prominently veined valves, and incumbent cotyledons. Baimashania Al-Shehbaz, gen. nov. TYPE: Baimashania pulvinata Al-Shehbaz. Herba perennis scaposa pulvinata, caudice ramoso. Folia basalia rosulata, integra, persistentia, pilis simplicibus et furcatis, petiolis crassis complanatis, ciliatis. Racemi 2vel 3-flori vel flores solitarii. Sepala oblonga nonsaccata. Petala rosea, spathulata, obtusa. Glandulae nectariferae confluentes. Ovula 6-12. Fructus lineares valde compressi glabri; valvis longitudinaliter striatis nontorulosis; stylo tenui ad 1 mm longo; stigmata integra. Semina uniseriata, oblonga; cotyledones accumbentes. Herbs perennial, scapose, pulvinate, with a welldeveloped, fewto many-branched caudex covered by leaves or leaf remains of previous years. Trichomes simple mixed with stalked, 1-forked ones, restricted to leaves. Stems absent. Basal leaves petiolate, rosulate, simple, entire, persistent, with stramineous, thick, basally flattened, ciliate petioles. Cauline leaves absent. Racemes 2or 3-flowered and ebracteate, or flowers solitary on short pedicels originating from axils of rosette leaves. Fruiting pedicels slender, erect to ascending, often hidden among basal leaves. Sepals oblong, deciduous, erect, equal, base of inner pair not saccate, margin membranous. Petals pink; blade spatulate, apex obtuse; claw slightly differentiated from blade, subequaling sepals. Stamens 6, slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated at base; anthers oblong, not apiculate at apex. Nectar glands confluent and subtending bases of all stamens; median nectaries present. Ovules 6 to 12 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent, capsular siliques, linear, strongly latiseptate, sessile; valves with an obscure midvein, glabrous, not torulose, longitudinally striate; replum rounded, visible; septum complete, membranous, with a distinct midvein; style slender, to 1 mm long; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds uniseriate, wingless, oblong; seed coat minutely reticulate, not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent. Two species: endemic to China (Yunnan and Qinghai provinces). KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BAIMASHANIA la. Leaves ovate to oblong, densely pilose throughout; flowers solitary; ovules 6 to 8 per ovary; Yunnan 1. B. pulvinata lb. Leaves linear, glabrous except for ciliate petiole margins and a tuft at leaf apex; flowers mostly in 2or 3-flowered racemes; ovules 10 to 12 per ovary; Qinghai 2. B. wangii 1. Baimashania pulvinata Al-Shehbaz, sp. nov. TYPE: China. Yunnan: Deqen, Baima Shan, N side of road, limestone rock crevices, 28023'N, 99001'E, 4350 m, 30 June 1994, Alpine Garden Society Expedition to China ACE 829 (holotype, K; isotype, MO). Herba pulvinata 0.5-2 cm alta, caudice multiramoso. Folia basalia ovata vel oblonga, 2-4 X 1-2 mm, subcarnosa, omnino dense pilosa. Flores solitarii. Pedicelli fructiferi 3-5 mm longi. Sepala oblonga 1.5-2.5 X ca. 1 mm. Petala rosea, 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm; ungues 1.5-2 mm longi. Ovula 6-8. Fructus lineares, 4-8 x 1-1.3 mm; stylo 0.41 mm longo. Semina 1-1.5 x 0.6-0.9 mm. Herbs pulvinate, 0.5-2 cm tall; caudex many branched, to 3 mm diam. Trichomes simple, to 1 mm long, mixed with fewer forked stalked ones, restricted to leaves. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 2-5 mm long, expanded at base and 0.5-1 mm wide, ciliate, persistent; leaf blade ovate to oblong, 2-4 x 1-2 mm, somewhat fleshy, densely pilose throughout, base subattenuate, margin entire, apex obtuse. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicel slender, 3-5 mm long, ascending, glabrous. Sepals oblong, 1.5-2.5 x ca. 1 mm. Petals pink, spatulate, 3-4 X 1-1.5 mm; claw 1.5-2 mm long. Filaments 2-2.5 mm long; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long. Ovules 6 to 8 per ovary. Fruit linear, 4-8 x 1-1.3 mm; valves longitudinally striate, without a distinct midvein; style 0.4-1 mm long. Seeds 1-1.5 x 0.6-0.9 mm. Flowering June-July, fruiting July-August. Habitat. Moist gravelly meadows, limestone rock crevices; 4200-4600 m. Yunnan. Baimashania pulvinata was illustrated in Lan (1987) as Solmslaubachia ciliaris. The illustration accurately shows the habit of the plant, leaf shape and trichomes, and mature fruit, and, therefore, should be consulted for reference. The holotype was misidentified as Braya cf. forrestii, though nothing was mentioned about it in the detailed account of the expedition that led to its discovery (Grey-Wilson, 1996). Paratypes. CHINA. Yunnan: Baima Shan, 28?18'N, 99?10'E, G. Forrest 19605 (E, K, US); Atuntze, Baima Shan, Shulung, IT T Yit 9324 (KUN, PE); Deqen, Baima Shan, Qing-Zang Team 2779 (KUN); Deqin Xian, Baima Shan, mts. N of W pass, 28?23'N, 99001'E, Alden, Alexander, Long, McBeath, Noltie & Watson 765 (E). This content downloaded from 184.108.40.206 on Thu, 26 May 2016 06:08:39 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms


Awarding to the employer the power to grant to an employee statutory leave during the notice
period is very important for employers, as it eliminates the necessity of paying to the dismissed employee the pecuniary compensation for unused leave, when the actual employment during the notice period is not necessary, and even not advisable. Article 17 sec. 2 of the Act on Employment of Temporary Workers states that statutory leave is awarded to temporary worker on the days which would be his workdays, when he would not use this leave. According to sec. 3 of this article, when a temporary worker does not use his statutory leave in a period of performance of temporary work, the employment agency pays to the temporary worker monetary equivalent for this leave or its unused part. In contrast,
regulations of the Act on Employment of Temporary Workers do not award directly the employment agency, the employer of temporary worker, powers to grant statutory leave to temporary worker during the notice period. De lege lata, Article 5 of the Act on Employment of Temporary Workers is very important in this matter. The said provision states that Labor Law regulations apply with respect to matters not regulated by the Act on Employment of Temporary Workers – in the commented case art. 1671 of the Labor Code. Article 18 of the Act on Employment of Temporary Workers corresponds with the issue related to granting leave to a temporary worker during the notice period. According to this regulation,
it may happen that the employer-user will dismiss the temporary worker in such a way that the employment agency will not be able to terminate employment (due to the run of the notice period) in such a way that it coincides with the end of demand on work. In this situation, it can be said that the days accrued after the dismissal by the employer-user cannot be "days, which would be work days," thus the employment agency cannot grant to the temporary worker statutory leave in that time.


Space consists of high-energy particles and high-temperature fluctuations, which causes single event upsets (SEUs). Conventional 6T static random access memory (SRAM) is unable to tolerate this harsh environment in space. Therefore, it is necessary to design an SRAM, which can withstand this harsh environment. In order to mitigate SEUs, a radiation-hardened SRAM cell, named soft-error resilient read decoupled 12T (SRRD12T), is presented in this article. To estimate the relative performance of the proposed cell, it is compared with other contemporary designs, such as RHMN12T, RHMP12T, RHD12T, QUCCE12T, and QUATRO12T, over various important design metrics. SRRD12T can not only recover from SEU induced at any of its sensitive nodes but also from single event multi-node upsets (SEMNUs) induced at its storage node pair. Furthermore, due to the read decoupled design of SRRD12T, it exhibits the highest read stability. In addition to these, SRRD12T shows $1.14\times /1.17\times $ shorter write delay than RHD12T/RHMP12T. Moreover, SRRD12T consumes lower hold power and exhibits higher write ability than most of the comparison cells. However, these advantages are obtained by exhibiting a slightly longer read delay.


Abstract
 We present faunistic data on two species new to Poland: Ptiliolum caledonicum (Sharp, 1872) and Baeocrara japonica (Matthews, 1885). Both species were found in the Mazury Lakeland in northeastern Poland. The latter species is regarded as an immigrant. Additionally, we confirm the presence of the rare Acrotrichis nana Strand, 1946 in Poland, previously only known from a single record from 2007. We provide further localities of this beetle in the Mazury Lakeland and the Mazovian Lowland in central Poland. Its dependence on dry biotopes is confirmed by specimens collected in old, dry, and fresh pine forests.


We are in the world of information. Data intelligence is the great asset of our time and it will be no different in our area of expertise. Analytical chemistry, driven by chemometrics, will follow the same path and provide unprecedented and essential information for the sustainability of companies. In recent years, trends in analytical chemistry have emerged with important advances in speed, cost, intelligence and simplicity. In fact, it is a great "virtuous circle", where fast analysis generates increased analytical capacity and lower operating costs, large amounts and a high quality of data produce extraordinary databases, chemical data science opens up possibilities for augmented intelligence, and finally, in the real world, if the solution is not simple and robust, it will probably not go any further. OpenScience works in partnership with the main players in the market. The idea is to bring the successful experience of applied research in tobacco business to leverage open innovation programs in many segments of industry, food, agribusiness and other bioeconomic issues. It is important to say that these initiatives have the support of an exceptional group of professionals who contribute to this reality, with many national and international references in analytical chemistry, chemometrics and businesses. They are researchers, professors, senior managers, R&D directors, entrepreneurs, innovation managers, government leaders, and technology providers, as well as chemical data scientists.


It has researched the technology in which the inorganic_organic composite flocculating_agent treat mixing wastewater is used (mixed sewage of gray water and black liquor). The result indicates that as for mixing wastewater with COD cr 6?000?mg/L,the treament effect of the composite flocculating_agent is much better than that of single PAC, floc formed is bigger and denser and is more easily filtrated, and the removing rate of COD cr is more than 90%. The best ratio(weight) of PAC and PAM is 8∶1 and the best range of pH is 7~8. After the treatment, the wastewater can meet the requirement stipulated by The National Waste Disposal Standard. The technology has the advantages of treating gray water and black liquor in the meantime, operating easily and less cost.


The use of the oesophageal stethoscope for the monitoring of the ventilation and heart sounds of small children and neonates during anaesthesia needs no introduction. The usual practice is to connect the oesophageal balloon to a standard stethoscope headset thus allowing the sounds to be audible. This method is at best adequate and the sounds easily become inaudible if the background theatre noise rises and the stethoscope headset soon becomes extremely uncomfortable. The Regional Paediatric Intensive Therapy Unit at Alder Hey Children's Hospital operates a Paediatric Emergency Transport Team (PETT) among whose functions is the transport of critically ill children and neonates from outlying hospitals back to the regional unit. Many of the journeys are of considerable distance and involve transport of children who are intubated and ventilated. In these children the ability reliably to monitor the cardiac function and the adequacy of ventilation is vitally important. Any person who has transported patients by ambulance will appreciate some of the problems involved; ambulances are extremely noisy, there is a significant amount of movement, access to the patient is limited and at night the lighting is poor. Prior to the development of this equipment standard techniques of monitoring involved the use of ECG, Doppler pulse monitoring, and the standard oesophageal stethoscope. Only the oesophageal stethoscope is unaffected by the ambulance movement but the sounds are often inaudible. The equipment which is described has overcome many of these problems. The object was to produce a reliable and cheap method of amplification of the signal from the oesophageal balloon producing an output of variable volume which could be monitored through a loudspeaker or a pair of audio headphones. This has been achieved at minimal cost. The equipment consists of a microphone, an amplifier and a pair of headphones all of which are commercially available. The assembled equipment can be seen in Fig. I . The electret microphone is a snug fit into a cut-off 10-ml syringe (Becton-Dickinson) and is connected by means of a femalefemale he r adaptor to the oesophageal balloon. The microphone is connected to a small commercially available batteryoperated amplifier which incorporatesa volume control, a loudspeaker and the facility for connecting headphones. The equipment has been successfully used in all sizes of neonates and children and with all sizes of oesophageal balloons both in the hospital environment and during transportation. The parts are available from Tandy Corporation, Tameway Tower, Bridge Street, Walsall, West Midlands (part numbers: electret microphone 331052; stereo-to-mono adaptor 274-368; stereo headphones 33-1000: mini-audio-amplifier 2771008).


For teachers in vocational education and training (VET), lifelong learning and related further training is important to meet the growing demands of the teaching profession. This paper analyses the perception of technology and e-learning of teachers in Poland, Italy and Germany. The innovative aspect of this study lies in its combination of general perceptions of online learning and technology on the one hand and findings in relation to a specific online Teacher Training Tool on the other hand. The aims of this study are to show the relevance of e-learning in teacher training and to measure the perception and acceptance of this form of further training by VET teachers. The results should provide support for the further design and development of online education formats for teachers. The evaluation was carried out using a quantitative cross-cutting study using a standardised questionnaire. The results of an online questionnaire show that the approach of online learning as a form of teacher training was met with great interest among VET teachers and that the perception of one's own benefit from such a training option was positive. The quality of the online learning units is decisive for the acceptance of e-learning opportunities. One limitation of this study is that the diverse country-specific cultural aspects and systems of teacher training could only be taken into account to a limited extent. This paper enables international comparative research on teacher training to be integrated using e-learning formats.


Aiming at the problems that experiment content setting of object-oriented programming course is easy to make students think it useless learning and not know how to use it after learning,combining with the training characteristics of electronic information specialty,the traditional and basic experiment content are compressed,and the experiment projects with strong applicability are added,and the hardware is introduced into experiment teaching.Practice shows that the effect of the experiment teaching mode improved is good.


In this study we surveyed the marine algae and seaweeds of Ghemenis coast which extends 50 Km. western Benghazi city. Seventeen marine Algae (15 Genera), in addition to Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile – Mediterranean tape weed (Spermatophyte) were collected during 2010 from the sandy, small, and open coast. Chlorophyta was the most dominant group with 9 species (8 genera), followed by Rhodophyta with 5 species (4 genera) and Phaeophyta with just 3 species (3 genera). The most dominant algal genera were Rhizoclonium and Polysiphonia (two species of each). Methanolic extract of green alga Caulerpa prolifera was tested against four types of dermatophytes (Tinea) isolated from El-Jamahiriya hospital, Benghazi city. At high concentration of algal extract (100 µm) nails and hair Tinea were obviously affected (25.36 and 21.65 mm, respectively), where foot and skin Tinea were not affected (9 mm) like Diameter of holes. Meanwhile, the lower concentration (50 µm) has no clear effect on these tested four types of Tinea. The pharmaceutical importance of the Libyan marine algae as natural source and comparison with the chemical treatments still needed more investigations.


Database community focuses on the similar music retrieval systems for music database when a humming query is given. One of the approaches is converting the midi data to time series, building their indices and performing the similarity search on them. Queries based on humming can be transformed to time series by using the known pitch detection algorithms. The recently suggested algorithm, scaled and warped matching, is based on dynamic time warping and uniform scaling. This paper proposes Humming BIRD(Humming Based sImilaR mini music retrieval system) using sliding window and center-aligned scaled and warped matching. Center-aligned scaled and warped matching is a mixed distance measure of center-aligned uniform scaling and time warping. The newly proposed measure gives tighter lower bound than previous ones which results in reduced search space. The empirical results show the superiority of this algorithm comparing the pruning power while it returns the same results.


Technology transference and spread is one of basic characteristics of the process of transnational corporate MAs,also important source of merger synergy effects,but the process of transference is deeply affected by technology resources' characteristics and culture difference,conflict of strategy.Firstly,this paper analyzed influences of inexplicability and adaptability on the process of transference and spread,and on the basis of the analysis,established a regional model on transnational corporate MAs.Furthermore,this paper analyzed influences of culture difference and conflict of strategy on the process.Afterwards,taking TCL group and Wanxiang group for examples,this paper conducted an empirical analysis of the model.


My new look at the reading and early literacy processing comes, fundamentally, from neuroscience experimental evidence: the existence of an area in the left ventral occipital-temporal region, where neurons specialize, through good learning, for recognizing which, how many and how the invariant features combine, forming letters that, in alphabetical systems, behave graphemes representing a given language phonemes. Thanks to linguistics and psycholinguistics knowledge, my new look at early literacy revealed the child's strategies for discovering the difference between stressed and unstressed words (clitics), while reading, as well as for learning, in the context of the Brazilian Portuguese (BP) reading processing, to automate: (a) the invariant features and letters belonging to the Latin alphabet recognition; (b) the graphemes and their respective values (phonemes) recognition; (c) words predominant stress attribution; (d) unstressed word (clitic) delimiting that, in written BP, ending with an unstressed oral vowel, can only be registered by the letters 'a', 'e', 'o', whether or not followed by 's'; (e)  finally, the recognition of intonational patterns. Such strategies consist of teaching the child, in a playful environment, to follow with the index finger the letter traces in large size direction (neuronal recycling), while emitting the sound that performs the phoneme, represented by its respective grapheme (phonemic awareness). After tracing all the letters and simultaneously emitting the sounds that performs the word phonemes, the child should, quickly reading the word aloud, clap weakly in the unstressed syllables and stronger in the most stressed syllable (phonological awareness). All of this will enable, namely, the new meaning construction of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and text (macrostructure), allowing critical readers and with a taste for reading.


Background . People overestimate the impact of health conditions on happiness, putatively because they focus excessively on resulting negative consequences while disregarding the impact of other unchanged aspects of life on happiness. However, typically, inferences about accuracy have been based on a confound of the viewpoint of judgments (Self/Other) with whether the respondent has the condition (Have/Not-have)—an important issue because people often judge themselves as different to others. This study measured Haves' and Not-haves' judged impact on happiness—for self and other—of several chronic health conditions, and whether ``defocusing'' respondents improved judgment. Method . 80 Haves and 80 Not-haves predicted the impact of health conditions on their own and others' happiness using a questionnaire, after some participated in a defocusing exercise. Haves also indicated their preferences for their health condition over other conditions. Results . Although Haves made more accurate forecasts than Not-haves, both overestimated the impact of health conditions on others' happiness— yet defocusing respondents prior to prediction had no effect. Haves were aware that Not-haves misjudge Haves' happiness, but underestimated the bias in Not-haves' judgments. Whereas Haves judged they were more happy than other Haves, Not-haves predicted they would be less happy than others if living with a health condition. Finally, Haves' preferences for health conditions exhibited an endowment effect. Conclusion . The existence of an impact bias is not attributable to the confounding of self/other and Have/Not-have in other studies. People who have a condition forecasted others' happiness more accurately, suggesting that experience of one condition helps in comprehending life with another.


The Internet and associated digital technologies provide us with an
enormous potential to access and build information and knowledge
networks. Information and knowledge can be communicated in an instant
across the globe, cheaply and with good quality, by even the most basic
Internet user. In short, recent developments in digital technology have
opened up a vast new landscape for knowledge management.

However copyright law which takes definition from international
conventions and is similar in most countries provides that you cannot
reproduce or communicate copyright material (literary, dramatic,
musical and artistic works, films and sound recordings) without the
permission of the copyright owner subject to exceptions for fair
use/dealing, private use and educational use. Private use and educational
use exceptions are usually subject to the payment of a statutory levy,
royalty or licence fee.

Therefore while the technology has the capacity, the legal restrictions on
the reuse of copyright material, hampers its negotiability in the digital
environment. Copyright owners are not obliged to give permission to
allow others to reuse their material even with payment of fair
compensation unless they are compelled to do so by the law. There are
some compulsory licences – for example I can make a recording of any
song pursuant to a compulsory licence - but they are not widespread.
Going through the process of obtaining permission to reuse copyright
material can also be very time consuming and expensive.


During the first phase of the pandemic, airlines experienced much pressure from customers. This paper investigates crisis communication trends and identifies opportunities for post-pandemic communi...


Purpose
The purpose of this research paper is to explore the possibility to enhance the power transfer from piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) source to the load. As the proposed gyrator-induced voltage flip technique (GIVFT) does not require bulky components such as physical inductors, it is easily realizable in small integrated circuits (IC) package thereby offering performance benefits, reducing area overhead and providing cost benefits for constrained self-powered autonomous Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents an inductorless interface circuit for PEH. The proposed technique is called GIVFT and is demonstrated using active elements. The authors use gyrator to induce voltage flip at the output side of PEH to enhance the charge extraction from PEH. The proposed technique uses the current-voltage (I-V) relationship of gyrator to get appropriate phasor response necessary to induce the voltage flip at the output of PEH to gain power transfer enhancement at the load.

Findings
The experimental results show the efficacy of the GIVFT realization for enhanced power extraction. The authors have compared their proposed design with popular earlier reported interface circuits. Experimentally measured performance improvement is 1.86×higher than the baseline comparison of full-wave bridge rectifier circuit. The authors demonstrated a voltage flip using GIVFT to gain power transfer improvement in piezoelectric energy harvesting.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors' knowledge, pertaining to the field of PEH, this is the first reported GIVFT based on the I-V relationship of the gyrator. The proposed approach could be useful for constrained self-powered autonomous IoT applications, and it could be of importance in guiding the design of new interface circuits for PEH.


The winter and spring varieties of peas (Pisum sativum) require careful study of the entire range of technological measures, including seeding rates, as the basis for optimal sowing density and the formation of phytocenose crops. This issue has not been resolved to date, not only in the context of agrobiological justification but also in everyday practice in Ukraine. This research was carried out in a field experiment in a three-way factorial experiment: factor "A" was the type of development - winter and spring; factor "B" was the variety - spring peas (Svit and Darunok Stepu) and winter peas (Moroz, Enduro and Baltrapp); and factor "C" was the seeding rate. According to the field studies, differences in the physiological and biochemical parameters of the P. sativum test culture characterised the photosynthetic activity of the plants, considering the type of development and variety. The winter varieties of P. sativum were characterised by a higher chlorophyll content (by 35–40%) compared to the spring varieties, which had an economic effect with an increase in the yield of dry biomass of the experimental crop and a decrease in seeding rates, with the formation and increase in grain yield by 14–18%. The intensity of chlorophyll in the process was not a determining factor in the accumulation of organic biomass. The extensive nature of the integration complex was noted (the amount of chlorophyll - the amount of biomass). At the optimal seeding rate, a certain specificity was observed in different types of P. sativum: for spring varieties, the sufficient rate was 0.9 million seeds/ha, and for winter varieties, it was 0.7 million seeds/ha. For varieties with a low productivity level (spring - Svit and winter - Moroz), the optimum sowing rate was around 0.7 million seeds/ha. The increase in the seeding rate was accompanied by a decrease in the content of various chlorophyll fractions from 10–12% to 20–26%.


Abstract A code environment based on the CORETRAN and RETRAN-3D codes for the three-dimensional (3-D) kinetic analysis of transients in Swiss light water reactors is currently being developed and implemented within the STARS project at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). As a first step in the application of these codes, an assessment of both codes for the analysis of reactivity-initiated transients in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) was performed. For that purpose, the Nuclear Energy Agency benchmark exercises, consisting of rod ejection and uncontrolled rod bank withdrawal transients, were selected. These analyses showed that very satisfactory results could be obtained with both CORETRAN and RETRAN-3D. In this paper, a summary of the PWR results, along with an emphasis of important modeling options that were identified during that work, is presented. As a second step, it was considered important to assess both codes for boiling water reactor (BWR) reactivity transients. Therefore, in addition, the analysis of a hypothetical beyond-design-basis rod drop accident for a Swiss BWR core at end of cycle is presented in this paper. This transient, which was previously analyzed with another 3-D code at PSI, shows that also for BWRs, both codes give satisfactory results.


Silicon-based solar cells are an important field for the development of the photovoltaic industry. The grid electrode on the front surface of the traditional silicon solar cell causes shading loss. However, the positive and negative electrodes are placed on the back surface of the interdigitated back contact(IBC) solar cell, which causes no shading loss and improvement of photoelectric conversion efficiency. The core of the IBC silicon solar cell is the interface control, field effect control and the design of the positive and negative electrode patterns on the back. Different manufacturing processes ensure the accuracy of the grid electrode and reduce production costs. This paper systematically introduces the structure and interface characteristics and development history of IBC solar cells, and looks forward to the development trend and application prospects of IBC solar cells.


Objective
To systemically evaluate the analgesic efficacy and safety of compound matrine Injection in combination with opioid analgesic for pain of patients with malignant tumor.

Methods
We searched CBM, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, PubMed with computer and searched some related journals and magazines in this field to collect randomized control trials (RCTs) of standard treatment for cancer pain combined with compound matrine injection. Two researchers selected RCTs independently according to inclusion and exclusion criteria and did quality assessment and data extraction, and then used the Revman 5.3 software for meta-analysis.

Results
15 studies were included in the systematic review, covering a total of 1 712 patients. The results of meta-analysis showed that compared with opioid analgesic treatment alone, compound matrine injection and opioid analgesic treatment could significantly increase the efficacy (P <0.01) , improve quality of life (P <0.01) , and reduce the incidence of adverse reactions (P <0.01) , such as nausea, lethargy, constipation, and so on.

Conclusion
Compared with opioid analgesic treatment alone, compound matrine injection combined with opioid analgesics could significantly improve the analgesic efficacy and QOL and reduce adverse events.

Key words:
Compound matrine injection; Cancer pain; Meta-analysis


Objective To explore the effect of nursing risk management of postpartum hemorrhage in the delivery room so as to provide a base for future management and make nursing risk management more effective.Methods Clinically,such measures in management were taken as altering managing conception,conducting education on nursing risks,intensifying risk awareness,improving modes of nursing work by investing more manpower,enhancing professional management to raise the ability to meet an emergency,recognizing and assessing the risk factor so as to conduct predictive treatment,reinforcing the emergency management in the department to establish forehand plan.The effects before and after performance of risk management were compared by U test.Results After conduct of risk management,the volume of hemorrhage was reduced after delivery,the quality of nursing records was raised and the comfort degree from the parturients,with significant difference compared to pre-conduct of risk management(P0.01).Conclusion Nursing risk management of postpartum hemorrhage in the delivery room is effective to enhance the awareness of nurses in preventing postpartum hemorrhage,raise the nursing quality in the obstetric department and prevent risky incidents.


The paper discuses the overall aspect of mechatronics in industry from when it was originated in 1969 to its present applications .This term was coined by Yasakawa Electric company which defined it as the ' synergistic integration of mechanical engineering, with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacturing". It aims to develop a system architecture/framework suitable for embedded distributed computer control systems. There is an urging need of mechatronics in industry to meet the changing demands. Emphasis had been laid on the highly demanding carrier prospects in mechatronics by live surveys. In India like developing country various challenges in adapting the mechtronics widely have also been discussed. Mechatronics is a design philosophy which encourages engineers to concurrently integrate conventional core industries and modern processing-developing industries.


Recent field studies have reported the effects of exercise on the cortisol awakening response (CAR); however, no study has experimentally examined the effects. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of exercise intensity on CAR among 14 healthy male university students. Participants rested for 20 min (control condition) and exercised on a cycle ergometer for 20 min at 40% (low), 60% (moderate), and 80% (high) intensity of V・O2max on separate days. Saliva samples were collected 10 times as follows: 1) before and 2) immediately after the experimental session, 3) 10 min, 4) 20 min, and 5) 30 min into the recovery period, 6) 9 PM and 7) 11 PM in the evening following the session, 8) immediately after awakening, 9) 15 min, and 10) 30 min post-awakening the day after the session. Cortisol concentration increased after the high-intensity exercise and recovered in the evening following the session. The 30 min post-awakening sampling point the day after the session of high-intensity exercise was higher than the control condition (p = .039). In addition, the higher intensity exercise condition led to the magnitude of change in CAR (CARc) (p = .006) and the area of cortisol increased under the curve (AUCi) (p = .034), making it higher than the control condition. There were no significant differences in other confounders. These results suggest that CAR showed a higher value in healthy male university students the day after performing high-intensity exercise.


Past research found that 40%-71% of chronic pain patients had overlooked diagnoses, underscoring the need for more accurate diagnostic methodology. In this study, 28 diagnoses were made by the senior author during the initial evaluation of 5 chronic pain patients. Of these diagnoses, 27 diagnoses made by the senior author were also made by the computer scored and interpreted Maryland Clinical Diagnostics (MCD) "Diagnostic Paradigm." The MCD Diagnostic Paradigm matched the senior author's evaluation 96.37 % of the time, and the Diagnostic Paradigm missed 1 diagnoses made by the senior author, for a 3.63% "missed diagnosis" rate, based on the initial clinic evaluation.
 Overall there were 4 "Test Only Positives," i.e. diagnoses made by the Diagnostic Paradigm, but not made by the senior author. Therefore, these patients received the benefit of additional diagnostics studies, which helped the chiropractor obtain an additional diagnoses 16% of the time, which he otherwise might have overlooked, as the results of the "Test Only Positive" diagnosis.
 The Pain Validity Test could predict which of the patients would have moderate or severe abnormalities on objective medical tests with 100% accuracy. The Diagnostic Paradigm predicted the specific abnormality on objective medical testing with 98% accuracy.


College is the critical stage of college students' socialization.The society has higher expectations and requirements of the college students' socialization.Departments of College Students Affairs can effectively promote students to change from the "school people" to "social man" by means of ideological and political education,learning atmosphere construction,overall quality training,youth volunteer activities and social practice activities.


We have obtained interfacial properties of Galinstan, a nontoxic liquid-metal alloy, to help replace mercury in miniature devices. To prevent formation of an oxide skin that severely hinders the fluidic behavior of small Galinstan droplets and leads to inaccurate property data, we performed our experiments in a nitrogen-filled glove box. It was found that only if never exposed to oxygen levels above 1 part per million (ppm) would Galinstan droplets behave like a liquid. Two key properties were then investigated: contact angles and surface tension. Advancing and receding contact angles of Galinstan were measured from sessile droplets on various materials: for example, 146.8 and 121.5, respectively, on glass. Surface tension was measured by the pendant-drop method to be 534.6 10.7 mN/m. All the measurements were done in nitrogen at 28 with oxygen and moisture levels below 0.5 ppm. To help design droplet-based microfluidic devices, we tested the response of Galinstan to electrowetting-on-dielectric actuation.


Objective
To evaluate the effect of intervention on prophylactic antibiotic use in clean operations during perioperative period.

Methods
Clinical data from discharged patients with clean surgical incisions were collected from the Xiaoshan Third People's Hospital, including 276 admitted from April to November 2010 (pre-intervention group), 439 admitted from April to November 2013 (first intervention group) and 443 patients admitted from April to November 2014 (second intervention group). The utilization, medication time, course of drugs treatment and types of antibacterial drugs during perioperative period were retrospectively analyzed among three groups. Kruskal-Wallis test and χ2 test were used to analyze data.

Results
Prophylactic antibacterial utilization rate was 97.10%(268/276) before intervention, which dropped to 31.44%(138/439) and 11.74%(52/443) after first and second intervention, while the rates of rational drug use increased from 10.45%(28/268) to 36.23% (50/138) and 86.54%(45/52)(χ2=537.78 and 137.20, P<0.01). The course of antimicrobial drug treatment was 6 (3-7) d before intervention, which was shortened to 1 (1-2) d and 1(1-2) d after the first and second intervention (χ2=214.77, P<0.01), respectively, the proportion of patients with perioperative prophylactic use of antimicrobial agents 0.5-2 h before operation increased(χ2=85.976, P<0.01). The use of first- and second-generation cephalosporins increased from 37.31%(100/268) to 88.64% (46/52) after second intervention.

Conclusion
After interventions, the prophylactic use of antimicrobial drugs in clean surgical incisions during perioperative period is reduced, accompanied by increase in rational drug utilization.

Key words:
Anti-bacterial agents; Perioperative; Protective agents; Clean surgical incision; Intervention studies


Abstract The fishes were caught at depths below 300 m and were from 9 to 58 cm long. They belonged to six year classes (I–VI), but most of them were from one to four years old. Western Spitzbergen waters thus seem to be a nursery ground for this species. The average yearly increment in length was nearly 8 cm. The polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Lepechin), was the most important food item for the investigated juvenile Greenland halibut.


Visual behavior verbs are the main method to give language descriptions to the states,processes and results of visual behaviors.The grammaticalizations of visual behavior verbs are gradual,and different word has different grammaticalize level."kan","jian","wang" and "xiang" are the typical grammaticalized words in visual behavior verbs.The result of the analyses shows that the words have some differences in motivation and processes of grammaticalizations based on their meaning features.


When five Lao physicians began their training in a 3-year pediatric residency program in Laos in late 1997 it launched the first full-time postgraduate medical education in the history of the country. For a poor country with 5 million people, half of them children, and only seven fully trained pediatricians, the prospect of soon adding five new pediatricians per year has substantial implications for child health.

This residency grew out of 10 years of collaboration between the Lao Faculty of Medical Sciences and a wide-ranging group of volunteer faculty members recruited from Case Western Reserve University and many other academic centres in the United States, Canada and Thailand, with the help of an all-volunteer organization, Health Frontiers. The collaboration grew slowly, first with a pediatric curriculum for medical students, then a series of intensive short courses in pediatrics, and finally a government-approved residency program, based on local health needs and consistent with international standards.

This article reviews some of the academic, cultural, political, organizational and financial factors involved in the project. It suggests that the low-cost, in-country, volunteer-assisted residency program being developed in Laos may emerge as an effective and affordable model for introducing postgraduate medical education in other less developed countries.


In grammars of Hebrew, a variety of different roots have been used in order to illustrate the verbal paradigms. The reasons for choosing one root over another are worthy of examination, and ultimately such an exercise leads to the question of which root is ideal for this purpose. In fact, no one root is ideal, and the choice of paradigm root is ultimately connected with the goals of the individual authors.


In this paper, we analyze the kinematics of a novel active steering mechanism which we shall label as the angular swivel steering mechanism. Inspired by a remotely-controller toy car, we propose using angular swivel steering to construct a robotic mobile base. The kinematic analysis of the proposed angular swivel steering exhibits interesting base configurations that could be exploited while designing new robotic platforms that have the potential to be effective in negotiating rugged terrains.


The paper presents the modelling of a wind energy conversion system with doubly fed induction generator with control systems operating in two modes - maximum and limited power point tracking. The simulation results illustrate the system's correct operation.


Participation is increasingly being used in the modelling of climate-sensitive systems to improve usability. Bottom-up, place-based approaches to modelling can challenge the dominantly positivist a...


O ver the years, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has been transformed from a "whaling club" to a "preservation club" (Sigvaldsson 1996), with the United States among the countries that oppose the killing of whales (Derr 1997). One possible reason for this is that the stable U.S. economy has not suffered from banning commercial whaling (Nagasaki 1994). The anti-whaling stance of the United States is also attributed to an animal rights agenda that opposes the killing of any animals for human use (Butterworth 1992; Skfire 1994; Motluk 1996). Recent studies (Kalland 1993, 1998) have further proposed that the opposition to whaling is influenced by whale totemism (whales' occupying a unique symbolic place in the animal kingdom) and by world opinion. Whatever reasons underlie the opposition to whaling, the controversy is viewed as a war between good whale protectionists and evil whalers (Sumi 1989; Kalland 1993). In this framework, whaling is described as immoral (Callicott 1997), as slaughter (Hall 1988), or as equivalent to the genocide of inferior human beings (D'Amato and Chopra 1991). Whalers are also described as killers who defend their crimes or as illiterate vandals (Callicott 1997). Freeman and Kellert (1992) detected such opinions in their survey study of how people in six countries viewed whaling. They found that the majority of those surveyed in nonwhaling countries (Australia, England, Germany, and the United States) disapproved of whaling and the consumption of whale meat, whereas the majority of respondents in whaling countries (Japan and Norway) responded in the opposite way. Thus it has been widely argued that the controversy over whaling is not about


The goal of the paper is that of presenting the Coa Valley Archaeological Park (PAVC) Conservation Program, also providing an analysis of the weathering dynamics that influence the endurance of the Coa rock art heritage, inscribed by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. These dynamics decisively shaped the management and conservation strategies implemented and incorporated in the Corservation Program. The major inference of the undertaken analysis is that ah conservation efforts must be conducted, due to the lack of data on in situ schist conservation, in a prudent and informed fashion, supported by strong scientific information resulting from inclusive and rigorous previous investigation.


Findings of this study suggest that educational training plays a significant role in the marketing management style of community economic developers. Planners with business majors understood the prioritization of corporations site location variables better than did planners with urban planning or other non-business degrees. Business education was also more likely to be associated with usage of marketing-specific information and aggressiveness in pursuing targeting firms. However, neither source of funding (public versus private) nor location (urban versus rural) explains the tendency of economic development organizations to employ business majors.


Asking other people to the truth and patience is a religious order. Thus, this meassage is important to be delivered to human being. Doing this action will spread goodness and reduce offenders although an evil cannot be completely removed from the earth. Evil doers both muslims and non-muslims are the target of da'wa. To be an effective da'wa, it must be considered some aspects such as cognitive, affective and conative of the people who will get this message. For muslims who incidentally obey religious teaching and often join religious studies, theme of da'wa such ascent to God through the meaning or the heart (understanding the essence of worship which is carried out) would be more relevant to them. This model is done because muslims are not only called upon their religion and the Islamic faith, but also are directed at behavior change for the betterment. This approach aims to establish a muslim who has a true love to God and to implicate for the abstain from actions, fakhsa and munkar.


The internal flow field of a V-baffle louve r filter was numerically simulated.The boundary conditions concerning inflow sect ion, outflow section, solid wall surface as well as obstacles within computation al region was dealed adopts appropriate approaches. "stair-case" method has been applied to handle oblique or curved surfaces of irregular obstacles and sat isfactory results have been attained.


This special issue of INSIGHT section includes the main contributions presented in workshops that have held during the Systems Engineering Academia-Industry Forum. The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of the French research in the domain of Systems Engineering. This Systems Engineering Academia-Industry Forum is organized by AFIS (Association Francaise d'Ingenierie Systeme), the French chapter of INCOSE, and supported by French universities as a regular series, usually every two years. This forum provides the opportunity for both academics and industrials to debate on:-Educate systems engineering and develop competences in systems engineering for professional situations,-Develop and promote the research in systems engineering. Thus, workshops and plenary lectures are held during the forum in order to cover the theme of education, research and practices of systems engineering. In December 2016, the sixth edition of the forum was held in Toulouse with the support of the university of Toulouse and the LAAS laboratory. This edition was dedicated to the important subject of "Innovation" that has been broken down in 11 topics:-Model based Systems Engineering,-Agility in System Engineering,-Resilience and allocation of requirements-Cyber-Physics system and System Engineering: the challenge,-Risk management, place of man in our systems,-Research activities in Systems Engineering,-Innovation and Systems Engineering,-Architecture and allocation of requirements,-Pedagogies and Systems Engineering: challenges and issues,-ROBAFIS challenge that is organized by AFIS and that promotes project-based collaborative learning in SE,-Doctoral program in Systems Engineering as a challenge for Research in French universities. This last topic has given rise to a specific workshop, the doctoral seminar, offering the opportunity for doctoral students to present and to discuss their doctoral works concerned by Systems Engineering, with academics and industrials. For this issue of INSIGHT, doctoral students and their supervisors have been invited to submit an extended version of their presentations in order to emphasize the research aspects of Systems Engineering. Eight papers have been selected to be included in this edition in order to promote research contributions for model based system engineering approaches.


'Jinling Huangfeng'is a new colored-leaf cultivar which is selected from the progeny of Acer palmatum.Leaf color is golden during the vigorous growth period.The plant grows robustly with extensive adaptability and strong disease resistance.It can be planted for landscape greening in the Yangtze River basin with high temperature and relative humidity,especially in Jiangsu Province and surrounding areas.


These papers deal with the elucidation of the factors which predispose wheat seedlings following summerfallow to Pythium root rot in certain parts of Saskatchewan. The chemical soil analyses on 66 sample pairs reveal that available phosphorus in the soil is lower and nitrate nitrogen higher in browning patches than in normal patches. Greenhouse experiments and field observations show that phosphate amendments at the time of seeding, and farmyard manuring, permit the development of normal plants in browning soil; cereal straw applications inhibit the disease to some extent, while inorganic nitrogenous fertilizers usually have no effect or occasionally may prove detrimental. Preliminary plant analyses indicate that the total phosphorus in diseased plants is lower than in healthy ones, and that there is relatively more water-soluble nitrogen and relatively less protein nitrogen in diseased than in healthy plants.The soil and crop-culture factors, especially the practice of bare summer-fallowing, which may in...


The uniformity of the lattice spacing of silicon crystals was evaluated by the self-referenced lattice comparator with a resolution of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3\times 10^{\mathrm {\mathbf {-9}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Lattice strain measurements were performed for the sample 10.5 cut from 28Si ingot (Avo28), which was used to determine the Avogadro constant. The mapping results for samples 4.R1, XINT, and 9.R1 performed in the previous works have also been re-evaluated. The 4.R1 in the seed side of the ingot and the XINT in the middle of the ingot have small distribution of lattice spacing. The standard deviations of the lattice spacing distribution for the 4.R1 and XINT were <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4.8\times 10^{\mathrm {\mathbf {-9}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$5.5\times 10^{\mathrm {\mathbf {-9}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. In contrast, the 9.R1 and the 10.5 samples cut from the tail side of the ingot have a larger distribution of lattice spacing. These lattice spacing distributions in the ingot are consistent with the impurity distribution in the ingot.