Introduction: That metaphysical poetry can be an expression of religious faith might well seem to be a bold, interesting and, yet, ill-advised thesis. That is because in the seventeenth century poetry was viewed by many as a medium better suited to excite feelings of love and to arouse images of beauty than to set forth arguments that "sparkle" with recondite wit. Wit is one thing; faith another. (1) Thanks largely to T.S. Eliot, the twentieth century took a broader, more charitable view of earlier metaphysical poetry, arguing that the great seventeenth century metaphysical poets managed to weave the emotional and intellectual into one unified work. Indeed, following Eliot, that is the view that I shall take not only of the great seventeenth century metaphysical poets but also of Eliot himself and of much other literature. The primary aim of the paper is to show how metaphysical poetry is related to religious belief, sometimes as an expression of religious belief and other times as a basis for religious belief. Secondary aims are to study the connections of metaphysical poetry to other artistic forms and to metaphysics viewed as a sub-discipline of philosophy. Metaphysical Poetry and Religious Faith: Most of the world's great religions look beyond nature for their inspiration and are therefore metaphysical. If poetry can express experience that is essentially metaphysical, then it can be an expression of religious experience that inspires faith. Religious experience arouses emotions like wonder, awe, consolation dread, hope, and love; all feelings that turn our minds to beauty, goodness or the sublime. The present analysis of religious experience will locate religious emotions principally among the "sublime." Sublimation evokes an image of the physical drifting imperceptibly into metaphysical and possibly to the divine. Yet, Kant had a different take on the sublime. For him the sublime is the fruit of human reason, of its great triumphs, especially in mathematics and physics. The feeling of the sublime is a response to the superior, distinctively human capacity to comprehend the apparently unfathomable. Granted: It was natural at the end of the Enlightenment for philosophers like Kant, d'Holbach and Laplace to celebrate the successes of empirical science and therefore to think of our own theories and even of our own minds as subline. (Kant/Bernard, 1951/orig. 1790, p. 89) Yet there is another way to conceive the progress of science, which invokes Spinozistic metaphysics. Contrary to Kant, when we conceive nature as a whole (viz. sub specie aeternitatis), we come as close as we possibly can to experiencing God. (2) Not all great scientific minds have taken the Kantian view of the sublimity of nature. In particular, Einstein argues that what is remarkable is not that we have unraveled the mysteries of nature, but rather that nature is constituted so that it yields its mysteries to the rational mind. When we stand in awe of nature we do not stand in awe of our own reasoning power but rather in awe of the "passive power" of nature that welcomes human understanding and its methods. To be sure, Einstein inveighs against anthropomorphism, but he also claims that scientific reasoning inspires feeling that is religious "in the highest sense of the word." If it is one of the goals of religion to liberate mankind as far as possible from the bondage of egocentric cravings, desires and fears, scientific reasoning can aid religion in yet another sense ... whoever has undergone the intense experience of successful advances made in this domain [of scientific reasoning--my insertion], is moved by a profound reverence for the rationality made manifest in existence. By way of understanding he achieves a far-reaching emancipation from the shackles of personal hopes and desires, and thereby attains that humble attitude of mind towards the grandeur of reason incarnate in experience, and which, at its profoundest depths, is inaccessible to man. …


Abstract. This document introduces the process for the creation of a testbed for energy applications based on a semantic 3D city model for the municipality of Rijssen-Holten in The Netherlands. The creation of this dataset requires the consolidation from multiple data sources as well as a lot of manual work so the authors can warranty as much as possible the quality of the dataset so in can be used in several use cases. The data is stored following the OGC standard CityGML v2.0 and contain the geometrical and semantical information of CityObjects from the thematic modules Building, Vegetation and Relief. This data set consolidates the open weather data from the closest weather station to the study area located in Heino in the Netherlands. We discuss the decisions taken during the manual data collection process and we present some use cases that have already consume the dataset at the time of writing this document.


We invest much in maximising intelligence and we get ever smarter: but does this make us any happier? The relation between intelligence and happiness is explored on two levels, at the micro-level of individuals and at the macro-level of nations. At the micro-level, we looked at the results of 23 studies and found no correlation between IQ and happiness. At the macro-level, we assessed the correlation between average IQ and average happiness in 143 nations and found a strong positive relationship. Together these findings mean that smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others.


The Ionian zone is the main object of seismic interpretation for a long time. Within this framework, we shall analyze the new seismic intrpretation methods used in oil and gas exploration in the western part of Ionian zone. The Ionian zone is very complex involving certain tectonic faults. In the central part, we can see the duplex tectonic style. Anticline belts from east to west can be interpreted.The Ionian zone comprises three anticline belts:Berati belt, Kurveleshi belt and Cika belt. By application of SeisWork2D in the eastern part of the belt, we have evidenced some perscpective struc tures, meanwhile in the western part, the seismic quality is very chaotic. Kurveleshi belt is constructed by struc tures of various forms and dimensions associated with developed tectonics up to thrusting. Cika anticline belt is constructed mainly by prolonged structures of considerable dimensions associated with evaporate outcrops as in Xara, Fterra, Cika etc.


Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common sleep disorder that interrupts respiration during sleep. It is associated with increasing cardiovascular disease risk. Aim: To screen for OSA among cardiovascular disease patients. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that was carried out in Makkah city and 451 patients were recruited. Data of this study was collected using a questionnaire which includes sociodemographic data and STOP-Bang test that consists of 8 questions, and net results of STOP-Bang test scoring was divided into OSA-low risk, OSA-intermediate risk and OSA-high risk. Results: The majority of studied patients were males 315(69.8%), Saudis 370(82%), married 353(78.3%), diabetic 291(64.5%), and their age between 40 to 59 years. 81.4% of the studied patients have OSA-high risk, 9.3% have OSA-intermediate risk while 9.3% have OSA-low risk. The relationship between OSA risk scores and patients' characteristics shows a statistical significance (p < 0.05) in all patients' characteristics except using medications for chronic diseases (p 0.228). Conclusion: OSA is highly prevalent among cardiovascular disease patients. Physicians' awareness regarding screening, diagnosis, and treatment of OSA is essential to prevent cardiovascular disease risks. Keywords: Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Cardiovascular disease


Brevibacillus brevis is widely distributed. In different growth stages, the colony morphology would present diversity. At present, the whole genomic sequences of two B. brevis strains were sequenced, only a number of functional genes of B. brevis have been studied, such as bdb gene which encoded thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase,aldB gene which encoded α-acetolactate decarboxylase,xylB gene which encoded alkaline xylanase and the synthesis of cell wall genes. Genes expressed in tyrocidine synthesis process and its required enzymes have also been studied. B. brevis was used in lots of fields, such as biological control, as host bacteria for extracellular production of foreign proteins, and microbial degradation etc, it wonld have broad application prospects.


SUMMARY A field experiment was conducted during rabi 2011-12 at research farm, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana (India) in a semi-arid climate to study the effect of cultivars, row spacing and moisture regimes on dry fodder production and its contributing traits in barley planted on raised beds. The treatments consisting of combination of three cultivars viz., BH 393, BH 902 and BH 885 and two rows spacing viz., 2 rows per bed and 3 rows per bed in main plots and three moisture regimes (irrigation at IW/ CPE 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5) in sub plots. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications. The results revealed that the plant height, number of tillers per meter square, leaf area index and dry fodder yield was recorded maximum with BH 902 cultivar. Plant height of barley was not affected significantly by row spacing, but number of tillers per meter square, and leaf area index was recorded significantly higher in 3 rows per bed. Dry fodder yield was also recorded higher in 3 rows per bed. Among three moisture regimes, plant height, number of tillers per meter square, leaf area index and dry fodder yield were recorded maximum with irrigation at IW/CPE 0.5. Among interaction between cultivars and row spacing, BH 902 cultivars when planted in 3 rows per bed produced maximum dry fodder yield than other combinations. India supports nearly 20% of the world's livestock being the leader in cattle (16%) and buffalo (5.5%) population. The livestock sector contributes 32% of the agricultural output, which is 22% of the total GDP in India. Deficiency in feed and fodder has been identified as one of the major components in achieving the desired


We calculate CP-violating rates and asymmetry parameters in charged and neutral $B\to \pi\pi, \pi K$ and $\bar K K$ decays arising from the interference of tree and penguin (strong and electroweak) amplitudes with different strong and CKM phases. The perturbative strong (electroweak) phases develop at order $\alpha_s$ ($\alpha_{em}$) from absorptive parts of one-loop matrix elements of the next-to-leading (leading) logarithm corrected effective Hamiltonian. The BSW model is used to estimate the hadronic matrix elements. Based on this model, we find that the effect of strong phases and penguins is substantial in most channels, drastic in many. However, a measurement of the time dependence parameter $a_{\epsilon+\epsilon'}$ in the $\pi^+\pi^-$ channel is only influenced at the 20\% level by the complication of the penguins. Recent flavor sum rules developed for $B^{0,\pm} \rightarrow \pi\pi, \pi K, K \bar K$ amplitudes are tested in this model. Some are well satisfied, others badly violated, when electroweak penguins are included.


Jatropha curcas L shows tolerance to long periods of drought and low soil fertility however, the amount of radiant energy of the sun, required for the development and production of fruits, is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the amount of sunlight on the development and flowering of Jatropha. The plants were grown at 100%, 90%, 70%, and 50% solar irradiance (SI). The heights and stem perimeters obtained were 95.25% and 28.45% greater for those developed at 30% and 50% SI. Those developed at 100% and 90% SI had 69.63% more branches and 46.85% more leaves. The amount of chlorophyll (SPAD) was higher in plants grown at 100% and 90% SI. For plants grown at 100% and 90% SI, flowering started at weeks 27 and 29, respectively, whereas, in the rest, it started after 44. Only 18.75% of plants with 0% shade did not produce inflorescences. There was an inverse relationship between SI and the height of the plant. The relationship between SI and flowering was inverse as well. In conclusion, SI is a factor that modifies the development of Jatropha and limits its flowering. In the latter sense, is required at least 1,600 μmol m s for proper flowering. © 2018 Friends Science Publishers


In 2012, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators launched a project to expand its falls indicator for use on pediatric, neonatal, and psychiatric units. We discuss challenges encountered, argue that schemes for categorizing falls by cause or supposed preventability are not suitable for large-scale efforts to track and prevent falls, express concern about the growing burden of collecting increasingly granular quality data, and discuss limitations of total and injurious fall rates as quality measures.


This workshop was convened to begin building a foundation of understanding for developing and evaluating proposed measures for the rational management of the blue crab fishery in Chesapeake Bay. Our goal was to generate a summary of knowledge of blue crab stock dynamics. Specifically, we intended to address, and hoped to estimate, the basic parameters of an exploited stock - growth, mortality, natality, migration rates, sex ratios and abundance. In one sense these objectives were simply a means for organizing our discussions. A second objective was to compile at the workshop pertinent data held by the major research institutions on Chesapeake Bay so all participants could see the kinds and extent of existing data. As with many stock assessment problems, tailoring an estimating procedure around known existing data can be more productive than deciding on a procedure and then trying to find the required data in someone else's files.

Authors of papers contributed to the report: B.S. Hester and P.R. Mundy (p. 50); Qisheng Tang (p. 86); L. Eugene Cronin (p. 111); J.R. McConaugha (p. 128); Cluney Stagg and Phil Jones (p. 153).


High resolution spectra of 5 giants, including a horizontal branch star, of the metal-rich globular cluster 47 Tucanae were obtained with the UVES spectrograph at the 8 m VLT UT2-Kueyen telescope. The atmospheric parameters (Teff ,l ogg, (Fe/H), vt) were derived from VIJK photometry and spectroscopic data based on Fe I and Fe II lines. Fe I and Fe II iron abun- dances and respective total errors (Fe I/H) = -0.66 ± 0.12 and (Fe II/H) = -0.69 ± 0.24 are found. Abundances of α (O, Mg, Ca, Si, Ti), odd-Z (Na, Al), s- (Ba, La, Zr), and r-process (Eu) elements were determined by means of spectrum synthesis. The main results are (O/Fe) =+ 0.35 ± 0.11, (Mg/Fe) ≈ (Si/Fe) ≈ (Ti/Fe) =+ 0.23 ± 0.17, (Ca/Fe) = 0.0 ± 0.15, (Ba/Fe) =+ 0.31 ± 0.22 and (Eu/Fe) =+ 0.33 ± 0.10. Overabundances of the α-elements O, Mg, Si and Ti, and of Eu are similar to those seen in halo metal-poor stars, whereas a solar Ca-to-Fe ratio resembles the values found in bulge stars. An overall metallicity Z = 0.006 or (M/H) = -0.45 is thus obtained, as is a mean heliocentric radial velocity v hel = −22.43 ± 1.99 km s −1 .


This paper focuses on two questions: the first refers to feminisation in the judicial and legal professions in Croatia; and the second asks if there is a glass ceiling in relation to the promotion of women to higher positions in the judicial and legal professions in Croatia. The introductory part defines feminisation and the glass ceiling, elaborates on research questions and methodology and provides reasons for the selection of foreign judicial and legal professions serving as a basis for comparison with Croatian professions. The second part analyses feminisation and the glass ceiling in the Croatian judicial profession and gives a comparison of gender representation among Croatian, German and Polish judges. The third part of the paper focuses on feminisation and the glass ceiling among Croatian lawyers and provides a comparison of gender representation among Croatian, American and Polish lawyers.  The conclusion is an evaluation of the answers to the research questions.


The effect of B{sub 2}O{sub 3} addition on the crystallization of amorphous TiO{sub 2}-ZrO{sub 2} mixed oxide was investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA). TiO{sub 2}-ZrO{sub 2} mixed oxide was prepared by co-precipitation method with aqueous ammonia as the precipitation reagent. Boric acid was used as a source of boria, and boria contents varied from 2 to 20 wt%. The results indicate that the addition of small amount of boria ( =}8 wt%) promotes the crystallization process. FT-IR spectroscopy and {sup 11}B MAS NMR results show that tetrahedral borate species predominate at low boria loading, and trigonal borate species increase with increasing boria loading. Thus it is concluded that highly dispersed tetrahedral BO{sub 4} units delay, while a build-up of trigonal BO{sub 3} promote, the crystallization of amorphous TiO{sub 2}-ZrO{sub 2} to form ZrTiO{sub 4} crystals. - Graphical abstract: The addition of small amount of boria ( =}8 wt%) promotes the crystallization process.


The availability of high-resolution remote sensing data has created opportunities to gain new information about urban infrastructure. Here, high resolution ortho-imagery with three bands and maximum likelihood classification of images is used to obtain information about roads and pavement (i.e. transportation related) infrastructure. The cities of Phoenix, Arizona (for the years 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012) and Seattle, Washington (for 2002, 2005, 2009) were analyzed. We discuss the implications and utility of this (and other infrastructure) data for constructing metrics for urban growth and environmental sustainability.


The regeneration of product‐forming activity by periodic nutrient feeding was studied in a continuous immobilized Clostridium acetobutylicum reactor system. Activity levels were increased by feeding ammonia and vitamins during selected intervals of the experiments; these compounds were not otherwise present in the medium. In contrast with experiments utilizing rich, complex media, regeneration with a defined medium resulted in increased rates of product formation far in excess of rates of concomitant cell growth. During one nutrient feeding phase, the increase in the butyric acid production rate was five times that of the cell growth‐rate increase, while the analogous ratio for butanol was 18. A hypothesis explaining the patterns of substrate consumption and product formation during the regeneration and deactivation periods has been developed: decreasing levels of exogenous ammonia induce the high‐affinity ammonia uptake system, causing the adenylate energy charge of the cells to increase; this in turn leads to the repression of glucose carbon flow through the EMP pathway and to the use of the acid‐forming catabolic reactions for more efficient production of ATP. Pulsewise addition of three different vitamins during one regeneration phase yielded interesting results, including a 50 % increase in butyric acid production rate that appeared to be connected with the addition of biotin. Finally, enumeration of the different morphological types of immobilized cells provided the first measurements of population dynamics in an immobilized cell system. Changes in the numbers of each cell type are consistent with the sporulation and germination processes of C. acetobutylicum observed with suspended cells.


To learn more about demographic characteristics, play behaviors, and motivations of massively multiplayer online gamers over the age of 50, researchers administered a questionnaire to 32,261 Wizard101 subscribers. Cross-referencing responses with behavioral data recorded by game servers, researchers found that older players were significantly more likely to be women. Older players played longer and underestimated their playtime, they were less likely to play on console and hand-held systems, and they were less likely to cite social, achievement, and player versus player combat motivations. However, older online gamers were more likely to cite self-growth and learning motivations for game play than those under 50.


The Morpheme Gender Effect: An Evidence for Decomposition Fanny Meunier (firstname.lastname@example.com) Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage Institut des Sciences de l'Homme 14 avenue Berthelot, 69 363 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE Alix Seigneuric (email@example.com) Universite de Bourgogne, UFR Sciences Humaines Pole AAFE Esplanade Erasme, BP 26513, 21065 Dijon Cedex FRANCE Elsa Spinelli (email@example.com) Universite Pierre Mendes France Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition BP 48, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 FRANCE Abstract In three experiments we tested the decomposition for morphologically complex words in French. Subjects were asked to perform a gender decision task on morphologically complex words that were either of the same gender as their stem or not. We found that the gender of morphologically complex words made from a stem with an opposite gender is more slowly retrieved compared to a condition where the gender of the stem matches that of the derived noun. Similar results are observed for words that are pseudo- morphologically complex while no effect is observed for non morphological embedded words. Such results favour a decompositional hypothesis postulating that recognition of words that are morphologically complex or look like it, is achieved through the activation of the stem. Keywords: Lexical access; morphology; grammatical gender. Introduction The purpose of this study is to provide information about the lexical representation of morphologically complex nouns in French by using a gender decision task. In these experiments, the decompositional hypothesis of morphologically complex nouns is tested by exploring the gender assignment of derivationally suffixed French nouns whose stems have a gender opposite to that of the noun. The way morphologically complex words are stored and accessed has been widely studied. Many models have been proposed, which make claims about the processing of complex words and the kind of representation that is accessed. To a large extent, such models are located between two extreme positions: the left-to-right processing associated with a global word representation (Butterworth, 1983; Manelis & Tharp, 1977), and the prelexical decomposition associated with a morpheme-decomposed representation (Taft & Forster, 1975). According to the original formulation of this latter hypothesis, stems are extracted from derived words before the words are identified. In this model derived words do not have their own lexical entry. The lexical access of words belonging to the same morphological family is made via the stem. In more recent formulations of the decomposition model (e.g., Taft, 1994), morphemes are represented as units within a hierarchical activation system and are activated whenever congruent orthographic information is contained within the letter-string. Activation within the morpheme units is then passed on to units representing the whole morphological complex word. In this way, a complex word is not actively decomposed prior to lexical access, yet that word is always accessed via activation of its morphemes. There is obligatory decomposition but passively achieved. Many researchers have proposed some compromise between these two extremes views. Some have suggested decomposition processing and/or representation only for particular complex words such as frequent words (Bybee, 1985; Schreuder & Baayen, 1995) or semantically transparent words (Marslen- Wilson, Tyler, Waksler, & Older, 1994). Others have proposed two competing routes with a race between them (Caramazza, Miceli, Silveri, Laudanna, 1985; Frauenfelder & Schreuder, 1992). Most studies investigating the lexical representation of morphologically complex words used the priming procedure. In line with the decompositional hypothesis these researches have shown, for example, that the prior presentation of a morphological complex word (e.g., undo) facilitates the subsequent processing of its root component (e.g., do). This effect is considered as reflecting repeated accesses to the same lexical representation and therefore has been attributed to the implementation of a procedure of decomposition of the derived word into the morphemic constituents of affix and stem (Marslen-Wilson et al., 1994). However, the priming effect is still an indirect evidence of decomposition. It could be argued that to some extent, morphological decomposition occurs because of the priming


Inter-institutional cooperation at the State level is the result of a series of reforms coined as new public management. Despite being a widely studied issue, inter-institutional cooperation still has a research agenda under development, in which organizational studies play an interesting role. This article pursues a threefold objective: i) place interinstitutional cooperation within organizational studies research interests; ii) explain the context of the genesis of inter-institutional cooperation as part of the debates around the organization of States; iii) contribute to the existing literature by identifying and describing inter-institutional cooperation typical practices through a literature review based on a theoretical development approach. Therefore, our work provides an analytical framework based on collaborative practices and, as such, a contribution to the field of organizational studies with a foundation that offers patterns and would allow the development of quantitative studies. The results show that: i) the aggregation of sectoral actions, ii) mutual consultation, iii) the establishment of units, and iv) the conformation of committees and subcommittees are common practices for inter-institutional cooperation. The discussion of the results develops a reflective reading of the typology as an analytical framework for inquiry and action. To conclude, this paper discusses the enabling factors that grant inter-institutional cooperation mechanisms greater operationality, according to the literature.


Objectives: Currently used prognostic tools for patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection are based on clinical and laboratory parameters measured at a single point in time, usually on admission. We aimed to determine how dynamic changes in clinical and laboratory parameters relate to SARS-CoV-2 prognosis. Design: retrospective, observational cohort study using routinely collected clinical data to model the dynamic change in prognosis of SARS-CoV-2. Setting: a single, large hospital in England. Participants: all patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust, UK from 1st February 2020 until 30th November 2020. Main outcome measures: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission, death and discharge from hospital. Statistical Methods: We split patients into 1st (admissions until 30th June) and 2nd (admissions thereafter) waves. We incorporated all clinical observations, blood tests and other covariates from electronic patient records and follow up until death or 30 days from the point of hospital discharge. We modelled daily risk of admission to ICU or death with a time varying Cox proportional hazards model. Results: 2,964 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 were included. Of 1,374 admitted during the 1st wave, 593 were eligible for ICU escalation, and 466 had near complete ascertainment of all covariates at admission. Our validation sample included 1,590 confirmed cases, of whom 958 were eligible for ICU admission. Our model had good discrimination of daily need for ICU admission or death (C statistic = 0.87 (IQR 0.85-0.90)) and predicted this daily prognosis better than previously published scores (NEWS2, ISCARIC 4C). In validation in the 2nd wave the score overestimated escalation (calibration slope 0.55), whilst retaining a linear relationship and good discrimination (C statistic = 0.88 (95% CI 0.81 -0.95)). Conclusions: A bespoke SARS-CoV-2 escalation risk prediction score can predict need for clinical escalation better than a generic early warning score or a single estimation of risk at admission.


We analyze the expected sensitivity of current and near-future water(ice)-Cherenkov atmospheric neutrino experiments in the context of standard three-flavor neutrinos oscillations. In this first in-depth combined atmospheric neutrino analysis, we analyze the current shared systematic uncertainties arising from the shared flux and neutrino-water interactions. We then implement the systematic uncertainties of each experiment in detail and develop the atmospheric neutrino simulations for Super-Kamiokande (SK), with and without neutron-tagging capabilities (including SuperK-Gd), IceCube-Upgrade, and ORCA detectors. We carefully review the synergies and features of these experiments to examine the potential of a joint analysis of these atmospheric neutrino data in resolving the $\theta_{23}$ octant at 99\% C.L. and determining the neutrino mass ordering above 5$\sigma$ by 2030. Additionally, we assess the capability to constraint $\theta_{13}$ and the CP-violating phase ($\delta_{CP}$) in the leptonic sector independently from reactor and accelerator neutrino data, providing vital information for next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande.


Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of fluoxetine alone and combined with sildenafil in patients complaining of premature ejaculation. Patients and Methods: Ninety-one married potent men, 21–43 years old, with premature ejaculation but without any obvious organic cause were enrolled. Pretreatment evaluation included history, physical examination, and self-administration of the International Index of Erectile Function questionnaire. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: group A patients (n = 48) received 20 mg fluoxetine daily for 4 weeks and then 20 mg as needed 2–3 h before sexual activity for 4 months, and group B patients (n = 43) received group A regimen plus 50 mg sildenafil as needed 1 h before sexual activity for 4 months. Results: Ejaculatory latency time and intercourse satisfaction significantly improved in group B as compared with group A (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Fluoxetine combined with sildenafil seems to provide significantly better ejaculatory latency time and intercourse satisfaction as compared with fluoxetine alone in patients with premature ejaculation.


Abstract. Terrestrial laser scanners are high-accuracy 3D imaging instruments that are capable of measuring deformations with sub-millimetre level accuracy in most close-range applications. Traditionally, deformation monitoring via laser scanning is performed by measuring distinct signalised targets. In this case, the centroid of these targets must be determined with great accuracy for optimum detectability. To achieve this, a least-squares target centroid extraction algorithm suitable for planar checkerboard-type targets is proposed for irregularly organised laser scanner data. These target centroids are then used in a free-station network adjustment for performing deformation analysis with no a priori assumptions about the deformation pattern. To ensure the optimum measurement accuracy, all systematic errors inherent to the instrument at the time of data acquisition needs to be removed. One of the methods for reducing these systematic errors is by performing self-calibration of terrestrial laser scanners. In this paper, this was performed on-site to model the systematic errors of the scanner. It is demonstrated that the accuracy of the recovered translational movements were improved by an order of magnitude from the millimetre level to the sub-millimetre level using this approach. Despite the success of using laser scanners with signalised targets in deformation analysis, the main benefit of active sensors like terrestrial laser scanning systems is their ability to capture 3D information of the entire scene without installing markers. A new markerless deformation analysis technique that utilises intersection points derived from planar-features is proposed and tested in this paper. The extraction and intersection of planes in each point cloud can be performed semi-automatically or automatically. This new method is based on free-stationing and does not require a priori knowledge about stable control points or movement patterns. It can detect and measure both translational and rotational movements of the planes with minimum human interaction. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is studied through simulations and real datasets captured with a phase-based Leica HDS6100 scanner.


We investigate the secrecy rate optimization problem in a wiretap channel with a single-antenna source, a single-antenna eavesdropper, and a multiple-antenna full-duplex (FD) destination. To fully utilize the spatial degrees-of-freedom of multiple antennas, the function of antennas at the destination is not predefined, i.e., each antenna can operate in a transmit or receive mode. We propose a low-complexity near-optimal joint optimization scheme by jointly applying the dynamic antenna mode switching (AMS) and optimal power allocation (OPA) techniques, to maximize the secrecy rate of the FD destination-based jamming (DBJ) system. The proposed joint optimization scheme is valid for two different eavesdropping channel state information (ECSI) availability cases, i.e., instantaneous ECSIs and statistical ECSIs. Specifically, closed-form expressions of OPA factors are first derived, and then the optimal transmit and receive antennas sets at the destination are determined by combining the OPA factor and applying a greedy-search-based AMS approach for both ECSIs availabilities, respectively. Moreover, through complexity analysis, the search complexity of the proposed scheme is proven to be significantly reduced compared with the exhaustive searching method. Simulation results verify the secrecy performance superiority of the proposed scheme over the conventional FD-DBJ method.


Let Hn (F) denote the subspace of symmetric matrices of Mn (F), the full matrix algebra with coefficients in a field F . The subspace Hn (F) c Mn (F) does not have any polynomial identity of degree less than 2n . Let T (Xl Xk) (1)Xa(l)Xa(2) ... Xa(k) aE5k I 1, T2in is an identity of Hn(F) . If the characteristic of F does not divide e(n)! and if n $ 3, then any homogeneous polynomial identity of Hn(F) of degree 2n is a consequence of T2n . The case n = 3 is also dealt with. The proofs are algebraic, but an equivalent formulation of the first result in graph-theoretical terms is given.


Objective: To observe the blood lipid level and its related factors among Chongqing officials. Methods: The serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels obtained in a recent health survey for 5 554 public officials in urban area of Chongqing were analyzed. Results: The prevalence rate of hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and mixed hyperlipidemia was 8.8%, 18.1% and 9.0%, respectively. People with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and combined hyperlipidemia had a significantly higher prevalence rate of high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperuricemia, coronary heart diseases and fatty liver compared to people in blood lipid normal groups (P0.05). Conclusion: Public officials in urban areas of Chongqing suffer a higher prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and mixed hyperlipidemia. The blood lipid levels are intimately related with diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.


Developed our water system,water is also more serious,most of the water system is more or less suffered varying degrees of damage.Although the state has repeated demands,banned a variety of surface and groundwater pollution behavior,but results are not satisfactory pollution control,water pollution control facilities,supervision and management of the operation there was some question,therefore,would like to eradicate from the treatment of water pollution start the normal operation of sewage facilities and improve the pollution effect.


Data on reported cancer mortality in the Gyeongsangbuk- do province from 1991 to 1998 were collected and analyzed using the existing mortality reporting system as well as the public health network to furnish accurate data on reported cancer death and to collect data to establish a high quality district health plan. The overall crude death rate in Gyeongsangbuk province in 1991 was 74.56 deaths per 100,000-person but this rate increased to 79.22 in 1998. Among the deaths, the overall death rate of cancer was 16.7% in 1991, which increased to 19.3% in 1998; specifically the death rate of men increased from 19.4% in 1991 to 22.3% in 1998 while that of women increased from 12.4% in 1991 to 15.5% in 1998, showing a more increase among women. The types of cancer and associated death rates in 1991 were gastric cancer(41.5%), followed by liver cancer (28.8%), and lung and bronchogenic carcinoma(8.7%) and in 1998, gastric cancer (24.7%), followed by liver cancer(22.7%), lung and bronchogenic carcinoma(19.3%), showing the same order. For men and women, gastric cancer(40.2% and 44.7%, respectively) was the most common cancer death, followed by liver cancer(33.7% and 16.7%, respectively), and lung and bronchogenic carcinoma(10.2% and 5.0%, respectively) in 1991. However, in 1998, gastric cancer(27.8%) was still the most common type among both men and women, followed by liver cancer (18.5%) and lung and bronchogenic carcinoma(12.7%), showing the most decrease in gastric cancer but most increase in lung and bronchogenic carcinoma. The age- adjusted mortality rates by gastric cancer, hepatoma, laryngeal carcinoma were decreased in both male and female, and also uterine cancer was decreased in female. The age- adjusted mortality rates by lung and bronchogenic carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, rectal cancer were increased in both male and female, and also breast cancer was increased in female. The calculated overall age-adjusted death rate based on the 1995 population was 84.25 in 1991, which decreased to 77.67 in 1998. Male death rate decreased significantly from 119.81 in 1991 to 101.82 in 1998 while the female death rate increased from 48.64 in 1991 to 53.80 in 1998. A census of cancer death rate using accurate death records is important for the establishment of proper and high-quality district health and medical plan and policy. The effort to improve the accuracy of death reports using the health facility network, as had been attempted by this study, can be continued. Furthermore, there must be a way for the Health and Welfare Department to use the death reports to improve the present reporting system. Lastly, additional studies need to be conducted to investigate how much the accuracy was improved by the supplemented death reports in this study.


The reactive fragment [Tp′Rh(PMe3)], generated from the thermal precursor Tp′Rh(PMe3)(Me)H, is found to cleave the C–Cl bonds of chlorohydrocarbons under mild conditions. Reaction with chloromethane gives clean formation of an initial C–H activation product, which rearranges to form the C–Cl activation product at 30 °C. Reaction with dichloromethane or benzyl chloride gives a mixture of C–Cl activation products as well as products from chlorination. Reaction with chlorocyclohexane gives a mixture of intermediates from C–H activation, which react further upon heating to give a C–Cl cleavage product as well as the β-chloride elimination product Tp′Rh(PMe3)(Cl)H plus cyclohexene. Complete conversion from a C–H activation product to a C–Cl activation product was observed in the reaction with 1,2-dichloroethylene, where β-elimination is circumvented. Activation of 1-chlorobutane, 1,2-dichloroethane, or 1,4-dichlorobutane gives a mixture of C–Cl activation products as well as Tp′Rh(PMe3)(Cl)H plus olefin. Simil...


Shanxi Province is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Fenhe, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, Shanxi's mother river, meets the Yellow River in Southern Shanxi. Southern Shanxi, in the Fenhe floors, becomes the core of ancient culture of Shanxi, Southern Shanxi can do very well in the development of cultural tourism. This paper will discuss the feasibility of the development of cultural tourism, the establishment of tourism brand, the status quo and problems, and development strategies and so forth.


The pattern of growth of SRD kids from an average of 153 days up to approximately 461 days of age was studied. Weights at the ages of 153 (W 5), 181 (W 5), 209 (W 7), 237 (W 8), 265 (W9), 293 (W 10), 321 (VI 1 ), 349 (W 12), 461 (W 15) days and calculated weight gains (G) between every weight interval G 5 - ( W5 - Weaning weight) through G 12 - (W1 2 - W 1 ) were evaluated. Data were initially recorded on 54 kids and diminished thereafter at every interval due to kid mortaiity. The least squares analysis of vaiiance showed a significant season of birth effect (P 0.05) with the exception of type of birth for G 12 (P < 0.025). The covariables of mother's weight at parturition and exact age of kids at the time of weighing were not atways significant. However, the birth weight covariable was significant for W 7, W8, W1o, ( P < 0.005), W g (P < 0.01), W6,W11 and G 12 (P<0.025).


Excerpt To the editor: Although penicillin is one of the commoner causes of anaphylactic reactions, fatal reactions to oral penicillin are rare, with only a few reports in the medical literature (1...


cal move that assimilates a broad and complex range of work to its sexiest moments. (How many times are we to encounter discussions of New Atalantis that center upon the Chariot episode, as if Manley's teeming assault upon Whiggery and its corruptions is reducible to its seduction scenes?) Such "distinctively female traditions" have their uses, to be sure. They confer legitimacy on writing that has been little regarded; organize a mass of still largely uncharted authors, texts, literary relationships, and lines of influence; and provide materials for narratives of resistance. But to the extent that they mask historical complexity, feminist invented traditions should be subjected to the same scrutiny we bring to androcentric ones. Invented traditions figure importantly in the works under consideration here: Carol Bar ash' s English Women's Poetry, 1649-1 714 : Politics , Community , and Linguistic Authority (1996), Toni Bowers's The Politics of Motherhood : British Writing and Culture 1680-1760 (1996), and Paula McDowell's The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the


1. In the comparatively humid climate, of the west of Scotland, the water content of oat grain, threshed soon after harvest, amounting, as a rule to between 16 and 18 %, fell, during storage, to between 12·0 and 14·5 %. Grain grown in the drier climate of the south of England and Wales contained on an average 12·2 % compared with 14·4 %. The weight of stored grain varied to a certain extent according to the hygrometric condition of the atmosphere. The maximum variation amounted to between 4 and 5 % of the initial weight of the grain. In addition to the usual analytical data, it was found to be of great advantage, in connection with each sample of grain examined to keep a record of, date of threshing and date of analysis, proportion of whole grain, weed seeds, husk, etc., average weight of 1000 grains, height above sea-level, type of soil, length of growing period, rainfall, previous cropping and manuring, condition of the crop. 2. Between 11 and 12 % of the fatty substances in the oat kernel is present in the germ (embryo), the remainder is principally in the aleurone layer. The amount of extractable substances varied according to the solvent employed, ether and petroleum ether yielded the smallest and alcohol the largest extract. From 88 to 96 % of the total, was dissolved out by different solvents, in a five hour extraction. With repeated five hour extractions, ether still gave a small residue in the sixth extract. All the extracts contained finely divided solid matter in suspension, which could be made to separate out as a yellow residue and it amounted to between 0·25 and 6 % of the ether extract. The extracts were found to be slightly higher from "air dry" meal and ordinary ether compared with "dry" meal and dry ether. Free fatty acids were almost absent in the oil from freshly ground kernel, but afterwards they rapidly increased and in 24 days, calculated as oleic acid, they formed over 55 % of the extract. Drying the grain such as is done in the manufacture of oatmeal, had the effect of slowing down the rate of hydrolysis of the fat, but the amount of acid finally liberated was the same.


OBJECTIVE To investigate the preventive role of Hippophae rhamnoides L.Xuezhikang at different concentrations on hyperlipidemia and fatty liver in rats. METHODS Fifty rats(25 male rats and 25 female rats) were divided into 5 groups:the rats in normal(N) group were administered with ordinary diet. The rats in model(M) group were fed with high cholesterol and lipid diet for inducing Hyperlipidemia and fatty livers. The rats in Hippophae rhamnoides L. Xuezhikang group were fed with high cholesterol and lipid diet, and treated with Hippophae rhamnoides L. Xuezhikang at the different concentrations of 0.375,1.5 and 2.25 g·kg-1 weight, respectively. The contents of TC, TG, HDL-C, MDA, GPT and GOT in the rats serum were measured after 3 months.RESULTS Compared with the rats in model group, the contents of TC, TG, MDA, GPT and GOT in the rats serum in Hippophae rhamnoides L. Xuezhikang groups were significantly decreased (P0.01) while the level of HDL-C was enhanced( P0.01) , the liver weight and liver index were decreased. The effects were related to the dosages. Meanwhile, using the freezing slicing method, the pathological changes were observed to be improved to some extent with contrast to the model group. CONCLUSION Evidently Hippophae rhamnoides L. Xuezhikang plays an important role in reducing blood lipids and alleviating cholesterol accumulation in animal liver. In addition, it has the biological functions of protecting the liver as well as preventing fatty liver induced by high lipid diet.


This work provides the design engineer with a direct and simple method for the optimal economic design of standard prestressed I-girders. The bridge considered is single span, with a cast-in-place reinforced concrete deck that acts compositely with the girders under super imposed dead load and live load. A computer program has been developed, based on a linear programming model, to construct two charts, which can then be used for the preliminary design of standard pretensioned I-girder sections. The first chart is used to obtain the most economic girder type and its corresponding spacing. The other chart is used to obtain the required prestressing force. The linear programming model is applied to perform a sensitivity study to evaluate the effect of changing the design variables on the value of the maximum girder span and the necessary prestressing force.


NOVEL DATA ON LAMPROPHYRES FROM THE REGION OF IWANISKA IN THE ŚWIĘTY KRZYŻ MOUNTAINS In the southeastern part of the Hercynian massif of the Świety Krzyz Mountains, lamprophyres appear in the area between Daleszyce and Klimontow. They accompany diabases and, in relation to them, occupy a peripheral position. Natural lamprophyre outcrops, surrounded by Lower Cambrian rocks, have been recorded by J. Czarnocki and J. Samsonowicz during their cartographical field work in the period of 1920-1928. Subsequently, owing to geophysical investigation carried out during 1937-1939, the extent of occurrence of the lamprophyres has been considerably increased. In artificial outcrops (test-pits) the presence of lamprophyres has been established in many new locations, at a relatively shallow depth below the surface. – The present paper discusses the lamprophyres occurring in the region of Iwaniska.


Objective To study the nursing intervention of effect in patients with hypertension.Methods 200 cases of patients with hypertension were randomly divided into 100 cases in intervention group and 100 cases in the control group.The nursing interventions and treatment compliance were observed before and after interventions in patients with hypertension.Results The group of treatment compliance were better than the control group(P0.05);intervention group 24h,during the day,night,blood pressure load were low-er than the control group(P0.05).Conclusion Community care intervention to control hypertension,improve the quality of life is ef-fective in patients with hypertension.


Paranasal sinus mucocele is slowly expanding cystic lesions leading to sinus expansion, bony erosion and extension into the orbit, cranial cavity or into subcutaneous tissue. Mucoceles most commonly involve the frontal and ethmoidal sinuses. We describe a frontal mucocele presenting with forehead subcutaneous cystic mass which was successfully managed by endoscopic sinus surgery and by external approach (frontal trephination).


The electronic structure of Eu, Gd, and Tb layers deposited on tungsten (110) and (211) surfaces was investigated by electron-energy-loss spectroscopy in the energy range from 20 to 50 eV. Losses previously assigned to plasmon excitation are shown to be due to multiple excitations


The decarbonisation of the electricity industry results in fundamental changes in the generation mix and this brings many technology changes which have a different effect on the system. The system inertia is one of the fundamental characteristics of a power system which is mostly dependent on the type and volume of generation on the system. This article describes the system inertia in Great Britain and how it is affected by the change of generation mix in the coming years. This is followed by the consequences of the reduction of system inertia; notably the impact on system frequency and mitigation measures which are needed to ensure the operability of the system when the system inertia is lower.


As more renewable energy sources (solar, wind, hydro, etc.) are being incorporated into the smart grid, the problem of balancing generation and load demand gets more attention in the field of power system optimal economic operation. As a solution, grid-level energy storage systems (ESSs) have been used to increase the efficiency of the power supply by smoothing load fluctuations. In this paper, monotone adaptive dynamic programming (MADP) is investigated for the optimal operation of ESSs. MADP is capable of solving optimal policies for time-dependent and finite-horizon energy storage problems. Six types of real-world ESSs, with different storage capacities, charging/discharging rates, and efficiencies are compared under energy storage optimal benchmark problems. Simulation results discuss the impact of ESS parameters on the total revenue. The robust performance of the algorithm is also validated for both deterministic and stochastic energy storage benchmark problems.


In low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS), hydrogen and carbon monoxide convert into hydrocarbons and water on cobalt based catalysts. Such catalysts lead predominantly to long-chained paraffinic waxes, which are hydrocracked downstream into valuable liquid fuels. However, in some cases, CO2 stemming from natural gas, partial oxidation or steam reforming and biomass gasification is a significant component in the syngas fed to the FT plants. Hence, the question arises if CO2 behaves as an active carbon source for Fischer-Tropsch products or if it acts only as diluting gas during the process. For exothermic Fischer-Tropsch reaction, multi tubular fixed bed reactors are favored in industrial application. However, such reactors tend to exhibit a significant pressure drop. Hence, catalyst particles between 1 and 5 mm are to be chosen. This leads inevitably to pore diffusion effects along the particle's pores and, thus, to a gradient in the syngas ratio (H2/CO/CO2) inside the catalyst particle; the gradient affects the catalyst performance in terms of reaction rate and selectivity. For CO adsorbs more strongly at the active cobalt species, CO2 only adsorbs and converts in regions inside the catalyst particle where CO not available anymore due to total conversion. Therefore, we analyzed the reaction-diffusion performance of CO2-rich syngas in a single cobalt particle experimentally and verified our results by a mathematical single particle model, bringing in line the theoretical and experimental work. The characterization of the impact of transport pores on catalyst efficiency and productivity took place under intrinsic conditions as well as real diffusion affected conditions in a fixed bed reactor. The gradient of the synthesis gas ratio (H2/CO/CO2) inside a pellet was achieved by partial pressure variation at temperatures between 210 °C and 230 °C and total pressure of 3.0 MPa. With increasing surplus hydrogen, the methane selectivity rises if the CO concentration is lowered in the synthesis gas. At H2/CO-ratios > 10, CO2 also converts, but solely into methane. In order to characterize the effect of pore diffusion on catalyst efficiency, experiments with intact particles were conducted (H2/CO/CO2 = 2/1/1, T = 190240 °C, ptotal = 3.0 MPa). As long as CO is present in the center of the particle, CO2 behaves like an inert component. However, with increasing temperature the CO concentration gradient increases towards the center and regions free of CO form inside the particle. Here, CO2 is converted into mainly CH4 (selectivity of methane > 95 %C) resulting in a higher selectivity of CH4 compared to the results obtained with CO2-free syngas. The mathematical model derived is in very good agreement with the data using kinetic parameters from intrinsic experiments and explores CO-free regions where CO2 is converted and contributes to the product stream.


Objective
To study the clinical data of patients treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) in PICU, and to explore the application time and range of NCPAP in critically ill children.

Methods
A prospective study was conducted to collect clinical data of 192 severe patients admitted to PICU from January 2016 to June 2017 who had shortness of breath after giving oxygen through nasal catheter for 1 hour and then switched to NCPAP.According to using NCPAP oxygen partial pressure, children were divided into three groups: group A[ shortness of breath (PaO2≥70 mmHg, 1 mmHg=0.133 kPa) ], group B[shortness of breath combined, reduced oxygen partial pressure(50mmHg<PaO2<70 mmHg)], and group C[shortness of breath combined respiratory failure(PaO2≤50 mmHg)]. The indicators of three groups of children at different time points of NCPAP were compared.

Results
Among 192 children, 161 (83.85%) had respiratory diseases, 14 (7.29%) had severe hand-foot-mouth disease, 10 (5.21%) had severe sepsis, and 7 (3.65%) had other multiple organ disorders.PaO2/FiO2 gradually increased after using NCPAP for 1 hour and 4 hours, and the improvement of oxygenation in group A was most obvious, there was significant difference among the three groups (P<0.05). There were significant differences in heart rate, shortness of breath after using NCPAP for 1 hour and 4 hours among the three groups (P<0.05). There were 2 cases of ventilation failure in group A (failure rate 3.57%), 9 cases (11.11%) of ventilation failure in group C, 30 cases (54.55%) of ventilation failure in group C, and there was significant difference in the failure rate of noninvasive ventilation among the three groups (χ2=51.684, P<0.001). There were significant differences in the discharge rate among the three groups (P<0.05).

Conclusion
NCPAP has obvious effect on the critically ill children with conventional oxygen remaining respiratory abnormalities; Children with respiratory failure under nasal catheter are prone to suffer from the failure of noninvasive assisted ventilation when using NCPAP assisted ventilation, closely monitor of the disease condition is needed.

Key words:
Critically illness; Children; Nasal continuous positive airway pressure; Timing of application


The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affect the value of pig space unit in pig fattening. The value of pig space unit is estimated with a stochastic dynamic programming algorithm. The model maximises the value of pig space unit by using four decision variables. The input-output ratios are endogenous and the option to suspend production temporarily is taken into account in the model. The results suggests that the smooth functioning of markets in Finland can be promoted by ensuring that price changes are transmitted smoothly between input and output markets, and that producers are compensated for giving up the option to suspend production temporarily in the event if unfavourable market situation. Instead of fixing only the price of output, the contract should aim at reducing the risk associated with gross margin.


I first encountered Harold Livesay when we both entered the graduate program in history at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 1966. Though we were always mindful that we had come from the provinces and not from the Ivy League, our smoothed paths to Baltimore nevertheless came through the old boy network, so much a part of that privileged world. We were dispatched to Hopkins, and specifically to Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., bearing the imprimatur of our respective undergraduate mentors. In Harold's case that was Stephen Salsbury of the University of Delaware, and in mine, Louis Galambos, then at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. By chance we were both assigned rooms in Apartment 3K at 3339 N. Charles Street, overlooking the main entrance to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins. The recently renovated building was one of many nearby properties gobbled up by Hopkins in the manner of rich and expansive universities. We imagined that our particular apartment had previously been occupied by an aged coupon-clipper and a maid, before Hopkins bought what had been the Cambridge Arms and remade it into Wolman Hall. The once capacious apartment now housed five novice history graduate students, each paying rent of $60 a month. A slight whiff of glamour still attached to the premises, because in the mid-1930s F. Scott Fitzgerald had been in residence upstairs when he was writing The Crack-Up. Harold and I met there, and in Chandler's seminar. The history department at Hopkins in the 1960s still operated very much in the research-dominated "German" university manner championed in the 1870s by Daniel Coit Gilman, the founding president of Johns Hopkins. It was a prestigious program. Renowned economic historian Frederick C. Lane had just retired after a long and distinguished career in Baltimore. David Herbert Donald had not long before replaced the legendary historian of the South, C. Vann Woodward, whose photo loomed down on the history seminar room in Gilman Hall.


new or striking injunction; but in an age when men tremble in the face of imaginary terrors, and generals speak with assurance on matters concerning which they have no special competence, it is good to have ancient truths oft reiterated. It is doubly significant when these truths are enunciated by a distinguished scientist with long service as head of the Nation's most important wartime scientific agency. Mr. Bush performs another useful service in making clear to the interested citizen the relation of science to war and the nature of the new weapons; and he does this in a calm and reasoned way that should do much to alleviate the near-hysteria that


Abstract Respirable particulate control is a major concern in the underground mining environment. The Elliot Lake Mining Research Laboratory recognized a need for and contracted the development of a real-time particle counter to further their dust control studies. Resulting from the contract, extensive modifications to the commercially available HIAC/ROYCO model 4102 'clean-room' aerosol counter, have customized the unit for use in underground environments. The particle counter uses near forward light scattering to count particles into six size ranges, five of which start in the respirable range. Applications of the counter include: 1) characterizing dust from different mining operations; 2) evaluating the efficiency of dust removal/suppression methods; 3) determining dust transportation/sedimentation characteristics of mine ventilation systems; and 4) quantifying size dependent characteristics of other dust/particulate measurement methods. The aerosol counter has the following specifications: size range ...


The relativistic dynamics of an electron submitted to the three-dimensional field of a focused, ultrahigh-intensity laser pulse are studied numerically. The diffracting field in vacuum is modeled by the paraxial propagator and exactly satisfies the Lorentz gauge condition everywhere. In rectangular coordinates, the electromagnetic field is Fourier transformed into transverse and longitudinal wave packets, and diffraction is described through the different phase shifts accumulated by the various Fourier components, as constrained by the dispersion relation. In cylindrical geometry, the radial dependence of the focusing wave is described as a continuous spectrum of Bessel functions and can be obtained by using Hankel's integral theorem. To define the boundary conditions for this problem, the beam profile is matched to a Gaussian-Hermite distribution at focus, where the wave front is planar. Plane-wave dynamics are verified for large f numbers, including canonical momentum invariance, while high-energy scattering is predicted for smaller values of f at relativistic laser intensities.


At NIPS 96 we i n troduced the Modiied Riccati Rule MRR, a Heb-bian like learning algorithm that uses temporal correlations between pre-and postsynaptic spike to determine changes in synaptic connectivity 1. Recent p h ysiological experiments in young rat neocortex indicate that the relative timing of single excitatory postsynaptic potentials EPSP and postsynaptic action potential AP indeed innuence the synaptic ef-cacy 2;3. Since the backpropagating AP is shared information among all synapses, the synaptic changes could evolve in a coordinated way. One coordinated behaviour, which in the MRR is achieved this way, i s w eight v ector normalization. We i n troduce a CMOS implementation of the MRR and demonstrate its normalizing property. 1 The MRR in analog VLSI We h a v e fabricated an analog VLSI aVLSI chip, using a 2m CMOS process, to simulate the MRR in analog hardware. Figure 1 shows a repeatedly used component of the circuit. The so called trigger circuit produces digital pulses of adjustable width given a rising ank as input. Figure 2 describes the soma and gure 3 one learning synapse of which our silicon neuron has three. Also part of the neuron but not shown is an excitatory and an inhibitory non learning synapse with adjustable weight. 2 Normalization By normalization, we mean that the length of the weight v ector is kept constant. This is one mechanism that prevents the synaptic weights growing innnitly. Such growth is a constant danger in more basic Hebbian learning rules, especially in recurrent networks. On the other hand normalization of the weight vector also prevents the case that all synapses of one neuron become ineeective. In many learning rules this normalization is performed as an


In this paper, we use a tight binding Hamiltonian with spin orbit coupling to study the real and complex band structures of relaxed and strained GaAs. A simple d orbital on-site energy shift coupled with appropriate scaling of the off-diagonal terms is found to correctly reproduce the band-edge shifts with strain. Four different ⟨100⟩ strain combinations, namely, uniaxial compressive, uniaxial tensile, biaxial compressive, and biaxial tensile strain are studied, revealing rich valence band structure and strong relative orientation dependent tunneling. It is found that complex bands are unable to provide unambiguous tunneling paths away from the Brillouin zone center. Tunneling current density distribution over the Brillouin zone is computed using non-equilibrium Green's function approach elucidating a physical picture of band to band tunneling.


The surface structure of the eggs of Baylisascaris procyonis, B. transfuga, and Parascaris equorum was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy, and found to be almost identical. By light microscopy, the egg shells of these species appear to be of three layers, and the surface is finely granulated or particulate. By scanning EM, the surface of these eggs is irregularly granular; by higher magnification, the many granules are part of a fine three-dimensiona l reticular framework or lattice of fibrils. There is no evidence of openings or sutures in these eggs, and the eggs are not mammillate or pitted as described by others. A fine reticular substructur e is also seen in the surface of Toxocara canis eggs by high-magnification SEM, but not in Ascaris situm eggs. The operculumlike region described at one pole of A. sunm eggs is confirmed. The surface morphology of nematode eggs is a useful characteristi c for identification as well as for assessin g taxonomi c relationships (Hartwich, 1962). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been used successfull y in studying and comparing the fine-structural morphology of various nematode eggs (Ishii, 1972; Ishii and Habe, 1973; Specian et al., 1973; Ubelaker and Allison, 1975; Barus et al., 1979; Wharton, 1979). Baylisascaris procyonis and B. columnaris, the common ascarids of raccoons and skunks, respectively, have surfaced as important causes of visceral larva migrans and fatal cerebrospina l nematodiasi s in animal s (see Kazacos et al., 1981, and Reed et al., 1981, for references) . Because both species also posses marked zoonotic potential (Kazacos, 1981; Kazacos et al., 1981), it is important to recognize properl y Baylisascaris eggs from feces or soil. Few descriptions of Baylisascaris eggs exist; most are based on light microscopi c observations , and are inconsistent and oftentimes contradictor y (Goodey and Cameron, 1923; McClure, 1933; Mclntosh, 1939; Stefariski and Zarnowski , 1951; Sprent , 1953, 1968, 1970; Okoshi et al., 1962; Kikuchi et al., 1979; Uni and Takada, 1981). By light microscopy, the eggs of Baylisascaris spp. resembl e those of Parascaris equorum, although lighter in color (pers. obs.). In this paper we report on the surface structure of Baylisascaris procyonis, B. transfuga, and Parascaris equorum eggs, as determined by light and scanning electron microscopy. Comparisons are made to the eggs of Toxocara canis and Ascaris sunm, and new information is presente d on the fine structure of these eggs. Material s and Methods Adult female Baylisascaris procyonis were collected from the intestines of raccoons live-trapped in West Lafayette, Indiana. Eggs were removed from the terminal uteri of the worms and fixed in cold 3% glutaraldehyde in phosphat e buffer (pH 7.4). Eggs of B. transfuga were collected from formalin-fixed worms


Opioid addiction has become a global epidemic and a national health crisis in recent years, with the number of opioid overdose fatalities steadily increasing since the 1990s. In contrast to the dynamics of a typical illicit drug or disease epidemic, opioid addiction has its roots in legal, prescription medication a fact which greatly increases the exposed population and provides additional drug accessibility for addicts. In this paper, we present an epidemic model for opioid prescription, addiction, and treatment. Through mathematical analysis of our model, we show that no addiction-free equilibrium exists without stringent control over how opioids are administered and prescribed, effectively transforming the dynamics of the opioid crisis into those of a classic, illicit drug epidemic. Numerical sensitivity analysis suggests that relatively low states of endemic addiction can also be obtained by focusing primarily on medical prevention, followed by aggressive treatment of remaining cases even when the probability of relapse remains high. Further empirical study focused on understanding the rate of illicit drug dependence verses overdose risk, along with the current and changing rates of opioid prescription and treatment, would shed significant light on optimal control efforts and feasible outcomes for this epidemic and drug epidemics in general. N.A. Battista Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com L.B. Pearcy Dept. of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3250, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599 E-mail: email@example.com W.C. Strickland Dept. of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1403 Circle Drive, Knoxville TN, 37996 E-mail: email@example.com ar X iv :1 71 1. 03 65 8v 1 [ qbi o. PE ] 1 0 N ov 2 01 7 2 Nicholas A. Battista et al.


Many carbon materials have been examined for the negative-electrode matrices of rocking-chair-type lithium (Li) ion batteries. Electrochemical lithium intercalation into graphite has been studied in ethylene carbonate (EC) based electrolytes using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance techniques. The graphite electrode after cathodic polarization in EC mixed with propylene carbonate (PC). Changes in the resonance frequency of the graphite-coated quartz crystal proved that the cathodic intercalation of lithium into graphite is accompanied by the electrochemical decomposition of the electrolyte. The mass change per quantity of electricity in the potential range of 0.0 to 0.2 V vs. Li/Li{sup +} was higher in EC + DMC than in EC + PC.


The goal of this paper is to examine sex differences in the spatial cognition, and to suggest a displaying method in an on-board display for women. We investigated frequency of cognitive map items used by women. We found that women tend to use landmarks frequently.


A system (10) of the integrated sonar mapping comprising: a transducer (12) of sonar for emitting a sonar signal through a body of water and for receiving return signals sonar reflected by objects in the body of water; a controller (16) in communication with the transducer (12) of sonar processing the return signals to generate echo data representative wave signals returning sonar; a microphone in communication with the controller for providing audio data to the controller (16); a storage medium that can be accessed controller (16) for storing and retrieving the echo data and audio data provided by the microphone, wherein the controller (16) correlates the audio data from the microphone data reflected waves, and stores the audio data and echo data correlated in the storage medium; and a speaker (24) responsive to the controller (16) for audibly reproducing the audio data.


[Objective] The study aimed to analyze the agricultural comprehensive productivity of Anhui Province so as to enhance its economic level.[Method] The statistical data of total countryside population,total agricultural production value and grain area etc.in main agricultural provinces in China were compared and the status and problems of agricultural comprehensive productivity of Anhui Province were explained.Finally,the solution was suggested.[Result] The agricultural population accounted for 64.50 % of total population in Anhui Province,the proportion was bigger,the per-capita production value was far lower than national average and the peasants had output increase without income increase.There were problems such as low output efficiency in main grain production area,decreasing farmland area,vulnerable agricultural base,poor capacity for resisting natural disaster and slow progress of agricultural technology extension.From the main problems and basic contraventions met in agricultural production and economic development,the relationship between safety of agricultural production,income increase of peasants and economic development should be considered completely so as to gradually establish and form the good circulation mechanism of self-accumulation and self-development.[Conclusion] It was an urgent task to enhance agricultural comprehensive productivity for the economic development of Anhui Province.


Kusongmuxieke mountain front fault is one of important border faults of the north fringe of rejuvenated orogenic belt in west segment of north Tianshan,it is found and determined in our research that it is an active fault.The fault can be divided into three segments.The east segment mainly consists of four en echelon faults with length of 9~13 km,and still moves intensively in Later Pleistocene and Holocene Epoch.Since Later Pleistocene,vertical slippage of single fault has been 3~4 m,vertical active rate is 0.23~0.33 mm/a,and vertical slippage of single fault is 0.5~0.8 m since Holocene Epoch.New movement of the middle segment dislocates different geomorphologic units which formed from Middle Pleistocene to Holocene Epoch,forms multilevel fault escarpments and a 8~10 km long earthquake deformation belt.Since Later Pleistocene the vertical active rate is 0.5 mm/a.The west segment has no movement since Later Pleistocene.


The U(N) lattice gauge theory identifies N gauge-invariant parameters in the limit N..-->..infinity. These parameters describe the phase transition from the strong-coupling region to the weak-coupling region. A strong-coupling-expansion method is used to calculate the effective potential of the theory in terms of these parameters. A single-placquet model and a second-order expansion for a D-dimensional gauge theory are used to test the effectiveness of the method.


In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of our system, which provides an engaging game-based pre-prosthesis training environment for upper limb transradial amputees. We believe that patients who train using such a training tool will demonstrate significantly higher improvement in functional performance tests using a myoelectric prosthesis than when conventional pre-prosthesis training protocols are used. We re-designed two simple games to be playable using three muscle contractions which are appropriate to pre-prosthesis exercises and are detected by an EMG-based arm sleeve. Through user studies conducted with 16 non-amputee subjects, we show that the proposed games are enjoyable, fun to play, sustains motivation to continue playing and also helps in improving muscular control. Using an HMM trained on EMG data collected from the game play sessions of each user, we are able to detect if the subject felt fatigued, while continuously contracting the muscles to play the game, in 93% of the cases and with a latency of only ±15 seconds. We are also able to understand the subject's quality of muscle isolation during the game play.


A copper interdigitated electrode was patterned on a piece of printed circuit board. A layer of CNRG-CS composite prepared using graphitic carbon nitride, reduced graphene oxide and chitosan was immobilized on Cu interdigitated electrode as semiconductive channel. Then, the prepared CNRG-CS modified Cu interdigitated electrode was positioned into a home-made chamber to assemble an electrolyte-gated field effect transistor (EGFET)-based sensor for the non-enzymatic detection of H2O2. Also, glucose oxidase (GOx) was immobilized on CNRG-CS modified Cu interdigitated electrode to prepare CNRG-CS/GOx modified Cu interdigitated electrode and to assemble an EGFET-based biosensor for the enzymatic detection of glucose. Two linear dynamic ranges of 0.16-8.0 μM and 8.0-160 μM were obtained for H2O2 detection. Also, two linear dynamic ranges of 0.15-3.5 μM and 3.5-80 μM were obtained for glucose detection. The detection limits (S/N=3) for H2O2 and glucose were 0.12 and 0.14 μM, respectively. The relative standard deviations for repetitive measurements (n=3) of H2O2 (3.0 μM) and glucose (3.0 μM) were 1.8 and 2.5%, respectively. The fabrication reproducibility for five EGFET-based sensors and biosensors prepared and used in different days were 7.4 and 8.2%, respectively.


Proposes a new technique of distributed telecommunication networks research. It is based on penetration of parameters, determined analytically, into simulated parameters and vice versa. Introduction of this principle has made analytical and simulation methods widely usable. The results obtained allow one to: consider the influence of equipment unreliability on transmission capacity; simulate the control of packet routing, ensuring the flat loading of outbound channels; and create algorithms of routing method information support.


The authors acknowledge the assistance of M. A.
Noack with the DTA analysis and S . B. Luethje, and S .
R. Arrasmith with the powder processing and metallography.
This m r k was performed a t h e s Laboratory
operated f o r the U.S. Dept. Energy by Iowa State Univ.
under contract no. W-7405-ENG-82, supported by the
Office of Basic Energy Science, Division of Materials
Science .


In this paper, a new approach to LA-semigroup theory is proposed by obtaining significant characterizations of regular, intra-regular, completely regular, weakly regular and quasi-regular LA-semigroups via soft intersection left (right, two-sided) ideals, (generalized) bi-ideals, interior ideals, quasi-ideals of LA-semigroups.


All video will eventually become fully digital - there seems to be no way around it. Consequently, digital video databases will become more and more pervasive and finding video in large digital video databases will become a problem just like it is a problem today to find video in analog video databases. The digital form of the video, however, opens up tremendous possibilities. Just like it is possible today to retrieve text documents from large text document databases by querying document content represented by indices, it will become possible to index digital video databases based (semi-)automatically derived indices. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic video annotation - associating semantic meaning with video segments to aid in content-based video retrieval. We present a novel framework of structural video analysis which focuses on the processing of low-level visual data cues to obtain high-level (structural and semantic) video interpretations. Additionally, we propose a flexible framework for video query formulation to aid rapid retrieval of video. This framework is meant to accommodate the depth-first searcher - i.e., the power user, the breath-first searcher, and the casual browser.


The adsorption characteristic of zeolite was combined in a composite with the magnetic properties of iron oxide to produce magnetic adsorbent material. Magnetite nanoparticles in suspension were synthesized by precipitating Fe ions in a basic solution. The zeolite was synthesized by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of coal fly ash. The zeolite-iron oxide magnetic nanocomposite was prepared by mixing zeolite from coal fly ash with magnetite nanoparticles in suspension. The magnetic nanocomposite was used for the removal of U(VI) from aqueous solutions by a batch technique. The effects of contact time and initial concentration on the removal process were evaluated. The kinetic experimental data were analyzed using three kinetic equations including pseudo-first order equation, pseudo-second order equation and intraparticle diffusion model. The experimental data fit the second-order kinetic model. The Freundlich and the Langmuir models have been applied and the results indicated that the Langmuir provided the best correlation of experimental data. Copyright © 2012 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. All rights


A compact planar slotted multiband antenna for WLAN and WiMAX applications is presented in this research. The antenna consists of a trapezoidal shaped slot as the radiating patch, and rectangular and U-shaped slots as the ground plane. These slots changes the surface current distributions of the antenna, resulting in the increase in current path length, thereby making the antenna operate at multiband. The antenna has an electrical dimension of 0.21 λ<inf>0</inf> × 0.23 λ<inf>0</inf>×0.01λ<inf>0</inf> at a lower frequency of 2.4 GHz, and is analyzed on FR4 substrate using HFSS v.13.0 simulator. The antenna has a wide-bandwidth operation at the lower resonance with S11<−10 dB bandwidth of about 50% (2.1–3.5 GHz). At higher resonance, antenna has narrow-bandwidth operation with S<inf>11</inf><−10 dB bandwidth of about 3.3% (5.8–6 GHz). Good impedance matching and stable radiation characteristics are observed across the operational bandwidth of the proposed antenna configuration.


This study applied Monte Carlo analysis with Latin hypercube sampling to evaluate the effects of uncertainty in air parcel trajectory paths, emissions, rate constants, deposition affinities, mixing heights, and atmospheric stability on predictions from a vertically resolved photochemical trajectory model. Uncertainties in concentrations of ozone and other secondary compounds and in predicted changes due to 25% reductions in motor vehicle non-methane organic compound (NMOC) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions were examined. Surface wind measurements were interpolated over the modeling domain, and uncertainties were quantified using data withholding. The resulting wind fields and uncertainties were used to generate ensembles of trajectories ending at four Southern California air quality monitoring sites. A motor vehicle emissions inventory and associated uncertainties were derived from remote sensing and fuel sales data. Uncertainties in chemical rate parameters were obtained from expert reviews. Estimated u...


Gender-specific pathways into longevity? The differential impact of resources, risks and resilience on advanced life expectancy in a sample of men and women, aged 70 and older This presentation looks at gender-specific patterns of 'health aspects' (= biological and psychological vulnerability) and of central 'commitments' (= internal resources) at the onset of old age as predictors of advanced longevity (= psychophysical resilience). It is assumed that cross gender attributes have a positive impact on life expectancy. Accordingly, theoretical conceptions were tested via structural equation models using empirical data of n = 202 men and women (= participants of the Bonn Longitudinal Study on Aging, BOLSA) who reached a minimum age of 70 years and whose final age at death is known. Indeed, 'interpersonal commitment' (= a rather typical feature of psychological feminity) proves to be a substantial predictor for male longevity, whereas 'transpersonal commitment' (= a rather typical feature of psychological masculinity) plays the same role for women. These results are interpreted as a way of 'androgynous competence' which turns out to be a successful life approach at the beginning of old age in order to become very old.


The invention relates to a method and a unit for changing the dynamic application display effect of a mobile phone by way of voice control. The method includes the following steps: recording: recording the audio file of voice outside the mobile phone; judgement: calculating a voice energy value linearly correlated to volume in the audio file, comparing the voice energy value with a preset noise threshold, and executing the step of speed calculation when the voice energy value is larger than the preset noise threshold; speed calculation: calculating a corresponding changing speed according to the voice energy value; and application display: setting the currently applied changing speed as the calculated changing speed, and displaying the current application. By acquiring the voice of a user and calculating the magnitude of voice energy, the invention triggers the dynamic effect of the dynamic application of the mobile phone and regulates the changing speed of the dynamic effect, thus providing a new approach to controlling the changing effect of the dynamic application of mobile phones by users, the invention can be applied on mobile phones without touch screens, the cost is reduced, and moreover, the invention is highly interesting, and enhances the experience and entertainment of using the mobile phones by the users.


In the current advocate low-carbon economic development under the guidance of concept,dark tourism as a new kind of tourism development mode,which is mainly spirit as main tourism experience.In the conclusion of the domestic and foreign scholars on the basis of the study,based on discusses and the characteristics of the dark tourism,which analyses the dark tourism resources classification,problems and then put forward development path of dark tourism.


In 2014, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities issued a quality recommendation for child welfare for the first time (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Publications 2014:6). The quality recommendation has been now updated, taking into account the cooperation work for child welfare carried out under the Programme to address child and family services. The quality recommendation is intended to guide the child welfare work concerning families and children and to support its organisation. The previous recommendation has been supplemented with quality criteria for substitute care and its monitoring. Multi-professional cooperation in child welfare work is now emphasised more than before. The recommendation supports the development of multi-sectoral team structures. According to the recommendation, the obligation to protect children is best met when there is cooperation and trust between the children and young people concerned, those close to them and the employees. A multi-professional team combines the support measures into a coherent service package that meets the needs of the children and their parents. The recommendation describes the principles guiding the child welfare work by categorising them as follows: inclusion, service system, professionals and work communities in child welfare work, assessment of the need for services, and quality criteria for substitute care and its monitoring. The quality criteria for substitute care was edited by Pia Eriksson, Jaana Tervo and Riitta Laakso (National Institute for Health and Welfare) and Susanna Hoikkala (Central Union for Child Welfare). Publisher Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Distributed by/ publication sales Online version: julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi Publication sales: vnjulkaisumyynti.fi 7 August 2020


The
 aim of this study was to determine the catecholamines-receptors
 (beta-adrenergic receptors, s-AR) in the equine adipose tissue. It was of interest,
 whether there are differences between horse and pony relating to receptor
 subtypes and maximal numbers of binding sites. The
 catecholamines noradrenaline and adrenaline activate the s-adrenergic
 receptors and stimulate lipolysis. Highly increased lipolysis is seen
 especially in case of hyperlipemia syndrome. Previous studies showed, that
 noradrenaline stimulation of isolated adipocytes of ponies revealed in an
 increased rate of lipolysis by higher activity of the triglycerid-cleaving
 hormone-sensitive-lipase (HSL), which is in contrast to adipocytes of horses.
 s-adrenergic receptors (s1+2+3) regulate the HSL by a
 second-messenger-system. The
 present study investigates s-AR because there are no dates referring to the
 number and subtypes of s-AR so far. Primary,
 the development of a method to separate the s-AR from the equine adipose
 tissue was necessary. Therefore, abdominal cavity adipose tissue samples were
 taken immediately after evisceration of the animals. The plasma membrane of
 the adipocytes, which contains the receptor as a membrane-bound protein
 molecule, was isolated. Determination of marker enzymes verified the quality
 of preparation. The receptor binding studies were carried out according to
 studies of s-AR in ileum muscle of the horse. At first, saturation binding
 assays of each receptor subtype have been performed (n=3 animals in each
 group) and then the maximal numbers of binding sites have been determined at
 a constant breakpoint in the saturation level (n=6 animals in each group). The
 use of two different concentration ranges of the radioligand 3H-CGP20177A
 (low: 0,06-3nM and high: 0,6-10nM) allows differentiation of the receptor
 subtypes s3 and s1+2. The proportions of s1-
 and s2-subtypes were determined by using non-radioactive high
 selective ligands in the low concentration range. Nonspecific binding was
 defined in parallel incubationsets by addition of propranolol and was
 subtracted from the total binding. The
 dissociation equilibrium constant (KD) of the binding curves shows
 high individual variability. Because of the small number of animals in each
 group (n=3) no report could be given for species-specific differences between
 the two groups. Further studies of more animals are necessary. The
 maximal number of binding sites from the s-AR (Bmax) of adipocytes
 plasma membrane is significant lower in the pony group (Median 83,3
 (46,8-199,9) fmol/mg protein as in the horse group (Median 299,5
 (189,2-432,8) fmol/mg protein). The receptor subtype s1 was not
 detectable in any animal. The proportion of s3: s2 was
 similar in both groups. The subtype s3 dominates with 61% (± 1,4%)
 in the horses and with 70% (± 10,6%) in the ponies. The
 determination of the plain value from 100 adipocytes shows also significant
 differences between the two groups. The ponies have higher area values
 (Median 11,6 (3,6-18,4)mm²/100 Adipocytes) than the horses (Median 3,9
 (1,4-5,0)mm²/100 Adipocytes), but it must be considered that in the
 pony-group more animals showed a very good body condition. In contrast to the
 horses a lower positive correlation between the body condition and the
 adipocyte cell size exist in the ponies. A negative correlation could be
 detected between the adipocyte cell size and the quantity of s-AR. Because
 of this results the s-AR are probably not the reason for the development of
 hyperlipemia. To interpret the lower receptor binding sites more studies
 about the binding affinities and the catecholamine levels in horses and
 ponies are required. The question about the increased rate of lipolysis could
 not be answered by this study.


The sensitivity analysis method was used to calculate the temperature field in an optical window of a manned spaceship with the thermo-optical errors resulting from the temperature drift and the axial,radial and circumferential temperature gradients calculated using the Ideas TMG and Zemax softwares.Analytical and experimental results show that the optical window thermo-optical errors are sensitive to the radial and circumferential temperature gradients and that the effects of the temperature drift and the axial temperature gradient can be neglected.Therefore,the radial and circumferential temperature gradients must be carefully controlled in an optical window thermal control system.


Uses Silver maple has been heavily planted as an ornamental in many urban areas because of its ease of transplanting and establishment, adaptability to a wide range of sites, rapid growth, and good form. The species also has been used for vegetative rehabilitation of surface mined lands as well as for bottomland reforestation. Silver maple sap can be used to make a good, light syrup, although the sugar content of the sap is the lowest of the maple species used for syrup


This study is dealing with the two-dimensional numerical simulation of a plane bubble plume experimentally investigated by Alam and Arakeri. A vortex method for gas—liquid two-phase flow, proposed by the authors in a prior paper, is applied for the simulation. The method simulates the bubble motion and the induced liquid flow by the two-way coupling approach. In a tank containing water, small hydrogen bubbles are released from an electrode placed on the base of the tank. The bubbles, rising due to the buoyant force, cause the vortical flow of water. The existing numerical methods, such as the finite-difference method and the finite-volume method, compute the bubble plume with regard to the velocity field. But the vortex method calculates directly the vorticity field. Therefore, it promises to simulate successfully the vortical structure predominating the bubble plume. The present simulation makes clear that the meandering behaviour of bubble plume is caused by the large-scale eddies induced by the rising bubbles. The effect of bubble flowrate on the meandering behaviour in the simulation is confirmed to agree well with the experiment. It is also demonstrated that the time-averaged water velocity on the horizontal sections satisfies the similarity distribution when the bubble flowrate is low. These indicate that the authors' vortex method is indeed applicable to the analysis of plane bubble plume.


Basic education curriculum that is a hope of achieving national education goals. But the reality of the mater is the developmen and changes in social life of nation and state in the country and current issues from abroad that can affect people's lives and indonesia are the things that must be addressed and considered in the preparation of the new curriculum on every level of education. Especially basic education is the forerunner to go info higher education so that the necessary curriculum as a guideline in conducting education.
Some things underlying the preparation of the new curriculum namely a change in legislation either that the new paradigm has implications for curriculum development in primary and secondary education, among others renewal and diversification of the curriculum as well as curriculum development division of authority.Development and global changes in various aspects of life that comes so quickly has become a national challenge and requires immediate attention and present a serious. Condition and trends in future need to be prepared young people, including students who have competence multidimentional.
Curriculum development must be able to anticipate the problems that have likely already or will happen. Curriculum is needed in the future is a curriculum that can provide the skills and expertise to survive in a changing conflict uncertainty uncertainty, uncertainty, and difficulties in life. Therefore, an enhanced curriculum on an onging basis to impropve the quality of education nationwide. Curriculum improvement is done responsive to the application of human rights democratic life of unity and legal certainty of religious life and the resilience of Regional Development cultural development of science and information technology as well as environmental management.


High quality discussions can enable students to understand complex mathematical concepts (Smith & Stein, 2011). Effective mathematics discussions occur when teachers engage the listening, thinking, inquiring, and applying skills of their students (Lobato, Clark & Ellis, 2005; NCTM, 1991). Studies show, however, that teachers face many challenges in orchestrating mathematics discussions (Stein, Engle, Smith & Hughes, 2008).  Novice teachers, in particular, struggle to coach their students through the discussion process (Chazen, 2000; Wood & Turner-Vorbeck, 2001). Therefore, the study found that orchestrating mathematics discussions is a skill that pre-service teachers should be encouraged to develop. The aim of this study was to develop pre-service middle school mathematics teachers' mathematical discussion skills in the context of microteaching lesson study. Three senior pre-service teachers participated in and implemented three microteaching lesson study cycles. Data was obtained from lesson plans prepared by pre-service teachers, video recordings, observations, and field notes. Data was examined based on Smith and Stein's (2011) method of orchestrating productive mathematical discussions via anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting. Results showed that as microteaching lesson study proceed, pre-service teachers acquired skills about anticipate student thinking and select students' purposeful answers. In addition to that, pre-service teachers began successfully sequencing student thoughts and connecting important points related to big ideas.


516 Abstract Since the year 2020, Open Distance Learning (ODL) has made great impact on higher education institutions worldwide. ODL provides flexibility in education where students are able to attend online classes and watch recorded videos of lectures for revision or missed class. Though many institutions offer online-based course, it is still considered limited particularly in Electrical Engineering courses which requires hands-on in-lab practices. This is a challenge for higher institutions to adjust course content to be adaptable with ODL at the same time meet the course objectives. This paper studies students' acceptance towards ODL virtual Electrotechnology laboratory (EEE111) course in UiTM Pasir Gudang based on Exit-Entrance Survey conducted at the beginning and end of the course with the students' performance as the control group. The survey was conducted online with specific questions on students' perceptions of the course. A total of 165 respondents were recorded for EE111 and EE112 programs. The effectiveness of this virtual laboratory was evaluated at the end of the semester by referring to the students' performance in this course. Students have been assessed on practical skills, report writing, peer and lecturer review as well as on sustainability element in their mini project. The practical skills that contribute 90% from overall marks have been measured in practical test, laboratory work and mini project. Based on this study, it shows positive acceptance from the students towards ODL EEE111 course with 69.4% and 67.8% overall practical skills achieved for EE112 and EE111 programs respectively.