The second issue of 2021 again features essays from around the world, with an impressive variety of methodologies, approaches, and temporal foci, reflecting the continued vitality of the fields of environmental and forest history. Mexican hydraulic infrastructure is developed and migrant flows shift; Vietnamese forests are exploited and coal enters the global market; Himalayan hawks find their prey and social elites cement their influence. In each case, the tight connection between the human and natural worlds is demonstrated, although in different ways. Readers, as always, are invited to find their own threads connecting the articles, but the arrangement of the essays suggests some commonalities. The first two items in the table of contents, essays by Kendra Smith-Howard and Mateo Carrillo, highlight the reciprocal relations between the human and non-human worlds. Carrillo's essay, about the environmental history of Mexican emigration, shows how landscape changes have shaped human migration patterns. SmithHoward's essay demonstrates how a social transformation initiated by shifting gender dynamics—specifically, the adoption of disposable diapers—set environmental changes in motion. The next three articles reframe familiar narratives by inserting an environmental perspective. Molly Reed's essay about Sylvester Graham highlights how applying an environmental lens to a well-known figure can reshape our understanding not only of that individual's legacy but of a familiar narrative in agricultural history. By calling attention to the heretofore neglected history of timber theft in Vietnam, Linh Nguyen's article about Vietnamese forest management complicates colonial narratives that


ABSTRACT This paper reports the first study on using synthetic silica opals to make ceramic pottery with structural colors. The silica opals were adhered to the pottery substrate by heating at 900°C with a glass phase connecting them. The influence of the heating on the color appearance of the silica opals was investigated in depth. In the study, they were successfully adhered to the pottery substrate with no additives by using the silica opals synthesized with a small amount of catalyst reagent. This finding allows us to control iridescent/non-iridescent coloring of the silica. Additionally, we found unique color changes when the product was wetted. The detailed strategies provided in this paper for synthesizing of silica opals, coating, and heating on pottery are expected to offer useful references for the applications in the field of ceramic art.


In this paper we present a canonical representation for truncated space unfalsified control. We show how it specializes to controller unfalsification and adaptive control problems. Moreover, we propose it to solve system identification problems. In addition, we analyze in detail the core issues of the truncated space unfalsified control theory, give a computational algorithm and practical considerations for its implementation.


Heterozygous activating KCNJ11 mutations are a common cause of permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM) treated with insulin or sulfonylureas. However, only a few case reports on the treatment of women with KCNJ11-PNDM during pregnancy have been published. In the present paper, we report on two women with PNDM carrying a de novo heterozygous activating KCNJ11 mutation who were treated with a sulfonylurea and/or insulin during their pregnancies.


We consider solving three-dimensional electromagnetic problems in parameter regimes where the quasi-static approximation applies and the permeability, permittivity, and conductivity may vary significantly. The difficulties encountered include handling solution discontinuities across interfaces and accelerating convergence of traditional iterative methods for the solution of the linear systems of algebraic equations that arise when discretizing Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain.
The present article extends methods we proposed earlier for constant permeability [E. Haber, U. Ascher, D. Aruliah, and D. Oldenburg, J. Comput. Phys., 163 (2000), pp. 150--171; D. Aruliah, U. Ascher, E. Haber, and D. Oldenburg, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., to appear.] to handle also problems in which the permeability is variable and may contain significant jump discontinuities. In order to address the problem of slow convergence we reformulate Maxwell's equations in terms of potentials, applying a Helmholtz decomposition to either the electric field or the magnetic field. The null space of the curl operators can then be annihilated by adding a stabilizing term, using a gauge condition, and thus obtaining a strongly elliptic differential operator. A staggered grid finite volume discretization is subsequently applied to the reformulated PDE system. This scheme works well for sources of various types, even in the presence of strong material discontinuities in both conductivity and permeability. The resulting discrete system is amenable to fast convergence of ILU-preconditioned Krylov methods.
We test our method using several numerical examples and demonstrate its robust efficiency. We also compare it to the classical Yee method using similar iterative techniques for the resulting algebraic system, and we show that our method is significantly faster, especially for electric sources.


It is well known that immunization via the digestive tract or nasal mucosa may induce a strong local response and simultaneously leads to a state of profound immunosuppression in the periphery. For many years, the skin was considered to be an organ where immune responses such as contact hypersensitivity (CHS) were easily induced. However, skin as a site for the induction of tolerance has received very little attention. Experiments performed at the Department of Medical Biology at Jagiellonian University School of Medicine showed that, indeed, epicutaneous (EC) application of protein antigens resulted in the induction of T regulatory cells (Treg) which were able to inhibit murine Th1 CD4+ -mediated contact sensitivity to a TNP-coupled protein. EC immunization with a protein antigen prior to active contact sensitization was shown to be mediated by TCRαβ+ CD4+ CD8+, in an antigen non-specific manner. The mechanism of skin-induced suppression relies on the action of the anti-inflammatory cytokine TGF-β. Recently it was shown that EC application of a protein antigen reduced inflammatory responses and decreased disease incidence in two different experimental models: experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and collagen induced arthritis (CIA). Further work employing allogeneic skin grafts showed that EC immunization with a protein antigen delayed graft rejection in mice. The effector and regulating mechanisms of CHS mediated by Th1 CD4+ lymphocytes are well known, which may contribute to the development of new methods of contact skin inflammation treatment.In this dissertation, it was investigated whether the EC immunization with a DNP-coupled protein antigen can suppress Tc1 CD8+-mediated contact hypersensitivity in BALB/c mice. We have found that EC immunization with DNP-conjugated bovine serum albumin (DNP-BSA) prior to sensitization with 0.5% dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB) did indeed suppress Tc1 CD8+-mediated CHS in vivo when compared with positive control. The observed reduction of ear swelling was correlating with the depression of vascular permeability, ear weight, IFN-γ concentration and MPO activity in ear homogenates. These results were confirmed by an in vitro model, where EC deposition of a protein antigen suppressed proliferation of Tef cells. It was also shown that DNP-BSA application prior to sensitization with DNFB significantly inhibited production of pro-inflammatory IFN-γ, IL-12 and TNF-α.In a further experiment it was determined that the optimal dose of EC-applied DNP-BSA which could suppress CHS ranges between 100 and 3 µg of antigen / mouse and that the state of unresponsiveness declined with time and lasted for around three weeks.


This paper presents and analyzes the concept of stacking functional agents to decrease the number of physical levels in a sensor network system hierarchy. Stacking functional agents helps to eliminate some hardware present in three-tier sensor network architecture to form a less costly two-tier system. For performance analysis, an undersea sensor network system that is used to track ships and submarines was simulated. Three-tier agent and non agent-based sensor network systems were compared to a new system in which stacked functional agents are implemented in a two-tier system hierarchy. Results indicate that stacking functional agents offered competitive field life and tracking performance with simplified hardware.


For mechanical systems subject to periodic excitation, forced response curves (FRCs) depict the relationship between the amplitude of the periodic response and the forcing frequency. For nonlinear systems, this functional relationship is different for different forcing amplitudes. Forced response surfaces (FRSs), which relate the response amplitude to both forcing frequency and forcing amplitude, are then required in such settings. Yet, FRSs have been rarely computed in the literature due to the higher numerical effort they require. Here, we use spectral submanifolds (SSMs) to construct reduced-order models (ROMs) for high-dimensional mechanical systems and then use multidimensional manifold continuation of fixed points of the SSM-based ROMs to efficiently extract the FRSs. Ridges and trenches in an FRS characterize the main features of the forced response. We show how to extract these ridges and trenches directly without computing the FRS via reduced optimization problems on the ROMs. We demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach by calculating the FRSs and their ridges and trenches for a plate with a 1:1 internal resonance and for a shallow shell with a 1:2 internal resonance.


A compact random fiber laser based on a short artificial Rayleigh reflector and heavily-doped Er fibers (custom-made and commercial as a reference) has been proposed, characterized and optimized in terms of efficiency, linewidth and noise level. A 10-cm artificial Rayleigh reflector with mean scattering level of +41.3 dB/mm relative to the natural Rayleigh scattering of the host fiber and low insertion loss level (∼0.05 dB/cm at 1535 nm) was fabricated using a femtosecond direct writing technique. Its implementation as a distributed output mirror in a half-open cavity of a 980-nm diode pumped Er-doped fiber laser results in random lasing at 1535 nm in single- and few-mode regimes with power up to 100 mW, slope efficiency up to 16.5%, and signal-to-noise ratio up to 60 dB. A single-frequency regime with ∼10 KHz linewidth was observed at output power up to 2.5 mW. Tunability potential of such random lasers is also demonstrated.


Energy crisis and climate change have generated global demands for alternative non-fossil fuel sources. This has led to a rapid increase of investments in production of liquid biofuels based on agr ...


Methods of 3D gravity modelling are based on simulating, through simple geometrical bodies, the geometrical parameters of geological structures responsible for the anomalies. This simplification allows for both quantitative interpretation of anomalies and, by varying the theoretical parameters, valid parameters of the real geological body.


We report site disorder driven ferromagnetic ordering of nearly 8$\%$ Ce atoms in single crystalline Ce${_3}$Os${_4}$Ge$_{13}$ below 0.5~K. Ce${_3}$Os${_4}$Ge$_{13}$ crystallizes in a cubic structure with space group $\it{Pm\bar{3}n}$. The structural analysis shows the presence of site-disorder in the system, where 2(a) Ge site is partially occupied by the Ce atoms. Due to the small Ce $4f$-ligand hybridization, these Ce atoms are in the Ce$^{3+}$ (magnetic) state while rest of the Ce atoms in the unit cell are in Ce$^{4-\delta}$ (non-magnetic) state. The heat capacity shows a peak below 0.5~K corresponding to the ferromagnetic ordering of the Ce$^{3+}$ moments. The ferromagnetic ordering below 0.5~K is also seen in the ac-susceptibility data. At low temperatures (1.8~K$\leq T\leq 6$~K), the magnetization shows $log(T)$ dependence, whereas the resistivity shows power law ($T^n$) temperature dependence indicating the non-Fermi liquid behavior of the quasiparticles.


Choosing an appropriate dynamic range for acquiring radio-frequency (RF) data from a high-frequency ultrasound (HFU) system is challenging because the RF data amplitude typically covers several orders of magnitude between the sample surface and the deepest imaged regions. In addition, the saturated signal may decrease the accuracy of QUS methods because quantitative ultrasound (QUS) methods are sensitive to saturated data. In this study, the effects of saturation on QUS estimates of Nakagami shape parameter (Nakagami parameter) were quantified by analyzing data acquired from 20 dissected human lymph nodes with a single-element transducer operating at a center frequency of 26 MHz. Artificially saturated signals (xsat) were produced by applying artificial saturation methods to the original unsaturated signals (xori). Saturation degree was quantified using an index termed Saturate-SNR (SSNR). Nakagami parameters were estimated from xsat over a wide range of SSNR values. Nakagami parameters of saturated signals were increased (0.18 when the signal decremented 2 bit) significantly with decreasing SSNR. Nakagami parameters were corrected by pretreatment that applied a smoothing spline to the saturated signal. The smoothing spline restoration method is tuned P parameter. The best correction occurred when P was 1 (i.e., cubic spline interpolation). The maximum Nakagami parameter error in the corrected with 6-bit signal was 0.10, which is less than the average difference of 0.12 that existed between non-metastatic and metastatic lymph nodes.


This study aims to improve the power of two-sample tests by analysing whether the difference between two population parameters is larger than a prespecified positive equivalence margin. The classic test statistic treats the original data as exchangeable, while the proposed test statistic breaks the structure and proposes employing a two-armed bandit process to strategically integrate the data and thus a strategy-specific test statistic is constructed by combining the classic CLT with the law of large numbers. The developed asymptotic theory is investigated by using nonlinear limit theory in a larger probability space and relates to the 'strategic CLT' with a clearly defined density function. The asymptotic distribution demonstrates that the proposed statistic is more concentrated under the null hypothesis and less concentrated under the alternative than the classic CLT, thereby enhancing the testing power. Simulation studies provide supporting evidence for the theoretical results and portray a more powerful performance when using finite samples. A real example is also added for illustration.


Worm infection or worm disease is a disease that occurs without clear clinical symptoms, that's why this disease has received less attention. However, this disease cannot be underestimated because it causes, among others, malnutrition, as well as disruption in children's development and cognitive development. That is why various efforts are being made to reduce the incidence of worm infections in children.1,2


This paper deals with the finite-horizon linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem for the discrete-time singular systems with multiplicative-noise and input delay. Firstly, by utilizing the incremental analysis method, the maximum principle is established for the singular stochastic system in discrete-time form. Then a sufficient criterion is given which guarantees not only the existence but also the uniqueness of the optimal controller. With such kind of controllers designed, the mathematical expectation of the cost function reaches its minimum value which is also given in explicit form. The criteria obtained in this paper are presented in the recursive equality form, which can be verified easily by effective algorithms. A numerical example is provided in the end of the paper which demonstrates the effectiveness of the obtained theoretical results.


A single phase Z source inverter is developed for better voltage boosting and inversion ability suited for photovoltaic power generation systems. The operation of the Z source inverter is described with relevant equations. Simple boost scheme is used for switching actions of the inverter. The performance of the inverter used for photovoltaic applications can be checked with simulation and experimental results, which prove that it has single-stage buck and boost capability and improved reliability.


Ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) restrains the possible mode mixing problems in traditional empirical mode decomposition (EMD) during the decomposition process. It can be realized via auxiliary analysis by adding several groups of white noises into the original signal. However, it significantly reduces the decomposition efficiency for signals. In order to eliminate the influence of mode mixing and improve decomposition efficiency, this paper proposes an EEMD parallel computation model based on GPU+CPU. The core idea of this method is to carry out logic operation namely iteration control of decomposition with CPU and execute high-capacity numerical computation with GPU. Experiments are conducted for simulation signal and EEG signal respectively. The results demonstrate that the computation velocity associated with this model is 5-8 times higher than that of serial computation model based on CPU.


In some Italian cities passers-by are offered - along with the local equivalent of the 'Big Issue' publications whose titles would vaguely translate as 'The Joint', 'The Fix', 'The Stuff', 'Syringes'. While in some European countries drug use tends to be concealed as an embarrassing sign of individual failure, in Italy some drug users display their condition with a degree of ostentation. Such public display resonates with political grass-root initiatives which were prevalent in the 1970s and from which groups of drug users have inherited a conflictual, combative memory. However, the messages conveyed by these publications contain a number of intertwined elements which I will try briefly to untangle.


This short document juxtaposes two quotes from H.L. Mencken and Leo Strauss respectively. It shows both men dealing with the problem of radically ascetic morality.


As stereoscopic displays have spread, it is important to know what really causes the visual fatigue and discomfort and what happens in the visual system in the brain behind the retina while viewing stereoscopic 3D images on the displays. In this study, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used for the objective measurement to assess the human brain regions involved in the processing of the stereoscopic stimuli with excessive disparities. Based on the subjective measurement results, we selected two subsets of comfort videos and discomfort videos in our dataset. Then, a fMRI experiment was conducted with the subsets of comfort and discomfort videos in order to identify which brain regions activated while viewing the discomfort videos in a stereoscopic display. We found that, when viewing a stereoscopic display, the right middle frontal gyrus, the right inferior frontal gyrus, the right intraparietal lobule, the right middle temporal gyrus, and the bilateral cuneus were significantly activated during the processing of excessive disparities, compared to those of small disparities (< 1 degree).


We are going to see how the Hessian-Index analysis of the extrinsic distance function defined on a submanifold give us a geometric description of some of its functional theoretic properties such as its parabolicity/hyperbolicity.


The question as to why some drugs are legal and others are not needs to be looked at from a variety of factors such as culture, economic interests, technological change, politics and social movements which have impacted in different ways and at different times.


The method of using negative selection algorithm to detect abnormal flight data was researched.Because original detection algorithm based on data tendency could hardly detect continuous abnormal values,the detector coding method was improved by inserting information of the pending parameter′s related parameter into the coding.Then the negative selection algorithm could be used to detect continuous abnormal values without any foregone knowledge about the abnormity.The experimental results showed that the precision was high in detecting abnormal flight data based on improved negative selection algorithm.


Intracavity difference-frequency generation (DFG) between signal and idler pulses is investigated in orientation-patterned GaAs inside the cavity of a ~1 µm pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Using two different samples and temperature tuning in the non-critical configuration, tunability between 7 and 9.2 µm is demonstrated. The superior thermo-mechanical properties of OPGaAs enabled also for the first time operation of this cascaded scheme at kilohertz (1-3 kHz) repetition rates reaching average powers ~10 mW in the mid-IR.


Breast mass detection and segmentation are difficult tasks due to the variation in size and shape of breast masses. Constructing classifiers for this problem is also challenging due to the fact that normal tissue regions overwhelmingly outnumber abnormal regions. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for detecting and segmenting breast masses in mammography based on multi-scale morphological filtering and a self-adaptive cascade of random forests (CasRFs). CasRFs can cope with severe class imbalance by adding layers to the cascade until a minimum number of false-positives (FPs) is reached. The approach achieves an average sensitivity of 0.94 with 1.99 FPs/image on INbreast and a sensitivity of 0.77 with 3.93 FPs/image on DDSM BCRP.


Abstract Chile Vieja Field in Willacy County is a combination structural/stratigraphic trap that produces from upper-middle Frio age sands. The primary trapping element is a shale-filled erosional channel (the Raymondville Canyon) that cut and removed up to 400 ft of in situ marine deltaic sands. The canyon runs across the apex of a 4–way anticlinal structural high, which formed as a downthrown rollover to a regional growth fault. The field produces from 4 geopressured sandstone reservoirs truncated against the perimeter of the shale-filled canyon. Detailed log and core characterization of the dominantly upward-coarsening, productive sands place the environment of deposition in a nearshore, lower to middle shoreface environment, which was deposited near wave base. The interpreted depositional environment is a prograding to aggrading shelf-margin deltaic complex, formed within a highstand prograding wedge, punctuated by short-lived transgressive episodes. The last transgressive event in the Chile Vieja parasequence set resulted in the formation of the Raymondville Canyon, interpreted to have developed due to mass wasting of a sediment-starved, unstable delta margin. A detailed review of the discovery and development history of this field strongly suggests that early, pre–3D seismic interpretations mischaracterized the productive structure as a 'bald' structural high. Following the early drilling of numerous updip, shaled-out wells, this interpretation probably led to the conclusion that productive reservoir sands 'pinched-out' over a pre-existing bathymetric high. 21 yr after initial field development ceased, Suemaur E&P's acquisition of a large 3D seismic volume revealed the existence of the canyon. Recognition of the canyon's presence led to the realization of likely additional reserves downdip to the original discovery well. Prior to Suemaur's involvement in the field, cumulative totals for this package of reservoirs was 27 billion cubic ft of gas (BCFG), and 1.02 million barrels of condensate (MMBC) from 4 wells spanning 41 yr. Since Suemaur's 'rediscovery' in 2006, 71 BCFG and 1.28 MMBC of additional reserves have been produced from 26 new well completions. This represents reserve increases of over 240% for gas and 100% for condensate.


Thermal spray processing is a well-established means of forming coatings of thicknesses greater than about 50 )lm, so-called thick coatings. A wide range of materials can be thermally sprayed for a variety of applications, ranging from gas turbine technology (heat engines) to the electronics industry. Thermal spray coatings have been produced for at least 40 years, but the last decade has seen a virtual revolution in the capability of the technology to produce truly high performance coatings of a great range of materials on many different substrates [1]. This enhancement of the technology has been achieved largely through the introduction of new spray techniques, the enhancement of spray process controls, the employment of state-of-the-art methods offeedstock materials production and the use of modern techniques of quality assurance. Although the use of advanced thermal spray coating has largely occurred within the aircraft industry, newer, extended applications of the technique have demonstrated its versatility. Applications include protection from wear, high temperatures, chemical attack, and the more mundane uses of environmental corrosion protection in infrastructure maintenance engineering. Of greatest importance, and making thermal spray processing uniquely important to an ever increasing engineering community, are (i) improved spray footprint definition versus wide spray beam; (ii) high throughput versus competitive techniques; (iii) significantly improved process control; (iv) lower cost-per-mass


Hydrodynamic instabilities at the interface of stratified shear layers could occur in various modes and have an important role in the mixing process. In this work, the linear stability analysis in the temporal framework is used to study the stability characteristics of a particle-laden stratified two-layer flow for two different background density profiles: smooth (hyperbolic tangent) and piecewise linear. The effect of parameters, such as bed slope, viscosity, and particle size, on the stability is also considered. The pseudospectral collocation method employing Chebyshev polynomials is used to solve two coupled eigenvalue equations. Based on the results, there are some differences in the stability characteristics of the two density profiles. In the case of R = 1 (R is the ratio of the shear layer thickness to the density layer thickness), the stability boundary in smooth profile is the transition from the unstable flow (where the dominant unstable mode is Kelvin–Helmholtz) to the stable one where in the...


The information security industry market is sluggish despite high expectations for its growth, and thus policies are required to define the causes and...


Kitibha Kushta is mentioned under Kshudra Kushta and is one among the Ashtamahagada. There is the involvement of Tridosha in all Kushta but the predominance of Dosha makes the types & manifestations of Kushta different. Psoriasis is one of the most common skin disorders. It is a papulosquamous disorder of the skin characterized by sharply defined erythematosquamous lesions. It is chronic and is well known for its course of remission and exacerbation. Prevalence of psoriasis in adults varies from 0.44 to 2.8%, with a much lower prevalence in children. The combined formulations Panchanimbakam Churna Vati and Pathyadi Lepa, mentioned in Gadanigraha and Yogaratnakara respectively, are indicated for the management of Kitibha Kushta. The combination collectively contains Kushtaghna Dravyas and has Katu, Tikta and Kashaya Rasa, Laghu, Ruksha Guna, and Ushna Veerya that are helpful in Samprapti Vighatana of Vata and Kapha dominant Kushta. Material and Methods: Among 30 registered participants, 25 completed the treatment. They were administered with Panchanimbakam Churna Vati orally 3 gm per day before food and Pathyadi Lepa externally for 30 days. The Lakshanas and PASI score was assessed on the 1st, 15th, and 30th. For Statistical analysis, subjective parameters were assessed by Cochran's Q test followed by McNemar test, and objective parameters were assessed by Repeated Measures Anova and Paired T-Test. Results: There was a statistically significant improvement in the signs and symptoms of Kitibha Kushta (Psoriasis)(p<0.05). Conclusion: The combination of Panchanimbakam Churna Vati and Pathyadi Lepa, is effective in the management of Kitibha Kushta (Psoriasis)


s. PHYTOPHARM 2012 M 68 Obzory po kliniceskoj farmacologii i lekarstvennoj terapii [Reviews of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy] ТОМ 10/2012/2 (+)-USNIC ACID CONTENT AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF THREE LICHEN EXTRACTS © Koptina A. , Shcherbakova A. , Soldati F. , Gabdullin M. , Kanarskiy A. , Ulrich-Merzenich G. 3 Mari State Technical University, Yoshkar-ola, Russia Pharmaton SA, 6934 Bioggio, Switzerland Medical Clinic III, University of Bonn, Willhelmstr. 35–37, 53111 Bonn, Germany lichens produce a variety of secondary metabolites which belong to the depsides, depsidones, dibenzofurans and pulvinic acid derivative family. They proved to be a good source of natural antioxidants (1). Usnic acid uniquely found in many lichens has been reported to have analgesic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antiplatelet/antithrombotic, antiviral, cytotoxic/antiproliferative, gastroprotective, weight loss, and wound healing activity (2). We examined the (+)-usnic acid content and the anti-oxidative properties of the chloroform extract of lichen: Cladonia sylvatica (l.) hoffm., Evernia prunastri (l.) Ach. and Usnea barbata (l.) Wigg. (s. i.) were collected in Mari El Republic of Russian federation in June, 2011. Reverse phase hPlC analysis was carried out (Perkin Elmer Series 200 hPlC instrument; C18 column (C18; 25 cm ×4.6 mm, 5μm); UV/Vid detector; solvent: methanol-water-phosphoric acid (80:20:.9, v/v/v)). The sample injection volume was 20 μl and the flow rate 1.0 ml/min. A standard of (+)-usnic acid was used. The total antioxidant activity of the extracts was evaluated by the phosphomolybdenum method as described Manojlovic et al. (3). The chloroform extracts of C. sylvatica, E. prunastri and U. barbata showed contents of (+)-usnic acid of 8.91 ± 1.18, 5.68 ± 0.47 and 74.49 ± 8.64 % respectively. The antioxidant activities were: 277.1 ± 20.0, 171.1 ± 17.1 and 205.8 ± 7.2 mg of ascorbic acid (AA) per g of extract respectively; in comparison, the antioxidant activity of the (+)-usnic acid standard was determined as 154 ± 6.5 mg AA/g. We can report that U. barbata is a good source of (+)-usnic acid. Other secondary metabolites than (+)-usnic acid present in C. sylvatica and E. prunastri contribute to their high antioxidant activity and need to be further investigated. References: (1) N. Verma, b. C. behera, A. Joshi, folia Microbiol (Praha) 57 (2012) 107. (2) Natural Standard Professional Monograph (2012). (3) N. T. Manojlovic, P. J. Vasiljevic, P. Z. Maskovic, M. Juskovic, G. bogdanovic-dusanovic, Evid based Complement Alternat Med 2012 (2011) 452431. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF VEGETABLE DRUG «TABLETS FOR INTELLECT» © Korsun V. F., Nikolaev S. M., Korsun E. V., Gulyaev S. M., Zhalsanov U. V. Institute of Phytotherapy, Moscow, Russia Institute of general and experimental biology Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Science (SD RAS), Ulan-Ude, Russia, www.fitokor.ru We developed the vegetable drug "Tablets for intellect", that contains roots of Scuttelaria baicalensis, Zinziber officinalis, Phodiola rosea, Rhaponticum carthamoides, herb of Schizonepeta multifida, dracocephalum moldavica, Arnica montana, Melilotus officinalis, Astragalus membranaceus, Phlojodicarpus villosus, bacopa monnieri and inonotus obliquus. The aim of the research was detection of nootropic and psychoactivating qualities of "Tablets for intellect". Researchers used in the experiment intact rats of Wistar line of both sexes with initial mass 180–200 g. The rats were divided into 3 groups (7 animals in every group): first one was a check group; in second and third groups animals got a decoction, that was made of the tablets in doses of 100 and 300 mg/kg respectively. The test drug was injected intragastric once a day during 7 days before the experiment. Animals of the check group were injected with pure water in the similar amount in the same scheme. A level of motive and exploratory activities and emotional state of animals was determined in test "Open field" by the 7th day of the experiment. The installation "Open field" consisted of square area 100c100 cm sized with walls measuring40 sm. The area was divided by black lines into 25 (5c5) equal squares and was illuminated by lamp with power of 50 W that was hung above centre of the field at a height of 150cm. A rat was placed at the corner of installation, after then it was been supervising for 3 minutes: horizontal (number of crossed squares) and vertical (number of rises on hind legs) kinds of activities, number of episodes of grooming and defecation (according to number of defecation boluses) were registered. On the 7 day of the experiment test of animals


This is an electronic version of an article published in The Astrophysical Journal. Ferrini, F., Molla, M., Pardi, M.C. and A.I. Diaz. Evolution of spiral galaxies. III. Application of the multiphase model to the galactic disk. The Astrophysical Journal 427 (1994): 745-758


To achieve sustainable growth, China facilitates outward foreign direct investments (FDI) in natural resources and technology through large supportive policies and massive financing, particularly through the expansion of its state-owned companies into foreign markets. This trend has accelerated economic growth in Australia but has also raised national security concerns regarding foreign investments. This paper discusses the problem of balancing foreign investment and national security and aims to stimulate discussion on the extent of regulations necessary for FDI in critical infrastructure. This paper will be interesting for host-country policymakers balancing inward FDI and national security concerns through appropriate screening mechanisms.


The article analyses the size and the economic impact of Belgium's foreign direct investment (FDI), both inward and outward. Outstanding FDI figures confirm Belgium's status as a small, open economy. However, a large proportion of that investment is capital in transit, partly owing to government initiatives which in past years aimed to attract FDI, particularly by means of tax incentives such as the notional interest deduction. In net terms, and thus excluding the impact of capital in transit, inward FDI exceeds outward FDI. This is an atypical situation for a developed economy with a substantial savings surplus. Belgium's FDI relationships entail a loss of net income to the rest of the world. This adverse financial result is due partly to the low level of net outward FDI, but also to a relatively low return on Belgium's outward FDI. However, FDI relationships do have a favourable impact on Belgium's real economy. Firms receiving inward or engaging in outward FDI generally achieve higher productivity and make a positive contribution to Belgium's net exports. As regards employment in Belgium, the economic crisis affected jobs in Belgium-based subsidiaries of foreign groups to a much greater extent than jobs in Belgian parent companies and purely domestic firms.


Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is considered to be one of the most important legume crops and is mainly cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas. These legumes provide a good source of protein, monounsaturated fats, and antioxidants [1]. Several peanut by-products such as peanut meal, peanut skin, peanut hull, and peanut vine can be used by the food processing industry and consequently play an essential role in food security [2]. However, peanut production and quality are severely affected by abiotic stress [3].


We review how unitarity and stationarity in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism naturally lead to a (quantum) generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation (gFDR) that works beyond thermal equilibrium. Non-Gaussian loop corrections are also presented. Additionally, we illustrate the application of this gFDR in various scenarios related to quantum Brownian motion and the generalized Langevin equation.


The sustainable development of tourism is an important field to study the tourism.The ecological footprint theory as of innovation in theory and method,and practice,provides a new means to study the sustainable development of tourism.This paper,based on tourists ' consumption structures,classifies the ecological footprint of urban tourism into six aspects,transportation,food,accommodation,shopping,touring and entertainment,and evaluates the ecological footprint of tourism in Guilin city with the results indicating that,in Guilin in 2005,the tourism ecological footprint per capital is 0.056 5 hm2,the tourism ecological loading capacity per capital is 0.771 9 hm2,with a tourism ecological deficit per capital up to 0.021 68 hm2,implying an unsustainable development in Guilin 's tourism industry.This paper presents some suggestions rationally developing the ecological resources to ensure a sustainable development of tourism industry in Guilin city.


The discourse on the infodemic constructs the combination of the pandemic and disinformation as a new source of insecurity on a global scale. How can we make sense – analytically and politically– of this newly politicized nexus of public health, information management, and global security? This article proposes approaching the phenomenon of the infodemic as an intersecting securitization of information disorder and health governance. Specifically, it argues that there are two distinct frames of security mobilized in the context of infodemic governance: information as a disease and information as a weapon. Drawing on literatures on global health and the emerging research on disinformation, the paper situates the two framings of the infodemic in broader discourses on the medicalization of security, and securitization of information disorder, respectively. The article critically reflects on each framing and offers some preliminary thoughts on how to approach the entanglements of health, security, and information disorder in contemporary global politics.


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Interoperability among heterogeneous devices is one of the main topics investigated nowadays to realize the Ubiquitous Computing vision. Smart-M3 is a software architecture born to provide interoperability through the Semantic Web technologies and reactivity thanks to the publish-subscribe paradigm. In this paper we present a new implementation in Python of the central component of the Smart-M3 architecture: the Semantic Information Broker (SIB). The new component, named pySIB, has been specifically designed for embedded or resource constrained devices. pySIB represents a new open source lightweight and portable SIB implementation, but also introduces new features and interesting performances. JSON has been introduced as the default information encoding notation as it offers the flexibility of XML with minor bandwidth requirements. Memory allocation on disk and at runtime is in the order of Kilobytes i.e. minimal, if compared with the other reference implementations. Performance tests on existing (SP2B) and ad-hoc benchmarks point out possible improvements but also encouraging data such as the best insertion time among the existing SIB implementations.


The isolation of an erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes from a leg ulcer is reported and its implications for antibiotic therapy discussed.


A decision model using of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was investigated to reflect the relative importance of quality of service (Qos) needs of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system by health service related applications. A pilot study is carried out in Health institutions in Chile to examine priority criteria from end users perspective concerning Qos issues. The purpose of the study is to provide a decision making tool as a guidance to analyze and evaluate the QoS parameters in a networked system under various activities, to compare the different requirements and to enable tradeoffs in accordance to the institution necessity.


Curriculum reform in higher engineering education in China is currently a topic of great concern to the education sector.The product of higher engineering education in the United States by the characteristics of curriculum reform,higher engineering education of foreign ideas and curriculum reform Reference model to help solve our curriculum reform in higher engineering education problems for China's higher engineering education curriculum reform for reference.


Irrigation, when administered correctly, confers the producers the possibility to overcome drought effects and obtain higher yields, supplementing the quality of food for animals or human consumers. In the mean time, soil erosion, pathogens attack and nutrients or pesticides spreading can be prevented by an adequate management of irrigation water. As a consequence, soil microbial community structure, composition and activities, as well as the organic matter quality can be different from those in non-irrigated soil. Research have been carried out in order to assess changes in bacterial and fungal communities and activity in irrigated Vertisol from Boianu, as compared with non-irrigated. The paper presents the results concerning the taxonomical composition of bacterial and fungal microflora in the horizons of the two soil profiles, as well as the level of CO 2 released by microorganisms. Chromatographic aspects of humus fractions were used to characterize the organic matter in irrigated and non- irrigated soil. Increased moisture and lowered temperature in Ap horizon of irrigated soil increased bacterial counts (18 x106 viable cells x g -1 dry soil) and their metabolic activity expressed by carbon dioxide released (46.838mg CO 2 x g -1 dry soil) comparatively with non- irrigated soil. Fungal microflora was more abundant after 25-50 cm under irrigation. Species diversity slightly increased under irrigation in both upper and lower part of soil profile. In irrigated soil, associations of species belonging to bacterial genera Pseudomonas and Bacillus were dominant in surface and white actinomycetes in the depth. Fungal consortia of Penicillium, Aspergillus and Fusarium dominated in both soil profiles. Irrigation induced changes in the quantity and quality of soil organic matter, as well as in the aspect of their migration pattern, as revealed on circular chromatograms.


Population aging is a global phenomenon, the challenge facing Korea, however ,is especially daunting. As Korean population ages and the number of older people who are "aging in place" increases, Korea will face new opportunities and challenges in responding to this population's needs. This explosive growth of elder adults represents both opportunities and challenges, the wider residential environment. Faced with an aging population, we must look for new ways to ensure that elder adults can contribute to and be cared for by their communities. The purpose of this study is to suggest that society can cope with the changing situation to aged society, can make low-income elderly possible for independent life as society members. Also, to encourage elderly to communicate with neighborhood in the society, we suggest the ways to develop the performance of national elderly rental apartment to comprehend a variety of life style. In this study, we established three concepts, Alterability, Social Facilitation, Spatiality, for improving the future national rental apartment plan. This plan is to maximize residents' satisfaction and to promote communication with neighborhood in the community by supporting them.


With the insreasingly close relations between Chinese enterprises in South- east Asia and China-ASEAN over the past 30 years,Southeast Asian Chinese enter- prises become the primary participants in the China-ASEAN economic activities.With the startup of China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone,Southeast Asian Chinese enterprises play a crucial role in China-ASEAN economic cooperation,which should not be neglected. We should take advantage of the resources of Southeast Asian Chinese enterprises to speed up developing China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone and achieve win-win results.


Two dimensional C/SiC composite coated with Si-B-C ceramic was prepared via chemical vapor deposition(CVD).Properties and structure evolution and self-healing mechanisms of the C/SiC composite were studied after oxidation for 10 h during 700-1200 ℃.At the same time,the evolution of morphologies,composition and phase for Si-B-C ceramic were also investigated.The experimental results show that the oxidation of Si-B-C ceramic accelerates with the temperature increasing,however,the oxidation scale is shallow and no more than 7 μm.With the temperature increasing,viscosity of borosilicate glass oxidized from Si-B-C ceramic reduces but volatilization accelerates.When the temperature increases to 1200 ℃,SiO2 crystallizes from borosilicate glass.C/SiC composite coated with Si-B-C ceramic shows an excellent oxidation resistance.Mass loss increases with temperature increasing,which is only 0.47% after oxidation for 10 h at 1200 ℃.Furthermore,the strength retention ratio is 91.6% at 1000 ℃,higher than that at other temperatures.The main mechanisms for excellent oxidation resistance of C/SiC composite is that borosilicate glass oxidized from Si-B-C ceramic can seal cracks in composite effectively.


To overcome the difficulty in self-pollination reproduction and threshing of HN5S,an indica photoperiod sensitive genic male sterile line,and the senescence of function leaf prior to seed mature of hybrid F1,the anther at the uninucleate stages of panicle development were used to culture in vitro excised from HN5S.An improvement photoperiod sensitive genic male sterile line,named 15S,was acquired from regenerative plants.Identified results in artificial climate showed that its abortive pollen rate reached respectively tto 99.55%,98.15%,100%,100% under the conditions of 14.5h、23.5℃,12.5h、23.5℃,12.5h、27.5℃,12.5h、natural temperature respectively.By comparison,the rate of pollen sterility of 15S is lower than that of HN5S under short-day.Rate of pollen fertility of 15S was less than that of HN5S at winter season in Hainan island,furthermore seeds of 15S were easier to thresh than those of HN5S.The reproductive trait of 15S was significantly improved.Moreover hybrid combinations with high grain quality were much easier to acquire with 15S as parents.


A simple ionospheric prediction model is employed to determine the reduction in the positional estimate errors in HF hyperbolic position-fixing systems provided by the use of the model. Quantitative results of positional estimate errors before and after the application of the model to experimental time-delay data are compared.


Inadequate policy on economic diversification has cause the economy to rely heavily on crude oil export as a major export commodity in the economy. One major problem with the over reliance on oil export is the facts that, prices fluctuates, this means that the dynamic nature of the Nigerian economy is at whims and caprices of the prices of oil, any structural distortion in the foreign economy is capable of causing change in the prices of oil directly affect the Nigerian economy. The study empirically addresses the impact of non-oil export on economic growth in Nigeria .The method used in this study is Auto regressive distributive lag(ARDL), to capture both the long run and short run dynamic relationship. Augmented dickey fuller of unit root test was used to avoid the error of accepting the null hypothesis of unit root test when it had been rejected. Annual time series data were obtained and analysed. The finding of the study revealed that, there is a positive and significant relationship between non-oil export and economic growth in Nigeria. While the other finding revealed a long run relationship between agricultural output and economic growth in Nigeria.


The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is developing an autonomous seafloor mapping capability for deep ocean science applications. The MBARI Mapping AUV is a 0.53 m (21 in) diameter, 5.1 m (16.7 ft) long, Dorado-class vehicle designed to carry four mapping sonars. The primary sensor is a 200 kHz multibeam sonar producing swath bathymetry and sidescan. In addition, the vehicle carries 100 kHz and 410 kHz chirp sidescan sonars, and a 2-16 kHz sweep chirp subbottom profiler. Navigation and attitude data are obtained from an inertial navigation system (INS) incorporating a ring laser gyro and a 300 kHz Doppler velocity log (DVL). The vehicle also includes acoustic modem, ultra-short baseline navigation, and long-baseline navigation systems. A single cylindrical pressure housing contains all of the mapping sonar electronics, and the main vehicle control and acoustic communications electronics are housed in a separate glass ball. The Mapping AUV is powered by three 2 kWhr Li-polymer batteries, providing an expected mission duration of 12 hours at a typical speed of 1.5 m/s. The assembled package is rated to 6000 m depth, allowing MBARI to conduct high-resolution mapping of the deep-ocean seafloor. Initial at-sea testing commenced in May 2004 using the subbottom profiler and 100 kHz sidescan. The sonar package will also be mountable on ROV Ventana, allowing surveys at altitudes < 10 m at topographically challenging sites. The MBARI Seafloor Mapping team is now working towards integration of the multibeam sonar and towards achieving regular operations during 2005.


We define sets of orthogonal polynomials satisfying the additional constraint of a vanishing average. These are of interest, for example, for the study of the Hohenberg-Kohn functional for electronic or nucleonic densities and for the study of density fluctuations in centrifuges. We give explicit properties of such polynomial sets, generalizing Laguerre and Legendre polynomials.
The nature of the dimension 1 subspace completing such sets is described. A numerical example illustrates the use of such polynomials.


Alpheid shrimp represent an abundant and diverse, but poorly characterized, component of the cryptic biodiversity of coral reefs worldwide. Sponge‐inhabiting alpheids provide a promising model system for exploring patterns of cryptic reef biodiversity because their habitats (hosts) are discrete and qualitatively distinct units. We tabulated data from 14 years of collections at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize to quantify patterns of diversity, host specificity, and dominance among sponge‐dwelling shrimp (Synalpheus), with special attention to eusocial species. From > 600 sampled sponges of 17 species, we recognized at least 36 Synalpheus shrimp species. Of these, 15 (42%) were new to science. Species accumulation curves suggest that we have sampled most of the Synalpheus diversity at Carrie Bow Cay. Diversity of sponge‐dwelling Synalpheus was slightly higher in shallow water, probably because of greater habitat diversity, than in deep water. Host specificity was surprisingly high, with > 50% of all shrimp species found in only a single sponge species each, although some shrimp species used as many as six hosts. Cohabitation of individual sponges by multiple shrimp species was rarer than expected by chance, supporting previous distributional and behavioural evidence that competition for hosts is strong and moulds patterns of host association. The fauna of most well‐sampled sponge species was dominated, both in numbers of individuals and in frequency of occurrence, by eusocial species. Eusocial shrimp species also inhabited a significantly greater number of sponge species than did non‐social shrimp. Consequently, > 65% of shrimp in our quantitative samples belonged to the four eusocial species, and on a per‐species basis, eusocial species were 17 times as abundant as non‐social species. Our data suggest that the highly diverse sponge‐dwelling shrimp assemblage of the Belize Barrier Reef is structured by competition, and that eusociality has allowed a small number of species to dominate the sponge resource.


The thermal stability of PVB and five VB-MA copolymers with different compositions was studied by thermogravimetric analysis in dynamic nitrogen. The reactivity ratios of the copolymers were determined by using NMR techniques. It was found that r1(VB) = 0.5 ± 0.1 and r2(MA) = 7.3 ± 0.3. The stability of VB increases as the MA concentration in the copolymer compositions increases. Apparently, the formation of lactone and anhydride structures has a stabilizing effect. The stability imparted to the degrading copolymers by lactone and anhydride structures is insufficient to produce stability comparable to that of PMA itself.


THROUGHOUT ALL the furore surrounding the appointment of Margaret Hodge as the minister for children I have been left baffled by one incongruity. Why is it that we have not heard from her accusers before? Where was this anger and sense of foul play when she was handed ministerial responsibility for the early years some five years ago?


ABSTRACT
Name of Institution: De La Salle University- Dasmarinas
Address: Dasmarinas, Cavite
Title: "Meaning, Purpose and Resiliency in Life
among Student Achievers coming from
Broken Homes"
Authors: Paderes, JoAnn A.
 Santos, Carlo C.
Date Started: June 2007
Date Finished: March 2008
Funding Source: Parents
Cost: Php 7,000
General: This study determined the Meaning, Purpose and Resiliency in Life
among Student Achievers coming from Broken Homes.
Specific: Specifically, the study sought to answer the following questions:
1. What are the life experiences of the participants in relation to the
separation of their parents in terms of:
a. Initial reaction
b. People and situations that helped
c. Adjustments made after the separation of parents
d. Personal and Social life
e. Academic Achievement
f. Goals in Life
2. What is the level of the purpose and meaning of life among the
participants of the study?
3. What is the level of the resiliency among the participants of the study?
Scope and Delimitation:
The study is limited to De La Salle University-Dasmarinas, students;
particularly, those student achievers who are in their junior and senior year.
The study is based only on academic records. Criterion for selection will be
on referral basis from the Guidance Office and Student Academic Services
Office who know the respondents better. Not all student achievers were
considered as participants but only those who agreed to take part were
considered. There are several factors that contribute to the achievement
among the participants but the focus of the study is on the meaning, purpose
and resiliency in life as there influenced of the respondents' academic
development.
Findings:
The research was able to determine that:
1. Most of the research participants' were very young (3yrs.old below),
and were not affected. Doc and Sleepy who were 9 yrs.old and 10 yrs.
old respectively were the ones who were affected by the separation of
their parents. Sleepy expressed feelings of hatred toward the father.
As for people and situations, all of the respondents were helped by
their mother who took them after the separation. The situation that
helped them adjust quite well is their being young at the time of the
separation, thereby, getting used to the family set up at a young age.
As for personal, social, and academic life, the respondents remained
achievers despite of their parents' separation. They took the family
situation as a challenge than an obstacle in life. As for future goals,
most of the respondents want to become successful so that they can
prove to their biological fathers and others who may have looked
down on them that they have risen above the seemingly negative
circumstances of their family life.
2. As for the level of purpose and meaning in life, the other three out of
seven participants have a level of a Definite Purpose in Life, the other
three participants have a level of Indecisive Range, and only one out
of seven participants has a level of Lack of Clear Meaning and
Purpose in Life. The respondents do not think that it is not necessary
to follow a certain path that will lead them to something that is
productive. These participants probably clung to distorted truths so
they do not have to feel pain. They were found to have constantly
learned from experience especially for being a product of a broken
home.
3. As for the level of resiliency, it is evident that only two of the
respondents are highly resilient and the five participants obtained low
scores. These students probably do not know how to regain stability in
life, cope with unfair developments in an effective way, increase selfconfidence,
and break-free from childhood prohibitions that prevent
many people from effective coping. The problem of having low
resiliency may or not be resolved by letting the children feel loved in
their own families; especially in their situation now as a product of a
broken home.
4. Children who are resilient and who have meaning and purpose in life
are capable of going beyond the negative circumstances of their
parents' separation. That is, they are able to go on normally in their
personal and social life and even excel academically.
Conclusions:
The younger the child at the separation of the parents, the less
affected the children are and the easier the adjustments become. Mothers
play a significant role in helping their children because of the separation of
their parents. Personal, Social, and Academic Life of children are not much
affected if children are trained to be resilient. Children who had meaning and
purpose in life are able to go beyond the experience of separation of their
parents. Although children coming from broken homes may claim that they
have adjusted well, it is obvious that they still miss their biological fathers.
They seem to be still in search for something missing.
Recommendations:
The following are highly recommended by the researchers:
1. The administration of universities must establish programs or
seminars on family especially for students coming from broken homes
so as to help them see their purpose in life and become a better
person.
2. The researchers would like to recommend that psychology students
must become more aware about resiliency, meaning, and purpose in
life in order to help student-achievers from broken homes.
3. Student achievers coming from broken homes must learn from their
experiences.
4. Future researchers must note of this significant issue and identify
other aspects that affect individuals coming from this type of set-up.
5. It is recommended that children from broken homes see guidance
counselors who can address their psychological needs.


In a long field experiment on common black soil, the influence of various fertilization systems and presowing bacterization of seeds on the activity of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in lucerne agrocenoses and crop productivity was studied. Stimulation of the process of fixation of atmospheric nitrogen was observed when mineral fertilizers were used in the doses not exceeding N60P60K60, when they were introduced in the year of sowing. High rates of nitrogenase activity were noted in conditions of aftereffect of manure, compost, organic mineral fertilizer (manure + N30P30K30), as well as systematic use of crop residues in the crop rotation. The plant mass in above variants was characterized by high protein content. At the same time, the greatest influence on protein synthesis was provided by the use of a microbial preparation. The combination of ecologically acceptable agricultural backgrounds with presowing bacterization of lucerne seeds ensured the obtaining of parameters of crop productivity.


The paper mainly introduces the development process of LJ26665MQ motorcycle. In the course of development, the existing production equipment and technology for LJ276M and LJ465Q petrol engine are fully made use and the assets in stock of are given full play so as to ensure the of continuity of technology and universality of components and parts. Bench matching test and entire vehicle matching test are done to carburetor. Engine dynamic behavior is rated.


IStudent G~ts Air Crash Letter/ Sen. Holt Charges WP A Funds Used ::~OO~l~da~de~;:v~~!tys~::s~:~ To Make Congress Support New Deal A gl'im souvenir of the 'plane crash in which 10 persons were killed Tuesday nigh t, orri ved in Iowa City yesterday for Herbert W. Neiman, A3 of Newark, N. J. It is a charred letter, salvaged from the burning wreckage in a ravipe eight miles from Cleveland, Ohio, where a United Air lines ship plunged from the skies at 9:30 p.m. Less than two hours before, U1e letter had been mailed from Newark airport by his sister, Bernice Neiman, 212 Osborne terrace, Newark. It was poslmarked 7:35 p.m. It arri ved here ycsterday morn, . . . . . . . . . ing, the brown postoffice envelope enclosing It stamped "Damage Due to Air M:lil Interruption, Cleveland." The second postmavk was "3 p.m., May 25." The contents were unharmed, but the letter had been seared by the flames. It was scorched diagona lIy from upper left to lower right, and the edges were burnt. The name and address, 407 S. Capitol s treet, were distlnguishable. A former university student, Elling H. Veblen, 43, chief test pilot for the Douglas Aircraft company, a passenger, died in the crash. He attended Iowa City public • • • • * * • • • during 1922 and 1923 in the college oC engineering. Mr. Veblen was the son of the late Prof. Andt'ew Veblen, a member of the mathematics and physics department faculty between 1883 and 1905, and the husband of the former Mary Hitchcock of Iowa City. Mrs. Veblen is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Hitchcock, a lso 'ot Iowa City. Mr. Veblen, a World war llyer, was well-known in Iowa City, and had piloted passenger planes through here. • * * • • • • • • • Peace Hopes Slip as Czechs See Planes House Orders CrtJssing Border from German Soil G I P b ____ -_ enera ro e


The numerical studies are performed to examine the unsteady MHD free convection and mass transfer flow through a porous medium with thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo past an infinite vertical porous plate in a rotating system. Method of superposition is used as a main tool for numerical solution. The study is mainly based on the similarity approach. Impulsively started plate moving in its own plane is considered. Similarity equations of the corresponding momentum, energy and concentration equations are derived by introducing a time dependent length scale which infact plays the role of a similarity parameter. The velocity component is taken to be inversely proportional to this parameter. The effects on the velocity, temperature, concentration, local skin-friction coefficients, Nusselt number and the Sherwood number of the various important parameters entering into the problem separately are discussed with the help of graphs and tables. Key words: Numerical studies, Magnetohydronamics, Dufour, Soret, Rotating system DOI: 10.3329/bjsir.v43i2.959 Bangladesh J. Sci. Ind. Res. 43(2), 159-172, 2008


The global prevalence of diabetes mellitus has increased. The use of electronic platform devices has grown in popularity due to their low cost and ease of use. Despite their benefits, however, there remain concerns about their accuracy and precision. The objective of the study is to determine the accuracy and precision of the Win-track platform. In a cross-sectional study, 49 male patients' data were collected. Based on the pressure asserted, the data were further classified into different stages from 1 to 4. The study used four different types of classifiers (Logistic, Multi-layer Perceptron, Simple Logistic Regression and Meta-logit Boost) to check the accuracy. The result shown for all the classifiers was positive with Meta-logit Boost giving the higher Mathews correlation coefficient (MCC) (stage 1=1, stage 2=1, stage 3=0.904 and stage 4=0.912) and highest correctly classified instances and lowest incorrectly classified instances (95.91% and 4.08% respectively) with least amount of time taken for execution (T = 0.02ms). With respect to the accuracy obtained, it is suggested to use the Win-track platform in hospitals and clinics.


Locabiotal Pressurised Aerosol or L.P. Aerosol (Selpharm) is a French preparation of a fungus extract, fusafungine, dispensed under pressure in a nebuliser. It contains 0.25% fusafungine dissolved in isopropyl myristate - fusafungine is insoluble in water - and a mixture of about ten perfume oils. The makers recommend it for all infections and inflammatory conditions of the respiratory tract. They claim that 'most Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens in the respiratory tract are sensitive', that Locabiotal has 'anti-inflammatory activity equivalent to prednisone' and that it is a 'powerful antibiotic with built-in anti-inflammatory action.' The preparation has been heavily advertised, and the basic NHS cost of each prescription is 18/-.


The paper presents the results of studies on the possibility of replacing the special powder used for the manufacture of molds using the ZCast 3DP technology with the universal ZP131 powder. The ZCast technology allows the direct generation of the molds using the three-dimensional printing process. The type of powder used in the process is designated as ZCast501. That enables printing the molds which can resist the temperature of an alloy poured into as high as 1100 °C. Preparing the equipment to print molds with 3DP-ZCast technology requires removing formerly used powder, cleaning and refilling the apparatus with ZCast501 powder. In case, when the 3DP equipment is used as a universal Rapid Prototyping device for building all purpose models, frequent powder refilling is time-consuming and costly. For this reason, research was conducted on the possibility of application of universal ZP131 powder as an alternative material for ZCast technology. The objective of the study was to determine the thermal resistance of such molds for aluminum alloy casting. The results showed that there is a possibility of using ZP131 powder as a material for casting molds.


Purpose:To understand the polymorphism of HLA-DQAl in Tianjin population,HLA-DQAl alleles were determined in 96 unrelated Tianjin Han individuals using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RELP) method. Methods:PCR amplification of the polymorphic segment of HLA-DQAl second exon was performed ac-cording to the 11th International HLA Workshop Protocols. Amplified DNAs were digested with DdeⅠ,Hae Ⅲ,Fok Ⅰ,Rsa Ⅰ,MnI Ⅰ and Mbo Ⅱ. Results:Eight different alleles were detected in Tianjin Han individuals. Of the 8 DQAl alleles tested, the gene frequency of DQAl 0 301 (28.13%) was the highest, and that of DQAl * 0 401 (0.52%) was the rarest. Con-clusion: By comparing with other population, it was found that DQAl * 0 301 and * 0 401 were the characteristic alleles among the HLA-DQAl alleles in Han people.


Finding and checking of wellbeing is a vital errand in the medical services industry. Extreme lethargies is a condition of obviousness where a patient neglects to react. These patients need most extreme consideration and 24*7 perceptions. This paper demonstrates a nonstop checking and recording of insensible subject's information without human involvement. Utilizing the framework design, the extreme lethargies patient's body boundaries can be estimated continuously. Sensors gather patients body boundaries like temperature, heart rhythm, movement, eye blink and the dampness which moves the information to Node MCU which further exchanges that information to the Cloud worker. We have planned a framework that utilizes the IoT stage "ThingSpeak" to screen the unconscious patient on the web. There is no requirement for the clinical staff or going with people to be genuinely present to deal with the patient on the ground. The framework utilizes Twilio to send SMS to specialist and overseers. Clinical individual can monitor patients utilizing login to the framework So, this task assists with observing the trance-like state patient truly for each second.


Korea Eximbank.June, 2012.Design and implementation of the emerging and sustainable cities platform,Report,[Seoul]Korea Eximbank,Knowledge Sharing Program; Joint consulting proejcts with IDB,134


[Objective]To investigate the water plant odor events in drinking water,drinking water to ensure health and safety,protect the health of the people.[Methods]A water plant on-site investigations and source water,finished water,pipe water quality were monitored and evaluated.[Results]The 96 indexes of finished water and peripheral water was qualified with national"drinking water health standard"GB5749-2006,raw water ammonia,phenol type,iron and other indicators occasionally did not meet water quality standard GB3838-2002 Ⅱ.[Conclusion]Our study indicated the drinking water was contaminated by upstream industrial enterprises of the industrial wastewater pollution emissions erratic,we should eliminate water pollution,and the tap water could be used through special treatment process.


A multiple transmit and multiple receive antenna system, referred to as a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, is known to achieve large channel capacity without bandwidth expansion. We propose a simplified maximum likelihood (ML) detection scheme for a MIMO system which has reduced computational complexity compared to the ML detection scheme. According to simulation results, the bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed scheme is shown to be similar to that of the ML detection scheme with significant reduction in the computational complexity.


The influence of Si contents on microstructure evolution behavior of deformed austenite during continuous cooling in low carbon steels by means of hot compression simulation. The results showed that Si promotes the formation of proeutectoid ferrite as increasing Si content from 0.50% to 0.99%; Si stimulates the formation of granular bainite with the increase of Si content from 0.99% to 1.41%. Meanwhile, Si has an effect on the ferrite grain size and volume fraction of proeutectoid ferrite.


TikhonovvPhillips regularization is one of the besttknown regularization methods for inverse problems. A posteriori criteria for determining the regularization parameter require solving (A A + I)x = A y () for diierent values of. We investigate two methods for accelerating the standard cggalgorithm for solving the family of systems (). The rst one utilizes a stopping criterion for the cggiterations which depends on and. The second method exploits the shifted structure of the linear systems (), which allows to solve () simultaneously for diierent values of. We present numerical experiments for three test problems which illustrate the practical eeciency of the new methods. The experiments as well as theoretical considerations show that run times are accelerated by a factor of at least 3.


2007 NZSEE Conference ABSTRACT: Recent developments of viable and low-cost retrofit solutions within a multi-level retrofit approach, suggest the possibility to implement "standardized" solutions at a urban or territorial scale. However, due to the limited funds available, alternative strategies should be considered and analyzed in order to define the most effective action plan able to minimise the overall risk. Such mitigation analyses, although not yet codified, are expected to become in the near future a fundamental decision making tool for the allocation of funds by local authorities, as already happening overseas. In this paper the efficiency of different structural mitigation strategies will be investigated within the framework of a seismic risk analysis approach. Alternative mitigations strategies will be examined by combining: 1) alternative retrofit solutions based on different techniques and targeting various performance objectives; 2) spatial distributions of the intervention for targeted typologies. The effectiveness of the aforementioned alternative mitigation strategies will be assessed with reference to a case study area using different mitigation analysis methods, based on a single- or multi-criteria approach within either a deterministic or a stochastic evaluation.


This paper reviewed and assessed the productivity of value added tax [VAT] on total consumption expenditure [TCE] and on gross domestic product [GDP] which determines the level of economic growth in Nigeria. Productivity was expressed as effectiveness/efficiency. While effectiveness is the ability to be actively functional in producing expected results, efficiency is the ability to use available resources optimally, assuring that the cost of resources is controlled to the lowest possible level. Therefore the effectiveness and efficiency of VAT were calculated on GDP and adjusted GDP. The non vatable components were net off from GDP resulting in the adjusted GDP. Also VAT effectiveness and efficiency were calculated on TCE and adjusted TCE. The adjusted TCE represents the private consumption expenditure.  Findings revealed that VAT was not effective on GDP but effective on adjusted GDP.  VAT was neither efficient on TCE nor on adjusted TCE.  VAT was not productive at the cross-elasticity of TCE/GDP but was productive at the cross-elasticity of Adjusted TCE/Adjusted GDP.  Part of the recommendations was that government should review VAT threshold and the reduction of exemptions because exemptions are fundamentally inconsistent with the revenue generation objectives of VAT. This logic is preferred to increasing the present five percent VAT-rate Keywords : Productivity, Value Added Tax, Gross Domestic Product,   Total Consumption Expenditure, Effectiveness, Efficiency.


Summary form only given, as follows. Physical mechanisms leading to microwave breakdown on windows and in cavities are investigated for power levels on the order of 100 MW at 2.85 GHz. A 3 MW magnetron coupled to a traveling wave resonator is used. Various configurations of dielectric windows are investigated. In a standard pillbox geometry with a pressure of less than 10/sup -8/ Torr, surface discharges on an alumina window and multipactor-like discharges starting at the waveguide edges occur simultaneously. Window breakdown with purely tangential electrical microwave fields is investigated for special geometries. To access geometries relevant for vacuum-air interfaces, an air-filled two-window setup is integrated into the resonator as well. Diagnostics include the measurement of reflected/transmitted power, discharge luminosity, X-ray emission, and the measurement of local microwave electric fields. All quantities are recorded with 0.2 to 1 ns resolution. Based on the experimental results, methods to increase the power density which can be transmitted through windows will be investigated as well. In addition, parametric studies are conducted, in which window materials, profiles, and surface coatings are varied.


This paper attempts to analyze the competitive implications of horizontal mergers that happened in the Korean mobile telecommunications market. A big increase in the concentration index after the mergers and acquisitions is often interpreted as evidence that competition in the Korean mobile telecommunications market has decreased. This paper, first, points out that such an interpretation is not necessarily correct and more competition may lead to higher HHI, so caution should be taken before one concludes that the Korean mobile market has become less competitive simply because the HHI index has increased. This paper also shows that the increase in the concentration can be associated with increases in welfare, so that one should not presume that concentration and market performance moved in opposite directions in the Korean mobile market. Since traditional merger analysis of using the Hirfindahl Index is misleading, we need to measure consumer surplus to correctly assess the effects of the mergers and acquisitions. We find that although the market concentration, as measured by the Hirfindahl index increased 59.6 percent after the mergers and acquisitions, the change in the consumer surplus was rather small. Estimates show that it is during the introduction of competition which shows significant changes in the consumer surplus rather than during the mergers and acquisitions. The adverse effects of mergers and acquisitions on consumer surplus, if any, were not as strong as the HHI index may imply.


With wildfires increasing worldwide, populations face a heightened health risk especially for those with pre-existing lung disease. Here we examine the consequences for the epithelium and THP-1 macrophages exposed to wildfire smoke extract (WFSE). Human Small Airway Epithelial Cells (SAEC), bronchial AECs (bAEC) at an air-liquid interface (ALI), and THP-1 macrophages, were exposed for 6 h to 1-10% WFSE generated from species found in the Australian bushland. Autophagy (LC3-II and Sequestosome) and apoptosis (Poly-(ADP)-Ribose Polymerase cleavage) were measured using western analysis, fluorescein tracers and trans-epithelial resistance (TER) were used to quantify bAEC barrier function, and the production of inflammatory cytokines was assessed by flow cytometry. Each cell type exhibited induction of apoptosis, and autophagy (e.g. +2.6-fold LC3-II for SAECs with 10% WFSE; P Autophagic dysregulation at the epithelium due to wildfire smoke is likely to exacerbate lung disease, and provide a target to prevent further decline in lung function.


Simple and accurate spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the determination of lamotrigine in tablet formulation. The method A was based on the diazotization of lamotrigine followed by coupling with 4-(dimethylamino)benzaldehyde in acid medium to give greenish yellow product with a λmax of 410 nm. The method B also was based on the diazotization of drug and conversion of phenol into nitrosophenol with excess nitrous acid in acid medium to give brown color with a λmax of 448 nm. Thus, methods A and B were used to determine lamotrigine in the range of 1-10 μg/ml and 2.5-12 μg/ml, respectively in the final measured solution. There was no interference from the ingredients commonly found in lamotrigine tablets with these methods. The results compared favorably with those of reported methods and related analytical parameters were calculated.


This bachelor's work consists of processing an e-learning course within the context of the Internet and its threats. The first chapter describes what e-learning means and what makes it possible. It outlines the rules that e-learning and the creation of e-learning courses ought to obey as well as the organizations that these rules protect. The second chapter informs the reader about the Internet, characterizes it briefly and discusses Internet network architecture and the rules that govern the Internet. The third chapter briefly characterizes threats of the Internet and how to prevent them. The final chapter describes the creation of an e-learning course, the Internet and its threats. This e-learning course constitutes a supplement of this bachelor's work.


This second section deals with the basis of postoperative therapy following stapedectomy. They develop first the immediate postoperative care, then maintenance therapy, mainly NaF therapy to slow down or arrest cochlear enymatic deterioration, if needed.


A new family of electron acceptor ligands complexed with osmium(II) and associated with appropriate electron donor subunits within heteroleptic compounds, results in multicomponent assemblies of potential interest for both synthetic chemistry and supramolecular photochemistry.


The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears several times in translations of the Old Testament.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Armenia, Albania, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Greece, the Levant, Afghanistan, Southern Spain, and Mexico have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists.


Multidimensional positioning is a graphical method used to chart a set of similarities or dissimilarities but also a procedure used to build common scales from a set of subjective attributes. The aim of this note is to help the users in the implementation of multidimensional scaling by means of SPSS procedures, PROXIMITIES and ALSCAL. This implementation relates to the analysis of the dissimilarity tables built starting from multidimensional tables of individual data. Starting from examples, the listing of outputs obtained comes to illustrate the theoretical part devoted to the methods. Mots cles : Positionnement multidimensionnel, analyse des proximites, tableaux de dissimilarites, analyse factorielle sur tableaux de distance , logiciel statistique SPSS.


Individual learning style causes a person to approach situation in different ways. As a result, it is important to investigate the learning styles of future students to improve the quality of the teaching and learning. This research used Kolb's Learning Style Inventory to compare the learning styles of pre-science and pre-business students. A survey research design was utilized and a total of 121 samples was finally analyzed. Findings revealed that pre-science students were dominantly assimilator whereby pre-business students were dominantly converger. With respect to the SPM (Malaysian Certificate of Education) achievement and learning styles, ANOVA revealed that there was significant difference in SPM English between accommodator and assimilator; between accommodator and converger. On the other hand, there was significant difference in SPM Mathematics between accommodator and converger. Furthermore, pre-science students were balanced with abstract conceptualization "thinking" learning mode and concrete experience "feeling" mode and highly comfortable with active experimentation "doing" mode. Pre-business students were more comfortable with abstract conceptualization "thinking" learning mode and active experimentation "doing" mode. This research suggests that the educators should be familiar with the learning styles of their students and engage with varieties of instructional strategies to ensure the success of their students. with a mean score of 2.56 (S.D = 0.48). With respect to the SPM (Malaysian Certificate of Education) achievement and diverging learning style, independent samples test revealed that there was a significant difference in SPM English between pre-science and pre-business students with diverging learning style (p<0.05).


This is a valuable, informative, and timely book. The historical period it considers, 1956–1991, was one in which the communist parties of Central and Eastern Europe ruled, apparently as passive sa...


The purpose of this study is to develop of a direct injection Diesel nozzle, which is obtained high-dispersion spray inside a combustion chamber by strong disturbance of liquid flow due to cavitation phenomena. Diesel injector is necessary to jet of fuel high-injection pressure over about 200 MPa. In spite of high-injection pressure, at best spray angle may take about from 10 to 20 degrees and droplet diameter; Sauter mean diameter may take about 10 microns. Moreover, since conventional Diesel injector cuts away an edge of inlet of nozzle holes in order to increase discharge coefficient and to improve flow characteristics, high-injection pressure is demanded to obtain spray suitable for combustion. The nozzle, which was designed and invented in this study, was obtained with considerably large spray angle of over 70 degrees, short breakup length; liquid core length of about 2 mm for hole diameter of 0.3 mm, Sauter mean diameter of 10 microns order; about 15 microns and homogeneous droplets of spray toward radial direction of spray at injection pressure of 8 MPa. Moreover, volumetric flow rate of nozzle with round cutting at inlet of the nozzle hole was obtained about two times one compared with sharp inlet shape nozzle at all injection pressure region. Both spray and flow characteristics were improved significantly. Corresponding author: email@example.com Nozzle Types B re ak up L en gt h L b m m Atomization Enhancement Nozzle Db=0.2 mm, Dbpu=1.2 mm, D1=0.6 mm R=0.3 mm, D2=0.3 mm (N=4), Dp=3.0 mm Pi=8 MPa


Q-Connect has hit upon a brilliant opportunity in the rural advertising and marketing space in one of the most promising regions of India. It has done well to overcome the challenges of bringing on board both traditional mobile theatre companies as well as big brands for their marketing and advertising needs. It is worth a mention that the success of Q-Connect must be seen in the highlight of facts that despite its potential, Assam and the north eastern parts of India find little prominence in advertising and marketing plans as well as budgets of most pan-national and multinational brands. Against the background that the society in Assam is emerging from the shadows of internal unrest and insurgency in large parts of the state and subsequent fallout of high proportion of less-educated and unemployed youth in the state, Q-Connect's success is remarkable. The case analysis is done keeping in mind these notable and significant features of the situation and business context.


This text analyses Truth Commissions as a political mechanism engaging with two main questions: one, the central role of testimonies in providing both ethical and political legitimacy to truth commissions and information regarding the violation of human rights; two, the work of professionals from law and the social sciences in providing scientific legitimacy and in their position as 'privileged' witnesses of the truth-telling process. Throughout the analysis of a specific case —the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission— I discuss the possibilities of scientific knowledge to produce a more complete understanding of "the violence" and the need to question certain interpretative assumptions regarding the political agency of certain populations, in this case, of the Andean rural communities.


The article is devoted to the environmental safety of the Carpathian region on the basis of monitoring of ources of man-made dust pollution. The real conditions of ecological hazard formation with consideration of secondary dust pollution of atmospheric air are determined. The influence of manifestations of ecological danger on the state of morbidity of the population in relation to certain nosological forms in the zones of direct action of sources of secondary dust pollution of atmospheric air is established. The purpose of the work is to solve the scientific and practical task of environmental safety management under the influence of man-made dust pollution and to develop specific technical solutions. The object of study is information technology for the diagnosis and assessment of the state of the environment and man-made objects. The system of environmental safety management in the region with intensive secondary dust pollution of the air includes a comprehensive system of technical and technological management of environmental safety in the conditions of intensive action of sources of secondary dust pollution of the air. The theoretical basis for the construction of this system is a set of principles, developed on the basis of a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the results of previous theoretical studies and practical experience on environmental safety management at the regional level. The specific features of the formation of environmental hazards under the influence of dust pollution factors are established, the differentiation of sources of danger with the allocation of primary and secondary (in relation to the main technological process of industrial production) dust pollution of atmospheric air is substantiated. A methodology for assessing the impact on sources of secondary dust pollution by atmospheric air has been developed. A methodological approach is proposed to assess the state of ecological safety in the conditions of intensive dust pollution of the air, based on the application of the modified method of complex assessment of the level of man-made hazard of industrial objects


A new method for identification of defects in winding insulation of switched off electric motors connected by a cable to a power source. To assess condition of a motor, rectangular voltage pulse is applied to one of motor connection phases. Mathematical simulation and experimental studies of motors with defects have shown that AC voltage between phases emerges at the subsequent discharge of interphase capacitances. Frequency of such voltage is a function of defect and location of its origin. This method can be applied for three phase motors of all transport vehicles and industrial plants motors, which are cable jointed.


Aiming at resolving the problems of face detection algorithm under complicated background such as low detection rate and high false-alarm-rate etc,an effective method of face detection in color images based on improved AdaBoost algorithm and skin color is presented.By improving parameters of sample weights and weak classifier weighting value,the traditional AdaBoost algorithm has been improved.It effectively restrains the excessive increase of weights of hard samples,strengthens the capacity of classifier for recognition of samples and the system detection rate is increased.The detection result is screened with YCbCr space skin color model to filter error-detected "non-face" area.The experimental results indicate that this method assures the face detection speed and precision of improved AdaBoost algorithm under complicated background,decreases the false-alarm-rate and has strong robustness.


Neocortical 3R4R (3‐repeat/4‐repeat) tau aggregates are rarely observed in the absence of amyloid beta (Aβ). 18F‐MK6240 binds specifically to the 3R4R form of tau that is characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We report four cases with negative Aβ, but positive tau positron emission tomography (PET) findings.


The purpose of this study was to determine how the meaning of self compassion in different cultures, especially health workers in North Jakarta when faced failure, suffering or disability themselves, and to analyse if self compassion expressed by Neff is applicable in Indonesia culture. This study uses indigenous psychology approach. This research employs thematic analysis techniques. This technique is applied to the data obtained through open ended questionnaire. The results of these adjustments can be sorted that the degree of the reaction is the overidentification (51.67%), mindfulness (39.17%), self kindness (1.67%), self judgment (6.67%), isolation (0.83%), and common humanity (0% ). Factors affecting self compassion like personality, gender, and cultural roles of parents also appeared on the respondent. In addition to these factors, the researchers also found some new factors affecting health workers in North Jakarta in the face of failure, suffering or feelings of inadequacy that the social environment, external pressure, occupation, education, age, high confidence, motivation and economy. The conclusion of this study is the theory proposed by Neff on self-compassion can be applied in the Indonesian cultural background, which research results obtained by researchers supported by the results of research Clara (2013) on The Meaning of Self Compassion and The Response Toward Failure in Our Society. This is because the themes that have obtained the same concept with the concept of the components as well as the factors that influence self-compassion Keywords: self compassion, health workers, indigenous psychology


ABSTRACT The phase transition of Fe1-xCrx alloys after thermal aging at 748 K has been investigated by means of positron annihilation spectroscopy. It was observed that the implanted positrons preferentially annihilate with Fe electrons. The Cr concentration dependence of the W-parameter before thermal aging is quantitatively described by a preferential positron annihilation model within the first two coordination shells. After thermal aging, the W-parameter increased for all alloys, probably on account of an enhanced preferential positron annihilation of Fe atoms according to the growth of Cr-rich phases by thermal aging. Simultaneously, Fe-rich phases were formed and the interface condition between the Fe- and Cr-rich phases changed, providing another mechanism by which positrons are preferentially annihilated with Fe electrons in the Fe-rich phases.


Hazim Al – Qartajany is one of the most prominent Arabic thinkers during the seventh century after the hijra. His book "the Aproach of rhetoricians and Guide of writers " contains important Linguistic issues which link philosophy and lingnistics in accordance with Islamic tradition of culture and philosophy that Hazim inherited from his master abi ali Al-shelobean . The present thesis aims at exploring the linguistic content of Hazim , s aforementioned book which meets the major requirements established by linguists before him , i.e. , ( speaker , utterances ,speech) Meanings also represent an important aspect of Hazims linguistic thought , occupying almost two thirds of his book. Hazim emphasizes the place of context in deciding meaning, and this agrees with modern lingnistics which link language to society and emphasizes the social and pragmatic function of utterances whether in poetry or actual speech. The thesis falls into an introduction and three chapters the introduction is concerned with Hazim al- Qartajany life and career and the linguistic approach he follows in his book. deviation s attitude .


The lands of semi-arid eastern Australia, in which poplar box (Eucalyptus populnea) and its various associated shrubs occur, has been the subject of Governmental enquiry and research, mainly with respect to the reduction in grazing capacity and the increase in unwanted woody plants.


This paper reviews of the existing techniques for the reactive power allocation in large power systems. The description of the problem with its significance to the operation and planning of power systems is presented. Merits of the corresponding techniques are reviewed according to their types of formulation.


ABSTRACT The federal on-scene coordinator's public information mechanism is an often underused resource that can help responders overcome communications problems and better accomplish goals in spill situations. Media coverage of recent spills indicates recurring problems with regard to the way the responses were perceived. Responders' actions tended to be characterized by contradiction and misunderstanding, questions about leadership, and failure to act in a timely manner. This paper examines some of that media coverage and outlines the basic guidelines which federal on-scene coordinators use to avoid such problems: access, focus, and control/coordination. The paper is intended to help the response community better understand the OSC's public information role and missions; it may help the response community make greater use of the OSC public information program to communicate vital information during a spill response.


The Collaborative User Experience Research group has been investigating how people use email and how we might design and build a better email system. In this demonstration, we will show a prototype email client developed as part of a larger project on "reinventing email." Among other new capabilities, this integrated prototype incorporates 1) novel visualizations of the documents within mail databases to aid understanding and navigation, 2) advanced text analysis of the content of email messages, and 3) several unique features for helping users manage their attention.


Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) seedlings were cultivated in 50% Hoagland's nutrient solution amended with carbon dots (CDs) at different concentrations (0, 10, 20, 30 and 40 mg/L) for 7 days...