On 02.12.2017, Oscar C. B. Neto was able to make an interesting observation in his backyard in Benedito Novo, Santa Catarina, Brazil: Two different colour morphs of Stiretrus decemguttatus could be photographed while they were mating and feeding at the same time (Fig. 1). One specimen was feeding on a larva, while the other one was feeding on an Asopine, probably another colour morph of S. decemguttatus or a specimen of S. erythrocephalus. Both species have similar blue colour patterns which differ in tibial expansions and median abdominal spine (Thomas, 1992), characters which are not visible in Figure 1.


Introduction Midwives must undertake relevant continuing professional development (CPD) and document how education has informed and influenced their practice (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2011). Also, the Department of Health (DH) has emphasised the need for strengthening the integration of theory into practice within post-registration education (DH 2010a), and for future midwifery education to be demonstrably linked to its impact upon practice (DH 2010b). This increasing focus on the impact of post-registration education has added to pressure within the National Health Service (NHS) (Staniland et al 2011), yet there appears to be a dearth of evidence surrounding educational practice improvements (Griscti and Jacono 2006; Health Service Executive (HSE) 2008). Whilst most evidence relates to nursing rather than midwifery disciplines, it suggests that post-registration education changes practitioners' beliefs and ensures staff competency and accountability, with minimal impact on care and service delivery (Gijbels et al 2009; McCormack and Slater 2006), and questions whether educational programmes SUMMARY: National guidelines require midwives to undertake effective postregistration education which is relevant to practice. However, there is minimal research investigating the impact of education on practice, most of which originates from nursing and allied professions. A small-scale phenomenological pilot study, involving four experienced midwives, was undertaken to explore their experiences and opinions regarding the impact of midwifery post-registration educational courses upon practice. The research highlighted two key areas: practical engagement in continuing professional development (CPD) and midwives' reasons for their educational choices. The midwives valued the practical relevance and applicability of CPD to practice and the use of interprofessional learning in narrowing the theory-practice gap; educational choices were affected by accessibility, flexibility, mandatory attendance, cost and conflict with employers' objectives. The study suggests further research into the impact of CPD upon midwifery practice and what factors would better engage and motivate midwives to undertake more clinically effective post-registration education.


The prospect of increased atmospheric CO2 has long interested biologists, not only because of the potential impacts on plants due to CO2-driven climate change, but because CO2 also stimulates plant growth. CO2 is a vital ingredient of photosynthesis – the biochemical reaction through which most plants metabolise CO2 and water into plant sugars – and higher CO2 levels increase the rate of photosynthesis.


The purpose of this study is to define the character of modern Korean women poets' consciousness and aesthetic sense through the representations of nature in their poems. In this study, the representation of 'Water' was especially focused on one of the important representations of nature. In women's poems, the representation of 'Water' is expressed itself by various sensitive description. Women poets express various senses like touch, hearing, etc., which are different from the modern emphasis on the sense of sight. This change of central focus develops a new area of esthetics, which is free from the stereotypes that assert the superiority of mind over body, sight over other senses. In women's poems, the representation of 'Water' carries the thoughts and feelings about 'the other'. The women poets develop a bond of understanding by projecting their interests and sympathy toward the others, instead of sticking to sight as a subject. In this way, so women's poems reveal the rich imagination that is behind the simple description of the object. The representation of 'Water' in women's poems does not simply mean fluent vitality, but it shows the dynamic relation of life and death. Women poets emphasize the circular relationship between life and death, and reveal the difficulty of maintaining life and overcoming difficulties that arise. In women's poems, motherhood is related to the movement for recovering life's original nature. The representations of nature that were revealed by the experience of women's lives show a variety of sensations, a delicate cognition about the others, energetic thought about life and death, which are seldom seen in men's poems. Women's flexibility is related to the freedom from sight as a subject and their central position is manifested in a new aesthetic and ecological sense. The representations of nature in women's poems involve the possibility of equal solidarity between people and nature, so they have important meaning ecologically.


Understanding the relative importance of these two mechanisms is important for governments' education strategies. If education really does make individuals more productive then this will lead to higher economic growth, and many other benefits, meaning government should invest in it. On the other hand, if education is merely acting as a signal of pre-existing ability then it is less clear that government should spend large amounts of money educating populations.


The thing managers should consider important when they run a new business is market research. For this reason managers must pay attention some criterions. These are five C's of market research (concept, criticism, competition, credibility, common interest). Every business venture starts with an idea. Any idea can be turned into profitable, home-based business. It doesn't necessarily have to be a " new invention " or a new idea. However to be successful the business should exceed customers' expectations. To increase credibility, managers should become more involved with community. Networking is free and could provide the most valuable exposure for managers and their companies.


Gamma-ray line emission from the radioactive decay of 26Al reflects nucleosynthesis in massive stars and supernovae. We use INTEGRAL 26Al measurements to characterize the distribution and characteristics of 26Al source regions throughout the Galaxy. We detect the 26Al line from the inner Galaxy at 28\sigma significance. The line appears narrow, and we constrain broadening in the source regions to 5deg.


Generally face recognition perform many operations in our daily life such as security purpose identification of people and verification purpose. The basic aim of my project is to design an effective and secure technique for authentication using face recognition that can search or recognize a human face among the thousands of persons and improve the performance of face recognition system in low light conditions and also evaluate the performance of the designed framework by comparing the performance of existing face recognition system. This study also provides a automatic system through which a given still image or video of a scene, identify one or more persons in this scene by using a stored database of facial images.


Technique of transplantation of retinal pigment epithelium has been noticeable in recent years and gradually put into clinical practice in treating retinal degenerative diseases.Here we reviewed the latest progress on transplantation of retinal pigment epithelium including choices of donors,demands for hosts,transconduct of target genes and its clinical practice.


Through-tubing well servicing has evolved to a present- day technology that almost eliminates the necessity to ever remove the basic producing tubing string in a well. Complete workovers are now performed with a combination of wire-line tools and 3/4 in. to 1-1/4 in. concentric tubing. The success of these procedures has helped make tubingless completions practical in high-cost directional wells off shore. Additional expansion of techniques now makes the workover of upper zones in dual, triple, and quadruple conventional completions practical and economical. Innovations in squeeze cementing, sand control, small packers and pack-offs and directional perforating techniques have been necessary. Additional developments needed now include small turbine bits to remove obstruction, perforating guns that can be run on pipe, dependable tubing repair patches, and improved methods of cleaning sand from wells without lost returns problems. (16 refs.)


(1) The aetiology of one of the most striking physiological changes occurring during space‐flight, the loss of red blood cells, remains unknown, and its precise time‐pattern in flight has not yet been studied.


In recent years, the rise of the domestic industry has boosted the use and popularity of prefabricated buildings. Prefabricated buildings differ significantly from traditional design, construction, and production models. However, due to the short development period of prefabricated buildings in China, the quality management of these new structures is still not mature, resulting in frequent project delays and failure. To improve quality management, this paper aims to establish an evaluation model of factors affecting prefabricated building quality. The 4M1E framework was used to categorize and generalize related quality factors. Then, GeNIe software was used to establish a visual Bayesian network quality factor evaluation model. The factors that need to be managed and given attention to in the prefabricated construction project were discovered using reverse reasoning, sensitivity, and critical factor analysis. The results indicated that among the multiple stages of prefabricated buildings, the construction stage has the greatest impact on the quality of buildings. C2(Insufficient sense of responsibility of construction personnel) is the most significant factor that needs to be controlled. In addition, this paper combined the ISM-BN model with actual engineering projects to identify key factors affecting the project's quality, demonstrating the model's applicability. The evaluation model of quality factors in prefabricated buildings was established. It can identify the underlying causes of quality issues in prefabricated buildings and control engineering quality at the source, acting as an effective guide for practitioners and enterprises.


When people speak or write of "embodied" in one form or another, as in embodied mind, embodied cognition, embodied language, embodied self, and so on, they implicitly look past if not outright deny the realities of evolution. Animate life evolves on the basis of different morphologies. Animals with differing morphologies establish not merely different niches but different modes of living, which in the most fundamental sense means establishing distinctive repertoires of movement—different ways of doing everyday things. Certain movements within one species' repertoire may nevertheless coincide with certain movements within the repertoire of other species, as, for instance, the movement known as presenting, which occurs in multiple primate species in two different contexts: as a sexual invitation and as an aggression deterrent. That certain movements can have the same significance across species does not diminish the distinctiveness of any repertoire but attests to the evolutionary heritage of a species, namely its anchorage in morphology, that is, in bodily templates and possible variations of the same, all of which templates and possible variations translate into distinctive movement possibilities and definitive repertoires of movement. From this real-life, real-time evolutionary point of view, animate forms of life are clearly not embodied forms of life but kinetic forms of life,


According to the problem existed in teaching of food literature retrieval course in university and the learning needs of students,this paper discussed textbook selection,teaching contents,teaching methods and examination forms and some suggestions were put forward pointedly.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the participative budgeting literature, and specifically the budgetary participation literature that has examined the casual mechanisms linking participation to satisfaction/performance and the literature that has examined culture as an explanatory factor in the budgetary participation/performance relationship.Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs the path model to examine and compare the budget participation–performance relationship for South Korean managers working for either US controlled or Asian controlled companies in South Korea. The path model allows the examination of the direct effects of budget participation on performance and the indirect effects between budget participation and performance that run through job satisfaction and job relevant information.Findings – The primary findings of this study are that while there are strong associations between budget participation and performance for both samples of managers, the causal mechanis...


Modern teaching has been developing toward multimedia teaching.During multimedia teaching we should achieve organic combination of teaching method and leave enough time and space to students to think and communicate.


With the conversion from the test-oriented education to the quality-oriented education, teachers should shift their focus on how to foster and promote learners' creativeness in the routine teaching. Therefore, teachers should encourage learners' creative ideas and behaviors by offering proper stimuli and appreciation. And teachers should offer learners abundant opportunities and situations to practice their creativeness. At the same time, establishing a democratic,equal relationship and a free,harmonious class will be a must to provide a supportive environment for the development of learners' creativity. In addition, teachers should also estimate and remedy learners' creative ideas and behaviors timely and properly.


This research is an attempt to compare engineering solutions for traffic intersections from a planning viewpoint. In this research, various solutions have been discussed for traffic intersections (traffic light, roundabout, underpass and overpass). The research highlighted the importance of each of these solutions in urban environments and clarified all variables related to the pros, cons, costs, capacity and environmental compatibility of each of these solutions with the surrounding urban environment. Weights were developed for all these variables, then correlation was determined using the linear regression method. The analysis of statistical results shows that the creation of underpasses often achieves most of the designated goals when compared to other solutions, despite some technical difficulties and high construction costs.


The town is in a frenzy down there. This is what it means to be a city, they say, locking their doors and stifling behind their windows. On the streets at night no one moves. No one goes out. There's a murderer out there and no one knows what he wants, where he is, who he is, and why he kills. This is Perth, Western Australia, whose ambitions know no limit and the streets are empty.


Portals have evolved from being simple providers of Web page access and corporate databases into being sites that support intelligent management, integration of applications and collaborative processing. Portals can be considered as an evolution of datawarehouses by extending its application to Intranets and giving access to all information resources and knowledge of a firm. All these facts make it essential that developed portals are of good quality. Our aim is to define a portal quality model and, to achieve it, we have used the GQM method. As our model is in the definition phase now, only its two first phases have been used. That is the reason why our model must be considered as a first approach and not as a close and definitive model. Our model, called PQM, is composed of six dimensions: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and data quality. These dimensions have been obtained by means of the SERVQUAL method. Moreover, we have done a survey of the workers of the portal of Castilla-La Mancha (castillalamancha.es) to obtain their opinion and assesment about different aspects of this portal in relation to PQM. Index Terms — Quality assurance, quality concepts, model development. —————————— u ——————————


The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. This data collection contains expanded field notes of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews conducted with 48 purposively selected key informants in Lucknow, Allahabad and Hardoi as part of a rapid assessment to determine private sector barriers and enablers associated with the sharing of maternal and newborn health data with the public sector. It also includes photographs of example health records, study tools, and associated documentation.


The case is reported of a seven‐year‐old girl who was bitten by a tiger snake and sustained severe liver, skeletal muscle and myocardial muscle damage as a result of envenomation. She recovered after treatment with polyvalent snake bite antivenom preceded by promethazine.


An experimental study of extreme high-squint (i.e. forward-looking) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. Experimental data collected against a distributed complex target are successfully focused using the backprojection algorithm. Interferometric SAR processing is then performed in order to overcome left-right ambiguity and estimate constituent scatterer Cartesian coordinates.


The Office of Transit Administration (OTA) of the Minnesota Department of Transportation has been administering state funds for transit services since 1977. Since the programs started, a data base has been maintained so that OTA could monitor and evaluate system performance. Monitoring involves checking expenses, revenues, and operating statistics monthly so that systems remain in accordance with a formal management plan. Evaluation work is geared to an annual review of the system prior to grant renewal and identifying potential areas of improvement. The evaluation work, which uses a five-year time horizon study and a peer group review, has produced results appropriate to measuring system performance only against local goals. Two levels of performance measures are applied to all systems. An aggregate measure review looks for potential trouble areas, and a disaggregate measure review confirms the source of concern. A very detailed disaggregate review may follow to pinpoint troubles. In order to rationalize and justify the state expenditure of funds, OTA has developed transit investment measures. Benefit and cost measures are used to evaluate the performance of all systems. The measurement systems used by OTA are identified, and reasons why the transit investment measures evolved are discussed.


This study is all about effective online grocery delivery. Delivery changed into a hassle which affected the ease of online purchasing. However to conquer this many outlets which includes on line outlets in Taiwan introduced in a shop choose up service. This now supposed that clients may want to buy items online and choose them up at a close-by comfort shop, making online purchasing greater fine to clients. In the occasion of a hassle with the object (e.g., the product changed into now no longer what the patron ordered or the product changed into now no longer satisfactory), purchasers are worried with the convenience of returning an object in trade for the suitable product or a refund. Consumers may also want to touch the retailer, go to the publishing workplace and pay to go back shipping, after which await a substitute or refund. Some on line corporations have greater beneficent go back regulations to atone for the conventional benefit of bodily shops. This study takes four companies, for example Flipkart, My Kirana, Big Basket and Grocery Bazaar. This shows how they are doing the online grocery business effectively.


The paper is an outcome of the joint effort of a ne urosurgeon and a decision analyst for post evaluati on of medical decision. Here, a real life medical decisio n making situation is dealt and course of action ta ken by a neurosurgeon in Nepal is presented. The paper des crib medical details of the situation, decision condition and alternative course of action availabl e and also on the decision taken in the given socio economic condition. We have jointly evaluated scena rio based options available for treatment and selected course of action utilizing Analytic Hierar chy Process (AHP) based framework. The decision framework, pair-wise comparison of decision factors , initial outcome and sensitivity analysis of the decision problem are presented in the paper. The po st medical decision analysis using AHP framework is conducted to get an insight of the medical decision problem to evaluate the rationality of the decisio n taken. The paper also demonstrates the need of a de cision analyst to medical professionals on making informed critical decisions for the satisfaction of medical doctors as well as patient and his/her nex t to keens.


The Senior Development Project as a capstone research project was already introduced in [1]. Our institution, with its international campuses in USA, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, is setting a new level of distance and collaborative education that enables students to form different cultures and time zones to work together on real projects in a controlled, academic setting, but in a manner that mirrors business and industry projects to a very significant degree. Three instructors are delivering this course jointly on three continents. This remote, synchronous delivery has both advantages and disadvantages. Students are more aware of one another and fully understand, subconsciously, that they are being taught the exact same material to the exact same standards. However, the technology still does not provide a smooth interface that provides the same immersive experience as face-to-face communication. There are also issues with motivating the students who are sitting alone in the classroom while the instructor is physically at the other campus. Students form joint teams of 6 – 7 team members that are not just international, but also multidisciplinary – Web and Mobile Computing (WMC) students work together with Computing and Information Technologies (CIT) and also, more recently, Human-Centered Computing (HCC) students. This creates a real need for the students to deal with the many issues of distributed teams, project coordination, and customers to give feedback through assessment of students projects. Each year students work on different projects and over the last three years we offered multiple projects randomly divided on teams – each team works on a single project, but about four teams on average work on any particular project, competing with each other. In order to assess projects, it is crucial to set the benchmark for assessment of their project work and learning outcomes. In this case, the classical way of student evaluation through exams and in-class work is not applicable due to project specifics. That's why we introduced innovative assessment tools like writing intensive papers, project and user documentation, gate reviews, sponsor input, video quizzes and at the end heavy dose of peer evaluations. This paper will describe this assessment factors in order to achieve better student experience and feedback. The key aspect, however, is that the course exposes our students to the typical projects, as well as the cultural and technical problems, that they will encounter in the workplace and it is important to assess that work in a comprehensive and innovative way. This is in sharp contrast to most other schools where this capstone work is purely hypothetical and the projects exist only on paper.


This paper briefs the problem of tube breaks of closed cooling water exchanger caused by vibrations at Shantou Power Plant of Huaneng Power Group, and discusses the retrofit by the application of the technology of the new -type rod baffle heat exchanger that has solved the problems successfully. Based upon the operation and test results, this new-type exchanger has proved its function of eliminating the vibration and improving efficiency.


Evaluating the economy of high strength steel in structural applications is typically difficult since accurate cost data is not available. In this study, multi‐criteria optimization approach is employed to provide the designer with a decision‐making tool for finding compromise solutions between material and fabrication costs without the need for cost data. Structural weight, painted area and volume of welds are the three conflicting and non‐commensurable criteria considered. These quantities represent the main sources of costs in tubular trusses, namely material, surface treatment and welding. By examining the Pareto optimal solutions, the trade‐off between weight savings and fabrication costs can be assessed. The proposed approach is especially suitable when applying topology optimization, as the number of braces can be varied during optimization, which has clear impact on the fabrication costs.


8549Background: We previously reported molecular profiling as a primary endpoint in a prospective multicenter molecular epidemiology study, collecting 876 surgically resected NSCLC and examining 72...


Digital watermarking defined asinvisible information weareabletoembedahighvolumeofinformation andblind hiding inadigital medium suchasimage, video, oraudio mainlyfor recovery. Takinguseofspread spectrum entails robustness ownership proving orinformation transmission. Watermarking is anditscombination withDCT frequency domainincreases generally carried outintwoforms namely spatial domainand therobustness ofthemethod. Thismethodisofa proper frequency domain. Somealgorithms require original imageforacceleration andhighvisibility. extracting. Thereareothertypes ofalgorithm, called blind Section 2 offersthe methodforembedding a message, algorithms, which donotrequire anyoriginal image forextracting. Section 3 gives t of forectin 4 message Inthis paper, weapply blind algorithm toembedahighvolume of section 3gives anaccount ofrecovery, section 4gives the hidden information byDCTmethod. Moreover, inorder toincreaseexperimental results andanevaluation ofthemethod; and therobustness weusespread spectrum toembedhidden information finally section 5includes conclusion andfurther research. within DCTcoefficients, where, thevisibility oftheimageisideally maintained. Inorder todemonstrate therobustness ofthemethod2.DATA EMBEDDING against somecommonimageprocessing operations suchas compression, change inbrightness andcontrast, addition ofnoise, We suppose M asthemessage forembedding, then: sharpening, blurring, filtering andetc,we haveusedStirmarkM benchmark. Incomparison withother researches theresults show M = 1. .MLength I1. w .Mwidth J (1) thevalidity ofthemethod (4,5,8). WhereM {O,1}, MLength isthemessagelength and


The Delft University of Technology is developing an MDO tool for the conceptual design of transport aircraft. However, the current program is not able to investigate the influence of the undercarriage design on the weight, drag and geometry of transport aircraft. This research proposes a new design method for the undercarriage, for which a new design module is created and integrated into the Initiator architecture. This new method will allow the user to investigate the influence of the undercarriage design on the weight, drag and geometry transport aircraft concept. By designing the undercarriage for six existing aircraft, it is shown that the updated Initiator is able to reliably and consistently design an undercarriage for a given transport aircraft concept. Also, two test cases demonstrate that the new method allows the user to evaluate the impact of the undercarriage on the drag, weight and geometry of the concept.


Anglo-Saxon gnomic verses are generally recognized as a combination of Christian precepts and wisdom surviving from ancestral paganism. Therefore, the examination of gnomic verses, specially Anglo-Saxon terms for the deity, may shed light on how Christianity had affected the life of the Teutonic tribes and how they had adapted themselves to the new religion. First, the term cyning, which means "king," is one of the key words to understand a variety of Anglo-Saxon words that had originally been heathen but later came to function as designations of the Christian Deity through Christian influence. The study of this word may help to comprehend how the Germanic people adapted their pagan ideas of the powerful ruler to the Christian God. The fundamental basis of Anglo-Saxon kennings for God is the concept of God as heavenly king. God is placed in parallel with the king. The three major roles of a king, which are similar to those of kingly God, were as follows: the protector; the gift-giver; and the judge. Also, other terms, such as god, wyrd, metod, f aeder, eoden, dryhten, deserve a close examination. For they are very crucial words in the study of the traces of the Teutonic tribes' conversion to Christianity. Whether borrowed or native, whether fashioned long ago or newly formed, many Anglo-Saxon terms for the deity in Old English gnomic verses conclusively show that the new religion played a very remarkable role in various aspects of the life and vocabularies of the Anglo-Saxons.


The discussion of art fakes is dominated by the legal and by the art historic points of view. Lawyers tend to look at fakes in terms of forgery and counterfeiting. Fraud should therefore be prohibited. Art historians emphasize the uniqueness or "aura" of the original work. Consequently, it has to be specially protected against imitation.


This paper gives electromagnetic wave field and irrotational field with proper degrees of freedom and the simplified expressions of dyadic Green's functions correspondence to electromagnetic wave field and irrotational field is deduced respectively.


Advances in microelectronic technology has been based on an increasing capacity to integrate transistors, moving this industry to the nanoelectronics realm in recent years. Moore's Law [1] has predicted (and somehow governed) the growth of the capacity to integrate transistors in a single IC. Nevertheless, while this capacity has grown steadily, the increasing number of design tasks that are involved in the creation of the integrated circuit and their complexity has led to a phenomenon known as the ``design gap´´. This is the difference between what can theoretically be integrated and what can practically be designed. Since the early 2000s, the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductors (ITRS) reports, published by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), alert about the necessity to limit the growth of the design cost by increasing the productivity of the designer to continue the semiconductor industry's growth. Design automation arises as a key element to close this "design gap".
In this sense, electronic design automation (EDA) tools have reached a level of maturity for digital circuits that is far behind the EDA tools that are made for analog circuit design automation. While digital circuits rely, in general, on two stable operation states (which brings inherent robustness against numerous imperfections and interferences, leading to few design constraints like area, speed or power consumption), analog signal processing, on the other hand, demands compliance with lots of constraints (e.g., matching, noise, robustness, ...). The triumph of digital CMOS circuits, thanks to their mentioned robustness, has, ultimately, facilitated the way that circuits can be processed by algorithms, abstraction levels and description languages, as well as how the design information traverse the hierarchical levels of a digital system. The field of analog design automation faces many more difficulties due to the many sources of perturbation, such as the well-know process variability, and the difficulty in treating these systematically, like digital tools can do. In this Thesis, different design flows are proposed, focusing on new design methodologies for analog circuits, thus, trying to close the "gap" between digital and analog EDA tools. In this chapter, the most important sources for perturbations and their impact on the analog design process are discussed in Section 1.2. The traditional analog design flow is discussed in 1.3. Emerging design methodologies that try to reduce the "design gap" are presented in Section 1.4 where the key concept of Pareto-Optimal Front (POF) is explained. This concept, brought from the field of economics, models the analog circuit performances into a set of solutions that show the optimal trade-offs among conflicting circuit performances (e.g. DC-gain and unity-gain frequency). Finally, the goals of this thesis are presented in Section 1.5.


In this internet and digitalization age, information in any form is very important to perform a digital task. The processing of any information to obtain the desired results requires a specific medium and sometimes to accomplish various tasks related to that set of information like browsing, searching, sorting, retrieval and management. In order to perform those tasks on the information, which are present on various acquaintances, we need to analyze the information by performing an unsupervised clustering in the realm of quantum computation. Quantum clustering is the core technique used in quantum computation to perform clustering of information with several algorithms that have been introduced and studied till date to analyze the cluster for increasing the efficiency of information exploration, information retrieval, information management and browsing system. Hence, introducing a quantum clustering technique to form clusters which would include sentences from a set of informative data set and the formation of clusters would be carried out by performing Semantic Analysis.


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The poor make us feel guilty, both for their plight and for our own good fortune. Peter Davis's response was to record this plight and the feelings it provoked in him. The result is a heartbreaking odyssey into the shattered American dream. The landscape is stark and begins, like Shakespeare's seven ages of man, with the children. The names and the geography change, but the situations remain the same. After a while, numbers are meaningless and numbing: "Five and a half million …


Capillary tension head variance is evaluated in the case of unsaturated flow in stratified soils using a three-dimensional stochastic model (or a large-scale model) The large difference in the correlation scales in stratified soils simplifies stochastic model allowing for analytical evaluations and derivation process of general equations. Also. derived are simplified asymptotic equations, which are valid at particular ranges (wetting front, wetting condition, drying condition) of the mean flow characteristics. Examples applying the theoretical results to two real soils are presented. It is found that capillary tension head variance show large-scale hysteresis which is due to spatial variability of soil property. Also results show that capillary tension head variance is larger in the case of wetting condition than that in the case of drying condition.


Multiphoton resonance ionization (MPRI) is used to probe the desorption characteristics of ion-bombarded surfaces of Fe, In and Ni. The effects of primary ion kinetic energy and surface chemistry on the sensitivity and accuracy of MPRI detection are examined. The relative Ni*/Ni° and In2°/In° ratios are found to increase as the energy of the incident Ar+ ion is varied from 300 eV to 1000 eV. A reflecting time-of-flight mass spectrometer is employed to collect efficiently the photoions as well as secondary ions, permitting accurate determination of the ground-state atom fraction and thereby completing a detailed fundamental analysis of the analytical capabilities of the MPRI approach. The ground-state atom fractions are found to parallel changes in surface composition and represent 30–90% of the material desorbed from ion beam-cleaned and air-exposed Fe and In matrices. In contrast, the corresponding secondary ion fractions vary over several orders of magnitude and are difficult to correlate with surface chemistry.


In [1], a delayed three-species intraguild predation (IGP) model was considered. This particular tri-trophic community module includes a predator and its prey which share a common basal resource for their sustenance [3]. Here, it is assumed that in the absence of predation, the growth of the basal resource follows the delayed logistic equation. Without delay time, the IGP model in [1] reduces to the system considered in [7] where it was shown that IGP may induce chaos even if the functional responses are linear. Meanwhile, in [2] the delayed IGP model in [1] was generalized to include harvesting. Under the assumption that the basal resource has some economic value, a constant harvesting term on the basal resource was incorporated. However, both models in [1] and [2] use the delay time as the main parameter. In this research, we studied the delayed IGP model in [1] with the addition of linear harvesting term on each of the three species. The dynamical behavior of this system is examined using the harvestin...


The microstructure of ZnSe/ZnTe multiple quantum well-based pseudo-ohmic contacts to p-ZnSe was investigated using transmission electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. In the case of samples consisting of five ZnSe/ZnTe multiple quantum wells, both pure edge Lomer dislocations and 60° dislocations were identified at the interface between the ZnSe/ZnTe multiple quantum wells and the ZnTe overlayer, along with partial dislocations bounding stacking faults. The dominant dislocations at the interface are Lomer dislocations. In the case of samples grown under group II-rich conditions, the interface exhibits corrugations. At the top and bottom of the corrugations, the Lomer dislocations are dominant and in the slope of the corrugations, 60° dislocations are dominant. In the case of samples grown using migration-enhanced epitaxy, V-shaped defects consisting of three dislocations associated with two stacking faults are formed. The total Burgers vector of the V-shaped defects is a...


The optical absorption coefficient of synthetic single crystals of the garnet ${\mathrm{Y}}_{3}$${\mathrm{Al}}_{5}$${\mathrm{O}}_{12}$ has been measured from photon wave numbers of 10 to 55 000 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ at 300\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}K. The wave-number range 10 to 900 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ has been studied at 4\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}K. The 17 theoretically predicted absorption peaks of the ${\mathrm{Y}}_{3}$${\mathrm{Al}}_{5}$${\mathrm{O}}_{12}$ lattice at 300\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}K have been found at wave numbers of 123, 163, 223, 255, 293, 332, 373, 395, 430, 457, 510, 530, 570, 690, 722, 784, and 830 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. The fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth peaks are believed to be associated with the ${\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{3}$ vibrations of the ${\mathrm{AlO}}_{4}$ groups in the lattice. The multiphonon lattice absorption bands extend upward to 2400 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ wave numbers. Beyond 2400 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ the crystal is transparent, with an absorption coefficient 0.1 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ up to $\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}=30 000$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. From 30 000 to 52 000 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ the absorption appears to be dominated by trace impurities. The optical absorption increases rapidly for wave numbers above 52 000 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ and reaches an absorption coefficient of ${10}^{+3}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ at 54 300 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ wave numbers (6.73 eV or 1840 \AA{}). Some comments are also made on the relationship of the lattice modes of yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) to the phonon sidebands of electronic transitions of impurity ions in YAG.


Samples of nanographite films obtained by carbon deposition in a methane plasma and subsequent heat treatment at a temperature of 650°C were studied. Thickness of obtained films was 1-2 nm. The results of measurements of a temperature dependencys of the resistance (R(T)) shows that when a temperature changes from 80°K to 300°K the resistance changes by about three orders of magnitude. The temperature dependency of the activation energy has a non-Arrhenius character corresponding to the variable range hopping mechanism. An analysis of the dependency of the reduced activation energy versus the natural logarithm of temperature showed that the electric conductivity of graphite nanoflakes corresponds to the Efros-Shklovsky mechanism. Size of graphite nanoflakes was estimated to be ~1.7 nm from the obtained results.


Information regarding patient outcomes, complications, and mortality after surgery for spinal metastasis has previously been derived from single‐institution series. The aim of this study was to report inpatient mortality, complications, and outcomes on a national level.


This selective survey of programs in continuing education both within industry and provided for industry by colleges and universities should be most helpful to all levels of management. The survey reveals that only about one-third of the continuing education for business and industry is university-related at present, while the other two-thirds of such training is conducted by the companies themselves, by professional and trade associations, and by consulting organizations and individuals. This finding raises some important issues concerning the readiness and willingness of universities to help meet the broad and complex educational needs of our technological society. Using a selective survey and interview technique, the programs of several companies in various industries were reviewed. The study also looks at selected professional organizations' programs and some examples of the newer educational organizations' offerings for business. Finally the author examined the programs currently underway in busi-


Abstract. To assess the renal tubular damage in liver cirrhosis the fractional clearances of beta‐2‐micro‐globulin (B2m‐fr. cl) and malate‐dehydrogenase (MDH‐fr. cl) were measured respectively in sixty‐four and in forty‐six out of seventy‐nine patients with liver cirrhosis of different aetiology; furthermore the fractional excretions of gammaglutamyl‐transpeptidase (fr‐GGT) and of alpha‐glucosidase (fr‐AGL) were determined in fifty‐three and in forty of them respectively. In all patients glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal plasma flow (RPF) were also measured. Twenty‐five subjects were studied as a control group for the enzyme excretions, sixteen for B2m‐fr. cl.


The utility model relates to a motor and transformer microcomputer integration test stand. The motor and transformer microcomputer integration test stand comprises a microcomputer test operation stand, a test control cabinet, a three-phase induction voltage regulator and a withstand voltage test transformer, wherein the test control cabinet is connected with the three-phase induction voltage regulator, the microcomputer test operation stand comprises a casing, the casing is internally equipped with a switching value acquisition circuit, an analog quantity acquisition circuit, a DSP data acquisition unit, an embedded industrial computer, a PLC (programmable controller), an insulation resistor tester, a direct current resistor tester, a man-machine interaction unit and an I/O isolation relay, the test control cabinet comprises a test power source output unit and a U/I converter. The motor and transformer microcomputer integration test stand has functions of intelligent control and measuring, automatically completes functions of test data acquisition, calculating, storage and historical report check, automatic formation of a test report and printing, simplifies a tedious wiring process in a test, effectively improves work efficiency and reduces an error ratio in the test.


During the Spring semester 2020, I took an art class at the Rhode Island School of Design. 'Personal Protective Purple Daikon Equipment: A Handbook' was my final project for the class. Part zine, part Zoom performance experiment, part autistic meltdown, the project bears witness to my anger, isolation and fear during the lockdown. It is both a commentary on academia and the constant demand to 'make use' of every experience—to continue academic life as usual even during a pandemic that saw so many disabled people die—as well as a handbook for making one's own Personal Protective Purple Daikon Equipment (PPPDE) at home and an absurdist manifesto. As a research-creation project, the Personal Protective Purple Daikon Equipment offers a snapshot of a moment in (crip) time, that of the first state-sanctioned lockdown and of the early days of the pandemic.


III Abstract The exact knowledge of the discharge in hydro power plants is of major importance for field acceptance tests, for continuous efficiency monitoring, for water manage¬ ment and accounting of the gross hydraulic energy, for leak detection in pipes and for the calibration of secondarv discharge measurement devices. The acoustic discharge measurement (ADM) bases on the superposition of the pro¬ pagation velocity of an acoustic signal with the fluid velocity. With the measure¬ ment of the transit time of a downstream and upstream propagated signal the mean flow velocity can be derived between transducers which are mounted at the pipe wall with a angle of 30 to 60 degrees to the mean flow. Additional laterally shifted transducer pairs increase the measurement accuracy. The aim of this work is the analysis of the major error sources and the improvement of the measurement accuracy for a given number of transducers. In practical use it is assumed that the signal propagates along a straight line ("acou¬ stic path") between the two transducers. In reality the ray path is slightly bent due to the varying flow and sound velocities in the pipe. In the first part of this thesis, calculations based on methods using geometrical acoustics have proven, that with exception of the very rare case of very high air bubble concentrations paired with a strong variation of bubble diameter along the acoustic piath the measurement error due to the bend ing of the ray path can indeed be neglected. The multipath ADM consists typically of 4 to 8 acoustic paths (8 or 16 transducers) arranged in one or two measuring planes. In general, the measured path readings are summed up using a quadrature integration method according to Gauss-|acobi to evaluate discharge in each of the measuring planes. Inherent to this method is a systematic error of about ±0.15%. In this thesis, a modified quadrature formula is presented which almost fully eliminates all svstemafic errors. A further part of this thesis is dedicated to the detailed analysis of the three major sources of errors ot the multipath ADM, including an error depending on the velocity profile ("integration error"), an error resulting from the transducer protrusion into the pipe ("protrusion error"), and a geometrical error, which can pri¬ marily be attributed to an imprecise positioning of the transducers in the measuring section ("installation error"). To investigate the integration error, a software program based on a triangulation rou¬ tine was developed. With this program scattered velocity data m circular pipes may be interpolated and integrated, which is basis for the numerical simulation of the ADM including the calculation of the measuring error as a I unction of the mounting angle. Divided into the groups "single bends", "double bends", "vanes" and "contrac¬ ting cones" integration errors ot about 20 velocity records from different sources were computed and compared to measured data trom held and laboratory measu¬ rements. Based on the results of the simulation calculations guide lines for an opti-The exact knowledge of the discharge in hydro power plants is of major importance for field acceptance tests, for continuous efficiency monitoring, for water manage¬ ment and accounting of the gross hydraulic energy, for leak detection in pipes and for the calibration of secondarv discharge measurement devices. The acoustic discharge measurement (ADM) bases on the superposition of the pro¬ pagation velocity of an acoustic signal with the fluid velocity. With the measure¬ ment of the transit time of a downstream and upstream propagated signal the mean flow velocity can be derived between transducers which are mounted at the pipe wall with a angle of 30 to 60 degrees to the mean flow. Additional laterally shifted transducer pairs increase the measurement accuracy. The aim of this work is the analysis of the major error sources and the improvement of the measurement accuracy for a given number of transducers. In practical use it is assumed that the signal propagates along a straight line ("acou¬ stic path") between the two transducers. In reality the ray path is slightly bent due to the varying flow and sound velocities in the pipe. In the first part of this thesis, calculations based on methods using geometrical acoustics have proven, that with exception of the very rare case of very high air bubble concentrations paired with a strong variation of bubble diameter along the acoustic piath the measurement error due to the bend ing of the ray path can indeed be neglected. The multipath ADM consists typically of 4 to 8 acoustic paths (8 or 16 transducers) arranged in one or two measuring planes. In general, the measured path readings are summed up using a quadrature integration method according to Gauss-|acobi to evaluate discharge in each of the measuring planes. Inherent to this method is a systematic error of about ±0.15%. In this thesis, a modified quadrature formula is presented which almost fully eliminates all svstemafic errors. A further part of this thesis is dedicated to the detailed analysis of the three major sources of errors ot the multipath ADM, including an error depending on the velocity profile ("integration error"), an error resulting from the transducer protrusion into the pipe ("protrusion error"), and a geometrical error, which can pri¬ marily be attributed to an imprecise positioning of the transducers in the measuring section ("installation error"). To investigate the integration error, a software program based on a triangulation rou¬ tine was developed. With this program scattered velocity data m circular pipes may be interpolated and integrated, which is basis for the numerical simulation of the ADM including the calculation of the measuring error as a I unction of the mounting angle. Divided into the groups "single bends", "double bends", "vanes" and "contrac¬ ting cones" integration errors ot about 20 velocity records from different sources were computed and compared to measured data trom held and laboratory measu¬ rements. Based on the results of the simulation calculations guide lines for an opti-


The organic and isotopic geochemical study of two sediment cores (KH-79-3, L-3, and KH-79-3, C-3) from the Oki Ridge in the Japan Sea has revealed that total organic carbon (TOC) mass accumulation rates are extremely high in the 12–11 ka (calendar age) interval and TOC in the sections in the 24–17 ka interval is depleted in 13C by 3.5‰ relative to Holocene sediments. Alkenone sea surface temperature (SST) shows a decrease from 18° to 14°C from 17.5 to 11.6 ka and a sharp increase from 14° to 19°C from 11.6 to 11.1 ka. The SST changes are associated with the inflow of cold seawater with the vertical water mixing and the inflowof warm Tsushima Current into the Japan Sea. The δ13C values for both 24-methylcholesta-5,22-dien-3β-ol (diatom marker) and dinosterol (dinoflagellate marker), are at their minimum from 24 to 17 ka, while those for long-chain alkenones are not. The theoretical considerations on δ13C for biomarkers suggest low photosynthetic carbon demand of diatoms and dinoflagellates from 24 to 17 ka.


The plasticization of polymers by compressed fluid diluents as manifested in the depression of the glass transition temperature is described experimentally and theoretically. New regions of temperature and pressure are explored revealing novel features of Tg versus pressure behavior including the discovery of retrograde vitrification, where a glassy polymer becomes a liquid upon cooling. Other novel features include a z-shape in the Tg pressure behavior creating a situation where a polymer may undergo three glass transitions upon decreasing temperature iosbarically. The Tg-pressure behavior is modeled successfully and explained in terms of the temperature and pressure effects on the solubility of the fluid in the polymer. Result show that polymers may be plasticized with CO{sub 2} under much milder conditions of pressure and temperature than presently believed thus creating exciting opportunities in such areas as polymer processing and polymeric materials production. The unique character of compressed fluid plasticizers such as CO{sub 2} is that they are nontoxic and nonpermanant relative to traditional liquid and polymeric plasticizers.


The effects ofmonovalent, divalent, and trivalent cations onthebinding oftetrodotoxin andsaxi- toxintointact nervesandtoapreparation ofsolubilized nervemembraneshavebeenexamined. Alleightdivalent and trivalent cationstested, andthemonovalentions LiW,Tl+,andH+ appeartocompetereversibly withthe toxinsfortheirbindingsite. The ability oflithiumto reducetoxinbindingisparalleled byitsability toreduce tetrodotoxin-sensitive ionfluxes throughthenervemem- brane. We conclude thatthetoxins actatametalcation binding siteinthesodiumchannelandsuggest thatthis site istheprincipal coordination siteforcations (normally Na+ions) astheypassthroughthemembraneduringan actionpotential. Thedissociation constantforLi+is 0.1-0.2 M andforNa+>0.6M,reflecting theweakbinding necessary forrapidpassageofsodiumionsthroughthe channel. Tetrodotoxin (TTX)specifically blocks theearly inward sodium current thatunderlies theexcitability ofnerve and muscle plasma membranes (1). Since thedetermination ofits structure in1964(2), itsrelatively small size(molecular weight 319), single positively charged guanidinium group, andnumerous hydroxyl groups haveprovoked muchspecula- tion about howthetoxin acts. Recent studies haveshownthattritium-labeled tetrodo- toxin (3, 4,6)andsaxitoxin (STX)(5), acompound with some similar structural features andidentical physiological action (1), canbeusedbothtoestimate thenumber ofbinding sites present innerveandtocharacterize theproperties ofthe toxin binding sites. Theequilibrium dissociation constants andthekinetic rateconstants forthetoxin-receptor inter- action soobtained (3-7) agreewellwiththose measured electrophysiologically


This application is a continuation-in-part of applica tion Serial No. 339,875, filed January 24, 1964, and now abandoned. This invention relates to hydraulic cements. In a par ticular aspect it relates to the use of an additive to im prove the grinding and pack set characteristics of Port land cement. Portland cement represents a class of hydraulic ce ments and is comprised essentially of two calcium sili cates and a lesser amount of calcium aluminate. These cements are produced by heating an intimate mixture of finely divided calcareous material (limestone) and ar gillaceous material (clay) to fusion to form a clinker. The clinker is ground with the addition of about two percent of gypsum, or some other form of calcium sul fate, to obtain desired setting qualities in the finished cement. Small amounts of other substances are some times added during grinding to impart special properties to the product. During grinding of the clinker, cleavage of the par ticles exposes fresh or nascent surfaces which have high energies due probably to the breaking of ionic bonds. The surface forces of the particles persist for some time after grinding and lead to pack set and/or poor cement fluidity if they are not reduced. Undue reduction or the complete absence of surface forces or attraction be tween the cement particles is undesirable because the cement becomes excessively fluid. On the other hand, if the surface forces are too great the cement tends to pack set and has a low bulk density because of the pres ence of high void volume agglomerates. Low bulk means that less cement by weight can be stored in a hopper or silo. It has been known that certain polar molecules when added to the cement either during or after grinding will attach to the particles and reduce their surface forces. If the amount of additive used and/or if the time of addition are not correct, optimum dry dispersion is not obtained. For example, if an unusually active additive is present during grinding, it will produce a cement hav ing extreme fluidity while in the mill. This causes the cement to pass rapidly through the mill before it is reduced to the desired size and, consequently, the num ber of recycle steps of oversized material is increased. Conversely, an additive which produces the desired de gree of dry dispersion when ground with the clinker may not be realized if admixed after grinding. The term "grinding aid" describes an increase in pro duction at constant production rate during the grinding of cement clinker and gypsum in the finish mill. "Pack set inhibition" refers to a reduction in the amount of energy necessary to initiate flow in cement. Most ce ments when compacted by vibration become semi-rigid and will not flow until considerable mechanical effort has been applied to disintegrate the semi-rigid mass. The pack set inhibition property is particularly important in 10


Combining with the project case,the application of pressure pipe jacking construction technology in Wenzhou soft soil area was systematically introduced in aspects of process operating conditions,empirical formula,application analysis,problems needing attention in practice and so on.The practice shows that the application of pressure pipe jacking construction technology in Wenzhou soft soil area is economic and reasonable,and the technology has a broad application prospect.


The article examines the Turkish beer market and the experience of Turkey's most successful brewer, Efes Pilsen, within that market. Using the product life cycle, it describes the development of the market and Efes' competitive strategies. It assesses the impact of the government's 1984 decision to reclassify beer as an alcoholic beverage. Finally, it identifies several lessons for marketing non‐necessary consumer goods such as beer in developing countries.


Purpose To investigate if amniotic membrane soaked with antivirals could inhibit viral growth in vitro

Methods Amniotic membrane fragments were incubated with antiviral solutions of acyclovir and trifluridine . After having inoculated vero cells with a viral suspension of HSV1 and added with the AM fragments we tested them for the antiviral activity by recording the cytophatic effect and DNA assessment by Quantitative-PCR.

Results AM soaked in ACV 50 mg/ml was capable to inhibit the development of HSV viral growth in cell cultures. Non-treated AM did not significantly affect viral replication.

Conclusion Our preliminary in vitro data show that amniotic membrane can absorb the antivirals


Active safety features using environmental sensors, such as the camera and radar, significantly improved vehicle safety by preventing possible errors of the ego-vehicle. However, they do not actively prevent the accident caused by other vehicles' mistakes, which are in different lanes or intersections. This is due to the limitations of the detection range and the accuracy of the environmental sensors. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication can provide more signals with a wider scope than the environmental sensors. Thanks to these properties of vehicle-to-vehicle communication, new and advanced active safety features can be developed. This paper presents an algorithm that can detect vehicle risks and prevent possible accidents not only in the same lane, but also in different lanes or in an intersection.


Investigating the spatial and vertical patterns of wetland soil organic carbon concentration (SOCc) is important for understanding the regional carbon cycle and managing the wetland ecosystem. By integrating 160 wetland soil profile samples and environmental variables from climatic, topographical, and remote sensing data, we spatially predicted the SOCc of wetlands in China's Western Songnen Plain by comparing four algorithms: random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM) for regression, inverse distance weighted (IDW), and ordinary kriging (OK). The predicted results of the SOCc from the different algorithms were validated against independent testing samples according to the mean error, root mean squared error, and correlation coefficient. The results show that the measured SOCc values at depths of 0–30, 30–60, and 60–100 cm were 15.28, 7.57, and 5.22 g·kg−1, respectively. An assessment revealed that the RF algorithm was most accurate for predicting SOCc; its correlation coefficients at the different depths were 0.82, 0.59, and 0.51, respectively. The attribute importance from the RF indicates that environmental variables have various effects on the SOCc at different depths. The land surface temperature and land surface water index had a stronger influence on the spatial distribution of SOCc at the depths of 0–30 and 30–60 cm, whereas topographic factors, such as altitude, had a stronger influence within 60–100 cm. The predicted SOCc of each vertical depth increased gradually from south to north in the study area. This research provides an important case study for predicting SOCc, including selecting factors and algorithms, and helps with understanding the carbon cycles of regional wetlands.


The objective of the study was to estimate the level of various micronutrients in sickle cell patients and to study the various biochemical and haematological parameters associated with the disease severity. the subjects of this study. The patients were diagnosed by HPLC. The clinical features and haematological parameters were recorded for all the patients and controls. Glucose (random), Total Bilirubin,Total protein, AST, ALT, Alkaline phosphate and CRP had been evaluated along with micronutrients; zinc, selenium ,Cu, vitamin A and Vitamin E in all the subjects.Sickle cell patients were sub typed into three groups sickle trait (N=6), sickle homozygous (N=8) and Sickle beta thal (N=11). Key enzymes of liver functioning (AST and ALT) were


Fungi seem to be increasing in importance as the causal agents of disease in man, especially as secondary invaders in already debilitated individuals. Whether this increase is related to modern forms of treatment or whether it is due to our increased awareness of their existence and improved diagnostic procedures is unknown, although evidence is accumulating to suggest that modern therapy, especially for diseases of the reticuloendothelial system, is a contributory factor" 2 3. At present evidence of systemic mycotic infection is uncovered in about 1 to 2% of routine necropsies, a figure which rises to around 20% if selected groups, such as those with leukaemia and lymphomas, are taken into account.3 One of the commoner sites of fungal invasion is the alimentary tract, and the object of this paper is to review certain aspects of such infections.


A thermodynamic model has been developed for the phase behavior of micellar systems containing up to three amphiphilic species. This model has been tested against experimental data using chemicals typical of those used in surfactant flooding. A fairly good match of static phase behavior experiments has been obtained. The model has been implemented in a compositional simulator and found to be both simple enough and accurate enough for practical reservoir engineering calculations. One important design is to study the separation of the chemicals as they transport through the reservoir. This ty


It was not that many years ago one could walk into a library and see a display of handouts about library resources and services. For several decades librarians could easily compile, print, and distribute their guides with the use of word processing and photocopying technology. The growth of the Internet has changed all that, and just converting old pathfinders from text to static digital format is not enough. Today's library users expect sites that incorporate Web 2.0 features like RSS feeds, blogs, and wikis. They probably expect the library to have its own Facebook page. Librarians are quick adopters of new technologies. Often there is someone on staff who is into the latest online tool or social networking site. One of the early challenges for libraries was getting their administrators or institutions to buy into the need for the library to have control over their own site. A library may have to work within a content management system (CMS) controlled by a communication, marketing, or IT department. These departments may not appreciate the specific needs of libraries, such as the importance of librarians to regularly publish guides and keep in touch with users via social networking. This is why Springshare developed a cloud-based CMS geared specifically for the needs of libraries. It is an out-of-the-box solution that allows librarians to create professional looking guides without web programming experience. Using LibGuides to Enhance Library Services was written to be a simple user guide for LibGuides that covers the initial decision making behind using it through to getting LibGuides up and running in your library. There are five sections to the guide. Part one is a short history of library guides from the time pathfinders started being used to today's open source options and LibGuides. Some librarians have spent a great deal of time and effort into general subject guides, while others feel time is better spent designing user interfaces to eliminate the need for guides. A 2004 study is referenced showing that guides should directly relate to students' point of need because students are more likely to learn how to use something at the point they most need it. Rather than creating general subject guides many favor more course-specific guides.


There is a model of ZF with a ∆13 definable Hamel bases in which ACω(R) fails. Answering a question from [13, p. 433] it was shown in [2] that there is a Hamel basis in the Cohen–Halpern–Lévy model. In this paper we show that in a variant of this model, there is a projective, in fact ∆3, Hamel basis. Throughout this paper, by a Hamel basis we always mean a basis for R, construed as a vector space over Q. We denote by E0 the Vitali equivalence relation, xE0y iff x − y ∈ Q for x, y ∈ R. We also write [x]E0 = {y : yE0x} for the E0–equivalence class of x. A transversal for the set of all E0–equivalence classes picks exactly one member from each [x]E0 . The range of any such transversal is also called a Vitali set. If we identify R with the Cantor space 2, then xE0y iff {n : x(n) 6= y(n)} is finite. A set Λ ⊂ R is a Luzin set iff Λ is uncountable but Λ ∩M is at most countable for every meager set M ⊂ R. A set S ⊂ R is a Sierpiński set iff S is uncountable but S ∩ N is at most countable for every null set N ⊂ R ("null" in the sense of Lebesgue measure). A set B ⊂ R is a Bernstein set iff B ∩P 6= ∅ 6 = P \B for every perfect set P ⊂ R. A Burstin basis is a Hamel basis which is also a Bernstein set. It is easy to see that B ⊂ R is a Burstin basis iff B is a Hamel basis and B ∩P 6= ∅ for every perfect P ⊂ R. A set m ⊂ R × R is called a Mazurkiewicz set iff m ∩ l for every straight line l ⊂ R× R. By ACω(R) we mean the statement that for all sequences (An : n < ω) such that ∅ 6 = An ⊂ R for all n < ω there is some choice function f : ω → R, i.e., f(n) ∈ An for all n < ω. D. Pincus and K. Prikry study the Cohen-Halpern-Lévy model H in [13]. The model H is obtained by adding a countable set of Cohen reals (say over L) without adding their enumeration; H does not satisfy ACω(R). It is shown in [13] that there is a Luzin set in H , so that in ZF, the existence of a Luzin set does not even imply ACω(R). [2, Theorems 1.7 and 2.1] show that in H there is a Bernstein set as well as a Hamel basis. As in ZF the existence of a Hamel basis implies the existence of a Vitali set, the latter also reproves Feferman's result (see [13]) according to which there is a Vitali set in H . The first author gratefully acknowledges support through the RFBR grant 17-01-00705. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy EXC 2044 390685587, Mathematics Mnster: Dynamics Geometry Structure.


In this work, the conformable fractional derivative with the unified solver method are used in the suitable cases to extract new solutions for space-time stochastic fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) with spatiotemporal dispersion. Namely, some new stochastic solutions with physical parameters for this equation are constructed via exponential distribution. Exponential distribution is employed to clarify the dispersion random effect. The expectation (mean) of stochastic solutions are depicted to exhibit the effect of random parameters on the solutions of space-time stochastic fractional NLSE with spatiotemporal dispersion. These results are highly applicable to develop new theories of plasma physics, industrial studies, biomedical problems, condense matter physics and optical fibers. Simulations are performed by using Maple software. According to the presented results, the proposed technique can be applied for other fractional models arising in natural sciences.


The Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute was established in
1947 by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Irrigation. It was brought under the
ICAR in 1967. The headquarters of the
Institute is at Cochin. The Institute
has one Regional Centre at Mandapam
Camp, 11 Research Centres and 29
Field Centres along the East and West
h s t s of India. Experimental Field
Stations are lwated at Marakkal, Kovalam/
Muttukad, Karapad, Mandapam
Camp and Calicut attached to the research
centres.


In September of 1962, Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza, Secretary General of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), 'prison graduate' and prospective Minister of Finance for Nyasaland, died in a car crash. Immediately, rumours began to circulate that this was no accident but a case of political murder. For the first time, 'car accident' became a metaphor for political violence in colonial Malawi. This article examines the available evidence pertaining to the accident and concludes that although it appears not to indicate foul play, much of it was not made public and this, coupled with a troubled political climate, bred suspicion. It is argued that the rumours about Dunduzu Chisiza's death demonstrate a popular awareness that the image of political consensus advanced by the MCP during the late 1950s and early 1 960s was false. Further, the rumours reveal a profound ambivalence about the growing personalization of rule under Dr H. Kamuzu Banda. While the Cabinet Crisis of 1964 was the first public demonstration of leadership rupture, it was a culmination of tensions rooted in an earlier period, tensions which were already felt by many and expressed through rumour in 1962 and after. ON THE MORNING OF Monday, 3 September 1962, a white Mercedes left the road and plunged into a stream at Thondwe Bridge some 25 kilometres south of Zomba, the capital of colonial Malawi (Nyasaland). The driver was pronounced dead a few hours later at Zomba General Hospital. News of his death rocked the country and condolences flooded in from around the globe as Nyasaland mourned one of her most cherished native sons. The Nyasaland Times called Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza the 'financial brain' of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and 'one of the most outstanding figures in Central African politics' who 'held the hopes of all races for a settlement to the problem of the Central African Joey Power is a member of the History Department, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada. The following rumours are to be understood as that, rumours of events. They are presented and discussed for what they tell us about Malawi's changing political climate and how people have understood this change. They are not meant to suggest foul play or point to the guilt or innocence of any party or parties. Thanks go the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada which provided funding for the research on which this paper is based and to Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Canada for additional support. It first appeared under the same title as a paper presented to the African Studies Association conference in San Francisco in November 1996. Thanks also go to Owen Kalinga who read and commented on an earlier draft of this paper and to the reviewers of the African Affairs journal who offered useful advice.


An analytical evaluation of some by-products resulting from edible oil refining processing steps has been carried out. By-product samples were taken from four different local refineries that apply chemical refining technology. Pretreatment of the representative samples of the by-products were done prior to analysis followed by chromatographic isolation and derivatization of the minor components, namely, free and acylated sterol (FS and AS) as well as free and acylated sterylglycosides (FSG and ASG). However, tocopherols were directly determined in the pretreated samples. HPLC, using  different detectors, was carried out for the determination of these minor components. Several authors have focused on the analysis of sterols and sterol esters, as well as tocopherols in the refining byproducts; however sterylglycosides, as biologically important components, have not been dealt with. This study throws light on the by – products enriched with certain minor components to be possibly utilized as sources for such components. Also, the role of the conditions of the refining steps followed in removing these valuable minor components from oils was discussed. It was found that soapstock samples contained various amounts of total tocopherols ranging from 80 to 230ppm; total FS and AS ranged from 240 to 4000 mg/100g while total FSG and ASG ranged from 1120 to 6375 mg/100g. In the case of deodorization distillate samples total tocopherols ranged from 960 to 7360ppm; total FS and AS ranged from 1020 to 4160 mg/100g and total FSG, ASG ranged from 395 to 880 mg/100g.


Mitochondria are organelles which perform various roles in the cell (mainly the energy production) and house their own genetic material, the mitochondrial DNA. Mutations in this genome and/or genes of the nuclear DNA affecting mitochondrial function are the cause of a set of rare pathologies (1 patient:5000 individuals) known as mitochondrial diseases (MDs). MDs comprise a wide range of disorders with high phenotypic variability and unknown molecular mechanisms, which limits their diagnosis and treatment. Recently, multi-omic approaches have emerged as a possible tool to identify new biomarkers and pathways involved in these pathologies pointing to fundamental metabolic routes such as the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1, the Integrated Stress Response and the Activating Transcription Factor 4. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the latest insights in the field, compiling recent publications on metabolomics as well as transcriptomic data trying to dissect the puzzle underlying the complexity MDs. In addition, we perform a case study on cell lines carrying two primary mutations causing Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy to investigate how different elements of cellular stress are altered in this disease. Interestingly, we find a mutation-specific response which might be related to the severity of the variant. Boolean operator


Current research in music scholarship appears to be trending towards the "embodied" yet from the vantage point of the performer this progression seems to be lacking a key component of such an embodied discourse: their voice. In this thesis I argue that the oversight of the performing body and its importance to the field of musicology is a result of conceptual dualities that attempt to conceal the body in its role within thought, culture, and meaning. Illustrating this oversight with the gaps in the current academic discourse, I show how many in the field either consider the body only in a metaphorical sense, or see the performer as an object of study. An examination of the contributions of three performer-scholars to this field demonstrates ways in which the gap can be filled, and lack addressed. Their approaches are then combined in an embodied analysis of Messiaen's "Abîme des Oiseaux" from Quatour pour la Fin du Temps which reveals the potentialities of depth and breadth that can be considered when the performer's body is permitted to be a site from which a musical analysis might originate. This thesis concludes that the performing body must be reintroduced into musicological discourse with a new understanding of its value, and that this can best be accomplished by addressing the "embodied" within the academic music curriculum, alongside traditional tonal and formal analyses.


Amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cell fabricated on zinc oxide (ZnO) has poor fill factor (FF) resulting from a high resistive contact between ZnO and p-type amorphous silicon carbide (p-a-SiC:H) films. This is due to the existence of a wide depletion region in the p-a-SiC:H adjacent to the ZnO/p-a-SiC:H interface. To overcome this contact problem, an amorphous tungsten oxide (WO3) layer was inserted between ZnO and p-a-SiC:H. It was found that the insertion of the WO3 layer improves the cell performance by reducing series resistance. Since this layer has higher optical band-gap (3.35 eV) than a-SiC:H (2.1 eV), there was no change of current density in short wavelength regions. A radio-frequency magnetron sputtering apparatus was used to deposit ZnO:Al on glass. The structure of the cells was ZnO:Al (800 nm)/n-a-WO3 (4 nm)/p-a-SiC:H (10 nm)/i-a-Si:H (270 nm)/n-a-Si:H (30 nm)/Al (100 nm). As a result of the WO3 insertion, the efficiency of the solar cell enhanced from 6.89% to 7.45%.


Psychological approaches to personal identity emphasize relations of 'psychological connectedness' and 'continuity' between mental events as the essence of a person. The key relation has often been abbreviated as 'Relation R'. Russell (1918) first used it, and David Lewis (1976) revived its use. Many recent discussions of the plausibility of this type of theory, and its impact on views about rationality and morality, have centred on Derek Parfit's work. In this paper I will show that Parfit in his 1976 and 1984 uses the abbreviating phrase 'Relation R' in three distinct ways:


To solve the issues of low-price,low-power and real-time in transmission process of the wireless network,the low-power wireless hardware circuit is designed which is based on the MSP430 and CC2420.Many measures are taken in hardware,software and network topology optimization to obtain this performance.By taking experimental verification,the system can collect the signal in time.Besides,in most industry environments,the requirement of the low-power be can meet.These nodes can manage the site by ways of networking technology and routing protocol,with the advantages of monitoring industry site real-timely,optimizing the network structure and reducing power consumption.


A method for the surface treatment of a metal substrate, whether previously painted or not, in particular for decorated containers and for decorated containers and for the packaging of foodstuffs consists in applying, using an electrode, an electrical discharge having a voltage of between 17,000 V and 49,000 V and a frequency of between 18 kHz and 24 kHz on the surface of the metal substrate.


Growth curve modeling is a statistical analysis technique for longitudinal data that captures both intra-individual ("within person") change over time and inter-individual ("between person") variability in such change. Such models are more flexible and powerful than traditional ANOVA and MANOVA approaches to repeated measures. Growth models are extremely valuable for describing or making inferences about the shape, direction, and rate of change that best characterize a population trajectory as well as uncovering and predicting individual differences between growth trajectories for members of a population. This encyclopedia entry describes the fundamentals of growth modeling in both multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling frameworks, including fitting linear and nonlinear growth trajectories and testing effects of individual and time-varying predictors. Extensions of the basic growth model, including clustering of individuals within groups, examining interrelationships among trajectories of multiple outcome variables, and incorporating measurement models of outcome constructs, are also discussed.

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acculturation;
addiction;
change over time;
growth curve model;
growth trajectory;
latent change;
longitudinal analysis


Background: Several health problems happen to young adults related to risk behavior, among others are smoking, alcohol drinking, drug misuse, and premarital sex. Field data and facts showed that these risk behavior are inter-related. Objective: This research was aimed to identify risk behavior determinants, the most dominant variable related to risk behavior, and inter relationship among each risk behavior of young adults in indonesia in 2007. Methode: This research was an analytical study using raw data from Indonesia Young Adult Reproductive Health Survey data in 2007 which done in 33 provinces. The respondents were young adults within age range 15-24 years old with single status, which comprised of 10.830 men and 8.481 women. Result: Research findings showed that risk behavior determinants among young adults in indonesia were knowledge, altitude, age, sex, education level, ecomomic status, access to information and media, communication with parents and also friends with risk behaviors. The most dominant variable was sex. Menwere potentially 30 times higher to smoke, 10 times higher to drink alcohol, 20 tinzes higher to misuse drug, and 5 times higher to do premarital sex, compared to women. Conclussion: From this research, it was also known an inter relationship among the four risk behavior in young adults. Keywords: Young adults, risk behavior, smoking, alcoholism, drugs, premarital sex


1 Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA 2 Department of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS 39564 USA 3 Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32653 USA 4 Coastal Fisheries Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803 USA 5 Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC 29422 USA *Order of authorship is alphabetical. **Corresponding author: email@example.com


Retinal disease can affect both the threshold and suprathreshold activity of the visual system. Two examples of alternative explanations for these changes are presented. These are used, to illustrate the need for a suprathreshold measure, since they predict similar threshold changes but very different suprathreshold changes. An approach that uses a flash-on-flash detection paradigm to assess the suprathreshold activity is described, and its possible application in assessing alternative explanations of changes in visual sensitivity caused by retinal disease is


Sorne complex properties of living systems can be explained by the theory of nonlinear dynamics with simple biochemical reactions [7]. These complex properties do not seem to be directly coded by DNA information, but rather in the dynamics of the interrelationships between different epigenetic basic functions such as membrane transport and/ or enzymatic catalysis. Recently, sorne "minimal" models have been published in this field that describe important biological processes such as cellular division [9] or intracellular calcium oscillations [8; see also 3]. In this article, we are interested in the model of Goldbeter et al. [8] that simulates intracellular calcium oscillations. The effect of temperature will be tested in order to show that the power of a model can also be demonstrated by its capacity to describe new situations that were not normally included in its original formulation. This aspect is also interesting if we consider the known effect of temperature on biological rhythms. Indeed, in circadian rhythms (period of about 24 hours), the frequency is independent of temperature (e.g., [4]). This is not the case for rhythms with higher frequencies (ultradian rhythms). We would like to answer the following question: is there any tendency in the intracellular calcium auto-oscillation model to compensate for the action of temperature? The answer to this question is not obvious if we consider the equations of such a system (see equations (1) and (2) below). In this situation, the computer simulation with numerical resolution is a simple and elegant way to approach this problem.


Nowadays, deepfake detection on subtle-expression manipulation, facial-detail modification, and smeared images has become a research hotspot. Existing deepfake-detection methods on the whole face are coarse-grained, where the details are missing due to the negligible manipulated size of the image. To address the problems, we propose to build a transformer model for a deepfake-detection method by organ, to obtain the deepfake features. We reduce the detection weight of defaced or unclear organs to prioritize the detection of clear and intact organs. Meanwhile, to simulate the real-world environment, we build a Facial Organ Forgery Detection Test Dataset (FOFDTD), which includes the images of mask face, sunglasses face, and undecorated face collected from the network. Experimental results on four benchmarks, i.e., FF++, DFD, DFDC-P, Celeb-DF, and for FOFDTD datasets, demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed method.


properties, osmotically sensitive gene regulation might represent one approach to osmotic sensing in vivo . One might envision a genetic circuit in which the expression of distinct reporters, such as fluorescent proteins, is controlled by transcriptional regulators that exhibit sequence-dependent and osmotically sensitive DNA binding. PU.1, a member of the ETS family of transcription factors, demonstrates the properties desirable for this sensor. For proof of concept, we constructed synthetic genetic circuits in which the expression of two spectrally distinct GFPs are placed under high- and low-affinity control by PU.1. As high-affinity PU.1 binding is osmotically sensitive, but low-affinity is not, co- expression of these reporters results in fluorescence spectra that provide a ratiometric measure of the cellular osmotic pressure. A suitable combination of co-excitable reporters yields non-overlapping spectra that can be monitored simultaneously by a platereader. We hypothesize that exposure to different os- motic pressures perturbs the spectra differentially as the expression of one re-porter is more sensitive to changes in osmotic pressure than the other. Therefore, the ratio of the peak intensities should change based on the intracel-lular osmotic pressure. We tested these reporters in E. coli cells cultured in defined media under hyperosmotic conditions up to 1.5 Osmol/kg. Our results show that the ratiometric intensities of the reporters change conditionally on PU.1 and in an osmotically sensitive way. Ultimately, this basis for an intracel-lular sensor could be useful for addressing previously non-addressable ques- tions in osmotic stress biology.


An innovative method using a methanol solution of barium hydroxide-urea as a protective agent was investigated for the conservation of stone artifacts with harmful gypsum weathering crusts. In this method, the methanol solution of barium hydroxide-urea and water were introduced into the gypsum crust in sequence by surface spraying. By doing so, the harmful gypsum crust is directly converted into a barium sulfate—calcium carbonate composite protective layer. The properties of the composite layer were characterized by SEM-EDX, XRD, ATR-FTIR, IC, water solubility, wetting angle, color difference, open porosity, capillary water absorption, and surface hardness. The results of the morphological and composition characterization (SEM-EDX, XRD, ATR-FTIR) indicate that the added urea can promote the carbonization reaction effectively. In addition, the methanol solution of barium hydroxide-urea can penetrate deep into the gypsum crust. The results of the physical properties characterization denote that the water stability of the specimens was significantly increased after the protection treatment; an approximate ten-fold stronger water resistance ability was achieved. Meanwhile, the intrinsic physical properties of gypsum crust, such as pore structure and original appearance, could basically be maintained. The presented conservative method has high facility and controllability and satisfying conservation effect, which means it has potential in the conservation of surface weathering carbonate stone artifacts.


The 21st century is witnessing large transformations in several sectors related to autonomy, including energy, transportation, robotics, and health care. Decision making using real-time information over a large range of operations (as well as the ability to adapt online in the presence of various uncertainties and anomalies) is the hallmark of an autonomous system. To design such a system, a variety of challenges must be addressed. Uncertainties may occur in several forms, both structured and unstructured. Anomalies may often be severe and require rapid detection and swift action to minimize damage and restore normalcy. This article addresses the difficult task of making autonomous decisions in the presence of severe anomalies. While the specific application of focus is flight control, the overall solutions proposed are applicable for general complex dynamic systems.


A new theory of social cohesion is developed for analysis of longitudinal social network data in anthropological field sites and historical network studies. Formal concepts of biconnectedness or sets of multiply connected actors are defined for social networks and implemented in a set of algorithms for largenetwork analysis. These sets are hypothesized to have greater cohesiveness related to bicomponent membership as a special form of social capital and as a social position that is more likely to receive cultural capital (e.g., inheritance and symbolic investments) from members of the bicomponent group. Pilot tests of hypotheses are reviewed for eight of the longitudinal fieldsite case studies, with positive results. A series of hypotheses are detailed for testing in a sample of the 36 case studies with the best longitudinal data that the PI has been able to locate and to established collaborative interest in testing the new methodology proposed herein. The new methodology is described. Further work with graph theoreticians and computer scientists will be undertaken to develop and implement the methodology, which is extremely well suited to analysis of large-populations where we have requisite genealogical or other network data. The significance is that we may be able either to predict, or to understand in a more rigorous fashion, how human institutions develop, which actors are likely to participate in them (as opposed, for example, to migration out of a local population), and how resources are differentially distributed in a population through time. A second major aspect is to understand and predict when institutional structures are likely to change as networks undergo critical transitions in bicomponent structure and density. Reference File C:\Program Files\ ftp \ nsf \NSF-99COV 3/1/99 2:32 PM Longitudinal Social Network Studies and Predictive Social Cohesion Theory Douglas R. White, PI, University of California, Irvine


Hyper-IgE syndrome is a rare immunodeficiency, with impaired humoral and celular immunity. This syndrome is characterized by hipereosinophilia and elevated IgE levels. We report a 3-year-old girl with an extensive cutaneous mycosis and a history dominated by recurrent absceses of staphyloccocal ethiology, sinopulmonary tract infections and chronic dermatitis. We diagnosed a hyper-IgE syndrome by clinical observations and laboratory findings.


In this paper, I will first review the notions of objects and concurrent objects and discuss their main roles. Then, I will introduce two observations on our current computer systems and explain why we need an evolved notion of objects, which we call uut0num014~ agents, to describe open and distributed systems. An autonomous agent is a software individual that reacts to inputs according to its situation and its goal of survival. A collection of such autonomous agents shows emergent behaviors which cannot be ascribed to individuals, eventually forming a society. Research into achieving a society of autonomous agents being carried out at Sony Computer Science Laboratory and Keio University will then be presented. In the last section, I will speculate about yet-to-be-realized computational modules called volitional agents, that could be used to create safe, evolutionarily stable, cohabitating society.


: This study was carried out in order to probe the extent of oxidative alterations in Sunflower Oil (SFO), subjected to light and dark storage conditions with, and without added vitamins, over a period of 16 weeks storage. The magnitude of oxidative changes was monitored by the periodical measurement of acid value, peroxide value, iodine value, Density and color throughout storage time. The acid value of sunflower oil increased from initial value 3.74 mg KOH/g to 4.92 mg KOH/g. kept in light and 4.00 mg KOH/g kept in dark. the acid value for oil samples kept in light and dark with added vitamin C, vitamin E and equal amount mixed from vitamin C and E was decreased for 16 weeks. Like the acid value, the peroxide value of sunflower oil increased from 7.46 meq O2/kg to (9.34 and 8.62) meq O 2 /kg, for oil samples kept in the same conditions with that mentioned in acid value. Unlike the acid value, the Iodine value of sunflower oil decreased from 140.5gI2/100g oil to (97.87 and 107.73) gI 2 /100g, the initial density 0.9026 g/cm-1 was increase with added antioxidants vitamins The density values was calculated after storage time and observing in the ranges recommended by standard for edible vegetable oils. Like the density, the color of oils was not change because the oil is rich by the color pigments. However, the vitamins added of fresh sunflower oils increase the oxidation stability. Changes in acid value, peroxide value and Iodine value obtained shows that the oxidative deterioration levels of oils were different between storage conditions. The results of the present study show that light acts as a major catalyst in accelerating the development of rancidity in oils. Also, the addition of vitamins to oil can increase the oxidation stability of oils during storage. In conclusion, this study has been able to show storage in the light can affect oil stability and minimizes the potency of vitamins in oils, fats or fat-containing products. Therefore, storing in dark (packaging with material protect light) and supporting with antioxidants is the best way to maintain the quality of oils during storage and domestic uses. were acid value, peroxide value, iodine value and saponification value. The oil sample was also to GC-MS. Oil from sample was four portions labelled A, B, C and D. portion A was the control sample, portion B was mixed vitamin C, portion C was mixed with vitamin E and portion D was mixed with an equal amount of vitamin C and vitamin E. the same physical and chemical tests above were replicate to all portion at an interval of three times, average results was obtained. The same procedure was repeated to an oil samples stored in normal day light and temperature for eight weeks and sixteen weeks separately. Results were recorded and conclusion were obtained.


The diploma thesis concerning Russian and language practice in territory of one of the postSoviet countries – attempt of research of language policy is carried out in Ukraine. For achievement of an object in view, that is for research of specificity of Russian in Ukraine, is necessary to analyse the language policy who predetermines the status of Russian in the country, a language situation in public sphere, including in the field of formation and employment, and a language situation in a private practice of mass-media which allows to understand the present position of Russian in Ukraine. The analysis is spent from the point of view of historical, socialpolitic, social-economic, demographic and linguistic factors. Then are analyzed on the basis of the given Ukrainian mass media. In work functional features of Russian of mass media of Ukraine are described. In particular, are considered ukranian words in Russian-speaking mass-media, it is certain, as well as in what strengthening Ukrainian component is shown. The results received in yielded research can be used at development of system of scientific recommendations on perfection of a technique of teaching of Russian as foreign and cultures, to introduction of new forms and methods of studying and distribution of Russian in the Czech republic and behind its limits. For increase of professional and common cultural competence of the teaching case of an average and maximum educational part and, can be practically used in is professional-business, curriculum-scientific activity of teachers-specialists in Russian philology of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Czech republic and other countries.