PURPOSE: To prevent vibrational deceleration in the vicinity of an objective deceleration and also increase the accuracy of feedback control with quick deceleration assured at the time of automatic braking. CONSTITUTION: A control part 50 is provided which automatically increases the brake pressure of every wheel at a specific duty ratio for evading touching a forward obstacle and so on, and also feedback-controls the brake pressure so that the actual deceleration of own vehicle becomes the objective deceleration. The control part 50 has a dead zone setting means 53, regulating the increase and decrease of brake pressure always when a difference between the actual deceleration of own vehicle and the objective deceleration is in a dead zone having a given width during feedback control; and a correcting means 56, lessening the duty ratio of both pressure increase and decrease sides, and making correction so as to narrow the width of the dead zone when the actual deceleration of the own vehicle enters the dead zone. COPYRIGHT: (C)1993,JPO&Japio


Objective To assess the validity of using fasting plasma glucose(FPG) and HbA1C for the screening of impaired glucose tolerance(IGT).Methods FPG,HbA1C and oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT) were examined by 336 subjects.Results Using 1999 WHO criteria,124 subjects had normal FPG,56 subjects had impaired fasting glucose(IFG),there are 156 subjects whose FPG equal to or above 7.0;There are 84 subjects whose HbA1C less than 6.1 and 252 subjects equal to or above 6.1;92 subjects had normal OGTT 2hPG,99 subjects had IGT,145 subjects had diabetes.Conclusion FPG or HbA1c was not reliable identify IGT,but HbA1c was more sensitive than FPG in detecting abnormal plasma glucose.


The stability of Ni2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ complexes with a bis(tetradentate) compartmental pyrazolate ligand (L) was determined in aqueous solution at 25 °C and I = 0.5 M (KNO3). Thereby a series of mononuclear [MLHn] (n = 2, 1, 0, −1, and −2) and dinuclear species [M2LHm] (m =  0, −1, −2) was observed. The stability of [ML] and [M2L] increases in the order Ni2+ < Zn2+ < Cu2+, whereby in the case of Ni2+ no dinuclear species could be detected. Structural proposals for several species were corroborated by X-ray diffraction studies. In all cases the pyrazolate group has a pronounced tendency to bridge two metal ions.


In terms of Theory of Receptive and Productive Vocabulary, This research endeavors to investigate the Chinese productive vocabulary to improve communication effectiveness in educational service sector under cross-cultural communication context. The research followed the method of Knowledge Management concept. Through knowledge audit, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge analysis and utilization, the productive vocabulary based on problem-solving in educational service was collected. It proves that users' productive vocabulary has close relation with understanding and effective communication, and its size is much less than overall vocabulary. The research offers evidence of productive vocabulary collection and significance of the productive vocabulary leaning. Suggestions for further research implications are given based on the findings of the research.


Mental workload classification is a core element of designing adaptive Human-Computer Interfaces and plays an essential role in increasing the safety and operator performance of complex high-precision human-machine systems in fields such as aerospace and robotic surgery. Among noninvasive neuroimaging techniques, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising sensing modality for decoding mental states. While a variety of both classical and more modern classification techniques have been explored for fNIRS data, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have received only minimal attention. A significant advantage of CNNs compared to other classification methods is that they don't require prior feature selection or computationally demanding preprocessing. In previous studies on using CNN for fNIRS signals, temporal information from the fNIRS time series was emphasized, but valuable spatial information contained in the recordings was neglected. In this work, we propose and evaluate new structures for the image data fed to the CNN. We exploit the spatial information available in the fNIRS data by constructing images that retain spatial structure. Classification results on real datasets show a significant improvement (16% and 8%) compared to existing Support Vector Machine and Deep Neural Network methods.


Poster: "ECR 2014 / C-1995 / Atrial fibrillation in 24-hour Holter ambulatory ECG explains only one fifth of the left atrial appendage volume increase in patients with suspected cardioembolic stroke" by: "M. Taina, A. T. Muuronen, P. Sipola, M. Hedman, P. Jakala, R. Vanninen; Kuopio/FI"


This chapter is fundamental in educational terms as it deals with a topic that cannot be underestimated: the use of laboratory simulation. As long as we talk about probability in the classic sense, paper, pen, and maybe a pocket calculator are sufficient tools, but when we want to analyze a probabilistic model in depth, the use of a computer tool is essential. This support not only allows us to confirm hypotheses but, in some cases, it is indispensable. In the school it is unthinkable to work on large data sets (often not available) that would require not only appropriate software but also a different approach. The balance should be sufficiently significant but easy to handle dataset.


This paper deals with a class of nonlinear fractional Sturm–Liouville boundary value problems. Each sub equation in the system is a fractional partial equation including the second kinds of Fredholm integral equation and the p-Laplacian operator, simultaneously. Infinitely many solutions are derived due to perfect involvements of fractional calculus theory and variational methods with some simpler and more easily verified assumptions.


The construction spectrum(C-spectrum) is often used to exploit the network reliability and importance measure. It depends only on the network structure and hence called structure invariant. Importance measure can be used to quantify the criticality of edge within a network. This paper aim at generalizing the traditional permutation importance measure to accommodate the case of K-terminal network in which all the edges fail with independent and equal probability. A concept for mixture C-spectrum is introduced to evaluate the permutation importance measure of edges. It is proved that the rankings according to the permutation importance measure depend only on the network structure through the mixture C-spectrum when the network has special structure or the reliability of edge is sufficient large. Finally, numerical experiment show that the Monte Carlo algorithm based on the mixture C-spectrum can be efficiently used to evaluate the permutation importance measure.


In acetylcholine, nature seems to have found a relatively simple molecule exquisitely well designed for the integration of certain vital chemical, electrical and mechanical biological functions. Acetylcholine performs through a cycle of synthesis, storage, release, distribution, interaction with bioreceptors and eliminative displacement or hydrolysis. Components in the cycle have been studied by observation of the effects of acetylcholine provided via exogenous and endogenous routes and by use of other compounds which mimic, modify or interfere with the actions of acetylcholine. The present exercise is an effort to examine acetylcholine and some of its simulants and antagonists from the perspective of their potential bonding characteristics and what these may imply as to the interactions with biochemical receptors in the cycle. A pharmacological response is a net effect of the ability of a test compound to reach, interact with, and leave a biologically responsive site. The effect of a chemical structural change in a compound on its intensity of biological activity is difficult to interpret in terms of receptor interaction without information as to the relative ability of the compound to reach the receptor sites. Although a compound inducing or interfering with an acetylcholine-like response can be inferred to reach and undergo bonding interaction with acetylcholine receptors, a lack of response does not necessarily mean that the test compound is incapable of undergoing interaction with acetylcholine receptors; the compound may not reach receptors in sufficient quantity to induce a response. Pharmacologically or biochemically responsive sites considered in the physiological functioning of acetylcholine include those in the central nervous system, autonomic ganglia, skeletal myoneural junctions, cholinesterases and cholineacetylase. Acetylcholine may also undergo bonding interaction with nonmyelinated nerve membranes generally. In the intact animal, the blood brain barrier to the central nervous system, sympathetic ganglionic sheaths, axonal myelin and other types of cell walls can be partial barriers separating acetylcholine responsive receptor sites from exogenously administered test compounds. Plasma cholinesterases and the myoneural junction transmission system as extracellular sites are less complicated from the standpoint of accessibility. All these acetylcholine-responsive sites further are in bonding competition for the test compound with nonresponsive sites of loss. Use of isolated organ test preparations only partially eliminates distribution variables. In vitro purified enzyme systems provide viable receptor structures with a minimum of accessibility or distribution complications. In the intact animal or in organ preparations, the myoneural junction has served as a convenient extracellular test system for in siru receptors, particularly with close intra-arterial administration of test compounds. The myoneural junction contains the full complement of components of the acetylcholine cycle with receptor structures readily accessible in locus. Facilitation of or interference with acetylcholine effects per se as an endpoint, however, does not necessarily identify the specific step involved in the acetylcholine cycle. It is generally accepted that acetylcholine functions directly or indirectly as


Segara Anakan Lagoon (SAL), located along side of soutern coast on western part of Central Java 108°46'–109 ° 05'E; 7 ° 34'–7 ° 48'S. SAL is necessasrily ecosistem as nursery ground. This has been becoming important research relating to primary productivity. The existance of antropogenical activities around the area, is changing inrush input into lagoon. This is going to be worried about giving influences in physical, chemistry, and biological factors of the water and causing deflation in rate value of primer productivity. Rainy and dry season's variability with important impacts on the phytoplankton community structure, abundance and dynamics. Furthermore, the number of coastal ecosystems with identified eutrophication symptoms is increasing worldwide due to the increasing anthropogenic pressures. One of 1the first symptoms of eutrophication is enhanced phytoplankton biomass. Generally, Fitoplanton is important biological indicators in the process. However, high abundance of biomass phytoplankton could give harmful effect toward lagoon, they could produce toxic substances that will be accumulated, it can be endangering .The aim of the research is to determine and calculate potential species of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in SAL with spastial and temporal approach. The spatial approach is done at seven different stations of ecological characteristics SAL, with representations: natural factors and the presence of anthropogenic activities. On the temporal approach (time series) for a year, it refers to the monsoon wind pattern, which are called season (western, the transitional season 1, eastern, and the transitional season 2).The results of laboratory tests are discussed descriptively. Phytoplankton sample were taken vertically using plankton nets, meshsize 25 μm. The result showed that SAL have been found and consisted of 82 species from 5 division phytoplankton: Chrysophyta, Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta, Pyrophyta, and Euglenophyta. 20 species from 9 genus were identified potential as HABs, with four genus of them were known having toxin and endangering for human (Nitzschia, Oscillatoria, Anabaena dan Protoperidinium).Whether, five genus do not produce toxins but giving deflation Oxygen of waters with anoxia condition (Chaetoceros, Coscinodiscus, Rhizosolenia, Thalassiosira, Thalassiotrix).The highest of HABS abundance is dominated during the transitional season II. On the spatial approach, antropoegenic characteristics station contribute to the whole height of HABs. Influence of rainfall, spatially, antropogenical pressure, and hydrodinamical watres causing enhancement of HABs potency.


Abstract 3453 Aberrant expression of TAL1 is one of the most frequent abnormalities in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), yet little is known about the transcriptional network controlled by this oncogenic transcription factor, posing a major obstacle to understanding T-ALL pathogenesis. Here we identify the core transcriptional regulatory circuit controlled by TAL1 and its regulatory partners HEB, E2A, GATA3 and RUNX1 in T-ALL cells. We determined direct transcriptional targets of TAL1 and its regulatory partners by ChIP-seq analysis, and found that TAL1 binds to the majority of HEB- and E2A-enriched regions and that these commonly bound regions are frequently overlapping with the GATA3- and RUNX1-enriched regions. We found that TAL1 forms an interconnected auto-regulatory loop with its partners, which likely contribute to the sustained upregulation of its direct target genes. TAL1 core regulatory circuit activates genes involved in T-cell development and hematopoesis. Microarray gene expression analysis revealed that TAL1 and GATA3 predominantly act as positive regulators of the expression of their direct target genes in T-ALL. Importantly, we found the MYB oncogenic transcription factor is directly activated by the TAL1 complex and positively regulates many of the same target genes, thus forming a feed-forward positive regulatory loop that further promotes the TAL1-regulated oncogenic program. Moreover, we found that a specific subset of TAL1 target genes are oppositely regulated by TAL1 and its obligate partner proteins E2A and HEB, uncovering a leukemogenic pattern that previously emerged from studies in murine models. These findings underscore the importance of TAL1 as a critical regulator of an aberrant gene expression program in T-ALL, and indicate how these networks maintain the malignant state in thymocytes. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Introduction: Bruxism and its treatment are challenging for any pedodontic patient. Goal: The goal is to evaluate the influence on the quality of life of the orthodontic appliances beneficial for bruxism treatment (Andersen and Twin-block) in children, aged 7-12. Method: The study was done on 50patients, aged 7-12, with diagnosed bruxism, and divided into two groups. The first group received Andersen's orthodontic appliances, while the second received Twinblock orthodontic appliances. The quality of life and the state of the bruxism were recorded twice: at the beginning of the study and after 6 months. Conclusion: The treatment of bruxism proved to be practically identical between the Andersen and the Twin-block appliances. The quality of life on the other hand, showed significantly better results in regards to the Andersen appliance, making it the orthodontic appliance of choice when treating bruxism in children.


It is an essential factor of internal control to create an excellent control environment to make business' internal control work effectively.The present condition and problems of internal control are analyzed and the environment to carry out internal control from four aspects is looked for as follows:(1)clear the administrative authorities' duties to establish and improve effective system of internal control;(2)perfect corporate governance structure;(3)strengthen internal audit;(4)improve personnel mangement.


Actively promoting cooperation with ASEAN is a major shift in China's foreign diplomatic strategy. Economic cooperation is the core content of China- ASEAN cooperation. By reviewing China's and oversea scholars' researches on China and ASEAN economic cooperation,we found that there is a huge trade volume between China and ASEAN countries,and coexistence of competition and complementary; In investment fields,as China- ASEAN Free Trade Area was set up,investment creation and investment diversion effect will increase with the rising of labor costs. Financially,because of the immature development of China's home financial market and the geopolitical impact,the cooperation between China and ASEAN is progressing slowly. But China is making use of its influence in Asia to promote the progress of monetary integration in Asia.


Abstract Vehicle is a dynamic system combined with various parameters. Dynamic characteristics of a vehicle can vary with the change of these parameters. To investigate the effect of the design parameter on vehicle handling performance the sensitivity analysis is carried out by the numerical method. The vehicle model is described by equivalent cornering stiffness that considers parameters of suspension and steering system. As the analysis results show the effect on the static and dynamic characteristics of the vehicle system, the sensitivity analysis can be used for synthesis of the design parameters to improve the vehicle handling characteristics at the design stage as well as during the vehicle test under development. Key Words : Vehicle Dynamics, Sensitivity Analysis, Equivalent Cornering Stiffness 본 논문은 2012학년도 우석대학교 교내학술연구비 지원에 의하여 연구되었음. * Corresponding Author : Chang-Ro LeeTel: +82-17-288-4778 email: firstname.lastname@example.com접수일 12년 03월 13일 수정일 12년 04월 10일 게재확정일 12년 04월 12일


Lemon is one of the most significant crops globally, with annual production exceeding 20.8 million tons in 2021. Spain leads the production in Europe with over 62% of lemon production (1.17 million tons in 2021). This study evaluated the real impact of cultivation conditions (rootstock and culture medium) on the compositional characteristics of 'Verna' lemons (peel and juice) using 1H-MNR metabolomic identification techniques and multivariate analyses. Twenty metabolites were identified in both the peel and juice samples. Arginine, phenylalanine, ethanol, and trigonelline were absent in the peel samples but present in all the juice. On the other hand, the metabolites asparagine, glutamate, formate, and malate were present in the peel samples but absent in the juice. The analysis of the results indicates that the rootstock had a significant impact on the metabolites related to the energy metabolism of the plant, which directly affects the development of fruits and the influence of the culture conditions (rootstock and culture medium) on the plant's adaptive response and modification of metabolic pathways.


Soil mixing has been used around the world for geotechnical construction for nearly 50 years. After its introduction into the United States market in the late 1980s, soil mixing was gradually adopted for environmental remediation driven by increasing environmental regulations and clean-up needs. Since these early applications, soil mixing has grown into a widely accepted method to stabilize, solidify, and treat a variety of wastes. In this paper, the authors draw from decades of experience in the environmental soil mixing market to provide an overview of the U.S. industry practice, including discussions of major industries served, waste types remediated, and trends in construction. The paper also includes descriptions of recent applications throughout to reinforce the high level discussions.


The structures of the polymers obtained in various types of heterogeneous polymerisations have been studied together with the polymerisation kinetics. Examples of these are: fibres of polymethylene and polyethylene; nylon spherulites produced in the polymerisation of lactams; and extended chain crystals of polyoxyethylene. Solid-state polymerisation is briefly discussed.


The presence of native prairies in the Lower Wisconsin River valley that have not been cropped affords a mean of comparison across undisturbed and managed ecosystems. A native prairie soil and a prairie converted to corn (Zea mays L.) and red pine (Pinus resinosa Aiton) plantations were studied to determine the influence of vegetation on soil-forming processes in the sandy landscape of the Lower Wisconsin River valley. Effects of afforestation and cultivation were determined by separating organic matter among particle-size and chemical fractions, differentiating among forms of extractable Fe and Al, and measuring dissolved organic carbon (DOC), Fe and Al in bulk precipitation, throughfall, and soil solutions at three depths. The soil under native prairie vegetation showed distinctive horizonation, including an umbric epipedon formed by melanization. Thickness of the A horizon was significantly less in the forested and cultivated soils than in the prairie soil. Greater amounts of the floatable fraction of organic C, fulvic acids, and Fe-organic complexes were present in the forested soils than in the prairie soil. Carbon concentration in the A horizon of the cultivated soil was significantly lower than in the prairie and forested soils, due to losses by erosion, decomposition, and DOC leaching. In the cultivated soil, the floatable and humin fractions showed the greatest decrease in C concentration compared with the prairie soil. Analysis of the solution data indicated leaching of soluble Fe-organic complexes under coniferous and corn vegetation, suggesting that afforestation and cultivation initiated incipient podzolization.


This systematic review and meta-analysis provide a synthesis of studies examining factors associated with child sexual exploitation and quantify their relative importance.


A new method is proposed by which a minority carrier injecting contact or ohmic contact can be attained in wide band gap II–VI semiconductors. The basic principle is to use a forming process, i.e., an applied electric field at an elevated temperature in the Schottky contact, to spatially separate dopants from compensating centers. In this way, the ratio of dopants to compensating centers can be greatly increased at the semiconductor surface. Upon cooling, the dopant concentrations are frozen to retain a large net concentration of dopants in a thin surface layer, resulting in a depletion layer that is sufficiently thin to allow tunneling injection. Calculations of band profiles, distributions of doping concentrations, and current–voltage characteristics are performed on Al doped ZnTe, in which Al donors complex with doubly negatively ionized Zn vacancies to produce total compensation. The results indicate that the doping concentration and the total band bending during the forming process are the crucial factors for achieving injecting contacts. For Schottky barrier heights above 1 eV, doping concentrations as high as 10^20 cm^–3 are needed.


Following the recent trend to manage natural resources for "sustainability," ecologists, resource managers and policy- makers are beginning to think of the management of forest ecosystems in terms of "ecosystem health" or "ecosystem integrity." Biologists are increasingly recognizing that use of chemical assays in assessing the condition of an ecosystem has limited value, and that biological factors, e.g., species diversity and composition, can be useful characters in the analy- sis of "biotic integrity." An index of biotic integrity (IBI) has been developed for riverine ecosystems in the MidwestU.S., using fish species diversity, indicator population analysis, trophic structure assessment, and physiological abnormalities in fish as measurable surrogates for "biotic integrity". This paper explores the development of an analogous index of forest integrity (IFI) to be applied to the upland coastal plain forests of southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana. The IFI developed here includes sampling and analysis of population trends of dominant plant taxa, plant species diversity, and horizontal and vertical vegetative structure at midstory, shrub and detritus levels.


The utility model relates to a well service guide mechanism for horizontal multilateral well belonging to well service tools for multilateral well. During the process of well servicing, the well service tool is required to be led into the multilateral well correctly. The well servicing technique at present as salvage, milling, sand cut, water stopping and leak stopping, which is crucial to be used exactly in the multilateral well, is still far from reaching the demand. Purposed to fill the blank, the utility model comprises a connecting pipe composed of upper joints connected by a screw; wherein, the connecting pipe is connected with a slope guide sleeve by a shear pin, a through hole with a spring stand, a spring, a separation blade and a detector provided is opened under the guide sleeve. In operating, the well servicing tool shall be led in the well along the guide sleeve slope. Therefore, the utility model, which is simple in structure and convenient in utilization, can be widely used in the horizontal multilateral well.


The dividend decision is taken after careful consideration of a number of factors, such as legal and financial. This is because it is impossible to develop a dividend policy set that applies to all companies. The decision about dividends differs from company to company in the light of company considerations. The dividend is partly dependent on the current earning of the company and partly on the dividend from the previous year. Therefore, the main changes in profit with the existing rate of dividends were the main determinants of corporate dividend policy. The research showed that the profitability aspects and their indicators for each of the return on equity return on asset, and earning per share without dividend yield, have the greatest impact on share price performance, followed by the financial risks aspect of financial leverage without gains variation which comes in the second rank. Then, the factor of size, investment opportunity for each of investment opportunity and net profit standard deviation without assets volume comes in the third place and finally, the liquidity and signals factor represented in the cash ratio without signals index. While the profitability aspects and its indicators for each of the return on equity, return on asset, earning per share without dividend yield are the most effective on pay-out ratio (first rank), followed by financial risks aspect and gains variation coefficient without financial leverage in the second rank, then the liquidity factor of index without the signals in the third place and finally size and investment opportunity factor for each of investment opportunity and assets volume without net profit standard deviation.


(CHEST 2009; 135:201–209) Editor's note: In this series, interactive diagrams are an important part of each article and are referred to throughout. You can access these diagrams online at www.chestjournal.org/content/135/1/201.full. Included with the diagrams are "Show Me" videos, animated narrations that walk you through the main points of each diagram. The first time you access the online material, you may be asked to update your Web browser's Flash Player plugin; this will enable you to view the diagrams as intended. If you are not automatically prompted to update the plugin and you have any problems using the diagrams, you can download the latest version of the Flash Player by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash.


Although non linearity characterizes most real control problems, methods for analysis and control design are considerably more powerful and theoretically founded for linear systems than for non linear ones. However, a wide variety of approaches are present in literature which aim to extend linear methodologies to non linear cases. In this paper we propose a hybrid architecture for the indirect control of non linear discrete time plants from their observed input-output behaviour. This approach combines a memory based learning identification procedure with control techniques borrowed from conventional adaptive control. We show how memory-based methods are an effective way to employ linear methods in non linear cases and we discuss the stability properties of the resulting controller in a simplified case. Experimental results in the control of some non linear benchmarks are presented.


The sterile α‐motif (SAM), a relatively small (∼70 amino acids) interaction domain, is found in a variety of proteins involved in cell signaling, transcription regulation, and scaffolding. The Ste11 protein kinase from the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascades of the budding yeast is regulated by a SAM domain located at the N‐terminus of full‐length protein. In solution, the Ste11 SAM domain exists as a well‐folded dimeric structure that is involved in interaction with the cognate SAM domain from an adaptor protein Ste50. In this work, we show that the Ste11 SAM domain has an intrinsic affinity towards the lipid membranes. The solution conformation of the Ste11 SAM determined in perdeuterated DPC micelle, using NMR spectroscopy, is defined by five helices of different lengths connected by a number of loops. In the micelle bound state, the non‐polar and aromatic residues of the Ste11 SAM lack a native‐like packing and are presumably engaged in interactions with the micelle. Using two different paramagnetic doxyl‐lipids; we have mapped out localization of Ste11 SAM residues at the micelle surface. Most of the residues appear to localize at the interfacial region of the micelle. However, a number of non‐polar residues from the central region of the domain are found to be located inside the core of the micelle including residues from the helix 4 and a loop between helix 2 and helix 3. Isothermal titration calorimetry studies demonstrate that a facile insertion of the Ste11 SAM into the DPC micelle is primarily driven by a large change in enthalpy, −50 kcal/mol with an apparent equilibrium association constant (Ka) of 7.86 × 106 M−1. Interestingly, an interfacial mutant L60R of the Ste11 SAM lacking the dimeric structure does not show detectable interactions with the lipid micelle. The micelle‐bound structure of the Ste11 SAM domain described in this work may have potential implications in the regulation of MAPK signaling whereby positioning of the Ste11 protein in close proximity to the membrane may facilitate efficient phosphorylation of the Ste11 kinase by the membrane attached upstream Ste20/pak kinase. Proteins 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The main purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework for understanding the transformation of citizenship in complex societies. To this end, the paper is divided into six sections. The first section elucidates the main reasons for the renaissance of the concept of citizenship in the contemporary social sciences. The second section argues that a comprehensive sociological theory of citizenship needs to account for the importance of four dimensions: the content, the type, the conditions, and the arrangements of citizenship. The third section suggests that in order to understand the sociological significance of T.H. Marshall's account of legal, political, and social rights we need to explore the particular historical contexts in which citizenship rights became ideologically and institutionally relevant. The fourth section offers some critical reflections on the main shortcomings of the Marshallian approach to citizenship. The fifth section draws an analogy between the transformation of social movements and the transformation of citizenship. The sixth section sheds light on the fact that contemporary citizenship studies are confronted with a curious paradox: the differentiation of citizenship has led to both the relativistic impoverishment and the pluralistic enrichment of contemporary accounts of 'the social' and 'the political'. The paper concludes by arguing that, under conditions of late modernity, the state's capacity to gain political legitimacy increasingly depends on its ability to confront the normative challenges posed by the ubiquity of societal complexity.


During the summer of 2000, a five-week web-based math course was implemented using the BlackBoard CourseInfo TM software. The course was created to improve the math skills of freshmen engineering students, and to prepare them for the math placement exams. The goal of the online course was to make sure that none of the students placed in the Math 106 - Basic Algebra remedial course. The results of the program which had 13 participants were excellent: 7 students placed in Math-241 (Calculus I) and 6 students placed in Math-141, which is one semester Pre-Calculus course. Plans are on the way to expand the program and offer the course to 50-75 students next summer.


From the perspective of reducing EGS cost, a single wellbore configuration could be cost-efficient compared to a traditional doublet system because fewer wells would be required. The applicability of a single wellbore configuration depends on its thermal output capacity. In this work, a numerical model was built to investigate the thermal output capacity of several single-well EGS configurations. The parameters that affect the output were also studied. A single-well downhole heat exchanger (DHE) with connection to artificial fracture intervals was investigated. In this configuration, the working fluid is circulated directly through the wellbore, taking advantage of the resulting thermosiphon effect. CO2 as a working fluid was compared with other common binary working fluids, e.g. isopentane. However, the simulation results show limited thermal production capacity of the downhole heat exchanger configuration. Hence, several other alternative single wellbore configurations were studied, in an attempt to improve the thermal production capacity. The numerical study showed that a key factor determining the thermal production is the flowrate in the fractures.


The information of forestland following mountain hazards was acquired based on the interpretation of remote sensing images and specialty data of forest resources and plant types before disaster,variation of forest landscape and indirect loss going with loss of forest plants were evaluated by spatial overlay analysis.The results showed:(1) There were 11 808 traces of mountains hazards brought by earthquakes,the traces of mountains hazards covered 32.87×104 hm2,or 4.66% of the region's forestland area;the hazard area of landslide and landslip was most extensive and covered 90% of forestland loss area;the three types of broad-leaf forest,shrub and coniferous forest were destroyed seriously,the loss area of broad-leaf forestland covered 13.63×104 hm2,or 41.46% of forestland loss area.(2) The loss area of woodland by earthquakes covered 21.26×104 hm2,the percentage of forest cover in the region descended from 44.54% to 42.64%,a fall of 1.87 percentage points;upon the destruction of the forestland,the following indirect loss reached to 183.096 thousand million,including maintain forest resources stability and ecology function of water conservation,soil conservation,carbon fixation and oxygen release,biodiversity conservation,forest recreation.


In this paper, we propose a robust heart beat detection method using signals representing cardiac activity directly in complex noisy environment. Proposed method extracts and matches characteristic points which provide essential information on estimating heart beats. The proposed method was applied to a data set of the CinC/Challenge 2014, and achieved a sensitivity of 99.65% and a positive predictivity of 99.64%.


Objective To investigate the effect and safeness of combined application of aspirin and clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention.Methods All 136 patients,received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and with acute coronary syndrome of non-elevation of ST-segment,were at random divided as trial group (70 cases) and control group (66 cases).The patients in trial group were after PCI operation administered combination of aspirin and clopidogrel (6~12 months,average 9 months),up to the end of follow-up;the patients in trial group,after PCI operation,first received one month′s medication of combination of aspirin and clopidogrel,then singly aspirin for a long time.The occurrence rates of major cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death,myocardial infarction,re-building operation of blood flow for target vessel due to myocardial ischemia) and hemorrhagic events (serious and mild bleeding) were observed.Results There were 7 cases of cardiac events in trial group (2 cases of myocardial infarction,5 cases of re-building operation of blood flow for target vessel),and in control group there were 16 cases of cardiac events (1 case of cordial death,4 cases of myocardial infarction and 11 cases of re-building operation of blood flow for target vessel),there was a significant difference between the two groups (P0.05).No serious hemorrhage occurred in both groups,and there was no significant difference in mild hemorrhagic event between the two groups (P0.05).Conclusion A long period of administration of combined application of aspirin and clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention was safe and effective.It could reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular events after PCI operation,with no obvious increase of hemorrhage complication.


A Whānau ora centred initiative discussion document was released in November 2009. Members of the Taskforce presented at 22 consultation hui for a wide audience of urban and rural whānau, iwi and service providers during October and November 2009 with attendance numbers around 600 people. Written submissions (100) were also received with similar common themes reflected including the need for Whānau ora to demonstrate a 'Māori heart', ensure local representation in decision making, minimal bureaucracy, sustainability and adequate resourcing, a research and evaluation component, and quality relationships between whānau, providers and iwi.


Introduction - Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner Part I: Between text and image 2: Gothic wars - media's lust: on the cultural afterlife of the war dead - Elisabeth Bronfen 3: Kingdom of shadows: fin-de-siecle gothic and early cinema - Paul Foster 4: 'A mirror with a memory': the development of the negative in Victorian gothic - Gregory Brophy 5: Modern phantasmagorias and visual culture in Wilkie Collins's Basil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Part II: Sounding spectres 6: 'The earth died screaming': Tom Waits's Bone Machine - Steen Christiansen 7: Ghosts of the Gristleized - Dean Lockwood Part III: Moving media 8: 'Nineteenth century (up-to-date) with a vengeance': vampirism, Victorianism and collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Dorothea Schuller 9: Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger's The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser's short stories - Jean-Francois Baillon 10: Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the gothic personae in bizarre magic - Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan 11: Body genres, night vision and the female monster: REC and the contemporary horror film - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 12: You have been saved: digital memory and salvation - Stephen Curtis Index


This study intends to fill in a gap through attempting to make available to readers and educators in the field of teaching English communication skills at tertiary level information on poster design, defense and assessment. This information is based on practical applications of the use of poster presentations by engineering students in a professional communication course for junior year engineers where there is a substantial focus on poster design, poster rhetorical structure, use of visuals, managing the presentation; coordination between team members, transition from one member into another, and written and oral communication skills. The poster presentation can be viewed as a pedagogical tool and as having considerable agency in promoting and enhancing students' professional communication skills and meta-cognitive capacity. It places emphasis on team-role behaviors, giving credence to personal, inter-personal and team learning.


In a broad sense Education for All (EFA) is a hazardous Issue for to the least developed countries, and yet it adds, almost always, for these countries to provide additional difficulty for initial learning periods when majority in pupils has to assume the route from the local language to the teaching one. Besides, adapting in this context the provision of education has often done under the financial constraint. The hiring for supplementary teachers, as to reach EFA goal, less paid in comparison to their older colleagues. So now the teacher staff is consequently represented by new teachers with fewer initial education and pedagogical training, but definitely closer to the communities. The recent investigation on the case of Madagascar, done by PASEC, as to evaluate this context observes the value added in pupils' assessments for the 2nd grade school, where the dominant teaching language is Malagasy, and the 5th grade where French took place as the main teaching language. Opportunely, in this survey, teachers assigned to classes sampled by PASEC were tested on their ability in French language practice through a standardized test (TCF). This research's aim is to know the impact of the learning language capacities of the teacher on the assessments of learning within their students. The approach chooses the classical production function view of education as economists are familiar with. In initial results, the presence for a link between the capacities of the teacher and students' progress appears deeply scarce. This link, if any, pass through various effects in the school management and sectoral organization inside different types of school, in which Madagascar presents a deeper variety. The main findings show that there is no uniform and constant impact from competences of the teacher toward pupil learning. The student will receive a value added conditioning, and frequently diluted, through structural effects and norms of management at the class nd school levels. Moreover, the process for transmission of knowledge will be following the unequal position of the pupil on the scale and performance on this domain; the findings are consistent with the literature: the question of choice in teaching language for basic skills may be a significant factor in increasing inequality. This tendecy is here underpinned using analysis in semi parametric process around the quantiles regression analysis. So we can measure the penalty effect on pupils' performance due to French fluency limits endowment by the teacher. This link is not to be rejected, especially during the initial learning period in French apprenticeship. Beyond in the school path, this link still exists, but there may exist a lot of compensation and penalty effects for diluting a link in respect to teachers' skills.


Recent needs for evidence-based healthcare systems are increasing. We have been developing a wearable healthcare assistant system LifeMinder that synchronously records physiological information and contextual information. LifeMinder is a long-term monitoring and easy retrieval system for an evidence-based healthcare. This paper discusses a prototype of LifeMinder. This prototype can sense pulse waves and user's actions / postures and capture contextual photos and continuous voices. These collected data are automatically synchronized, sent to a healthcare PC, stored in organized XML formats and can be easily retrieved on Web pages.


As the key metering equipment in the smart grid, the measurement accuracy and stability of electronic transformer are important for the normal operation of power system. In order to solve the problem that there is no effective way to predict the error developing trend of electronic transformer, this paper proposed two kinds of short-term prediction methods for electronic transformer error based on the backpropagation neural network and the Prophet model, respectively. First, preprocessing and visualization operation are performed on the original error data. Then, the data fitting and short-term prediction of electronic transformer error are made on the basis of the backpropagation neural network and the Prophet model, and the fitting and prediction results of the two methods are compared and analysed in combination with four evaluation indexes. Finally, the Prophet model is adopted to simulate the development trend and periodic fluctuation of error, and the reason for fluctuation is analysed. The simulation results show that the Prophet model is more suitable for the prediction of electronic transformer measurement error than the backpropagation neural network.


Background: Mycosis Fungoides (MF) is the most common and indolent form of Cutaneuse T-cell Lymphomas (CTCL), that usually occurs in old adults. Objectives: To determine epidemiologic features and patients characteristics of MF in Isfahan (Iran). Methods: We performed a retrospective study in MF clinic of alzahra hospital that is the main center for treatment of MF patients in Isfahan (Iran) and evaluated clinicopathologic features. Results: In 3 years 25 patients were referred to Alzahra MF clinic. 18 patients diagnosed as MF. Seven (38.9%) patients were male and 11 (61.1%) were female with male to female ratio of 1:1.57. The mean age of patients was 41.06 years. 88.9% of our patients were in stages ΙA and ΙB. Conclusion: Most of our patients presented in early stages that were similar to other studies, while male: female ratio is different from other studies.


The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between items of the Brief COPE and exam grades. This correlation data can be used to help identify students that may lack key strategies needed for academic performance.


A simple modification to an operating system''s page allocation algorithm can give physically addressed caches the speed of virtually addressed caches. Colored page allocation reduces the number of bits that need to be translated before cache access, allowing large low-associativity caches to be indexed before address translation, which reduces the latency to the processor. The colored allocation also has other benefits: caches miss less (in general) and more uniformly, and the inclusion principle holds for second level caches with less associativity. However, the colored allocation requires main memory partitioning, and more common bits for shared virtual addresses. Simulation results show high non-uniformity of cache miss rates for normal allocation. Analysis demonstrates the extent of second-level cache inclusion, and the reduction in effective main-memory due to partitioning.


Using a simplified fabrication process, we present the experimental verification of the performance of a 3-D photonic crystal optical transmission filter. Inherent to this unique fabrication approach to the realization of narrow line width, highly efficient optical transmission filters, is the ability to spatially vary the transmission characteristics across the filter aperture. This differentiates this type of filter from conventional dielectric based space variant optical transmission filters which require additional processing at intermediate steps within the dielectric film deposition process. The multilayer stack consists of alternating high and low refractive index dielectric material grown on either side of a high index dielectric spacer layer, which produces a narrow transmission notch in the center of a large stop band. The nano-structuring of a square lattice array of holes and subsequent etching of the pattern through a dielectric stack provides the ability to spatially vary the location of the narrow transmission peak within the wide stop band based off of variation of the hole diameter or lattice constant of the array.


Institut Pemerintahan Dalam  Negeri (IPDN) is one of educational institution under the authority of ministry of Internal Affairs which aims to prepare the cadets of Internal Goverment, To produce a cade of goverment who has a good personality, attitudes adn behaviour of civilness it's very influenced by the ability of the caregiver as forming the personality of the civil. The background of this research is because there are many infraction done by Young female Caregiver Pensions Unit Praja, it show that lack performances from the caregiver.
The purpose of this study is know and analyze the performance evaluation of caregivers performance to build and forming personality of praja in Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri Jatinangor and what factors are affecting the performance of the caregiver. This research uses the mixedmethod research and the data collection techniqu used is interview, observation, documentation and assisted with quetionaire technique/
The result shows that performance of caregivers to forming or build teh personality of praja is good but it is not yet maximal. It because the ability of caregivers is not adequate. And the recruitment of caregivers in Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri do not run in accordance with the rules.
Therefore, in this thesis researcher give some advice need to get a recruitment of caregivers in accordance with the rules, need to give caregivers some training to incrase their ability to farming personality of praja. And then need to have a good evaluation tools to know how far performance of the caregivers.


Quantum illumination (QI) is a technique exploiting the quantum entanglement between the transmitted signal and the idler to enhance the detection performance of a quantum radar over the classical radar. Here, we propose the double optical parameter amplifier (OPA) detector for QI so that the effect of entanglement between the idler and the returned signal beams is maximized. We show here how even when a weak returned signal is embedded in a large background noise, the probability of detection can be significantly increased.


ABSTRACT In this paper, we study spacelike submanifolds of codimension two in anti-de Sitter space from the viewpoint of Legendrian singularity theory. We introduce the notion of the anti-de Sitter normalized Gauss map which is a generalization of the ordinary notion of Gauss map of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. We also introduce the AdS-normalized Gauss–Kronecker curvature for a spacelike submanifold of codimention two in anti-de Sitter space. In the local sense, this curvature describes the contact of submanifolds with some model surfaces.


In this paper I want to put forward the importance of temporary structures for the preservation of old buildings. I have described the steps to follow in order to be able to plan the shoring, from the preliminary studies to the project. I have also pointed out the importance of continuous use of the building and the observance of safety measures.


In recent years, deep neural network (DNN) has been frequently used for classification. In this study, iris flowers having 3 different types are classified by using DNN which are utilized the width and length of petal and sepal features as input. Some experiments are made for the iris dataset by using different activation functions and different epoch numbers. Then, the activation function which gives the best result is determined. The classification success of the developed model is achieved 96% for the iris dataset.


Your Editors hope that this Review , published in the 25th year of the Law Reports of the Commonwealth , during which the 100th volume of the series will appear, will be available for perusal by those attending the 17th Commonwealth Law Conference in Hong Kong in April 2009. The varied selection of cases on many different legal topics from 32 Commonwealth jurisdictions reported in the 2008 volumes included a particularly rich harvest of judgments on many issues of fundamental human rights, representing the largest single category of cases reported. Many of these turned on the interpretation of constitutional provisions originally derived from the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 (ECHR) and 2009 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first adaptation of the Convention in this form, which was for Nigeria in 1959, one year before independence. That 'Bill of Rights', although not so-called, was preserved, with improvements, in all subsequent Nigerian Constitutions and also served as a model for many subsequent Constitutions in the Commonwealth. Many of the decisions reported prompted searching judicial examinations of novel and difficult questions arising in the context of this 'new common law' of fundamental rights, including decisions on the innovative provisions in the South African Constitution protecting environmental rights, the right to water and the restitution of land rights lost under the apartheid regime. Among the cases reported were the defeat in the House of Lords of the struggle of the Chagossians to return to their former home on British Indian Ocean Territory, 1


Objective To investigate clinical significance of blood rheology in recurrent spontaneous abortion patients.Methods 120 recurrent spontaneous abortion patients were selected in hospital from January 2013 to July 2014 as observation group.120 normal pregnancy women were selected at same period as control group.All people underwent blood rheology indexes(whole blood high shear viscosity; low shear viscosity; whole blood reduction high shear viscosity; low shear viscosity; plasma viscosity) detection.Results Blood rheology indexes(whole blood high shear viscosity; low shear viscosity; whole blood reduction high shear viscosity; low shear viscosity; plasma viscosity) in observation group were significantly higher than control group.The proportion of pregnancy more than 5 months; coincidence rate between B ultrasound display and gestational weeks; coincidence rate between serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin value growth and gestational weeks; recovery rate of hemorheology index after pregnancy in observation group were significantly lower than control group.Difference was statistically significant(P 0.05).Conclusion Blood rheology indexes change in recurrent spontaneous abortion patients.Blood viscosity increase significantly,which has certain influence on prognosis.


Architects receive and give instructions and are involved with opinions. Instructions and opinions are seldom treated objectively and yet clear communication is professionally essential. One application of fuzzy set theory is to provide a quantitative interpretation of verbally expressed, subjective statements which are meaningful and yet not always clearly defined. The fuzzy calculus leads to a better understanding of the statements without the loss of vagueness and imprecision which distinguish subjectivity from sharp objectivity. In this paper instructions involve fuzzy unions and intersects; opinions require the introduction of fuzzy relations and compositions to transform verbal statements into quantitative expressions.


Along with the coming of knowledge economy, the development and management of human resource has become an important topic of the research on the library. This paper briefly discusses the present situation of and problems existing in library's human resource management, and puts forward some countermeasures for the future development and management of library's human resource.


THE classic effect of vitamin D is to bring about mineralization of bone. Although the possibility remains that some form of vitamin D functions directly at the mineralization site, most evidence i...


The invention relates to a method for preparing amino siloxane. The method comprises the following steps of: adding an unsaturated amine compound, siloxane containing silicon and hydrogen and platinum dioxide into a reactor in a mass ratio of (1-10): 1: (0.001-0.05); adding polysiloxane in an amount which is 0.1 to 1 percent of the total reaction substance quantity, wherein the molecular weight of polysiloxane is 5000 to 150000; introducing inert gas into the reactor to displace air, and sealing; and heating reactants to the temperature of between 40 and 150 DEG C, and reacting for 1 to 72 hours under stirring. The method is high in catalytic efficiency; the selectivity of a gamma-addition product is improved; PtO2 is a heterogenous catalyst and is easily separated from a system; and when the consumption of PtO2 is high, PtO2 can be recycled, so the yield is high.


To design subsurface drain spacings and depths, the main efforts are usually focused on so-called equivalent depth as well as selecting a steady/unsteady drainage model. These models have been used widely for half a century and some software are developed to design the drainage systems. In spite of recent developments in drainage such as dry-drainage, bio-drainage and controlled drainage, the main concern remains on subsurface water quality and its harmful impacts on environment. In regions were the drainage system is most needed for salt leaching at reclamation stage as well as agricultural reclamation rotations, the main concern is salt concentration of drainage outflows. There are some examples in Iran that demonstrate irrigation and drainage networks that are well equipped with open and subsurface drainage systems. Application of suitable irrigation water provides an overall irrigation efficiency of 35-40%. As a result, in surface irrigation practices, the deep percolation is larger than leaching fraction and leaching requirements of the properly arranged cropping patterns in the crop rotation programs. Such conditions are observed in some projects for which the initial/capital salt leaching was well managed, but still after a long time salt concentration in drainage water is much larger than the applied water salinity of the same soil profile. Detail studies indicate that this can be attributed to existence of Salic/Natric horizons below the field laterals and/or sub main drainage canals, presence of highly saline stagnant or perched water tables below the drains which act as a diffuse boundary and low salt leaching efficiency.


Stack filters are a class of nonlinear filters and include rank order filters, morphological filters, weighted median filters, and so on. The stack filter is defined by a Boolean function. The output of the Boolean function is restricted to two values (i.e., 0 or 1). We attempt to enlarge the class of stack filters by defining the output of the Boolean function from 0 to 1 continuously. We call this filter the fuzzy stack filter. Fuzzy center weighted median filters which are one type of fundamental fuzzy stack filters, have been proposed. We propose fuzzy weighted median (FWM) filters which are more general stack filters, and show the design method of those. The FWM filter is synthesized by two factors, the fuzzy Boolean function and the filter weights. We approximate the fuzzy Boolean function by a sigmoidal function. Furthermore, we approximate the weights of the proposed filter by the S-type function which is used in the field of fuzzy theory. As a result, the FWM filter is defined by only four parameters. The proposed filter can be derived by the LMS algorithm under the mean squared error criterion.


A set of vectors was constructed that enable combined and systematic testing of metabolic pathway genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . The vectors are available as CEN/ARS and 2 m -based plasmids with a choice of three inducible promoters, P GAL1 , P CUP1 and P ADH2 . These features offer control over the initiation and level of gene expression. In addition, the vectors can be used as templates to generate PCR fragments for targeted chromosomal integration of gene expression cassettes. Selection markers are fl anked by lox P elements to allow ef fi cient Cre A-mediated marker removal and recycling after genomic integration. For each promoter, expression of a bacterial lac Z reporter gene was characterized from plasmid-based and integrated chromosomal cassettes, and compared to that of the glycolytic P PGK1 promoter. Plasmid stabilities were also determined. The promoters showed distinct activity pro fi les useful for modulating expression of metabolic pathway genes. This series of plasmids with inducible promoters extends our previous vector set carrying the constitutive promoters P PGK1 , P TEF1 and P HXT7-391 . Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


We propose a $d$-density wave induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the CuO plane. The spectral function of high-temperature superconductors in the under doped and lightly doped regions is calculated in order to explain the Fermi arc spectra observed recently by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We take into account the tilting of CuO octahedra as well as the on-site Coulombrepulsive interaction; the tilted octahedra induce the staggered transfer integral between $p_{x,y}$ orbitals and Cu $t_{2g}$ orbitals, and bring about nontrivial effects of spin-orbit coupling for the $d$ electrons in the CuO plane. The spectral weight shows a peak at around ($\pi/2$,$\pi/2$) for light doping and extends around this point forming an arc as the carrier density increases, where the spectra for light doping grow continuously to be the spectra in the optimally doped region. This behavior significantly agrees with that of the angle-resolved photoemissionspectroscopy spectra. Furthermore, the spin-orbit term and staggered transfer effectively induce a flux state, a pseudo-gap with time-reversal symmetry breaking. We have a nodal metallic state in the light-doping case since the pseudogap has a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ symmetry.


This study analyzes and shows the elements of Francisco Francos' various speeches and manner in which he targeted people's beliefs and conduct. His prime targets were the higher education organizations, educators and college students. Franco believed they needed to be indoctrinated in order to eradicate the republican beliefs from the previous Spanish administration. Thus he directed his propaganda towards them. His yearning to reach out to teachers and students was evident in Discurso pronunciado por S.E. El Generalísimo Franco, Jefe del Estado Español con motivo de la inauguración del presente curso escolar y de la Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid. The totalitarian vocabulary of the text comprises a utopian vision of reality and covert techniques of persuasion as well as control that, when combined, provided a potent weapon of manipulation. Taking into account both the era's historical setting and the current political climate, this critical discourse analysis of the speech selected incorporates Wodak's historical discourse approach with other approaches to analyze topoi in critical discourse. We see in the findings of this article how the combinations of a charismatic leader and power of speech play an important role in obtaining support of the population, even when it is against their own personal interest and well-being.


Which provides an operating circuit for driving an LED route ready, comprising a primary side to a supply voltage supplied electrically isolated clocked converter having on its primary side a pulsed switching element, in particular a flyback converter, wherein connections for the LED distance (LS) from the secondary side of the converter are fed, and a secondary side arranged control unit, which is adapted to control the clocked switching element, wherein the control unit only evaluates the secondary side sensed parameters and the control of the switching element depends changed.


In this study, we aim to measure the face recognition algorithm robustness of CiRA CORE software and identify a group of TE student with face recognition using the deep learning technique from CiRA CORE software. The one-shot problem and similar-looking face problem are robust performance tests of CiRA CORE. Thus, the number and properties images of a dataset are considered as the robustness of the CiRA CORE software. Identify TE student experiment; three detected faces that are the maximum number of faces in one frame is a condition of the experiment. The results of identify TE student experiment demonstrate that the system gains ninety percent accuracy for the camouflage test by wearing a cap and achieves one hundred percent accuracy for other camouflage problems and identify TE student test. The result of robustness and identify TE student experiment confirms face recognition algorithm CiRA CORE software is effective and robust for identify TE student system.


The addition of thionyl chloride to dihydroisoquinolines affords isoquinolinium chlorides which are readily converted to the corresponding ylides upon treatment with sodium hydrogen carbonate. These ylides undergo facile 1,3-dipolar additions with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, maleic anhydride and acrylonitrile to afford the corresponding benzocycloheptenone cycloadduct.


This study was to evaluate the role of garlic and melatonin in the reduction of the toxic effect of the drug methotrexate with concentrations 0.52 mg/ kg of body weight of rabbits on total count of white blood cells and enzymes liver functions, used in this study (90) of the male rabbits ,were randomly divided into five groups, six rabbits in each group, given all the animals normal food during the experimental period of 30 days, explained to the animals at the end of each period of experience and took blood samples to count white blood cells, measure liver function enzymes like Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), Alanine aminotransferase(ALT), Alkaline phosphatase (ALP), was reached the following conclusions: (1) The treatment of male rabbits with methotrexate reduced the rate of white blood cells, compared with a negative control and other experimental groups in the first week, but for the observed improvement in the levels of the number of white blood cells (WBCS) in the aggregates experimental treatment in addition to methotrexate, garlic and melatonin. (2)The treatment of animals by methotrexate alone showed an increase in enzyme levels (AST) ,(ALT) and (ALP) while there was a decrease in enzyme levels in treated experimental animals by methotrexate addition to both the garlic and melatonin levels with high spirits. (3) Thus, it can be said that the injection of garlic extract with dose 6 mg/kg of body weight of rabbets, hormone melatonin had a preventive role in reducing the side effects of methotrexate in the number of total white blood cells and activity of hepatic enzymes.


The beam shapes in fi gures 4 and 10 of the article entitled ' Monte Carlo simulations of nanoscale focused neon ion beam sputtering of copper: elucidating resolution limits and sub-surface damage ' [1] should be a summation of 15 × 15 Gaussian beams of 1 nm FWHM instead of a single Gaussian beam of 15 nm FWHM as presented there. Therefore, it is corrected in this corrigendum with new fi gures. We would like to request the readers to see these new fi gures ( fi gures 1 and 2 of this corrigendum instead of fi gures 4 and 10 respectively of the article [1]). The ana-lysis and text discussion of the article [1] are not affected by the errors.


Abstract Tests of sexual isolation indicate that, in the absence of temporal and spatial isolation, the strict mating behavior of the females and the high sexual aggressiveness of the males of Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) would obstruct any inward flow of genes from either C. occidentalis Free, or C. biennis Free. Under these same conditions, however, the two latter species may receive genes from C. fumiferana, since, in tests, their females mated indiscriminately and their males were less aggressive than those of C. fumiferana.


When a very short (•¬10-9 sec) laser pulse propagates in a plasma with its scalelength of•`100 ƒÊm, interactions of this laser pulse with the plasma result in laser light absorption and x-ray emissions and cause various kinds of nonlinear parameteric instabilities in the corona region. Reviewed are the basic properties of these interactions which occur in hot (electron temperature: Te>0.5 keV) and dense (electron density: ne •¬ 1020/cm 3) laser-produced plasmas.


A series of blurred images painted by Gerhard Richter reference news photographs of the infamous prison deaths of members of the Baader-Meinhof organization; Rainer Usselmann points out that their death date, October 18, 1977, though indelibly iconic for Germans, may hold little meaning for those outside the context of its origin. As I write in the United States in January 2002, our iconic date still seems beyond the limitations of such specificity of context. Everything is still unavoidably referential, whether intended or not. In this issue we include articles that can be seen as direct reactions to September 11, 2001 and, in some cases, they were updated to reference those events. But everything here was initially written and chosen for publication before that became our new historical marker.


A device for modeling the erosion and re-deposition of fine grains in the soil layer by artificial rainfall was designed. Through experiments, the effects of rainfall intensity and soil thickness on the migration of fine grains were investigated. The changes in grain size distribution with soil thickness under rainfall induced seepage were observed. It is shown that fine grains move downwards in the soil layer with rainfall induced seepage and re-deposit at the lower or middle part of the soil layer to form a thin layer of reduced permeability. Accordingly high pore water pressure forms, and the effective stress and the strength of the soil layer decrease, which can initiate debris flow or landslide.


Single-photon detection with high efficiency, high time resolution, low dark counts and high photon detection-rates is required for a wide range of optical measurements. Although efficient detectors have been reported, combining all performances in a single device remains a challenge. Here, we show a broadband NbTiN superconducting nanowire detector with an efficiency over 92%, over 150MHz photon detection-rate and dark counts below 130Hz operated in a conventional Gifford-McMahon cryostat. Furthermore, with an optimized detector and readout electronics, we reach a record low jitter of 14.80ps while maintaining high efficiency.


Method photographs vibration modes as high as 100 kHz. Technique also measures vibration decay and damping characteristics. Compensation techniques for structural size limitations and for background noise excitations are discussed.


THE association of hydrocephalus with congenital syphilis is not as common as may be inferred from the relative frequency with which the disease attacks the central nervous system in young subjects. Jeans 1 found that in a series of 2I4 congenitally syphilitic children, the cerebro-spinal fluid in 33 per cent. showed evidence of infection. Of 402 mentally defective children at Caterham Mental Hospital, 37 have been found to be the subjects of inherited syphilis, and of these the cerebrospinal fluid in I2, or approximately one-third, gave abnormal reactions, such as positive Wassermann reaction, increase of cells and globulin, and colloidal gold curve; hydrocephalus, however, only occurred in two of the 37, one of whom has since died, and forms the subjectmatter of this paper. Of the other 365 non-syphilitic cases, there were 7 cases of hydrocephalus. In preWassermann days Fournier 2 reported 3 cases of hydrocephalus in his series of 233 congenital syphilitics. Since the introduction of the Wassermann reaction many workers have written on this subject.


Content uploading is a critical issue in cellular networks. Device-to-device (D2D) communications is a promising technology to support content uploading. In the existing solutions, they only confine to the specific scenario where all devices must upload content to Base Station (BS), and thus mobile devices can establish cooperative relationship to reduce the data uploading time. For the general scenario, their schemes are inefficiency, as mobile devices with no content uploading do not join into any cooperation considering their individual payoff, so the data uploading time is not reduced. To address this problem, we study cooperative D2D data uploading in general scenario, in which mobile devices with/without required of content uploading are deployed, and then propose an optimized data uploading scheme to decrease the data uploading time. In this scheme, we make full use of all feasible devices to built D2D cooperation for content uploading by adopting the bottom to top mode. To achieve this scheme, we design a chain formation algorithm to address the problem of D2D cooperation among mobile devices. Finally, we demonstrate that our scheme is effectively by extensive simulations.


ROA (Return On Asset) has a role as one of the indicators to measure the effectiveness of companies in utilizing assets held to generate profit. This research aims to examine the effects of CAR, LDR, NPL, BOPO and NIM on ROA as a measure of the financial performance of Commercial Banks listed on the IDX period 2014-2016. Sampling by purposive sampling method, obtained 29 banks that have complete data every year. So total observation there are 87 samples of annual financial statements. After going through the process of outlier data, the research sample becomes 79 annual financial statements. Technical analysis of this research data using multiple linear regression analysis that is processed with spss program.
The results of this study simultaneously show that CAR, LDR, NPL, BOPO and NIM have an effect on ROA. Partial testing of CAR, LDR, NPL against ROA has no significant effect. While BOPO showed significant negative effect and significant positive NIM on ROA.


OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 and an atypical variety of Kawasaki disease with systemic inflammatory processes in children, and their diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. METHODOLOGY: Narrative literature review, from consultation of the databases of PubMed, Science Direct and Google academic. The following keywords (MeSH) were used for the search: "COVID-19", "Kawasaki Disease", "SARS-CoV-2", "multisystem inflammatory syndrome". Original articles and clinical case reports were included. RESULTS: Fifty-two articles were found, of which 27 were selected that met the inclusion criteria for analysis. CONCLUSIONS: With the clinical manifestations associated with COVID-19 appeared atypical multisystemic inflammatory pictures and Kawasaki disease establishes an urgency of precise and prospective data of this syndrome that manages to differentiate, in its totality, Kawasaki disease or, in its absence, to define it as a variant of the same one. Physicians caring for patients with COVID-19 should be aware of the diagnostic criteria of the new syndrome and be vigilant, especially in countries with consistent case numbers where the majority of complicated patients may be seen following SARS-CoV-2 infection. In addition, these research updates imply an even deeper perspective for pathophysiological study, treatment indication and conceptualization of the clinical basis for its understanding.


Based on the applications to the wire-tap channel and bounds on the relative generalized Hamming weight, we will introduce optimal codes of type <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {I}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and type <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {II}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. We will give some necessary conditions and the explicit construction for a linear code <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {C}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to be optimal of type <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {I}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {II}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to a subcode <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {C}_{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. We will also present a new bound on two different parameters of the relative generalized Hamming weight.


Detection of pore types and diagenetic features from seismic data is a major challenge for the evaluation of carbonate reservoirs in the subsurface. Based on a detailed petrographical and petrophysical analysis of carbonate rock using optical and scanning electron microscopy, mercury-injection measurements, digital image analysis, and well logs, we have determined the potential of the geophysical pore type ([Formula: see text]) inversion — a rock physics inversion scheme based on the differential effective medium theory—to quantitatively and qualitatively characterize the pore type distribution from acoustic data in the Yadana carbonate gas field (Early Miocene, offshore Myanmar). The geophysical pore type ([Formula: see text]) is revealed to be an upscalable parameter, whose depositional/diagenetic interpretation may be performed at well log and at seismic scales. We apply the inversion method on a 3D seismic data to map the reservoir-scale distribution and highlight the occurrence of laterally extended (100–1000 m) subseismic- to seismic-scale (thickness [Formula: see text]) geologic bodies. From this approach, two main reservoir geobodies are discriminated and interpreted in terms of depositional and diagenetic fabrics: (1) highly microporous, decameter-scale reservoir units (approximately 80% of the reservoir), mainly consisting of foraminiferal, red algae floatstone to rudstone with vuggy moldic porosity and characterized by moderate to high [Formula: see text] (0.11–0.20) and (2) thin, stratiform, cemented scleractinian floatstone/brecciated units (5–10 m; approximately 20% of the reservoir) with low microporosity and macroporosity and exhibiting low [Formula: see text] values ([Formula: see text]).


A South African recital tour by the Israeli-born concert pianist, Yossi Reshef, during March 2013 created much public debate and led to tense situations on four South African university campuses. The largest disturbance occurred at Wits University, where protestors drawn from the ranks of the Wits Students Representative Council (SRC), Muslim Students Association, Wits Palestinian Solidarity, and the Progressive Youth Alliance (Manyati 2013), intimidated concertgoers, damaged university property, and disrupted the recital to the point that it had to be abandoned. After the event, Wits SRC Internal Vice President, Tokelo Nhlapo, stated that 'The [Wits] Student Representative Council takes full responsibility for disrupting the concert' (Nhlapo quoted by Manyati 2013). At Rhodes University those aligned with the Rhodes University Palestinian Solidarity Forum (RUPSF) demonstrated outside the music department, the recital venue, after vilifying the music staff in an open letter for not acquiescing to their demands for the recital to be cancelled. Similarly, at Stellenbosch University notice was received that protest action was planned, leading to the concert venue being cordoned off, creating space for the recital to proceed without hindrance. It was only at the University of Cape Town, where Reshef did not perform but conducted master classes, that his visit seems to have gone unnoticed. Reshef's appearances at these universities coincided with Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).


In this correspondence a O(n3)-time algorithm for fault diagnosis in an n-cube connected array of processors is presented using the notion of candidate processors and syndrome information digraphs.


The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of verapamil were investigated in six chronic hemodialysis patients. A single oral 120‐mg dose was administered both on a non‐hemodialysis day and a hemodialysis day separated by ≥ 7 days. Blood pressure and PR interval were measured simultaneously with each blood sample. Plasma verapamil and norverapamil concentrations were analyzed by high pressure liquid chromatography. The mean Cmax, tmax, AUC, apparent plasma clearance, and terminal t1/2 were 190 ± 108 ng/mL, 0.6 ± 0.2 hour, 676 ± 443 ng ṁ hr/mL, 3926 ± 1933 mL/min, and 11.4 ± 4.0 hr, respectively, on the nonhemodialysis day. The dialysis clearance of verapamil and norverapamil was negligible. The t1/2 during hemodialysis was 3.6 ± 1.1 hr, compared with 3.4 ± 0.7 hr during the same period of time postdose on the nonhemodialysis day (NS, P > .05). Systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased for up to 4 hours postdose, whereas the PR interval tended to increase. Conclusions include: (1) the single oral‐dose pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of verapamil in chronic hemodialysis patients are similar to published data in normal subjects and cardiac patients and (2) verapamil and norverapamil are not significantly removed by hemodialysis, so that supplemental doses are not necessary.


The free-form surface does not has stable texture and feature points. The existing 3D reconstruction algorithms for the free-form surface extract uncertain quantity of feature points which appear in random location because of image noise and different brightness. A novel 3D reconstruction method through projecting a grid on free-form surface is presented. Gridlines are treated as texture on the free-form surface. On the basis, the feature texture is extracted and feature points are precisely matched, the 3D reconstruction is completed according to recognizing and extracting the grid feature. The method is verified its feasibility and validity after applying it on several models.


Modern world of network security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As network systems are becoming lifeline of electronic mass and communication there is urge to provide the security to these network system. People belonging to divergent interests, incentives are using networks to fulfill their purpose. To protect the network from the malicious user's the concept of the network security emerges. This document provides valuable insights not just into 'security' topics such as privacy, bugs, spam, and phishing, but into more general areas such as system dependability and configuration


Extending the classical neurocentric view that epileptogenesis is driven by neuronal alterations, accumulating experimental and clinical evidence points to the possible involvement of non-neuronal cells, such as glia, endothelial cells, and leukocytes in the pathophysiology of epilepsy, specifically by means of inflammatory mechanisms. Inflammatory responses, notably interleukin (IL)-1b signaling, have been shown to be associated with status epilepticus and seizure frequency (Marchi et al., 2009). As shown in experimental models and in tissue from patients with epilepsy, seizures evoke the release of cytokines not just from neurons but also from glial cells and endothelial cells (Ravizza et al., 2008). Furthermore, the contribution of non-neuronal cells to the induction of neuronal death following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus has been demonstrated (Rogawsi, 2005; Ding et al., 2007). Several key events that lead to inflammatory responses following seizures have been identified. Seizures can induce blood–brain barrier disruption (Janigro, 2007) and ⁄ or angiogenesis characterized by poor barrier function (Rigau et al., 2007), thereby permitting serum albumin entry into the brain (van Vliet et al., 2007), followed by astrocytic albumin uptake (Ivens et al., 2007); and activation of endothelial and leukocytes interactions (Fabene et al., 2008; Kleen & Holmes, 2008; Ransohoff, 2009). However, despite this wealth of data, the mechanisms underlying enduring immune and inflammatory responses in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) remain largely elusive. As described in the current issue of EJN, Aronica et al. (2010) took an important step toward resolving this issue. They demonstrated the selective up-regulation of a proinflammatory signalling-associated microRNA (miRNA) in a rat model of TLE as well as in human TLE. MicroRNAs are genomically encoded small non-coding RNAs that influence the translation and stability of mRNAs (Zhao & Srivastava, 2007). Aronica et al. (2010) focused on miR-146a, a microRNA that is induced by pro-inflammatory stimuli, modulating innate immunity through regulation of Toll-like receptor signaling and cytokine responses (Taganov et al., 2006). miR-146a is also known to play a functional role in T lymphocyte-mediated immune responses (Curtale et al., 2010). In order to understand the regulation and function of miR-146a in epilepsy, Aronica et al. (2010) investigated the dynamics of miR-146a expression during epileptogenesis in a rat model of TLE. Furthermore, they studied the expression and cellular distribution of this microRNA in hippocampal tissue obtained from TLE patients with hippocampal sclerosis. The authors report an increase of miR-146a expression in the CA3 region of rats during latent and chronic phases of experimental epilepsy, as well as in the human tissue. It is important to note that miR-146a expression was evident not only in neurons, but most prominently in GFAP-positive reactive astrocytes, underscoring their key role for orchestrating inflammatory responses in epilepsy. The results of this study suggest new avenues toward the identification of cellular mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis and persistent functional alterations in chronic epilepsy. Furthermore, these results indicate that miRNAs, linking astrocytes with inflammatory mechanisms, are potentially promising new cellular targets for the development of antiepileptic drugs.


Bidding behavior on computerized electronic sales of slaughter lambs differs by buyer type. The number of different buyers bidding is important to the amount of price improvement during any auction. The most important finding is that two buyers will compete aggressively because of anonymous bidding.


In memory of Jackie Stedall, friend and colleague As Jackie Stedall argued in her 2011 book, From Cardano's great art to Lagrange's reflections: filling a gap in the history of algebra, there was a 'transition from the traditional algebra of equation-solving in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emergence of "modern" or "abstract" algebra in the mid nineteenth century' (page vii). This paper traces the evolution from the thirteenth-century work of the Pisan mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci, to the early seventeenth-century work of the German Jesuit Christoph Clavius of what came to be considered 'traditional algebra'. It contends that rather than a single 'traditional algebra', in fact, a plurality of intimately related yet subtly different algebras emerged over the course of those four centuries in different yet interacting national settings.


The paper undertakes the experiments on the physical features of the red clay in Guizhou and its partial geotechnical features,including the moisture content measurement,the plastic limit water rate experiments,the density tests,the soil granule proportion,and achieves some basic data,so as to obtain the results which may have the positive role for the projects.


Badan Usaha Milik Masyarakat (BUMMAS) Parkit Farm is a serial village program initiated by Rumah Zakat Bekasi Branch. Badan Usaha Milik Masyarakat (BUMMAS) Parkit Farm is engaged in modern hydroponic farming, focusing on using narrow land in the house yard and attempting to improve the community's economy. The impact of increasing population and settlements in an area is in line with food needs. On the other hand, this need is not supported by agricultural land, which is getting narrower. The hydroponic method and utilizing limited land can help the community meet their daily food needs. The research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. Data collection techniques used are observation, interviews, and documentation. Based on the research, the people in the Grama Puri Housing have supported educational background that supports the program. The social needs of the community also show that the community cares for each other, and the economic conditions of the people in the Grama Puri Housing are already able to match the average income of the people. There are seven stages of empowerment in implementing the Greenhouse Parkit Farm program: preparation, assessment, program planning, action plans, program implementation, evaluation and results of changes, and termination.


The advantage of the potato crop residues lower quality, can offer an alternative to revalue residos obtained therefrom, and give the opportunity of a second use of residos with aValue added. In this paper an assessment of the amount of starch that can be obtained from lower quality potatoes such as the pachanga and residual pope do, and make a cost-benefit assessment to consider their alternative use. Potato starch is obtained by the wet method, achieving a yield between 7 and 8%, which is low compared to the amount of almicon containing potatoes, with this performance cost of potato starch obtained is about 20 pesos per kilo, and although this is more econ omic + the cost of commercial potato starch.


Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically influencing the environment, and research is strongly committed in proposing alternatives, mainly based on renewable energy sources [1]. Low-greenhouse gas (GHG) electricity production from renewables is well established, but issues of grid balancing are limiting its development. Energy storage is a key topic for the further deployment of renewable energy production [2]. Besides battery and other types of electrical storage, electrofuels and bioderived fuels may offer suitable alternatives in some specific scenarios [3,4]. This Special Issue welcomed contributions on energy conversion technologies and use, energy storage, technologies integration, e-fuels, and pilot and large-scale applications.


Purpose: Present study analyses social media users' perceptions about presence of cyber bullying in political contents on Facebook and Twitter. In the presence of social media cells of political parties, this study designed to analyze impact of cyber bullying on political behavior of users.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Present study utilized survey research techniques and data from 300 male and female social media users was collected through a well-designed questionnaire.
Findings: Major findings indicate consistent use of social media by youngster and users believe that there is rise in political contents on social media. Social media bullying is creating a political divide among supporters of different political parties. Bullying contents creating hatred, enmity, hostility, aggression and anger against supporters of other parties. Users are the view that offensive language, photo shopped images, impersonation, spoofing, misleading facts are faced by users in political contents. Results also reveal that male users face more offensive language as compared to female users of social media due to wider friendship circle.
Implications/Originality/Value: It is evident from the finding that bullying, trolling and memes has emerged as new way of political agenda setting and major area to reinforce voters about certain political ideology in the context of Pakistan's political atmosphere.


Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two?sided business models that partly involve indirect revenue generation (such as advertising and data profiling), and a patchwork of regulated and unregulated segments of the market. This complexity requires a fresh look at the market forces shaping the industry and a rethinking of market definitions and of the assessment of market power. This article presents the state of play in European electronic communication markets, with a particular emphasis on the recent development of 'over the tops'. We also use a stylised model of an electronic communications market to draw some central lessons from economic theory and to elaborate on market definition and market power. Today's electronic communications markets are complex.They are characterised by complementarities along the value chain and two-sided platforms at infrastructure and content level.This complexity requires a fresh look at the market forces shaping the industry.It also requires a rethinking of market definitions and of the assessment of market power.This article addresses these issues with a particular emphasis on the recent development of 'over the tops'.


Infra-Mackey spaces and generalized infra-Mackey spaces are introduced.For an infra-Mackey space E,the strong dual (E′,β(E′,E)) being locally complete is equivalent to E being C-quasi-barrelled,and is also equivalent to E being C_0-quasi-barrelled.For a generalized infra-Mackey space E,the strong dual (E′,β(E′,E)) being locally complete is equivalent to E being C_0-quasi-barrelled.


Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third most common cause of cancer‐related mortality. The fact that the vast majority of patients with PDAC are diagnosed at an advanced stage highlights the need of early diagnosis. As hereditary factors are associated with approximately 5% of all PDAC cases, a screening programme to these high‐risk individuals (HRI) has been proposed. The aim of screening methods is to identify selected group of patients with morphological abnormalities at an early stage, in order to be treated promptly. In this study, we evaluate the surgical outcomes and the appropriateness of pancreatic resection in HRIs who were selected for screening.


The invention discloses a Zigbee-based micro strain measurement unattended engineering monitoring system. The Zigbee-based micro strain measurement unattended engineering monitoring system comprises an integrated displacement sensor, a reduced function device (RFD) module and a coordinator, wherein the integrated displacement sensor is embedded into concrete and comprises a fixed amplitude RC oscillating circuit, a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) displacement sensor, a phase sensitive detection and signal amplifying circuit and a microprocessor which are connected sequentially; the RFD module is connected with the integrated displacement sensor, is arranged on the ground and comprises a second Zigbee chip and a direct current/direct current (DC/DC) converter; the coordinator is connected with the RFD module and comprises a display screen, a keyboard, and a first Zigbee chip and a general packet radio service (GPRS) module which are connected with the display screen and the keyboard respectively; and the second Zigbee chip is in wireless communication with the first Zigbee chip. The Zigbee-based micro strain measurement unattended engineering monitoring system can realize site-remote end unattended monitoring function.


Microbial Enhance Oil Recovery (MEOR) is a technology that involves the use of microorganisms to extract the remaining oil from the reservoir with an exceptionally low operating cost. In this study, mathematical models describing microbial transport, nutrients propagation and microbial growth in the porous media are presented. The reservoir was assumed to be a perfect rectangular shape and was sub-divided into five grid blocks. The bacteria and nutrients were injected into the first grid block for the period of 10 days before the well was shut-in. After the shut-in, the concentration of bacteria and nutrient consumption rate were calculated in the other grid blocks with time. The results obtained were compared with the plant data obtained from Garzan oil field. The resultsshowed that bacteria concentration increased as the nutrients were consumed with time. However, during the fourth time step (40 days) of the soaking process, severe bacteria decay occurred due to the lack of sufficient nutrients.


The invention discloses a processing method of a gain factor. A baseband signal and the gain factor output by a digital automatic gain controller (DAGC) are received. The operation based on the baseband signal is compensated according to the gain factor. At the same time, the invention discloses a processing equipment of the gain factor and a GAGC equipment. The processing method and the processing equipment of the gain factor and the DAGC equipment of the invention can improve the system performance better. A transmission mode of the gain factor provided by the invention does not need the change of the prior baseband bit width, which can be realized conveniently and causes little loss of the information precision of I and Q paths.


This work was carried out at the Escola de Agronomia e Veterinaria da UFGO. This study was made to test the effect of the storage period of the "cacau" orange budwood on the quality of buds for grafting. Budwoods of the "Cacau" orange (Citrus sinensis  Osb) were harvested, packed in polyethylene bags and maintained at environmental temperature. The buds were grafted on rootstocks of Rangpur lime (Citrus limonia, Osb) at intervals of 6 days (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 days). It was noted that the loss of bud viability increased simultaneously with progressive change in budwood color from the natural green to an intense brown. The percentages of buds alive after 60 days of grafting were: 100% on the day budwoods were harvested; 70% after 5 days of storage; 36% after 10 days of storage and 00% after 15 days.


of metal ions ., Pb(II) and Cu(II) from aqueous solution onto paw-paw seeds (PPS), acid treated paw-paw seeds (ATPPS) and base treated paw-paw seeds (BTPPS) adsorbents by batch method. A series of tests were carried to evaluate the effect of the system parameters, i.e . adsorbent dosage, initial concentration, temperature and contact time. The obtained kinetic data showed that the pseudo first order model best fitted the biosorption of both metal ions with (r 2 ) values of 0.9918, 0.9674 and 0.9463 for Cu(II) onto PPS, ATPPS and BTPPS, respectively and for Pb(II) 0.8513, 0.8686 and 0.9434 onto PPS, ATPPS and BTPPS respectively. Estimated surface adsorption of intra-particle diffusion estimated that surface sorption dominated. Thermodynamic parameter ( ∆ G o ) gave negative values indicating that the biosoption processes were spontaneous and feasible. ∆ H o gave positive and negative values indicating that some biosorption processes were endothermic and some exothermic. Isotherm data indicated that Langmuir best described the biosorption. The reusability of PPS, ATPPS and BTPPS adsorbents was evaluated up to five cycles without showing significant drop in sorption efficiency.