The French PHENIX, the British PFR and the West German SNR-300 Prototype Fast Reactor neutron monitoring system concepts are reviewed and compared to U. S. systems. Emphasis is placed on the type of neutron detectors and preamplifier electronics being used. The French Series CFUC and the British Type P7 high temperature (~1050°F) fission counters are described and indicated performance discussed based upon published results. High temperature compensated ionization chambers manufactured in Europe and the U. S. are briefly covered. The European low level flux monitoring preamplifier philosophies are related and compared to present and planned U. S. systems. Major differences are noted and discussed. Recent test results from wide range systems mated with fission counters operating at 725°F in the EBR-II Nuclear Instrument Test Facility (NITF) are presented. The NITF facility is briefly described.


No single international relations theory identifies, explains or understands all the key structures and dynamics of international politics today. In this sense, this article offers a new theory to build upon liberal and realist approaches to economic interdependence and war via interaction of trade expectations theory. In the new world order following Cold War, not a single IR theory has impacts on international politics. In this regard, this paper focuses on the evaluation how a new mixture of some basic IR theories affects the post-Cold War era's international relations and tries to analyze the possible coercive coexistence and cooperation of three selected basic IR theories, which likely affected each other during Post-Cold War era. In this frame, the essay will be shaped on three main sections. The first will call upon an conceptual analysis of selected IR theories: Realism, Liberalism and Trade Expectations. The second will analyze closer ties of Neo-realism and Neo-liberalism in general. The third will try to put forward both interdependency and war among them following the Cold War. Finally, we will make our comments and consideration in the context of conclusions.


Background Hordeum brevisubulatum, known as fine perennial forage, is used for soil salinity improvement in northern China. Chloroplast (cp) genome is an ideal model for assessing its genome evolution and the phylogenetic relationships. We de novo sequenced and analyzed the cp genome of H. brevisubulatum, providing a fundamental reference for further studies in genetics and molecular breeding. Results The cp genome of H. brevisubulatum was 137,155 bp in length with a typical quadripartite structure. A total of 130 functional genes were annotated and the gene of accD was lost in the process of evolution. Among all the annotated genes, 16 different genes harbored introns and the genes of ycf3 and rps12 contained two introns. Parity rule 2 (PR2) plot analysis showed that majority of genes had a bias toward T over A in the coding strand in all five Hordeum species, and a slight G over C in the other four Hordeum species except for H. bogdanil. Additionally, 52 dispersed repeat sequences and 182 simple sequence repeats were identified. Moreover, some unique SSRs of each species could be used as molecular markers for further study. Compared to the other four Hordeum species, H. brevisubulatum was most closely related to H. bogdanii and its cp genome was relatively conserved. Moreover, inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) were less divergent than other parts and coding regions were relatively conserved compared to non-coding regions. Main divergence was presented at the SSC/IR border. Conclusions This research comprehensively describes the architecture of the H. brevisubulatum cp genome and improves our understanding of its cp biology and genetic diversity, which will facilitate biological discoveries and cp genome engineering.


One of the most frequent complications of chronic suppuration of the ear is cholesteatoma. Bezold found that it constituted 2.1 per cent. of the various ear diseases, and 1.5 per cent. of chronic suppuration. In operative cases, according to Reinhard, 29 per cent. were complicated with cholesteatoma. In fatal cases by intracranial complication, cholesteatoma existed in the proportion of 1 :3, showing the importance of this subject. Cholesteatoma of the ear is a roundish or oval body, varying in size from a poppy seed to a pigeon egg, having a shiny mother-of-pearl surface, and having a bluishwhite or yellowish color. The covering or husk resembles skin in structure, but has no lymphatic or hair follicles, shows a plain rete Malpighii, whose papillre dip deep into the coanective tissue for variable distances. The cells of the apices gradually lose their roundness as they approach the surface, they become flattened and horny. These horny cells, which are polygonal, show no nucleus until stained with ammoniacal carmine solution. These horny epithelii form lamillre which stick together like the scales of an onion and form the body of the swelling, the various layers producing the pearly shiny coat. The contents of the structure is usually a small kernel of matted pus, or a cheesy detritus of decomposed or disintegrated epithelium. Between the lamillre we find cholesterine crystals, fat globules and often numerous microorganisms. Very rarely were giant cells found. Blood and lymphatic vessels are entirely absent within. The cholesteatoma may be situated in the external audi-


Based on the stability mechanism analysis and the co mp osition design for cement stabilized mixture and aiming at the cement stabilized desert aeolian sand used as subbase material, the early strength property, exte nded mechanics property and the temperature contraction property of cement stabi lized sand with early strength agent are stud ied in this paper. The laws of gain in strength and temperature contraction are obtained, which are beneficial to practical engineering.


Long‐term displacement measurements provide important information about the structural safety of civil engineering structures and the associated maintenance necessary. Most approaches developed for measuring displacement, such as direct measurements using the linear variable differential transformer and computer vision‐based sensing, relate to campaign‐type sensor deployment. However, these methods have critical limitations when used to accurately measure long‐term displacement, because it is difficult in practice to appropriately handle unavoidable sensor movement. This study therefore proposes a long‐term displacement measurement method using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) that is designed for use with short‐ and medium‐span bridge structures. Reflectors that have higher reflectance than common construction materials (such as concrete and steel) are used to enhance measurement accuracy and reduce scanning time. Strategically deployed reflectors provide a reference point, which is independent of the LiDAR position. Thus, LiDAR can be temporarily installed in the field only when measurements are necessary. Expensive LiDAR systems can be employed to measure the long‐term displacement of multiple bridges cost‐effectively because permanent installation is not required. The proposed method is validated within the laboratory by focusing on LiDAR position independence and is then used during the early erection stages of a railroad bridge to measure long‐term displacement.


Relying on a comprehensive dataset including detailed information on all patent applications filed to the EPO from 1980 to 2000 and on the renewal of those of them that were granted, this paper presents the first survival time analysis of the determinants of patent length. The results are twofold: first, they clearly establish that the life expectancy of patent rights has significantly increased over the past decades despite a small decline in the average grant rate. Second, they show that some filing strategies very strongly influence the overall length of patents, possibly due to induced delays in the examination process. This suggests that such strategies may result in higher and longer lasting legal uncertainty on the markets, with unknown consequences on the dynamic efficiency of the patent system.


Both vanillin and ethyl vanillin have absorption at ultraviolet zone, and theirs absorption spectra are seriously overlapping. So they can not be determined individually spectrophotometry without prior separation. In this paper , the chemometric multivariate calibration methods, such as partial least squares (PLS) was applied to the simultaneous determination of these two compounds in a B-R buffer solution (pH2.87), and the analytical results was compared with classical least squares (CLS) and principal components regression (PCR). The linear ranges of vanillin and ethyl vanillin are 1.0-20.0 mg·L~(-1),the limit of detections is 0.478 2 mg·L~(-1) and (0.449 9) mg·L~(-1), respectively. These methods were successfully applied to the analysis of food samples with satisfied results.


A light-emitting diode (LED) based moisture-detection instrument is presented which measures the water vapor absorption in the near-IR region of the spectra. The performance obtainable via LED sensor promises to encompass the desired high accuracy over the entire water-vapor concentration range, an obviation of calibration, low power consumption, and indefinite operation, all with high ruggedness and portability and low cost. Test results are presented. (AIAA).


The article assesses the level of competence in the process of mastering the main professional educational program. The article analyzes the use of modern funds of assessment tools that provide a comprehensive assessment of the total amount of knowledge and skills with the help of multi-level tasks. The use of such tasks from the assessment fund allows the researchers to evaluate objectively the level of competence. Within these conditions the content of control and assessment tools is at most equal to the conditions that the university graduates will get within their future professional activities. The article presents the results of testing the Fund of assessment tools for the course "Physics of the Earth". This course is a part of the main professional educational program "Land Management and Cadastres" for bachelor students. Research results: 1. The authors consider the key approaches to the methodology of developing sets of assessment funds in accordance with the future professional activities. 2. The article describes the results of implementation of the fund of assessment tools for the course "Physics of the Earth" of the educational program "Land Management and Cadastres" (bachelor's level). Also the article provides variants of the multi-level tasks as well as methodological recommendations for their use. 3. The authors (with the help of the developed control and evaluation tools) have studied the dynamics of the abilities among bachelor students to apply subject knowledge and demonstrate subject skills in non-standard situations.


This paper presents an application of Harris Hawks Algorithm (HHA) as an intelligent method for optimal tuning of integral classical controllers to design the appropriate load frequency controllers. A mathematically model is presented for investigating the optimized controller parameters and enhancing the system performance. It consists of two-area interconnected power system with different participation of DFIG based wind turbine at the first area only. This article solves the load frequency control (LFC) problem under step load perturbation (SLP) by 2%. Simulation results confirm that, oscillation of frequency at both areas and tie-line power oscillation are effectively damped using HHA. Also, when DFIG participation level is high, the optimum performance of power system is achieved. All time domain simulation results are carried out using MATLAB program for investigating the effectiveness of this algorithm.


To avoid routine tasks of expensive computer simulations in engineering, the surrogate models have been widely used. This paper will propose a high-order polynomial surrogate model (HOPSM) that includes two novel aspects compared to conventional approximation of functions in high dimension, with a view to retaining advantages of low-order polynomial models in efficiency, transparency and simplicity while overcoming their disadvantage in accuracy. In constructing HOPSM, firstly, the zeros of Chebyshev polynomials with the highest allowable order will be used as sampling candidates to improve stability and accuracy. An incremental sampling scheme using the maximin principle is developed to collect sampling points from the set of all candidates, with a space-filling scheme generating the initial samples. Secondly, the order of HOPSM is updated through an order incremental method, which will adaptively improve the order of the polynomial sequentially with the increase of the sampling size. The final HOPSM after the order increment will be determined as the polynomial that has the largest adjusted R-square. The HOPSM is compared with the well-known Kriging and RBF surrogate models using both test functions and two engineering applications, to demonstrate accuracy and robustness of the proposed method.


For the first time are here presented to Dostoevsky scholars new facts concerning the masonic environment of the writer, who starting from his education in Chermak's boarding school in 1834-1837 cultivated close relations of friendship with masons, some of them initiated even in 1840s (Apollon Grigorev), when masonry in Russia was officially forbidden, but nevertheless underground meetings continued. Reasons are given in support to the hypothesis, expressed for the first time by Tatiana Kasatkina in the middle of 1990s, of the possibility for Dostoevsky to have been a mason during the 1840s. Whether or not, direct references to masons and masonic symbolic in Dostoevsky's oeuvre are impossible to explain (Uncle's Dream, The Humiliated and the Insulted, The Adolescent, The Brothers Karamazov) if one ignores his interest for masonic teaching.


The aim of this paper is to present the application of a model reference design procedure to the robust tuning of two-degree-of-freedom proportional integral derivative controllers with filter for control of unstable controlled processes. The design is based on the use of an optimization procedure with servo and regulatory closed-loop transfer functions targets. Due to the constrains imposed by the unstable processes the robust design is based in the maximum obtainable robustness with the selected control system response target. Controller tuning equations are provided for unstable first-order plus dead-time models. The design procedure considers at the same time the five parameters of the controller including the filter time constant. Equivalent parameters and a tuning rule for Standard PID controllers are also presented.


Increasingly, corporations focus on balancing the needs of society and the environment, against the need to make profit (Ilhen, Bartlett and May, 2011). By adopting corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, a corporation signals that it not only pursues profits, but also recognizes universal human values (Lee and Lee, 2015). In addition, a legitimate business concern for multinational corporations (MNCs) is to establish legitimacy in multiple host environments and at the same time maintain a social license to operate (Arenas and Ayuso, 2016; Shah and Arjoon, 2015; Lee and Higgins, 2001) while also adapting to the country they are in (Kostova and Zaheer, 1999). The majority of CSR research has focused on macro CSR strategy as opposed to micro initiatives (Aksak and Duman, 2016; Bauman and Skitka, 2012; Aguinis and Glavas, 2012). CSR research has also focused more on the impact CSR has on'external stakeholders' (Bhattacharya and Sen 2004; Sen and Bhattacharya 2001; Lichtenstein et al., (2004) rather than employees (Fryzel and Seppala, 2016; Glavas and Godwin, 2013) and MNCs (Shah and Arjoon, 2015). There is also a need to examine these issues within an Eastern developing country context, as the majority of research on CSR to date, has arisen from research studies in a Western and developed country context (Rodrigo et al., 2016; Farooq et al., 2013, 2014; Visser, 2016, Chen and Miller, 2010; Chapple and Moon,2005; Ramasamy and Yeung, 2009; Ramasamy, Yeung, Au, 2010; Park et al., 2014; Crane et al., 2008). Although a number of studies have shown that CSR activities often leads to greater organizational performance in Western developed economies, research is yet to examine the
strategic value of CSR to the organization and its employees in emerging economies (Rodrigo et al., 2016; Rettab, Brik, Mellahi, 2009; Brik et al., 2011; Visser, 2016), where there are still many challenges to CSR implementation (Smith, 2016).


In the present work, we propose a scheme for the digital formulation of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions in 3 + 1 dimensions. All interactions are obtained as a stroboscopic sequence of two-body interactions with an auxiliary system. This enables quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories where the magnetic four-body interactions arising in two and more spatial dimensions are obtained without the use of perturbation theory, thus resulting in stronger interactions compared with analogue approaches. The simulation scheme is applicable to lattice gauge theories with either compact or finite gauge groups. The required bounds on the digitization errors in lattice gauge theories, due to the sequential nature of the stroboscopic time evolution, are provided. Furthermore, an implementation of a lattice gauge theory with a non-abelian gauge group, the dihedral group D3, is proposed employing the aforementioned simulation scheme using ultracold atoms in optical lattices.


Reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI), reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI), and cytokines are frequent companions at sites of acute inflammation. Previous work has established a clear link between the production of cytokines and the subsequent generation of ROI and RNI. However, more recent data indicates that ROI and RNI not only serve as end‐stage effector molecules of pathogen destruction and tissue injury, but also as initiators of acute inflammation. Specifically, ROI and RNI will up‐regulate cytokine gene expression since antioxidants inhibit interleukin 8 (IL‐8) production and do not decrease production of other cytokines. Treatment with hydroxyl radical scavengers such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) will decrease the production of IL‐8 in stimulated human whole blood, fibroblasts, type II epithelial cells, and hepatoma cells, but not other cytokines. Addition of exogenous ROI will increase IL‐8 production in these same cells. Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase will decrease production of IL‐8, whereas addition of nitric oxide (NO)‐generating compounds will increase production of IL‐8. The hydroxyl radical appears to be the final common pathway of cell activation for IL‐8 synthesis, since DMSO will inhibit the NO‐driven production of IL‐8. Our data indicate that ROI and RNI can serve as intracellular second messengers to induce IL‐8 gene expression.


Small-scale family farming and centralized bureaucratic management are in many ways incompatible, yet the two are often combined in modern irrigation systems. Bureaucrats and farmers cope by means of "informal adjustments." The kinds of informal adjustments made by farmers vary with their differential access to resources, particularly labor, despite minimal variation in access to land and water. The effects of bureaucratic control and associated informal adjustments are illustrated by reference to three large-scale irrigation systems noteworthy for their high degree of centralization and for their success in achieving high productivity by family farm operators: the Israeli cooperative farming sector, the Gezira Scheme in Sudan, and the Mwea Scheme in Kenya.


This research examines service responses to the homeless street drinking population of Dublin City Centre, with the aim of carrying out a preliminary evaluation of the extent to which policy and practice is currently succeeding in addressing the needs of this specific group. The two substantive areas considered are the reality of the drinking problems faced by this cohort and an evaluation of current policy and management/practice of services to this group.

The main policy themes examined within the research were the homeless strategy, with its attempt to cross-cut/join-up the statutory and voluntary services, the extension of harm reduction ideas to street drinking and the growing awareness of the multiple needs of this group. A triangulation method was employed using a qualitative research approach. A literature review critically analysed current national and international thinking regarding this cohort and eight semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders were carried out. These methods enabled a comparison of cognitions and expectations of the interviewees while comparing them with current thinking in the wider spheres of influence.

The findings reveal that homeless street drinkers in Dublin City Centre are not, predominately rough sleepers. The inability of this cohort to comply with a range of services was identified as a significant issue, this was seen as one reason why homeless street drinkers are frequently 'houseless' but not 'roofless' i.e. often living in temporary accommodation. Significantly, the research revealed that poly-substance use and the risk of overdose are major risk factors for this cohort. That a new generation of younger people are using the streets to drink in and their use of licit and illicit substances is more prevalent. Notably, the research shows that co-morbidity is a major issue for this cohort, with psychiatric assessment identified as a major block to people experiencing co-morbidity.

Finally, the research shows that in the last ten years a philosophical change has taken place which embraces harm reduction for this cohort. Along with this philosophical shift, the research found that although there is cynicism regarding 'higher policy cross cutting initiatives' improvements have been made in the service delivery to homeless street drinkers in Dublin City Centre.


ABSTRACT The effectiveness of class size reduction on student performance has been of great research interest and policy debate worldwide. Nevertheless, the evidence has been largely inconclusive partially due to potential bias arising from non-random placement of students and teachers in classrooms of different sizes. This study applied instrumental variable (IV) methods and used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to conduct analyses of TIMSS data in 2003, 2007 and 2011. The purpose was to investigate over time the effects of class size on eighth grade students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes on five mathematics and science subjects in four European countries (i.e. Hungary, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia). IV estimates indicate that in Romania in 2003 smaller classes had significant and positive effects on academic scores in mathematics, physics, chemistry and earth science and in 2007 on enjoyment to learn mathematics. In Lithuania, in 2011 small classes had significant and positive effects on enjoyment to learn biology and chemistry and learning chemistry well. In 2007 however, the effects were reversed on some of the biology related non-cognitive outcomes. Overall, the class size effects that were significant were also substantial in magnitude and typically much larger than the effects reported in Project STAR.


this research will elaborate the Theme and Rheme in Arabic Javanese translation, especially in Islamic Moral Ethic Books. The construction of Theme and Rheme had been related dominantly with textual equivalence between Arabic language (L1) and Javanese language (L2). There are two basic problems in this research, first, how was the structural model of textual equivalence based on the information construction (Theme and Rheme). Theme had been related with the starting point of the information and also the given information, and Rheme had been represented as the new information. The first problem will investigate the variant models of Theme and Rheme between Arabic and Javanese language. The second problem will elaborate the strategies for minimizing the linear dislocation between Arabic (L1) and Javanese language (L2). The method in this research had been divided into three basic steps, such as: (1) collecting the data using the observation method through the units of language between L1 and L2, such as word, phrase, clause, and sentence. (2) Analyzing the data using the model of Miles and Huberman, reducing the data, display data, and conclusion. (3) Reporting the data about two basic findings: the variant models of Theme and Rheme and the strategies for reducing the linear dislocation between Arabic and Javanese translation. There are four strategies for resolving the tension between syntactic and communicative functions in ArabicJavanese translation, such as: (1) voice change, (2) change of verb, (3) nominalization, and (4) extraposition. Keywords— arabic – javanese translation; theme and rheme; textual equivalence; islamic moral ethic books


A short film developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Cybersmart program, Tagged is a drama for Australian teenagers that explores; cyberbullying, sexting, digital reputation and personal responsibility.


This paper presents a novel speaker adaptation method based on the multilinear analysis of training speakers using Tucker decomposition. A Tucker decomposition of training models can decouple the dataset into the subspaces of state, dimension of the mean vector, and speaker. Using the bases of the state subspace, we derive a speaker adaptation formula where the matrix of basis vectors is weighted in row and column spaces; the proposed method can include the eigenvoice technique as a subset. The results from the isolated-word recognition task showed that the Tucker decomposition-based method outperformed both eigenvoice and MLLR for the adaptation data whose lengths are 15 seconds or longer. Furthermore, the method can easily be extended to multi-factor problems, thus enabling the adaptation of multiple factors such as speaker and noise environment.


Journalist Blaine Harden's exposé-like biography of the curiously forgotten black-ops phenom who led for the whole of the Korean War the most successful of the United States' counter-intelligence operations takes as its premise the War's revisionist history as advocated by historians Bruce Cumings, Jon Halliday, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Su-kyoung Hwang and others, as well as by social historians Hoenik Kwon and Dong Choon Kim. The latter pair would remind us that in the Republic of Korea, where the Korean War narrative overlays the nation-state's foundation story, imprudent unto reckless through the mid-1990s would have been any South Korean's recalling in public either the Autumn Uprising of 1946 or the Jeju Massacre of 1948—two of several pre-War/War events in which many, many thousands of alleged Communists and supposed Northsympathizers were put to death by police and right wing paramilitaries in the loose employ, first, of the United States Military Government in Korea (1945-1948) and, later, of the nascent Republic of Korea. Similarly, the former group would remind us of War events such as the No Gun Ri Massacre of 1950, a diabolically tricky bridge-underpass incident in the early War in which some 300 Korean refugees were gunned down by


Aelia acuminata is a wheat injurious bug causing considerable damage to wheat at vegetative growth stage and grain. In this study, some enzymatic properties of β-glucosidase from midgut of A. acuminata were determined. The activity ofβ-glucosidase in the midgut was obtained as 0.122 U/mg protein. Optimal pH for β-glucosidase activity in the midgut was 4.0 and 6.0. The enzyme was considerably stable at different pHs from pH 4.0 to 6.0 for 10 hr. Optimal temperature for β-glucosidase activity in midgut was obtained at 35°C. Increasing the temperature (34 and 44°C) remarkably decreased the stability of the enzyme during 10 days. Activity of the enzyme was retained from 5 to 40°C. Temperatures above 40°C steadily decreased the activity of the enzyme. Activity levels of midgut β-glucosidase was increased with concentrations of Na+, Mg2+, K+ and Ca2+ and decreased in the presence of sodium dodecylsulfate, urea, Cu2+ andTris.


Intersection homology is a topological invariant which detects finer information in a space than ordinary homology. Using ideas from classical simple homotopy theory, we construct local combinatorial transformations on simplicial complexes under which intersection homology remains invariant. In particular, we obtain the notions of stratified formal deformations and stratified spines of a complex, leading to reductions of complexes prior to computation of intersection homology. We implemented the algorithmic execution of such transformations, as well as the calculation of intersection homology, and apply these algorithms to investigate the intersection homology of stratified spines in Vietoris-Rips type complexes associated to point sets sampled near given, possibly singular, spaces.


The ordering of metal atoms in the A I -B III -C 2 VI ternary semiconductor CuGaS 2 is investigated. X-ray diffraction spectra obtained from epilayers grown by metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy with a varying [Cu]/[Ga] ratio resembled those expected for epilayers with the chalcopyrite structure, orientated with the c-axis perpendicular the (001) GaAs substrate. Transmission electron diffraction patterns taken along the equivalent cubic (211) zone-axes, however, revealed the presence of disordered zincblende material present for the bulk of the epilayer. The chalcopyrite crystal structure is likely present in the form of surface crystallites.


Taking VB as a developing platform, the thesis constructs a real-time,interactive and extending virtual laboratory system.This system can make full use of network resource,reduce hard ware investing,which makes it a low-cost,high profit information-based foundation with prodigious practical signification.


ABSTRACT An experimental set-up at a reduced scale was carried out in laboratory. This device reproduces the action of tamping on ballast. In these experiments, we highlight the frequency influence. Three different behaviours were observed depending on the frequency: a stiff behaviour at low frequencies: the grains motion is mainly due to the tightening loading effect. A liquid behaviour at high frequencies: vibrations effects are very significant, ballast opposes therefore little resistance to the tightening loading. A viscous behaviour at intermediate frequency: for this range of frequencies, vibrations and tightening force have the same importance.


La3amon's Brut, in exploring the boundaries between cultures, stands out from its predecessors for its constant interest in the significance of words and names. More so than in any previous telling, the conflict between the Saxons and Britons centres on the use of the Saxon language in Britain. La3amon expands scenes where the Saxons use the unintelligibility of their language to the Britons to their advantage, uses the terms Saxon and Angle deftiy to build momentum towards the transformation of Brut-lond to England, and frames the final takeover in terms of renamings and redefinitions - the Saxon hegemony is both achieved and measured by the influence of their language. It is clear that compared to his precursors llamon has, if not sympathy for the Saxons, a far stronger interest in their language, although Johnson and Wogan-Browne righdy caution, arguing from the trilingualism both of La3amon's sources and of the manuscript context of his finished work, against the "over-simplified view of llamon writing to and for the politically and linguistically oppressed 'English people' of this time".1 It is not English in and of itself that interests him, but the way that the English language functions as a cultural and political indicator within a multilingual context - a situation bearing obvious contemporary relevance in thirteenth-century England.Typical of La3amon's interests is the iconic scene of Elengest's betrayal of the Britons at Stonehenge. The effectiveness of the Saxon treachery is possible only because Hengest uses a language that is unintelligible to the Britons, who do not know to brace themselves for defence. The phrase "nimeo eoure sexes" ("draw your knives"),2 spoken by Hengest, is present in the Brut tradition as far back as Nennius. In his Historia Brittonum the attack is followed soon by Vortigern's ransom payment of Essex, Sussex, and Middlesex. Wace claims that the suffix -sex in the county names was a reminder of this betrayal: Sussex, Essex and Middlesex were "called '-sex' to commemorate the Treachery of the Knives".3 He adds that the French do not know the word "sexes", while the English ("Engleis") have changed the name for knives "to forget the dishonour committed by their ancestors" (185). La3amon quiedy refutes this view with the firm reminder that the names were assigned "for ban be heo mid cnifent biraeueden heom at liue" ("because it was with knives that they deprived them of life", 1. 7678). Whereas elsewhere in the Brut renaming is something done by the invaders to the grief of the Britons, in this case it is the Britons themselves who perform the renaming:Brut scupten ban londe nomer" for Saexisce monnen scome. 3 for ban swike-domer bat heo idon haefden.(11. 7676-80)[The Britons "shaped to" that land a name for the shame of Saxish men and for the treachery that they had done.]In embedding the memory of their betrayal in the landscape, they perpetuate the association between sax and Saxon so that it will never be forgotten that the Saxons inhabit these counties through violence and treachery. The result of La3amon's emphasis on this false etymology is a sense that it was the Saxon language itself which did violence to the Britons.Preparing the way for Hengest's military victory at Stonehenge are his daughter's linguistic victories within the royal family: wooing Vortigern, then persuading Vortimer of her good intentions so that he will accept the poisoned drink she offers him. In each of the parallel scenes she acts out with father and son, llamon deliberately notes that her use of a language that is foreign to them is the key to her success and their destruction. In her role as wife, Rouwenne enacts a sinister variant on the peace-weaver archetype. Michael Enright, in Cady with a Mead Cup, writes on the meaning of the term freoduwebbe "peace-weaver":The term is most often applied to women given in marriage in order to secure peace among peoples. …


New donor–acceptor (D-A) polymers, poly(4,5-bis(2-octyldodecyloxy)naphto[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophenebenzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole) (PNDT-B) and poly(4,5-bis(2-octyldodecyloxy)naphto [2,1-b:3,4-b′]dithiophene-4,7-di(thiophen-2-yl)benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole) (PNDT-TBT), with the extended π-electron delocalization of naphtho[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene, were successfully synthesized by Suzuki and Stille coupling reactions. The structure and physical properties of polymers were characterized by DFT calculation, UV–vis absorption, cyclovoltammetry, TGA and DSC analyses. X-ray diffraction studies indicated a relatively highly ordered intermolecular structure in PNDT-TBT after annealing. This high degree of molecular order resulted from the crystallinity and increasing planarity, provided by the thiophene linker groups and the interdigitation of the long alkoxy side chains. The new D-A polymer, PNDT-TBT, exhibited a p-type carrier mobility of 0.028 cm2/Vs and an on/off ratio of 5.9 × 103. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2015


Dicyanamides of d-metals provide a wide range of magnetic properties tuned by external cations, encapsulated ions and coordination modes of anions. Analysis of molecular, one-periodic (1D chain), two-periodic (2D layered)...


Ruth Benedict, an influential twentieth-century anthropologist best known for her Patterns of Culture (1934), has written a considerable range of poems, a good number of which have been published in distinguished poetry journals such as Monroe's Poetry. Considering her double interest in poetry and anthropology and her use of modernist poetic techniques, this writer's works are privileged sites for an interrogation of the complex relations between cultural alterity (ethnic otherness) and poetic alterity (poeticity, literariness). Benedict emerges as a modernist poet of a different sort. Her rhymes and religious subject matter testify to her rootedness in nineteenth-century aesthetics, but her complex interweaving of cultural and poetic forms of alterity place her at the heart of a modernist enterprise, whose frantic search for new forms of artistic expression has from its beginnings been bound up with a sustained interest in the language and practices of cultural others.


Nonylphenol (NP) is the final biodegradation product of nonylphenol polyethoxylates(NPEs), which are widely used as surfactants in domestic and industrial products. NP has been reported to have potential reproductive toxicity. However, its influence on immune system function remains unclear. In this studyt to determine the immunological effects of NP, the effects of NP on apoptosis and Fas/FasL gene expression in mouse peritoneal macrophages(MPM) in vitro were investigated. MPMs were treated with NP2, 4, 8 mg/mL respectively. The apoptosis of MPM was evaluated by flow cytometry analysis system(FCAS). A semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction method was used to analyze Fas and FasL mRNA levels. The results showed that NP induced apoptosis and enhanced the expression of Fas and FasL mRNA of MPM. There are dose-effect relationships in these effects. These findings suggest that NP may induce apoptosis by altering the expression of Fas and FasL in MPM so as to affect the immune system.


The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of hunger on attitudes (self-reports and corresponding reaction times) toward foods and nonfoods (people). Participants rated their attitudes toward pictures of foods and pictures of people (older and younger males and females) along several evaluative scales (global attitudes and attitudinal bases) while reaction times were recorded. This was done twice (once when hungry, once not), in sessions separated by one week. Consistent with previous research, hunger differentially impacted ratings of the information underlying attitudes. For example, for foods, ratings of negative affect information changed more as a function of hunger than ratings of other bases. The expected effect of hunger on practice effects was also significant, with participants having greater practice effects when they were not hungry in the first session than participants who were hungry in the first session. Findings from this study may help us understand how hunger has the potential to impact how we perceive and interact with our worlds.


As contributors to Mass-Observation, Naomi Mitchison and Celia Fremlin emphasize the important, and often undervalued, role of qualitative analysis in the assessment of public opinion throughout their fiction. While the British Institute for Public Opinion often excluded women as both researchers and research subjects, Mass-Observation's (M-O) structure was more open to input from women as both observers and subjects of observation. After she touted the political value of mathematics in her Greek-inspired short story collection The Delicate Fire, Mitchison uses her novel We Have Been Warned to imbue more skepticism about the egalitarian value of statistical analysis; the protagonist, Dione Galton, learns only too late that her own instincts about the rise of fascism in England, ventriloquized through the ghost Green Jean, were far more accurate than the polling cards she used to predict her husband's eventual electoral defeat. Likewise, Celia Fremlin's postwar novel, The Hours Before Dawn, validates the supposedly irrational fears of her protagonist, Louise Henderson, who must contend with patronizing experts in her effort to thwart the violent impulses of her new tenant Vera Brandon. Both novels, influenced by the authors' experiences working for M-O, contend that quantitative analysis alone is insufficient to capture the complexity of women's wartime experiences. This chapter argues that the contributions of M-O researchers and novelists like Fremlin and Mitchison present the possibility of a road untrodden in the history of social psychology research, as the fetishizaton of data over experience eventually drowned out the possibilities of more holistic and qualitative methods.


The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key enabler of the digital mutation of our society. Driven by various services and applications, Machine Type Communications (MTC) will become an integral part of our daily life, over the next few years. Meeting the ITU-T requirements, in terms of density, battery longevity, coverage, price, and supported mechanisms and functionalities, Cellular IoT, and particularly Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT), is identified as a promising candidate to handle massive MTC accesses. However, this massive connectivity would pose a huge challenge for network operators in terms of scalability. Indeed, the connection to the network in cellular IoT passes through a random access procedure and a high concentration of IoT devices would, very quickly, lead to a bottleneck. The latter procedure needs, then, to be enhanced as the connectivity would be considerable. With this in mind, we propose, in this paper, to apply the access class barring (ACB) mechanism to regulate the number of devices competing for the access. In order to derive the blocking factor, we formulated the access problem as a Markov decision process that we were able to solve using one of the most advanced deep reinforcement learning techniques. The evaluation of the proposed access control, through simulations, shows the effectiveness of our approach compared to existing approaches such as the adaptive one and the Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller. Indeed, it manages to keep the proportion of access attempts close to the optimum, despite the lack of accurate information on the number of access attempts.


In this study, the solutions of random partial differential equations are examined. The parameters and the initial conditions of the random component partial differential equations are investigated with Beta distribution. A few examples are given to illustrate the efficiency of the solutions obtained with the random Differential Transformation Method (rDTM). Functions for the expected values and the variances of the approximate analytical solutions of the random equations are obtained. Random Differential Transformation Method is applied to examine the solutions of these partial differential equations and MAPLE software is used for the finding the solutions and drawing the figures. Also the Laplace- Pade Method is used to improve the convergence of the solutions. The results for the random component partial differential equations with Beta distribution are analysed to investigate effects of this distribution on the results. Random characteristics of the equations are compared with the results of the deterministic partial differential equations. The efficiency of the method for the random component partial differential equations is investigated by comparing the formulas for the expected values and variances with results from the simulations of the random equations.


The particle size dependent training effect has been investigated on the exchange coupled NiFe2O4/NiO nanogranular systems, with average particle size (DNFO) of NiFe2O4 ranging from ∼3 nm to ∼55 nm. For all samples, analysis of the field cycles (n) dependence on exchange bias fields (HEB) suggests the existence of two distinct forms of training mechanism during training procedure. One is related to an athermal contribution leading to the abrupt single cycle training, the other is the conventional thermal activation mechanism responsible for the gradual reduction of HEB during the subsequent cycles. With the increase of particle size, the relative change of HEB and enhanced coercivity (△HC) after training display a nonmonotonic size-scaling behavior and reaches the maxima for DNFO ∼ 22 nm. In this system, this largest reduction reveals the weakest dynamic stability of the interfacial exchange coupling energy during field cycle process. Moreover, different decay rate of HEB and ΔHC with field cycles are obs...


portion of the community's labor force. Yet the dynamics of the process are such that eventually it will have to link together in the planning effort all federal, state, and local funding sources and to consider the employment barriers confronting the target groups in their relationship with the total local labor force and full range of employment opportunities-employment, employability, and income maintenance considerations for the community. Eventually, it will have to do all that or die out. The National Academy of Science study adopted a resident observer approach, perhaps pioneered by Sar Levitan in his study of the Emergency Employment Act: The PEP Generation (1973). Academics, mostly at local universities, were recruited for in-depth case studies of the implementation of CETA in twentyeight communities. Eight of these, by implication the best, were included in Transition to Decentralized Manpower Programs. The project staff drew from the case studies and internal Labor Department documentation to reach their conclusions as to the "impact on people, places and programs." The case studies provide a depth that could not have been reached had all been made by the same individual or group, but they have inevitable limitations as to comparability-despite a common outline-since each case was approached from a different set of viewpoints. At this stage, however, the case study approach is to be preferred over any kind of quantitative evaluation. Although there are differences in quality, and although some of the locations were obviously better subjects than others, the eight case studies included are all generally well done. Their uniform weakness is that they are too data-oriented with too little analysis; thus it is hard to generalize and extrapolate from them. Some of those same strengths and weaknesses carry over into the synthesizing volume. It is excellent for its examination of the key differences among city, county, consortium, and balance-of-state prime sponsors. Its exploration of the process of fund allocation is outstanding. It is less valuable, however, for insights into how people organize themselves to do the new business of planning, such as the administration and operation of a planning staff and council, funds distribution, and the service delivery system. It provides information on which subcontractors get what pieces of the action but little insight into the service delivery process from the client's point of view. The synthesis integrates the information that came in from the field but the authors appear reluctant to go beyond it into generalizations and judgments about either the status or future of CETA. In sum, these two volumes represent as sound a description as possible of what existed in twenty-eight communities after one year of CETA. They are conservative in their judgments, and they whet the appetites of all CETA watchers for more. Garth L. Mangum Professor Human Resources Institute The University of Utah


In a system including the present invention, the non-uniform displacement enjinreul arranged differently cylinder by displacement, by performing a control utilizing the motor, not only can be a characteristic of the other displacement implemented in accordance with the driving state, the power by the motor secondary, and by using the regenerative braking characteristic relates to a new concept of non-uniform displacement of the engine management system and a control method that improves the noise and vibration characteristics of the non-uniform displacement of the engine.


Objectives: This study was aimed to clarify the relationship between the pattern of dampness-phlegm and metabolic syndrome in acute stroke patients. Methods: Three hundred fifty-nine subjects were recruited from the patients admitted to the Internal Medical Department at Kyunghee University Oriental Medical Center, Dongguk University Ilsan Oriental Medical Center, Kyungwon University Songpa Oriental Medical Center and Kyungwon University Incheon Oriental Medical Center from April 2007 to March 2008. We diagnosed dampness-phlegm by Oriental medical diagnosis and analyzed their characteristics with type of stroke, blood test result, Sasang constitution, lifestyle and metabolic syndrome. Results: 1. On the demographic variables of the patients, the weight and body mass index, the rate of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, silent infarction were significantly higher in dampness-phlegm group than in the control. 2. There was no significant difference of stroke type between the dampness-phlegm group and the control. 3. According to the blood test, the dampness-phlegm group showed higher total cholesterol, triglyceride, fasting blood sugar and lower high density lipoprotein cholesterol than the control group with statistical significance. 4. According to the Sasang constitution distribution, the rate of Tae-Eum was significantly higher in dampnessphlegm group than in the control. 5. According to lifestyle, smoking and drinking were significantly lower in the dampness-phlegm group than in the control. Otherwise, exercise and dietary habits showed no significant difference between the two groups. 6. There were much more patients diagnosed with metabolic syndrome in the dampness-phlegm group than in the control. 7. Metabolic syndrome, silent infarction and obesity showed close relationship with dampness-phlegm pattern in multivariate analysis. Conclusions: According to the analysis, the relationship between the patterns of dampness-phlegm and metabolic syndrome in acute stroke patients were clarified. These results can be utilized in the future as a basis material.


High quality constraints demand the development of steel with increasingly stringent cleanliness levels. Metallurgical operations can be optimized to improve the cleanliness of molten steel with respect to metal treatment in the ladle, tundish and mold. For example, the ladle metallurgy furnace is fully responsible for the process of alloy composition and temperature homogenization, desulphurization and inclusion removal.1–4) Slag layer plays a crucial role in the refining of molten steel in ladle metallurgy; it can promote the desulfurization reaction, prevent the secondary oxidation of steel, and reduce the heat dissipation. In order to enhance the slag-metal reactions and promote the floatation of non-metallic inclusions, argon gas is usually injected into the molten steel bath through one or a number of bottom porous plugs. The resulting column of bubbles rises due to the buoyancy and leaves the molten steel bath through the free surface at the top. The upwelling flow from the gas-liquid plume turns horizontally at the free surface and pushes the slag layer to the periphery of the ladle. If the thickness of slag layer is sufficiently thin, an open area of molten steel would be exposed to the atmosphere, which is usually called the "slag eye", as shown in Fig. 1. Modeling of Gas-Steel-Slag Three-Phase Flow in Ladle Metallurgy: Part I. Physical Modeling


Longshou II Hydropower Station is an Grade three Project with middle scale. The modernized project, especially key project with large and middle scale, emphasizes the precision of construction. In order to cover with the whole project for survey and payingoff, it is determined that to lay a grid in accordance with Grade IV surveying standard, which will cover with the area of damsite and powerhouse.


The electronics industry now routinely produces devices with up to 1000 million transistors on a single semiconductor chip and this VLSI (very-large-scale integration) revolution shows no sign of stopping. As computer memory requirements push VLSI microfabrication technologies to new extremes, the next generation of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, the 256 Mbit DRAM, will need features as small as 0.2 μm. The present generation of 16 Mbit DRAMs have 0.5 μm features. Gigabit DRAMs and sophisticated ULSI (ultra-large-scale integration) processors will need 0.15 μm features, and could appear in the late 1990s. In the laboratory, researchers have built ULSI circuits that can switch in 10 ps, albeit at liquid nitrogen temperatures. This is ten times faster than the commercial devices available today and comparable with quantum devices such as high-electron-mobility transistors, Josephson junction devices and superconducting transistors.


This paper starts with how college students' consumers accept the new technology model. Based on the technology acceptance model of e-commerce industry and the unique factors, this paper constructs the influencing factors model of consumers' acceptance behavior under the mode of O2O, and obtains samples for scientific analysis through data survey for structural equation analysis. Finally, this paper gets the influencing factors of college students' consumer buying behavior under the mode of O2O.


A 74─year─old female with severe obesity and uncontroled diabetes mellitus presented with right lower abdominal pain. Cecal diverticulitis was diagnosed with by abdominal computed tomography(CT)scan. We started conservative therapy with antibiotics, but 3 days later, the abdominal pain became worse. The CT scan showed thickening of the wall of the cecal and ascending colon. The necessity of an operation was considered, but severe complications were anticipat-ed and a wide range of intestinal resection would probably have been required. Percutaneous drainage appeared to be possible if a pericecal abscess had occurred, because the pain was localized, so we continued with more conservative therapy. Three days later, a pericecal abscess was detected which was drained via a percutaneous puncture. The patient improved and was discharged from hospital after control of her diabetes mellitus.


The assay was applied to standard antioxidant compounds, synthetic antioxidant mixtures and real samples (plant extracts, fruit juices, green tea, etc.) hence their total antioxidant capacities were determined. When datas are evaluated in terms of trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC ), pyrogallol has the highest antioxidant capacity (TEAC = 5.45 ). The proposed method is applied to samples of apple and cherry juice and in terms of µM- trolox equivalent total antioxidant capacities were found, 12.1 and 38.5, respectively.


The current Risk-informed Regulation (RIR) framework [1] employs two risk metrics in making regulatory decisions for the plant risk: one is a Level 1 Core Damage Frequency (CDF) and the other is the Large Early Release Frequency (LERF) that is obtained from the Level 2 PSA. In those cases where only the Level 1 PSA analysis is available, however, the current RIR allows for the simplified LERF model [2] as an alternative means. The main purpose of this paper is (a) to provide the result of a rule-based transformation from the UCN 3&4 detailed Level 2 PSA model into the simplified LERF event tree (ET) model and (b) to assess its uncertainty bound through a type of sensitivity analyses (especially caused from a different grouping of various LOCA sequences in the LERF model).


For HR practitioners in general, and for managers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited HRM expertise in particular, the large number of interdependent combinations of HR practices results in a challenging scenario. A simulation has the potential to determine the effects of HRM choices taking into account the large number of interdependent combinations of HR practices that they can choose from. Simulation furthermore enables professionals to experiment with their HRM design in an efficient manner. To facilitate this, a toolbox was constructed consisting of 3 tools: 2 surveys including their method of analysis, and 1 initial simulation. Based on the surveys and method of analysis, we assess the HRM alignment within an SME. The simulation model simulates the effects of changes in HRM on employee behavior through the well-known concept of alignment. In this paper, we present the surveys, their method of analysis and provide an overview of the simulation.


The effect of heat pre-treatment in the crushing of granite was investigated. The reduction of crushing energy was found to greatly depend on the prodcut size of granite as well as on the temperature of heat treatment. The magnetization of mica was also observed to increase by the heat treatment. Mica was recovered by first-stage magnetic separtion up to 98% by weight. In order to find one of the possible uses of mica, its aptitude as a filler for resings was examined. Mica was mixed with polyvinylchloride and the mechanical strength of the mixture was measred. As a result, mica showed almost the same reinforcing effect as talc which was popular filler for resins.


Contribution of Educational Research.?It is relatively easy to see the contribution of research to such fields as medicine and invention. It is more difficult, however, to determine objectively the results of research in education, which is concerned with the mental and educational devel opment of youth. It is readily recognized that discoveries of serums, antitoxins, surgical methods, etc., in medicine mean the saving of almost countless human lives. There are equal possibilities for the development of new methods of teaching and of school administration which will pro mote the educational development of children. No one can calculate to what extent the mental lives of large numbers of children have been blighted and stunted by poor teaching and administrative procedures. Swift gives an interesting example of the contribution of educational research.1 A graduate of a western university went to a small town as school superintendent. One morning a distraught mother came to him with the story that the local physician had pronounced her three-year-old boy feeble-minded and had suggested that he be sent to a feeble-minded institution. The chief reason for this diagnosis was that at the age of three he had not yet learned to talk. The school superintendent sug gested that the child be sent to the psychological clinic of the state uni versity. This was done. After a careful examination the psychologist at the clinic told the mother that instead of being a feeble-minded child, her son was above average intelligence. She was advised to allow the boy to play with other children as usual and that in due time he would learn to talk. This was done, and in the course of time the child learned to talk, and later surpassed other children of the same age in his vocabu lary and general attainment. Imagine what might have happened with out the aid of a professionally trained school superintendent and without the facilities of a psychological clinic. Locating Research in Education.?There are three major types of educational literature, classified in terms of form in which it appears:


Aim: To analyse the problems faced by patients with dental implants during the pandemic.
Introduction: Dental implants have been used for a long time in the dental field and continue to dominate the field. Due to this reason, a huge amount of people go for dental implants. However, they have their own drawbacks and this is worsened by the coronavirus pandemic. Patients are unable to reach their dentist in person which sometimes leads to complications. This study hopes to shed more light on the different types of problems faced by patients with dental implants, especially during this pandemic.
Materials and Methods: This study had a sample size of 100 and data was collected using an online questionnaire with a total of 11 questions. The statistical method used to analyse data is SPSS software version 23.
Results: Some of the responses had significant p- values (of 0.001 and 0.101) whereas the others did not.
Conclusion: By the end of the study, it was concluded that most patients with dental implants underwent a lot of problems during the covid pandemic.


The stem bark of Rhus verniciflua (RVSB) has been used in herbal medicine to treat diabetes mellitus and stomach ailments for thousands of years in Korea, despite its content of the plant allergen, urushiol. A new biological approach for the removal of urushiol from RVSB using mushrooms is described. All mushroom species (11 sp.) employed in this study were able to grow on RVSB, although the growth rate (mm/day) was lower than the control (sawdust). The components of urushiol congeners [C15 triene (m/z 314), C15 diene (m/z 316), C15 monoene (m/z 318), and C15 saturated (m/z 320)] were purified by HPLC and identified by GC-MS. A C15:3 (3-pentadecatrienly catechol) was found to be most abundant in RVSB. Urushiol analogues decreased remarkably from 154.15 to 10.73 mg/100 g (approximately 93%) by Fomitella fraxinea, whereas Trametes vercicolor showed only a 1.46% degradation capacity despite its 2 fold higher growth rate. Similarly, laccase activity was found to be high for F. fraxinea and low for T. vercicolor. Moreover, approximately 98% detoxification was accomplished by F. fraxinea cultivated on RVSB supplemented with 20%(w/w) rice bran. These findings suggest that mushrooms can be used in the detoxification of RVSB.


The areal geology of a part of the Elizabeth Lake quadrangle, Southern California, shows four types of plutonic rocks and their hypabyssal equivalents; an Archaen metamorphic series of sedimentary origin; Tertiary volcanics, flows and associated tufts, with basal fanglomorate beds. Faulting is extensive. The San Andreas and one other large fault border the area. Minor faults are numerous. There are no known deposits of commercial value in the area.


To safeguard proteomic integrity, cells rely on the ubiquitin proteasome system to degrade aberrant polypeptides and autophagy to eliminate protein aggregates. However, it is unclear whether cells can remove defective proteins that escape degradation due to protein quality control (PQC) failure or proteasome dysfunction lest toxic protein aggregates be formed. Here we report a pathway termed Misfolding‐Associated Protein Secretion (MAPS), which utilizes the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)‐associated deubiquitinase USP19 to export aberrant cytosolic proteins that are inefficiently degraded by the proteasome. USP19 possesses both deubiquitinating and chaperone activity, allowing recruitment of misfolded proteins to the ER for deubiquitination, encapsulation into ER‐associated vesicles, and subsequent secretion. USP19 deficient cells are defective in growth after exposing to a proteasome inhibitor, suggesting a critical role in adaptation to proteasome dysfunction. Together, our findings delineate a novel PQC pathway that, unlike degradation‐based mechanism, promotes protein homeostasis by exporting misfolded proteins through an unconventional route.


This paper addresses two issues of active learning. Firstly, to solve a problem of uncertainty sampling that it often fails by selecting outliers, this paper presents a new selective sampling technique, sampling by uncertainty and density (SUD), in which a k-Nearest-Neighbor-based density measure is adopted to determine whether an unlabeled example is an outlier. Secondly, a technique of sampling by clustering (SBC) is applied to build a representative initial training data set for active learning. Finally, we implement a new algorithm of active learning with SUD and SBC techniques. The experimental results from three real-world data sets show that our method outperforms competing methods, particularly at the early stages of active learning.


The development of turbulence in stratified fluids has historically been studied using the flux, Ri{sub f}, and the gradient Richardson no., Ri, whereas the simpler shear flow transition in homogeneous fluids has been studied using the Reynolds no. A complete dimensional analysis dimensional analysis of the relevant linearized conservation equations in the Boussinesq approximation predicts that the physical processes in stably stratified boundary layers should depend on as many as five dimensionless parameters, namely, the Rayleigh no, Ra, the Reynolds no., Re, the Taylor no., Ta, the Prandtl no., Pr, and the Radiation no., Rd. The Radiation no. is very similar to Pr, but includes thermal radiative transfer instead of molecular heat conduction.


The activity of total thymidine kinase in serum (S-TK) has been used as a tumor maker for decades. To date such activity has been determined using [125]I-iodo-deoxyuridine as a substrate. The aim of this study was to develop a new, antibody-based technique for the measurement of cytoplasmic thymidine kinase (TK1) in serum. Both mono- and polyclonal antibodies against S-TK1 were used in dot blot assay. S-TK1 was characterized by SDS and IEF techniques. Sixty-five breast cancer patients were studied, including 17 preoperative and 38 postoperative tumor-free patients and 10 patients with metastases to the lymph nodes (N1–2). They were compared to patients with benign tumors (n=21) and healthy volunteers (n=11). S-TK1 was low (0–1.0 pM) in healthy volunteers, while in preoperative patients the level was increased 6–110-fold. Significant differences were observed between preoperative patients and healthy volunteers (p=0.005), preoperative patients and patients with benign tumors (p<0.001), and preoperative patients and postoperative patients without metastases (p<0.001). No significant difference was observed between preoperative patients and postoperative patients with metastases (p=0.191). The S-TK activity in preoperative patients was also high in serum, but no decrease was observed following surgery. In conclusion, the anti-TK1 antibody could be a good marker for monitoring the response of breast cancer patients to therapy.


This chapter is an introduction to the subject of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling in environmental and resource economics. CGE models are a widely-used tool for the quasi-empirical analysis of environmental externalities—and policies for mitigating them—which are large enough to influence prices across multiple markets in the economy. We provide a simple, rigorous, and practically-oriented exposition that develops the framework of a CGE model from microeconomic fundamentals, outlines how the resulting algebraic structure may be numerically calibrated using the economic and environmental data and then solved for the equilibrium values of economic variables, and illustrates how CGE simulations may be used to analyze the economy-wide impacts of environmental externalities and associated mitigation policies. ∗Rm. 461, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215. Phone: (617) 353-5741. Email: email@example.com.


The stability and axisymmetric deformation of two immiscible, viscous, perfect or leaky dielectric fluids confined in the annulus between two concentric cylinders are studied in the presence of radial electric fields. The fields are set up by imposing a constant voltage potential difference between the inner and outer cylinders. We derive a set of equations for the interface in the long-wavelength approximation which retains the essential physics of the system and allows for interfacial deformations to be as large as the annular gap hence accounting for possible touchdown at the inner or outer electrode. The effects of the electric parameters are evaluated initially by performing a linear stability analysis which shows excellent agreement with the linear theory of the full axisymmetric problem in the appropriate long wavelength regime. The nonlinear interfacial dynamics are investigated by carrying out direct numerical simulations of the derived long wave models, both in the absence and presence of electric fields. For non-electrified thin layer flows (i.e. one of the layers thin relative to the other) the long-time dynamics agree with the lubrication approximation results found in literature. When the liquid layers have comparable thickness our results demonstrate the existence of both finite time and infinite time singularities (asymptotic touching solutions) in the system. It is shown that a two-side touching solution is possible for both the non-electrified and perfect dielectric cases, while only one-side touching is found in the case of leaky dielectric liquids, where the flattened interface shape resembles the pattern solutions found in literature. Meanwhile the finite-time singular solution agrees qualitatively with the experiments of~\cite{Reynolds1965}.


When maps are not available verbal route descriptions provide a useful alternative for humans navigating in a natural environment. The semantics that emerge from such descriptions encompass several modelling abstractions that have been long studied by spatial cognition. However, a formal representation of navigation descriptions still remains a research challenge. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to provide a modelling approach for the description and fusion of several verbal route descriptions, and to identify the relevant places that emerge. A semantic spatial network is derived, thus generating a conceptual map that might be used for pedestrian navigation. The semantic spatial network is generated after application of a genetic algorithm and fusion rules to verbal route descriptions recorded by several humans navigating in a given natural environment. Preliminary results are encouraging but still have to be compared with real maps and with expert knowledge.


After more than 20 years, and after the enactment of the new Hungarian Constitution on April 18, 2011, the paper tries to look at the core of the democratisation process and evaluate the role that the constitution and the constitution-making processes played in Hungary. To achieve this aim the paper discusses A) the characteristics of the Hungarian transition to democracy B) the constitution as the instrument of system change C) the constitutional counter-revolution in 2010-2011, and D) the status of consolidation after twenty years of transition.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding about the determinants of consumer food leftovers in out-of-home settings by taking a decomposed perspective on attitudes.

Design/methodology/approach
Data on 307 guests in a university canteen composing of stated measures for 12 beliefs, general attitude and behavioral intention and of visually estimated food leftovers are analyzed using exploratory factor and path analyses.

Findings
A factor analysis for belief statements derives three distinctive and potentially conflicting attitude dimensions: "Environment," "Self-Interest" and "Resources." Path analyses on their interrelation with general attitude, intention and behavior indicate that the dimensions have distinctive effects. Moreover, "Self-Interest" in contrast to the other two dimensions is correlated with situational perceptions about portion size and taste when these are included as direct determinants of leftovers.

Research limitations/implications
It is recommended to consider different dimensions of attitude when addressing food leftover behavior since these dimensions may not be well represented in a classical summary construct and since their relevance may differ depending on situational factors. Additional research is recommended to validate the results for more representative samples of consumers and to elaborate on the interaction of different attitude dimensions as potential source of attitude ambivalence which cannot clearly be determined from the existing data.

Originality/value
Past research on consumer food waste behavior models attitudes exclusively as a summary construct. This contradicts qualitative findings that individuals may hold conflicting beliefs about food leftovers.


This study is divided into two important axes; for the first one, a new symmetric analytical (approximate) solution to the Duffing–Helmholtz oscillatory equation in terms of elementary functions is derived. The obtained solution is compared with the numerical solution using 4th Range–Kutta (RK4) approach and with the exact analytical solution that is obtained using elliptic functions. As for the second axis, we consider the time-delayed version for the same oscillator taking the impact of both forcing and damping terms into consideration. Some analytical approximations for the time delayed Duffing–Helmholtz oscillator are derived using two different perturbation techniques, known as Krylov–Bogoliubov–Mitropolsky method (KBMM) and the multiple scales method (MSM). Moreover, these perturbed approximations are analyzed numerically and compared with the RK4 approximations.


One of the most challenging diagnostic problems in clinical rheumatology is early arthritis. When a patient presents with early arthritis, our diagnostic concern is to differentiate early rheumatoid arthritis from other inflammatory arthritis like systemic lupus erythematosus or from diseases that will remit spontaneously. Inflammatory arthritis, if left untreated results in joint destruction, functional impairment and severe disability. Hence inflammatory arthritis should be identified early and treated aggressively. The goal of treatment is early suppression of inflammation in order to prevent joint damage and disability.


Kiln samples 207 Selecting a drying schedule 208 Schedules for homogeneous charges 208 Schedules for mixed charges 208 Starting the kiln 209 Prestart checks 209 Steam-heated kilns 209 Direct-fired kilns 210 Dehumidification kilns 210 Warmup period 210 Spray during warmup 210 Time needed for warmup 210 Operating a kiln after warmup 211 Reducing heat 211 Controlling dry-bulb temperature 211 Controlling wet-bulb temperature 211 Part-time kiln operation 211 Drying process 212 Operation on a moisture content schedule Operation on a time schedule 212 Intermediate moisture content checks 213 Equalizing and conditioning treatments 213 Equilibrium moisture content table 213 General considerations 213 Conditioning temperature 214 Conditioning time 214 Stress relief at high equilibrium moisture content 214 Moisture content and stress tests 214 Method of testing 214 Evaluation of casehardening tests for stress Modifying kiln schedules 215 Cooling a charge after drying 215 Operating precautions for safety 215 Fire prevention in kilns 216 Sources of additional information 216 Tables 217 212 A dry kiln, no matter how well equipped with controls, is only as efficient as the operator who runs it. Despite advances in control technology that give the operator more information than was possible in the past, it is still largely the operator's judgment that determines whether a charge of lumber will go through the kiln in a minimum time, emerge uniformly dried to the desired moisture content, and be free of undesired drying defects and stresses. The operator determines what kiln schedule to use, and whether it should be a time or moisture content schedule. If kiln samples are to be used, whether manually or automatically weighed or monitored with probes, the kiln operator is still responsible for selecting representative kiln samples. The kiln operator must monitor the progress of drying, whether manually or with the assistance of computer readouts, and apply judgment in deciding if adjustments are necessary during drying. Also, the operator must apply judgment in determining when the lumber has reached final moisture content with a minimum of moisture content variation and apply any necessary equalizing or conditioning treatments.


Taxation policy plays a very significant role in adjustment and optimization of industry structure,but present taxation system with its drawbacks,has imfluenced to some extent,industry structure optimization and upgrading steps.Therefore,it's compulsory to deepen industry taxation policy reformation and take rather distinct industry taxation policy and flexible taxation incentive policy.


92 students completed a criterion-based course in general psychology in which they spent 75% of class time teaching one another in small, permanently assigned groups using instructional objectives prepared by the instructor. Testing required 90% correct to avoid an alternative test (Form 2) at the next class. All took a standardized test for seniors majoring in psychology. Course grade was significantly correlated with scores on the standardized test. Students with grades of A achieved the 39th percentile for seniors after one semester of general psychology. Results are discussed in terms of the advantages of using small interpersonal groups in conjunction with instructional objectives to produce learning in general psychology to a high, preset criterion.


A microbial consortium that reductively dechlorinates trichloroethene, cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE), and vinyl chloride (VC) to ethene with methanogenesis was enriched from chloroethene-contaminated soil from Japan. Dechlorination activity was maintained for over 4 years. Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis targeting the "Dehalococcoides" 16S rRNA gene, four strains were detected. Their growth and dechlorination activities were classified into two types: one that grows by converting cis-DCE to ethene and the other that grows by converting cis-DCE to VC. Then, the vcrA and bvcA genes encoding cis-DCE/VC reductive dehalogenases were detected. Inhibitors of methanogenesis (2-bromoethanesulfonate) and sulfidogenesis (molybdate) led to accumulation of cis-DCE and of VC respectively. These results suggest that methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria can play a significant role in dechlorination by "Dehalococcoides."


The traditional focus in the decision-making literature has been on understanding how consumers choose among a given set of alternatives. The notion that preference uncertainty may lead to choice deferral when no single alternative has a decisive advantage is tested in seven studies. Building on recent research, the article shows that the decision to defer choice is influenced by the absolute difference in attractiveness among the alternatives provided and is not consistent with trade-off difficulty or the theory of search. These findings are then extended to show that choice deferral can also be modified for the same alternatives by manipulations that make them appear more similar in attractiveness, or that decrease the need to differentiate among them. The results are consistent with the notion that preference uncertainty results in a hesitation to commit to any single action since small differences in attractiveness among the alternatives are potentially reversible. Consistent with this premise, the effect of attractiveness difference on choice deferral decreased significantly when subjects were first allowed to practice making monetary trade-offs among the available alternatives.


a Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; b Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centre for Preclinical Research and Technology (CEPT), Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; c Keele Cardiovascular Research Group, Keele University, Keele, UK; d Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Received: April 14, 2020 Accepted: April 18, 2020 Published online: June 5, 2020


Abstract:
 The two laticaudine sea kraits, Laticauda laticaudata and L. semifasciata, are distributed in the tropical waters of the western Pacific and the northernmost limit of their breeding populations is considered to be the Northern Ryukyus, Japan. These two species, however, have been occasionally reported from the main islands of Japan, which are located further north. To determine the origins of such individuals, we examined partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of one specimen of L. laticaudata from Yamaguchi and two specimens of L. semifasciata from Oita and Mie. Comparisons of the sequences with published data for apparently stable populations in the Ryukyu-Taiwan region revealed that sequence of the Yamaguchi specimen was identical with a haplotype previously detected from a broad range of the Ryukyu-Taiwan region and we could not specify its origin. Sequences of the Mie and Oita specimens were identical with, or very close to, haplotypes detected only from the Central Ryukyus and the Southern Ryukyus-Taiwan region, respectively. These results indicate that they were drifters from the Central Ryukyus and further south, corroborating the unconfirmed belief that sea kraits found on the main islands were accidentally transported by the Kuroshio Current from the south. Considering that both species exhibit certain degree of genetic differentiation among island groups in the Ryukyu-Taiwan region, the putative transportations by the Kuroshio seldom contribute to effective gene flow among local populations. The Kuroshio probably poses threats to their survival as the current may carry individuals out of their habitats and distributional range.


Objective: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in detecting naturally occurring non-cavitated fissure caries (NCFC) in totality and at different loci by visually assessing cross-sectional OCT scans (B-scan) with an interpretation criterion. The secondary objective was to evaluate the agreement between dimensions of NCFC measured with OCT and polarized light microscopy (PLM). Methods: 71 investigation sites of sound fissure and naturally occurring NCFC on human extracted premolars were identified and scanned with a swept-source OCT. The teeth were then sectioned bucco-lingually at the investigation sites and imaged using PLM. Two calibrated examiners trained on the B-scan NCFC visual interpretation criteria established for this study, assessed the investigation sites and results were validated against


In oil and gas enterprises, oil drilling produces a huge volume of toxic wastewater as a by-product. The process of disposal of this toxic water lacks transparency and suffers from a multitude of problems like environmental damages, longer payment cycles (7-8 weeks), fraud, etc. There is a considerable human cost on the drivers as they are hired for uncertain schedules and working hours. This paper explores the solutions to the above problems using AI and Blockchain. It pro- poses a forecasting model that will predict the time when the wastewater tanks are filled. This will enable the truck drivers to actively participate in Gig Economy and plan their day accordingly. The blockchain-based model will allow the enterprises to verify the payment parameters and enable seamless auditing to detect frauds. Given the ubiquitous distributed nature of sensors and the likelihood of these sensors/networks malfunctioning, the solution includes additional validation from the truck driver using his smartphone. This solution also utilizes the blockchain to provide a reputation and uses this as an input to the AI algorithms. To solve this problem at a large scale we explore the use of various clustering mechanisms along with a continuous learning model.


The canonical tensor model (CTM) is a tensor model formulated in the Hamilton formalism as a totally constrained system with first class constraints, the algebraic structure of which is very similar to that of the ADM formalism of general relativity. It has recently been shown that a formal continuum limit of the classical equation of motion of CTM in a derivative expansion of the tensor up to the fourth derivatives agrees with that of a coupled system of general relativity and a scalar field in the Hamilton–Jacobi formalism. This suggests the existence of a 'mother' tensor model which derives CTM through the Hamilton–Jacobi procedure, and we have successfully found such a 'mother' CTM (mCTM) in this paper. The quantization of the mCTM is as straightforward as the CTM. However, we have not been able to identify all the secondary constraints, and therefore the full structure of the model has been left for future study. Nonetheless, we have found some exact physical wave functions and classical phase spaces, which can be shown to solve the primary and all the (possibly infinite) secondary constraints in the quantum and classical cases, respectively, and have thereby proven the non-triviality of the model. It has also been shown that the mCTM has more interesting dynamics than the CTM from the perspective of randomly connected tensor networks.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out laboratory studies of the inhibition effect of tyrosine (Tyr) on the corrosion of low chromium alloy steel (ASTM A213 grade T22) in 7 wt percent sulfamic acid solutions.Design/methodology/approach – The corrosion inhibitive effect of Tyr was investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and the new technique electrochemical frequency modulation (EFM).Findings – It was found that the inhibition efficiency increased with increasing inhibitor concentration, while a decrease was detected with the rise of temperature and stirring speed. The corrosion inhibition is due to physical adsorption of Tyr on the steel surface. Adsorption of the inhibitor molecule, onto the steel surface follows the Temkin's adsorption isotherm.Originality/value – The obtained results from both methods (EIS and EFM) at different experimental conditions were in high agreement and almost similar. This is an indication that the EFM technique can be used efficiently for ...


We describe the construction of the noncommutative complex ball whose commutative analog is the Hermitian symmetric space D = SU(m, 1)/U(m), with the method of coherent state quantization. In the commutative limit, we obtain the standard manifold. We also consider a quantum field theory model on the noncommutative manifold.


The goal of this work is to determine the level of antioxidative activity of various ethanol extracts from Spirulina platensis and Nostoc linckia biomass, and also to demonstrate the possibility to select suitable methods for evaluation of these characteristics. The methods for determination of antioxidative activity were selected concerning their possible use for complex preparations: phosphomolybdenum method for evaluation of antioxidant capacity (PMRC), radical-scavenging activity by DPPH method (DPPH), antioxidant activity by the ABTS + radical cation assay (ABTS), Folin-Ciocalteu reducing capacity (FCRC). We showed the presence of antioxidative substances in ethanol extractions from 2 species of cyanobacteria, and possibility to increase their activity varying ethanol concentration. It facilitates the extraction both water- and lipid-soluble components from biomass. Regarding used methods for antioxidative activity determination, we have used only those based on reaction of electrons return (which widely used nowadays in vitro). Obtained in different ways results demonstrate high reduction capacity of the extracts and possibility to select suitable analytical methods for each case.


The operation speed of high-performance computers has increased dramatically over the last decades. For sustaining their growth, multimode fiber (MMF) links have been gradually deployed, and on-board interconnection is the next step. Polymer optical waveguides (POWs) have been expected as one of the key components for on-board interconnects: they are expected to connect the light source/ photo detector on-board and an MMF off-board.
As a unique fabrication method for POWs, we developed the Mosquito method to obtain graded index (GI) circular core polymer waveguides and confirmed their low propagation loss compared to conventional step-index (SI) core waveguides. However, the connection loss of the light source to waveguide, and the waveguide to an MMF is a concern: insertion of the polymer waveguide between the light source and MMF would increase the optical loss.
So, in this paper, a tapered GI core polymer waveguide is proposed for reducing the connection loss between the laser sources and fibers/waveguides by inserting it between the source and MMF.
In the Mosquito method, a liquid core monomer is dispensed from a thin needle attached to a syringe into a cladding monomer, using a microdispenser. Hence, the core diameter is axially varied by changing the needle-scan velocity.
First, the optimum refractive index profiles in the tapered core are theoretically predicted using the BPM method. Next, the refractive index profile formed in the core during the Mosquito method is also estimated by solving the Fick's diffusion equation. Finally, we successfully fabricate a GI tapered core polymer waveguide as designed.


Preset dictionaries for Huffman codes are used effectively in fax transmission and JPEG encoding. A natural extension is to allow multiple preset dictionaries instead of just one. We show, however, that finding optimal multiple preset dictionaries for Huffman and LZ77-based compression schemes is NP-hard.


Abstract We present abstract inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates for dispersive operators, extending previous work by M. Keel and T. Tao on the one hand, and generalising results of D. Foschi, M. Vilela, M. Nakamura and T. Ozawa on the other hand. It is shown that these abstract estimates imply new inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates for the wave equation and some Schrödinger equations involving potentials.


The aging of concrete structures such as infrastructures is becoming a problem in Japan. To automate the maintenance of concrete structures, a system to identify topology of defects inside concrete structures is needed. In this research, we propose a method for identifying topology of cavities in concrete structures using machine learning. Acceleration time history data obtained from hammering tests are used as training data, and a convolutional neural network, which is generally utilized for image recognition, is applied to estimate the cavity topology. Since the convolutional neural network can retain relative positional relationships within the input information, it can input acceleration response data while maintaining information on the positional relationships of multiple sensors and is suitable for this task. For the hammering test data, pre-processing by dividing the acceleration response by the maximum impact force was performed to eliminate the effect of impact force, and it was confirmed that the pre-processing significantly improved the accuracy of cavity topology estimation.


Numerical study on impact of an unsecured excavation on an underground pipeline. Analysis focused on investigation of pipeline displacement generated by soil movement caused by excavation and heavy traffic. Numerical calculations and soil parameter sensitivity analysis based on Finite Element Method. Some comparisons of results with real-life failure cases.


A Ni-based ternary nanocomposite, Ni–rGO–zeolite, has been developed as an efficient and recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for on-water regioselective azide alkyne cycloaddition.


Green Mobility, intended as ground transportation by zero carbon emissions vehicles, like BEV and FCEV, is growing everywhere in the world. The Oil and Gas Industry, in our opinion, should lead this transition implementing more and more Green Mobility solutions for personnel, cargo and working equipment.
 In Kazakhstan, we have a very limited diffusion of Green Mobility and zero in Oil and Gas industry.
 Kazakhstan has a very mature Oil and Gas Industry and a coal/oil-based power generation.
 Kazakhstan is also proposing as one of the major Green Hydrogen exporters to Europe, with a recent agreement signed with EU and a large part of the territory scarcely populated favorable both for solar and wind harvesting.
 Green Spark has decided therefore to install a pilot project to demonstrate for Oil and Gas Operators, Green Mobility.
 The contest is challenging for the most popular Green Mobility solutions (BEV and FCEV), therefore we hope with this study and with the implementation of the Pilot Project to provide a concrete opportunity for Oil and Gas Operators to consider the Green Mobility as an easy achievable target to perform their business in a more sustainable environment.
 A comparison between performance of BEV and FCEV will be part of our study, covering the concerns may emerge from the climatic of West Kazakhstan with very long and rigid winters.


During the last three decades Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has expended itself in an exponential manner and made it possible to access right information at right time by an individual organization or culture. Structure of ICT market has been changed completely by digitization and competition. Third generation cellular, WiMAX, cable and fiber infrastructure etc. are passing through rapid technological innovations. Further Asian countries hold only two percent of world's income but accommodates about one fourth of the world's population out of which about half are below poverty level. ICT revolution in these countries has gained momentum but still many communities have almost nil access to the value added information. In this paper challenges and opportunities in ICT implementation to various field in south Asian countries have been investigated with an emphasis on ICT revolution and its applications in agriculture, Health care and Medical, Traffic Management, Electricity and Power management, School Education and Police force.


According to the temperature data of Zichang County in Yan'an City,the basic laws of temperature change in recent 40 years were revealed. The results showed that the temperature difference in space was unobvious in 1970- 2010. The daily temperature range varied with the season,and the annual average temperature was on the rise,especially in 1990- 2010.


The future means of transportation shall produce no exhaust gases and no noise. Monorails and, magnetic or air-suspended trains driven by linear motors and maybe by atomic power are under consideration. Various new means of transportation operate without personnel. Their operation will be monitored and controlled by electronic computers. A closer look of the new systems either in the planning or developmental stage let them seem way off and not as appealing and flexible as the transportation in the individual car. Therefore means of faster transportation of individual cars on intersection free highways will be sought, and better bus transportation.


According to elastic and viscoelasticity corresponding principle,the equivalent elastic ratio of viscoelasticity analysis was obtained conveniently by elastic numeric analysis,the viscoelasticity parameters were simulated with Kelvin-Voigt model and viscoelasticity parameters were separated by optimized method.The practical example calculation result indicated that viscoelasticity model by the method can satisfy engineering need and the opposite analysis achievement was feasible.


We study the existence of peak solutions for the Neumann problem of an elliptic system of FitzHugh-Nagumo type. The solutions we construct have arbitrary many peaks on the boundary and arbitrary many peaks inside the domain, and all the peaks of the solutions approach some local minimum points of the mean curvature function of the boundary.


This paper describes the concept and development of the Internet of Things,and describes the existing architecture of the Internet of Things and the key technologies.


Teachers need to be aware of how switching from paper-based to computer-based tests may affect students' performance as classroom technology expands and teachers become more technologically savvy. When teachers can create computer-based versions of assessments that students use between classrooms and for instructional decisions, this becomes even more critical. The impact of computer-based tests on education quality is the subject of this research. It was expanded under the subheadings listed below: the conceptual meaning of Computer Based Test (CBT), the benefits of CBT in education, the difficulties of computer-based exams in Nigeria, and the prospects of CBT. The conclusion and recommendations were drawn based on the following considerations.


Julie Jung is associate professor of English at Illinois State University in Normal and senior editor of JAC. She is the author of Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts. Her current research examines the neurodynamics of imitation and category formation and their implications for theories and practices of rhetoric and writing.


1. Convulsive shock therapy has proved most useful as a means of terminating chronic resistant affective psychoses. 2. The usefulness of this therapy has been restricted and has been in danger of abandonment because of the severity of the convulsive shock with the hazards of traumatic complications. 3. There is something fundamentally sound in the application of this therapy. The problem has been to eliminate the traumatic hazards. 4. Previous attempts to eliminate traumatic complications have not been successful. 5. The principle of preliminary curarization before induction of metrazol shock has proved successful in eliminating all traumatic hazards. 6. A uniform standardized curare preparation has now been perfected that is non-toxic in physiologic doses and has proved to be a safe treatment. 7. The physiologic and pharmacologic effects of the drug have been discussed. The technic of this combined therapy is described. 8. Roentgenographic evidence and electro-encephalographic evidence are presented to s...


One of the most important issues in source code analysis and software re-engineering is the representation of software code text at an abstraction level and form suitable for algorithmic processing. However, source code representation schemes must be compact, accessible by well defined application programming interfaces (APIs) and above all portable to different operating platforms and various CASE tools. This paper proposes a program representation technique that is based on language domain modes and the XML markup language. In this context, source code is represented as XML DOM trees that offer a higher level of openness and portability than custom-made tool specific abstract syntax trees. The DOM trees can be exchanged between tools in textual or binary form. Similarly the domain model allows for language entities to be associated with analysis services offered by various CASE tools, leading to an integrated software maintenance environment.