In the condensation of two molecules of 2-hydroxy-2'-aminoacetophenone to form a dihydropyrazine the slow, rate-determining step has been shown, by spectral and kinetic means, to be reaction of two molecules of aminoketone to form an aminoalcohol.


 Abstract — This research provides a technical account of estimating Transition Probability using Time-homogeneous Markov Jump Process applying by South African HIV/AIDS data from the Statistics South Africa. It employs Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) model to explore the possible influence of Transition Probability of mortality cases in which case the data was based on actual Statistics South Africa. This was conducted via an integrated demographic and epidemiological model of South African HIV/AIDS epidemic. The model was fitted to age-specific HIV prevalence data and recorded death data using MLE model. Though the previous model results suggest HIV in South Africa has declined and AIDS mortality rates have declined since 2002 – 2013, in contrast, our results differ evidently with the generally accepted HIV models (Spectrum/EPP and ASSA2008) in South Africa. However, there is the need for supplementary research to be conducted to enhance the demographic parameters in the model and as well apply it to each of the nine (9) provinces of South Africa


MidiShare is a realtime, multi-tasks operating system dedicated to musical MIDI applications. It was awarded the Apple Trophy (1989), the Paris-City price (1990) and more recently, the Max d'Or at the Bourges International Musical Software Competition (1999). Multi-platform support, powerful inter-applications communication, accurate realtime performances are among the significant services provided by the kernel. Freely available on the Internet to developers since several years, MidiShare is now supported by a growing number of projects. Its developers mailing list count 250 members on average. The MidiShare project itself is reaching a state which requires a different management policy: the MidiShare source code is now publicly available to allow collaborative contributions over the Internet. The poster session will present this new project, including changes in the kernel architecture, the source code portability issues and the organization of the collaborative development over the Internet.


It is comprehensive manual for those who seek to understand and experience the ancient spiritual practice of Mantra. Another deals frankly and honestly with the most controversial aspects of spiritual life - Mantra, initiation, the relationship of Guru and disciple and the role the Guru plays in one's spiritual life. The author illuminates these subjects with clarity and wisdom: What is Mantra? Benefits of using Mantra; Mantra and Healing; Mantra in daily life; Mantras: Questions and Answers.


Background:
 Calcific aortic stenosis (CAS) of the elderly is associated with high mortality. It would be useful to have a simple and accurate tool (risk score) to identify risk.

 Methods:
 We retrospectively reviewed all echocardiograms at our hospital from October 2006 to March 2008 and identified 208 veterans aged 65 years or older with CAS, aortic valve peak gradient >30 mmHg, but no prior aortic valve surgery. Aortic valve peak gradient, age, clinical co-morbidities, tobacco and alcohol use, creatinine (Cr) and hemoglobin (Hb) data were analyzed. Variables with significant odds ratios for 1-year mortality were entered into a regression model.

 Results:
 All-cause 1-year mortality was 16.3%. Significant odds ratios for mortality were found for Hb =< 10.0 g/dL (OR=13.3, p<0.0001); alcohol abuse (OR=3.76; p=0.008) and heart failure (HF) history (OR=2.88, p=0.027). The c-statistic for this model was good (c=0.848). Aortic valve peak gradient did not add to the model, but all subjects were required to have a gradient >30 mmHg to be included. A risk score was developed by assigning 2 points to Hb of 10 g/dL or lower, 1 point to alcohol abuse, and 1 point to HF. The figure plots survival vs. risk scores and predicts very low (2.9%), low (14.4%), intermediate (41.2%), high (52.4%), and very high (100%) 1-year mortality for scores of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. This represents a >30-fold range of mortality risk.

 Conclusion:
 For CAS patients 65 years or older with aortic valve peak gradient >30 mmHg and no prior aortic valve surgery, our simple risk score identifies a wide range in 1-year mortality risk and allows prediction of mortality risk with a high degree of predictive accuracy (c-statistic=0.85).


The goal of this study is the analysis of a set of open-source electronic health record (EHR) systems to determine if their functionalities are accordantly to ISO standards for EHRs systems architectures. This study describes the follow-up of five EHR systems previously analyzed in 2008. For this analysis, ISO standards have been used as a guide to determine the referenced architecture and features of a standardized electronic health records system, as well as the environmental context for which the software has been built. The five open source EHR systems were selected and evaluated according to a two-dimensional criterion based on functional requirements set out in the ISO/TS 18308:2004 standard and contextual requirements established by the ISO/TR 20514:2005 standard. The final results have shown that, in general, the analyzed software had included a number of additional featured described by both standards. Nevertheless, there are several requirements that have not yet been included, mainly at the level of fully functional and provider enterprise levels.


Abstract In this paper we demonstrate visible up-conversion emission of Er3+ doped (Lu0.5Y0.5)2O3 nanophosphor and discuss possible mechanisms for pumping the upper energy levels of Er3+ ions. Polymer complex solution synthesis yields well crystalline, pure-phase cubic nanopowder with particle size in the 20–50 nm range. Red, green and blue up-conversion emission is measured under near-infrared excitation (1 540 nm), over the temperature range 10–300 K. The red/green intensity ratio indicates that the mechanism responsible for populating red up-conversion is temperature dependent. Decay times are found to be around 0.25 ms for red and green, and around 70 μs for blue emission.


India has a strong pump manufacturing base with both Indian and International players involved in the market. Coimbatore houses the largest number of pump manufacturers. Coimbatore exports pumps to United Arab Emirates, Europe, Egypt, USA, Italy, Greece and southern parts of African countries. By keeping this in mind, the researcher framed the objective to identify the global marketing strategies adopted by the Coimbatore Pump Industry. For this study, a systematic research methodology has been adopted and the required data has been collected from various available sources. This study reveals that the pump manufacturing units of the city has adopted a systematic global marketing strategy and follows uninterrupted logistic and supply chain system. This study also highlights certain marketing issues which are related to pump manufacturing units.


Acetylcholine‐rich synaptic vesicles were isolated from myenteric plexus‐longitudinal muscle strips derived from the guinea pig ileum by the method of Dowe, Kilbinger, and Whittaker [J. Neurochem.35, 993–1003 (1980)] using either unstimulated preparations or preparations field‐stimulated at 1 Hz for 10 min using pulses of 1 ms duration and 10 V ˙ cm−1 intensity. The organ bath contained either tetradeuterated (d4) choline (50 μM) or [3H]acetate (2 μCi ˙ ml−1); d4 acetylcholine was measured by gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry. As with Torpedo electromotor cholinergic vesicle preparations made under similar conditions the distribution of newly synthesized (d4 or [3H]) acetylcholine in the zonal gradient from stimulated preparations was not identical with that of endogenous (d0, [1H]) acetylcholine, but corresponded to a subpopulation of denser vesicles (equivalent to the VP2 fraction from Torpedo) that had preferentially taken up newly synthesized transmitter. The density difference between the reserve (VP1) and recycling (VP2) vesicles was less than that observed in Torpedo but this smaller difference can be accounted for theoretically by the difference in size between the vesicles of the two tissues. At rest, a lesser incorporation of labelled acetylcholine into the vesicle fraction was observed, and the peaks of endogenous and newly synthesized acetylcholine coincided. Stimulation in the absence of label followed by addition of label did not lead to incorporation of labelled acetylcholine, suggesting that the synthesis and storage of acetylcholine in this preparation and its recovery from stimulation is much more rapid than in Torpedo.


This chapter relocates to the mid-1970s in Sweden, to a newly opened outpatient clinic for mental healthcare. The clinic, Saltsjobaden Mental Health Centre (SMHC), was one clinic out of three creat ...


In this work the over-time behaviour of a shell-and-tube type heat exchanger applied to a commercial and small-scale wood biomass gasification system was investigated. The heat exchanger, equipped with twisted tape turbulators, was used to cool down the syngas produced by the power plant. An experimental campaign was conducted to evaluate the performance trend in the first 15 hours of operation. The results showed an increase in heat transfer which led to a progressive reduction of the gas outlet temperature from 105.4 °C to 90.0 °C. The data collected confirm the literature studies on the positive effect that the deposits of particulate matter and tars have in reducing the clearance between the heat exchanger pipes and the turbulators, providing information for the temporal optimization of the cleaning strategy of the heat exchanger itself.


The electrochemical oxidation of anodic metal (cobalt, nickel, copper and silver) in acetonitrile solutions of the appropriate heterocyclic thione, RMe2SipySH (3-ButMe2SipySH, 3-ThexMe2SipySH, 6-ThexMe2SipySH) gave complexes of general formula [M(RMe2SipyS)] (M = Cu, Ag) and [M(RMe2SipyS)n] (when M = Co, n = 3; M = Ni, n = 2). When the oxidation was repeated in the presence of 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy), the mixed complexes [M(RMe2SipyS)2(bipy)] were obtained only in the case of M = Ni. The reaction between copper complexes, [M(RMe2SipyS)], and 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) and bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (dppm) in acetonitrile yielded [Cu2(RMe2SipyS)2(dppe)3] and [Cu2(RMe2SipyS)2(dppm)2]. The molecular structures of [Cu6(3-ButMe2SipyS)6], 1, [Cu6(6-ThexMe2SipyS)6], 2, and [3-ButMe2SipyS-Spy-3-ButSiMe2], 3, were determined by X-ray diffraction. Compounds 1 and 2 are hexanuclear with the six copper atoms arranged in a distorted octahedral geometry and each copper atom in a distorted trigonal planar [CuS2N] environment, each ligand adopting the N,S-bidentate S-bridging mode. The electronic, vibrational and 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the complexes are discussed and related to the structure.


The 2014/2015 school year had a rocky start in British Columbia, Canada, where teachers finished the 2013/2014 school year locked out and on strike. Naomi Klein's notion of shock doctrines provides a lens for understanding this struggle over public services. In this paper I analyze the contexts that drove BC's teachers to reject shock therapy and highlight the tactics used to cultivate shock resistance in BC. This clash of private and public values can be extended and adapted to other contexts to cultivate broad popular support for public education.


Case report A I3·year·old girl presented with severe, recurrent nose bleeds. Examination showed pallor with a generalized petechial rash. There was no significant lymphadenopathy or hepatosplenomegaly. Initial investigation showed her haemoglobin to be 6.5 g/dl, white cell count 4.5 x 10/1 and platelet count 6 x 109/1. Red cell indices were compatible with chronic blood loss, and bone marrow examination showed plentiful megakaryocytes with no evidence of malignancy. Platelet antibodies were subsequently demonstrated in the patient's serum. A diagnosis of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura was made and treatment with red cell transfusion and prednisolone (2 mg/kg/per day) started. The platelet count responded to prednisolone, increasing to 130000 x 10/1. However when the prednisolone was discontinued after two weeks she developed pyrexia, generalized joint pains and recurrenee of her petechial rash. The platelet count fell to 7 x 109/1. The ESR was elevated at 68 mm/h and clotting times were abnormal. The prothrombin time was 13 seconds (control 13.5 seconds), the partial thromboplastin time 46 seconds (control 36 seconds) and the thrombin time 11 seconds (control 11 seconds). Direct Coombs' test was negative. An immediate acting inhibitor was demonstrated when plasma was mixed with a normal control, and that this was the lupus anticoagulant was confirmed by the tissue thromboplastin inhibition test. Autoantibody screen showed her to be antinuclear factor positive, 1/1280, with DNA binding of 34% (normal 0-10%). Anticardiolipin antibodies were positive (both IgG and IgM), serum complement levels were reduced, C3 68% of normal and C4 40% of normal serum levels. Serum immunoglobulins were normal. A diagnosis of SLE was made and treatment reinstituted with prednisolone (2 mg/kg/day). However, it proved impossible to maintain a satisfactory platelet count despite the addition of azathioprine (2 mg/kg/day). A transient response was seen following intravenous immunoglobulin (0.5 g/kg/day for 5 days}'. Eight months after her initial presentation the patient underwent splenectomy, She has subsequently maintained a normal platelet count in the range 200-300 x 10/1 without any specific therapy. Although her anticardiolipin antibodies are now negative, the antinuclear factor remains positive and the lupus anticoagulant is still present.


Parallel prefix adders draw much attention because of their logarithmic delay. This paper proposes a scheme to enhance parallel prefix adders by incorporating the idea of carry-save addition within the prefix tree. Results are given for several designs using a publicly available nanometer library.


The structures assumed by macromolecules in aqueous media derive in large part from the "hydrophobic effect."' Apolar residues, whether parts of lipids, proteins, or nucleic acids, tend to order water molecules about them. This causes a thermodynamically unfavorable decrease in entropy. As a consequence, apolar residues tend to cluster together, excluding water and decreasing the free energy of the system as a whole. The "hydrophobic effect" thus favors formation of structures with apolar cores and polar surfaces. Globular proteins are outstanding examples, as is the bilayer arrangement of amphipathic lipids. The "hydrophobic effect" predominates in a host of molecular and macromolecular interactions that do not necessarily involve molecular specificity. It thus mediates such diverse associations as of cholesterol with phosphatide acyl chains, heme with certain apolar residues in myoglobin, and a-chain with p-chain in hemoglobin. The "hydrophobic effect" also constitutes a principal mechanism in the association of proteins and lipids in biomembranes. This is not to say that lipid-protein interactions in biomembranes involve apolar interactions exclusively. Polar associations indubitably participate in many instances, and can even predominate in some cases (e.g., cytochrome c and mitochondria). An abundance of evidence indicates that the lipids of biomembranes are primarily in bilamellar array, with their head groups at the two membranewater interfaces and their apolar residues buried. One must therefore enquire into possible architectural devices that can provide the strong hydrophobic associations known to link membrane proteins to membrane lipid. Although several workers have suggested that these associations could occur via apolar amino acid residues, extending into the hydrocarbon lipid layer from surfacelocated peptide, it has been shown that such interactions are sterically impossible and energetically imp rob able.'^ a The only alternative is that at least portions of membrane proteins penetrate into or through the membrane core. However, this alternative requires that the membrane core i s neither all lipid nor all protein, i.e., that the membrane is a mosaic structure. Although Danielli and Davson' were the first to present a detailed, molecu-


In phosphoric acid medium,trace hydroxylamine catalyzes the oxidation of bromocrsol purple by potassium bromate.After oxidation reaction,the surplus quantity of hydroxylamine was detected at different temperatures in this catalytic dynamic system.A new method for determination of activation energy in hydroxylamine's oxidation reation were established.


High-energy phenomena in astrophysics involve quite generally a combination of relativistic motions and strong gravity. The simultaneous solution of Einstein equations and General Relativistic MHD equations is thus necessary to model with accuracy such phenomena. The so-called Conformally Flat Condition (CFC) allows a simplified treatment of Einstein equations, that can be particularly efficient in those contexts where gravitational wave emission is negligible, like core-collapse, or the formation/evolution of neutron stars. We have developed a set of codes to model axisymmetric MHD flows, in General Relativity, where the solution of Einstein equations is achieved with a semi-spectral scheme. Here, we will show how this framework is particularly well suited to investigate neutron star equilibrium models in the presence of strong magnetic fields and we will present the XNS code, that has been recently developed and here updated to treat poloidal and mixed configurations.


In this work, we present back-junction (BJ) n-PERT (Passivated Emitter, Rear Totally Diffused) solar cells with a processing sequence based on an industrial-type p-PERC (Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell) process, with the addition of a boron diffusion. Through this, we achieve efficiencies up to 20.5% on n-PERT BJ solar cells, which do not degrade under subsequent illumination. For comparison, reference p-PERC solar cells fabricated on 1 and 3  cm boron-doped Cz-Si achieve efficiencies up to 20.6% before light-induced degradation (LID) and 20.1% (3  cm) and 19.7% (1  cm), respectively, after LID. We find that the width of the laser contact opening (LCO) on the rear strongly influences the n-PERT BJ solar cell performance. Wider LCOs significantly increase the short- circuit current, open-circuit voltage, and pseudo fill factor, resulting in efficiency increase of up to 1.2% absolute. We attribute this to an increased thickness and homogeneity of the Al-p + regions beneath the contacts, which effectively reduces recombination at the contacts. By varying the metallization fraction on the rear side, we determine the specific contact resistance of the Al contact to be c = (8 ± 2) m cm 2 and the saturation current density to be J0.met of (320 ± 50) fA/cm 2 .


In recent development of semantic segmentation, the deep convolutional encoder-decoder has become mainstream schemes for remote sensing images. In this paper, we proposed a U-Net like architecture for segmentation of remote sensing images using wavelet frequency channel attention (WFCA) blocks.


Objective To investigate the immunohistochemical exprssions of IL-1 and VEGF in wound healing process for possible application in determination of incised wound age.Methods Fifty one male SD rats were divided into 17 groups at random,the rat back skin in thirteen groups was incised,then the rats of these groups were sacraficed for different interval(5,10,30 min and 1,3,5,7,9,12 h and 1,3,5, 7 d);another three groups were used as postmortem control,the incisition wound was performed at 5,10,30 after the rat were sacraficed,rat skin from the group without any additional treatment was used as normal control.Immunohistochemical study on the expressions of IL-1 and VEGF were performed on rats skin incised wounds and postmortem incised wounds,and the normal rat skin.Results In antermortem skin incisions,the positive stain of IL-1 was found as early as 0.5 h after incised and lasted till 5 d in epithelial and macrophages of granullation tissue,the rate of IL-1 positive cells was low in the wound specimens in 3 h,and maximized in the wound specimens at 5 h(49.87%±3.42%)and 5 d(47.56%±7.52%),then the rate decreased to norml.The positive expression of VEGF was found at 3 h after incision and lasted till 10 d.There were no changes of VEGF and IL-1 in the postmortem incised group compared with normal control group.Conclusion The immunohistochemical expressions of VEGF and IL-1 change regularly according to different wound time,VEGF and IL-1 are considered as potentially useful markers for wound time determination in forensic practice.


Nanotechnology offers unique approach of controlling variety of biological and medical processes at nanoscale. Recent applications of nanotechnology involve use of nanoparticles for the treatment of variety of diseases like cancer, diabetes, HIV vaccine. Conventional cancer therapy involves a cytotoxic agent that often shows the harmful side effects. Hence, Oncologist nowadays searching for new and advanced methods for early detection and treatment of cancer. By utilizing properties of nanoparticles like optical, magnetic, fluorescent, they can be used in detection, imaging and treatment of cancer. Though the use of different metallic nanoparticles like iron oxide, silver nanoparticles is found to be effective, gold nanoparticles are nontoxic and noble for human beings. Gold nanoparticles have immense potential for cancer diagnosis and therapy on account of their surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced light scattering and absorption. Hence gold nanoparticles can be selectively and widely used. Recent review provides focus on the use of gold nanoparticles as a fundamental tool in cancer treatment.


A total of 523 accessions of 25 Triticum species were screened for tolerance of aluminum in solution. Only 22 accessions were identified with some root re growth following exposure w culture solutions containing 12 ppm aluminum. Interestingly, 15 of these 22 accessions were species with the Un genome (T. uniaristatum). The level of aluminum tolerance of none of these 22 accessions is as high as that of the cultivar 'Atlas 66'.


Distance learning is considered as mimetic and simulated: in this paper we shall investigate the educative relationship folded onto the communicative network. It shouldn't pretend to be a copy or a mere procedural transposi-tion (often operated by logic and mathematical terms) of a "conceptual model" of reality, but rather an occasion to foster in the students a process of internalization of the simulated model and of externalization of one's own cognitive load as well as a process of comparison of one's own mental mod-els. In different terms, we should say that distance learning is a re-enactment of the hermeneutic circle.


Amitraz poisoning is not frequent in Colombia. The objectives of this case report are to consider the atypical poisoning in an elderly patient and to emphasize the associated toxic-kinetic and toxic-dynamic aspects. The literature mainly consists of case reports and case series in North America. There is a need for the health personnel involved in the treatment of these patients to recognize key aspects of its physiopathology and treatment. The case reported involves a male patient aged 73 with amitraz poisoning, initially without alterations after 33 hours, presenting sensory alterations and respiratory compromise requiring attention in the Special Care Unit (SCU). The patient recovered satisfactorily.


Scattered neutron diagnostics is an indispensable tool for both inertial confinement and magnetic confinement fusion research. For this purpose, a fast-response neutron scintillator with a high cross section for scattered neutrons is strongly required. Recently, based on our material design strategy, we have successfully developed the fast response time Pr3+-doped 20Al(PO3)3-80LiF glass scintillator for scattered neutron originated from inertial confinement fusion. The matrix glass 20Al(PO3)3-80LiF shows good glass forming ability, chemical durability and transparency in the deep ultraviolet region. The purpose of this work is to investigate the glass structure of 20Al(PO3)3-80LiF glasses using Raman spectroscopy and to discuss the relationship between physical and scintillation properties and glass structure.


It is proposed that the highest energy ∼ 1020eV cosmic ray primaries are protons, decay products of a long-lived progenitor which has propagated from typically ∼ 100Mpc. Such a scenario can occur in e.g. SU(15) grand unification and in some preon models, but is more generic; if true, these unusual cosmic rays provide a window into new physics. Typeset using REVTEX


Recently, the incidence of oak wilt disease has been increasing in Korea, resulting in an increasing number of dead trees. In this study, we performed sawdust bag cultivation of shiitake (Lentinula edodes) using oak wilt-diseased logs and measured the antioxidant activities of the resulting mushrooms. For sawdust media, 4 types of logs (healthy, infected, dead, and fumigated ones) were used. As inocula, three strains of L. edodes (NIFoS 764, Sanjo 701ho, and Sanmaru 2ho) were used. The productivity of L. edodes from dead logs was similar to that from healthy logs. Except for the Sanmaru 2ho strain, fumigated logs and infected logs yielded a lower productivity of L. edodes compared to healthy logs. In terms of antioxidant activity, L. edodes grown on sawdust from fumigated logs showed higher values than those from other logs.


Asthma and atopic disorders are the most common chronic diseases in the developed countries. Knowledge of the risk factors for these disorders may facilitate the development of preventive strategies aimed at reducing prevalence rates.


We address the problem of real-time recommendation of streaming Twitter hashtags to an incoming stream of news articles. The technical challenge can be framed as large scale topic classification where the set of topics (i.e., hashtags) is huge and highly dynamic. Our main applications come from digital journalism, e.g., promoting original content to Twitter communities and social indexing of news to enable better retrieval and story tracking. In contrast to the state-of-the-art that focuses on topic modelling approaches, we propose a learning-to-rank approach for modelling hashtag relevance. This enables us to deal with the dynamic nature of the problem, since a relevance model is stable over time, while a topic model needs to be continuously retrained. We present the data collection and processing pipeline, as well as our methodology for achieving low latency, high precision recommendations. Our empirical results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art, delivering more than 80% precision. Our techniques are implemented in a real-time system that is currently under user trial with a big news organisation.


The ultra high energy gamma-ray source, cygnus X-3, has been observed more or less continuously with an array sensitive to 10 to the 15th power ev primaries between 1 Jan. 1979 and 31 Dec. 1984. There is evidence for time variability in the phase of gamma-ray emission over this period.


The aim of this study was to examine the associations between age and ethnicity on the development of substance use behaviors among Hispanic and non‐Hispanic White (NHW) adolescent and young adult (AYA) childhood cancer survivors.


A motion parameter estimation method by fitting the phase history of the moving target is proposed for airborne dual-channel SAR systems.The cross-track velocity,along-track velocity,cross-track acceleration and along-track acceleration can be estimated,respectively.For the moving target with high signal-clutter-noise-ratio(SCNR),the analytic expressions of motion parameter estimation are derived by the phase relationship between two spatial channels.For the moving target with low SCNR,the motion parameters can be estimated by the phase history together with the relationship between the real synthetic aperture time and these parameters after clutter rejection.Since the phase fitting operation is performed only on the received echo of the moving target,the proposed algorithm has a low computational load and can be widely used in practice.The validity is verified by simulated and real data processing.


The reaction of chiral
N,N′-bis(aryl)tetrahydropyrrolo-[2,1-c][1,4]oxazin
e-3,4-diylidenediamines with carbon monoxide and ethylene in the presence
of a catalytic amount of Ru3(CO)12 leads to the
formation of spiro-lactams by a formal [2 + 2 + 1] cycloaddition reaction,
whereas the imine double bond next to the oxazine nitrogen atom remains
unreacted; the same spiro-lactams may be synthesized if iron carbonyl
complexes of the
N,N′-bis(aryl)tetrahydropyrrolo-[2,1-c][1,4]oxazin
e-3,4-diylidenediamines are introduced as the starting compounds.


AbstractThe intermittency of solar power production is dependent on the evolution and advection of the nearby cloud field. A key problem related to solar energy integration is the improvement of 1-h-ahead forecasts to reduce the impact of intermittency on power systems operations. Many solar forecasts explicitly or implicitly assume Taylor's hypothesis. While such advection-only forecasts can be presumed to be valid across sufficiently short time scales, it is not clear how rapidly the skill of such a forecast decays with increased lead time. As the goal is to improve the quality of 1-h-ahead forecasts, this work focuses on quantifying the skill of cloud-track wind-based cumulus-dominated cloud field forecasts with respect to lead time. No explicit connection is drawn to the quality of solar forecasts because of the importance of separating two potential sources of error: cloud field forecasting and radiative transfer estimation. It is found that the cumulus field forecast skill begins to asymptotically a...


In this chapter, Sahajanand writes about his education at the middle and secondary stage. Because of his studious nature, he developed very close relations with his teachers. He came out with flying colours in the middle-school examination, earning a scholarship which helped him in further studies. In the year 1906, he made an unsuccessful attempt to become a sannyasi. He was married after he had passed his middle-school examination, but his wife died soon. People around him were expecting him to do excellently in his matriculation examination. But his heart thirsted for Sannyas. Sahajanand left home when his family members tried to get him married again and went to the Aparnath Math at Kashi. He became a sannyasi at the age of eighteen.


Proterozoic massif anorthosites are usually associated with variable INTRODUCTION amounts of a characteristic suite of rocks ranging from a melanocratic Proterozoic massif anorthosites are usually associated facies highly enriched in Fe, Ti and P (FTP rocks) to mafic and with variable amounts of a characteristic suite of mafic granitic rocks (the jotunite–charnockite suite). Here experimental to granitic rocks. The least evolved rocks of this suite are and geochemical data on fine-grained (chilled) samples from several enriched in mafic minerals (lowand high-Ca pyroxenes, intrusions of the Rogaland Province are used to decipher their Fe–Ti oxides, apatite), and in some cases very high petrogenesis. Modeling of these data supports the hypothesis that concentrations of these phases give rise to melanocratic extensive fractionation of primitive jotunites can produce quartz rocks. Various names including ferrodiorite, monmangerites with REE concentrations in the range of jotunites, strong zonorite, jotunite, Fe–Ti–P-rich rocks (FTP) and oxide– depletions in U, Th, Sr and Ti, and smaller to no relative depletions apatite gabbronorite have been used; however, in this in Hf and Zr. Experimental and petrographic data indicate that study, we will refer to them by the collective term of the FTP rocks represent accumulations of a dense oxide– jotunite (hypersthene monzodiorite). Evolved rocks of the apatite–pigeonite assemblage from coexisting multisaturated jotunitic suite include mangerites (hypersthene monzonite), quartz to mangeritic liquids. The Rogaland jotunitic–charnockitic trend mangerites and charnockites (hypersthene granite). We corresponds to a multi-stage process of polybaric fractional cryswill refer to the suite as a whole as the jotunite suite. tallization and crystal accumulation. The early stage, in which a The origin of jotunites remains the subject of conprimitive jotunitic magma fractionates to produce an evolved jotunite, siderable debate, despite their similar textural and geoprobably took place several kilometers below the intrusion level of chemical characteristics from one anorthosite complex dikes, either in mafic chambers similar to that of the Bjerkreim– to another. Several hypotheses, not mutually exclusive, Sokndal layered intrusion or in masses of crystallizing andesine have been proposed: (1) jotunites are residual liquids anorthosite. The later stage of fractionation, which may have after anorthosite crystallization (Ashwal, 1982; Morse, involved flow differentiation, took place within the dikes themselves 1982; Wiebe, 1990; Emslie et al., 1994); (2) they are and produced compositions ranging from evolved jotunite to mangerite the parental magmas of the andesine anorthosite suite to quartz mangerite and charnockite. (Duchesne et al., 1974; Duchesne & Demaiffe, 1978; Demaiffe & Hertogen, 1981); (3) they are products of partial melting of the lower crust (Duchesne et al., 1985, 1989; Duchesne, 1990); (4) they are transitional rocks in a comagmatic sequence from anorthosite to mangerite (Wilmart et al., 1989; Owens et al., 1993; Duchesne & Wilmart, 1997); (5) they are derived by fractionation of


Synthesis of an inverse vulcanised polymer with bended mono- and di-olefins, adjusting the ratio of which allows control of the shape memory response and self-healing temperatures.


Lightning interference occurs mainly on overhead lines and has been a problem since the early days of electricity supply. Over voltages which occur on the lines, travel towards the terminal or substation, and can damage, particularly the expensive equipment such as power transformers. The lightning surge causes the travelling waves and the temporary increase in voltage in the transmission line system. Lightning is the most harmful for destroying the transmission line and setting devices so it is necessary to study and analyse the temporary increase in voltage for designing and setting the surge arrester. Arresters provide protection to equipment by limiting the voltage across the equipment terminals in the presence of a surge on the system. This voltage limiting characteristic of arresters is the primary feature of an arrester in most cases, and the reason for its existence. The voltage limiting characteristic has several names and has even changed over the years. In this work Metal-Oxide Surge Arrester is used. This project presents the PSCAD/EMTDC based transient modelling of a three phase transmission line circuit for analysing their performance during lightning. The method used to analyze the increase in voltage due to lightning was done by using the application called 'PSCAD/EMTDC'. This software could be used to analyze electric system in different aspects, including transition state and steady state. Therefore, it could be used to analyze the transmission line system. Circuit model is developed for a three phase model and the same is used for simulation studies. This study generalizes the modelling details and performing the analysis of lightning surge on surge arrester placement using the PSCAD/EMTDC software. The outcome of this paper would be the effect of surge arrester placement in terms of voltage level measured at particular points.


Lake Titicaca forms part of the great system of internal drainage of the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia between the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental. The lake has an area of about 8300 sq km (3300 sq mi) and it is about 3800 meters (12,500 ft) above sea level. The adjacent ranges are about 2000 meters (6500 ft) higher.

Lake Titicaca normally fluctuates about 60 cm (2 ft) each year and there have been cyclic fluctuations aggregating 4.6 meters (15 ft). Such fluctuations, of which there is a record since 1914, are indicative of variations in inflow but do not reflect the true magnitude of such variations because the rate of outflow is a function of the lake level.

There are no records of inflow to Lake Titicaca and few of the outflow from it. Hence, estimates of inflow and outflow had to be based on solutions of the equation of hydrologic balance, including allowance for precipitation on and evaporation from the lake surface. Trial solutions of these equations were made by months until a reasonably consistent set of values was determined. It was concluded from the study that the minimum annual inflow to Lake Titicaca was 37 per cent of the average inflow and that not more than two-thirds of the average runoff of streams on the Altiplano can be counted upon during any decade, even though sufficient storage is provided to carry over that long a period.


1. Prologue: 'I was Mao's dog' 2. Growing up, reaching out (1914-33 3. Onstage in Shanghai (1933-1937) 4. Mao's housewife in Yanan (1938-49) 5. Letdown (1950s) 6. Recovery and revenge: politics as theater (1960s) 7. Bid to be empress (1970s) 8. 'Shut up, Jiang Qing' Postscript Abbreviations in notes References notes Index.


The utility model discloses an automatic mulberry leaf cutting machine, comprising a power device, a mulberry leaf cutting device, a feeding hopper (4), a discharging hopper (5) and a frame. The mulberry leaf cutting device comprises manually matched circular blade sets which are respectively mounted on a group of parallel shafts; the shafts are driven to rotate by power, and intervals are arranged between two blades on each shaft, each single blade on the same shaft is manually contacted with the blade at the corresponding position on other shafts to form scissors; the upper part of the bladeis provided with a comb-type separator distributed along the axial direction; the comb teeth of the comb-type separator are inserted into the interval space formed between two blades on the same shaft; the automatic mulberry leaf cutting machine has advantages of simple structure, scientific processing of raw material, low energy consumption, convenient maintenance, safety and practicability.


Urban stormwater hydrographs with various degrees of detention and infiltration were routed through 30 hypothetical drainage networks. Only infiltration reduced flow volume. Infiltration shortened flow duration while detention lengthened it. Both detention and infiltration reduced peak rate of flow, but not to the degree for which they were designed; their effectiveness varied with drainage networks and urban hydrologic changes. These results encourage balanced consideration of infiltration and detention for solving specific problems of flooding and erosion in specific watersheds.


A survey of the beliefs of ISO psychologists in Ireland and the United Kingdom concerning four issues ("schizophrenia is a valid construct", "genetics probably plays a minimal role in the determination of schizophrenia", "schizophrenia is adequately treated with medication", and "schizophrenia is too severe a condition for psychologists to work with") was conducted to discover whether false beliefs about schizophrenia (Bellack, 1986) could account for the fact that psychological interventions are rarely employed in its treatment. The results did not support the false-beliefs hypothesis. Approximately equal numbers of subjects agreed and disagreed with the statement that schizophrenia is a valid construct, few of them agreeing or disagreeing strongly. Most of the respondents seemed to think that genetics play more than a minimal role in determining the condition, but the majority of them disagreed with the claims that it is adequately treated by medication and that it is too severe a condition to work with...


By applying the method of the weight coefficient,a new Hilbert-type series inequality with multi-parameters and a best constant factor are established.As applications,we obtain the equivalent form and some special results.


Benign tumors are affecting the proximal part of the femur in 19% of all cases. Their distinctive feature is the relatively late diagnosis, which requiring the necessity, in addition to removing the tumor and bone grafting, to solve the problem of deformations correction. We have discovered the reasons of deformity appearance of the 31 patients aged 3-16 years. The following types of deformation were defined: ductile (12), after pathological fracture (12) and as a result of growth plate dysfunction (7). The correction of deformation, along with the tumour removing was performed at 15 patients: 3 - Oilier disease, 6 - fibrous dysplasia, 4 - bone cysts, 2 - exostotic chondrodysplasia. In 2 cases the correction of deformity was supposed unreasonable by its severity and accompanying pathology, and in 14 - the deformities were considered as permissible, that not required operative adjustment.


This paper introduces an optimal planning strategy to find the location and the size of an energy storage system (ESS) among the power network buses along with transmission lines expansion to accommodate the wind power energy integration to serve the future demand growth. The proposed methodology gives the optimal location concerning the required size of ESS at each bus, along with the optimal selections to reinforce existing lines or recommending new ones in a single solving stage. The co-optimization problem was formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming problem, in which the power balance constraint was developed as a DC Optimal Power Flow (DC-OPF). Furthermore, the load shedding and wind curtailment are taken into account in the cost function. The methodology was exercised in the IEEE RTS-96 system. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed optimal sizing strategy, which the optimal size and the location of an ESS were found, and the optimal candidates and transfer capacity for the tie-lines expansion planning are determined.


We investigated the effects of size on electrical and optical properties of InGaN-based red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by designing rectangular chips with different mesa lengths. Larger chips exhibited lower forward voltages because of their lower series resistances. A larger chip helped to realize a longer emission wavelength, narrower full-width at half maximum, and higher external quantum efficiency. However, temperature-dependent electroluminescence measurements indicated that larger chips are detrimental to applications where high temperature tolerance is required. In contrast, a smaller red LED chip achieved a high characteristic temperature of 399 K and a small redshift tendency of 0.066 nm K−1, thus showing potential for temperature tolerant lighting applications.


Summary form only given, as follows. Results are presented for high power cyclotron masers driven by intense electron beam (400-800 W, 1-10 kA) generators with pulselengths of 0.4-1 ps. High power microwave emission has been generated in the K-band and in the X-band (-2 MW).


The invention provides an environmental friendly dry-film lubricant and a use method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of lubricant preparation. The dry-film lubricant comprises a solid lubricant, a dispersing agent, an anti-wear additive, an antioxidant, a reaction promoter, and a film-coated resin monomer; counted in weight percentage, the components and weight ratio thereof are as follows: 10 to 60 percent of solid lubricant, 0.5 to 5 percent of dispersing agent, 2 to 10 percent of anti-wear additive, 1 to 3 percent of antioxidant, 0 to 0.5 percent of reaction promoter, as well as 35 to 80 percent of film-coated resin monomer; the monomer of acrylic ester type is used to initiate copolymerization in situ to form a solid lubricant film. The dry-film lubricant does not contain organic volatiles, has a gentle preparation condition, and has a usage temperature range from -20 DEG C to 250 DEG C. The environmental friendly dry-film lubricant is suitable for the lubricating anti-wear coating on the parts of heat-sensitive base materials like plastics, alloys, and the like, in particular, and is suitable for the lubricating anti-wear coatings of running-in and high/low temperature sliding parts without oil lubrication and spare parts, as well as of microseism wear parts.


The context responding to the initiative the policy framework - a local perspective the development process - agents, pitfalls and good practice evaluating the impact of the exception's approach the way forward - summary and recommendations.


Glucose-stimulated beta-cells synchronize calcium waves across the islet to recruit more beta-cells for insulin secretion. Compared to calcium dynamics, the formation and cell-to-cell propagation of electrical signals within the islet are poorly characterized. To determine factors that influence the propagation of electrical activity across the islet underlying calcium oscillations and beta-cell synchronization, we used high-resolution CMOS multielectrode arrays (MEA) to measure voltage changes associated with the membrane potential of individual cells within intact mouse islets. We measured both fast (milliseconds, spikes) and slow (seconds, waves) voltage changes and analyzed the spatiotemporal voltage dynamics. Treatment of islets from C57BL6 mice with increasing glucose concentrations revealed that single spike activity and wave signal velocity were both glucose-dependent. A repeated glucose stimulus involved a highly active subset of cells in terms of spike activity. When islets were pretreated for 72 hours with glucolipotoxic medium, the wave velocity was significantly reduced. Network analysis confirmed that the synchrony of islet cells was affected due to slower propagating electrical waves and not due to altered spike activity. In summary, this approach provided novel insight regarding the propagation of electrical activity and opens a wide field for further studies on signal transduction in the islet cell network. Article Highlights This study presents a new method for characterizing islet spatiotemporal electrical dynamics and subpopulations of beta-cells. We asked whether a high-resolution CMOS-MEA is suited to detect electrical signals on a level close to single cells, and whether we can track the propagation of electrical activity through the islet on a cellular scale. A highly active subpopulation of islet cells was identified by action potential-like spike activity, whereas slower waves were a measure for synchronized electrical activity. Further, propagating waves were slowed by glucolipotoxicity. The technique is a useful tool for exploring the pancreatic islet network in health and disease.


The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a system and a device of algorithm negotiation in radio link control connection re-establishment, which is applied into the communication technology field. The method of algorithm negotiation in radio link control connection re-establishment comprises: an algorithm loading message is received by a user device, the algorithm of the user device for performing encryption, decryption and integrality protection on data is acquired according to safety capability of a target base station carried by the algorithm loading message and/or intersection of the target base station and the safety capability of the user device, therefore, the user device can understand the safety capability of the target base station or the algorithm for performing encryption, decryption and integrality protection acquired by the target base station so as to lead the user device and the target base station to have a consistent algorithm for performing encryption, decryption and integrality protection and the data integrality verification to be successful, thus ensuring the successful RRC connection re-establishment.


Many cases of cancer are preventable, is the main message of Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, a report from the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR). This report, which updates the first report in 1997, evaluates the relevant evidence. On the basis of this work the international expert panel developed ten recommendations for cancer prevention.


'Who let out the secret?' – Sexual identity in Johann Nell's farm novel Sondag op 'n voelplaas [ Sunday on a bird farm ] (2013). The statement of the narrator in Johann Nell's farm novel Sondag op 'n voelplaas (2013) about his self-quest amongst 'wild, fierce and erect ostrich necks' (pp. 244–245), alludes to his doubts about his sexual identity. The apparent latent homosexual is strengthened by the epigraph, a direct translation of an excerpt from Calaf's aria 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's opera Turandot . In the traditional Afrikaans farm novel, the narrator is usually a third-person (auctorial) narrator. The use of a first-person narrator in Nell's novel emphasises his deviation from the (stereo)typical traits and attributes of the traditional farm novel. The subjectivity inherent to the firstperson narration (the I-as-protagonist) implies that what is represented in this novel is the main character's version of reality and his response to, especially, the farm as bastion of masculinity and traditional socio-political beliefs. Based on the above, this article takes as its point of departure the hypothetical assumption that the epigraph has an important part to play in the interpretation of the secret in that the implied or abstract author, by means of a parodying perspective, highlights a specific vision regarding the thematic significance. The epigraph not only reinforces the idea of a lack of identity and the idea that the 'true' identity could perhaps be a homosexual disposition, but also that it is simultaneously an etiological journey to the original opera libretto. In its turn, the libretto can be traced back to the Greek myth of Oedipus and the sphinx. By both discussing the intertexts and analysing the narrator's language usage, his disposition and his tale of the (traumatised) self, his sexual identity is scrutinised.


Objective To explore the effects of complex liquid of taurine on myocardial mitochondrial ATP enzyme, Ca(superscript 2+) and Mg(superscript 2+) levels in sports fatigue rat models. Methods Treatment with complex liquid of taurine in swimming training-induced fatigue rat model, the activities of myocardial mitochondrial Ca(superscript 2+)-ATP. Mg(superscript 2+)-ATP and the contents of Ca(superscript 2+) and Mg(superscript 2+) were monitored. Results Compared with the control group, the training group ingested complex liquid of taurine had the significantly increased myocardial mitochondrial activity Ca(superscript 2+)-ATP, Mg(superscript 2+)-ATP enzyme (P<0.05) and Ca(superscript 2+) content (P<0.05), which was better than the group of pyruvic acid also, but not reached statistical significance (P>0.05). Conclusions The complex liquid of taurine shows the protective effect on myocardial mitochondria in sports fatigue rat models.


The species of Elaeocarpus in the Lesser Sunda Islands are reviewed; seven species belonging to the Coilopetalum group are keyed out and discussed, and distinguished from the eight other species known from these islands. E. batudulangii subsp. sumbensis Coode is described as new.


There had been reports of infectious diarrhea leading to death of wild animals at the National Zoological Garden Jos, Nigeria which could possibly be due to E. coli . The presence of the zoonotic infection puts the animals, staff, visitors and the general public at risk of contracting the bacteria which could lead to death of wildlife, economic losses, wildlife conservation issues, human sickness, expenditure on treatments or death of man or animals. The record of surveillance of E. coli in Nigeria is limited. The study sought to determine the presence and prevalence of E. coli in the zoo. 160 faecal samples were collected over a period of three months and analysed for E. coli using the conventional biochemical tests and confirmation was done using the Microbact GNB 12E. Seventy seven (48.1%) isolates showed reactions presumptive of E. coli after the conventional biochemical tests while 58 (36.3%) were confirmed after testing with Microbact GNB 12E. The confirmed isolates were from primates 18, carnivores 5, herbivores 5, birds 28, and reptiles 2. There was a statistically significant association (p<0.05) between the different classes of animals and the isolation of E. coli . There was also a statistically significant association (p<0.05) between the occurrence of E. coli and months of sample collection. The occurrence and high prevalence of E. coli implies the organism could be the cause of infectious diarrhoea and death in the zoo, while staff and as many as visit the zoo are at risk of contracting the organisms from the animals or other contaminated objects which could lead to human death and  epidemics.


We have performed large-eddy simulation with subgrid scale (LES-SGS) stretched-vortex model of an inclined sonic jet into a supersonic crossflow at Mach 3.6. The main flow features generated by the gas-dynamic interactions of the jet with the supersonic crossflow, such as barrel shock, shear layer, and counter-rotating vortex pair, are numerically captured by the employed LES-SGS. The transition and spatial development of the jet into a supersonic crossflow have been shown to be strongly dependent on the inflow conditions of the crossflow. This result indicates that correct turbulent inflow conditions are necessary to predict the main flow characteristics, dispersion and mixing of a gaseous jet in a supersonic, turbulent crossflow using LES-SGS. This work presents a methodology for the generation of realistic synthetic turbulent inflow conditions for LES of spatially developing, supersonic, turbulent, wall-bounded flows. The methodology is applied to the study of a supersonic turbulent flow over a flat wall interacting with an inclined jet. The effects of inflow conditions on the spatial development of the inclined jet are discussed, and then the results are compared with the available experimental data. Also, the dominant vortical structures generated by the jet/turbulent boundary layer interaction are identified as sheets, tilted tubes and discontinuous rings, and a visualization of their spatiotemporal development is provided. The identified vortical structures are shown to be enveloped by the helium mass-fraction isosurface, thus showing the important role of those structures in the dispersion of a gaseous jet in a supersonic crossflow.


In Poland, there are low-temperature geothermal reservoirs that can be used for various purposes in many regions of the country. Low-temperature deposits of geothermal waters are common and occur much more frequently than high-temperature deposits. They contain water with temperatures lower than 150 °C. Their temperature normally ranges from 20 to 90 °C. Achieving a state of equilibrium depends on many factors, including the kinetics of reactions between the individual components of the system, temperature, reactivity of reservoir rock, concentration of chemical components in the water and the time the water remains in contact with the rock. Therefore, this article presents the possibility of checking the conditions of precipitation of inorganic sediments in geothermal waters with the use of PVT equipment. Tests were carried out with the use of geothermal waters under given dynamic conditions (pressure, temperature and flow). This paper confirms the suitability of using the equipment for PVT (device for the study of phase changes) testing in order to determine the conditions for the precipitation of inorganic sediments in geothermal projects. Tests on the precipitation of solid sediments in geothermal waters were carried out. A result of the research is the adaptation of the equipment for PVT testing in order to determine the conditions for the precipitation of inorganic deposits in geothermal waters. As a result, different capillary blocking times were obtained depending on the measurement conditions (e.g., for P = 40 bar, T = 120 °C and q = 1 cm3/min, the blocking start time was 10.8 min). The authors found that solid sludge inhibitors, as well as other chemicals used, including paraffin inhibitors, must be periodically adjusted to prevent precipitation in geothermal waters.


taken another leap forward in establishing the essential relationship between rhetoric and the presidency itself. They argue successfully that the genres they have identified actually help define what the presidency is and how that office interacts with the other branches of government and the American people. The rhetoric described by Campbell and Jamieson helps sustain the presidency as an institution. The speeches are real acts, "deeds done in words." Although Campbell and Jamieson are very careful to provide good reasons why they have limited their book to certain genres of presidential messages—inaugurals, state-of-the-union and veto messages, war, impeachment, pardons, and farewell addresses—and even though they invite us to "explore this link in other forms of presidential discourse" (p. 4), I at least, await their next book. Defining other genres will be more difficult but very rewarding. As the authors readily admit, their analysis ignores some rhetorically impressive and some historically important presidential messages, like Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, Kennedy's "Ich Bin Ein Berliner," and even Reagan's remembrance of Normandy. And as complicated as it might seem to put into genre framework, we somehow need to account for policy messages, speeches announcing fundamental change in direction, institutional addresses to the people, the elusive press conference, and perhaps even the president as campaigner.


Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) is one of the most important tree species in Hungary, due to its positive economic impacts. Research to increase its yield, improve its stem quality and enhance its drought tolerance has been ongoing since the 1960s. Of the current research works in this field, the clone trial of the Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron, established in 2020 in the Nyírség region, is worth highlighting. In this experiment 4 newly-bred clones and a state-approved black locust cultivar ('Üllői') are being tested. In the summer of 2022, 'on site' measurements of assimilation parameters – net assimilation (A n ), transpiration (Tr) – were carried out using the LI-6800 portable photosynthesis system. From the data obtained, the water use efficiency (WUE) was calculated. The results of the statistical analysis (Kruskal-Wallis H test) have shown significant differences (p < 0.05) between the clones for all three parameters (A n , Tr, WUE) tested. The NK2 clone has performed the highest value for all the parameters studied. However, no significant differences were found between clones NK2 and PL040 for Tr or between NK2 and control ('Üllői') for WUE. Studies of this kind contribute to the improvement of black locust growing through the production and selection of cultivars, which are relatively resistant to the negative effects (drought) of climate change.


In this paper, the author investigates the complex relation between orality and literacy by analyzing a set of magical papyri that quote disconnected and seemingly out of context Homeric verses. This set is generally referred to as the homeromanteion , the 'Homer oracle,' and can be dated around the fourth or fifth century century CE. The author also discusses the homeromanteion by first looking at instances where Homeric verses are quoted in a larger narrative in contexts of divination. It is also important to compare the Homeric lines in the homeromanteion with the use of Homer for ritual purposes elsewhere in the magical papyri. The author then compares this compilation of lines with similar sortes and other divination practices and propose a reading of the homeromanteion as a full manual and document in its own right, at the same time attempting to explain why these verses were included in it. Keywords: divination; Greek; Homer; homeromanteion ; magical papyri; prophet; sortes ; tradition


This work aimed to evaluate the potential application of a stabilizer derived from the intimate mixture of powder electric arc furnace oxidizing slag and fly ash, aiming at the improvement of soil engineering properties for enforcement purposes on forest roads. This evaluation was undertaken by means of an experimental program of laboratory tests to classify soils and mixtures of these with the proposed stabilizer according to the MCT (Miniature, Compacted, Tropical) methodology. The proportions of waste mixtures were 10% and 20% of the total dry mass of soil-waste combinations and percentages of ground steel slag were 75%, 87.5% and 100% relative to total dry mass of waste mixtures. It was shown the potential to technically enable the use of steel waste in the composition of forest roads, emphasizing the relevance of the proposal in meeting the need of steel companies to confer a sustainable destination for the waste and the need of forest companies to meet, with low-cost materials, the significant demands of their unpaved road network.


In recent years, attention to the power quality (PQ) of electricity has grown significantly. The deterioration of PQ in power system leads to a number of negative consequences of electromagnetic and technological nature. In this regard, with the support of the research laboratory of Moscow Power Engineering Institute, various voltage classes and instrumental work have been implemented on the electrical networks of the Republic of Tajikistan to analyze and identify the causes of PQ deterioration. This article provides brief information on the energy system at high and low voltages of the Republic of Tajikistan networks to assess the effect of powerful distorting loads on the elements of the power system and the spreading of conductive interference. Moreover, the article presents obtained results of the instrumental assessment of the electric PQ and explains the possible causes and consequences of the registered violations to define and mitigate PQ disturbances.


The role of NGOs in rural development1 has become a debate of interest not only for the donors but argO,in many cages, to the governments who receive such help and the grassroots recipients. Past development approaches have failed to mitigate, lat alone eliminate, underdevelopment, poverty and repression Dicklitch 1998 who goes on to claim that it is these failures that have raid the foundation for the euphoric embrace of civil society and NGOs as the panacea for underdevelopment and authoritarianism. The scramble for solutions to Africa's development problems as Aubrey (1997) points out has led to many scholars to rethink and reshape the development research agenda. Besides focusing on discerning reasons for Africa's non-development predicament, mora attention is being placed on trying to rid Africa on it's immense human suffering, pervasive poverty and increasing dependency on western financial institutions specifically the International monetary fund IMF and the World Bank. From ona perspective this requires minimising development failures and increasing it's success. For a long time in the history of NGOs there has been two rather 'active' actors thus the donors and the recipient governments with the 'passive' recipients to whom much of the development aid is meant to go. The trilateral partnership of foreign donors, African governments and African NGOs presents an attempt by development practitioners to minimise the failures earlier mentioned. For the purpose of scale, the key concepts of this paper are participation empowerment and sustainability, discussion is going to be limited to arguments that have been put forward for and against the NGOs in development putting in mind that majority of the African population is ruraI. Since the plight of chronic underdevelopment is normally accompanied by terms like dictatorship, mismanagement, corruption among others it is compelling to mention in the discussion issues of good governance and economic liberalisation. Referring to examples from studies carried out in Uganda and other third World countries where such organisations have been involved in development, the paper concludes with a view that, with the present nature of governance in many third world countries and Africa in particular, the role of NGOs in development and environmental conservation is destined to have very short livad impacts. This is mainly because; the state apparatus in itself is a 'drain' to the poor economies which are mainly dependent on the majority rural agricuiturai populations. National legislature in many cages inclines NGOs to follow government development policies that have already proved inadequate. For the largest part of their existence NGOs have treated symptoms other than causes of underdevelopment, the affected parties have been rendered spectators for a long time. Some literature even argues that some donor countries have other ambitions other than development for example Aubrey 1997, this shouId not however make us forget that there are many genuine voluntary donors who would like to see tangible changes in the lives of those who suttar. There is (as always has been), a 1Theterms rural development and development are used interchangeably since development per say has no formed definition the ona used by Chambers will sevre the purpose because it is rural areas in many third world countries thaI are not or are less developed than urban


The objective of this study is to propose the SAR data selection support information using digital elevation model. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is very useful for earth observation at the time of a natural disaster because it's possible to observe without depending on the weather. At present, analytical data is selected by using the orbit distance and weather condition in an observation date. But the analysis precision falls at the territory a microwave doesn't reach by the topography condition. So, we proposed generation method of the data selection support image using a slope direction and a hill shade image. The results of this study were as follows; (1)It was generated that new data selection map which is informed the area of shielded and reflected using a slope direction and a hill shade image. (2)We were found that in the region microwaves is reflected, it can be observed within the range of the nominal elevation value. And in the region microwave is shielded, it existed the area that cannot be observed in a range of nominal elevation.


Based on the single-mass,2-mass,and 3mass shear computation models presented in this paper to analyze the earthquake response for large aspect-ratio isolated structure such as high-rise building,its isolated layer characteristic parameters were studied.The relationship of horizontal stiffness and maximum design displacement of isolated layer to the bound tension and compression stress of isolator was obtained.Simplified calculation models of earthquake response analysis were studied using decomposition response spectrum method.The calculation models of the layers shear,deformations, and maximum layers displacement of such structure were given,and the calculation theoretical formula of acceleration response and isolated layers of multi-mass isolated system were presented,also.


As the Internet has developed into a global phenomenon, the information-oriented society has evolved from a technological novelty into a major force fueling the transformation of society. Internet access in Japan is becoming more readily available through simpler, more user-friendly PC and mobile interfaces, while the demand for broadband is growing far faster than anyone imagined. The addition of IPv6 is now starting to give people ubiquitous access to knowledge and information, and growth of the information society is starting to move in a different direction: rather than simple quantitative expansion, the Internet-oriented society is having an increasing qualitative impact on peoples' lives by supporting greater diversity and popular value-added capabilities.This development is breaking down barriers of time, space, and cost, as well as the disparities in peoples' abilities to access information. Overcoming the flat dissemination of knowledge and information and the unavailability of information on both supply and demand sides of the market will create an information society that awakens public knowledge and opens up a vast wealth of information; indeed, this will create a self-actualizing society that can be fairly characterized as an information society renaissance.We are now seeing the collapse of uneven distribution of knowledge and information in certain groups that has been a persistent characteristic of traditional organizations, and as the entire general public become prosumers through equal opportunity access, we are moving away from the conventional business-to-consumer (B2C) paradigm to flattened lateral consumer-to-consumer (C2C) and peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions, and witnessing the emergence of a richer intellectual and emotionally rewarding environment.This opens the way to more venture-capital and small office home office (SOHO) distributed style businesses, the ability of individuals to leverage and exhibit the full extent of their knowledge and capabilities, and endless creation of new markets. This constant societal and economic regeneration will restore and refresh social systems, and will replace the old rigid social structures of the past with a dynamic structure that encourages flexible development and change, developments that will be accelerated through the interactive synergy between the IT-based technological revolution and the on-going transformation of society.


In this paper we propose two conceptual developments in understanding entrepreneur motivations and their effects. First, we argue that entrepreneur motivations develop dynamically in relation to career, household and business life courses. Second, we conceptualize how motivation and life courses develop interactively. We present an exploratory test of these ideas. In a sample of enterprise programme participants, we identify motivation profiles employing more robust cluster analyses than hitherto presented: our profiles are termed reluctant, convenience, economically driven, social, learning and earning, and prestige and control entrepreneurs. We then demonstrate statistical relationships between motivation profiles at a particular phase in the business life course (early establishment) and career and household life course factors. Motivations are also related to business resources, behaviour and performance. This initial confirmation of our conceptual claims suggests that further testing is warranted.


A practically useful coupling reaction between aromatic halides and redox-active esters was realized via nickel catalysis through the use of packed zinc bed column in continuous flow. Multiple reuse of the column showed a negligible decrease in efficiency, affording high space/time yields. A wide range of substrates, including a number of heteroaryl halides and polyfunctional materials were coupled in generally good yields. Longer-time and larger-scale experiments further demonstrates the robustness of the system.


Objective
To discuss the mechanism about exercise preconditioning (EP) protected myocardium by means of regulate NLRP3 inflammasome signal pathways on exhausted exercise rats.

Methods
The male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into four groups: normal control group (C group), no EP on exhausted exercise group (EE group), 3dEP + EE group, and 3wEP + EE group, with 12 rats in each group. In C group and EE group, the rats had not done exercise, while EE group took an exhausted swimming exercise with 3% heavy weight on tail at the end of 3 weeks; 3dEP + EE group and 3wEP + EE group exercised according to the standard of swimming for 60 minutes every day (swam 15 minutes, took a rest for 5 minutes, repeated 3 times), 6 days in a week, and were trained for 3 days and 3 weeks respectively, and took an exhausted swimming exercise on the last day. A light microscope and electron microscope were used to observe the myocardial histopathology and ultrastructure change, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the levels of serum interleukin (IL-1β, IL-18, IL-6), hypersensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), MB isoenzyme of creatine kinase (CK-MB), and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). The protein expressions of NLRP3 and caspase-1 were detected by Western Blot. The correlations among all the parameters were analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis.

Results
Under the light microscope and electron microscope, the myocardial fiber morphological structure was normal, neatly, and no interstitial edema, muscle membrane damage or myocardial cell swellen was found in C group. In EE group, heart tissues were stained obviously uneven, a large number of myocardial fibers were fractured and messed, interstitial fibers were hyperplasiaed and edema moderately, much of myocardial cells were edema and necrosis, inflammatory cells were infiltrated, the number of average infiltration inflammatory cells was highest, mitochondria were edema seriously, part of the crest and a small number of membrane were blended together, fuzzy and crest were fractured, sarcomere were disordered; 3dEP + EE group and 3wEP + EE group heart tissues injuries were obviously alleviated, among the three groups, and the best results were in 3wEP + EE group. Compared with C group, the serum contents of IL-1β, IL-18, IL-6, hs-CRP, CK-MB, BNP and heart tissues protein expressions of NLRP3 and caspase-1 in EE group were significantly increased [IL-1β (μg/L): 18.77±1.28 vs. 12.00±1.55, IL-18 (μg/L): 236.79±15.73 vs. 150.74±7.09, IL-6 (μg/L): 59.31±9.17 vs. 34.65±2.89, hs-CRP (mg/L): 469.37±137.73 vs. 107.15±14.22, CK-MB (U/L): 15.57±0.91 vs. 7.40±0.40, BNP (ng/L): 532.08±63.44 vs. 386.96±34.77, NLRP3 protein (gray value): 0.66±0.07 vs. 0.16±0.06, caspase-1 protein (gray value): 0.96±0.08 vs. 0.48±0.06, all P 0.05]. A positive correlation was shown among IL-1β, IL-18, IL-6, hs-CRP, BNP, CK-MB, NLRP3, and caspase-1 (all P < 0.01).

Conclusions
EP can reduce inflammatory reaction by regulating the NLRP3 inflammatory signal pathways, and protect the myocardial injury. The protection of the heart by long-term EP is more obvious than that of short-term EP.

Key words:
Exercise preconditioning; Exhaustion exercise; NLRP3 inflammatory; Signal pathway


As the urban path has the characteristics of large-scale network,with the actual situation of the urban traffic road network problem is difficult to solved by traditional path optimization algorithm.The actual path length and the roads are compounded to synthesize virtual path by considering actual city road network information and combining with dynamic GPS floating car data,it is proposed a hybrid algorithm based on particle swarm of ant colony algorithm.Study shows that the hybrid algorithm in time and accuracy is better than the ant colony algorithm and particle swarm optimization,is effective in improving efficiency and accuracy,travel to provide reliable basis for the optimization of urban roads and cities.


The production of solid waste in Brazil has increased considerably, with the creation of a great number of dumps. Several socio-environmental impacts results from this inadequate disposal. The present work had the objective to evaluate, based on environmental, economic and social criteria, possible favorable areas for the installation of a sanitary landfill in the Metropolitan Region of Belém (MRB), state of Pará. To this end, data were processed using a Geographic Information System (GIS). A map with potential areas for landfill installation in the MRB was created, based on the criteria and weights assigned to each variable through map algebra methods. The results showed four areas in the municipality of Santa Bárbara and Santa Izabel as favorable for installation of the project, with characteristics that meet the criteria established in legislation (NBR 13896/1997).


This thesis consists of three chapters and studies the firm's organizational structure at a different stage of its life cycle: early-stage, growth, business group. The first chapter investigates the underlying reasons for the gender funding gap in the venture capital industry. It highlights a significant role for investors' stereotypes that ultimately impedes minority-founded startups' growth. The second chapter identifies conditions under which firms choose to grow by buying an incumbent company as opposed to building on their pre-existing human capital resources. The third chapter focuses on large business groups. It provides evidence that investors are not always aware of the boundaries of the firm and miss predictive information released at another level of the group.


The purpose of this study was to test the empirical analysis of the factors affecting bank profitability (ROA) case study at Banks registered on the Indonesian stock exchange with independent variable income component, that are loan interest income, credit provision income, fee based income, and components costs consist of the cost of gifts and assurance, cost PPAP, NIM, ROA, LDR and NPL in 2014-2017period.. The analysis used  multiple linear regression analysis to test the hypothesis simultaneously using statistical test F whereas partial hypothesis test using t statistical test. he analysis showed that variable loan interest income, credit provision fee, fee based income, the cost of gifts and assurance, cost PPAP, NIM, ROA, LDR and NPL simultaneously significantly affect the bank's profitability (ROA) level of significance 5 %. While partial variable loan interest income not significant and negative, credit provision income and fee based income effect is not significant and is positive, gifts and assurance fees not significant and negative, costs PPAP significant influence and be positive. As for the ratio of significant and positive impact NIM, ROA and LDR ratio is significant and negative effect, and the NPL ratio insignificant and negative againts the bank's profitability (ROA) at Banks. The predictive ability of independent variables on the dependent variable amounted to 91.9%, while 8.1% is explained by other factors outside the research model..


As the function of logistic center to logistics administration data system and also to the characters of data administration system.It is setting up the estimated data system in logistics administra-tive data system.It uses a fuzzy synthetically evaluation model of logistics administration information system and methods that would ensure the index change to fixed direction in science.It easily that makes them in evaluates in actually works.


Analyses the present position of Beijing tourism market, put forward the imperative need of strategic position, set force the main content of "multi-function strategic position"of Beijing tourism industry, probe into the ways of solve the related problems.


Taxation involves complex questions of policy, law, and practice. The book offers an innovative introduction to tax research by combining commentary on disciplinary-based and interdisciplinary approaches. Its objective is to guide and encourage researchers how to produce taxation research that is rigorous and relevant. It comments upon how disciplinary-based approaches to tax research have developed in law, economics, accounting, political science, and social policy. Its authors then go to introduce an inter-disciplinary research approach to taxation research. Effective approaches to research problem definition and research method choice are outlined by leading authors in their fields, and topical studies provide bibliographic surveys of specific areas of tax research. The book provides suggestions of topics, readings, and approaches that are intended to help the new researcher choose ways to begin their tax research. Written by a group of international experts, this book will be essential reading for new researchers in the tax field, including PhD students; for existing researchers wishing to broaden their understanding of taxation; for policymakers wanting to gauge where the leading edge of current tax research lies; and for tax practitioners interested in scholarly contributions to their field of practice. Contributors to this volume - Rebecca Boden, Professor of Accounting, Bristol Business School Jamie Elliott, Director in the Transfer Pricing Group, Deloitte & Touche LLP Jane Frecknall Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Leeds University Business School Judith Freedman, KPMG Professor of Tax Law, Oxford University John Hasseldine, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, Nottingham University Business School Kevin Holland, Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Accounting and Finance, School of Management and Business, University of Wales Simon James, Reader in Economics, School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter Margaret Lamb, Reader in Accounting, Warwick Business School Andrew Lymer, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Taxation, and Information Systems, Birmingham Business School Alan Macnaughton, KPMG Professor of Accounting, University of Waterloo in Ontario Amin Mawani, Associate Professor of Taxation, Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto Peter Moizer, Professor of Accounting, Leeds University Business School Tom O'Shea, Research Fellow in Taxation, Queen Mary, University of London Jeff Pope, Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Curtin University of Technology, Perth Claudio M. Radaelli, Professor of Public Policy, School of Social and International Studies, and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of Bradford


The concept of melancholy comprehended a wide range of characteristics and conditions in seventeenth-century European culture, from the brooding introspection of the genius and the scholar to a condition of delirious and delusory madness.1 Its central and most immediately identifiable characteristic, however, was the excessive and unreasonable nature of its symptomologically defining emotions of fear and sorrow. As Robert Burton noted out in The Anatomy of 'Melancholy (1621), the melancholic condition was commonly taken to be "a kind of dotage without fever, having for his ordinary companions fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion."2 The presence of a pervasive and unreasonable sense of fear and sorrow invariably solicited the melancholic label. Indeed, melancholic emotions were the primary substance of melancholic dotage; the ravings of the melancholically mad and their frequent obsession with a single idea were often driven by an overwhelming feeling of fear and sorrow.3The concept of melancholy as a mental disorder involving these specific emotions had coalesced under the gaze of medical observation in ancient Greece, and the melancholic condition was thought by many medical theorists of classical antiquity to be caused by a physiological surfeit of black bile, the Greek word for which was melancholia.4 Western medicine, profoundly influenced by the Greek medical tradition, continued to diagnose and treat melancholic disturbance as a physical distemper well into the nineteenth century. Yet the kind of mental anguish which early medical observers labeled melancholic bore a striking resemblance to forms of emotional disorder whose point of origin was thought to be the mind itself. Various traditions of classical moral philosophy sought to treat disorders of the mind that unchecked emotion could create primarily by directing, ordering, and correcting the thought of the sufferer. Where the melancholic condition displayed qualities of the emotions as these were represented and analyzed by moral philosophers it was viewed as susceptible to philosophical treatment and insight.5Early modern English writers, no less than classical writers, thought it appropriate to apply to cases of melancholy therapies derived from the philosophic endeavor to define and achieve peace of mind. Burton argued explicitly in The Anatomy of Melancholy for the rightful authority of the philosophical "physician of the soul" in the treatment of melancholy; and the conceptual similarity of melancholy to moral diseases of the soul which provided the basis for this authority is evidenced in the works of several seventeenth-century moralists, as well as in the writings of the influential seventeenth-century physician and natural philosopher Thomas Willis on melancholy and the passions. Willis noted that melancholic emotions were structured and caused by the judgments of the mind rather than by the force of physiological dysfunction alone. His recognition of the importance of the mental aspects of melancholy provided the basis for his prescription of moral therapies for the government of the mind in addition to therapies for the body. Moreover, his writing on the passion of grief displays the ability of moral philosophical language to represent melancholic-like states as problems of the moral life, to be engaged through rational meditation and control.The importance of moral philosophy in understanding and treating melancholy has been largely ignored in current scholarship in the history of psychiatry and madness, which has concentrated on early modern medical concepts of mental disorder that traced its origins to the body. The historian of psychiatry and "madness" Roy Porter has, for instance, referred to Willis's medical writings as evidence for the "thoroughgoing somatic grounding of disorders of thought, feeling and behavior" that he alleged to have dominated the era's medical conceptualization and treatment of madness.6 While Michel Foucault insightfully noted that Willis's ostensibly chemical account of the nature of melancholy was in fact "a phenomenology of the melancholic experience," he dismissed out of hand the relevance of classical moral philosophical language to the early modern treatment of madness, asserting the complete absence of moral treatments of madness until the end of the eighteenth century. …


The evolution of the properties in low cycle fatigue and fatigue crack growth of binary Al-Li, ternary Al-Li-Zr and 8090 alloys were compared. The respective influences of the main microscopic features of Al-Li alloys were studied. The shearing of δ' precipitates induces the formation of intense and heterogeneous slip bands (PSB) and of intergranular cracking. The Al3Zr precipitates prevent the strong PSB formation in the recristallized Al-Li-Zr alloy, but the texture enhances brittleness in the unrecristallized one. Owing to δ', S' and T1 precipitates, the 8090 alloy exhibited a flow stress almost twice that of other Al-Li alloys, but its fatigue life was reduced by the brittleness of the PFZ at grain boundaries (GB). All the alloys exhibited a very good crack growth resistance, with ƊKs threshold higher than 9MPa√m. Very efficient closure effects were due to the crack propagation into PSB or GB. Expressed in terms of ƊKeff, the resistance of the alloys were comparable to that of the other Al-alloys. The correlation with low cycle fatigue could be achieved through the use of the HRR elastoplastic field and the cyclic stress-strain curve. When related to the cyclic plastic strain ahead of the crack tip, the crack propagation rates could be correlated to the fatigue life in low cycle fatigue.


Dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE‐MRI) can provide insight into tumor perfusion. However, a method that can quantitatively measure the intra‐tumor distribution of tumor voxel clusters with a distinct range of Ktrans and ve values remains insufficiently explored.


A wide range of silicon ICs have been demonstrated for high-speed, high-bandwidth optical data communications. These include a 12-channel VCSEL array driver at 10.3125 Gbps per channel for box/board level interconnects, a 7-tap distributed transversal filter for LAN/SAN interconnects, OC-768 receiver and transmitter for NVAN/MAN/Campus interconnects, and exploratory silicon 10 Gbps photodetectors for potential integration with logic circuits. In addition, high-speed circuits, >100 Gbps, and parallel array testers have been demonstrated to facilitate both high-speed and massively parallel optical link evaluation.


1. The current status of youth prevention science, Beth Doll and Jina Yoon 2. Placing Prevention into the Context of School Improvement, Howard S. Adelman and Linda Taylor 3. School Mental Health: Prevention at All Levels, Kevin Dwyer and Erika Van Buren 4. Screening for Mental Health and Wellness: Current School-Based Practices and Emerging Possibilities, Erin Dowdy, Michael Furlong, Katie Eklund, Elina Saeki, and Kristin Ritchey 5. Implementing Universal Screening Systems Within an RtI-PBS Context, Hill M. Walker, Herbert H. Severson, Gale Naquin, Cynthia D'Atrio, Edward G. Feil, Leanne Hawken, and Christian Sabey 6. Building Conditions for Learning and Healthy Adolescent Development: A Strategic Approach, David Osher and Kimberly Kendziora 7. Assessment for integrated screening and prevention using the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents, Sandra Prince-Embury 8. Social Support: How to Assess and Include it in Research on Prevention and Youth Outcomes, Michelle K. Demaray, Christine K. Malecki, Lyndsay N. Jenkins, and Christy M. Cunningham 9. Peer support as a means of improving school safety and reducing bullying and violence, Helen Cowie and Peter K. Smith 10. The Developmental Implications of Classroom Social Relationships and Strategies for Improving Them, Jan N. Hughes and Lisa K. Barrois 11. Factors Influencing Teacher Interventions in Bullying Situations: Implications for Research and Practice, Jodi Burrus Newman, Karin S. Frey, and Diane Carlson Jones 12. Development, evaluation, and diffusion of a national anti-bullying program (KiVa), Christina Salmivalli, Antti Karna, and Elisa Poskiparta 13. Promoting the Well-Being of School Communities: A Systemic Approach, Chryse Hatzichristou, Konstantina Lykitsakou, Aikaterini Lampropoulou, and Panayiota Dimitropoulou 14. Promoting Student Resilience: Strong Kids Social and Emotional Learning Curricula, Oanh K. Tran and Kenneth W. Merrell 15. Stimulating positive social interaction: What can we learn from TIGER (Kanjertraining)? Lilian Vliek and Bram Orobio de Castro 16. A Hybrid Framework for Intervention Development: Social Justice for Bullying in Low Resource Schools, Samuel Song and Wakako Sogo 17. Check & Connect: Enhancing School Completion through Student Engagement, Sandra L. Christenson and Amy L. Reschly 18. Prevention and Early Intervention for Preschool Children At Risk for Learning and Behavior Problems, Maribeth Gettinger, Carrie Ball, Laura Mulford, and Alicia Serdula 19. Partnering to Achieve School Success: A Collaborative Care Model of Early Intervention for Attention and Behavior Problems in Urban Contexts, Thomas J. Power , Heather A. Jones, Jennifer A. Mautone, and Nathan J. Blum 20. Dissemination of Evidence-Based Programs in the Schools: The Coping Power Program, John E. Lochman, Nicole R. Powell, Caroline L. Boxmeyer, and Rachel Baden 21. Prevention, Early Childhood Intervention, and Implementation Science, Samuel L. Odom, Marci Hanson, Joan Lieber, Karen Diamond, Susan Palmer, Gretchen Butera, and Eva Horn 22. Taking effective prevention to scale, Brian K. Bumbarger, Daniel F. Perkins, and Mark T. Greenberg 23. Youth Policy and Politics in the United States: Toward an Increased Focus on Prevention, Siobhan M. Cooney, Thomas R. Kratochwill, and Stephen A. Small


Examining Age-Related Use of Visual Imagery Subprocesses in Children. (May 2011) Brittney Danielle Oliver, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Carl Gabbard This study examined the age-related ability of children (7 to 11 years) and adults to use visual imagery in tasks requiring the subprocesses of imagery generation, maintenance and inspection. Previous work had shown that young children's performance on imagery maintenance was comparable to other groups, but the level of development was inferior with tasks requiring imagery generation and inspection. We examined these findings using two newly created tasks (Line Direction and Clock Task) and one modified from previous work (Grid Task). Our data indicated that children's ability to use visual imagery generation, inspection, and maintenance was operable, but substantially below adult levels. In most cases, 7-year-olds displayed greater difficulty than their 9and 11-year-old counterparts and adults with tasks involving response time. Our results suggest that whereas young children are capable of using the imagery subprocesses examined, at least one age-related constraint, especially with maintenance tasks, is short-term visual memory ability. We also recognize that other likely factors, especially with young children in response time situations, are attention and general information processing ability.


Power allocation is an important issue in order to optimize the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. However, the power allocation problem for cooperative NOMA systems has not been well investigated. In this paper, we investigate the power allocation problems for half-duplex cooperative NOMA (HD-CNOMA) and full-duplex cooperative NOMA (FD-CNOMA) systems, respectively. From the fairness standpoint, the optimization problem for each system is formulated to maximize the minimum achievable user rate in a NOMA user pair. Even though both of the formulated problems are neither concave nor quasi-concave, the optimal closed-form solutions of both cases are still obtained with the proposed two-step method. First, we transform the initial problem into a quasi-concave problem by treating the relay transmit power, namely  $P_{R}$ , as a constant, and then solve the obtained quasi-concave problem. Second, we convert the original problem into a univariate problem of  $P_{R}$  based on the results of the first step, and eventually obtain the optimal power allocation. In addition, a hybrid half/full-duplex cooperative NOMA scheme, which dynamically switches between the HD-CNOMA and FD-CNOMA mode, is proposed. After that, a relay selection scheme is also investigated to extend the hybrid scheme into general networks with multiple users. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid relaying scheme can achieve a significant performance improvement with respect to the conventional NOMA, HD-CNOMA, and FD-CNOMA scheme.


The invention discloses an intelligent anti-theft lock and a control method thereof. The intelligent anti-theft lock comprises a lock body and a lock cylinder arranged in the lock body and further comprises a control chip and a contact sensor which is used for detecting the unlocking time of the lock cylinder. The contact sensor is arranged at the outer end of a key hole of the lock cylinder. The control chip is connected with the contact sensor. The control method of the intelligent anti-theft lock comprises the following control steps that (1) when a key is inserted into the key hole of the lock cylinder, the contact sensor operates and starts timing; (2) if the unlocking time of the lock cylinder is shorter than the set time, the lock is unlocked normally; and if the unlocking time of the lock cylinder is longer than the set time, the lock is unlocked abnormally; and (3) when the lock is unlocked abnormally, the control chip transmits a locking command, the lock cylinder is locked automatically, and/or the control chip controls an alarm to give alarm sounds and/or transmits an invasion signal to an owner and/or transmits an invasion signal to a property department. Anti-theft intellectualization is achieved, and the safety is improved.


Five insecticides were formulated separately and in combination with a disinfectant 1 Stroke Environ® (O-phenylphenol (10%), O-benzyl p -chlorophenol (7.5%), and p -tertiary amylphenol (2.0%)) to determine compatibility. The insecticides were: Ravap®, stirofos (21.4%) and dichlorvos (5.3%); Ciovap®, crotoxyphos (10.0%) and dichlorvos (2.5%); dimethoate; diazinon; and crotoxyphos. Tests for control of immature stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). house flies Musca domestica L., and little house flies, Fannia canicularis (L.), and adult stable flies and house flies indicate that insecticide-disinfectant combinations are stable. Combinations slightly improved the insecticidal activities. Chemical analyses also indicate that insecticide emulsions are stable for at least 24 h alone or in combination with the disinfectant.


The research proposed the novel feature extraction approaches to capture different movement characteristics of patients with NDs. Its significance lies in the development of feature extraction and objective assessment of NDs using a wearable sensing system.


The principles of digital communication course is an important professional course. Experiments are an important part of the course study. The traditional experiment mode using experiment box can't meet the student's experimental needs. This paper designs and implements a virtual experimental platform. The platform provides users with an online experiment environment by means of componentizing digital communication functions and algorithms. Students can select the required algorithm components in the platform and build experiment flow. The platform automatically parses the experimental flow and assigns it to the server for execution. The experimental results are displayed in a virtual oscilloscope in the browser. The virtual experiment platform can meet all experimental requirements of the principles of digital communication course and is more convenient for teachers and students.