Twenty advance breeding lines of Sorghum were evaluated for their genetic diversity with regards to grain yield and yield components. The genotypes were classified into twelve clusters, based on Mahalanobis D2 statistics. Geographical and genetic diversity were observed to be unrelated, as varieties from diverse geographical regions were placed in the same cluster, while varieties from the same centre were grouped into different clusters. Results on inter-cluster distances revealed maximum diversity between varieties of cluster VI and XI. Intra-cluster distance was maximum for cluster IV, indicating the existence of variability within the cluster for the characters studied. A perusal of the results on cluster means revealed higher grain yield (kg/ha), more 100 seed weight (g) for cluster VII, whereas higher fodder yield (kg/ha) accompanied with more plant height (cm) was observed in cluster IV which is a indicative of desirability of selection of varieties from these clusters for improvement of grain yield and the yield characters. Further, Plant height followed by 100 seed weight and fodder yield along with grain yield and panicle length together had accounted for 88.41 per cent of the total genetic divergence indicating their importance in the choice of parents for hybridization programmes.


Abstract:The motif of studying faces and portrait photographs is important in Virginia Woolf's novels. She uses the technique of showing seeing to highlight the characters' emotional engagement with faces and portraits and to explore a visual language of gazes and gestures. In her early novels, The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919), the faces of her characters are often described as absent and beyond reach. This serves as a starting point for reflections upon the relation between presence and absence, between exteriority and interiority, and the problems of communication, sympathy, and understanding. In these novels, Woolf explores the ambivalent status of the human face in modernity; it represents an outside that cannot be transgressed, but remains a place where one abides, hoping to reach some kind of understanding. Philosophical approaches to faces, portraits, and photographs (Agamben, Nancy, Barthes) offer useful perspectives for thinking about Woolf's face studies.


In this study, machine learning (ML) models combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations and Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption (ΔGH*) were employed to facilitate the high-throu...


In this brief essay presents and discusses some of the arguments that preceded the debate on the status and scientific nature of contemporary political science. Since the early twentieth century who laid the foundations of the discipline had doubts about the degree of autonomy from other social sciences, its subject matter and methodology to distinguish it from other social sciences. The behavioral revolution of the 50's of the twentieth century marked a watershed in the development of political science , laying the foundations of their autonomy , but this route was widely questioned . In the early twentieth century the " Perestroika " movement within the APSA and the objections of several "masters" of the discipline on its future , as Giovanni Sartori, Rein Taagepera , Adam Przeworski , among others, showed discomfort shared by many political scientists and the fragmentation that exists inside. However, taken as a whole may be noted that the criticism of the evolution of political science are recurring in different periods and do not in itself a novelty but a reflection of its nature as fragmented discipline.


The judicial institutions in a country are very strategic and determine because it is this institution that acts to resolve any disputes occurring in people's lives and punish persons who violate the law in accordance the prescribed law. With this judicial institution is expected that the community does not do the deeds that do not harm the other party by means of vigilante, but should all legal issues arising from the Association of society is resolved through the judicial institution.


This article describes intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications to railroad transportation systems to create smart rail- highway crossings. It describes a system that uses both acoustic sensors and radar to detect oncoming trains and alerting traffic operations center. Combining quadrant gates and median barriers with system- failure notification technologies is also described.


Chapter 1 - Combined biochemical and mechanical experiments Muscle mechanics I - intact single muscle fibres Muscle mechanics II - skinned muscle fibres The use of caged compounds The use of fluorescent nucleotides The use of peptide mimetics The use of recombinant molecules In vitro motility assay Chapter 2 - Combined structural and mechanical experiments The use of fluorescent probes The use of spin probes Time resolved X-ray diffraction Electron microscopy coupled with quick freezing Chapter 3 - The use of Ca2+ indicators Chapter 4 - Electrophysiological techniques Chapter 5 - Techniques for muscle energetics


This chapter sets out the key research questions addressed in the book. These concern the role of English towns in the commercial revolution that was underway in the thirteenth century. There is a particular focus on the medieval property market, and on the citizens who were active in that market. The chapter reviews previous literature, and explains the choice of Cambridge as a case study. This choice is largely dictated by a unique source of information, namely the Cambridge Hundred Rolls, which are also described in this chapter. The Hundred Rolls date to 1279, but the origins of the town were much earlier. The early history of the town is set out, so that the context of the Hundred Rolls can be fully understood.


Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. Chapter One. Amazing Grace. The Mercedes-Benz. Brand Today. Chapter Two. Myths and Realities. Chapter Three. What is a Brand? Chapter Four. The Benz Brand. Chapter Five. The Birth Of Mercedes. Chapter Six. Mercedes and Benz. A Marriage of Convenience. Chapter Seven. Against the Odds. Chapter Eight. Into the Crisis. Chapter Nine. The Fork in the Road. Chapter Ten. Enduring Passion. Chapter Eleven. 'Die Zukunft Der Marke' (The Future of the Brand). Key Brand Events. Principal Interviewees. Model Ranges: 1992 And 2005. Notes. Photo Credits. Bibliography. Index.


Dry ozanation of steroids on silica gives ring-D oxidized products, including isomeric ozonides, which confirm the postulated mechanism of saturated C–C bond cleavage.


Combined with buildings standard measurement work in Hangzhou, the meaning,characteristics,references,content and method of urban standard management building completion measurement were explained.The working flow of building completion measurement in Hangzhou and examination process of specific completion rechecks report were introduced with examples.


Classical logic cannot be used to effectively reason about concurrent systems with inconsistencies (inconsistencies often occur, especially in the early stage of the development, when large and complex concurrent systems are developed). In this paper, we propose the use of a guasi-classical temporal logic (QCTL) for supporting the verification of temporal properties of such systems even where the consistent model is not available. Our models are paraKripke structures (extended standard Kripke structures), in which both a formula and its negation are satisfied in a same state, and properties to be verified are expressed by QCTL with paraKripke structures semantics. We introduce a novel notion of paraKripke models, which grasps the paraconsistent character of the entailment relation of QCTL. Furthermore, we explore the methodology of model checking over QCTL, and describe the detailed algorithm of implementing QCTL model checker. In the sequel, a simple example is presented, showing how to exploit the proposed model checking technique to verify the temporal properties of inconsistent concurrent systems.


Recently an executive asked one of us to help him "install a new culture" in his company. He spoke about needed changes as though one could go to a culture cafeteria and pick the particular elements and amounts desired; for example,"go heavy on the 'bias toward action' but easy on the 'close to the customer' stuff." Not many executives believe that deep and enduring aspects of an organization can be replaced with such ease. However, the time frames executives consider when attempting to implement bold new strategies-to downsize, to increase quality dramatically, or to reduce costs-suggest that many are either not clear about the difficulties involved or choose to ignore certain, key principles of change. Indeed, we argue that executives often take for granted the current skills of their organizations and are much too ready to change them. Perhaps an example or two of some recent major change efforts will help clarify our concerns and set the stage for our suggestions.


One of the common problems faced by visually challenged people is their inability to travel alone in public transport services like bus. They have to depend on others to identify the bus at the bus stops. This scenario should be changed. It's the role of engineers to bring the change in the lives of visually challenged people. A low cost bus alert system for visually challenged people using Radio Frequency (RF) technology is proposed in this paper. Once the appropriate bus arrives near the visually challenged person, he/she will be intimated about the arrival of the bus by an audio message. If the blind person decides to board the bus he can acknowledge the driver by pressing the acknowledgement button in his module. The bus driver will get acknowledged by LED indicator near his cabin. With the help of this project visually challenged commuters can transit without the aid of fellow commuters and their need to depend on others for public transport transit can be reduced


Real-life parables illustrate practical communication tools that can be used by both caregivers and the recipients of that care. This is a companion volume to The Weeping Willow: Encounters with Grief (OUP, 2007), and it presents more complex encounters and nuanced emotions, based upon additional years of experience. Each chapter contains a vignette, with teaching notes frequently embedded in the story as "aside" comments. They also contain "Notes to the Practitioner" and conclusions. The Notes section specifically address preparedness for common end-of-life situations with professional directives, but most of the book teaches by examples gleaned from hands-on counseling experience.


Acoustic Emission (AE) is widely used for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems. It is a passive technique with the potential to detect an AE event even if its location is not known a priori. Assessing the correct wave group velocity is fundamental for the performance of localization algorithms based on Lamb waves propagation and can be useful for the setup of numerical models. AE events were generated performing Hsu-Nielsen Pencil-Lead Breaks (PLB) tests, a repeatable emission which can be applied at different regions of the structure. This study focuses on the development of a methodology to calibrate a localization algorithm posing particular attention in the symmetric fundamental mode group velocity estimation. The work was performed as a part of six months research period carried out at Clarkson University, NY, USA.


In this article, we study the equation −Gαu +∇Gw · ∇Gu = ‖x‖s|u|p−1u, x = (x, y) ∈ R = R1 × R2 , where Gα (resp., ∇G) is Grushin operator (resp. Grushin gradient), p > 1 and s ≥ 0. The scalar function w satisfies a decay condition, and ‖x‖ is the norm corresponding to the Grushin distance. Based on the approach by Farina [8], we establish a Liouville type theorem for the class of stable sign-changing weak solutions. In particular, we show that the nonexistence result for stable positive classical solutions in [4] is still valid for the above equation.


A 25-year-old woman with a history of cerebral palsy, developmental disability and corpus callosotomy for tonic-clonic seizures was brought to hospital with a two-day history of progressively worsening nausea and abdominal pain. She was being fed via a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube


Eighty patients were operated upon for arteriosclerosis of the lower limb and peroperative measurements of flow and pressure were performed. The patients were examined for oedema of the foot and leg postoperatively and were also screened for deep-vein thrombosis. Twenty-two patients were found to develop oedema after arterial reconstruction. Two of these had deep-vein thrombosis. The oedema group had significantly higher pre-operative pressure gradients than the rest of the patients and also had significantly higher blood flow after reconstruction. Changes of the vascular wall due to the lowered pressure distal to the arteriosclerosis is thought to be the cause of the hyperaemia and oedema after arterial reconstruction, as the vascular wall is damaged by the sudden rise in distal pressure after reconstruction.


Mechanical harvesting of peat changes the original mire ecosystem completely, and without active measures these areas may remain non-vegetated even for decades. Afforestation is one of the most popular after-use options for cut-away peatlands in Finland since it has both economic and aesthetic values. Recycling of wood-ash as a fertilizer has been studied extensively in peatlands drained for forestry. Wood-ash is reported to promote tree growth in these areas without any significant negative impact to the environment and could, therefore, be a suitable option also on cut-away peatlands. However, the environmental effects of ash-fertilization on cut-away areas and on ground vegetation are not fully understood. The impact of woodand peat-ash application on the early establishment of ground vegetation and downy birch (Betula pubescens) seedlings and on post-fertilization element concentrations in plants and peat substrate were studied in a cut-away peatland. Six treatments of wood-ash, peatash, biotite or Forest PK-fertilizer were replicated in three blocks in different mixtures and quantities corresponding to 50 kg ha-1 of phosphorus. All the fertilizers accelerated the revegetation of the bare peat surface significantly, whereas the establishment of plants in the unfertilized area was non-existent even several years after the peat harvesting had ceased. The most striking difference between the woodand peat-ashfertilizers and the commercial Forest PK-fertilizer was the extensive coverage of fire-loving moss species in all the areas where ash was spread. Woodand peat-ash application also accelerated the germination and early establishment of downy birch seedlings more efficiently than the PKfertilizer. Ground vegetation proved to be highly important in increasing the early biomass production and carbon sequestration on ash-fertilized cut-away peatland. In addition, the belowground biomass was equal to the above-ground biomass, or even greater. Both woodand peat-ash fertilization ensured an adequate level of nutrients for the early establishment of ground vegetation and birch seedlings in a cut-away peatland. The mosses and herbaceous plants proved to have a major role in retaining the nutrients and heavy metals that otherwise might have leached away from the ash-fertilized cut-away site during the early stages of the afforestation. Although both woodand peat-ash proved to be suitable for the initial fertilization of afforested cut-away peatlands, a later application of nutrients may be needed to guarantee the growth in a energy-wood stand of downy birch over its entire rotation.


Purpose:The aim of this study was to describe and analyze how reablement, an intervention emphasizing autonomy, was implemented in long-term care facilities in Taiwan and identified residents' outcomes and factors that affect them. Research Design and Methods:One-group pretest-potest design and nonparticipant observation were adopted in 24 long-term care facilities in this study. participants were those residents aged 65 and over, meeting at least one of the conditions of being constrained, using diapers, or bedridden. During the 6 months follow-up period, their physical and mental function, social support were measured using ADLs, IADLs, MMSE, GDS-15, EQ-5D and ISSI at baseline (T0) and 6 months (T1). There are also intervention notes for recording the plans caregivers giving to participants. In data analyses, the mean difference and GEE were analyzed to determine the effects of intervention and outcome variables, while controlling potential confounding by demographic variables. Results:The sample was 59.4% female, with a mean age of 81.4. Most of the participants had good family support. The improvement of residents' outcomes was found, such as ADLs, IADLs, GDS-15, EQ-5D and ISSI were statically significant at the 6 months. Conclusions:The positive effect of reablement in resident outcomes were significant in physical function and social support, and it helps also maintain mental function. Given that there were no control group in this study, the evident effect could be small, but take human right in consider, this could be just the right thing to do in long-term care facilities.


This paper deals with a new scheme of distributed classifier based on a particular formal neuron named "yprel". The main characteristics of the proposed approach are: (i) a classifier is a set of interconnected and cooperating networks, (ii) the distributed resolution strategy emerges from the individual network classification behaviors during the incremental building phase of the classifier; (iii) each neuron is able to come to classification decisions about some elements and to communicate them; (iv) the network architectures and the interconnexion links between the networks are not a priori chosen, but get themselves organized thanks to an incremental and competitive learning between the decision-making neurons.


The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on air transport in various parts of the world. The impact of the pandemic has been and still is significant within the Member States of the European Union. The introduction focused on identifying and monitoring the pandemic spread in the individual Member States. The research focused on two periods that were compared with each other based on key indicators, i.e., reproduction rate, hospitalized patients, or ICU patients. Identification and monitoring of the above-mentioned periods were performed by an observational study of collected data mentioned below. Subsequently, an algorithm was proposed, which was to determine an index number of a given country based on key indicators mentioned earlier. The index number is an assessment of the pandemic situation in a given country. The index number calculation in the monitored periods divided the countries into two groups: countries with the index number higher than one and countries with the index number lower than one. The latter can continue using air transport by pandemic situation assessment conducted by the algorithm. The air transport utilization rate depends on the second part of the algorithm, where the allowed number of routes is calculated for individual airlines. The use of an algorithm for calculating the index number of individual countries and at the same time monitoring the development of key indicators every 14 days is a suitable method for ensuring the sustainable use of air transport to minimize financial losses.


Homogeneous gold catalysis emerged as a powerful tool in organic chemistry, offering new perspectives for the synthesis of natural products. In this Doctoral Thesis, I present the application of the cycloisomerization of substituted alkynes with vinylcyclopropanes towards the synthesis of Repraesentin F. As an extension of this methodology, I studied the cycloisomerization of allenes with vinylcyclopropanes aim at constructing the carbon skeleton of several sesquiterpinoids belonging to the protoilludane family. In addition to these projects, I revisited the cycloisomerization of 1,6-enynes that does not proceed by 1,5-migration of alkoxy group at the propargylic position. The mechanism of this reaction was studied by deuteration of the alkyne terminus y appeared to be an endo-type single cleavage rearrangement.


[2.1] In doing practice-work,1 the foremost essential is to have a rock-hard [resolve] to smash the mind of birth-death; to see right through your body-and-mind-in-the-world—which is entirely a set of nominal conditions, with no real agent. If you do not clarify your innate great principle, then the mind of birth-death will never be smashed. Furthermore, when the mind of birth-death has not been smashed, the killer demon of impermanence from thought-moment to thought-moment will be unceasing. But how do you go about thrusting all this aside? Just take this ...


The presented work is devoted to the study of the practice of using computer games as a tool of the memory policy. The relevance of this study determines both the growth of the importance of video games as a means of forming ideas about the events of the past, and a low degree of study of this topic. As the goal of the author's research, the research is to identify the prospects for using computer games as an instrument for implementing the memory policy within the framework of the case of the events of the Great Patriotic War. The empirical base of the work was formed due to the generalization of the content of such video games as "Call of Duty 1", "Call of Duty 14: WWII", "Company of Heroes 2" and "Commandos 3: Destination Berlin". The methodological base of the research is formed due to the involvement of elements of descriptive political analysis, the theory of operant conditioning B.F. Skinner and the concept of social identity H. Tajfel and J. Turner. The author comes to the conclusion that familiarization of users with the designated games contributes to the consolidation in the minds of users of negative stereotypes regarding the participation of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War. The process of integration of negative images is carried out using the methods of operant conditioning. The integration of the system of negative images into the mass consciousness of the inhabitants of the post-Soviet space makes it difficult to preserve the remnants of Soviet political symbols and elements constructed on their basis identity. The author puts forward the hypothesis that in the case of complete desovietization of the public policy space in the states that emerged as a result of the collapse of the USSR, the task of revising the history of the Great Patriotic War will be greatly facilitated, and with the subsequent departure from the life of the last eyewitnesses of the relevant events, achieving this goal will be only a matter of time. Presumably, these risks can be eliminated by harmonious integration of the legacy of the Soviet political and historical myth into the model of the memory policy developed in Russia and other post-Soviet states.


The painting depicts a group of merry people, a sleeping child, a man and a woman with binoculars, a man sharing his reading material, a woman gazing out of the window, on a train. The costumes, hats, and furniture are fanciful and colorful.


The invention relates to a device for holding at least one substrate for use in a process chamber of a CVD or PVD reactor, having a flat upper surface on which there is at least one storage bin (2) for the at least one substrate (3), wherein one of the outline contour of the substrate (3) corresponding outline contour line (7) of Positionierflanken (5, 5 ') for the position-fixing system in each case a portion of a rim (8) of the substrate (3) is flanked and surrounded by of one of the outline contour line (7) storage bin bottom surface (14) of the storage bin (2) protruding support projections (9), which have with respect to the storage bin bottom surface (14) raised contact surfaces (15) on which the substrate (3) can be placed. In order to improve the temperature uniformity of the surface temperature of the substrate, the invention proposes that the support projections (9) a recess (20) of the storage bin bottom surface (14) spring.


Despite the reputation and image of New Zealand as an environmentally progressive, "clean and green" land, it is a country that radically transformed itself from a social democratic welfare state to a society largely guided by neoliberal economic ideology. This paper examines the relationships between a set of environmental attitudes and a set of attitudes and beliefs reflecting neoliberalism. It draws on data from two New Zealand Study of Values Surveys, 1998 and 2004 (postal), as well as data from Australia, Japan and a selection of other countries from the mid 1990's round of the World Values Survey. Two general hypotheses are examined. The first involves an expectation that a substantial negative association should be evident between support for environmental values and neoliberal beliefs; a conventional expectation that progressive views in one sphere tend to be associated with progressive views in another. A second hypothesis suggests that there is likely to be little or no association (negative or positive) between progressive environmental views and support for the basic tenets of neoliberalism. A possible explanation is that neoliberal views have thoroughly permeated society, and are now largely taken as social 'givens'. The data examined indicates support for the second hypothesis. Introduction-The Environment New Zealand (Aotearoa) has a carefully cultivated international image. It presents itself as a "clean and green" land in a remote corner of the South Pacific, far removed from the polluted in──────────────────── 1. This paper constitutes a substantial revision and expansion of work presented at the XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane Australia, July 8, 2002 in RC 24, Session 1, Environmental attitudes and behaviour, "Market Fundamentalism and Environmental Values in Aotearoa (New Zealand)". 2. I wish to acknowledge Associate Professor Alan Webster, the primary founder of the New Zealand Study of Values, back in 1985, and my current partners in this enterprise: Associate Professor Philippa HowdenChapman of the University of Otago, and Professor Sally Casswell of the SHORE Centre, Massey University. The Otemon Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 31, pp. 159−191, 2005 159


Cloned human neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) were grown. High affinity binding of (/sup 3/H)(-)quinuclidinyl benzilate ((/sup 3/H)(-)QNB) and its quaternary derivative (/sup 3/H)(-)methyl QNB to muscarinic receptors (MR) on intact SH-SY5Y cells was studied. A 30 min rinse time gave a ratio of specific/total binding of 90% for both ligands. Association rates of (/sup 3/H)(-)QNB and (/sup 3/H)(-)methyl QNB were determined. Both ligands reached steady state by 60 min at 37/sup 0/C. Rates of dissociation for both radioligands were biphasic, although (/sup 3/H)(-)methyl QNB was faster. Saturation studies yielded K/sub d/ (dissociation constant) values of 16 and 260 pM and B/sub max/ (maximal MR density) values of 172 and 134 fmoles/mg prot for (/sup 3/H)(-)QNB and (/sup 3/H)(-)methyl QNB, respectively. Activation of protein kinase C by phorbol esters produced increased phosphorylation of cellular proteins. Pretreatment with 100 nM of 4..beta..-phorbol 12..beta..-myristate 13..cap alpha..-acetate (PMA) induced a decrease in agonist affinity for MR, suggesting a PMA-promoted phosphorylation of the MR protein. Phosphoinositide (PhI) turnover was measured by MR agonist-induced accumulation of inositol-1-phosphate in the presence of Li/sup + +/ (10 mM). Only carbachol and acetylcholine elicited potent responses with oxotremorine (16%) pilocarpine (17%) and McN-A-343 (8%) appearing to be weak partial agonistmore » of low efficacy.« less


The article attempts to delimit the Zone of Demographic Influence (SWD) for the core city into surrounding areas. The proposed method of delimitation is presented on the example of former voivodeship cities, which currently experience large population losses. There is a scientific discussion whether the negative impact of these negative changes is the loss of a significant administrative function of the voivodeship capital. Determining the extent of the city's impact zone as a supra-regional center may verify the thesis of unfavorable demographic change when the entire complex of city and surrounding gminas is analyzed. The processes of suburbanisation, which are still very strong in Polish reality, should determine population analysis across administrative borders. The delimitation of these zones was based on two indicators recommended by the Ministry of Development to designate functional areas 1) commute to work and 2) check in municipalities surrounding the core city. The result is a delimitation to the SWD of 220 municipalities, including urban gminas – 8, urban and rural gminas – 35 and rural gminas – 177.


Long-distance quantum communication networks require appropriate interfaces between matter qubit-based nodes and low-loss photonic quantum channels. We implement a downconversion quantum interface, where the single photons emitted from a semiconductor quantum dot at 910 nm are downconverted to 1560 nm using a fiber-coupled periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide and a 2.2-µm pulsed pump laser. The single-photon character of the quantum dot emission is preserved during the downconversion process: we measure a cross-correlation g (2) (τ = 0) = 0.17 using resonant excitation of the quantum dot. We show that the downconversion interface is fully compatible with coherent optical control of the quantum dot electron spin through the observation of Rabi oscillations in the downconverted photon counts. These results represent a critical step towards a long-distance hybrid quantum network in which subsystems operating at different wavelengths are connected through quantum frequency conversion devices and 1.5-µm quantum channels. Wide-band quantum interface for visible-to-telecommunication wavelength conversion, " Nature Commun. Complete quantum control of a single quantum dot spin using ultrafast optical pulses, Picosecond coherent optical manipulation of a single electron spin in a quantum dot, Quantum transduction of telecommunications-band single photons from a quantum dot by frequency upconversion, " Nature Photon. Simultaneous wavelength translation and amplitude modulation of single photons from a quantum dot, " Phys. Efficient conversion between photons and between photon and atom by stimulated emission, " Phys. Highly efficient single-photon detection at communication wavelengths by use of upconversion in reverse-proton-exchanged periodically poled LiNbO 3 waveguides, " Opt.pumped upconversion single-photon detector at 1550 nm: performance and noise analysis, " Opt. Influence of domain disorder on parametric noise in quasi-phase-matched quantum frequency converters, " Opt. Efficient frequency downconversion at the single photon level from the red spectral range to the telecommunications c-band, " Opt. Interference of single photons from two separate semiconductor quantum dots, " Phys. Two-photon interference of the emission from electrically tunable remote quantum dots, " Nature Photon. 4, 632–635 (2010). distribution over a 40-dB channel loss using superconducting single-photon detectors, " Nature Photon. 1, 343– 348 (2007). Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit, " 1.5-µm-band wavelength conversion based on difference-frequency generation in LiNbO 3 waveguides with integrated coupling structures, " Opt. Enhanced telecom wavelength single-photon detection with NbTiN superconducting nanowires on oxidized silicon, " Appl. Visible-to-telecom quantum frequency conversion of light from a single quantum emitter, " Phys. Two-photon interference using background-free quantum frequency …


Cancer patients often suffer from a multitude of physical and mental health impairments, resulting in a compromised quality of life. This review investigates how mind-body interventions have a direct impact on the physiology of cancer patients.


The dielectric properties of interaction site models of polar fluids may be investigated in a computer experiment using not only the charge fluctuations but also correlations corresponding to a current of moving charges. This current may be associated with a generalized dynamical polarization or separated into electric and magnetic components. The first approach deals with the dielectric permittivity related to a generalized conductivity, whereas the second leads to the functions describing polarization and magnetization fluctuations separately. The latter functions are only the source for calculating the magnetic susceptibility for a system of interaction sites. The transverse wavevector dependent and frequency dependent dielectric functions and magnetic susceptibility are evaluated for the TIP4P water model over a very wide scale of wavelengths and frequencies using molecular dynamics simulations. The transverse part of the dielectric functions may differ drastically from their longitudinal component. A...


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The topic of this Master thesis is an in-depth research study on a specific type of network systems known as hub-and-spoke networks. In particular, we study q-Hub Arc Location Problems that consist, at a strategical level, of selecting q hub arcs and at most p hub nodes, and of the routing of commodities through the so called hub level network. We propose strong formulations to two variants of the problem, namely the q-hub arc location problem and the $q$-hub arc location problem with isolated hub nodes. We present a Lagrangian relaxation that exploits the structure of these problems by decomposing them into |K|+2 independent easy-to-solve subproblems and develop Lagrangian heuristics that yield high quality feasible solutions to both models. We, further, provide some insights on the structure of the optimal solutions to both models and investigate the cost benefit of incomplete hub networks with and without isolated hub nodes. Finally, computational results on a set of benchmark instances with up to 100 nodes are reported to assess the performance of the proposed MIP formulations and of our algorithmic approach.


Source camera identification (SCI) technology has attracted increasing attentions over the past few years. However, the existing methods suppress image content with denoising filters that are largely agnostic to the specific sensor pattern noise (SPN) signal of interest. Such practices may potentially degrade the performance of SPN-based SCI due to un-reliable SPNs, especially when forensic images are transmitted through social networking platforms. In this paper, we address the problem of SPN-based device identification and propose a multi-scale feature fusion network (MSFFN) to boost the sensor-based source camera identification attribution. Specifically, several image patches of different scales are selected and input into the MSFFN to extract the SPN. The MSFFN is a multi-scale encoder-decoder structure, which is used to suppress image content and improve source attribution. Subsequently, the content-independent SPN features of different scales are fused. At last, the fused features are used for image source identification. Experimental results compared with the state-of-the-art demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves significant improvements, especially in the accuracy of social networking image source identification.


This paper presents a modelling approach to characterise private car shopping trips in a city logistics point of view, in order to connect these movements with those belonging to urban freight distribution in the supply chain. The proposed modelling framework is a two-step procedure articulated as follows. First, an attraction model estimates the number of private car shopping trips arriving to each section of a given urban area. Second, a catchment area model relates the shopping trip destinations with the household locations. The model is calibrated using the data of both a database of the commercial activities and the recent household trip survey made in 2006 in Lyon urban area (France). We present the main results issued of the various simulations as well as several application examples and proposals, most of them made in a public policy perspective.


This article analyzes the historic preservation of B Reactor, the world's first nuclear reactor, constructed for the Manhattan Project and located at Hanford, Washington. As the facility that produced the plutonium for the first Trinity test in central New Mexico and for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, the remnant building potentially offers a device for critically exploring momentous topics. These include the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the inception of the American "military-industrial complex," Cold War foreign relations, the development of the antibomb movements, the environmental and public health effects of nuclear waste, and the role of nuclear weapons in contemporary times. However, B Reactor has been presented only in narrow technical terms since its recent opening for public tours. The article explores how the geographical properties of the site could be turned toward a more properly contextual and meaningful interpretation.


We reviewed three-phase bone scans of the limbs of 7 patients suffering from limb pain suggestive of occupational repetitive strain injury (RSI) and compared them with 13 patients with limb pain due to various aetiologies. Doppler ultrasound measurement of blood flow had been performed in 13 of the 20 patients. The bone scan results showed increased blood flow and pooling (second phase) in the affected limbs of patients with RSI as compared to those with algodystrophy or non-specific limb pain (sensitivity 86%, specificity 85%). Doppler ultrasound also demonstrated increased blood flow to the affected limbs (sensitivity 83%) but failed to differentiate between the different aetiologies of pain (specificity 14%). We conclude that the blood-pool phase of three-phase bone scans can play a potential role in screening RSI patients.


Objective To develop a simple and effective method for isolating and purifying rat pancreatic islet and to assess the biological function of the purified islets in vitro and in vivo. Methods After intraductular injection with Hanks solution, the rat pancreas was subjectal to stationary digestion for 25 to 30 min at 38℃ in Hanks solution containing 1 mg/ml collagenase V, and was cultured for 1 to 2 d at 24℃ in RMPI-1640 media supplemental with 10% fetal calf serum until most of the islets were completely isolated from the extrocrine parts of the pancreas. Purification of the isolated islets was performed by Ficoll-400 discontinuous density gradient and the islets were heterografted into the renal capsule of 6 streptozotocin-induce diabetic BALB/C mice. Result After Ficoll-400 gradients, about 920 to 1 230 islets were obtained in 1 rat pancreas, with an average purity over 98%. The islets were morphologically intact and responded to glucose stimulation with about l.2 folds (P0.01) increase of insulin secretion over basal level. The high blood glucose level in the recipients were decreased to normal within 2 d, which lasted for an average of (8.7±1.6) d. Conclusion Isolation of the islets after culture is relatively simple and effective with high output and functional integrity, and with less collagenase consumption.


This study is to investigate the stone contamination degree by sealants on the joint of building stone work among other contaminations occurring in the stone building and to devise a countermeasure for reducing stone-contamination. For this purpose, after producing experimental specimens, tests were performed to analyze the stone contamination degree by sealants according to the kinds of granite and sealants and surface treatment of the joint.
As a result of this study, the contamination shows wide differences depending on the kinds of granite, sealants, and surface treatment of the joint. Especially, it is the most effective to apply fitting primer on the joint-surface of the stone in terms of preventing plastic ingredients, which are the main cause of contamination, from being absorbed into the stone structure.


Abstract Both CrN/NbN and CrN coatings have been deposited by physical vapour deposition on a substrate constituted by two different tool steels; the process temperature was lower than the substrate annealing temperature. Tribological performances of the different coatings have been evaluated and compared under the same dry sliding conditions. The results pointed out that CrN/NbN coatings, when deposited on selected substrates, have clearly superior characteristics and well meet the demanding requirements to increase hardness and wear resistance of dies and forging tools. The results highlighted also that coating properties strongly depend on the substrate structure and composition.


Florida's Watery Realms represents a remarkable scholarly effort to draw attention to the degree of significance that waterlogged deposits containing wooden artifacts, cordage, and other organic ma...


Purpose:  To determine the predisposing risk factors and analyse the clinical and microbiological profiles of microbial keratitis following corneal transplantation.


: The globalization of criminal law refers to the multiple extension and developments of different countries' criminal laws to the absorption of other countries' criminal laws. Based on the perspective of big data in the information age, this model is basically feasible. Criminal law is a legal form that mainly stipulates crime and criminal responsibility. There is a necessary connection between criminal responsibility and specific criminal behavior. Therefore, in criminal law legislation, whether the punishment of criminal behavior is reasonable and appropriate is particularly important. This article mainly discusses the globalization of criminal law legislation from the perspective of big data for reference.


Objective:Express the recombinant human FGFR1 in order to screen the FGFs.Methods:A cDNA fragment encoding human fibroblast growth factor receptor 1(FGFR1) was isolated by RT PCR from human lung fibroblasts,and then cloned into pCR TM II plasmid and pFastBac1 donor plasmid.Through transposition,recombinant bacmid FGFR1 DNA was formed and was then transfected into Sf9 insect cells to produce recombinant Baculovirus.Sf9 insect cell were infected with recombinant Baculovirus.The harvested culture supernatant was subjected to Western Blot and ELISA analysis.Results:The size of FGFR1 cDNA fragment is 2 100 bp.The MW of expressed recombinant FGFR1 was 78 kD.ELISA showed that human recombinant FGFR1 was expressed on the membrane of insect cell Sf9.Conclusion:The recombinant human FGFR1 can be expressed on the membrane of insect cell Sf9 effectively.


Syndromes affecting the periodontium are not very common; hence they are missed on routine clinical diagnosis. The knowledge of these syndromes is essential as they can influence the prognosis and management of periodontal disease. The aim of this review is to address how syndromes affecting the systemic health of an individual can also affect the periodontal health.


This paper explores the concept of intergenerational exchange as a vehicle for community building in Australia. Drawing on document analysis, focus groups, and in-depth study of four intergenerational programs, the research examines the benefits and constraints of intergenerational exchange and the relationship between intergenerational programs and their potential to foster resilience, enhance social connection, and build individual and community capacity. Findings reveal that in intended and unanticipated ways, young and older Australians benefit from intergenerational exchange. The multidimensional nature of intergenerational exchange promotes broad social networks and a means for developing substantive relationships between the young and other community members.


This paper investigates the importance of considering biomass growth and decay for predicting a field scale microbial degradation of BTEX plume in an unconfined aquifer system in the Pump station area of Tehran oil refinery (TOR), Iran. A two-dimensional finite volume model has been presented to predict multi-species reactive transport incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes in the saturated zone of the aquifer. A multi-purpose commercial software called PHOENICS was modified to solve model equations. A complex Monod approach considering microbial growth and decay employed to describe the biodegradation of BTEX. The results of Monod approach was compared to those results obtained by three kinetics models including zero-order, first-order and Michaelis-Menten expressions that do not support biomass growth and decay. Monod approach predicted a further spreading of the plume. Other kinitics models underestimated the concentrations of BTEX plume, due to neglecting a high bacterial population and increased uptake rate. They are not appropriate to simulate tansport of biodegradable BTEX in the study aquifer. The model predictions agree well with the field measurements with an average error of 5%; describing that the Monod kinetics was well able to simulate the behaviour of the BTEX plume due to supporting bacterial population and considering oxygen as the electron acceptor.


We present the search for Lorentz violation in the double beta decay of Se82 with CUPID-0, using an exposure of 9.95  kg×yr. We found no evidence for the searched signal and set a limit on the isotropic components of the Lorentz violating coefficient of a∘of(3)<4.1×10-6  GeV (90% credible interval). This results is obtained with a Bayesian analysis of the experimental data and fully includes the systematic uncertainties of the model. This is the first limit on a∘of(3) obtained with a scintillating bolometer, showing the potentiality of this technique.


Introduction: This study aimed to assess the effects of 4-week postural corrective exercise program on forward head posture in college-aged females. Materials and Methods: This is a randomized controlled study. Twenty-one female students with craniovertebral angle measured less than or equal to 50 degrees were selected and randomly assigned to intervention (n=12) or control (n=9) group. Intervention group performed forward head posture corrective exercises in the form of stretching and strengthening exercises. The craniovertebral angle, active neck flexion range of motion and strength of lower and middle trapezius were measured before and after 4 weeks exercise program. Results: After four weeks, significant increases were observed in the intervention group regarding the means of craniovertebral angle (P=0.0001), active neck flexion range of motion (P=0.04) and lower trapezius strength (P=0.03), while the mean strength of middle trapezius had not changed significantly (P>0.05). Conclusion: Four week intervention protocol successfully improved postural alignment related to forward head posture. Thus, corrective exercise program for 4 weeks is effective to decrease forward head posture.


The cracking problem of high abutment is important in highway construction. Four U-shaped abutment models are built with clay bricks for the contrast study of failure mechanism. There are three models with different structural stiffeners and one is the model of common abutment. When these abutment models are loaded by filling with soil and applying vertically external forces on the surface of the filled soil,the horizontal displacements of the front wall and side wall of the models are measured by dial indicators. Through the contrast analysis of measured displacement and 3D numerical results for four models,a very obvious effect caused by the stiffeners in the abutment model is obtained. The crack loads of the abutment structure with the stiffeners will be improved obviously than the common abutment. If the inside chamfer of the abutment and U-shaped stiffeners are all adopted in an abutment model,the crack loads will be improved more than one time.


This paper presents a detailed characterization of the effects of intra-gate resistive open defects on nanoscaled CMOS gates as causing faults with timing and pattern sequence dependency. The values of the least detectable resistance are established for different feature sizes using HSPICE. It is found that as the feature size is reduced, the value of the least detectable resistance increases in the presence of a fault resulting in a delay of less than one nanosecond. The use of a low voltage testing technique is investigated for the detection of these faults. Finally, an analytical model that takes into account the gate current is proposed, this model considers the pronounced effect of the gate current at a decreasing feature size, while incurring in a small error compared with simulation results.


Well-developed, fully dense and fine-grained MgO-(Ba0.6Sr0.4)TiO3 with 40 wt% MgO content (denoted as BST-MgO) bulk ceramics were fabricated by high-energy ball mechanochemical technique with a hybrid processing. Using this technique, the fabrication temperature was 1200 o C i.e. 200 o C lower than that required by conventional solid-state process. At the same time, dense, homogeneous and crack-free ceramicceramic 0-3 nanocomposite BST-MgO thick film was obtained at 700 o C by using spincoating. At 10 kHz and room temperature, the BST-MgO bulk ceramics exhibited a moderate dielectric constant of about 500 and low loss tangent of less than 0.005; while for the nanocomposite thick films, the dielectric constant and loss tangent were about 140 and less than 0.03 (at 100 kHz) respectively. In addition, both the bulk and thick film ceramics show a broad and diffused phase transition. The dielectric room-temperature tunabilities measured at 100 kHz were found as 4% at 1.5 kV/mm for the bulk ceramic, and 17 % at 10 kV/mm for nanocomposite thick film.


This study examines performative social relations, specifically the role of hegemonic masculinity in shaping gendered space. First, by drawing on personal experiences and qualitative data from my research in São Paulo, Brazil, I examine the most salient aspects of hegemonic masculinity in the lives of female recyclers. Second, I suggest that masculine domination is not simply something established by men which aims to oppress women, but hegemonic masculinities can be (re)produced by women. I affirm this notion by exploring the ways in which hegemonic masculinity and common perceptions of social roles, abilities, and inabilities are discursively (re)produced by female recyclers. In particular, I argue that exploring the subordinate position of women is a productive means to gain a deeper understanding of hegemonic masculinity, while also, the concept of hegemonic masculinity is an effective tool for understanding the subordinate role of women. My experiences with the recyclers provide a context through which the fluid, complex, and dynamic nature of hegemonic masculinity can be further revealed.


A method for capturing images from a camera (12) of a portable device (11) of an audiovisual display (13) in which plays multimedia content of interest to a user portable device (11); It comprising the steps of capturing, by at least one chamber (12), at least one source (14) of the audiovisual display image (13); storage, in a first repository portable device (11), the plurality of source images (14); transmission through a first interface of bidirectional communication, the source (14) images to an application server; receiving, via a second bidirectional communication interface included in the application server, the source (14) images; sending the received images to a processor unit connectable to a second repository, which stores a set of multimedia contents where each stored media content is associated at least one complementary multimedia content; conducting a search of coincidence, by the processing unit among the set of images received and stored multimedia content in the second repository; It provides a link to a complementary multimedia content to the stored multimedia content through the processing unit, if the result of the search procedure is affirmative; transmission provided from the second communications interface to the first interface communication link; and providing the link to the user portable device (11) for viewing.


Past work on the subject of cutting with a blunt tool has focused mostly on the effect of deformation of the work material and on the process forces. A number of investigators have shown that in orthogonal machining, when the uncut chip thickness approaches the size of the edge radius, size-effect like phenomena greatly influence the forces and sub-layer deformation of the workpiece. However, in terms of visual evidence of how the material deforms in the vicinity of the cutting edge, their work is only loosely supported. In this paper, we describe the apparatus used in a high-magnification experimental study of blunt-edged cutting, wherein real-time observation of deformation near the cutting edge is possible with simultaneous force measurement. Preliminary results for the machining of zinc are reported for a range of uncut chip thicknesses chosen such that its ratio to edge radius varies between 0.5 and 35. The upper-bound plasticity model of Manjunathiah and Endres (2000a) is used to analyze the data in terms of steady-state stress, strain and strain-rate for the process. For the case of cartridge brass, a stable dead metal cap is noted to form on the edge radius. Proposed modeling directions are briefly discussed.


............................................................................................................................. vii Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. ix Dedication ............................................................................................................................. x List of tables ........................................................................................................................ xi List of diagrams ................................................................................................................. xii List of Appendices ............................................................................................................ xiii Glossary of Terms ............................................................................................................. xiv Chapter 1: Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1: Background ................................................................................................................... 1 1.2: Rationale ....................................................................................................................... 2 1.3: Significance of the Study ............................................................................................. 5 1.4: Scope of Research ......................................................................................................... 7 1.5: Provision ........................................................................................................................ 9 1.5.1: Prevalence ................................................................................................................ 11 1.6: Research Questions .................................................................................................... 12 1.7: Aims of Study .............................................................................................................. 13 1.8: Research Design and Methodology ........................................................................... 15 1.9: Inclusion: Policy and legislation ............................................................................... 16 1.9.1: International Inclusion Policy ................................................................................ 16 1.9.2: Inclusion Policy: Irish Context............................................................................... 18 1.9.3: Legislative Influence .............................................................................................. 19 1.9.4: EPSEN ACT 2004: Significance and Implementation ......................................... 22 1.9.5: Influence of Parental Litigation ............................................................................. 25 1.10: Thesis Timeline ......................................................................................................... 26 1.11: Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 28 Chapter 2: Literature Review .......................................................................................... 30 2.1: Introduction: setting the terrain ............................................................................... 30 2.1.1: General public perspective and attitude in relation to inclusive education: Irish context ................................................................................................................................. 31


The preprojective algebra, defined by Gelfand and Ponomarev, is the algebraic precursor to the study of Nakajima quiver varieties, which are pervasive in geometric representation theory. Examples of such varieties include flag varieties (for the type A quivers) and the Hilbert schemes of points in the plane (for the Jordan quiver.) In this thesis, we take the algebra as the fundamental object of study. We produce interesting flat degenerations of the preprojective algebra, in the direction of Geiß, Leclerc, and Schröer following de Thanhoffer de Völcsey and Presotto. Additionally, we study a multiplicative analog of the preprojective algebra, and prove that a large class of such algebras are 2-Calabi-Yau.


One of the strategies for developing novel pharmaceutical drugs is to use natural sources such as plants for therapeutic treatment. Plant extracts are a cocktail of compounds which act synergically and can improve treatment effectiveness, reduce therapeutic duration and resistance. The ethanolic extracts of leaves and seeds of Cucurbita pepo ovifera var ovifera from Sudano-Guinean and Sudano-Sahelian zones of Cameroon were evaluated on the cattle parasite nematode Onchocerca ochengi. Worms were incubated with different concentrations of the plant extracts in RPMI-1640 supplemented with streptomycin and gentamicin. Mortality at 37°C was monitored after 24, 48 and 72 h. Ivermectin was used as positive control and DMSO as negative. Plant extracts Original Research Article Kalmobé et al.; BJPR, 17(2): 1-8, 2017; Article no.BJPR.33381 2 from the two ecological zones showed anthelminthic activities on O. ochengi after 72 h with LC50 varying from 20 to 1090 μg /mL. The highest antifilarial activity in Sudano-Guinean zone was obtained with leave extract of C. pepo ovifera (LC50 of 20 μg/mL), while highest antifilarial activity in Sudano-Sahelian zone was obtained with seed extracts of the plant with LC50 value of 17 μg/mL after 72 h. These results show that anthelmintic activity depends on the part of the plant and the ecological zones. Additionally, the plant is not toxic. These results on the ethanolic extracts of leaves and seeds of C. pepo ovifera var ovifera confirmed the use of this plant in traditional medicine in Cameroon to treat disease due to nematodes. The plants could be used as alternative anthelmintic to fight against Human and Bovine onchocerciasis.


The conceptual design of an Ocean Nutrient Enhancer (ONE) is described, which will be used for enriching new fisheries with nutrients. The design intends to identify the concept of a deep ocean water upwelling structure based on feasibility design studies of a structure that satisfies the principal requirements of upwelling flow rate and depth of sea. The feasibility studies lead to a structure concept that is composed of a submerged vessel equipped with power supply, pumps and a riser for deep ocean water, and the system is moored on seabed. The design of the system is evaluated from extensive aspects such as engineering reliability, operational and economical viewpoints.


of a Polypyrrole Insulating Layer to Construct a Textile-Based Organic Field Effect Transistor. FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe 2011, Vol. 19, No. 1 (84) pp. 78-83. 78 Possibility of the Application of Low Temperature Plasma for the Deposition of a Polypyrrole Insulating Layer to Construct a Textile-Based Organic Field Effect Transistor Izabella Krucińska, Wiesława Urbaniak-Domagala, Magdalena Skoneczna, *Piero Cosseddu, *Annalisa Bonfiglio


INTRODUCTION Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multi-organ systemic autoimmune disease characterized by autoantibody production to nuclear antigen resulting in inflammation and damage to numerous organs particularly kidneys. It appears in genetically prone individuals and is triggered by illdefined environmental factors. The deposition of autoantibodies occurs in vulnerable vascular beds frequently in skin, joints and renal glomeruli causing local inflammation and tissue destruction that may magnify the autoimmune response creating. Till date the complete understanding of SLE pathogenies is unclear. However, it is well known that dysregulation of B-and T-cell activation will lead to disruption in immune system, and this is considered a key role in SLE pathogenies. In addition, proinflammatory cytokines contribute to the pathogenesis of SLE. These include interleukin (IL)-1 1β, IL-6, IL-17 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and their levels may correlate with SLE activity. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is produced by T-helper 17 (Th17) cells and other immunological cells. IL17 consists of six protein members [IL-17A, IL17B, IL17-C, IL-17D, IL-17E , and IL-17F] of which IL-17A and IL-17F are responsible for the activity of Th17 cells in the induction of other cytokines and chemokines. 6,7 IL-17, is a pleiotropic pro-inflammatory cytokine that enhances T-cell priming and stimulates epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells to produce other multiple proinflammatory mediators such as TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6. -17 plays a critical role in innate and adaptive immune systems by promoting Original article


'Infinite Beauty', an art exhibit inspired by mathematics, was held at Utah Valley University in conjunction with the university's annual Math Week, 9–13 March 2009. The art andmathematics theme of the 2009 Math Week explored the unique beauty that can be found in, and created through, mathematics. As part of this theme, the week's events also included a ZOME construction (Figure 1), led by David Richter from Western Michigan University, Math Dance workshops offered by Erik Stern, professor of dance atWeber State University and a lecture, 'The Divine Proportion: How Mathematics Defined Beauty' given by UVU art professor, Bob DeWitt. The exhibit also featured work done by Daniel Fairbanks, Associate Dean of UVU's College of Science and Health, which illustrated the use of common proportions to classical sculpture. The art exhibit was on display for the entire month of March 2009, in the university library art gallery (Figure 2). The mathematical art on display included works from university students, as well as professional exhibits from 23 Utah artists and 7 artists from other states. Media included bronze, glass, plaster and wood sculpture, photography, pastel, oil, watercolour and mixed media (Figure 3). Some of the more widely recognized mathematical artists who participated in the exhibit included Robert Fathauer, Anna Campbell Bliss, Gary Greenfield, Vladimir Bulatov and George Hart. Except where otherwise cited, artist quotes accompanying descriptions in this article are taken from unpublished statements submitted with exhibit entries. It is not possible to discuss all of the pieces exhibited by the 30 artists who participated in this report, but images of all the works, as well as artist statements can be found at the exhibit archive web page: www.uvu.edu/ mathlab/mathweek/infinitebeauty.html. The work Altar of Apollo (2008; Figure 4) by Andrew Kosorok refers to the efforts made by Leonardo da Vinci and the Roman architect Vitruvius to solve a problem posed in a Greek legend. According to the legend, the citizens of Athens were suffering from a plague. They enquired of the oracle of Apollo in Delos as to how the gods could be appeased and the plague ended. The oracle responded that they must double the size of the altar of Apollo, a perfect cube. The Athenians built a new altar with sides twice the length of the original, and the plague increased. Further enquiry revealed that the gods wanted the altar doubled in volume, not side length. In Altar of Apollo, each of the cube faces of ascending size signify a doubled volume, and the sphere within the cube is half the volume of the cube itself. Although the Athenians were never able to solve this problem, the story inspired others to make important advancements in mathematics. Since the Renaissance, and perhaps earlier, artists and architects have employed the golden rectangle, ratio and spiral as tools to enable and improve art. In contemporary mathematical art, the golden ratio as well as the related Fibonacci sequence become the focus of art themselves. Douglas McKenna, a computer programmer and mathematical artist who founded 'Mathemaesthetics' in 1988, provided two such examples in his works Phiberspace (2007) and Golden Gnomon (2007; Figure 5). The latter is based on one of the non-periodic Ammann tilings, in which the ratios between the different lengths of the sides of the pieces are the golden ratio or its powers, thereby naturally generating representations of the Fibonacci numbers as well. Also related to the golden ratio are the positions of the spiralling rectangles in Phiberspace (Figure 6).


This paper introduces the connotation and features of the legal rules of original place names. It argues that the legal protection of original place names in our country exists deficiency and shortcomings, and raises the legislative suggestion that special law of original places names should be drawn up as soon as possible.


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In calculations of absorbed doses from radioactive patients, the activity distribution in such patients is generally assumed to be an unattenuated point source and the dose to exposed individuals at a given distance is therefore calculated using the inverse square law. In many nuclear medicine patients, the activity distribution is widely dispersed and does not simulate a point source. In these cases, a line-source model is proposed to more accurately reflect this extended activity distribution.

METHODS
Calculations of dose rate per unit activity were performed for a point source and for line sources of lengths of 20, 50, 70, 100, and 174 cm, and the ratios of line-source values to point-source values were calculated. In addition, radionuclide-independent conversion factors, to convert exposure rate constants to dose rates per unit activity, for these line-source lengths at various distances were determined.

RESULTS
The calculated values, substantiated by published data, indicate that the inverse square law approximation is not valid for a line source until a certain distance is reached, dependent on the length of the line source. For the 20-, 50-, 70-, 100-, and 174-cm line sources, the dose rate values estimated by the inverse square law approximation are within approximately 10% of the values estimated using the line-source approach at distances of 20, 45, 60, 85, and 145 cm, respectively. At closer distances, use of the point-source model for a patient with an extended activity distribution will overestimate the radiation absorbed dose to exposed individuals, sometimes by a very significant amount.

CONCLUSION
The line-source model is a more realistic and practical approach than the traditional point-source model for determining the dose to individuals exposed to radioactive patients with widespread activity distributions.


We report recent results on the development of an optical frequency standard based on the quadrupole transition in a single 171Yb+ ion. The probe laser frequency is simultaneously stabilised to the transmission peak of a Fabry – Perot reference cavity and the central resonance of the quadrupole transition of the ion with a linewidth of 30 Hz. With the experimentally obtained spectral characteristics of the probe laser and optical reference, a daily frequency stability on the order of 10−17 is demonstrated for the 171Yb+ standard.


Mathematical modelling of biological population dynamics often involves proposing high fidelity discrete agent-based models that capture stochasticity and individual-level processes. These models are often considered in conjunction with an approximate coarse-grained differential equation that captures population-level features only. These coarse-grained models are only accurate in certain asymptotic parameter regimes, such as enforcing that the time scale of individual motility far exceeds the time scale of birth/death processes. When these coarse-grained models are accurate, the discrete model still abides by conservation laws at the microscopic level, which implies that there is some macroscopic conservation law that can describe the macroscopic dynamics. In this work, we introduce an equation learning framework to find accurate coarse-grained models when standard continuum limit approaches are inaccurate. We demonstrate our approach using a discrete mechanical model of epithelial tissues, considering a series of four case studies that illustrate how we can learn macroscopic equations describing mechanical relaxation, cell proliferation, and the equation governing the dynamics of the free boundary of the tissue. While our presentation focuses on this biological application, our approach is more broadly applicable across a range of scenarios where discrete models are approximated by approximate continuum-limit descriptions. All code and data to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/DanielVandH/StepwiseEQL.jl.


Deep Learning (DL) requires a massive, labeled dataset for supervised semantic segmentation. Getting massive labeled data under a new setting (target domain) to perform semantic segmentation requires huge efforts in time and resources. One possible solution is domain adaptation (DA) where researchers transform the data distribution of existent annotated public data (source domain) to resemble the target domain. We develop a model on this transformed data. Nevertheless, this poses the questions of what source domain/s to utilize, and what types of transformation to perform on that domain/s. In this research work, we study those answers by benchmarking different data transformation approaches on source-only and single-source domain adaptation setups. We provide a new well-suited dataset using unmanned ground vehicle Husarion ROSbot 2.0 to analyze and demonstrate the relative performance of different DA approaches.


The concept of people-centred management plays an important role in the management of college students. This paper discusses the concept, characteristics and principles of the people-centred management concept, analyses the problems existing in the management of college students, and puts forward the practical strategies of college students' management based on the people-centred management concept, including the establishment of a good communication mechanism, the stimulation of students' autonomy and creativity, and the attention to students' mental health. These practical strategies help to enhance the effectiveness of college student management and promote the overall development and growth of students.


Free-market capitalism creates great wealth but is disempowering and produces widespread poverty, inequality, and human despair; it generates economic insecurity for the masses. A main reason for this is that free market capitalism operates from an exogenous perspective; it is guided by marginal utility and marginal productivity. What we need is capitalism that integrates endogenous and exogenous processes. This approach focuses on building creativity, innovativeness, and ingenuity in how people use resources to make a living. In this paper, I draw on what is happening in the Zowe community development program in northern Malawi where we have started what I have termed community entrepreneurship to propose a model of this approach to wealth generation and accumulation. The community entrepreneurship process I discuss in the paper is both exogenous and endogenous in that it focuses on (a) building entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and capacity in communities and (b) propagating innovative, creative, and responsible behavior in the way people make a living. I conclude that following both endogenous and exogenous economic principles is one way for agrarian societies to attain economic security


The Chester County (PA) Drug Court Program was implemented in October of 1997. By the end of January of 1999, 184 drug offenders had participated in the program. This evaluation of the Chester County Drug Court Program compares the 184 drug court participants to 51 comparable offenders who were placed on probation at some point between December 1996 and September 1997. These comparison subjects were selected based upon the drug court program eligibility criteria (i.e., offenders charged with non-mandatory drug offenses; offenders not under probation or parole supervision when charged with drug offenses; and no prior record for violent offenses). Drug court and comparison samples were compared in terms of current status, new arrests, revocation/removal from program, and drug testing results. Findings reveal a lower rate of positive results for drug tests taken by the drug court participants as compared to the comparison group. Similarly, there was a lower rate of rearrest during the program among the drug court sample than among the comparison sample. On the other hand, drug court participants were more likely than the comparison group to be unsuccessfully removed from their programs. Survival analysis revealed that the differences in the survival patterns of the drug court and comparison samples approached statistical significance. Additionally, African American drug court participants appeared to do significantly poorer than Caucasian drug court participants. Those drug court graduates for whom follow-up data (n=15) were available appear to be successful in leading productive and drug-free lives.


This paper briefly introduces laws and regulations on Internet copyright and reviews the process of protecting Internet copyright of searching engine.After these,it analyses the possibilities of Internet copyright infringement of searching engine,points out the weaknesses of measures taken nowadays and thinks of ways to strengthen searching engine' s internet copyright protection.


A highly emissive and chemically stable multiple resonance (MR) effect-based organoboron derivative is designed and used as a fluoride ion probe for the first time, exhibiting a record low detection limit together with good selectivity and reversibility.


Many modern engineering systems use biomimetics to replicate the high efficiency and maneuverability of animals that cannot yet be achieved by conventional propulsion systems. Oscillating foils, analogous to flapping wings or fins found in nature, provide one such solution, yet the widespread use of oscillating foils has not received major acceptance due to the inherently complex fluid-structure interaction. We performed a parametric experimental study to quantify the effects of structural and kinematic properties of a flexible foil on its propulsive performance at a chord-based Reynolds number of 80,000. Multiple foils of the same shape but varied construction allowed explicit comparison of the effect of stiffness. Forces exerted on the foil were directly measured using a load cell and decomposed into thrust and efficiency values. Quantitative patterns of phase-averaged flow velocity and out-of-plane vorticity in the near-wake of the foil were obtained using particle image velocimetry (PIV). The combination of the direct force measurements and flow imaging allowed identification of an optimal combination of flexibility and kinematics of the foil that promoted generation of thrust-producing vortices while mitigating the effects of drag-inducing flow structures. NOMENCLATURE A Wake width (A = 2H0) [m] c Chord length [m] CP Power coefficient (CP = P/ 1 2 ρUcS) CT Thrust coefficient (CT = F/ 1 2 ρUcS) f Frequency [s] F Thrust [N] H0 Heave amplitude [m] P Input power [N] Re Reynolds number (Re = Uc/υ) S Span [m] St Strouhal number (St = fA/U) t Time [s] T Oscillation period [s] U Freestream velocity [m/s] η Efficiency (η = CT/CP) ρ Density [kg/m] θ0 Pitch amplitude [°] υ Kinematic viscosity [m/s] INTRODUCTION The prevalence of flapping and oscillating wings found in biology warrants research into the possible benefits and uses of associated biomimetic technologies. Oscillating-foils have been proven to serve a broad range of applications, including clean energy extraction in tidal and wind flows, lift generation in micro-aerial vehicles, and thrust generation for aquatic locomotion, yet many fundamental questions remain unanswered [1, 2, 3]. When acting as a thrust generator, oscillating-foil designs propose an elegant alternative to traditional rotary propellers, which often rely on brute-force approaches to achieve their engineering goals. Rather, oscillating-foils combine the function of propeller, control device, and stabilizer while providing a high degree of agility, and often high propulsive efficiencies.


This paper explores the work that the Spanish architect Felix Candela Outerino carried out in Mexico in the field of religious architecture. This exploration aims to make a contribution to the debate about the relationship between form and efficient structural behavior. However, this study will approach the debate from the perspective of the capacity of spaces to improve quality of life. This text begins with some references to thoughts about dwelling and the relationship between form and structure, in addition to critical analysis of contemporary architectural production. Later, a chronological review of the religious space in Mexico is presented, from the prehispanic period to the twentieth century, with the contributions to the field of religious architecture made by Mexican architects as well as by Felix Candela. Finally, there is a series of thoughts on hypar roofs and their relation to creating spaces that improve the quality of life.


The purpose of this paper is to explain the uses of opinion agreement analysis in studying appellate courts and provide examples of those uses with U.S. Supreme Court justices. This method is a relatively new approach, whose potential for expanding our knowledge about judicial behavior is just beginning to be tapped.


The aim of this study is to find out how the Physical Education of Sport And Health teacher at the State Elementary School in Mukomuko District Mukomuko in planning, implementing, and evaluating learning activities in accordance to the curriculum 2013. This research is a qualitative research. The population of this research is the teacher of Physical Education of Sport And Health at the State Elementary School in Mukomuko which is registered in academic year 2016/2017, and they implement the Curriculum 2013 totaling 7 people. The sampling technique of this research is total sampling. Instrument to obtain data that is used in Semi-structured Interview that give question to responden more openly. Analysis data techniques used are reduction techniques, display, and data verification. Planning of learning activities conducted by the teacher from preparing RPP, syllabus, mastering the teaching materials, and completing the material as a book. RPP and syllabus is prepared by teachers in KKGO activities conducted every month. But there are some teachers who use RPP in the previous school year by updating the delivery method and not deviating from the curriculum. Implementation of learning activities are conducted by Physical Education of Sport And Health teacher with classroom management, learning strategies, and the use of teaching media. In the use of teacher strategy of Physical Education of Sport And Health is still glued by the commonly used methods of lectures and practices. Evaluation of Learning Activities are conducted by teacher of Physical Education of Sport And Health at public elementary school in the sub-district of Mukomuko by preparing the first KI and KD in the RPP. The assessment uses three predetermined aspects, namely attitude, knowledge, and skills. However, there are Physical Education of Sport And Health teacher who still use aspects of assessment based on KTSP that are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.


An important characteristic of fractal signals is their fractal dimension. For arbitrary fractals, an efficient approach to evaluate their fractal dimension is the covering method. In this paper we unify many of the current implementations of covering methods by using morphological operations with varying structuring elements. Further, in the case of parametric fractals depending on a parameter that is in one-to-one correspondence with their fractal dimension, we develop an optimization method, which starts from an initial estimate and by iteratively minimizing a distance between the original function and the class of all such functions, spanning the quantized parameter space, converges to the true fractal dimension.


The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of concrete is greatly influenced by thermal behavior of aggregates due to their large volume proportion in concrete. In order to understand the effect of coarse and fine aggregate on the thermal behavior of concrete, the average CTE of concrete with granite and dolomite as coarse aggregate and granite-originated manufactured sand and alluvial natural sand as fine aggregate were measured. The results showed that concretes composed of high stone volume of granite with manufactured sand (MS) have the lowest CTE value (4.44μe>/°F) whereas those composed of low stone volume of granite with siliceous natural sand (NS) have the highest CTE value (5.42μe/°F). Testing results demonstrate that the effect of fine aggregate in concrete mixture is more dominant while using granite as coarse aggregate rather than dolomite. In addition, this study characterized the microstructure and chemical composition of both coarse and fine aggregates by utilizing petrographic analysis tools. Testing results were used to identify minerals showing varied thermal behavior and also to correlate with the measured CTE values of the concrete specimens so that better understanding of thermal expansion behavior of concrete could be made.


Winter cereals produce substantial quantities of fructan (βD-fructofuranosyl polymer terminating in sucrose) and relatively little starch in stems and leaves. Although fructan is produced by economically important crops, little is known about fructan degree of polymerization (DP), distribution, synthesis, and degradation. Field studies in Maryland during winter and spring were used to examine changes in the pattern of accumulation of three fructan trisaccharides, 1-kestose, 6-kestose, and neokestose in oat (L.), wheat (L.), barley (L.), and rye (L.). Oat contained the greatest amount of total trisaccharide followed by rye, wheat, and barley. The 1-kestose was the predominant trisaccharide in wheat, rye, and barley leaves. Wheat and rye contained significantly higher levels of 1-kestose than oat on most sample dates. Oat leaves contained significantly greater amounts of 6-kestose and neokestose than the other cereals. In April, 6-kestose accounted for 64% of the total trisaccharide in oat leaves. On most sample dates wheat and barley leaves contained no neokestose. Nystose, a DP 4 fructan, was present in leaf tissue at each sampling; however, the concentration was below 1 mg g dry weight in all species examined. Rye contained significantly greater amounts of nystose than wheat, barley, and oat when averaged across sample dates. Variation in trisaccharides and nystose suggest that different enzymes may exist in oat compared to the other cereal species.


Abstract This paper maps aut the contours of the newly emerging field of Urban Studies in India, arguing for a need to evolve an interdisciplinary historical perspective that can explore the uneven and transitional character of the urban process structured by colonial capitalism. It debates with the European and North American perspectives, discusses the urban experience in India in terms of five themes and argues that these can help to constitute anew this area in India. These themes are: uneven capitalist development and its impact on urbanisation; the nature of urban inequalities; the influence of globalisation on city forms and structures; the intervention of state policies and the impact of collective action; and the various dimensions of urban cultures and modernities. These themes can also become the building blocks for fashioning a new urban sociology not only in India but also in the South.


undertaking for one still in his twenties and, according to Thomas Pettigrew", he was the sole editor and reviewer. The journal (Figure 2) undertook a "Copious account of various publications in different languages on Medicine and Surgery and a summary of all books in the different branches of Medicine". There was also a catalogue of books, a general review of the state of medicine, and a comment on future progress. Henry Clutterbuck (Figure 1) was born in Marazion, Cornwall, on 28 January 17671-7. He was the son of Thomas Clutterbuck (an attorney) and Mary (nee Masterman), the daughter of a merchant in Truro. His grandfather was a "Commander of the Sicily Isles" and was said to be descended from Thomas Plantagenet de Brotherton (Duke of Norfolk). Henry was one of four sons: his brothers were Thomas, a recorder of Truro, Charles, and Christopher, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. When he left the local grammar school he was apprenticed to Mr Kempe, a surgeon in Truro. In 1788, at the age of 21, Clutterbuck went to London and studied at the Borough Hospitals, where George Fordyce, William Saunders, Henry Cline and Andrew Marshall were his teachers, and he attended the lectures of John Hunter. He qualified MRCS in 1790 and settled in Walbrook in the City of London as a general practitioner. It was at this time that he started the Medical and Chirurgical Review and had an appointment to the Royal Universal Dispensary, where his colleagues were Thomas Bradley and Alexander Crichton (later Sir Alexander), who both became teachers at the Westminster Hospital. In 1796 he married Harriet Matilda Browne in the Walbrook Church; she bore him 10 children. In 1800 he joined the Medical Society of London. In 1802he determined to increase his knowledge and qualify in medicine, so he went to Edinburgh for a year, transferred to Glasgow in 1803, and qualified MD on 16 April 1804. He had to renounce his surgical qualifications to achieve this and pay £22. (He must have continued his editorship of the Review even when he was in Scotland.) On his return to London he set up in practice at 17 St Paul's Churchyard, where he soon achieved a notable reputation.


Constitutional theorists usually assume that minority-protective judicial review leads to outcomes more favorable to the protected minority and less favorable to the majority. Our analysis highlights three e ects of judicial review that complicate, and sometimes undermine, this conventional wisdom. First, judicial review can induce a shift from a separating equilibrium|in which pro-majority leaders and pro-minority leaders pursue di erent policies|to a semiseparating or pooling equilibrium in which pro-minority leaders sometimes mimic pro-majority leaders by adopting the most antiminority policy that the judiciary would uphold. Second, if judicial validation of anti-minority policies is probabilistic rather than certain, pro-majority leaders may propose even more extreme anti-minority policies in order to deter pro-minority leaders from mimicking. Third, if voters cannot directly observe policy outcomes, then minority-protective judicial review may create incentives for a leader to signal (or conceal) her type by provoking judicial reversal. These e ects can sometimes nullify, or even reverse, the assumed relationship between minority-protective judicial review and pro-minority outcomes. When such reversal occurs, majoritarian democrats should favor minority-protective judicial review, while those concerned with protecting unpopular minorities should oppose it.


OBJECTIVE
To compare four Escherichia coli O157 test kits for detection of E. coli O157:H7 isolated from clinical specimens.

DESIGN
One hundred two Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates obtained from stored specimens and 99 non-sorbitol fermenting enterobacteriaceae isolates from current clinical specimens were tested against four latex kits: Wellcolex, RIM, Prolex, and Oxoid. Each isolate was tested against all four kits on the same day.

SETTING
Provincial Laboratory of Saskatchewan, Canada.

PATIENTS
Patients from Saskatchewan with diarrhea submitted stool specimens through their family physicians to the Provincial Laboratory for detection of enteric pathogens including E. coli O157:H7.

RESULTS
The sensitivity and specificity of each test kit were: Wellcolex 100%, 99%; RIM 100%, 99%; Prolex 99%, 100%; Oxoid 100%, 100%. The Prolex kit failed to detect one E. coli O157:H7 isolate.

CONCLUSION
All kits tested were able to identify E. coli O157 isolated from stool specimens. Further study with Prolex is needed to assess the significance of the one missed E. coli O157 isolate.


Abstract : Aspects of large solar array technology are reviewed, with particular reference to the development of an experimental 560 W deployable array, which has some novel features. The array consists of very thin silicon solar cells mounted on Kapton polyimide film. It is stowed by folding the Kapton concertina fashion into rectangular compartments and deployed by pneumatically-actuated telescopic masts. Deployment is initiated by duplicated pyrotechnic actuators and takes about two minutes to complete. The estimated all-up weight of the 78 sq ft array, including stowage compartments, cushioning and deployment mechanism is 25.2 lb, giving a power-weight ratio of 22.3 W/lb at 55C. The main problem areas are discussed in some detail, with an indication of the progress made to date.


In this paper, we discuss the construction of an algorithm that classifies pitch movements according to the IPO intonation labelling. The classification is performed by a feed-forward network, interpreted as a multi-linear classifier. In speaker-independent tests on a corpus of speech read by non-professionals, up to 81 % of the 279 pitch movements in the test corpus were correctly classified. These results are obtained by using information from the sampled speech data files only; a grammar will be used in the second stage of this study.


Flows in and through the Everglades wetlands and bordering subtidal embayments are often characterized by very low velocities that are driven or controlled at various scales by wind, gravity, pressure, and vegetative resistance. Little is known about the effect of wind on water movement in these environments, and no focused efforts are currently underway to assess its importance. This project will examine the effect of wind on surface-water flows.


Under the catalysis of Co metal, the nanosized titania could be grown on Ti substrate at elevated temperature under a gas mixture of N2, O2, CH4 , and H2O. The nanosized titania was characterized by scanning electron microscope for its morphology, and by an energy dispersion spectrometer for its composition. The results showed that the straight and long titania nanowire could be formed at 900°C under a gas mixture of N2, O2, and CH4. When H2O vapor was added to the gas mixture, the titania nanowire became somewhat curved. The tiania nanowire was oxygen deficient, i.e. TiO2-X.


The topic of this book is proportionate-type normalized least mean squares (PtNLMS) adaptive filtering algorithms, which attempt to estimate an unknown impulse response by adaptively giving gains proportionate to an estimate of the impulse response and the current measured error. These algorithms offer low computational complexity and fast convergence times for sparse impulse responses in network and acoustic echo cancellation applications. New PtNLMS algorithms are developed by choosing gains that optimize user-defined criteria, such as mean square error, at all times. PtNLMS algorithms are extended from real-valued signals to complex-valued signals. The computational complexity of the presented algorithms is examined.Contents1. Introduction to PtNLMS Algorithms2. LMS Analysis Techniques3. PtNLMS Analysis Techniques4. Algorithms Designed Based on Minimization of User Defined Criteria5. Probability Density of WD for PtLMS Algorithms6. Adaptive Step-size PtNLMS Algorithms7. Complex PtNLMS Algorithms8. Computational Complexity for PtNLMS AlgorithmsAbout the AuthorsKevin Wagner has been a physicist with the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA since 2001. His research interests are in the area of adaptive signal processing and non-convex optimization.Milos Doroslovacki has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Washington University, USA since 1995, where he is now an Associate Professor. His main research interests are in the fields of adaptive signal processing, communication signals and systems, discrete-time signal and system theory, and wavelets and their applications.


Indian Streams Research Journal / 109 Introduction: Marketing of agricultural commodities plays crucial role in the protecting interest of both producers and consumers. The growth of Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) was 286 such markets during 1950-51 in India. These markets have grown exponentially in subsequent years. Now the country has 7566 Agricultural Regulated Markets. The relative growth of regulated markets in India by 25 times during 1950-51 to 2007-08. Since independence, almost all the states have enacted APMC Acts empowering them to regulate the trade of agricultural commodities. The Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB) has 7 Divisional offices at Pune, Nasik, Aurangabad, Latur, Amravati, Nagpur and Ratnagiri for proper co-ordination of the activities of all Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) in the State. In the Maharashtra at present there are 290 APMCs with Principal markets and 593 sub markets. Out of 290 Principal Market Yard only 39 come under "A" Class Regulated Market.


On a Riemannian symmetric space X of the noncompact type we introduce a generalized Poisson transformation from functions on the minimal boundary to functions on the maximal compactification whose restrictions to X are eigenfunctions of the invariant differential operators. Some continuityand "Fatou"-theorems are proved. Introduction. Let X = G/K be a Riemannian symmetric space of the noncompact type. By a theorem of Kashiwara et al. [5] every joint eigenfunction 4 of the invariant differential operators on X can be represented as a generalized Poisson integral of a hyperfunction p on the minimal boundary K/M, and, for "generic" eigenvalues, (p is the "boundary value" of 4 in a certain abstract sense. When (p is a continuous function, p is the boundary value of 4 in a much more concrete way: 'p is the limit along geodesics of the ratio 4/4x of 4 with the spherical function 4)A with the same eigenvalues as 4. This result holds under the condition on the eigenvalues that Re X lies in the positive open Weyl chamber, and it is due to Helgason [1, p. 130]. It was generalized to L??-functions qp on K/M with pointwise almost everywhere "admissible" convergence by Michelson [12, Theorem 2.2] and to Ll-functions g on K/M with pointwise almost everywhere "restricted admissible" convergence by Sjogren [15, Theorem 2]. For 4) harmonic (which is the same as X = p) these "Fatou-theorems" had been proved by Helgason, Koranyi, Knapp, Williamson, Lindahl and Stein [4,6,7,8,11,16]. In this note we generalize these results of Helgason, Michelson and Sjogren to take into consideration the full boundary of X. In the maximal Satake-Furstenberg compactification X of X, K/M is only part of the boundary of X (unless rank G/K = 1)-it is the unique compact G-orbit. The other G-orbits in the boundary can be identified with homogeneous spaces of the form G/B, where B is given by B = (M n K)AN for a parabolic subgroup P = MAN of G. For each such G-orbit we define a generalized "partial" Poisson transformation from functions on K/M to sections of line bundles over G/B. We will prove that if qg is continuous, the Poisson Received by the editors March 21, 1984 and, in revised form, August 15, 1984. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 43A85; Secondary 53C35.