The ecological environmental quality of the Economic Zone in Western Coast of Taiwan Strait ranks the top of China, but the ecological security is facing serious challenges due to the vulnerability and contamination of ecological environment and the rapid urbanization. Based on the pressure-support-response model of ecological security assessment, the indices of pressure, support, and response were calculated by the method of principal component analysis, and then, the ecological security of the Western Coast was assessed. Among the cities in the Western Coast, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Putian had a higher ecological security index (ESI), while Zhangzhou, Sanming, and Ningde ranked in lower place. The ESI was not only determined by environmental carrying capacity, but also closely related to the development degree of economy and society. A higher ESI needed stronger economic basis to support.


The use of binders in pelletizing is a science that is constantly developing new products, aimed at raising the performance of its applications, and the pursuit of reducing and non-incorporation of gangue acid in the final product. Therefore, the pellet in partnership with suppliers of these inputs is working on research to add more value to the pellets of iron ore. Currently advances have occurred in the use of overactivated sodium bentonite, with the development and implementation on an industrial scale, which was finding its performance advantages over other types of binders. However, over a longer period of use of overactive sodium bentonite on an industrial scale, were perceived some undesirable influences in the production process, which were interfering directly in the performance of pellet plants that were using this additive in their process. Given the above, possibilities to adjust the product, which was suggested to change the chemical formulation with a reduction potential of agglomeration of the additive, thus altering some features that were impossible to use on an industrial scale were studied. This paper presents the feasibility of industrial application of overactivated sodium bentonite, after reformulation developed in partnership with the supplier of the product, based on statistical analyzes of the results.


Preinoculation of roots and foot of rice seedling,cultivar IR26 with a nonpathogenic binucleate Rhizoctonia (BNR) species isolate(232 CG)induced resistance to rice sheath blight caused by R.solani. A significant reduction of disease severity was observed on plant with BNR treatment compared with the non treat seedlings.Treatment with BNR at least 24 h prior to pathogen challenge resulted in significant protection of rice seedlings from R.solani infection.Protected rice seedlings showed enhanced resistance to bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (OS 14) and bacterial streak caused by X.oryzae pv. oryzicola (RS 105) as well.Remarkable increases in activities of phenylalanine ammonia lyase(PAL) and peroxidases(POX),the key enzymes in plant defense responses,were observed in BNR treated rice seedlings.The elevated levels of PAL and POX were positively correlated with the increase in disease resistance in rice induced by BNR.


This article proposes to design a distributed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$H_{\infty} $ </tex-math></inline-formula> optimal control algorithm for Van der Pol oscillators with unknown internal dynamics, input constraints and external disturbances, via event-triggering signal transmission of the Internet of Things (IoT). First, the graph theory for the IoT is introduced. Second, the dynamics of Van der Pol oscillators are transformed into the tracking dynamics which cooperate via the IoT network. Third, unlike the existing online optimal control algorithms using adaptive dynamic programming, we design an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$H_{\infty} $ </tex-math></inline-formula> optimal control algorithm employing an event-triggering signal transmission mechanism to reduce the burden of communication resource and computation bandwidth of the IoT network. As the triggering condition and approximation parameter update policies are appropriately designed, the algorithm guarantees that the Zeno phenomenon is free, the consensus errors are uniformly ultimately bounded, and the external disturbance is compensated. Finally, numerical simulation results with comparison to the time-triggering algorithms confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


The proliferation of Internet and World Wide Web has created many technical and managerial opportunities and challenges for researchers and practitioners. In the Internet era, the increased information complexity and diversity as well as the uncontrolled information growth call for better information technologies for information identification, organization, analysis, dissemination, maintenance and quality assurance. On the other hand, the large amount of information available on the web not only facilitates organizational decision-making, but also empowers the development of advanced applications such as knowledge management and environmental scanning on the Internet. The strategic potentials of web information need to be explored. Finally, web information may have impacts on the way information is managed within organizations and on the rise of new information-based organizations. Thus, impacts of web information on competition, organizations, and market structures deserve more studies. The purpose of this mini-track is to share knowledge and findings from technical and managerial research on managing information on the Web.This year, we have accepted seven papers from twelve submissions. The first paper, ?Assessing the Quality of Auction Web Sites,? by Barnes and Vidgen, proposed a new instrument for assessing the quality of Internet Sites from the perspective of users. Three quality dimensions were incorporated: information, interaction, and site design quality. The proposed instrument was evaluated in the domain of online auctions. The empirical results showed that it achieved a significant level of reliability.The second paper, ?Feedback Mechanisms as Intermediaries for Web Information Market: An Exploratory Study,? by Wang and Day, investigated effects of feedback mechanism on perceived service quality. Empirical results suggested that both information providers and consumers preferred substantial and informative feedback mechanisms.The third paper, ?Collection and Exploitation of Expert Knowledge in Web Assistant Systems,? by Aberg and Shahmehri, presented a web assistant system with the question-answering capability. Routine questions can be handled directly by the web assistant system, leaving unseen or difficult questions for the human. The field study showed that the proposed system was feasible and useful.The fourth paper, ?A High-Density Catalog for Online Browsing,? by Spraragen and Podlaseck, presented an interface design for the High-Density Online Catalog (HDOC), which focused on the visualization of online catalogs in multiple dimensions. A usability study was conducted and several interested applications based on the HDOC design were discussed.The fifth paper, ?Concepts of Bitemporal Database Theory and the Evolution of Web Documents,? by Knolmayer and Myrach, employed concepts of bitemporal databases to the management of web documents. Procedures for maintaining temporal integrity of web pages were proposed. Different approaches to supporting bitemporal information for web documents were outlined.The sixth paper, ?Towards Hypermedia Support for Database Systems,? by Bhaumik et. al, explored the aspects of hypermedia support for database applications and proposed the Dynamic Hypermedia Engine (DHE) that provides automated linking and hypermedia services based on the application structures.Finally, the paper ?Mining-based Category Evolution Approach to Managing Online Document Categories,? by Wei and Dong, proposed a mining-based category evolution (MiCE) technique to adjust document categories based on existing categories and their associated documents. Empirical resulted indicated that the proposed technique was more effective than the category discovery approach and was insensitive to the quality of original categories.Given the exploration of web information, the articles outlined here are samples of a large variety of research works. In the future, we believe that issues related to managing web information and converting web information into valuable knowledge will be critical to the competitiveness of a business.


The first youth literary anthropology academic forum was held in May of the year 2010 at Yongchuan.The scholars discussed the issue of the literature turning to the anthropology and reviewed the origin and the history of the anthropology turning,which show the changes of researches objects and research methods in the turning process and confirm the important meaning of the anthropology turning.


Abstract In this paper first order theories for nonmonotone inductive definitions are introduced, and a proof-theoretic analysis for such theories based on combined operator forms à la Richter with recursively inaccessible and Mahlo closure ordinals is given.


Partially purified staphylococcal capsular material (PPCM) prepared from a major capsular type was further purified by exclusion chromatography. Sephadex G-100, G-200, and Sepharose 6B were used in the study of the staphylococcal capsular material. The starting material placed on the column consisted of at least three components, whereas one of the fractions obtained after chromatography on Sepharose 6B exhibited a single precipitin arc in immunoelectrophoresis. The purified component absorbed antibodies from a homologous anticapsular serum completely abolishing the specific capsular reaction.


Abstract The paper examines the construction of China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through corpus-based critical discourse analysis of news in the Pakistani press. Overall, Pakistani newspapers show China as a slogan of "brotherhood" and a stereotype of China's relationship as an "ironic bond" between China and Pakistan. The analysis reveals that a bulk of friendly and positive discourses about China have been constructed in the Pakistani media reports. The role of discourses pertinent to the ideological construction of image of China's mega economic project Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and CPEC is discussed. However, a deeper insight into the lexical choices of newspapers also suggests that plenty of intricacies and sensitivities are existent in issues pertaining to CPEC and BRI.


In the title molecular salt, C26H28N4 2+·2Br−, the central benzene ring makes dihedral angles of 76.75 (11) and 82.40 (10)° with the pendant benzimidazole rings. The corresponding angle between the benzimidazole rings is 57.03 (9)°. In the crystal, the cations and anions are linked via C—H⋯Br hydrogen bonds, forming sheets lying parallel to the bc plane. The crystal structure also features weak C—H⋯π interactions.


In this note we revisit the discussion on minimal repair in heterogeneous populations in Finkelstein (2004). We consider the corresponding stochastic intensities (intensity processes) for items in heterogeneous populations given available information on their operational history, i.e. the failure (repair) times and the time since the last failure (repair). Based on the improved definitions, the setup of Finkelstein (2004) is modified and the main results are corrected in accordance with the updating procedure for the conditional frailty distribution.


Purpose: With the aim of introducing toy libraries together with their associated goals, services, activities and structures, and through presenting an image of world experiences in the field, this research tries to emphasize the increasing importance of such centers in children's development and remind the necessity of the respective practical activities in Iran. Methodology: This research has used library study. Toy libraries in the world which had website and portal were identified. In total, status of 50 libraries was investigated. Findings: Different characteristics of these libraries were studied, including their budget, services, size of the collection, types of materials, organization method, and rules. Finally, the suggestion was made so as to establish "the Iranian national game and toy library". Originality/Value: This is the first research of its type which has made an attempt to provide the novel idea of establishing "the Iranian national game and toy library" based upon identification of world toy libraries and introduction to them. Not only the goal of such a library would be to maintain Iranian game and toy culture, but also providing services in this field is among its main goals.


This paper is a brief summary on a particular approach aiming at the creation of a new branch of soft computing (SC) for the special problem class of mechanical systems' control. To evade the development of intricate system models it is based on the idea of "situation dependent partial system identification" and uses simple uniform structures obtained from various Lie groups used in different fields of physics. These structures are far more lucid and more concentrated than that of "traditional" SC based on either Kolmogorov's approximation theorem or typical membership functions in fuzzy controllers. The "obscure" process of learning or parameter tuning seems to be replaceable by simple explicit algebraic procedures. Simulation examples are considered for a 3 DOF robot arm under unmodelled environmental interaction.


The ratio of the cross section for charm-quark pair production in vector-meson-dominant and single-resolved-photonic two-photon processes to that in direct-partonic ones is estimated to be as large as two so that the cross section for D *± production recently measured by TOPAZ Collaboration at TRISTAN may be explained by these two-photon processes and may not necessarily lead to such indication of scalar-top-quark pair production as assumed by the experimentalists.


Spectral analysis of aeromagnetic data interpretation method is a vital tool in the field of geology and geophysics for solid minerals, groundwater, hydrocarbon and geothermal energy exploration. Human existence depends on availability of mineral and their explorations for daily activities in every part of the world. In order to reduce the scarcity of minerals and problems associated with minerals exploration, this paper reviews shed more light on source of data acquisition, data processing and interpretation in respect to the subject matter. Two case studies were considered, the first case study was on the spectral analysis method of aeromagnetic data interpretation in Longuda Plateau and its environs in Adamawa state North Eastern Nigeria. The data of the study area was divided into 16 x16 data points; the data was subjected to 2D Fourier transformation. After the spectral analysis the depth to magnetic sources were discovered ranging from 1900 m to 2620 m at the basement and shallow depth was ranging from 512 m to 670 m magnetic sources. The second case study was on magnetic data processing for hydrocarbon exploration in the Pannonian Basin, Yogoslavia, from the magnetic data analysis, hydrocarbon potential zones were identified.


The aim of this study was to evaluate the production parameters and egg quality of Japanese quail ( Coturnix japonica ) as a possible response to enrichment of the birds' cages. The study material consisted of 280 individually marked Japanese quails (56♂:224♀). Birds at 5 weeks of age were randomly divided into 7 equal-sized groups with replication subgroups (4 per group, 10 birds in each replicate). Birds were kept in 0,5 m 2 cages with unlimited access to water and feed. The differentiating factor was the presence of enrichment in the birds' cages. The following groups were created: 1 – control (reared without any enrichment), 2 – nest box, 3 – scratching surface, 4 – corrugated flexible tube, 5 – limestone cube, 6 – sand bath box, and 7 – feed box with holes drilled in the cover. Bird liveability and productivity indices (laying rate, FCR, egg weight, and body weight) were recorded throughout the experiment. After 6 weeks of the experiment, 24 eggs were randomly collected from each group for qualitative analysis. The presence of an enriched environment was shown to positively influence production parameters and the quality of eggs obtained from Japanese quails compared to birds kept under standard husbandry conditions. experimental determine the effects on both and Japanese quails, the enrichments could used in both and breeding flocks. The begun after a 7-day period of acclimatization to the new environment. were kept in (50×100 and a programme h 7 h differentiating was the presence of in the birds' cages. Group was the control group kept in standard quail cages equipped with and feeders. experimental groups 2 – nest box nest), 3 – scratching surface – scratcher), 4 – corrugated flexible tube (T – tunnel), 5 – limestone cube (LC – limestone cube), 6 – sand bath box (SB – sandbox), and 7 – feeding box with in the (F – detailed description of the


Background: The spread of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has reached a global level, creating a pandemic. The government of various countries, their citizens, politicians, and business owners are worried about the unavoidable economic impacts of this pandemic. Therefore, there is an eagerness for the pandemic peaking. Objectives: This study uses an objective approach to emphasize the need to be pragmatic with easing of lockdowns measures worldwide through the forecast of the possible trend of COVID-19. This is necessary to ensure that the enthusiasm about SARS-CoV-2 peaking is properly examined, easing of lockdown is done systematically to avoid second-wave of the pandemic. Methods: We used the Facebook prophet on the World Health Organization data for COVID-19 to forecast the spread of SARS-CoV-2 for the 7th April until 3rd May 2020. The forecast model was further used to forecast the trend of the virus for the 8th until 14th May 2020. We presented the forecast of the confirmed and death cases. Results: Our findings from the forecast showed an increase in the number of new cases for this period. Therefore, the need for easing the lockdown with caution becomes imperative. Our model showed good performance when compared to the official report from the World Health Organization. The average forecasting accuracy of our model was 79.6%. Conclusion: Although, the global and economic impact of COVID-19 is daunting. However, excessive optimism about easing the lockdown should be appropriately weighed against the risk of underestimating its spread. As seen globally, the risks appeared far from being symmetric. Therefore, the forecasting provided in this study offers an insight into the spread of the virus for effective planning and decision-making in terms of easing the lockdowns in various countries.


: Generating an Adversarial network (GAN) has shown great development prospects in image generation and semi-supervised learning and has evolved into Triple-GAN. However, there are still two problems that need to be solved in Triple-GAN: based on the KL divergence distribution structure, gradients are easy to disappear and training instability occurs. Since Triple-GAN tags the samples manually, the manual marking workload is too large. Marked uneven and so on. This article builds on this improved Triple-GAN model (Improved Triple-GAN), which uses Random Forests to classify real samples, automate tagging of leaf nodes, and use Least Squares Generative Adversarial Networks (LSGAN) ideological structure loss function to avoid gradients disappear. Experiments were performed on the Improved Triple-GAN model and the Triple-GAN model using the MINIST, cifar10 and cifar100 datasets respectively, experiments show that the error rate of generated samples is greatly reduced. At the same time, the classification effect of the data set and the sharpness of the samples are greatly improved. And it has greatly improved the stability of model training and automation of labels.


The present invention relates to a system and method for classifying the load in the power supply system for providing power over a communication link. The power supply system to probe the load includes a classification engine for determining a characteristic of the load. The classification engine to supply a plurality of the classification-signal to the load, in response to the respective classification signals and determines a plurality of response signals provided by the load. Power supply system, the response signal, the classification-signal, the communication link, the detection / classification engine


Contemporary trade analysis indicates the necessity of calculating trade in value added (TiVA) which is created through global value chains (GVCs). This paper aims to determine the characteristics and importance of GVC trade in the EU new member states (EU NMS) with special emphasis placed on the industry level. The results demonstrate different levels of GVC participation of the EU NMS, where Hungary is the most integrated country and Croatia the least integrated. Regional GVCs exist because a huge part of value added (VA) comes from EU member states, as in gross export as well as in final demand (Europe as a hub). The most important source countries are Germany and Italy and there is also evidence of geographical and historical relations between the countries. The domination of backward participation has been found in the analysis made on the industrial level, i.e. the EU NMS are highly dependent on the import of intermediates for the production and export of final products. Strong interconnections between imports of intermediate products and exports of final products have been found in the manufacture of computers, electronics and optical products; manufacture of wood, paper, printing and reproduction. This research has contributed to the scarce literature concerning GVC (TiVA) in EU NMS and has opened up new possibilities for further research and analysis.


The paper is focused on the specifics of covering the life of the black population and the topic of racism in Brazil on the example of the activities of local journalists, bloggers and leaders of social movements. Content analysis was chosen as the research methodology. The author studied and analyzed the content of publicly available on Portuguese language and English language websites, online publications, as well as YouTube channels dedicated to the topic of racism, and highlighted the main ideas. Based on the research, the author concludes that, on the one hand, it is possible to talk about an increase in the level of public awareness and the desire to more actively voice the problems of the black population. On the other hand, such phenomena as stigmatization and stereotyping of Brazilians with African roots remains to be present in the society.


The growing cultures of Fusarium equiseti CGMCC 3.3658 and Gliocladium catenulatum CGMCC 3.3655 were used for the first time in the structural modification of corosolic acid (1). Four new metabolites were obtained. F. equiseti CGMCC 3.3658 converted 1 into 2α,3β,15α-trihydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (2) and 2α,3β,7β,15α-tetrahydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (3). G. catenulatum CGMCC 3.3655 transformed 1 into 2α,21β-dihydroxy-A-homo-3α-oxours-12-en-28-oic acid (4), and 2α,3α,21β-trihydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (5). The structures of four metabolites were determined by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, DEPT, HSQC, HMBC, and NOESY spectral data. Cytotoxicities in vitro of corosolic acid and four metabolites against three tumor cell lines, viz. Hela, A549, and SGC-7901, were evaluated by the classical 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) colorimetric assay.


Memory requirements (for storing intermediate signals) and critical path are essential issues for 2-D (or multidimensional) transforms. This paper presents new algorithms and hardware architectures to address the above issues in 2-D dual-mode (supporting 5/3 lossless and 9/7 lossy coding) lifting-based discrete wavelet transform (LDWT). The proposed 2-D dual-mode LDWT architecture has the merits of low transpose memory (TM), low latency, and regular signal flow, making it suitable for very large-scale integration implementation. The TM requirement of the <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$N\times N$</tex></formula> 2-D 5/3 mode LDWT and 2-D 9/7 mode LDWT are <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$2N$</tex></formula> and <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$4N$</tex></formula>, respectively. Comparison results indicate that the proposed hardware architecture has a lower lifting-based low TM size requirement than the previous architectures. As a result, it can be applied to real-time visual operations such as JPEG2000, motion-JPEG2000, MPEG-4 still texture object decoding, and wavelet-based scalable video coding applications.


This work reports the formation of nanoprous Pd with tunable pore size and high stability by dealloying Pd30Cu40Ni10P20 metallic glass. The results show that lower dealloying temperature results in smaller pore size while the dealloying duration does not cause distinct change in the porous structure, even at an ambient dealloying temperature. The glassy structure and the multiple components in the precursor alloy are attributed to the hindered diffusion of Pd atoms and a slow coarsening rate of the nanoprous structure. The fully dealloyed porous sample with the smallest average pores size of 10 nm exhibit much higher catalytic activity when compare with the commercial Pd/C catalysts while the specimen with an average pores size of 13 nm shows the highest catalytic stability among the fully dealloyed alloys.


Microstrip patch antennas are widely used in various wireless applications such as Wireless local area network (WLAN). WLAN is capable of providing maximum data transfer rate of 600 Mbps. The proposed antenna design has a slotted H-shaped patch and dumbbell (H) shaped Defected Ground Structure (DGS) on Flame Retardant-4 (FR-4) substrate with the microstrip feeding technique which radiates at 2.4GHz WLAN frequency. The overall size of the antenna is 39×47×1.56 mm. The simulation results are obtained using Advanced design software (ADS) which offers improved antenna parameters such as gain, directivity, bandwidth, return loss, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) and impedance matching.


Objective To explore the changes of serum leptin( LP) and plasma adiponectin( APN) contents and the clinical significance in patients with acute myocardial infarction( AMI). Methods A total of 52 patients with AMI during September 2011 and October 2013 were selected as AMI group,and 70 healthy people with medical examination at the same time were as control group. In the two groups,the levels of serum LP and plasma APN were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay,and the levels of serum myoglobin( Mb) and troponin T( cTnT) were detected by automatic biochemistry analyzer. LP and ANP levels on admission,12 h and 24 h after onset between the two groups were compared,and then the correlation between LP and APN levels with Mb and cTnT levels in AMI patients were analyzed. Results In AMI group,the serum LP level began to increase when admitted,the LP levels at 12 h and 24 h after onset were higher than that on admission,and the LP level at 24 h was also higher than that at 12 h,and all differences were statistically significant( P 0. 05,P 0. 01); the differences in serum LP levels at 12 h and 24 h after onset in AMI group were statistically significant compared with that in control group( P 0. 01). In AMI group,the plasma APN level significantly decreased on admission,the plasma APN levels at 12 h and 24 h after onset were lower than that on admission,and it was also lower at 24 h than that at 12 h,and the differences were statistically significant( P 0. 05,P 0. 01); Plasma APN levels in AMI group at all time points were statistically different compared with that in control group( P 0. 05,P 0. 01). Linear correlation analysis at 24 h after onset showed that LP level had no correlation with Mb and cTnt( r = 0. 35,0. 17,P 0. 05); APN negatively correlated with Mb level( r =- 0. 73,P 0. 05),but APN had no correlation with cTnT level( r = 0. 27,P 0. 05). Conclusion Abnormal LP and APN may be independent risk factors of AMI incidence,and the LP and APN may participate in the incidence and development of AMI.


The primary objective of the present study was to identify the problems experienced by agricultural enterprises in Cumra town of Konya province in utilization of PTO shaft-driven field sprayers. Data were gathered through face-to-face questionnaires applied to 119 agricultural enterprises selected by stratified randomized sampling procedure from the town. Present findings revealed that 50.4% of sprayers had a tank capacity of 600 L, 89.9% of tanks were made of plastic material and 26.9% of the sprayers had an operational width of 10 m. Cracks or fractures were reported on boom by 31.9% and on both boom and chassis by 46.2%. About 24.4% indicated that they replaced the nozzles in case of a plug, 52.1% indicated regulator problems on rod, 26% indicated pump problems on pump lid and 91.6% indicated that they replaced at least one part. It was concluded based on present findings that farmers should be trained about utilization of sprayers to change their routines on sprayers. They should perform sprayer maintenance and repairs in accordance with user manual.


Disclosed is an information processing device having superior universal applicability through detecting changes in environment and adding changes to information collection functions. The information processing device comprises a receiving means for receiving, from a terminal for information collection, collected information that the terminal for information collection has collected; and a terminal administration means for either generating or selecting executable software to be executed by the terminal for information collection when collecting information after the collection, on the basis of the collected information that the receiver means has received, and providing the executable software to the terminal for information collection.


Modeling human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via fractional operators has several benefits over the classical integer-order HIV model. The reason is that the fractional HIV model relies not only on the recent status but also on the former conduct of the model. Thus, we are motivated to introduce and analyze a new fractional HIV model. This article focuses on a novel fractional HIV model under the proportional Hadamard-Caputo fractional operators. The study of this model involves the existence and uniqueness (EU) of its solution and the stability examination. We employ Leray–Schauder nonlinear alternative (L-SNLA) and Banach's fixed point theorems to analyze the EU results. In addition, for this provided model, we develop several forms of Ulam's stability findings. As a special case of our results, we give and analyze a new fractional HIV model with Hadamard-Caputo operators. Moreover, by appropriate choice of the fractional parameters, the obtained outcomes are valid for analysis of the fractional HIV models formed by several fractional operators defined in the past literature.


Introduction. Even a decade ago, an increase in mortality from circulatory diseases (CVD) in Russia until 2050 was predicted, in parallel with an increase in number of people older than working age. The forecast did not materialize.
The purpose is to identify the relationship between the level and structure of mortality from CVD and the proportion of elderly people.
Materials and methods. Official Rosstat data on mortality in Moscow and the Russian Federation for period 1975–2019 were used. There was made a comparison of age patterns of mortality from CVD at the beginning and end of the analysed period in the country and in the capital separately for men and women. For simplicity of calculations, the trend in the gain in mortality with increasing age was approximated by an exponential function in the Microsoft Excel Software.
Results. Since 2003 to 2019 in the Russian Federation, mortality from CVD was found to decline among men and women by 2.0 and 2.2 times. In Moscow, with a 2.3- and 2.2-fold decrease in mortality from CVD. During this period losses fell as a result of premature death from CVD by 1.8 and 1.9 times in men and women, as well as in Moscow.
Limitations. The quality of analysed data is limited by quality of coding of the causes of death in different regions and by accuracy of estimate of age structure of the population in period between population censuses.
Conclusions. Demographic aging does not lead to an increase in the contribution of CVD to the mortality of the population. The decrease in mortality from CVD significantly contributes to the growth of life expectancy and is accompanied by an increase in the proportion of elderly people. Only during periods of increased mortality, the contribution of CVD to it is directly proportional to proportion of elderly people. Age structure of mortality from CVD indicates the need to strengthen measures to prevent mortality.


A new rapid, sensitive UPLC method coupled with ESI-MS/MS detection was developed and validated for the simultaneous quantification of six phytoestrogens (daidzin, genistin, genistein, daidzein, formononetin, and coumestrol) from Genista tinctoria L. extracts. An adequate chromatographic separation was achieved with gradient elution and a mobile phase consisting of a mixture of 0.1% acetic acid/methanol (70/30, v/v). The total run time was of 5.5 min. The detection of target compounds was performed in multiple reaction monitoring mode. The method was validated and proved to be linear, accurate, and precise over the range of 10–800 ng/mL. The LLOQ values estimated based on the signal to noise ratio were of 5 ng/mL for each analyte, except for daidzein (LLOQ = 10.78 ng/mL). The elaborated assay shows shorter run time, lower solvent consumption, and higher sensitivity than most of the existing LC methods described in the literature. The method was used to quantify the selected phytoestrogens in Genista tinctoria herba or flos extracts. The major compounds found were genistein and its glycosidic form genistin. The method proved to be adequate for the characterization of plant extracts from the point of view of their phytoestrogen content, a group of active compounds with great therapeutic potential.


Global warming and environmental degradation have made climate action a twenty-first century imperative. However, the pathway to achieve a greener future has been contested by environmental economists, degrowth theorists, and ecofeminists. Degrowth and ecofeminism oppose the market-based solutions of environmental economics, and each propose a different pathway based on a restructuring of the economy and gender relations, respectively. In this paper I argue that ecofeminism can advance the degrowth project by bringing attention to the gendered nature of the climate crisis.


A method is proposed for the approximate evaluation of normal displacements and normal stresses on the plane of two coplanar cracks located inside an infinite isotropic elastic solid and subjected to normal internal pressure. The formulation results in a single integral equation for the unknown normal stresses on the plane of the cracks. Numerical results are given for the stress intensity factor KI of two coplanar circular cracks and two coplanar elliptical cracks opened up under a uniform internal pressure.


Review(s) of: Cambridge grammar of English: A comprehensive guide to spoken and written English grammar and usage, by Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy, Cambridge University Press, 2006.


Bubbling phenomenon, bifurcations, and high periodic solutions are present in different applications of power inverters and have been widely reported in the literature. In particular, in this paper we present the dynamic analysis of a buck-inverter power system with unipolar switching. By changing the PWM scheme from bipolar to unipolar, it is shown how bifurcations, chaos, and high periodic solutions are suppressed but the bubbling phenomenon is preserved. Even more, a less pronounced bubbling dynamics is achieved and only appearing on the sinusoidal signal's downward slope of 1T-periodic solutions. In addition, an algorithm is developed to observe the bubbling phenomenon in more detail by detecting the time-on of the switches in every system state. This approach shows the transition of the system states in a phase period and the affectation of the switching dynamics due to the bubbling phenomenon.


About fifteen years ago I obtained from Dr. O. Staudinger a series of all the species placed under the Choreutidæ in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the European Fauna (1871), and made a critical study of their structure to aid in the arrangement of our North American species. This study also led me to look up the nomenclature of these insects, and the results are given in this paper. There has been a growing tendency for some time to use the generic names proposed by Hübner, and while at first I was not inclined to adopt the genera in his Tentamen, I now feel compelled to do so. It is not necessary to argue this question, since both sides were so ably presented years ago in this journal.


Objective: to improve the treatment results of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (stage l-ll) accompanied with chronic abacterial prostatitis (category III A) by the use of terahertz therapy at frequencies of molecular spectrum of emission and absorption of nitric oxide 150,176-150,664 GHz. Material and methods. Atotal number of 75 patients met the inclusion criteria and were available for analysis. They were divided into three groups: 1st core group — 25 patients with BPH (stage l-ll) accompanied with chronic abacterial prostatitis (category III), which received standard medical therapy in combination with THZ-therapy; second group — 25 patients with BPH (stage l-ll) accompanied with CAP, which received standard medical therapy; third control group — 25 healthy men. Results. The combination of THZ — therapy with standard medical treatment allowed us to achieve marked improvements in the IPSS and QoL system, rapid anesthetic effect, more significant volume reduction of the prostate tissue in the 1st core group. Also THZ-therapy in 1st core group revealed a statistically significant increase of the maximum speed of blood vessels in the prostate tissue, improved a prostate secretion and rheological properties of blood. Conclusion. THZ-therapy as a complementary treatment has a beneficial effect on the clinical course of BPH (stage l-ll) accompanied with CAP (category III).


A systematic search of dust structure in the far infrared (100 μm and 60 μm) IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) survey was performed using Sky View Observatory. In order to find the possible candidate, we used SIMBAD database to locate discrete sources in the region. A deep cavity-like isolated far infrared dust structure (size ~ 4.46 pc × 2.23 pc) at galactic longitude: 284.360o, galactic latitude: -9.549o was found at the distance of about 375 pc. We have studied the flux density variation and then calculated temperature and mass profile of the dust and excess mass using data reduction software ALADIN 7.5 within this region. The dust color temperature was found to lie in the range 23.40 K to 29.28 K. An offset temperature of about 6.0 K was found. The total mass of the dust structure was found to be about 2.55×1027 kg and the excess mass per pixel was 2.52×1024 kg. We also studied the rate of mass loading around the structure. The energy of the pulsar required to create that in homogeneity in the structure was calculated to be 5.04×1036 J. Possible explanations of results will be presented. Journal of Institute of Science and Technology, 2017, 22 (1): 1-9


The paper learned from ACSI and constructed an analysis framework that affects female participants'Satisfaction factors to the New Rural Pension System.Using Logistic model and basing on the statistics from Pingyuan counties in Guangdong Province,the study has suggested that factors such as the level of insurance benefits,convenience of participate procedures,convenience of receiving pension,attitude of the staff remarkably affect female farmers'satisfaction.Therefore,this paper puts forward improving the quality of the New Rural Pension System and strengthening policy publicizing to improve the satisfaction of the New Rural Pension System.


Dynamic deployment for computing resources leads to some flexible and efficient solutions to distributed computing. Some current research works are limited in the mobile network environment. Based on mobile-agent technology,the specific features such as dynamics and uncertainty in mobile environment are taken into account. Furthermore,a theoretic model for the dynamic deployment of computing resource and an algorithm for performance optimization are proposed. The model and algorithm enable the key issues to be well solved,including resource deployment and performance optimization in the mobile environment. Finally,this approach is proved to be general,available and efficient.


Borehole gravimetric measurements were made at major Phanerozoic formation contacts and within the Precambrian sedimentary rocks to a depth of 4 km in the McClure-Sparks No. 1–8 drill hole. The inplace densities of these units were calculated from the corrected observations. The densities of the Phanerozoic rocks vary considerably owing to the presence of evaporites contrasting with the clastic and carbonate rocks, and the mean density of the Phanerozoic rock column is 2.61 g/cm3. The borehole gravimeter density of the Precambrian clastic rocks is 2.77 g/cm3, 0.05 g/cm3 greater than the density obtained from sample cuttings. The source of this discrepancy is unknown, but one possible explanation is the gravimetric effect of mafic igneous rocks, which may be more common within the Precambrian sedimentary rocks than is indicated by intersection of these rocks in the drill hole.


This paper presents a novel distributed file system TLDFS, which consists of two layers. One is the block device layer, which makes the distributed file system manage the consistency of data easily by choosing an appropriate granularity of lock. We implement the distributed interfaces and the new data organization at the block level, which is different from most distributed file systems. The other is the file system layer that consists of three parts: interconnecting module, locking module and distributed file system module. Our prototype system proves the feasibility of the two-layered structure and the experiments show several advantages of TLDFS.


In this paper, we will consider the coupled fixed point problem for single-valued operators satisfying a symmetric contraction condition with respect to maximum. An application to a periodic boundary value problem illustrates the results. The study of a coupled coincidence problem is also suggested. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H10; 54H25; 34B15


In this research the authors explore a hybrid approach which uses the basic concept of key frame animation together with procedural animation to reduce the number of key frames needed for an animation clip. The two approaches are compared by conducting an experiment where the participating subjects were asked to rate them based on their visual appeal.


When a patient complains of a sore mouth, the practitioner may find ulcers, blisters, white patches or no abnormality whatsoever. Trauma, either physical or chemical, is probably the commonest cause of oral ulcers and is easily diagnosed. Psychiatric trauma leading to mucosal breakdown can be more difficult to identify; when present it is known as stomatitis artefacta. Dermatitis artefacta may also be found. Lesions are produced or perpetuated by the patient's own action and are uncommon in children. They can vary considerably and will depend on the mode of production. Cheek and lip biting are perhaps the commonest types. Discrete lesions caused by external factors can be more difficult to recognize and these include fingernails, sharp instruments and chemicals.


PurposeComposite laminates are considered one of the most popular damage-resistant materials when exposed to impact force in civil and military applications. In this study, a comparison of composites 12 and 20 layers of fabrics Kevlar and ultrahigh-molecular-weight poly ethylene (UHMWPE)-reinforced epoxy under low-velocity impacts represented by drop-weight impact and Izod pendulum impact has been done. During the Izod test, Kevlar-based composite showed damage at the composite center and fiber breakages. Whereas delamination was observed for UHMWPE reinforced epoxy (PE). The maximum impact strength was for Kevlar-reinforced epoxy (KE) and increases with the number of laminates. Drop-weight impact test showed the highest absorbed energy for (KE) composites. The results revealed that different behavior during the impact test for composites belongs to the impact mechanism in each test.Design/methodology/approachAramid 1414 Kevlar 49 and UHMWPE woven fabrics were purchased from Yixing Huaheng High-Performance Fiber Textile Co. Ltd, with specifications listed in Table 1. Epoxy resin (Sikafloor-156) is supplied from Sika AG. Sikafloor-156 is a two-part, low-viscosity, solvent-free epoxy resin, with compressive strength ∼95 N/mm², flexural strength ∼30 N/mm² and shore D hardness 83 (seven days). The mixture ratio of A/B was one-third volume ratio. Two types of laminated composites with different layers 12 and 20 were prepared by hand layup: Kevlar–epoxy and UHMWPE–epoxy composites as shown in Figure 1. Mechanical pressure was applied to remove bubbles and excess resin for 24 h. The composites were left in room temperature for seven days, and then composite plates were cut for the desired dimensions. Low-velocity impact testing, drop-weight impact, drop tower impact system INSTRON CEAST 9350 (see Figure 2) was facilitated to investigate impact resistance of composites according to ASTM D7137M (Test Method for Compressive, 2005). Low-velocity impact tests have been performed at room temperature for composite with dimensions 10 × 15 cm2 utilizing a drop tower (steel indenter diameter 19.85 mm as shown in Figure 3), height (800 mm), drop mass (5 kg) and speed (3.96 m/s). Special impact equipment consisting of vertically falling impactor was used in the test. The energy is obtained from Drop tower impact systems, (2009) E = ½ mv2 (2.1). The relationship between force–time, deformation–time and energy–time and deformation was obtained. Energy–deformation and force–deformation relationships were also obtained. The depth of penetration and the radius of impactor traces were recorded. Izod pendulum impact test of plastics was applied according to ASTM D256 (Test Method for Compressive, 2005). Absorbed energy was recorded to compute the impact strength of the specimen. The specimen before the test is shown in Figure 4.FindingsIn order to investigate two types of impact: drop-weight impact and Izod impact on damage resistance of composites, the two tests were done. Drop-weight impact is dropping a known weight and height in a vertical direction with free fall, absorbed energy can be calculated. Izod impact measures the energy required to break a specimen by striking a specific size bar with a pendulum (Test Method for Compressive, 2005; Test Methods for Determining, 2018). The results obtained with the impact test are presented. Figure 5 shows the histogram bars of impact strength of composites. It can be noticed that Kevlar–epoxy (KE) composites give higher energy strength than UHMWPE–epoxy (PE) in 12 and 20 plies. The increasing percentage is about 18.5 and 5.7%. It can be observed in Figure 6 that samples are not destructed completely due to fiber continuity. Also, the delamination occurs obviously for UHMWPE–epoxy more than for Kevlar-based composite, which may due to weak binding between UHMWPE with an epoxy relative with Kevlar.Practical implicationsThe force–time curves for Kevlar–epoxy (KE) and UHMWPE–epoxy (PE) composites with 12 and 20 plies are illustrated respectively in Figure 7. The contact duration between indenter and composite surface is repented by the force–time curves, so the maximum force reaches with certain displacement. It can be seen that maximum force was (13,209, 18,734.9, 23,271.07 and 19,825.38 N) at the time (3.97, 4.43, 3.791 and 4.198 ms) for 12 KE, 12 PE, 20 KE and 20 PE, respectively. The sharp peaks of KE composite are due to the lower ductility of Kevlar compared with UHMWPE. These results agree with the results of Ahmed et al. (2016). Kevlar-based composites (KE) showed lower impact force and crack propagates in the matrix with fast fiber breakage compared with PE composites, whereas the latter did not suffer from fabric breakage in 12 and 20 plies any more (see Figure 8). Figure 9 illustrates force–deformation curves, for 12 and 20 plies of Kevlar–epoxy (KE) and UHMWPE–epoxy (PE) composites. Curve's slop is considered the specimen's stiffness and the maximum displacement. To investigate the impact behavior of the four different composites, the comparison was made among the relative force–deformation curves. The maximum displacement was 5.119, 3.443, 1.173 and 1.17 mm for 12KE, 12 PE, 20 KE and 20 PE, respectively. It seems that UHMWPE-based composite (PE) presents lower deformation than Kevlar-based composites (KE) at a same number of laminates, although the maximum displacement is for 12 PE and 12 KE (see Figure 8). Kevlar-based composites (KE) showed more damage than UHMWPE-based composite (PE), so the maximum displacement is always higher for KE specimens with maximum indenter trace diameter (D∼11.27 mm). The onset of cracks begins along fibers on the impacted side for 20 KE and 20 PE specimens with lower indenter trace (D∼5.42 and 5.96 mm), respectively (see Table 2). These results refer to the lower stiffness of KE composites (see the slope of the curve) relative to PE composites. This result agreed with (Vieille et al., 2013) when they found that the theoretical stiffness of laminated composite during drop-weight impact depends significantly on fiber nature (Fadhil, 2013). The matrix cracking is the first type of damage that may not change stiffness of composites overall. Material stiffness changes due to the stress concentration represented by matrix cracks, delamination and fiber breakage (Hancox, 2000). Briefly, the histogram (see Figure 10) showed that the best impact behavior was for 20 KE, highest impact force with lower deformation, indenter trace diameter and contact time. Absorbed energy–time and absorbed energy–deformation curves for composites are shown in Figures 11 and 12, respectively. The maximum absorbed energy was (36.313, 29.952, 9.783 and 6.928 J) for 12 KE, 12 PE, 20 KE and 20 PE, respectively. Test period time is only 8 ms, but the time in which composites reached maximum absorbed energy was (4.413, 3.636, 2.394 and 2.408 ms). The maximum absorbed energy was for 12 KE with lower rebound energy because part of kinetic energy transferred to potential energy kept in the composite as material damage (see Figures 3 and 4). This composite absorbs more energy as material damage which kept as potential energy. Whereas other composites 12 PE, 20 PE and 20 KE showed less damage, lower absorbed energy and higher rebound energy, which appeared in different peak behavior as the negative value of energy. Also from the absorbed energy–time curves, it had been noticed significantly the maximum contact time of indenter with composite was 4.413 ms for 12 KE, which exhibits higher deformation (5.119 mm), whereas other composites 12 PE, 20 KE and 20 PE showed less damage, contact time and deformation as (3.443, 1.173, 1.17 mm), respectively.Originality/valueThe main goal of the current study is to evaluate the performances of armor composite made off of Kevlar and UHMWPE fabrics reinforced epoxy thermosetting resin under the low-velocity impact. Several plates of composites were prepared by hand layup. Izod and drop-weight impact tests were facilitated to get an indication about the absorbed energy and strength of the armors.


FROM PAST PROCEEDINGS This abstract was prepared for the Minutes of the Meeting of the date given and the speaker mentioned is the authority for facts. CHARCOAL SCRAPING BY STIGMODERA FORTNUMI (HOPE) .4 ugust 9, 1948.-From MR. J. MACQUEEN'S notes on Stigmodera (Thermognafha) fortnumi (Hope) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). "About ten years ago 1 was surprised to find an adult Stigmodera fortnumi apparently laying eggs on the charred trunk of a very dead ironbark tree. The beetle was probing amongst charred sapwood with the tip of the abdomen and I concluded that it must be ovipositing although its choice of food plant for its young did not look the best; this particular tree had been dead for twenty years or more. 1 thought this was just an error on this particular beetle's part until December 1945 when 1 found another female doing exactly the same. After this I concluded that the species must spend its early stages in dead charred trees. This seemed improbable. On December 24, 1947 I found two more in exactly similar circumstances-one I managed to catch but the other was too high (about 30 tt). After killing this specimen 1 eviscerated it and was surprised to find within the abdomen a quantity of finely powdered charcoal. Early in January 1948 I got two more females on blossom and each of these contained a quantity of charcoal. The charcoal is evidently taken in through the tip of the abdomen and not by way of the mouth. The anal opening is quite large when extruded-a%out 4 inch and edged with short bristly hairs. The beetles become very engrossed while engaged in charcoal scraping and are easily captured. They stand and curve the tip of their abdomen down against the charred wood, scraping the tip forwards along the charred surface-then pushing it backwards and repeating the scrape forward. Possibly the hard ventral plates of the abdominal segments assist in powdering the charcoal and the short bristly hairs gather it up. MR. F. P. DODD has reported previously the taking in of fine sand or dry dust through the tip of the abdomen of Stigmodera regia (Blkb.) in the Kuranda and Herberton districts of North Queensland." 69-92.


Introduction: There is a well reported relationship between the extra intestinal clinical manifestations of coeliac disease (CD) and infertility. This association has been mostly observed in women with unexplained infertility and undiagnosed CD. Adverse outcomes in pregnancy can be linked to women who remain untreated for CD and continue to have gluten in their diet. Objectives: To analyze the response of undiagnosed and unexplained coeliac disease after a gluten free diet. Materials and methods: An observational and descriptive study, with the collection of secondary data and interpreted through a quantitative approach. Thirteen women in the menacme with unexplained infertility or previous failure of in vitro fertilizations had been selected. Patients were chosen from a private gynaecology clinic after organic causes of infertility had been excluded. From here, patients were sent for review and inclusion into this study at a private gastroenterology clinic, situated in Criciúma, Santa Catarina. Results: All the studied patients became pregnant after the introduction of a GFD in an average time of 4.62 ± 1.98 months. Some patients had experienced previous episodes of miscarriages before the introduction of a Gluten Free Diet (GFD). The 13 patients had tested positive for the Human leukocyte antigen (HLA). Of these patients, 11 (84.61%) of them had the HLA-DQ2 and two (15.38%) the HLA-DQ8. Conclusion: The use of serological investigations for CD should be considered in women with unexplained infertility given that the introduction of a GFD has demonstrated favorable outcomes in achieving pregnancy.


Trees are commonly used to represent proximity relations that emerge, for instance, from studies of classification, similarity, and identification. Trees are employed to describe the data, explore their structure and model their generating process. They offer a convenient graphical display that is readily interpretable in terms of a hierarchy of clusters (Sokal &Sneath, 1963) or in terms of common and distinctive features (Tversky, 1977). The simplest tree structure is the hierarchical clustering model (Jardine & Sibson, 1971; Johnson, 1967) based on the ultrametric inequality, which states that for any triple of points the two larger distances are equal. That is, any three points can be labeled x, y, z such that d(x, z) = d(y, z) >_ d(x, y). This assumption gives rise to a tree in which all the endpoints (leaves) are equally distant from the root. The ultrametric tree is highly restrictive because any two elements of one cluster must be equally similar to any other element outside the cluster. This restriction is relaxed in the additive tree (e.g., Cunningham, 1978; Sattath & Tversky, 1977), where the leaves are not necessarily equidistant from the root. The additive tree provides greater flexibility than the ultrametric tree, but it too cannot accomodate (nonnested) overlapping clusters because any two clusters in a tree are either nested or disjoint. Throughout the paper we use the standard abbreviations (e.g., HICLUS, ADDTREE, ADCLUS) for scaling algorithms, and the unabbreviated forms (e.g., hierarchical clustering, additive tree, additive clustering) for the respective models. This article describes a new representation of proximity relations, called an extended tree, which accommodates nonnested feature structures while maintaining the basic property of a tree that every pair of points is joined by a unique path. To motivate and


The invention discloses an information receiving method, an information sending method, devices and a system. When requesting to be connected to a network through an access point (AP), a mobile terminal respectively sends a communication signaling to an access controller (AC) and a broadband remote access server (BRAS) through the AP; the AC submits an acquired equipment identifier of the AP and an acquired terminal identifier of the mobile terminal to the BRAS through an established AC-BRAS tunnel; and after receiving the equipment identifier of the AP and the terminal identifier of the mobile terminal, the BRAS acquires user information and the terminal identifier of the mobile terminal through the AP and binds the user information corresponding to the terminal identifier of the mobile terminal with the equipment identifier of the AP, so that the BRAS can know the AP through which each user is connected to the network, and the user can be precisely positioned to the AP level; and therefore, wireless local area network (WLAN) differential services can be deployed and performed favorably.


Sitagliptin (MK‐0431) is an oral, potent, and selective dipeptidyl peptidase‐IV (DPP‐4) inhibitor developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. This multicenter, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study examined the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects of sitagliptin in obese subjects. Middle‐aged (45–63 years), nondiabetic, obese (body mass index: 30–40 kg/m2) men and women were randomized to sitagliptin 200 mg bid (n = 24) or placebo (n = 8) for 28 days. Steady‐state plasma concentrations of sitagliptin were achieved within 2 days of starting treatment, and >90% of the dose was excreted unchanged in urine. Sitagliptin treatment led to ∼90% inhibition of plasma DPP‐4 activity, increased active glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) levels by 2.7‐fold (P < .001), and decreased post—oral glucose tolerance test glucose excursion by 35% (P < .050) compared to placebo. In nondiabetic obese subjects, treatment with sitagliptin 200 mg bid was generally well tolerated without associated hypoglycemia and led to maximal inhibition of plasma DPP‐4 activity, increased active GLP‐1, and reduced glycemic excursion.


Lie algebra L is called solvable if its derived series terminates in the zero subalgebra and also it is nilpotent if the lower central series become zero eventually. In this paper we will review the concepts and definitions of solvable and nilpotent Lie algebras and then describe some important conditions that finite dimensional lie algebras of characteristic zero are nilpotent and solvable.


Any attempt to engage Hegel's philosophy with Nietzsche's must first identify common ground among their apparently radically divergent concerns, commitments, methods, and conclusions. One approach, variously developed in studies by Lowith, Kaufmann, Breazeale, and Houlgate, is to compare Hegel's and Nietzsche's criticisms of traditional metaphysics. In Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche, however, Elliot L. Jurist adopts an alternative approach: he undertakes to show that Hegel and Nietzsche share an essentially 'cultural', or 'psychological', conception of philosophy, and, more specifically, that they articulate comparable, and even complementary, accounts of what it is to 'live well' in modernity. In the first part of the book, Jurist presents the conception of 'philosophy' which he attributes to Hegel and Nietzsche. Firstly, he insists that Hegel and Nietzsche understand philosophy as fundamentally both rooted in and engaging with 'culture' or 'psychology'. They are thus supposed to refuse that conception of philosophy which would exclude 'cultural' or 'psychological' analysis in the name of autonomous rational enquiry a conception which, according to Jurist, is exemplified by Descartes' sceptical method, still prevails in the shadow of 'analytic' philosophy, and 'condemns philosophy to be only about itself (p.86). In particular, Jurist maintains that Hegel's and Nietzsche's philosophies are primarily concerned with what he calls the 'psychology of knowledge' — that is, knowledge considered not merely in terms of rational justification, but as a living reality, a matter of 'living well'. According to Jurist, this concern is manifest in the notion of 'cognition' that Hegel articulates in the Phdnomenologie des Geistes, a notion that encompasses both rational justification, understood as essentially intersubjective, and psychological 'satisfaction' or 'well-being', a lived 'meaning' for the knower. Jurist claims that Nietzsche's 'perspectivism' similarly insists on the psychological, evaluative determinants of knowledge, and on the task of determining not so much the grounds of genuine knowledge as the value of knowledge for the knower.


This project will develop a heart rate sensing system for heart attack detection. It is aimed to help heart disease patients to detect a crucial situation when heart attack occurs and send alarm to an emergency contact so that a rapid follow up can be conducted during the heart attack. The final device of this project is expected to be able to monitor heart rate of patients, provide a warning signal to patients when the heart rate reaches a warning level and send an alarm to a registered number about the situation in a form of Short Message Service (SMS) or a call. This device also required to send the current location of the patient to the registered number. This project will use Arduino board as the microcontroller, a pulse sensor to measure the heart rate, a Global Service Mobile (GSM) module for sending SMS and call. This project also implements the Global Positioning System (GPS) module to provide the location.


Targeted cancer therapy has become one of high potential cancer treatments. Human topoisomerase II? (hTopoII?) and Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) are proteins that play important roles on cell cycle. The hTopoII? catalyzes the cleavage and rejoining of double-stranded DNA while EGFR function on cell signaling. Thus, the two proteins have been suggested as molecular target for the development of novel cancer therapeutics. A series of 47 chalcone derivatives was screened against hTopoII? and EGFR-TK by in silico and in vitro techniques. Chalcone 3d showed a high cytotoxicity with IC50 values of 10.8, 3.2 and 21.1 ?M against the HT-1376, HeLa and MCF-7 cancer cell lines, respectively, while 1c, 2a, 3e, 4e and 4t exhibited potent compounds against A431 with IC50 values < 10 ?M. To confirm the result the inhibition of those chalcone on enzyme assay was obtained. The 3d showed an inhibitory activity against hTopoII? that was better than the known inhibitor, salvicine. Only three chalcones (1c, 2a and 3e) had an inhibitory activity against EGFR-TK with relative inhibition percentages closed to the approved drug, erlotinib. The binding interaction of potent chalcones complex with hTopoII? and EGFR-TK were studied using molecular dynamics simulation. The observed 3d/hTopoII? interactions affirmed that 3d strongly interacts with the ATP binding pocket residues while 1c, 2a and 3e/EGFR-TK were well occupied within the ATP binding site and strongly interacted with the 7 hydrophobic residues including the important hinge region residue M793. From ADMET properties, all six chalcones could be served as a lead compounds for development of hTopoII? and EGFR-TK inhibitors. The information of drug development can be obtained by quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques. A series of chalcone derivatives against A431 were subjected to QSAR analyses. The MLR equation indicated a good correlation between observed and predicted values with R2 = 0.968. The understanding of the relationship between structures and pharmacological effects and the ligand-protein binding pattern leads to important information for the design of high potential anti-cancer drugs.?


Capital investment refers to the investment in projects whose results would be available after a year for the maximization profit of the company, the company should take right investment decision or accept right investment proposal which will help in achieving expected flow of benefits at the right time. The methodology for carrying out the project was mainly through personal interaction. Secondary data obtained through various media like fact sheets, internet, business magazines, news papers, books of various authors etc. This paper involves the concept of capital investment decisions followed by every large manufacturing companies like Walchandnagar Industries Limited. Keyword: Capital Investment, Capital Budgeting, Tolls of Capital Budgeting and Role in manufacturing company.


Oryctes rhinoceros L is one of the major pest of oil palm plantation which can cause damage to 69%. Attacks sheath of leaf that has not been opening and the growing point, this cause disruption of plant growth. Conventional control usually used by the farmer is by using chemical insecticides which can result negative impacts to humans and environment. The use of aggregation pheromons is an alternative control to reduce the population of Oryctes rhinoceros in the field which save for humans and environment. The purpose of this reseach is to obtain the effective height of pheromone traps for Oryctes rhinoceros beetle, and conducted in the oil palm plantation owned by the farmers in four villages located in the district of Tambang. Using a Randomizeed Block Design ( RBD) with three treatments and four replications. The treatments are trap heights, 2 meters, 3 meters and 4 meters. The parameters measured were the first time Oryctes rhinoceros L traped, the number of Orycte rhinoceros males trapped, the number of Oryctes rhinoceros females was trapped, the number of Oryctes rhinoceros males and females was trapped. The results indicate that the addition of the height of traps do not influence the treatmants. 4 meters trap can trap more, that is 14.5 Oryctes rhinoceros beetle during 6 weeks.


complex flavor liquor originates from the multi-flavor liquor in 1970s. The complex flavor liquor products have developed since 21st century by liquor making companies such as Xifen, Site and Jiugui liquor making companies. Now, many liquor making industries have produced complex flavor liquor by multi-grain, rational combination of various flavor types and other technologies, which reflects the breakthrough of conventional liquor blending idea. With the innovation of complex flavor liquor making technology, as well as the research and analysis of mechanism of complex fragrance formation, the quality of complex flavor liquor products will become perfect.


Diet has a key role in determining urinary chemistry and can influence the risk of stone formation. The nutritional risk factors include an inadequate intake of fluids or excessive intake of foods rich in oxalates, sodium, calcium or animal protein. Diet influences urinary constituents and pH, which may affect stone nucleation and growth.


Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important carbon pool sensitive to land use change (LUC). There are concerns that at the end of PECs cultivation cycle, the re-conversion of these crops back to arable land could negatively impact the SOC stock. However, a positive effect of reconversion on SOC is possible, due to the high amount of C added to the soil with the disruption of belowground biomass (BGB) during re-conversion process. In this study, C storage potential in SOC and BGB of six perennial energy crops (PECs) was measured in a 11 years old field trial in Italy before its reconversion to arable land. SOC dynamics and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission were measured in the first two years after the reconversion. SOC and GHG measurements were compared to ECOSSE soil carbon model predictions (run for a LUC from arable land to PECs and reconversion to arable land) to understand SOC dynamics. After 11 years of cultivation, PECs significantly increased SOC stock respect to arable land. In average, BGB accounted for the 68% of total carbon stocked by PECs. The ECOSSE soil carbon model successfully simulated the dynamics of SOC pool and the GHGs emissions from soil after the re-conversion of PECs.


PP detonator truck used the technology of American Ireco Chemical Industrial Company,most of the hydraulic pressure motor structure used the cycloid hydraulic pressure motors.This article combines with the technology of this kind motor,introduces the working principle,swing parameter,structure characteristic,distribution form,and also introduces the technical points and notice items of maintain.


We have Employed cyclic voltammetry, chronocoulome and the method of steady state polarization curve to study electrochemistry behavior of ascorbic acid at modified glassy carbon electrode of multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The process is a unreversible diffusion controlled process. Its high-point current is 1.500×10 -5A and its diffuse coefficient is 1.634×10 -5cm2/s.Electrode process speed constant is 1.694×10 -3㎝/s at the time of normal electrode potential.


With the development of information technology, business intelligence and analytics (BI & A) has been applied in more and more fields. On the one hand, emerging application scenarios continue to appear; on the other hand, a huge number of multi-source heterogeneous data can be stored, greatly increasing the demand for data fusion, which requires a broader meaning. Traditional information fusion is mainly used in engineering fields. Based on the WSR systems methodology and the relative research, a new data fusion research framework of BI & A mainly used in economy, finance and management was constructed, which includes three fusion levels: data level, information level and knowledge level. At the data level, data can be selected from three dimensions to extract and construct understandable feature information. At the information level, multiple methods combined with domain knowledge are integrated to construct models and mine knowledge. At the knowledge level, low-level knowledge, expert opinions, decision-makers' experience and other factors are fused to infer and summarize deeper knowledge and provide support for decision-making. The proposed data fusion framework of BI & A shows the important role in the whole business intelligence process, and some applications of data fusion in economy, finance and management were listed in the paper.


This was prepared as a background paper for the World Development Report 2003, and was presented at the World Bank's Urban Forum in April 2002. Its four key messages are the following: a) Cities in developing countries are severely threatened by the impacts of climate change that already cost them billions of dollars and compound other ongoing developmental challenges; b) Given the limited role of the developing world in the historical accumulation of greenhouse gases, there are increasing expectations that financial assistance for adaptation to climate change should be provided by OECD countries; c) There is emerging evidence that some of The World Bank's infrastructure projects are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and as a consequence may be unable to fully meet their objectives and provide the full range of benefits expected when they were financed; and d) Given that some 30 percent of The World Bank's investments are in urban areas, an increased ability by the Bank's infrastructure staff to incorporate climate change considerations into project design would play a positive role in assisting cities.


Abstract Artificial propagation is often seen as a way to maintain and increase or augment fish stocks that have suffered from habitat loss and overexploitation. Large-scale hatchery programs for salmonids in the Pacific Northwest have largely failed to provide the anticipated benefits; rather than benefiting the salmon populations, these programs may pose the greatest single threat to the long-term maintenance of salmonids. Fisheries scientists, by promoting hatchery technology and giving hatchery tours, have misled the public into thinking that hatcheries are necessary and can truly compensate for habitat loss. I argue that hatchery programs that attempt to add additional fish to existing healthy wild stocks are ill advised and highly dangerous.


With ethanol as solvent,the total flavonoids from Momordica charantia L.was extracted by reflux extraction method.The effects of extraction time,extraction temperature and material-liquid ratio on the extraction rate of total flavonoids from M.charantia L were studied through single-factor and orthogonal tests.The results showed that the optimum extraction technology of total flavonoids from M.charantia L was ethanol concn.of 80%,extraction time of 2 h,extraction temperature of 70 ℃ and material-liquid ratio of 1∶12.Under this extraction condition,the extraction rate of total flavonoids could reach 1.51%.


Ti-45Al-5Nb alloy powders were used as the matrix, and added different contents of Y2O3. The TiAl-based alloys with excellent mechanical properties were prepared by vacuum hot pressing sintering technology. Analysed the effect about Y2O3 on the properties of the alloys. The results show that trace amounts of Y2O3 can effectively improve the physical and mechanical properties and refine the grain size of the alloys. When 0.25% Y2O3, the TiAl alloy exhibits excellent hardness, density, flexural strength and fracture toughness. TiAl-based alloys are mainly composed of brittle fracture.


SUMMARY Blue sharks caught in Irish recreational fisheries were tagged since 1970. The time series of tag and recapture data is the second largest in the northern hemisphere. A total of 16,719 blue sharks were tagged from 1970 and 2001. Most fish tagged in Irish coastal waters were female. There is evidence that this species undertakes a cyclical migration, in a clockwise direction in the north Atlantic. The majority of recaptures off western Europe were females. Most recaptures came from Spanish tuna and swordfish longliners working in the area between Iberia and the Azores. The next most important fleets were the Japanese and Korean longliners off west Africa, including the Canaries and Cape Verde. U.S. and Canadian longliners working off the Grand Banks area were the next biggest source of returned tags, followed by sport fishermen in the NE USA. These results indicate a single north Atlantic stock of blue shark. The small number of US and Irish tagged blue sharks recaptured from the Mediterranean Sea led to the decision to consider the population in that sea as a separate stock. RESUME


This research is to analyze the influences of employee training and organizational culture on employee satisfaction and their effects on employee performance. The objects of this research are the employees of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I (Persero). The 84 respondents filled the questionnaire were taken from the total population of 504 employees using Slovin's formula. The sampling technique used is a proportional stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed by using path analysis and multiple linear regression with the help of SPSS version 24 for Windows. The results of this research show that employee training and organizational culture directly have positive and significant influences on employee performance; meanwhile, both employee training and organizational culture indirectly have positive and significant influences on employee satisfaction. Finally, employee satisfaction has a positive and significant impact on employee performance of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I ( Persero).
Keywords: employee training, organizational culture, employee satisfaction, and employee performance

Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh pelatihan pegawai dan budaya organisasi terhadap kepuasan pegawai dan dampaknya terhadap kinerja pegawai. Objek penelitian ini adalah pegawai yang bekerja pada PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I (Persero) dengan total populasi 504 pegawai. Dengan menggunakan rumus Slovin, didapatkan 84 responden dengan menggunakan teknik pengambilan sampel proportional stratified random sampling. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan pendekatan analisis jalur dengan analisi regresi linier berganda dengan bantuan software SPSS versi 24 untuk Window. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh langsung yang positif dan signifikan pelatihan pegawai dan budaya organisasi terhadap kinerja pegawai dan terdapat pengaruh tidak langsung yang positif dan signifikan pelatihan pegawai dan budaya organisasi terhadap kepuasan pegawai. Selanjutnya, kepuasan pegawai berdampak positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja pegawai PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I (Persero).
Kata kunci: pelatihan pegawai, budaya organisasi, kepuasan pegawai, dan kinerja pegawai


The article presents the perspective of representatives of government agencies and companies belonging to big business, the modernization and the innovative development of Russian economy. Examined some aspects of relations between the state and business, the proposals are given on how to improve innovation processes in the Russian economy with the direct involvement of the state. The author concludes that, based on the experience of developed countries, one of the conditions for effective modernization of the economy by increasing innovation process is a consensus of views on the processes of modernization and innovation development between government and business.


Completely revised and updated! Contains new information from leading scientists on some of the most promising aspects of cancer research and clinical treatment. Shows how basic concepts of biology and medicine influence experimental study of cancer cells in the laboratory test tube. Examines and appraises non-surgical modes of therapy used in cancer treatment. Beginning with an overview and ending with a controversial chapter on immunotherapy, this new edition includes information on the genetic basis of cancer and the immune response, angiogenesis, and the chemotherapy of cancer. Offers a clear, non-technical perspective on a topic of crucial importance.


We investigate the structure of bipartite entanglement in one-dimensional spin systems. The standard approach is based on a reduced two-qubit density matrix and uses concurrence as the measure of entanglement. We show that for a spin system consisting of four qubits the structure of bipartite entanglement can be classified by rigged string configurations in a strictly combinatorial manner.


An N=1 Poincare supergravity action, suitable for describing the Starobinsky in- flation, is proposed. It extends f(R) gravity to supergravity in its old-minimal ver- sion. The action is parametrized by a single holomorphic potential and a single non- holomorphic potential, and can be dualized into the standard matter-coupled super- gravity action, with the "matter" given by two chiral superfields. The action extends the earlier proposals for embedding the Starobinsky inflation to supergravity, and can be further generalized to describe quantum corrections to the inflation. Our approach assumes the gravitational origin of inflaton and quintessence in the context of super- gravity, by using a single chiral scalar curvature superfield.


The endowment effect has been debated for over 30 years. Recent research suggests that differential focus of attention might play a role in shaping preferences. In two studies we investigated the role of biased attention in the emergence of endowment effects. We thereby derive predictions from an extended version of evidence accumulation models by additionally assuming a bias in attentional allocation based on one's endowment status. We test these predictions against an alternative account in which the endowment effect is the result of initial anchoring and adjustment differences (Sequential Value Matching model; Johnson & Busemeyer, 2005). In both studies we add deliberation time constraints to a standard Willingness-to-Accept/Willingness-to-Pay paradigm and consistently find that the endowment effect grows as deliberation time increases. In Study 2 we additionally use eye tracking and find that buyers focus more on value decreasing attributes than sellers (and vice versa for value increasing attributes). This shift in attention plays a pivotal role in the construction of value and partially mediates the endowment effect.


Structure Estradiol, a female sex hormone, not only plays critical role in human reproductive functioning, but also impacts bone health, cardiovascular system, and affects mode of behavior. It may also fuel certain diseases, such as uterine fibroids and breast cancer. Therefore, it is important to measure estradiol in human plasma for diagnostic and clinical research. Since estradiol is usually in a pg/mL concentration level in human plasma, the development of a sensitive quantitation method is critical. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a sensitive and rapid UPLC-MS/MS method for the determination of estradiol in human plasma. Sample Preparation:


Microtubule-dependent motors, kinesins, drive transport of proteins in the ciliary shaft. Prior studies suggested that the heterotrimeric ciliary kinesin may be dispensable for certain aspects of transport in specialized cilia of vertebrate photoreceptor cells. To test this possibility further, we analyzed the mutant phenotype of the zebrafish kif3a gene, which encodes the common motor subunit of heterotrimeric ciliary kinesins. Cilia are absent in almost all organs examined, leading to the conclusion that kif3a is indispensable for ciliogenesis in all cells, including photoreceptors. Unexpectedly, kif3a function precedes ciliogenesis as ciliary basal bodies are mispositioned in mutant photoreceptors. This phenotype is much less pronounced in IFT mutants and reveals that kif3a has a much broader role than previously assumed. Despite the severity of their basal body phenotype, kif3a mutant photoreceptors survive longer compared to these in IFT mutants, which display much weaker basal body mispositioning. This effect is absent in kif3a;IFT double mutants, indicating that IFT proteins have ciliary transport-independent roles, which add to the severity of their photoreceptor phenotype. kif3a is dispensable for basal body docking in otic vesicle sensory epithelia and, surprisingly, short cilia form in mechanosensory cristae even in the absence of kif3a. In contrast to Kif3a, the functions of the Kif3c-related protein, encoded by the kif3c-like (kif3cl) gene, and the homodimeric ciliary kinesin, kif17, are dispensable for photoreceptor morphogenesis. In addition to this, double mutants of different combinations of kinesins were generated: klp-6, kif17, kif3b, kif3cl. However, the double mutants did not display any obvious defects. These studies demonstrate unexpected new roles for both ciliary heterotrimeric kinesins and IFT particle genes, and clarify the function of kif17, the homodimeric ciliary kinesin gene.


This paper is concerned with discourse markers in Dena'ina Athabascan. One problem for transcribers and translators of Dena'ina texts is the great number of particles (i.e., words that cannot be inflected) that, according to speaker judgments "have no meaning" or "mean something else in every sentence." This suggests that these particles are discourse markers, whose function is to relate discourse units to each other and to the discourse as a whole. The paper contrasts two different forms of linguistic inquiry: direct inquiry in the field, by elicitation of meaning and function of the discourse markers, and indirect inquiry, by study of a corpus of Dena'ina narratives. While elicitation is helpful in obtaining an initial gloss for the discourse markers, it is shown that only the study of texts will give us insight into the function of such particles and allows us to understand the important differences between particles that, on first sight, appear to be synonymous.


Radar sounders (RS) have the unique capability of providing direct measurements of subsurface structures. Due to the complex nature of subsurface acquisition scenarios, the RS design and data interpretation require the support of SAR focused electromagnetic simulations of the subsurface targets. While SAR focusing techniques applied to real RS data are well-established, the same techniques cannot be directly applied to the simulated radargrams, due to the inherent differences between the real data and the data simulation processing chains. In this paper, we approach this challenge by adopting a novel approach to the focusing of simulated raw RS data. In the proposed approach the main focusing parameters are extracted from the simulator impulse response to properly consider any artefact and the inherent assumptions exploited in the simulations. The method has been applied to previously published raw simulated radargrams of two RS instruments. The results show that the method provides good results for different target scenarios and RS instruments.


The existence of a possible relationship between thiamin (BA) and pyridoxine (B6) is inferred in the various reports in the literature that either vitamin may serve as a growth stimulant for differing strains of brewers' or bakers' yeasts. Schultz et al. (1940) reported that several yeast species could be characterized by their requirement for either B, or B6. Atlin et al. (1949) differentiated cultures of top yeasts from bottom yeasts by demonstrating the stimulatory effect of either B, or Be for top yeasts. Stokes et al. (1943) reported a pyridoxineless mutant of-Neurospora which at any given level of pyridoxine nutrition demonstrated a growth response proportional to the available exogenous thiamin, though some growth was achieved in its absence. Several explanations for this apparent equivalence between thiamin and pyridoxine were considered for investigation, the most prominent of which were that: (a) either nutrilite might serve as the precursor of an intermediate from which the other may be synthesized, or otherwise catalyze the synthesis of the other, and so permit reversible interconversion of thiamin and pyridoxine; (b) one might serve as a functional substitute for the other in the synthesis of some vital intermediate produced through the influence of either. In the phase of the investigation described below, a comparative study was made of the quantitative effect of B, and BB on growth rate and on the carboxylase activity of one culture of top yeast, as well as of the general conditions under which a B, B. equivalence occurred.


Outcomes with a natural order, such as quality of life scores or movie ratings, commonly occur in prediction tasks. The available input data are often a mixture of complex inputs like images and tabular predictors. Deep Learning (DL) methods have shown outstanding performances on perceptual tasks. Yet, most DL applications treat ordered outcomes as unordered classes and lack interpretability of individual predictors. In contrast, traditional ordinal regression models are specific for ordered outcomes and enable to interpret predictor effects but are limited to tabular input data. Here, we present the highly modular class of ordinal neural network transformation models (ONTRAMs) which can include both tabular and complex data using multiple neural networks. All neural networks are jointly trained to optimize the likelihood, which is parametrized to take the outcome's natural order into account. We recapitulate statistical ordinal regression models and discuss how they can be understood as transformation models. Transformation models use a parametric transformation function and a simple distribution, the former of which determines the flexibility and interpretability of the individual model components. We demonstrate how to set up interpretable ONTRAMs with tabular and/or image data. We show that the most flexible ONTRAMs achieve on-par performance with existing DL approaches while outperforming them in training speed. We highlight that ONTRAMs with image and tabular predictors yield correct effect estimates while keeping the high prediction performance of DL methods. We showcase how to interpret individual components of ONTRAMs and discuss the case where the included tabular predictors are correlated with the image data. In this work, we demonstrate how to join the benefits of DL and statistical regression methods to create efficient and interpretable models for ordinal outcomes.


Phenols are considered as persistent organic pollutants. These are highly dangerous for human beings due to their toxic and mutagenic outcomes. Adsorption is considered as one of the most profitable method for removal of pollutants from aqueous medium. Adsorptive behavior of phenol from aqueous medium using rice straw biochar was examined. The rice straw biochar was characterized using Scanning Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy and Fourier transform Infra-red Spectroscopy. The effect of different process parameters, namely initial phenol concentration and contact time were examined. The micro porous structure on rice straw supported the absorption. About 70% of phenol was removed 60 minutes.


Although thermal hysteresis might be a problem in the magnetocaloric refrigeration, the same is not necessarily true for thermomagnetic motor applications. This work presents a comparison of the magnetocaloric properties of materials with first order magnetic transition (having large or narrow thermal hysteresis) to those with second order magnetic transition, assessing the application of these materials in thermomagnetic motors through a thermodynamic approach. Results show that the larger the thermal hysteresis, the higher the specific work produced in a thermal cycle. This allows operation at higher temperature differences with high efficiency relative to Carnot efficiency, when compared with systems using narrow hysteresis and second order transition materials.Although thermal hysteresis might be a problem in the magnetocaloric refrigeration, the same is not necessarily true for thermomagnetic motor applications. This work presents a comparison of the magnetocaloric properties of materials with first order magnetic transition (having large or narrow thermal hysteresis) to those with second order magnetic transition, assessing the application of these materials in thermomagnetic motors through a thermodynamic approach. Results show that the larger the thermal hysteresis, the higher the specific work produced in a thermal cycle. This allows operation at higher temperature differences with high efficiency relative to Carnot efficiency, when compared with systems using narrow hysteresis and second order transition materials.


Abstract : This study encompasses crustal studies obtained with seismic waveform data from stations throughout the Middle East. This effort generates an unprecedented dataset for this region consisting of 173 seismic stations, including 53 high-quality broadband stations and over 58,000 local and regional events. The data offer maximum coverage throughout the region to conduct double-difference tomography generating high-resolution ( degree) 3D P- and S-wave velocity models of the crust. A joint-inversion approach that solves simultaneously for hypocenter locations and velocity estimates is adopted. The high-resolution velocity models will cover much of the Middle East and thus help to better identify and more precisely locate future events in this region. The Zagros Mountains exhibit tectonic features resulting from the collision of the Arabian and Eurasian plates. Investigations of Pn and Pg anisotropy throughout the Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq reveal azimuthal velocity variations on the order of 2%.


This study was carried out to investigate the antioxidant effect of Rhus verniciflua Stokes (RVS) extracts. The antioxidant activity of ethanol and water extract from RVS was examined on model systems and cooked beef, respectively. As concentration of RVS ethanol extract increased (1, 10, 100, and 1,000 ppm), the reductive activity of DPPH (2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) was significantly increased (14.79, 75.08, 82.02, and respectively) (p treatment The maximum antioxidant activity appeared at pH 6.0 in meat homogenate and at pH in liposome. Cooked beef mixed with Rhus verniciflua Stokes water extract showed significantly lower TBARS value, POV during storage for 4 days at (p


There is still no definite theory about the role because of complicacy of the acoustic wave in cylinder during combustion.Base on the characters of the chamber,an acoustic model is built.Coupled with kiva and acoustic software SYSNOISE by fortran language,the responses of pressure wave is calculated in the combustion chamber under multi-point stimulation.Preliminary studying on the pressure field's character is carried out.It is found that the modes of combustion chamber rise up with the chamber temperature.The results indicate that the pressure oscillation starts from the premixed combustion and the pressure rise up with the fuel injection timing.


Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) is normally propagated vegetative through stem cuttings. Number of factors such as climate, type of cuttings, rooting media, etc. governs the growth and survival of the saplings. Striking effects of different cutting lengths and cutting diameters on growth and survival were observed under Mist Chamber and Agronet shade conditions. The present study was conducted to come out with recommendations regarding appropriate ranges of cutting lengths and cutting diameters for optimum growth and survival of Patchouli in nursery stage. Through the efficient statistical computer algorithm RCDA by varying the different diameters and lengths, results are computed, tested and verified with the maximum survival and growth. The RCDA algorithm helped in processing of datasets into performance groups to better understand the effects of different diameters, lengths of cuttings on survival and growth of patchouli plant.


The objective of this study was to select common bean parents and populations aiming to obtain elite lines resistant to WM by estimating general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) for WM severity in three field nurseries carried out in Brazil.


The Chinese 6\|sector nonlinear dynamic input output model is constructed by practice data which come from China statistical yearbook and China Static 6\| sector I\|O table. The methods for calculating the prices, the profit rate, the growth rate, and the output level of products are given in this paper when this system is on the balanced growth path. The special case of this model just is the Leontief linear I\|O model. The major shortage of linear Leontief I\|O model is that the capital and labor can not be substituted. The major shortage of most common CGE(computable general equilibrium) models is that they can only solve static equilibrium solution theoretically. Above shortages have been overcome with the method in this paper.


This article describes a body area network (BAN) for measuring an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and transmitting it to a smartphone via Bluetooth for data analysis. The BAN uses a specially designed planar inverted F-antenna (PIFA) with a small form factor, realizable with low-fabricationcost techniques. Furthermore, due to the human body's electrical properties, the antenna was designed to enable surface-wave propagation around the body. The system utilizes the user's own smartphone for data processing, and the built-in communications can be used to raise an alarm if a heart attack is detected. This is managed by an application for Android smartphones that has been developed for this system. The good functionality of the system was confirmed in three real-life user case scenarios.