A comprehensive LC/MS/MS workflow was developed for the quantitation of 510 pesticide residues with the intention to accelerate and simplify routine laboratory food testing. Compound transitions and optimized parameters were developed based on the Agilent Pesticide Dynamic MRM Database, which has over 750 pesticides including curated parameters for fast and easy transfer into the analytical method. The workflow includes sample preparation, chromatographic separation, mass spectrometry (MS) detection, data analysis, and interpretation. The workflow applicability was demonstrated using an Agilent 1290 Infinity II LC system coupled to an Agilent 6470 triple quadrupole LC/MS on three food matrices with different content types: tomato (high water content), wheat (high starch content), and olive oil (high oil content). For sample preparation of the tomato and wheat samples, an Agilent QuEChERS kit was used with dSPE cleanup. Extraction was performed with the QuEChERS kit followed by Agilent Captiva EMR—Lipid cleanup for preparing olive oil samples.


Two caisson installation technique were conducted in the construction of DONET (Dense Oceanfloor Network System for Earthquakes and Tsunamis); one is using piston core technique [1], and the other is vibration hammer technique [2] that is developed to install the caisson using ROV. This paper describes the background noise level of seismometers installed by two caisson installation technique are discussed.


Substance abuse Wikipedia January 26th, 2019 Public health practitioners have attempted to look at substance use from a broader perspective than the individual emphasizing the role of society culture and availability Some health professionals choose to avoid the terms alcohol or drug abuse in favor of language they consider more objective such as substance and alcohol type problems or harmful problematic use of drugs


AD9857 is a high capability digital quadrature up–converter. The system structure, work theory are introduced mainly and a design of radar echo simulation system is provided. The design implements digital up–convert based on the AD9857, having simple structure, good credibility, etc. This design can satisfy several kinds of signal's up–convert, and can real–time change the modulation mode of base signal and work parameter of radar.


Many countries are facing the dilemma of ageing society and the fatality rate due to degenerative brain diseases is rising. Therefore, swift advancements in the field of neuroscience are vital to our rapidly aging society. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become a promising neuroimaging modality for measuring the concentration changes of blood chromophores during a neuronal activity. This paper describes the development and working of our lab-developed fNIRS system which measures the concentration changes in oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin from the optical near-infrared (NIR) light signals. 128 light emitting diodes (LEDs) consisting of two wavelengths (i.e. 735 nm and 850 nm) are used in our system. This NIR light intensity passes through the brain tissue and get absorbed and scattered, is received and measured by using only single photodiode (PD) in order to compute the desired blood chromophores. The drive circuit of LEDs was designed by using serial peripheral interface based output expansion chips. Wireless communication based on Wi-Fi was employed in the system to transfer the light intensity values to our lab-developed software running on a Windows based computer. The software has the capacity to show the data plots in real-time as well as store the information for offline evaluation. The functionality of the system was tested using a phantom of known scattering and absorption coefficients instead of human brain. The LEDs and PD were placed firmly on the phantom and different arrangements for light shooting were utilized to yield rigorous testing data. The tested system exhibited the measured optical signal intensity values for both wavelengths that are used to measure oxy and deoxyhemoglobin changes in 128 channels.


observation that at the peak of this response the shape of the pulse wave may be considerably altered. Since the configuration of the arterial pulse wave and the heart rate are easily obtained with an external pickup, it seemed of interest to determine whether these two parameters showed significantly different responses in normal and atherosclerotic subjects after amyl nitrite administration.


With the single cell cloning technique, we cloned H2D8 subline from H 22 cell line stored by China Center for Type Culture Collection in Wuhan (Wuhan H 22 ). Then the comparative analysis of Wuhan H 22 and H2D8 about their dependence on serum when cultured in vitro , growth feature in vivo , pathomorphism and therapeutic feature to CTX were carried on. With the results, we found that there was no significant difference between H2D8 and Wuhan H 22 about the dependence on serum, growth feature in vivo and pathomorphism. When the mice bearing tumor were treated with CTX,the restrain neoplastic rates of H2D8 was higher than that of Wuhan H 22 . It means that H2D8 clonal cell line retained the characteristics of Wuhan H 22 cell lines about the dependence on serum when cultured in vitro , grouwth feature in vivo and pathomorphism. H2D8 has higher sensitivity on the chemotherapy feature to CTX than that of Wuhan H 22 .


This article examined the time-varying effects of external shocks that determine inflation on Chinese and Korean consumer price index (CPI) inflation, using data from the period 2010:1 to 2013:4. For this experimentation, we adopted the Kalman filter algorithm. Key findings include the following: first, the lagged CPI inflation is the main determinant of inflation rate in both China and Korea that is significant and has positive effects. Second, as expected, the effects of independent variables on CPI inflation rate have a considerable difference in China and Korea from the coefficients' size and sign. Especially, China's CPI inflation is mainly affected by domestic output growth, while Korea is more readily affected by external shocks. Third, we confirmed the time-varying effects. For instance, the positive effect of the output variable is decreasing in the Chinese inflation equation, but its negative effect is decreasing in the Korean inflation equation. Finally, we can guess Korea is a more import dependent economy than China and also the trends of estimated coefficients of China's inflation are changing similarly to Korea. It has been proved from recent changes that there is a decreasing effect of output growth, but negatively and increasing effects of exchange rate and import dependence. Hence, those recent changes imply that this is caused by the change of the Chinese economy to be more trade dependent as well as we cannot deny the possibility of the external factors that play a role in CPI inflation, and its influence is gradually increasing in China.


The applicability of standard methods of calculating the sensitivity of linear systems related to the class of linear four-port devices with constant parameters for estimating the threshold sensitivity of parametric modulated electromechanical transducers is discussed.


In this paper we consider the question of whether there is a natural class of semilattices associated with a fixed equational class of lattices. We give four classes of semilattices which may be obtained from a given equational class of lattices and show that for the distributive case they coalesce into one class. An incomplete set of relations is given for the general case.


Our aim is to develop a microwave (X-band) antenna whose radiation pattern is electronically controlled. The radiation pattern of regular antennas is determined by the Fourier-transform of the phase and amplitude distribution on the antenna aperture. This radiation pattern is mechanically fixed so its alteration is impossible. Therefore let us construct an antenna system, which contains several antenna elements. All elements are actuated by separate transmitters; let us control the amplitude and the phase of the supplying currents of the antenna elements. This way, we are able to control the radiation pattern of the antenna system. The control is computerized so that there is a possibility to change the radiation pattern several times in a second.


In this paper, a novel design of dual-polarized microstrip antenna array for Ka band is presented. A single layer mirostrip antenna is excited by coplanar coupled method, which can increase the isolation between the two ports. From the measurement results, a steep isolation better than -33dB and cross polarization level less than -30dB are achieved with the presented design. Furthermore, the proposed antenna structure takes good features of simplicity and high integration.


We perform a $1/m_b$ and $1/m_t$ expansion of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi- Maskawa mixing matrix. Data suggest that the dominant parts of the Yukawa couplings are factorizable into sets of numbers $\vert r>$, $\vert s>$, and $\vert s'>$, associated, respectively, with the left-handed doublets, the right-handed up singlets, and the right- handed down singlets. The first order expansion is consistent with Wolfenstein parameterization, which is an expansion in $sin \theta _c$ to third order. The mixing matrix elements in the present approach are partitioned into factors determined by the relative orientations of $\vert r>$, $\vert s>$, and $\vert s'>$ and the dynamics provided by the subdominant mass matrices. A short discussion is given of some experimental support and a generalized Fritzsch model is used to contrast our approach.


It has recently been reported that bone marrow cells can efficiently engraft without marrow conditioning when implanted directly into the bone marrow cavity (intra-bone marrow transplantation, iBMT) in mice. We have successfully examined the efficacy of autologous iBMT in a cynomolgus monkey model in conjuction with an in vivo expansion of transplanted cells by a selective amplifier transgene (Ueda et al., 2004) and provide here the detailed parameters of our iBMT method. We injected retrovirally-marked autologous CD34+ cells directly into the non-conditioned marrow cavity of the femur and humerus after gently irrigating the cavity with saline. This transplant procedure was safely performed without pulmonary embolism. Gene-marked cells were not detectable in the peripheral blood at one hour and one day after iBMT as assessed by sensitive PCR, indicating that iBMT hardly generated a systemic delivery of transplanted cells. On the other hand, 2 to 30% of clonogenic hematopoietic colonies produced from the implanted marrow were gene-marked at 6–12 months after iBMT. Our iBMT method for non-human primates is thus discussed in terms of long-lived hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, bone marrow niche and long-term engraftment after iBMT without myeloablative conditioning.


measured velocity divided by theoretical velocity for each sort of tracer, versus liquid flow velocity. The solid lines indicate the values calculated from terminal velocities of each tracer. It is suggested that a great positive error mayappear in the case of the usual gas bubble method when the liquid flow rate becomes slower. The polystyrene beads may have also larger negative errors, although the density is almost the same as that of water. Although the traceability of gas bubbles in a liquid flow improves as bubble size decreases, it has been quite difficult to produce a crowd of very fine bubbles. Figure 4 indicates that the cloudy-bubble tracer is suitable for analysis of liquid flow within a lower range of flow velocity. It is considered that the cloudy bubbles proposed in the present work may have wider application in laboratories and industry, such as foam fractionation, flotation and so on.


The work presents a guide on producing a scientific article, following the methodological criteria of scientific writing and the instructions given by the Brazilian Technical Standard Association (ABNT) in its NBR 6022/2003, Information and Documentation – Article in scientific periodical print publication – Presentation. It exposes the need of attention concerning the content aspects (writing) in articles, regarding the structure presentation, the presentation and the reference's citation rules based on the technical standards. It also emphasizes the need of standardize the scientific communication, highlighting its importance and role when producing a top quality scientific article.


Although women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, most studies of earnings dynamics focus on men. This is at least partly because of the complexity in modeling both the decision to work (i.e., the extensive margin) and the level of earnings condition on work (the intensive margin). In this paper we document a series of descriptive facts about female earnings inequality, using data for three cohorts in the PSID. We then fit earnings-generating models that incorporate both intensiveand extensive-margin dynamics to data for early and later cohorts. We show that inequality in annual earnings of women fell sharply between the late 1960s and the mid-1990s, with over half of this fall attributable to declines in the extensive margin components of inequality. Our models suggest that about 70% of the overall decline can be attributed to the weakening of the link between family-based factors – including spousal earnings and the presence of children – and the intensive and extensive margins of earnings determination. Acknowledgments: This research was supported in part by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Grant MEP1301. We thank Dave Maré for many helpful discussions and Thomas Xiao for excellent research assistance. ∗Address: Department of Economics, 549 Evans Hall, #3880 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 and NBER E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com †Address: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, PO Box 24390, Wellington 6142, New Zealand. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


The article considers foreign and domestic experience of arrangement and functioning of roadside service objects, and observes a list of requirements concerning traffic infrastructure objects.


DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE DESTRUCTION OF MATERIAL IN THIN SHEETS, ESPECIALLY paper money, in an automatic sorting system in which sheets are successively CARRY one sheet with a transport device to the cutting mechanism, motor driven, HOLDING ROLLS OF BLADES, combing each other and where THE PROCESS OF dESTRUCTION AND / OR ITS EFFECT IS REGISTERED WITH IMMEDIATE SENSORS.


The cemetery at Ljubljana – Dvorišče SAZU is of fundamental importance for the research into the Late Bronze Age in the territory of the southeastern Alps and beyond. The recently conducted revision of the entire cemetery revealed that the oldest cremations should be placed already at the very beginning of the Late Bronze Age period. Such observations have, furthermore, been confirmed by the new AMS dating results. The analysis of ceramic finds from Ljubljana cemetery showed that the best analogies for them can be found in the territory of the northern Carpathian Basin. Due to analogies in ceramic finds, cremated bones from cemeteries of the so-called Piliny Culture in Slovakia (Radzovce, Šafárikovo) were also sent for AMS analysis. Further typo-chronological analysis of the bronze grave goods revealed that connections with communities from the northern Carpathian Basin were decisive not only for the formative phase of the cemetery in Ljubljana at the very beginning of the Late Bronze Age but also later on during the Early Urnfield period. In conclusion, all cremation graves in Slovenia from the Initial and Early Urnfield period are considered. Although their number is exceptionally small, it seems possible to distinguish two separate phases. The oldest phase can be correlated with the Br D/Ha A1 period (Ljubljana Ia 1 phase) and is dated from the 13th century to the first half of the 12th century BC. The second phase, covering the major part of the Ha A period (Ljubljana Ia 2 phase), ends around the middle of the 11th century BC.


The Integrated Research Biobank (IRB) at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IKCL) is the central biobank resource of the University Medicine Greifswald (UMG) for all biological materials collected within the framework of clinical and experimental studies carried out by internal and external researchers. The IRB is a core unit of the UMG and focuses on collection, processing and storage of mainly liquid biomaterials, e.g. blood, urine, saliva or swaps in established workflows and thereby securing highest quality standards. Aliquots are usually stored at –80°C in one of the two fully automated LiCONiC biorepositories or, if necessary, in one of the –80°C freezers. Up to now, the IRB stores more than 1.1 million liquid aliquots and the collection grows continuously. Currently, the storage capacity of the IRB is limited to 3 million aliquots. Funding statement: European Fond for Regional Development (EFRE) funded by the European Union (grant INZ-EFRE 1503). Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) is part of the Community Medicine Research net (CMR) of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grants no. 01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103 and 01ZZ0403), the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 81Z7400173). German Biobank Alliance (GBA) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 01EY1705). National Cohort (NAKO) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 01ER1301/18).


The aim of this chapter is to introduce and examine marketing concepts that will influence vital strategic alliances between corporations and agencies that use sport as a tool for development and peace. This chapter first presents and defines key concepts in this field. Subsequently, it examines some of the challenges that both corporations and sport for development agencies need to consider if they hope to construct sustainable alliances. Overall, through what could be labelled a reinvention of the potential of sport for good, how corporations can leverage this new trend are discussed.


Ensure the utilization of metadata accompanying the image file. In the imaging device 1, it activates the ground data 200 to be displayed by the ground image 100. Selecting one from a plurality of thumbnail-attached area (AR1) which is displayed on the ground image 100 is performed by the image pick-up operation, and the relevant information such as the shooting date and time of shooting, the location information so as to correspond to the picked-up image data. Then, if the relevant information during recording, to satisfy the condition attached to the image information to be set in the thumbnail-attached area (AR1), so that the thumbnail images of the picked-up image data attached to the selected thumbnail-attached area (AR1). Information, the processing


Immunoblotting studies using denaturing and nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis conditions were performed on 100 plasmas from 88 patients with suspected DIC, in order to determine whether the anticoagulant regulatory proteins C and S (PC and PS) cure altered in vivo during DIC. 70 of these plasmas from 65 patients contained 5-35% of PC antigen in the form of activated protein C (APC) complexed with inhibitor(s).24 normal plasmas showed no detectable APC-inhibitor complexes.The complexes in DIC plasmas had a MW of 110 K on SDS-PAGE, as did complexes formed when APC was incubated with plasma immunodepleted of PC, or when PC in normal plasma was activated with Protac C. On nondenaturing gels, the complex present in 69 of 70 patient plasmas had the same mobility as one of two major bands of complexed APC observed in Protac C-activated normal plasma. One patient plasma contained two forms of PC antigen complex. This patient had suffered a perforated uterus during an abortion. After Protac C activation of the patient plasmas, two APC complexed bands were seen. The 16 patients with >15% complexed PC antigen included 3 with severe infection, 5 with solid tumors, 3 with leukemias, 2 with vascular disease and 3 with other diagnoses. These patients had a higher mortality (69%) than the group as a whole and higher levels of fibrin degradation products. 13 of these 16 plasmas and 56 of the entire group of 100 contained a higher than normal proportion of PS in a cleaved form with an apparent molecular weight lower than intact PS on reduced SDS-PAGE. Mean levels of PS antigen determined by electroimmunoassay for 95 of the plasmas were as follows: entire group, 86% (92%); patients with infection (n=34), 76% (81%); patients with malignancy (n=37), 102% (105%); all others (n=24), 70% (74%) wherfe numbers in parentheses exclude patients with liver disease and 100% normal pooled plasma. These studies suggest that PS is cleaved and decreased in vivo and that PC is activated in vivo and complexed with a 50K MW inhibitor(s) during DIC.


Agrarian organizations and contracts the basic model optimum contract choice under alternative assumptions long-term contracts interlinked contracts global survey of empirical evidence contract choice and enforcement in an agrarian community - the case of upland farming in Indonesia community and market in contract choice - the case of the Jeepney in the Philippines land reform, new technology and agrarian contracts - the case of a Philippine rice bowl towards a general theory of agrarian contracts.


Neurinomas of the trigeminal nerve grow in the gasserian ganglion or trigeminal nerve root. The main bulk of the tumor may be located in Meckel's cavity or in the pontine angle region, depending on its origin, although the tumor usually lies in both locations and is therefore shaped like an hourglass. When the tumor grows in the former situation it is pressed against the base of the skull by the overlying, unyielding dura and, owing to this pressure, skeletal changes arise at an early stage: a sharp-edged, clearly delimited bone defect at the apex of the pyramid and in the floor of the middle fossa. The changes were described in detail by LINDGREN (1941) who demonstrated that areas of destruction in the tip of the pyramid were a sign that the tumor was also involving the posterior fossa. A conventional roentgen examination of the skull is thus the best method of diagnosis but provides only an approximate idea of the size of the tumor, which, however, may be determined by encephalography with examination of the cisterns. These changes are now well known, whereas the vascular changes produced by the tumor do not seem to have been studied in detail. The normal anatomy of the trigeminal region is shown in Fig. 1. The trigeminal nerve root lies infratentorially in the pontine angle. The ganglion is located supratentorially in a dural sac, immediately lateral to the dorsum


Version 7 simulations of the industry-standard network simulation software "OPNET" are presented of two applications of the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN), Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast mode (ADS-B), over VHF Data Link mode 2 (VDL-2). Communication is modeled for air traffic between just three cities. All aircraft are assumed to have the same equipage. The simulation involves Air Traffic Control (ATC) ground stations and 105 aircraft taking off, flying realistic free-flight trajectories, and landing in a 24-hr period. All communication is modeled as unreliable. Collision-less, prioritized carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) is successfully tested. The statistics presented include latency, queue length, and packet loss. This research may show that a communications system simpler than the currently accepted standard envisioned may not only suffice, but also surpass performance of the standard at a lower cost of deployment.


The skill of tackling the ball directly is to kick out or shoot the goal directly, which is the developing trend for modern football skill. It has to be strengthened to train the players' skill, physical ability and styles in order to improve the ability of tackling the ball directly.


ABSTRACT We investigate the impacts of great shocks (2003 Iraq War and 2008 Financial Crisis) on the correlations between oil and US/China stock markets, utilizing a novel MADCC (mixed asymmetry dynamic conditional correlation) model. This model successfully captures the coexistence of opposite signed asymmetries. We find that great shocks indeed increased the correlations. Further, results from the news impact surfaces indicate that correlations between oil and stock markets are higher to joint negative shocks; however, correlation between stock markets has stronger response to joint positive shocks.


A β-1,3-glucan which has characteristics of callose was identified as a component of the cell wall in stomatal guard cells in three species of the fern, Ophioglossum. This identification was made by the fluorochrome properties of callose when stained with aqueous solutions of aniline blue. Controls involved both the effect of solutions of different pH on autofluorescence of guard cell walls and the extraction of leaf tissues with β-1,3-glucanases before staining with aniline blue. An electron-translucent region between the plasmalemma and the cell wall proper was observed with the electron microscope and corresponded in position with the areas that fluoresced after aniline blue staining.Other components of the guard cell wall identified included cellulose, which was identified by staining techniques, polarization microscopy, and electron microscopy; and a phenolic substance identified by a number of staining reactions. The cell wall failed to stain with a number of reagents for the identification of lignin.


Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) initiative focuses on providing technological approaches improving traffic safety and efficiency by advanced communication systems. Vehicular V2V and V2I communication with IEEE 802.11p, along with 4G/5G cellular networking are the key technological approaches for this communication entity. Along with other demands, ITS require more accurate weather forecasts and services tailored for specific road stretches. This would also increase traffic fluency and safety, as well as allowing automatic driving. For this the local observations originating from mobile vehicles and local road weather stations are required, along with real-time delivery of services. The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has studied the exploitation of vehicular data as input for its road weather forecasts model. We have set up a vehicle winter testing track, operational truck fleet and 5G pilot services palette, each one supporting the target of ITS-enabled road weather services in real-life scenario, concrete development environment.


Abstract Data from seven herds representing 14 to 52 yr were examined with 2937 to 4651 observations for various analyses. Mean age at first parturition was 29.2 mo with heritability .16 and no trend over years. First parturition age was negatively correlated (−.05) phenotypically with productive life span (time from first to last parturition), total life span (−.05), and number of parturitions (−.06). The latter were highly correlated with each other, .86 to .97. Mean productive life span was 37.3 mo. total life span 70.0 mo, and number of parturitions 3.4. Mastitis and udder troubles were more apparent with Holsteins (51%) than Jerseys and Guernseys (22%), as were losses due to problems at parturition (4.8 versus 2.6 and 3.6%). Farm and breed effects were detected for nearly all variables, as were their interactions. Cause of such interactions remains unknown. Based on life tables, after first parturition Jerseys had longest predicted productive life span (61.1 mo), followed by Guernseys (57.4) and Holsteins (56.2). Frequency of culling for low milk yield increased over the years studied, but losses due to mastitis and udder troubles, reproductive failure, and calving difficulty remained essentially unchanged.


The main purpose of this study was to convey a more precise explanation of the arterial supply of the intestinal tract of the goat. Fifteen adult healthy goats were used. Immediately after slaughtering of the goat, the thoracic part of the aorta (just prior to its passage through the hiatus aorticus of the diaphragm) was injected with gum milk latex (colored red) with carmine. The results showed that the duodenum was supplied by the cranial pancreaticoduodenal and caudal duodenal arteries. The jejunum was supplied by the jejunal arteries. The ileum was supplied by the ileal; mesenteric ileal and antimesenteric ileal arteries. The cecum was supplied by the cecal artery. The ascending colon was supplied by the colic branches and right colic arteries. The transverse colon was supplied by the middle colic artery. The descending colon was supplied by the middle and left colic arteries. The sigmoid colon was supplied by the sigmoid arteries. The rectum was supplied by the cranial; middle and caudal rectal arteries.


While contentious tactics provide activists with a credible way to threaten corporate reputation, their extra-institutional nature is arguably less effective in fostering dialogue. This limits their effectiveness as a vehicle for what Hirschman called voice, namely, for helping corporations learn from deteriorating performance. Our study of so-called "shareholder engagement" points to an alternative form of influence. Our qualitative analysis of a leading American coalition of faith-based investors examines how its members file resolutions and conduct corporate dialogues to advance social and environmental issues. First, it highlights their ability to formulate emerging moral issues and their business implications; and second, their efforts at sensitizing corporations by influencing the internal corporate debate, simultaneously signaling loyalty and standing for what they believe. These two mechanisms give shareholders a moral voice that complements the contentious tactics used by other activists.


Let A be a class of objects, equipped with an integer size such that for all n the
number an of objects of size n is finite. We are interested in the case where the generating
functionn antn is rational, or more generally algebraic. This property has a practical interest,
since one can usually say a lot on the numbers an, but also a combinatorial one: the rational
or algebraic nature of the generating function suggests that the objects have a (possibly hidden)
structure, similar to the linear structure of words in the rational case, and to the branching
structure of trees in the algebraic case. We describe and illustrate this combinatorial intuition,
and discuss its validity. While it seems to be satisfactory in the rational case, it is probably
incomplete in the algebraic one. We conclude with open questions.


The realization problem of nonlinear time-varying input–output equations is considered. Differentials of the state
coordinates, necessary for realization, are determined by the vector space of differential one-forms, spanned over the field of meromorphic functions. Formulas for computing the basis one-forms are given, based on the Euclidean division of non-commutative polynomials. Moreover, it is shown that in the case of a reducible system, the subspace admits a basis with certain structure, explicitly related to reduced input–output equations.


The fundamental site period, T, is a key parameter for site classification in NZS 1170.5:2004. Many sites in New Zealand will fall into site classes C and D, where the boundary between the site classes is T = 0.6 seconds. NZS 1170.5 offers several methods of determining site classification. The intent of this paper is to expand on NZS 1170.5 and guide practising engineers towards more accurate and efficient methods for determining site period. We review methods to calculate the shear-wave velocity, then give specific examples for calculating the site period for five types of soil profile (uniform layer, shear-wave velocity increasing as a power of depth, shear modulus increasing linearly with depth, two-layer profile and three-layer profile). We find that NZS 1170.5 clause 220.127.116.11 for calculating site period at layered sites is unconservative and inconsistent with two other well-accepted methods for calculating site period. We consider the most accurate and efficient method of calculating site period for layered sites is to represent the profile as a lumped mass system, then calculate the fundamental frequency from the eigenvalues of the system. The successive application of the two-layer closed form solution is also considered an acceptable method.


A device was required to measure the flow rate of steam through a small thrust bearing over the range 0–1·5 kg/h at pressures varying from 4·5 to 10 bar abs. and for steam quality varying from 0·75 dry to 100°C superheat. The ranges appeared to be outside those of existing instruments and not covered by existing design data for differential pressure devices; nor could the authors find any published work on the metering of wet steam at these low flow rates. Accordingly a 12·7-mm diameter venturimeter having an area ratio of 0·25 was made from stainless steel and has been calibrated for wet steam using a compounded differential U-tube manometer. The manometer and associated equipment is extremely simple and cheap to construct, and consists entirely of easily machined parts and standard pipe fittings. The results indicate that the discharge coefficient is very low and approximately a linear function of Reynolds number over the range tested.


While magnesium cast components have found their application in the transportation industries the interest is now spreading to wrought alloys due to the possibility to get even more homogeneous and better properties compared to cast parts. Therefore alloy and process development especially for extrusion is a main concern to enhance the application of Magnesium wrought alloys. This paper gives an overview on the actual status of the process and alloy development of extruded Magnesium wrought alloys.


Fault-tolerance is becoming a critical issue on high-performance platforms. Checkpointing techniques make programs fault-tolerant by saving their state periodically and restoring this state after failure. System-level checkpointing saves the state of the entire machine on stable storage, but this usually has too much overhead. In practice, programmers do manual checkpointing by writing code to (i) save the values of key program variables at critical points in the program, and (ii) restore the entire computational state from these values during recovery. However, this can be difficult to do in general MPI programs without global barriers.In an earlier paper, we presented a distributed checkpoint coordination protocol which handles MPI's point-to-point constructs, while dealing with the unique challenges of application-level checkpointing. The protocol is implemented by a thin software layer that sits between the application program and the MPI library, so it does not require any modifications to the MPI library. However, it did not handle collective communication, which is a very important part of MPI. In this paper, we extend the protocol to handle MPI's collective communication constructs. We also present experimental results that show that the overhead introduced by the protocol for collective operations is small.


In this study, Epoxy resin that is a typical thermosetting resin was used as a matrix resin, and 3-phase composites (Epoxy reinforced by carbon nanofiber (CNF) and PAN-based carbon fiber (CF)) were manufactured. By evaluating mechanical properties, the thermal characteristic and the electrical characteristic of each composite, the effect of filler addition was investigated in detail. As a result of 3-phase composite was compared with 2-phase composite (Epoxy reinforced by CNF or CF), thermal conductivity was deteriorated. However tensile strength, Young's modulus and the electrical conductivity were greatly improved. Moreover, to improve CNF/Epoxy matrix adhesion, the oxidation treatment by heating in the air atmosphere was done to CNF. By the oxidation treatment for CNF, the improvement of the Young's modulus and tensile strength was admitted in only 2-phase composite. On the other hand, thermal conductivity and the volume resistivity were inferior compared with untreated CNF.


Using the Richards–Wolf formalism, we show that if an optical vortex with a topological charge of 3 and with left (opposite) circular polarization is sharply focused by an aplanatic system, then in the focal plane there is a reversed flux of light energy near the optical axis (on the axis itself it is zero), which is only 2–3 times less than the forward energy flux in the focus. It is also shown that near the optical axis the reverse flux propagates along a counterclockwise helix (spiral) around the optical axis. The reverse flux near the optical axis is also demonstrated by the FDTD-simulation of diffraction of a circularly polarized plane wave by a third-order spiral zone plate with a numerical aperture of about 1. A Rayleigh microparticle trapped in the area of such a focus should move in the opposite direction with respect to the direction of beam propagation.


Currently,most of digital business platform focused on commodity exchange,the application of platform was limited. The Construction of urban digital business and public participation GIS platform using GIS,virtual simulation and data mining consistent with city develop trends. This paper taking the construction of urban digital business and public participation GIS platform of Guangzhou as an example,detailed introduced the constructive content and key technology of digital business platform based on GIS,which including 2- D and 3- D map platform constructive technology,dynamic display between 2- D and 3- D map technology,creation of business database and POI database and realization of virtual advertisement.


The Oncologist 2002;7:259-260 www.TheOncologist.com Animals enforce a strict capital punishment on their cells. If any cell steps out of line, it is cleanly and promptly destroyed through the process of apoptosis. Candidates for apoptosis include cells that may be a danger to the organism, such as cells with damaged DNA or cells growing at improper rates. Apoptosis, however, is not restricted to rogue cells. It is also widely applied to normal cells that have simply become obsolete as organisms grow and develop. Of course, there must be checks and balances on this powerful system. In cells, apoptosis is controlled through a tribunal of proteins, together known as the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Together, they weigh the pros and cons of cell death at any given time. Some of these proteins are pro-survival, arguing that the cell is healthy and useful. They normally dominate, and the cell continues living and performing its daily duties. Other proteins are pro-apoptotic, Fundamentals of Cancer Medicine The Oncologist


This paper presents an enhancement method to improve the performance of the DC-link voltage loop regulation in a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)- based wind energy converter. An intelligent, combined control approach based on a metaheuristics-tuned Second-Order Sliding Mode (SOSM) controller and an adaptive fuzzy-scheduled Extended State Observer (ESO) is proposed and successfully applied. The proposed fuzzy gains-scheduling mechanism is performed to adaptively tune and update the bandwidth of the ESO while disturbances occur. Besides common time-domain performance indexes, bounded limitations on the effective parameters of the designed Super Twisting (STA)-based SOSM controllers are set thanks to the Lyapunov theory and used as nonlinear constraints for the formulated hard optimization control problem. A set of advanced metaheuristics, such as Thermal Exchange Optimization (TEO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA), Water Cycle Algorithm (WCA), and Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA), is considered to solve the constrained optimization problem. Demonstrative simulation results are carried out to show the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed control scheme in terms of grid disturbances rejection, closed-loop tracking performance, and robustness against the chattering phenomenon. Several comparisons to our related works, i.e., approaches based on TEO-tuned PI controller, TEO-tuned STA-SOSM controller, and STA-SOSM controller-based linear observer, are presented and discussed.


the moment of climax in the Middle English romance Amis and Amiloun has long been a source of palpable anxiety for modern readers because it involves Amis cutting the throats of his sleeping children in order to fulfill an obligation to his sworn brother, Amiloun. What is decidedly more difficult to gauge is the extent to which medieval audiences would have been appalled or reassured by this "perfect" act of devotion. the poem clearly establishes that Amis recognizes killing his children to assist his friend is a mortal sin, and yet he elects to do so anyway:


Although some gender activists and analysts question the efficacy of gender mainstreaming to take forward women's demands, the South African government has pursued the strategy within a number of government departments including the Department of Education. This article explores how the strategy is being implemented in one provincial education department. Using data generated in 2008–9 through case study methods that employed aspects of an ethnographic approach, a key finding was that both the social justice aspiration and the technical interventions associated with the policy are considerably hampered by lack of resources and a clear policy framework. Many charged with implementing gender mainstreaming draw on memories of activism and international policy declarations give promise of a possibility of a transformative fix, although the absence of resources to secure this remain a matter for concern.


A monolayer of inorganic nanoparticles and a monolayer of organic molecules have been electrostatically assembled in sequence. Such assemblies or organizations exhibit electrical rectification. When the sequence of the organization is reversed, the direction of rectification becomes opposite. In both n‐type ZnO/organic and organic/n‐ZnO assemblies, electron flow is favorable from the n‐ZnO nanoparticle to the (electron‐accepting) organic molecule. While the individual components do not show any rectification, substitutes of the organic molecule tune electrical rectification. Junctions between a p‐type ZnO nanoparticle and an electron‐donating metal phthalocyanine favor current flow in the nanoparticle‐to‐phthalocyanine direction. The rectification in a junction between a nanoparticle and an organic molecule is due to the parity between free carriers in the former component and the type of carrier‐accepting nature in the latter one. By observing electrical rectification with the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope, organic/inorganic hybrid nanodiodes or rectifiers on the molecular/nanoscale have been established.


In the previous paper', it was reported that the hydrogen molecule adsorbed on a platinum plate, is desorbed by a slow electron impact, being dissociated into neutral atoms by the latter. This experimental fact was explained as follows : The adsorbed hydrogen molecule which is in the 'G g state is excited into 3~u state by the impact, and then dissociated into the atoms with high speed, which causes them to leave the surface to give the desorption pressure. Generally, it is probable that the H2 molecule, whether in a gaseous or adsorbed phase, should be excited to higher electronic states than the 3~u state, even to the ionized states, when bombarded by an electron of higher speeds. On the excitation potential, considerably extensive studies have been performed with the hydrogen molecule in the gaseous phase2', while with the molecule in the adsorbed state hardly any has been reported. It is not known yet how the electronic, states of the hydrogen molecule in the adsorbed state are deformed as compared with those of the molecule in the gaseous phase. Therefore, the. direct comparison of the excitation potentials for the hydrogen molecule in the gaseous phase with those in the adsorbed state will make clear the perturbation of the electronic state caused by the adsorption. The purpose of the present work is to study the nature of the adsorbed molecule from this direction.


In order to analyze clinical features of delusive plot of depressive-paranoid syndrome among the cohort of patients of elderly and senile age, suffering from cardiovascular pathology, 100 patients of elderly and senile age, of psychosomatic department No 24 TMO "Psychiatry", Kiev, with the dominant depressive-paranoid syndrome in the structure of psychopathological disorders, was investigated. The study developed a classification of types of clinical arrangement of depressiveparanoid syndrome, among the studied cohort of patients, 9 types of clinical arrangement were allocated: anxious -persecutory, anxious-hypochondrical, anxious-self-blaming,


A novel mostly-air interconnect structure is proposed. Every metal line is surrounded by an air vacuum sheath on all sides and supported on the bottom by a series of solid dielectric beams. The vias are also surrounded by vacuum sheaths. Computer simulation shows that the total capacitance of the interconnect is reduced by about 45% and the RC delay is decreased about 55%. The effective dielectric constant can be reduced to about 1.7 using existing dielectric with k=2.9.


Continuous Seidel method for solving systems of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations is constructed in the article, and the convergence of this method is investigated. According to the method discussed, solving a system of algebraic equations is reduced to solving systems of ordinary differential equations with delay. This allows to use rich arsenal of numerical ODE solution methods while solving systems of algebraic equations. The main advantage of the continuous analogue of the Seidel method compared to the classical one is that it does not require all the elements of the diagonal matrix to be non-zero while solving linear algebraic equations' systems. The continuous analogue has the similar advantage when solving systems of nonlinear equations.


INTRODUCTION The United States is the third most populous country in the world after the two demographic billionaires, China and India. In 2015, the population of the United States numbered 321 million inhabitants, compared with 1.36 billion in China and 1.29 billion in India (PRB, 2015). When the first census was conducted in the United States in 1790, the population size of the country (as then defined geographically) was just under 4 million, which is about the size today of the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona. In 220 years, the United States has increased tremendously in size, from 3.9 million inhabitants in 1790, to just under 309 million in 2010 (Figure 13.1), to more than 321 million in 2015. In this chapter, I trace the patterns of population growth of the United States from colonial times to the present and then examine some projections of the US population for the future. HISTORY OF POPULATION CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES The Precolonial Period Estimates for the precolonization period of the size of the population in the land now known as the United States are not easy to obtain, and they vary considerably: "There is probably no single figure that can be accepted as the 'best' estimate of the late fifteenth century North American population" (Snipp, 1989: 9). According to Zinn, "The Indian population of [around] 10 million that lived north of Mexico when Columbus came would ultimately be reduced to less than a million. Huge numbers of Indians would die from diseases introduced by the whites. A Dutch traveler in New England wrote in 1656 that 'the Indians…affirm, that before the arrival of the Christians and before the smallpox broke out amongst them, they were ten times as numerous as they now are, and that their population had been melted down by this disease, whereof nine-tenths of them have died'" (2003: 16). The number of Native Americans continued to decline over the next centuries and totaled between 125,000 and 150,000 by 1900 (Thornton, 1990: 42). This decline resulted in part from attrition during the continual warfare in which they participated in the defense of their tribal lands, as well as from unusual hardships and, as just noted, from diseases introduced by the European settlers.


Abstract : Packed-tower, counter-current air stripping is a treatment process that can be employed for removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) from water and wastewater. The design of an air stripper is performed using a well- developed mathematical model of the process. However, the number of variables involved exceeds the number of constraining equations by two, with the result that a number of alternative air stripper designs exist for a particular water treatment goal. In selecting the optimum design among the various alternatives, it is important to consider the capital and operating costs associated with each alternative. This report describes an interactive, microcomputer-based program - the Air Stripper Design and Costing (ASDC) program - that enables rapid evaluation of alternative air stripper designs and approximate costs associated with these designs for user-specified treatment scenarios. The various components of the program are described in detail, a guide to program operation is provided along with example applications, and results of some verification tests are presented.


The purpose studio is to present a referential framework focused on defining what is the professional profile of distance education expert, a specialist in higher education. For this, a qualitative-descriptive methodology will be used, based on literature scientific review, as well as empirical studies. To achieve, first the perspective of the field in the current labor market will be described. Second, the most common activities will be defined. Third, an interview process will be presented to fill the position. Fourth, the prospective of the field of work will be determined. Finally, the final considerations of this document will be outlined.


By examining the official site of the world-renewned science and technology museum,such as the national air and space museum,London science museum,the Questacon and the Ontario science center,by searching and mining sporadic information and fragmented information,collating and extracting these famous science and technology museum free-open policies and practice initiatives,the study found that limited free with the difference in charges is a combination of the basic open-door policy practiced by science and technology museum,adequate and relatively stable funding is the prerequisite of running science and technology museum,innovative conventional project and expand extension services business is the fundamental guarantee of the open-free policy of science and technology museum,establishing a high moral volunteer team is the strong support of the operation of the science and technology museum. The study puts some enlightenment in order to provide some useful references for the sustainable development of China' s science and technology museum.


The influence of boundary conditions to the solution of Ginzburg-Landau equations for thin superconducting plates was learnt by numerical methods.


Objective.  The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) on peripheral circulation in rats with streptozotocin (STZ)‐induced diabetes.


The financial benchmark rate of return is gradually declining, and the free trade port policy is not enough to improve the investment financial benchmark rate of return. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation model for free trade port investment under the support of macroeconomics is proposed. A theoretical model of free trade port investment price fluctuations and monetary policy response is constructed under the support of macroeconomics, and the model is used to observe the impact of changes in free trade port investment prices on the economic effects of monetary control policies; thus, free trade port investment price fluctuations are constructed and as a result, a theoretical model of investment price fluctuations and interest rate policy responses in the free trade port is constructed to observe the impact of changes in investment prices in the free trade port on the economic effects of interest rate regulation policies; a theoretical model of investment and fiscal and taxation policy responses in the free trade port is constructed to observe the impact of changes in investment in the free trade port on the economic effects of fiscal and taxation policies. Explore the path of optimizing the comprehensive investment evaluation environment in the pilot free trade zone, and realize the development of a comprehensive evaluation model for investment in the free trade port. The experimental results show that the model can realize the comprehensive evaluation of free trade port investment under the support of the macroeconomy and has a good evaluation effect.


The impacts of 9 different planting densities on the conventional chemical compositions and quality of leaves of burley tobacco were studied.The results showed that different planting densities had a great impact on the conventional chemical compositions in the leaves of burley tobacco.Along with the increase of planting density,the contents of total nitrogen and nicotine basically showed a decreasing trend,reducing sugar content had a slight increasing trend,potassium content increased firstly and then decreased,and the changes of starch and Cl content were not obvious.Therefore,when the planting density was 19995~20835 plants/hm2,the leaf quality of burley tobacco was better.


The internationalization of services has become a critical element in the global marketplace. While the internationalization of services has increased in importance, the lack of empirically based research has been a shortcoming. This article empirically examines key characteristics (i.e., total sales, number of employees, age of firm, management's desire to export, perceived profit potential from internationalization, top management's foreign language skills, and international work experience) separating exporting from nonexporting domestic-based service firms. It provides a profile for the exporting service firm that is distinctly different than that of the nonexporting service provider. These differences suggest important policy considerations for federal and state export promotion agencies and strategy considerations for service firm owners and management. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Improvement of a previously described method of purification of α-galactosides, members of the raffinose family of oligosaccharides (RFOs), has been developed for lupins. The considerable amount of sucrose present in the RFO preparations obtained by the previous method has been removed by modifying the purification stage on diatomaceous earth and charcoal. The present method allows for the preparation of high-purity RFOs containing ∼99.4% of RFOs in the form of a white fine powder, which provides new perspectives for the production of pure α-galactoside preparations for their use as prebiotics in functional foods. Keywords: α-Galactosides; raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs); lupins


BAHAT, A., I. GELERNTER, M. B. BROWN, and Z. EYAL. 1980. Factors affecting the vertical progression of Septoria leaf blotch in short-statured wheats. Phytopathology 70:179-184. The meteorological factors affecting the development and vertical similar to the rate on the equally receptive semi-dwarf cultivars despite the progress of Septoria leaf blotch of wheat were assessed for equally difference in plant architecture and maturity. Functions were developed to susceptible dwarf (70-80 cm) and semi-dwarf (100-120 cm) spring wheat analyze the net contribution of climatological factors on the progress of the cultivar pairs of different maturity in both an arid and a rainy region in disease within the temperature range of 10-25 C. The vertical progress of Israel. In the dwarf cultivars, pycnidia of Septoria tritici were found the disease was correlated with the number of rainy and dewy days and immediately after leaf emergence; in the semi-dwarf cultivars there was a temperature indices 7-21 days prior to disease observation and disease 10to 20-day lag between the emergence of the four upper leaves and severity was correlated mainly with the number of dewy days and pycnidia formation on those leaves. The time lag increased for plants of temperature indices 7-21 days prior. There were lower correlations in the both dwarf and semi-dwarf cultivars in the rain-sparse region. The vertical arid region which was characterized by less rainfall, prolonged rainless progress of the pathogen from lower to higher leaves was affected by the periods, and hot spells toward the end of the growing season than in the distances between consecutive leaves--the "ladder effect". The rate of rainy coastal plains. vertical progress on the dwarf wheats under the severe epidemics was Additional key words: Septoria tritici, Triticum aestivum, epidemiology. Septoria leaf blotch of wheat, which is caused by Septoria tritici consecutive days with a minimum temperature of 7 C or less Rob. ex Desm., is a major wheat disease in many parts of the world, inhibited infection. Many investigators suggested 20-24 C as the particularly on the Mediterranean seacoast, in South America, in optimum range for disease development, but disease development the highlands of East Africa, and in Australia (11,13,17,18). Severe usually proceeds well over the range of 16-27 C (17,18). Certain Septoria leaf blotch epidemics which caused significant economic phases in pathogen development probably are temperature crop losses in the recently introduced semi-dwarf wheats dependent; however, specific information on the relationship (4,11,13,18) occurred in North Africa during the unusually wet and between disease development and temperature during the wheatcool 1968-1969 growing season. Although Septoria leaf blotch was growing season are lacking (15,16) reported in Israel on indigenous emmer (Triticum dicoccoides The objective of this study was to determine the relationship Koern.), on some'land varieties' of bread (T. aestivum L.), and on between environmental factors and the vertical progress of durum wheats (T. durum Desf.), only occasionally were Septoria leaf blotch on susceptible short-statured spring wheat appreciable yield losses sustained by the 'classical' commercial cultivars differing in maturity and plant height. bread wheat cultivars (3,4,6). The widespread and rapid replacement of the local wheats by the high-yielding cultivars, MATERIALS AND METHODS combined with favorable environmental conditions and changes in The trials were conducted during the 1975-1976 growing season agronomic practices, contributed to the recent occurrence of severe the tris Er e onducted in g searid leafat the Lakhish Experiment Station (situated in the semiarid leafbloch piphtotcs 4,1113,8).s uthern coastal plains [average rainfall of 300--400 mm] and There is little specific information on the relation of weather to the epidemics of Septoria leaf blotch. Saari and Wilcoxson (13) duplicated At the Bet-Dagan Experiment Station (situated in the reported that epidemics caused in wheat by S. tritici occurred in rainy centra:l coastal plain [average rainfall of 500-600 mm]). Five high-yielding, short-strawed, autumn-sown spring wheat cultivars countries in the Mediterranean basin in areas receiving 700 mm or more of rainfall annually, and that with decreased rainfall, the were sown,: susceptible early-maturing cultivars, the dwarf 'Barkai' disease becomes progressively less of a problem. Severe Septoria (V238-8822-1 I / Miriam 2; V238-8822-1 = Yt/ / Nrn10/ B2Ileaf blotch epidemics causing substantial losses in yield occur in the IC/3/FA), the semi-dwarf cultivars 'Miriam' (Ch53/2/Nrn semiarid southern plains of Israel with average annual rainfall of 10/B26/3/Yq 54/4/2 Merav), and 'Hazera 337' (Inia "s" [Son 300 mm or less (3,6). All stages of the infection cycle, from 64-Tzpp/Yq 54]); and two susceptible wheats with intermediate pycnidiospore liberation, dispersal, penetration, lesion maturity date, the dwarf, 'Bet-Dagan 131' (Yt//NrnlO/B21development, and pycnidial formation, are dependent on moisture, 1 C/ 3 / FA), and the semi-dwarf'Lakhish', a sib selection of the same both as rainfall and dew (7,8,15,17,19). Shaner and Finney (16) cross. All cultivars originated at the Volcani Center except Hazera reported that severe epidemics of Septoria leaf blotch occurred at 337, which originated at the Hazera Seed Co., Israel. Lafayette, Indiana in seasons with 40 or more rainy days from 1 Wheat plots (5m X 9m) were sown in four replications, each plot April to 14 June. Renfro and Young (12) observed that two separated from adjacent plots by 2-i-wide buffer strips to reduce interplot interference. The mean number of seedlings per square meter was about 250 for each of the wheat cultivars tested. Septoria leaf blotch epidemics were established by spreading wheat straw 0031-949X/80/03017906/$03.00/0 infested with viable pycnidia of S. tritici that contained viable ©1980 The American Phytopathological Society pycnidiospores, just after seedling emergence. Finely chopped Vol. 70, No. 3,1980 179 infested straw was spread over the wheat canopy twice during the Twenty randomly selected plants in each wheat plot were marked rainy days, approximately 10 days following the first straw for future observations on plant and disease development. The application. disease development throughout the season was assayed at 7-day Standard meteorological stations were placed at the center of the intervals from the detection of Septoria leaf blotch symptoms on wheat plots at the two locations. Each station contained a standard the main culms of each marked plant. The following parameters rain gauge, a minimum-maximum thermometer, a thermowere determined: hygrograph (Model 594, The Bendix Corporation, Baltimore, MD) fitted with a dew duration recorder (Machine Shop, Iowa (a) Disease severity: the percent of green area of each leaf covered State University, Ames). The dew duration apparatus operated on by pycnidia of S. tritici (5). the principle of recording changes in the length of a lamb gut (b) The maximum height (centimeters) above ground level at membrane (Gold-beater's skin method) fitted between two levers which pycnidia of S. triticicould be found on green plant tissue. connected to a microswitch and an electromagnet. The membrane, which expanded when wet and contracted when dry, was located at The phenology for each plant was recorded throughout the season plant height level in the wheat plot. in parallel with disease development observations according to the


Therefore, writing skills are very necessary in learning Indonesian because writing is one of the productive and expressive language skills for communicating indirectly. Through writing activities students can develop ideas, express something in writing in writing and those who are able to write are people who have the ability to listen, read, and speak and can also appreciate literature.


The three species of edible mushrooms fistulina hepatica, cantharellus cibarius, lepistanuda were collected from the Western Ghats and malnad forest area of Karnataka. Methanolic extracts of these three edible mushrooms were used in this study. Among the isolated mushrooms fistulina hepatica and cantharellus cibarius were showed satisfactory results. Determination of antimicrobial activity profile of all the isolates tested against a panel of standard pathogenic bacteria indicated that the concentrations of bioactive components directly influence the antimicrobial capability of the isolates. Agar diffusion assay showed considerable activity against all bacteria. These results are discussed in relation to therapeutic value of the studied mushrooms using the cup plate and paper disc methods. Gram negative microorganisms studied were Escherichia coli, Solmonella typhi, Morexella, H.influenza. Neisseria gonorrhoeae.


Hyperspherical partial wave theory has been applied in a study of equal-energy-sharing cross section results at intermediate energies in electron-hydrogen-atom ionization collisions. The calculated results at 54.4eV are found to agree generally with the corresponding ECS results and are also in qualitative agreement with the perturbative 3C and CDW-EIS results, except for certain angular domains.


Introduction:
 Ezetimibe (EZE) added to statin further reduces LDL-C and CV events. Prior studies demonstrated large inter-individual variability in LDL-C reduction with statins. Whether similar variability exists with EZE has not been reported in a large study.

 Methods:
 We assessed the placebo (PBO)-adjusted LDL-C reduction from randomization to 4 months in IMPROVE-IT, a double-blind RCT of EZE vs placebo (PBO) added to simvastatin (SIMVA) post-ACS. Inter-individual variation in % LDL-C reduction was calculated via rank-ordered subtraction of PBO/SIMVA from EZE/SIMVA. Patients not on study drug or with missing LDL-C values at either timepoint were excluded. Using the overall distribution of PBO-adjusted LDL-C reductions with EZE, we modelled the % of patients anticipated to achieve guideline-recommended LDL-C targets at 4 months with the addition of EZE across a range of baseline LDL-C values.

 Results:
 In 14,970 pts, the median baseline LDL-C in both groups was 80 mg/dL (IQR 65-96). The median change from baseline at 4 months was -37% (IQR -20% to -51%) in the EZE/SIMVA arm and -14% (IQR +7% to -31%) with PBO/SIMVA (
 Panel A
 ). The PBO-adjusted median change in LDL-C at 4 months with EZE/SIM was -23% with low variability (IQR -19 to -27%;
 Panel A)
 . Based on this distribution, modelling predicts that fewer than half of patients would achieve the U.S. and European targets of <70 and <55 mg/dL when the baseline LDL-C is >91 mg/dL and >72 mg/dL, respectively, with the addition of EZE to statin therapy (
 Panel B
 ).

 Conclusions:
 Addition of EZE to statin therapy results in a consistent median 23% reduction in LDL-C, with 75% of patients achieving at least a 19% reduction. The distribution of LDL-C reduction can be used to estimate how likely a patient will be to achieve guideline LDL-C targets with the addition of EZE to statin therapy.


This study extends previous research on abusive leadership by introducing mastery motivational climate as a construct describing the novel mechanism to underlie the relationship between abusive lea...


2 km width of 0·4 kIn This reef is unreported, while Footel8 and Reddiahl1 the of beach sandstones in A preliminary assessment of the status of two hitherto unknown coral knolls, one hi the Gulf of Mannar and another in the Andaman Sea, representinit the respective areas is made. The coral patches to~ether with the shore reef at Kilakarai, the only shore reef now known on the Indian mainland coast, borderinl1 tbe Gull 01 Mannar, are reported. It is suggested tbat some knolls in the Gulf of Mannar, such as Klinjampaar, may ultimately develop into sand cays by deposition durin~ cyclones. The knoll described from the Andaman sea, the top of which is now exposed in low sprin~ tides, indicates an up~rowth of about 1 fm after it is ori~inally sounded..


Visually demonstrating the behavior of texture mapping is beneficial to both computer science and art students. For computer science students it can serve as prelude to delving into the mathematical underpinnings of the topic, while in an art class it can be the main vehicle of explanation for students learning to use a rendering package as a medium of creative expression. The SIGGRAPH 97 Education Slide set covers not only the techniques of twoand three-dimensional texture mapping, but procedural textures, bump mapping, and environment mapping as well. In addition it discusses aliasing in texture mapping, and what can be done to counteract it.


The invention provides a dendrobium candidum compound preparation, a preparation method thereof, and an application thereof in preparation of drugs or health-caring products for promoting sleep. The compound preparation is composed with dendrobium candidum and gastrodia elata as main components matched with medicines comprising platycladi seeds, spina date seeds, caulis polygoni multiflori, fructus lycii and the like. The main components and the medicines are parepared into a powder, an extract or a preparation which is prepared with addition of pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials or auxiliary ingredients. The dendrobium candidum compound preparation can effectively promote sleep, can improve sleep status, can enhance immunity, is definite in curative effects, is free of addiction and dependence and is free of toxic and side effects.


The low automatic degree results in the poor quality in the small-medium ink enterprises in our country.This paper is about the improvement of the ink automatic production line.The working principle,hardware configuration and software program are introduced in the paper.


Grounded upon the elaboration of the designing principle for the performance assessment of cooperation projects with the trinity of enterprises,universities and research institutes,the papers puts forward the opinion that the assessment index results from the input and output,establishes an assessment matrix based on the Set Pair Analysis(SPA),and presents some examples to interpret its preliminary application.


In this paper, a practical query-bysinging/humming (QbSH) system is proposed that uses polyphonic music tracks such as MP3 and AAC files to create the reference database (DB) unlike conventional QbSH systems. To create the reference DB, we propose a method for melody extraction from polyphonic music signals based on harmonic structure. In addition, we propose a matching engine using modified dynamic time warping (DTW) that uses chroma-scale representation and asymmetric path of DTW to reduce the influence of melody extraction error. We implemented three different prototypes for its commercial applications like smart phone, laptop and karaoke. We evaluated the performance of the proposed practical QbSH system with monophonic and polyphonic music datasets, and confirmed that it has an acceptable performance for commercial applications.


therefore, we read that snakes drink both by lapping and by suction,we may surmise that theformer is forthe benefit ofthe tongue." The incubation of Pyt/zon sebe is described, and the viviparity or oviparity of snakes generally, is clearly shown to depend simply upon the longer or shorter retention of the eggs within the body of the mother, and to vary in the same species. That some species afford a refuge for their young, is regarded as proved, and the author believes that this occurs in viviparous snakes, or in those in "which from some cause or other extrusion has been so postponed that the young are conscious of existence before birth." The habit is referred to a knowledge on the part of the young of the locality which formerly afforded protection, and remembrance on the part of the mother of previous protection afforded. The protrusion of the glottis during the act of swallowing, so as to enable the snake to breathe while the entire space between its jaws is occupied by living prey, is another little-known point in the economy of snake-life that is rendered clear in these charming pages. Fascination is explained as of varied origin, in some cases curiosity, in others fear, in still others maternal anxiety for the fate of the young. The swiftly darting tongue is spoken of as a successful lure for birds, which appear to mistake it for a worm or insect. Cures for snake bites are discussed, and it is shown that though many powerful, stimulants are successful as remedies, no real antidote for snake-poison is yet known. The illustrations, though few, are well chosen, and most of them original, showing attitudes assumed by snakes tinder various conditions. The general reader will find the book a fascinating one, while the more scientific student will rise from its perusal with the consciousness that, though he might have previously known a great deal about snake anatomy, he has learned something new about snakes themselves.


Single-phase dc-excited flux-switching machine (DCFSM) exhibits low manufacturing cost and rugged structure. This type of machine has better efficiency and torque density than single-phase induction machine and universal machine. In addition, single-phase DCFSM can generate lower torque ripple than other types of single-phase machines, e.g. switch reluctance machine and brushless DC machine. These advantages make it suitable for low-cost variable speed applications. However, single-phase DCFSMs requires accurate position feedback from a position sensor to generate smooth torque. The position sensor such as an encoder is not permitted in the low-cost applications due to its high cost. To eliminate the position sensor, this paper presents a novel sensorless control scheme for single-phase DCFSMs. Rotor position is estimated with the position-dependent armature current ripple induced by injecting high-frequency square-wave voltage to the field winding at standstill and low speeds. At medium and high speeds, armature mutual flux linkage is calculated and used to estimate the rotor position. A seamless transition between these two methods is achieve by mixing the calculated position error signals as the input for a single position estimator. The experimental results show that with the proposed scheme, the single-phase DCFSM can accelerate from standstill to the rated speed with 50% load, and to the maximum speed with 25% load, respectively.


The tourism marketing plan for the Hotel School of the ESPAM was conducted at Bolivar Canton in order to solve the problem due to the lack of strategies to manage the hotel, needing real guests so students can have professional practice. The methodological procedure was divided into three phases: first phase was the situational analysis to determine the geographical area of study, then phase two the analysis of hotel school which was performed an analysis of the major areas through bibliographic research and interviews not structured, the visitor profile was determined by surveys in Zone 4 of Ecuador (Manabi and Santo Domingo), subsequently developed a matrix matching competition used to test differences between the Hotel School and the competition; and to determine a strategic analysis the SWOT matrix tool was used. Last phase is strategic marketing decisions, the elemental part which is determined objectives by the proposed mission, vision and policies, and executed strategies, which are segmentation strategies to know what type of segment is going to lead the development and differentiation strategy to set a comparison of the competition, the marketing mix strategy is also established at this stage resulting in the solution to manage the Hotel School.


Contents: Preface Chronology Five Hogarth series summarized Hogarth and the musical scene Music in Hogarth's scenes Rough music Burlesque music Solo fiddlers Ballad singers and ballads The Beggar's Opera and Italian opera Hogarth's The Enraged Musician Annotated index of Hogarth's instruments and musical scores Appendices Bibliography Indexes.


The electronic excitation energies of twelve isomeric methoxy- and nitrobenzofurans were calculated by means of PPP and CNDO/S-CI method. Based on the results of a configuration analysis a simple molecules-in-molecule-type model is proposed which in a semiquantitative manner completely accounts for the characteristic dependence of the UV spectra of these compounds on the position of the substituent.


TESTICULAR GRAFTS. 'DA. SmGez VORONoFr has recently published the results of his testicular grafts up to date in a volume entitled ,Quarante-trois Grefles du Singe a 1'Homme. In this he gives a full exposition of his ideas and of his work.' Dr. Voronoff has been the victim of a certain amount of misrepresentation and prejudice, largely owing to the premature interest which the lay press has taken in his work. It is work, of course, which must tickle the fancy of laymen, and is in its broad outline easily understandable by them. No doubt the use of monkey tissue for the rejuvenation of men-a return, as it were, to our ancestry for refreshment-has in it certain elements of humour which have not passed unrecognized. Judging Dr. Voronoff's work by his paper in London before the Congres Internationial de Chirurgie last year, and by this book, one must concede at once his honesty of purpose.2 We must apologize for having raised that point, but we think it well to do so in face of the prejudices which have greeted him. Dr. Voronoff describes in this book how the idea of testiculargrafting first came to him through his observations of


Background: Opioid addiction is a serious and growing global concern. Recently, herbal medicine has been popular for the treatment of opioid abusers worldwide. Unfortunately, the adulteration of herbal remedies with undeclared synthetic pharmaceuticals has been reported. In Iran, there are few reports on the adulteration of herbal remedies by synthetic pharmaceuticals sold as opioid addiction treatment. The aim of this study was to analyze herbal products used in opioid addiction treatment for the identification of synthetic pharmaceuticals as adulterants in the remedies.Methods: Forty commonly-used handmade herbal products for the treatment of opioid addiction were collected from herbal shops in Kermanshah (western area of Iran). After organoleptic examinations, the samples were prepared and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for detecting probable synthetic pharmaceutical adulterants.Results: The chromatographic analysis of the samples showed that 90% of the products had at least one undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient as an adulterant. The majority of the samples (n=19, 47.5%) had only one undeclared pharmaceutical. Diphenoxylate (n=24, 39.3%), tramadol (n=16, 26.2), methadone (n=8, 13.2%), and the combination of these drugs were reported as common adulterants. We detected the presence of buprenorphine and sildenafil as adulterating agents in the herbal formulations for the first time.Conclusion: According to the presence of undeclared synthetic pharmaceuticals in opioid addiction herbal products, as well as their threats to public health, awareness, in this case, is necessary.


In bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), greatly expanded frontal sinuses overlie the endocranial cavity and enter the horncores. A number of bony struts further subdivide the sinuses. Previous workers have suggested that the struts function as shock absorbers and/or strengthen the sinus against the forces of head butting. Under both scenarios, it is predicted that the struts should be oriented parallel to typical loads applied to the horns. In order to test this hypothesis, skulls of male O. canadensis were CT scanned, and structural anisotropy for the struts within the frontal sinus was estimated using the star volume distribution method. Measurements were taken at the base and midpoint of the horncores. Strut orientations were highly anisotropic. Struts were oriented parallel to the long axis of the horn at its base and oriented medio‐laterally distally. These results are contrary to expectations, suggesting that sinus morphology within O. canadensis is not primarily shaped by applied loads. Instead, the orientation of the struts may simply reflect the direction of expansion of the pneumatic diverticulum during pneumatization of the skull. Funded by SICB and an NSF GRF.


The present poor understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of estuarine water movement necessitates an empirical or semi-empirical approach to the circulation problem. The Tay estuary may be considered as a system for which the inputs consist of phenomena of marine and fluvial origin, and the output is the resultant fluid motion. The definition of the boundaries of the system and of the inputs is explained. The functional dependence of fluid motion is examined with respect to the existing knowledge of estuarine circulation and the economic and technological difficulties associated with prototype estuarine investigations. The results of these studies formed the basis for planning a field study of the Tay estuary. Data collected during the year 1969-70 has permitted the formulation of empirical relationships between parametric forms of the input and output variables. Thus, to a first approximation, the parameters of estuarine water motion can be predicted for particular antecedent input conditions.


A tourist cluster is a concentration of interconnected enterprises and organizations that create, manufacture, promote and sell a tourist product, as well as activities related to the tourism industry and recreational services, within a limited area. The use of the cluster approach in the tourism industry has been developed relatively recently. The cluster approach to the study of economic processes of formation of competitiveness is also used in a number of other theories. The article reveals the characteristics, structure and classification of tourist clusters. In this regard, the cluster is considered as a system capable of creating a special innovative environment conducive to increased competition.


The impact of Nd 2 O 3 , MoO 3 and RuO 2 addition on the competition between the crystallization of apatite Ca 2 Nd 8 (SiO 4 ) 6 O 2 and powellite CaMoO 4 phases which both may appear in High Level Waste nuclear glass (under certain specific conditions of cooling and glass composition) has been studied on a simplified composition belonging to the system SiO 2 -Na 2 O-CaO-Al 2 O 3 -B 2 O 3 . X-ray diffraction (at room temperature and high temperature) and scanning electron microscopy measurements have been performed on five glasses under two different thermal treatments. We show that RuO 2 acts as a nucleating agent for apatite. Moreover, neodymium and molybdenum cations seem to be very close in the glassy network as Nd 2 O 3 addition stops the phase separation of molybdates and inhibits the crystallization of CaMoO 4 . On the contrary, MoO 3 seems to favor the crystallization of apatite. For several samples, the evolution of the distribution of Nd 3+ cations after crystallization was followed by optical absorption spectroscopy.


provides a clear answer if we can assume that F' is Riemann integrable. Students of analysis will learn that if F' is Lebesgue integrable the same formula can be used, interpreting the integral in this more general sense. A full resolution of the problem requires a more general integral still, that of Denjoy and Perron (known frequently now as the Henstock-Kurzweil integral). The main question of this paper is, as it was for Lebesgue, whether a function can be recovered as an indefinite integral of one of its Dini derivatives?that is, when does the formula


The presence of some indicator microorganisms and pathogenic bacteria in guacamole sampled from restaurants and street vendors, and the behavior of Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7 were studied in avocado pulp. Coliform, yeast and mold populations showed a wide dispersion, in agreement with the diversity of sanitary conditions observed among places sampled. The frequency of Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, and E. coli were 1.3, 16.0, and 60.0 %, respectively; with higher numbers among street vendors. Populations of E. coli ranged from 29 to 3800 NMP/g and S. aureus from 2.95 to 5.35 log CFU/g. Thirteen out of 16 hemolytic L. monocytogenes strains were pathogenic for mice. In avocado pulp Salmonella spp. and E. coli O157:H7 showed a lag phase close to 3 h, and a generation time of 54 min and 1.23 h, respectively. No growth of pathogens was observed in avocado pulp stored at 4-7C. La presence de microoganismes indicateurs et de bacteries pathogenes dans du guacamole collecte dans des restaurants et aupres de vendeurs dans la rue, ainsi que le comportement de Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, et Escherichia coli O157:H7 dans la pulpe d'avocat sont etudies. Les denombrements des coliformes, levures et moisissures montrent une grande dispersion due aux conditions sanitaires variees des echantillons. Les frequences de Salmonella spp., L. monocytogenes et E. coli sont plus eleves chez les vendeurs de rue.


In this paper,both the hardware and software proposed MCS-51 Microcontroller temperature control system design,hardware schematics,and made a simple block diagram description of the product through the part of the design miniaturization,intelligent,not only improves the product's features and quality,but also reduce the cost and simplify design.


We describe the "overlight" test that was done for JWST's Teledyne H2RG HgCdTe near-infrared detector arrays. We projected many very bright λ = 632.8 nm spots onto one flight representative, substrate-removed, HgCdTe 5 μm cutoff detector array. We allowed individual spots to "burn in" for as long as ≈1000 s before turning off the laser. We did not detect any permanent change in detector performance for extreme over illuminations as bright as 320 μW pixel-1 (≤ 1 μW μm-2) after the array had been returned to ambient laboratory temperature and pressure. The brightest individual spot contained roughly 4 mW of power spread over a 100 μm diameter circular area. This is brighter than the brightest lasers that are planned for use during JWST integration and testing. It is also ≈103× brighter than any 632.8 nm astronomical source in the night sky.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of photoperiod on locomotor activity, growth and gonadal development in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fingerlings. A completely randomised design was used, with five treatments (0L:24D, 6L:18D, 12L:12D, 18L:6D and 24L:0D) and four replicates, with the aquarium as the experimental unit. One hundred and sixty fingerlings of tilapia weighing 3.21±0.05 g and measuring 4.35±0.07 cm each were distributed among 20 aquaria of 20 L in a recirculation system with the temperature controlled to 27 °C, with eight fish per aquarium. Feeding was carried out twice daily for 75 days, with extruded feed containing 40% crude protein. The fingerlings subjected to a photoperiod of 12L:12D as well as those under 18L:6D and 24L:0D showed the greatest locomotor activity, whereas those under 6L:18D and 0L:24D showed the lowest activity. Fish subjected to a photoperiod of 18L:6D and 24L:0D showed the highest levels of performance. However, manipulation of the photoperiod did not influence the gonadal development, survival or the appearance of deformities in juvenile Nile tilapia. Under long photoperiods (18L:6D and 24L:0D), fish direct their energy to somatic growth and induce best feed efficiency.


This work presents detailed small-signal-modeling and closed-loop controller design of novel Cuk-based PFC converter for on-board EV charger. Since the converter is designed to operate in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) for attaining power factor correction (PFC) naturally on the input side. Thus, only the output voltage sensing is required as the input voltage and current sensing is not necessary. Thereby, making the operation of the converter less-costly, reliable, and intensifying the robustness towards higher frequency noise. The control strategy is straightforward requiring one control loop and sensor. This article describes the complete derivation of control-to-output transfer function along with optimal selection of control parameters. Finally, to validate the controller design, simulation and hardware results are provided.


Programmable optical pulse shaping, allowing generation of nearly arbitrarily shaped ultrafast optical waveforms, is reviewed. After outlining the fundamentals, new directions in pulse shaping and selected applications are discussed.


This is the last of many contributions Hugh Miser (1917-1999) made to the "Easy chair" column. An editorial in this issue contains a more complete discussion of his contributions to Interfaces and to OR/MS.


As the size of datasets continues to grow, machine learning applications are becoming increasingly limited by the amount of available computational power. Taking advantage of modern hardware requires using multiple parallel programming models targeted at different devices (e.g. CPUs and GPUs). However, programming these devices to run efficiently and correctly is difficult, error-prone, and results in software that is harder to read and maintain. We present OptiML, a domain-specific language (DSL) for machine learning. OptiML is an implicitly parallel, expressive and high performance alternative to MATLAB and C++. OptiML performs domain-specific analyses and optimizations and automatically generates CUDA code for GPUs. We show that OptiML outperforms explicitly parallelized MATLAB code in nearly all cases.


Pemphigus erythematosus is characterized by fragile vesicles or bullae, erosions, crusts, and scales in seborrheic area. There are several forms of atypical lesions such as erythematous papules and plaques, verrucous plaques, pustules, and lichenification. Here, we report an atypical pemphigus erythematosus with erythematous papules, plaques, and pustules skin lesions. A 52-year-old Indonesian man presented with prominent pruritic erythematous macules, papules, plaques on the scalp, trunk, and extremities, and also a pustule for each on the back and right arm. Clinically, the patient was diagnosed as small-plaque parapsoriasis, but histopathology examination on the pustule revealed a subcorneal acantholysis and direct immunofluorescence staining showed immunoglobulin G and complement C3 on the cell surface of keratinocytes. These result suitable for pemphigus erythematosus. The patient was treated with topical and systemic corticosteroid, and there were significant improvements in the skin lesions. Pemphigus erythematosus may present with prominent erythematous papules, plaques, and a few pustules. A careful assessment of the clinical manifestation and histopathological findings enabled us to make a correct diagnosis and succesfully treat the patient.


June 20 marks World Refugee Day. This is the day that the entire world dedicates its attention to and reflects on the plight of not only the 20 million refugees world-wide, but also the children and grandchildren of millions more refugees from earlier generations. These are people - civilians, mothers, men, children, the elderly - who have been forced out of their homes, villages, jobs, towns and countries and thrown into the wilderness of exile, as a result of unresolved conflicts, wars, and other forms of tension in society, such as ethnic, religious, racial or political intolerance, abuse of human rights and the like. This is the case particularly in Africa, which accounts for almost one third of the world's refugee population.


Introduces the constructional principle of a new coal-seam injection device,high-pressure pulse water hammer,and carries out mechanical analysis.The simulation model of system is built based on Matlab/Simulink.Compared the simulation and experiment results,the feasibility of simulation is verified.The further simulation showes the stiffness of main spring changes from 2 250 kN/m to 1 000 kN/m,the steady pressure and the output peak pressure are increased.


The presence of a certain training of students, future teachers, is important for modern education. A complex social structure, formed by information technology actively, requires that the modern teacher ought to be fully prepared for various manifestations of sociality and broad outlook. A modern pedagogical university should form these characteristics of a specialist. Preparedness for the implementation of various functions and competences must be purposefully included in the training of future teachers. For this purpose, an important aim is to study the significance of the multifaceted functional approach in education. Functional analysis of the system of professional training of future teachers is an important preparatory stage in the implementation of the program for the comprehensive development of students-teachers. Among the many functions of the education system, we can distinguish the following ones: translational, axiological, activity, educational, educational and developing functions. The most important of them is the axiological, activity and developing functions. The axiological function forms the world of values and it is very important that these values are to be directed to the solution of human-forming, humanistic tasks. The activity function allows the future specialist to realize his tasks, despite the difficulties that arise. The development task of education will make it possible to develop the ability to complete the course of work.


The article has an analysis on some success experience of Chinese ladies curling team in preparing this competition and during this competition,such as organization,management,training and preparation.It also points out some problems and shortages of understanding this sports particularity,technique and tactics,preventing sports injury and competitive psychology.For fully mobilize the players' enthusiasm in training,it suggests to improve the training condition,to apply advanced scientific means in monitoring the training,to reinforce the international communion and cooperation,to join in more international high-level curling competition,to retain some high-level foreign experts to systemically instruct the training for faster increasing Chinese players' competitive ability,to have a standardization of national athletes' encouragement and competitive mechanism,which suggestions is as a reference for Chinese ladies curling team in preparing the 2010 Olympic winter games.


This paper is an update of dry silver technology and how it relates to laser recording. It is a summary of sensitometric and processing data that describes how the products can be used and what sensitometric characteristics can be expected. The paper includes recent developments of the technology in respect to access time and stability of the materials. In addition, it explains the basic working mechanism of the process to enable the user to better utilize and understand it.


The present paper is inclined to introduce our study findings on the human reliability analysis of the alternative relation between the pilot and the controllers based on CREAM in air traffic and transportation.As is known,air traffic control is an alternative system between the air traffic controllers and the pilots,which reflects the air traffic control functions in the whole flight-operational and controlling process,with the controller's supervisory role in accordance with the flight conditions of the aircraft,and the controller's command and supervision to the operation of the pilots to ensure the safety of the flight.As is known,human reliability analysis(HRA) focuses on the likely error and its probability of the process between human and system alternation.The idea of air traffic control implies that man is the key link in air traffic control.It is for this reason that human reliability is regarded as the key factor in the relation between the air traffic controllers and pilots.As a result of this study,full and complete reliability should be emphasized from the point of view of human trust on the traffic workers through the proper human reliability mode.Based on the combination with the alternation process between air traffic controller and pilot,human reliability model of the relation between the two sides can be established through the optimization of the Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method(CREAM),which should be in turn carried out through the analysis of the alternative process between air traffic controllers and pilots and the modification to the comparison table of the cognitive behavior and cognitive function matrix in the CREAM.Thus,it is the human reliability in the alternative process that should be stressed by this model and the relative unsubstantial link should be ascertained by the comparison with the evaluation system of the standard indexes,which is also the team-performance factors of the air traffic control according to the 9 influential team performance factors in CREAM.Thus,we have put forward the suggestions for improvement based on the evaluation results so as to enhance the human reliabilities in the alternative process between the air traffic controllers and flight pilots.


In order to benefit from high precision measurements at a future Linear Collider, we need to go beyond the tree level for cross section calculations in the electroweak sector. At the oneloop level, the number of Feynman diagrams has increased rapidly and the internal loops greatly complicate the calculations. Fortunately automated systems have been constructed to deal with these large scale computations. In particular, the GRACE system is capable of calculating general processes of up to four final particles including their masses. In this report I will review some of the challenges that these automated systems meet and explain how to deal with them. Additionally, I will present my findings on the calculation of e+e− → ZZH and ZHH in order to study the couplings between the Higgs particles and the vector bosons in the standard model. The project will use the GRACE system for this and make a few additions to it. In particular a system to integrate over matrix elements that occupy more than 2 Gbytes in the computer. Because of numerical cancellations between the diagrams this is highly nontrivial.