Naissance du conte feminin. Mots et Merveilles: Les Contes de fees de Madame d'Aulnoy (1690-1698). By Nadine Jasmin. Pans: Champion, 2002. 791 pp. At the outset of her book on Madame d'Aulnoy, Nadine Jasmin defines the object of her study to be an analysis of the "birth of a new literary genre," that of the literary fairy tale, out of the oral tale. In order to explain the emergence and establishment of this new genre, Jasmin takes as her point of departure the fairy-tale corpus of d'Aulnoy, the most prolific fairy-tale writer of late seventeenth-century France, whose tales indeed are more representative of the larger trend than those written by her contemporary, Charles Perrault. Jasmins study is divided into three sections, the first of which treats the ways in which d'Aulnoy combines various sources-both folkloric and literary-to create a new, autonomous literary genre. section 2 centers on the "matter" of the tales, or their sociocultural context. In section 3 (there is also a section 4 Jasmin does not mention in her general introduction, but which could be considered to be part of section 3) Jasmin looks at the "manner" of the tales, the stylistic devices and narrative strategies d'Aulnoy employs to create her tales, not to mention her original imaginary worlds. In my view, the first section of the book is the most successful one. Moving from the influence of myth, the pastoral novel, folkloric sources, and the heroic novel, Jasmin demonstrates how d'Aulnoy's conception of the fairy tale both borrows and emancipates itself from its sources. Part of her analysis is based on the opposition she sets up between Ancient genres like mythology and Modern genres like the novel and fairy tale. While I find this reading of the relation between myth and fairy tale intriguing, I would argue that the relation is in fact more complex than a simple binary opposition. Opera, for instance, often used mythological plots, but was considered-at least by Ancients like Boileau-to be a thoroughly "modern" genre. Jasmin cites as an example of how d'Aulnoy problematizes "ancient" sources like Ovid d'Aulnoy's tale "Le Serpentin Vert," in which the heroine Laideronette reads the story of Cupid and Psyche, only to follow the same disastrous path as her ancient sister. While I find this reading valid, it would have been useful for Jasmin to furthermore take into account Jean Mainil's argument in Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fees (2001) that d'Aulnoy generally problematizes the pedagogical function of her tales by inscribing characters who misread the moral lessons not only of Ancient sources, but also of particular fairy tales. Nevertheless, in this section Jasmin convincingly shows how d'Aulnoy successfully combines various types of sources to create a genre that ultimately stands on its own. Moreover, Jasmin argues that although d'Aulnoy never directly engaged in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, the fact that d'Aulnoy tended to privilege modern genres was an indirect way for her to situate herself within the camp of the moderns. …


through the analysis of some problems which influence the prices of the sports events as the profits,the social responsibilities,the market characteristics and the profit aims,this paper,to the sports markets with different developing extents as well as to the special sports market,puts forward the relevant price countermeasures,the methods on the price of the events target profits,the demands leading and the competitions leading,and the views about the colligated use of all the countermeasures and the methods.


The aerobic oxidative dehydrogenation of α-branched primary amines and cyclic secondary amines to imines without any metal cocatalyst is presented


With the rapid development of E-commerce in China, quality of the products on online shopping platforms has caused wide concern. Customer reviews, which commented by people who bought the very product, now have been one of the most important resources for analyzing product's quality risk. We can get fine-gained, aspect-oriented risk information of a product by mining its reviews. Unfortunately, people tend to write reviews with casual grammar or just omit parts of components of a sentence. Both these features will cause negative impacts when parsing the raw customer reviews directly. Thus a knowledge base which is built totally beyond the reviews could be used to analyze it despite the drawbacks above. In this paper, we generate a domain ontology from raw text in the online encyclopedia. It can be viewed as a graph whose nodes represent domain concepts and edges represent the relations between these concepts. In our work, we integrate syntactic tree structure in linear-chain CRFs for recognizing domain concepts and train SVMs and MaxEnt models on elaborate features for clarifying three types of relationship, namely "Attribute-of", "Part-of" and "Instance-of". Once the ontology has been built, product properties with potential risk will be extracted by our matching method. Experiment show that our approach achieves 64.4% precision and 82.4% recall on risky property extraction task.


Author(s): Sasaki, Matthew C. | Abstract: The Southern Ocean hosts an abundant and diverse fauna. The evolutionary history of these taxa has been strongly influenced by the oceanographic and glacial history of this region. Molecular studies have challenged the traditional characterization of many Antarctic taxa as circumpolar, uncovering large amounts of unexpected diversity. In this study,we investigate the genetic diversity and population structuring of G. antarctica. Using double digest restriction-site associated DNA sequencing, we obtain a set of 4301 SNP markers from across the genome for a set of four populations spanning a large portion of this taxa's range distribution. This data set reveals clear evidence of strong population structuring across the Southern Ocean, at both large and small geographic scales. We reject the hypothesis of panmixia within the geographic region investigated. The data presents evidence of the influence of both the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the last glacial maximum on the genetic structure of G. antarctica


Professor Michael Levitt (Stanford University, USA) won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems—computational tools which can calculate the course of chemical reactions. Professor Levitt was born in Pretoria, South Africa; he came to the UK on a summer vacation aged 16, where he decided to stay and study for his A‑levels. His interest in the physics of living systems drove him to study biophysics at King's College London, before securing a PhD position at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. In the interim year between his degree and beginning his PhD, Professor Levitt worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he met his future wife. They married later that year and moved to Cambridge, where their three children were born. After completing his PhD, he spent time working in Israel, Cambridge, the Salk Institute and Stanford (both California). Since 1986, he has split his time between Israel and California. Outside of science, he is a keen hiker and he is well-known to have attended the eclectic 'Burning Man' Festival in California. [1] Professor Levitt visited the University of Warwick to speak at the Computational Molecular Science Annual Conference in March 2015. In this interview, Dr Gemma-Louise Davies, an Institute of Advanced Study Global Research Fellow, spoke to Professor Levitt about the importance of Interdisciplinarity in his field, role models in Academia, and his plans for the future. Image: Professor Michael Levitt (left) with Dr Scott Habershon (right, organiser of the 2015 Computational Molecular Science Annual Conference) during his visit to the University of Warwick in March 2015. [1] 'Burning Man' is a unique annual festival dedicated to community, art, music, self-expression and self-reliance. Tens of thousands of people flock to this temporary metropolis built in the Californian desert.


A new class of digital differentiators, based on maximal linearity at a specific frequency as the criterion, is described. These designs are shown to be superior compare to those based on minimax relative error criterion for restricted ranges of frequency in the low, middle and high frequency bands. A universal differentiator design has also been described, which represents a distinct advance in the state of the art.


In order to avoid mixing up languages, infants immersed in a multilingual environment have to sort speech into language-homogeneous sets. To study the feasibility of this task, we use speech technology tools (Universal Background Models and i-vectors) in combination with unsupervised clustering to test language separation using speech from several speakers of two languages. We investigate the outcome of the clustering as a function of the variability of language experience (monolingual versus mixed background), and the availability of side information (speaker identity). Our findings show that in the absence of side information, language separation is relatively easier if the system has been pre-exposed to a single language (monolingual background), than it is for a system pre-exposed to both languages (mixed background). However, this initial disadvantage can be overcome by restricting the representation to the dimensions that most distinguish speakers using Linear Discriminant Analysis, suggesting that speaker identity side information may enhance language separation in a multilingual environment. The implications for language acquisition and computational modeling are discussed.


The current digital television network bidirectional transformation schemes are analyzed and compared,with the minimum cost of the digital TV Network Bidirectional Transformation,while in the transformation process of the problems encountered by the solution.The results of the study will be able to broadcast after the smooth development of digital TV interactive business to provide better reference value and practical significance.


Summary The 24-hr percentage of 35S incorporation into platelets of mice in rebound thrombocytosis was compared after single or multiple sc and ip injections of a thrombopoietin (TSF)-rich preparation. TSF administered sc or ip resulted in almost identical percentage of 35S incorporation values. Various doses of TSF injected sc two times on Day 5 after RAMPS and two times again on Day 6 gave a linear dose-response curve. Also, this injection schedule gave the greatest response to the same total dose of TSF when compared to other injection schedules. Single injections of TSF did not give as great a response as did multiple injections using the same total dose. Results of this work indicate that for maximum percentage of 35S incorporation values, TSF-rich materials should be administered in multiple injections to mice, either sc or ip, over a period of approximately 2 days. The author thanks Rose Clift and Marilyn Cottrell for technical assistance, Patricia Wayne for stenographic and art work, and Otto Walasek, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, for supplying the TSF-rich kidney cell culture medium.


There are numerous turbulence models that have been developed in the past years, many of them being used in predicting flows, turbulence, mass and/or heat transfer. The particular case of an impinging jet implies all of the above. The performance of eight highly used Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence models is examined in simulating a very sheared lobed impinging jet. The study is based on the investigation of an orthogonally lobed jet, impinging on a flat surface that flows out from a nozzle having a cruciform cross-section at a Reynolds number of 5620. Two experimental methods were implied for the comparison with numerical results. For the measurement of the wall shear rate an electrodiffusion method was employed. The velocity flow fields were measured using particle image velocimetry technique. The relative strengths and drawbacks of the SST k-ω, k-ω, TransSST, k-e realisable, RNG k-e, k-e, k-kl-ω and RSM turbulence models are compared.


Safety in autonomous vehicles is a challenging task because it depends on many factors such as weather conditions, sensors, the complexity of the surrounding environment and many more. These factors are unpredictable and hard to capture in real life. Automated vehicle systems depend on sensors such as LiDAR, radar and cameras to enable them to reach safely to the target destination. In this study, we show how the automated vehicle system that utilizes a radar and a camera as an input to the Pedestrian Protection System (PPS) is influenced by uncertain weather conditions and sensor failure. Under these conditions, we investigate surrogate safety measures such as Pedestrian Classification Time-to-Collision (PCT), and Post encroachment (PET). This study uses a physics-based simulation software called Prescan as well as MATLAB and Simulink in order to demonstrate practical test scenarios for surrogate safety analysis of vulnerable road users (VRU)-vehicle conflicts at urban roads. Different scenarios are built such as a pedestrian walking and running in front of the automated vehicle from the nearside. In addition to that, uncertain weather conditions and sensor failure are modelled and analysed. The results showed a high impact of weather conditions and sensor failure to the safety measures during traffic conflict. The outcomes reveal that the physics based safety model can mimic the real world scenarios and can support safety analysis in an accurate and cost-effective way.


Abstract A theoretical and experimental study of the forced frequency response of a two-degree-of-freedom system with dynamic dry friction is presented. Account is taken of the interface characteristics responsible for the changes of the system natural frequencies and the modification of the damping during frictional contact. The interface characteristics are represented by the equivalent dynamic tangential contact stiffness and by the equivalent viscous friction damping that are generated between the contacting surfaces. A new mathematical model describing the dynamic response of a frictionally constrained system under the influence of a normal load is developed. Experimental verification of the results obtained is presented to establish the validity of this model for explaining the vibratory regimes generated (elastic sticking, micro- and macro-sliding). The evolution of both the contact stiffness and the damping coefficient with the excitation frequency, tangential excitation force and the applied normal load, is described. As a result, it is shown that both the damping coefficient and the equivalent dynamic tangential contact stiffness increase with increasing applied normal load.


The purpose of this study was to analyze whether monetary policy can be used as an instrument to control asset prices using a VECM and Panel-VAR approach. The research was conducted by analyzing the impulse response of the monetary policy shock on residential property prices, stock prices, output and inflation, both in each country  and  as a groups of countries.  Results of the study indicate that monetary policy still can't be directed to asset price stabilization. Changes in monetary policy to control asset prices will cause turmoil on output and inflation. Central bank intervention to anticipate the formation of asset price bubbles can be reached by regulation may indirectly affect to the asset price movements. Keywords : asset prices bubble, monetary policy, panel VAR


Sampling of bile juice during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has potential benefit of being amenable to the identification of novel biomarkers in liquid biopsy. This study reports the results of a global investigation of exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) in bile to identify potential biomarkers for biliary tract cancers (BTCs). Eighty‐eight bile samples collected during ERCP (45 BTC and 43 noncancer control samples) were enrolled in this study. Eleven BTC samples and nine control samples were assigned as the discovery set. Exosomes in bile and serum samples were collected using a glass membrane column with size‐controlled macroporous glass (MPG), and exosomal miRNA expression profiles were evaluated using comprehensive miRNA microarray analysis (3D‐Gene). For validation, exosomal miRNA in the bile samples of 34 BTCs and 34 controls were comprehensively evaluated using 3D‐Gene. In the discovery set, eight exosomal miRNAs in bile were identified as significant aberrant expression markers, while no miRNA with aberrant expression in serum was identified. In a comparison of the discovery and validation sets, miR‐451a and miR‐3619‐3p were identified as reproducible upregulated markers, and the combination of the two bile miRNAs showed an excellent area under the curve (0.819) value for diagnosing BTCs. In addition, high miR‐3619‐3p expression in bile reflects poorer prognosis of BTCs (hazard ratio = 2.89). The MPG‐extracted exosomal miRNAs in bile aspirated during ERCP provide a convenient new approach for diagnosing biliary diseases. Bile‐derived miRNA analysis with miR‐451a and miR‐3619‐3p represents a potentially valuable diagnostic strategy for identifying BTCs as well as a predictive indicator of BTC prognosis.


Abstracts for the 22nd Meeting of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH), 19–21 May 2017, Berlins for the 22nd Meeting of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH), 19–21 May 2017, Berlin S Speaker abstract (invited)


Describes the different varieties of bamboo and how to cultivate them. Provides information on insect pests and preparing bamboo for market. Discusses ways in which bamboo can be used on the farm, in the home, and for manufactured products.


Objective To observe the repair of injured pancreatic tissue of rats with transplanted marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Methods Rat MSCs were isolated and purified by adherence culture,then proliferated,determined for cell cycle and surface marker,labeled with DAPI and injected i.v. into model rats with pancreatic tissue injury. Fifteen days later,the location of MSCs was observed by laser confocal microscopy,the pathological change of injured pancreatic tissue was observed by histopathological examination,and the Sry gene in injured pancreatic tissue was determined by PCR. Results Flow cytometry showed that 86.67% of MSCs purified,proliferated and enriched in vitro were at G0 / G1 phase. The expression of CD44 was observed on surface of MSCs,but no expression of CD34. DAPI-labeled MSCs were observed mainly in injured and occasionally in normal pancreatic tissues by laser confocal microscopy. Histopathological examination showed that the injured pancreatic tissue begun to recover to normal,and the pancreatic islands were reconstituted. Sry gene was amplified by PCR from the pancreatic tissue of rats treated with MSCs. Conclusion MSCs showed a potential repair effect on injured pancreatic tissue of rats.


The stabilization of linear constrained discrete-time systems via minimal-order observer is addressed. The problem of local stabilization is considered. From a state feedback control law guaranteeing the positive invariance and the asymptotic stability of a certain domain D/sub 1/, the influence of the estimation error is analyzed in terms of the linear control trajectory. The observer design considering the minimization of the influence of the estimation error is also studied.


The purpose of this research is to characterize uranium exposure and accumulation with respect to sheep grazing on or near abandoned uranium mine sites on the Navajo Nation. The study hypothesizes lower uranium levels would be observed in sheep grazing in non-mining areas compared to those grazing in mining areas. Hearts from ten different sheep, five from each site, were analyzed for uranium content using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The results indicate that there are similar levels of uranium in sheep hearts from both mining and non-mining areas, ranging from 50 to 100 ppb. The results suggest that the uranium exposure of sheep grazing in non-mining areas of the Navajo Nation are similar to the uranium exposure of sheep grazing in abandoned mine regions.


Modern urban art practices (public art, street art, flash mob, performance, etc.), are engaged in a radical aesthetic transformation of everyday life. The problem of projective aesthetics is taken as a variant of the praxis of modern aesthetics. Projective aesthetics suggests that one should mark out art projects which are created in the real aesthetic experience and which represent topical cultural issues in daily human life. Being the subject of projective aesthetics, the main examples of that kind are the projects of actual art in the urban environment. It is a group of artifacts at the border of art and everyday life that is called urban art practices.
This article is devoted to the study of the features and possibilities of projective aesthetics in relation to contemporary urban art. Interacting with the developing practical aesthetics – environmental and urbanistic – the projective aesthetics allows us to include in the philosophical discourse the urban culture where actual art practices work.
In the relations between urban art and projective aesthetics a special place is given to the idea and practice of potentiations (Epstein's concept). According to this concept, the potential of the contemporary city is revealed by means of art for creating a polylogue for intertwining various aspects and forms of city life and for developing a rhizome of urban culture.
City art practices, being a phenomenon of everyday life, represent in a single image all aspects of everyday life – from political, ethnic, national, and regional to aesthetic and artistic meanings.

Article received: April 25, 2020; Article accepted: June 30, 2020; Published online: September 15, 2020; Review article


This paper presents a summary of PM2.5, PM10 and gaseous pollutant concentrations measured during each season of the year from March 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019 in Visakhapatnam city (17.6868°N, 83.2185°E) located on the east coast of India. The city is studded with 14 major industries and surrounded on three sides by mountains and the Bay of Bengal on the fourth side. The monthly variations of mass concentrations of PM2.5, PM10 and gaseous pollutants SO2, NO2 and CO recorded revealed the impact of atmospheric pollutants originating from industry, urbanization and increased automobile traffic. The seasonal variability of PM concentrations, highest in winter and lowest in summer, is observed. The annual averages for 2018 in Visakhapatnam are 103.5 ± 55.1 μg/m3 and 111.5 ± 29.1 μg/m3 for PM2.5 and PM10 respectively. To establish the causal relationship between PM2.5, PM10 and the gaseous pollutants we used Pearson correlation and regression statistical methods. The Pearson correlation coefficients between PMs and gaseous pollutants were either high or moderate. Regression results further confirmed that NO2 and SO2 significantly impacted PM2.5 and PM10 in Visakhapatnam city.


Nitric oxide (NO) the active entity of EDRF stimulates sGC to catalyze cGMP formation in CNS neurons. Primary cultures of rat striatal neurons express functional sGC. In the present study, changes in sGC were studied during maturation of a primary culture of rat striatal neurons using sodium nitroprusside (SNP; 10{mu}M) as a source of NO. After 1-3 days in culture, SNP produced marginal effects on cGMP formation in striatal neurons. However, by day 5, cGMP formation was significantly increased and continued to increase beyond 15 days in vitro. At 15 days, SNP-stimulated cGMP formation was greater than 20-fold over basal levels with an EC{sub 50} value of 16{mu}M. After 2 weeks in culture, the neurons began to deteriorate, eventually dying. Yet the SNP-stimulated cGMP response continued to increase in magnitude. Thus, sGC increases in vitro during the maturation or aging of primary CNS neuronal cultures suggesting a role in neuronal development. The cyclic nucleotide may also be a crucial factor in eliciting NO related cell death, a possibility that remains to be established.


We propose a physical model of photo-, radio-, and simultaneous photo-radio-darkening of Yb-doped silica optical fibers. This work is complementary to the submission by J-B. Duchez et al., also in this conference, which reports a detailed characterization of the interplay between the pump (photo-darkening) and an external ionizing radiation (radio-darkening). The model predictions are in full agreement with data on photo-darkening and with all of the experiments reported in the Duchez's work.


We investigated the accuracy of high‐field proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) and fluorine‐18 2‐fluoro‐deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F‐FDG‐PET) for diagnosis of glioma progression following tumor resection, stereotactic radiation, and chemotherapy.


This study aims to analyze the efficiency of the foreigner-only casinos. This study utilizes the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) technique to measure the relative efficiency of the organization"s operations and performance management evaluation. 16 foreigners-only casinos were analyzed to evaluate efficiency through sales records as an outcome variable compared to the number of employees and floor space of casino. Results showed that 15 foreigners-only casinos except one is relatively inefficient, 15 foreigner-only casinos in the current sales status showed a greater improvement.


In this paper we provide methods that allow for path-based editing of existing motion data. We begin by exploring the concept of path as an abstraction of motion, and show how many of the common motion editing tools fail to provide proper control over this useful property. We provide a simple extension to displacement mapping methods that provide better control over the path in a manner that is easy to implement in current systems. We then extend this simple method to avoid violation of geometric constraints such as foot- skate. demonstrate how path transformations work with constraint-based approaches to provide an interactive method for altering the path of a motion. This leads to several useful applications. A path is an abstraction of the positional movement of a character. The path encodes the direction of motion, which is different from, but related to, the orientation of the character as it moves along the path. This abstraction leads to the idea of representing a motion relative to the path, allowing the path to be altered and the motion to be adjusted accordingly. The methods we present maintain the relationship between the motion and the path. This paper is organized as follows. We begin by describing an ex- ample of what our techniques are capable of and useful for (Section 2). This discussion both motivates our methods as well as discusses their relationship to existing techniques. We then introduce the ab- straction of a path for a motion (Section 3) including methods for automatically creating it. The most basic form of path transformation, presented in Section 4, can create a new motion that follows an arbitrary path and ori- ents the character appropriately. However, this transformation may damage some of the fine details in the motion such as the crispness of footplants. Better results can be obtained by using constraint processing to explicitly maintain details, as described in Section 5. The motion is continuously updated as the user drags portions of the path. Even the most sophisticated of the methods presented works interactively in all of our examples. We conclude by discussing experiments with our prototype implementation.


The government in the United Kingdom set up the Kay Review to examine and make recommendations relating to the equity market and its impact on the long-term competitive performance of businesses. The article considers the comments and recommendations dealing with corporate disclosure. It argues that public dissemination of listed company information is likely to be the optimal approach to enhance long-term corporate performance. Global empirical studies consistently suggest that regulation which promotes high quality disclosure standards in financial markets can greatly improve corporate, economic and community outcomes. It concludes that the Kay Review missed a valuable opportunity to focus on and prioritise measures to ensure the public disclosure and communication frameworks governing listed companies are the best they can be. While transparency in financial markets is easy to espouse, it is an ongoing endeavour that has to be robustly sought by every generation, by every nation and by entire communities.


Abstract : A twenty month effort has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the Continuous Seam Diffusion Bonding (CSDB) process for repairing knife edge seal teeth on superalloy engine components. Seal teeth rings from the F101, Rene 95, Compressor Rotor Spool (CRS), stages 4-9, containing five representative seal teeth clusters were used for this investigation. The Rene 95 seal teeth were repaired with Inconel 718 tip extension material. The developed processes were utilized to repair two seal teeth rings machined from the CRS. Isothermal rolling was used successfully to initially widen the seal teeth bond interface to facilitate notch-free diffusion bonds after reprofiling. CSDB parameters were established for bonding the Inconel 718 to the Rene 95 seal teeth. A closure technique was developed to complete the circumferential bonding of a seal teeth ring.


Demand Response (DR) has been extensively studied as one of the important features of smart grid. The DR strategies can be grouped into two categories, one is incentive-based DR and the other is pricing-based DR. Our work focuses on DR involving both pricing factor and incentive factor using scoring rule. In the literature, several DR mechanisms have been proposed, however, most studies have not focused on the cooperation among consumers although it is important to devise an efficient and stable DR. In this paper, we propose a cooperative demand response mechanism by using a truthful allocation mechanism with scoring rule. The brief ideas of our model are the following: the consumers will be rewarded a discount on the price to measure up how well they predict demand shift. A reward mechanism is based on a strictly proper scoring rule. This mechanism is applied between consumer agents (CA) to Cooperative Demand Response System (CDRS) and Generation Company (GENCO). The proposed mechanism is tested on real data provided by Chubu Electric Power Company and we show that this mechanism is capable of reducing peak demand.


We determined the effect of the type of substrate on the growth of InGaN nanostructures by mixed-source hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). InGaN nanostructures were formed on c-plane, r-plane sapphire, and undoped GaN substrates at various growth temperatures. Also, we looked into the changes in the structural and optical characteristics of InGaN nanostructures when antimony (Sb) is used as a surfactant during the growth of InGaN nanostructures. The samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and photoluminescence (PL) measurement. The density of the nanostructures on the surface and the indium composition of the InGaN layer varied depending on the type of substrate and growth temperature. The aligning direction of the nanostructures markedly changed and the indium composition increased when Sb was used as the surfactant during the growth of the InGaN nanostructure, compared with the results of the InGaN nanostructures grown without Sb addition.


Cocrystallization of equimolar quantities of sulfathiazole (STL) with each of 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO) and piperazine (PIP) resulted in facile formation of salts [DABCOH][STL_H] (1) and [PIPH][STL_H] (2), respectively. Crystallography shows the formation of aniline-N–H···O(sulfonyl) hydrogen bonds between anions to form supramolecular undulating and zigzag layers, respectively, with the cations being connected to these by charge-assisted N–H···N(thioazole) interactions. 1H NMR, IR, and Raman spectroscopies as well as powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) confirmed salt formation. Solid state grinding competition experiments were monitored by PXRD. In a sequence of experiments where STL was coground with a molar equivalent of PIP and n equivalents of DABCO (with n increasing from 0.1 to 1.0 in 0.1 increments), preferential formation of 1 was observed. In related experiments where 2 was ground with an equimolar amount of DABCO, substitution of PIPH+ by DABC...


Objective To investigate the epidemiologic characteristics of 2009 influenza A(H1N1)in Xicheng district of Beijing.Methods The throat swabs of influenza suspect patients were randomly collected from the two hospitals of Xicheng district.Forty-sixty specimens were tested weekly by real-time PCR assay during the 2009 epidemic.Results 18.8%(290/1 545) of influenza suspect throat swabs were positive for influenza A(H1N1) RNA testing.The positive rate was high among young population.There was a small scale outbreak of influenza A(H1N1) in the community between October and December,2009.A wave of epidemic process was observed and the peak of H1N1 influenza virus infection was between the 42th and 47th week of 2009.Conclusion The epidemic of influenza A(H1N1) in Xicheng district of Beijing was classic for the virus spreading.Public health interventions were critical for the disease control and should be prepared for future epidemic.


(51) Int. Cl. ..................................................... A61F 2/00 The present invention relates to an implant comprising (a) a polymer of the general formula (I) as a matrix material of the implant, wherein n is from 2 to Oo, and R to Rare the same or different and represent a halogenalkoxy, alkoxy, alkyl Sulfonyl, dialkylamino or aryloxy group or a heterocy cloalkyl or heteroaryl group having nitrogen as a heteroa tom, and at least one halogen Substituent; and (b) at least one pharmacologically active agent incorporated into the matrix material, a process for producing the same and the use of a mixture of a polymer having the formula (I) and a pharma cologically active agent for the preparation of a pharmaceu tical composition in the form of an implant for the treatment of disorders caused by implantation of Said implant in a patient.


The basic going is analysed near organization of legal education in the USSR. The positive and negative lines of legal education are considered in a soviet period. The features of influence are rotined on the process of legal education of youth organizations, mass medias, party and state organs.


The paper analyses the consequences of computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) on the authorship and ownership of contemporary jewellery. It identifies the ramifications for jewellery design and contemporary jewellery through an examination of the respective roles of the jewellery designer, contemporary jeweller and consumer. The latter focuses on the extent to which individual members of the public can become virtual craftspeople. It therefore aims to ascertain if and how the act of creating jewellery has been democratised through digital manufacture and delivery. A complementary investigation seeks to establish how far CAD/CAM has enabled contemporary jewellers to democratise the consumption of artistic jewellery through a reduction in production costs. Analyses chart CAD's gradual shift from exclusive use by expert technicians to generic deployment by amateurs manipulating userfriendly and intuitive software. They determine how its unification through web delivery in apps by companies such as Nervous Systems, effectively converts consumers into designers. Parallel investigations explore the work of jewellery artists such as Ted Noten and Christoph Zellweger who have exploited CAD/CAM to mass produce works that democratise consumption through lower


I the past, agricultural markets have been well integrated. Markets for different energy commodities, especially liquid energy products, also have been tightly linked. But agricultural markets and energy markets have not been closely correlated. Table 1 contains partial correlation coefficients between pairwise prices (both levels and first differences) of corn, soybeans, crude oil, gasoline, and ethanol obtained from monthly data for the period 1982–2007. Clearly, the energy pair correlations are quite high ranging from 0.86 to 0.98, while the energy agricultural correlations are quite low, ranging from 0.13 to 0.25. The corn-soybean pair has a correlation of 0.72. Historically recognizing this market separation, we have evaluated energy and agricultural commodities and policies apart. Can we continue to do that in the future? Until 2002, the fraction of the U.S. corn crop going to ethanol had always been less than 10%. As recently as 2004, it was about 11%. But in 2007, the fraction of the corn crop going to ethanol will be about 22%, double that three years ago—even with about a 25% increase in corn production in 2007. This fraction may exceed 30% in 2008 and it could even approach 40% depending on what happens to corn acreage and production. Massive production of energy, mainly liquid fuels, from agricultural resources will link agricultural and energy markets tightly (Schmidhuber). The new market integration is perhaps the most fundamentally important change to occur in agriculture in decades. The link between energy and agricultural markets requires an integrated environment to study these markets and design policy alternatives to guide them toward designated goals. This article develops an integrated partial equilibrium framework to analyze economic impacts of four alternative policies that can be implemented in promoting ethanol


It is very common to generate sum and difference patterns from either discrete antennas or from arrays. In the first case, it is required to use a directional antenna and an omni directional antenna. Sum pattern is produced from the directional antenna and difference pattern is created by simultaneously exciting directional and omni-directional antennas. In the difference patterns so obtained a null exists in the bore sight direction although it is very deep. Moreover, the difference slopes are not optimal in terms of their heights. In the present work, an attempt is made to design an array to produce unsymmetric sum and difference patterns. The design involves the proposal of a typical amplitude distribution, which generates unsymmetric sum patterns. These patterns are converted into difference patterns again unsymmetric by introducing an additional phase of 180/spl deg/ to one half of the array.


Sound Navigation and Ranging (SONAR), is a detection technique using acoustic waves. One part in the SONAR system is subsystem transmitter with the projector as an electrical signal converter into acoustic waves. Designing a SONAR system begins with Link Budget underwater transmission and propagation referring to predetermined specifications. In the Link Budget calculated intensity acoustic power needs at the hydrophone, thus acoustic power projected by the projector on the transmitter can be determined. This paper discusses the design of the projector cell acoustic submarine detection sonar crystal based on Zirconate Lead Titanate, or PZT, which is relatively easy to obtain in the market. Submarine sonar detection system is an early warning underwater detection. Therefore, the acoustic output power must be large enough to be able to work as needed. Cell projector is designed in the form of a vertical array consisting of several pieces of PZT crystals with a specific interconnection between the chip to obtain maximum acoustic radiation. Cell projector is the basic element of a projector. An acoustic projector with high transmit power, directivity, radiation pattern, beam steering applications, composed of a number of cells projector.


The problem of indexing and retrieval of electronic information resources becomes more critical as the amount of information and the number of Internet users continues to grow. The Semantic Header, proposed by Desai [3], is a portion of each document that contains the meta-information for each publicly accessible resource on the Internet. The Semantic Header for document-like Internet resources is a powerful means of helping users locate documents and other types of data among large repositories. In environments that contain many different types of data, content indexing requires type-specific processing to extract information effectively. In this project which is a part of the ASHG system (Automatic Semantic Header Generator), we present a model for type-specific, information extraction that automatically extracts the meta-information from RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, and stores it in a Semantic Header which will be used as an index for the document. This shall provide a useful tool in searching for a document based on a number of commonly used criteria. The information from the Semantic Header could be used by the search system to help locate appropriate documents with minimum effort.


Until relatively recently the evidence base has seemed to play little part in the planning of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Treatments offered to children and families attending many services have therefore been determined as much by the background and interests of the


The budget of the European Union (EU) amounts to around 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the EU. Although financed by national contributions, only a part of expenditure flows across Member States. According to our estimates, yearly cross-border flows operated through the EU budget amount to a quarter of a percentage point of the EU's GDP. To provide a benchmark, 'cross-border' flows between US States are calculated using the same method. These are much larger in normal times and incomparably larger in deep recessions. They amounted to 1.5% of US GDP on average between 1980 and 2005, and increased to 9% over 2009 and 2010. Importantly, the post-crisis increase (2009-10) of net inflows was financed entirely by borrowing at the federal level. During normal times (1980-2005), instead, it was the size and structure of the federal budget to determine the magnitude of cross-border flows. These happen automatically and almost invisibly through the federal tax and spending system. They are not subject to intense interstate negotiations but predominantly stem from a direct fiscal relationship between the citizen – regardless of its residence – and the federal layer of government. While keeping in mind the limitations of such comparisons, the evidence gathered in this paper suggests that – contrary to popular perception - cross-border flows operated through the EU budget are overall fairly small in both absolute and relative terms. Notions such as 'fairness' and 'juste retour' often used in the context of past intense EU budgetary negotiations could therefore benefit from being framed in a broader, arguably more relevant, perspective.


The movement of red blood cells in the microcirculation was studied in this paper based on the lattice Blotzmann method.The capillary was simulated by elastic tube while the two-dimensional red cell was simplified as a closed elastic membrane—the tension of it was larger than its bending.The fluid inside and outside the red blood cell was treated as incompressible Newtonian fluid.In our simulation,curved boundary condition was implemented on the membrane and capillary.The hydrodynamic force exerted on the membrane was evaluated by stress-integration.Through the elastic tube under the periodic deformation,"promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasi" in the Traditional Chinese Medical Massage(TCMM) and microcirculation were discussed.


Objective To establish the standard procedure of production of frozen blood. Methods The quality
of production of frozen blood cells in manual method was compared with that produced by the Haemonetic 115 washing
system. The optimal conditions for glycerolisation and deglycerolisation were determined. Results The clinical markers of
free Hb, residual glycerol, RBC recover rate showed that frozen RBC produced from washing system had a better quality than
that from manual method, and with a satisfactory clinical application. Conclusion The washing system method can be
considered as a standard procedure.


This is a factual and analytical paper on development of education in Afghanistan since 2002, following two decades of conflict in the country, and the beginning of a new and more hopeful phase involving the support of the international community. It covers the opportunities and challenges in basic education, secondary, technical and vocational education, teacher education and higher education, with special reference to improvement of educational opportunities for girls. It presents progress and expansion of education at all levels, based on statistical data for 2002-2012, and signals the challenges for quality of education, achievement of compulsory basic education especially for girls, and adult literacy. The paper concludes that there is a strong and growing demand for modern education and training for boys and girls in Afghanistan. Peace and stability and innovative strategies will contribute to progress of education in the country. (Orig.)


This paper exploits the IAB establishment dataset for Germany to investigate the cyclicality of job and worker flows within exporters and non-exporters. On the one hand, exporters might be less sensitive to the domestic cycle due to demand diversification. On the other hand, exporters are specialized in the production of durable goods, which are highly sensitive to the cycle. Evidence based on aggregate flows as well as panel estimates indicate that exporters are cyclical sensitive and create more jobs in booms and destroy more during recessions. The overall importance of exporters to aggregate fluctuations, however, is only about one third. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; firstname.lastname@example.com. This study uses the IAB Establishment Panel (waves 1993-2011). Data access was provided via on-site use at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and subsequently remote data access. The hospitality as well as the helpful comments from the sta is gratefully acknowledged. The author thanks the PhD school at Bocconi as well as the Research Thesis Grant of the Cariplo foundation for financial support.


We employ a kinematic numerical model of circular continental blocks moving about randomly on a two‐dimensional periodic model of the Earth's surface and monitor the time required for all of the blocks to assemble into a single model supercontinent. We examine the sensitivity of the assembly times of our model supercontinents to the size of individual continental blocks, the fraction of the model Earth=s surface covered by the continents and the degree of continental deformation that occurs upon collision. Assembly times are found to be most sensitive to the total continental surface area. We show that in the absence of any dynamic effects due to deep mantle flow, continents of present‐day scale moving randomly about the Earth's surface would naturally aggregate into a single mass in approximately 0.4 Gy.


Objective: HPLC fingerprint identification method of flowers of Musa nana Lour., flowers of Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zucc and flowers of Musa balbisiana Colla were established, and the chromatogram similarities difference of three kinds of flowers were compared, in order to provide reference for variety identification, resource development and utilization of flowers of Musaceae medicinal materials. Methods: The separation was performed on a Diamonsil C18 column (4.6mm×250mm, 5μm) at 30°C. A binary gradient elution system was composed of acetonitrile and water containing 0.05% phosphoric acid and the flow rate was 0.8mL/min. The detection wavelength was 280nm. The HPLC fingerprint of 17 batches of flowers of Musaceae medicinal materials were determined and the similarities were evaluated. Results: The experimental results showed that the samples from flowers of same varieties showed high similarities, and had more common peaks. Flowers of Musa nana Lour., are compared with flowers of Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zuccr and flowers of Musa balbisiana Colla, whose similarities were less than 0.430 with few common peaks. However, the comparison between flowers of Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zuccr and flowers of Musa balbisiana Colla showed high similarities with more common peaks. The similarities of 17 batches of flowers of Musaceae medicinal materials were between 0.187 and 0.984 with few common peaks, indicating the significant difference of three kinds of flowers. Conclusion: The proposed method is simple, highly reproducible and suitable for the identification of flowers of Musaceae medicinal materials.


Medical debates of the 1820s involved issues of professionalism, ethics, and the proper means of scientific research into pathological anatomy and fevers. These developments were influenced eighteenth-century German and Scottish philosophers' focus on individuals as they exist within organisms or communities and, perhaps more importantly, in their particularity. This stress on individuals as discrete units was crucial not just for early nineteenth-century pathological anatomy, but also for critical debates in the nineteenth century about disease origins and means of transmission. Our attention to 1820s medical efforts to observe the body's structures and the diseases which infected them may tell us much about Romantic and Victorian representational strategies.


A dynamic mathematical model of a multiple effect evaporator has been developed for a digital computer using the IBM Continuous Systems Modelling Program. The model will be incorporated in an overall simulation of a cane sugar factory. The mathematical model was derived from material and energy balance equations assuming that (i) the liquid phase is perfectly mixed; (ii) the vapour phase is always in equilibrium with its liquid phase. An empirical equation for the heat transfer coefficient was derived from first principles and fitted by non-linear regression to a set of factory data. Other physical parameters were defined by empirical equations derived from data in the literature. Graphs are presented showing the effect of various changes in the feed conditions on exit brix and flowrate.


Puisqu'il n'existe pas de mots qui ne soient à personne(Bakhtin 1979 in Todorov 1981: 83)Le discours, c'est-à-dire le langage dans sa totalité concrète et vivante.(Bakhtin 1963 in Todorov 1981: 44) European travel accounts are widely used as sources to write the history of societies that did not themselves produce a large amount of textual documentation. On the Coast of Guinea, and more particularly on the area formerly known as Gold Coast (approximately the littoral of modern Ghana), many of the written documents providing historians with information on coastal societies prior to nineteenth century were produced by Europeans travelers. Most of these individuals were merchants, craftsmen, pastors or soldiers who had settled several years in the numerous forts and trading posts erected along the seashore to protect and enhance the trade of chartered companies. Others were seamen and merchants who only spent a few weeks at a stretch plying the African Coast aboard men-of-war or trading ships, exchanging manufactured goods for gold, slaves, and ivory. Professional writers, who had not traveled to Africa, but had obtained data from various written sources or from travelers, also composed some of the accounts. Therefore, these documents show an extraordinary diversity in form and content, which historians and archeologists need to investigate before using them as primary sources for reconstructing the past. In the first part of the present paper, which focuses on a specific genre, the seventeenth-century travel accounts, I recall the historiography of the recent critique of these sources. I also point out that despite decisive methodological breakthroughs, some heuristic dimensions or attributes of these texts are yet to be recognized and assessed. I then re-examine these sources from the dual perspective of historic and linguistic anthropological methods and introduce an exploratory approach centered on the Bakhtinian approach to discourse.


Bone loss is accelerated in the late perimenopause and early menopause. The date of the final menstrual period cannot be stated until 1 year after it has ended, and at that time, most of the rapid bone loss phase will have elapsed. Therefore, early detection of bone loss is crucial.


E. von Nordheim has written several journal articles dealing with the question of Israel's distinctive identity, in both historical and literary terms, within the larger context of the ancient world. These articles have now been revised and increased in number, with introductory and concluding reflections, in Die Selbstbehauptung Israels in der Welt des Alten Orients (OBO 11 S, Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [1992], SwF59, pp.236, ISBN 3-7278-0792-X). The main


We present results on excitonic transitions and confinement at high electric fields from photocurrent and electroreflectance spectra of an In0.17Ga0.83As/Al0.3Ga0.7As strained quantum well structure fabricated into a Schottky barrier diode. Up to the highest field attained, 1.7×105 V/cm, we observe a well‐defined exciton line at the band edge (in contrast to data on similar GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As structures), a feature important for potential optoelectronic applications. At low fields, ''allowed'' (Δn=0) transitions dominate the photocurrent spectra, but with increasing field ''forbidden'' transitions (allowed because of reduced symmetry and valence‐band mixing) grow in intensity and eventually dominate the above‐gap response. In the electroreflectance spectra, the forbidden transitions are relatively strong, even at low field. The allowed above‐gap transitions nearly vanish at low temperature because of the small field dependence of the higher lying quantum well energy levels.


Dynamics are inherent characteristics of batch processes, and the dynamic behavior may exist not only within a batch run, but also from batch to batch. Recently, a two-dimensional (2D) autoregressive model has been used to formulate the dynamic batch processes framework. For such two-dimensional (2D) dynamic batch monitoring, a statistical online process monitoring scheme is presented in this paper. The proposed method consists of two phase: on-line two-dimensional (2D) autoregressive model building and process monitoring via SPC. In the model building phase, an adaptive lasso method is used to identify the order and coefficients of this 2D autoregressive model. In the process monitoring phase, a fault can be detected by applying SPC to the model coefficients. The simulation results show that the coefficients of 2D autoregressive model are sensitive to the faults in batch processes, verifying the effectiveness of the statistical online process monitoring scheme.


There is a body of information regarding urinary tract infections that clinicians need to know. These physicians want to be able to recognize urinary tract infections, determine what patients merit therapy, and, particularly in the cutrent era of diagnostic-related groups, formulate the essential elements of the evaluation. Physicians are also concerned about another practical issue, namely the duration of therapy for a urinary tract infection. This latter concern is the focus of this review. It is important for clinicians to appreciate that, despite the extensive data that have accumulated during the last 30 years concerning the diagnosis, pathogenesis, epidemiology, localization, atid management of urinary tract infections, there temain many voids in our knowledge precluding pre-


Although the momentum spread of the beam as it leaves the linac is comfortably within the design specifications, space charge effects in the 200-MeV transport line and in the booster increase the momentum spread of the debunched beam.112,314 The phase space density of the beam is further decreased during capture in the booster because the magnetic field is changing during capture and because the capture process is not completely adiabatic. 5,6


The paper presents a CMOS current controlled current conveyor(CCCII) based on cascode current mirror.The CCCII circuit is constructed by a translinear loop and cascode current mirror.Comparing with CCCII based on the simple current mirror, this circuit has the following merits:high output impedance and high current transfer accuracy.Performance principle of the circuit is analyzed and experiment results are given.The results of experiment verify the feasibility of the CCCII.


Background: To assess anxiety symptoms in pregnant women living in the quarantine conditions in Greece, due to the COVID-19 pandemic br br Methods: All pregna


This paper presents the results of a needs assessment undertaken by an interdisciplinary team concerned with developing an interprofessional preceptor and preceptee education program for health professionals and students. The study draws on a pragmatic philosophical perspective, to undertake what Robson (1993) referred to as "real world research", with the aim of applying the results for practical purposes. The objective of the needs assessment was to identify which content areas were considered to be of greatest educational value to an interdisciplinary range of health professional preceptors and students. In addition, the needs assessment sought to ascertain whether preceptors and students would find such an education resource useful, and if they would use a web-based electronic resource, and to identify preferred formats of potential educational modules. The needs assessment involved three phases: a literature review, an environmental scan of available preceptor/preceptee education programs and the design and implementation of a preceptor/preceptee survey. The results of the study point to content areas in education and design that hold relevance for both preceptors and preceptees. The findings hold significance for others concerned with preceptor and student preparation, and informed the development of an open access, online interprofessional educational program (Bossers et al., 2007).


The dependence of excitation-energy sharing on the direction of the net transfer of mass, observed by Viola and co-workers, is interpreted in terms of the participant-spectator model of Wilczynski and Wilschut. It is demonstrated that the division of the excitation energy in fully damped collisions (proportional to the mass numbers of the fragments) is a natural consequence of the participant-spectator kinematics and therefore it does not necessarily imply temperature equilibration prior to scission.


Original contribution to scientific knowledge a comprehensive analysis of the impact of family characteristics, the health status of children and the treatment/(re)habilitation programs in various institutions, on the assessment of processes of care; the highlighted importance of a key worker; the role of some factors known to be associated with evaluating processes of care was confirmed; some of the new facts, in particular the declining scores of parents with the longer duration of the child s treatment programs and the difference between the parent s scores according to the specialist doctor, who is following-up the children; the 5-dimensional structure of the MPOC-20 questionnaire was confirmed, its improvements were proposed; the stability of the assessment with the MPOC-20 and MPOC-SP questionnaires over a period of one year was shown. Based on these results we will suggest improvements to the system of health care and rehabilitation of chronically ill or disabled children in terms of establishing the network of key workers and organising educational programs.


- The frequency conversion speed regulation system powered by inverter is widely used in various fields. It is particularly important that the inverter that is most prone to failure can quickly and accurately locate the fault location and analyze the cause of the fault. The Wavelet Neural Network (WNN) is used as the entry point, and the fault diagnosis of the inverter is studied. Firstly, the Back Propagation (BP) algorithm commonly used in WNN is analyzed. A variable learning rate factor is introduced, and a variable learning rate variable weighted recursive least squares algorithm is proposed. Then, the relevant parameters are set. The inverter fault diagnosis simulation experiment is designed. Experiments show that the improved Learning Rate and Variable Weight Recursive Least Squares (LWRLS) algorithm completes fitting 1200-1300 steps faster than the BP algorithm in terms of operation speed. In terms of network error, the error value of the WNN of the BP algorithm can only reach 104. The error of the WNN of the LWRLS algorithm reaches 106. Therefore, when the algorithm is improved, the network error of WNN is reduced a lot. In the fault diagnosis accuracy, the average accuracy of the BP algorithm is 98.37%, and the standard deviation is 1.2571. The average accuracy of the LWRLS algorithm is 99.56% with a standard deviation of 0.3920. The fault recognition rate after the improved algorithm is significantly better, and the stability is better. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the improved LWRLS algorithm in WNN has the advantages of fast operation speed, small network error and high diagnostic accuracy in the inverter fault diagnosis method. The proposed improved WNN algorithm provides a reference for the application of inverter fault diagnosis.


Throughout much of the world, urban and rural public spaces may be said to be under attack by property developers, commercial interests and also attempts by civic authorities to regulate, restrict, reframe and rebrand these spaces. A consequence of the increasingly security driven, privatised, commercial and surveilled nature of public space is the exclusion and displacement of those considered 'flawed' and unwelcome in the 'spectacular' consumption spaces of many major urban centres. In the name of urban regeneration, processes of securitisation, 'gentrification' and creative cities initiatives can act to refashion public space as sites of selective inclusion and exclusion. The use of surveillance and other control technologies as deployed in and around the UK 'Riots' of 2011 may help to promote and encourage a passing sense of personal safety and confidence in using public space. Through systems of social sorting, the same surveillance assemblages can also further the physical, emotional and psychological exclusion of certain groups and individuals, deemed to be both 'out of time and out of place' in major zones of urban, conspicuous, consumption. In this harsh environment of monitoring and control procedures, children and young people's use of public spaces and places in parks, neighbourhoods, shopping malls and streets is often viewed as a threat to social order, requiring various forms of punitive and/or remedial action. Much of this civic action actively excludes some children and young people from participation and as a consequence, their trust in local processes and communities is eroded. This paper discusses worldwide developments in the surveillance, governance and control of the public space environments used by children and young people in particular and the capacity for their displacement and marginality, diminishing their sense of belonging, wellbeing and rights to public space as an expression of their social, political and civil citizenship(s).


The present invention at least two injection-molding stations (2) injection relates to a method of producing an injection molded article (10), in particular an optical element that is formed by at least two injection molding process molding material, a step in at least two injection molding process in that the preform (4) which has been produced in at least two injection-cooled in a cooling station (5) between the forming step is characterized. In another aspect, the present invention also provides a manufacturing apparatus of an extrudate.


ABSTRACT Do past state actions, such as the American conquest of northern Mexico, the British colonization of South Asia, and the Spanish expulsion of the Sephardim and Moriscos, grant contemporary Mexicans, South Asians, and the descendants of the Sephardim and Moriscos a particular right to immigrate to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain respectively? In this paper I examine three theoretical models for addressing this question: retrospective responsibility for historic injustice; the principle of coercively constituted identities; and the theory of remedial responsibility. I argue that remedial responsibility best justifies a particular right to immigrate through responsibility for the past for three reasons. First, it relieves us of the epistemological task of establishing causal responsibility. Second, it lessens the normative task of identifying a theory of unjust harm to establish moral responsibility. Finally, it facilitates the normative task of ranking the claims to immigrate of different individuals.


Currently, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved great achievements in semantic segmentation tasks, but existing methods all require a large number of annotated images for training and do not have good scalability for new objects. Therefore, few-shot semantic segmentation methods that can identify new objects with only one or a few annotated images are gradually gaining attention. However, the current few-shot segmentation methods cannot segment plant diseases well. Based on this situation, a few-shot plant disease semantic segmentation model with multi-scale and multi-prototypes match (MPM) is proposed. This method generates multiple prototypes and multiple query feature maps, and then the relationships between prototypes and query feature maps are established. Specifically, the support feature and query feature are first extracted from the high-scale layers of the feature extraction network; subsequently, masked average pooling is used for the support feature to generate prototypes for a similarity match with the query feature. At the same time, we also fuse low-scale features and high-scale features to generate another support feature and query feature that mix detailed features, and then a new prototype is generated through masked average pooling to establish a relationship with the query feature of this scale. Subsequently, in order to solve the shortcoming of traditional cosine similarity and lack of spatial distance awareness, a CES (cosine euclidean similarity) module is designed to establish the relationship between prototypes and query feature maps. To verify the superiority of our method, experiments are conducted on our constructed PDID-5i dataset, and the mIoU is 40.5%, which is 1.7% higher than that of the original network.


In the Chinese culture sphere, many countries has changed the usage of the Chinese characters, or words were made on the basis of the derived general characters and Chinese characters. These words. through people or literature communication, spread to each country and be used and experienced complicated historical process. It ア ワ ビ (??) is concerned, in ancient China the corresponding character are " ? ". On the basis of ア ワ ビ, the word "? " appeared, but there is a lot of controversy about its literal meaning source, because it came from both China and Japan. Also the word "?" iappeared later, is from China and Japan, two kinds of views. Through network investigation using Chinese characters in a large number of existing literature material, as well as documents, such as Mu Jian unearthed in the goods, and detailed study the case-by-case, "?" word originated in China the possibility of more. But about be replace radical "?", it is obvious that the application of South Korea and Japan than China early. About the ancient Chinese culture sphere make a word and dissemination of the actual situation, the future full collection literature material, understand each literature have close studies of this, for each word carefully in the comparative study, in the hope that this can be based on a Chinese culture sphere, It will be change and communicate by the actual situation. By further studies the specific actual condition for such words, which are not high frequency of use, can be accurately reproduced and it will make Chinese characters more dynamic.


The XIVth World Congress of Pharmacology took place on July 7–12 in Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA. Over 4,000 scientists, exhibitors and guests attended the Congress. It consisted of 40 symposia, 11 workshops, 18 plenary lectures and ca. 1400 posters. The Congress was sponsored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, and GlaxoSmithKline. The major financial donors were: Eli Lilly and Company, Servier, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, and Yamanouchi Foundation. This report covers only posters or presentations on new drugs affecting the central nervous system that were viewed or attended by the author.


This paper introduced the main characters of grid resources, discussed the classic grid resource prediction methods, and then presented a novel prediction algorithm in grid resource state prediction based on BP neural network algorithm. It can be learn directly from the comparison between the traditional BP algorithm and the new TD algorithm based on BP neural network. The experiment results show that TD algorithm represents a more accurate prediction and a better adaptive ability in the autonomous grid environment.


 In this paper, we propose a multi-view image coding system that operates directly in 3-D space, and it is based on 3-D scene reconstruction. Unlike existing multi-view image coding schemes, in which the 3-D scene information of the images to be encoded is represented by a mesh model as well as the texture data, we use a 3-D voxel model to represent the 3-D scene information of the considered images and then encode the 3-D voxel model. There are several advantages of the 3-D voxel model over the mesh model as well as the texture data. Experimental results show the potential of our proposed multi-view image coding system. Furthermore, we propose important, yet simple, improvements to current 3-D voxel models; these improvements lead to significant coding gain within our 3-D voxel model based compression system.


This article proposes a novel approach to cryptosystem design to prevent power analysis attacks. Such attacks infer program behavior by continuously monitoring the power supply current going into the processor core. They form an important class of security attacks. Our approach is based on dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), which hides processor state to make it harder for an attacker to gain access to a secure system. Three designs are studied to test the efficacy of the DVFS method against power analysis attacks. The advanced realization of our cryptosystem is presented which achieves enough high power and time trace entropies to block various kinds of power analysis attacks in the DES algorithm. We observed 27% energy reduction and 16% time overhead in these algorithms. Finally, DVFS hardness analysis is presented.


In this study, our objective is to investigate the role of fiber denier in a drafting process by measuring drafting force and sliver irregularity for different fiber fineness values and break drafting ratios. The test materials are 100% polyester fibers with 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 denier fineness values, manufactured in the same way to control the other fiber properties. The break drafting ratios, the other main factor in this experiment, are 1.07, 1.15, 1.20, 1.31, 1.47, 1.57, and 1.76. Although both main factors are significant, fiber fineness interacts with break drafting ratio to affect drafting force and sliver irregularity. The drafting force increases as the break draft ratio increases up to a maximum, after which it begins to drop, indicating a curvilinear relationship. The interaction of fiber fineness and break drafting ratio shows that each of the fineness values reacts differently, and the maximum drafting force occurs at a different break draft ratio for each fiber fineness. In addition, sliver irregularity has a linear relationship with drafting ratio that significantly interacts with fiber fineness.


High voltage DC electrohydrodynamic atomization characteristics of limestone-water slurries have been investigated experimentally using a hollow needle electrode nozzle. The results show that both the spray angle and the dispersion of the slurry droplets increases with increasing applied voltage. The mean diameter of the droplets decreases with increasing applied voltage. The results also seem to indicate that the applied voltage may also decrease the slurry flow rate from the nozzle in the present gravitationally fed system.<<ETX>>


The antitumor activity of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), combined either with bleomycin or adriamycin plus radiation, was studied in a controlled randomized clinical trial. Sixty-one previously untreated inoperable esophageal cancer patients entered the study and 56 have been evaluated: 58 male and 3 female patints with a mean age of 57 years (range 37–74). Concerning localization of the tumors in the esophagus, 2 were in the upper third, 36 in the middle third and 18 in the lower third. The length of the filling defects in the esophagogram (X-ray) was in 9 patients < 5 cm, in 31 5–8 cm, and in 16 patients > 8 cm. Squamous cell carcinoma was found in 51 patients, adenocarcinoma in 3, and anaplastic (squamous cell) carcinoma in 2 patients. Modality A consisted of a combination of 5-FU (10 mg/kg i.v. 2 × weekly, 4 weeks) and bleomycin (10 mg/m2 i.v., 2 × 4 weeks) which was given concurrently with radiation (3600–4000 rad - 1000 rad weekly). In modality B the combination of 5-FU (same dose) and adriamycin (30 mg/m2 i.v. day 1, 2, 23 and 24) was applied with the same schedule and dosage of radiation. Seventy-five percent of the patients (21/28) have responded to treatment (CR + PR) in modality A, with 11 complete and 10 partial responses. In arm B, response was recorded in 64 % of patients (18/28), with 2 complete and 16 partial responses. The difference in complete responses (39 % vs 8 %) was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The median remission duration in complete responders was 12 months in modality A (range 6–18 months), and 6.8 months in modality B (range 3–10 months). All the responses occurred in patients with squamous cell carcinoma, except one partial response in a case of adenocarcinoma. As far as the age is concerned (< 55 vs > 55 years), no significant difference in response rate was found (67 % vs 71 %). More favorable results were observed in the group of patients with < 10 % weight loss (79 % vs 63 %). Toxicity was moderate (myelosuppression, cardiotoxicity), but one treatment-related death (pulmonary fibrosis, cardiac failure) was recorded in arm A, as well as one death (rupture of aorta) in group B. Approximately 60 % of patients in both modalities suffered from severe mucositis and retrosternal pain. The results of the study showed that the combination of 5-FU with adriamycin and particularly with bleomycin, given concurrently with lower radiation dosage, is an effective palliative treatment for inoperable esophageal cancer.


Gender disparity in terms of citation performance has been widely documented in the scientific literature. Some research suggests that women's publications are cited at lower rates than men's publications, whilst others have found the opposite results or no differences. The process of scientific citations seems to be subject to considerable biases. As an example, it is believed that information about authors with regard to country or university might have a negative effect on the number of received citations. The research topic of an article is also believed to have an effect on received citations. Thus, biases may also be due to the research topic of an article. Females and male researchers differ in their research interests. This study aims to investigate whether there is a gender bias in citing scholars, when controlling for the availability of information about authors (i.e. affiliation, biography, and photographs) and the topic of their papers. There are three objectives. First, to compare the number of citations received by female and male authors. Second, to compare female and male authors' citations received based on the availability of authors' information. Third, to compare female and male authors' number of citations received in papers with similar topics. The dataset of this study is composed of a sample of articles and reviews published by the top 5 % of highly productive authors in the field of chemistry, retrieved from the WOS database between 2012 and 2014. In order to control for the impact of author byline order, we only focused on those records where the productive author was the corresponding author.


The reactions of RLi (R = t-Bu, m-F3CC6H4) with bis(dimethylamino)chloroarsine in diethyl ether at room temperature result in the formation of t-butyl-bis(dimethylamino)arsine (1) and m-trifluromethylphenyl-bis(dimethylamino)arsine (2). Compounds 1 and 2 were hydrolysed in water solution in the presence of sodium carbonate to give the oxides (t-BuAsO)n (3) and (m-F3CC6H4AsO)n (4) respectively. The X-ray crystal structure of 4 shows the molecule to be cyclotetrameric with pyramidal arsenic. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


FIELD: construction. SUBSTANCE: invention is related to the field of construction, in particular to panels, which may be joined to each other without application of glue. Gasket is arranged in joined condition of panels along upper side of panels and between them. This gasket expands in downward direction and is arranged on upper side of rabbet, which creates connecting element of panel. Gasket expansion preferably has asymmetric shape. Panels, according to invention, provide for especially simple shaping of wall or ceiling coatings. Gasket is arranged from compressed material. EFFECT: elimination of water ingress in clearance between panels and provision of possibility for expansion and shrinkage effect compensation. 15 cl, 1 dwg


The mining-excavation plan plays an important part in the operation management and business intelligence system construction of the mining enterprise and has great impact on decision-making of the mining enterprise. This paper takes the decision support system underground metal mine as the research object and studies its model and algorithm. Based on goals and constraints of ore blending operations, the ore blending model is established by using the theory and technology of multiobjective programming and the ore blending plan is optimized, which provides the theoretical basis and data support for the mining-excavation planning. Based on the experience and knowledge of domain experts and constraints of mining, the stope superseding and verification model is established by using the experts system and its inference mode, therefore the stoping sequence of ore blocks is worked out. In view of the cost characteristics of underground mining the mining-excavation planning model is established by using the time Petri net extended with price information, thus the minimum production cost and corresponding mining-excavation plan are worked out by using the above model.


epolyacrylamide gels andbythedegradation invitro ofguanidinium chloride-extract ed amelogenins. One group ofproteinases withgelatinolytic activity consisted of several neutral metalloendoproteinases having Mrvalues from62000to130000. Theseproteinases were inactive against amelogenins, casein andalbumin, andwere present inapproximately equalproportions inenamelatall developmental stages. Intheother group,twoserine proteinases, withapparentnon-reduced Mrof31000 and36000, exhibited amelogeninolytic activity. Thesubstrate preference oftheenamelserine proteinases was indicated bytheir limited degradation ofcasein andtheir inability todegrade gelatin andalbumin. Contrasting withthedistribution ofthemetalloendoproteinase enzymes, theserine proteinases were found only intheenamel scrapings taken fromlate-maturing enamel. Theamelogenin degradation patterns invivo, observed intheenamel scrapings, were similar tothose produced inassaysinvitro using partially purified fractions ofenamelproteinases andamelogenin substrate. Together, thesedatastrongly indicate an important rolefortheserine proteinases, andpossibly thegelatinolytic proteinases, intheorganized processing oftheenamel protein matrix during enamel formation.


AbstractEfforts to prevent the debonding failure mode of externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening systems have led to the investigation of many different kinds of anchorage systems. An effective anchorage system allows externally bonded FRP reinforcements to continue carrying load, even after debonding occurs. In this study, an experimental program was performed on six full-scale RC T-beams strengthened in shear using externally bonded carbon FRP sheets with three different anchorage systems, the so-called (1) discontinuous mechanical anchorage (DMA) system, (2) sandwich discontinuous mechanical anchorage (SDMA) system, and (3) additional horizontal strips (HS) system. The experimental results showed that the SDMA system performed best, followed by the DMA and HS systems. The RC T-beams strengthened with the SDMA system showed a 59–91% increase in shear strength, altering the failure mode from FRP debonding to FRP rupture. In addition, the shear contribution of internal transverse st...


ABSTRACT This pilot study explored whether a Moving Pictures Experts Group-3 (MP3) delivery of a Religiously Oriented Mindfulness (ROM) intervention would improve mindfulness, increase cardiac vagal tone, and decrease Personal Burnout for a sample of social workers. To examine the efficacy of such a ROM, pre and posttest data were collected from N = 22 social workers in vivo (at job or university sites) using the Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale (MAAS), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), and the Personal Burn-out dimension of the Copenhagen Burnout Scale. Paired-sample t-tests revealed significant differences between pre-and-posttest measures, indicating improvements on all measures with medium to large effect sizes for the MAAS, and HRV, and a smaller effect size for the decrease in Personal Burnout at posttest. ROM is effective in improving mindfulness, increasing HRV, and decreasing Personal Burnout in social workers. The religious nature of this mindfulness intervention, as well as the in vivo nature of this study design is novel in mindfulness studies. The results of this pilot study warrant further exploration of how a religious integration of practices in mindfulness can be effective in improving mindfulness, and self-regulatory function, and preventing burnout in social workers.


The Effect of Cationic Detergents on the Spectral Properties of Pontachrome Azur blue and its Metal(III)-complexes - Micell Effect or Ternary Complex Formation?

The results of studies of the metachromasy effect of pontachrome azur blue and its lakes, preferably with aluminium, and hexadecyl-, tetradecyl-, dodecyl- and decyltriethyl-ammonium-bromide, respectively can be explained on the basis of ternary complex formation. The surfactants can be applied at concentrations far below its critical micelle concentrations thus excluding micelle effects.


Jacks: African American Seaman in the Age of Sail (1997), is the significance of African Americans as mariners. Were there any African American members of the society? Personally, I would love to see the PEM construct a permanent online exhibit around this book. The value lies in the project's interdisciplinarity. The chronology of the collection itself tells a story about Salem's seafaring populace and global ambitions—an "American identity tied to the sea" (45). But the materialist lens ties in epistemologies from the histories of museums, science, and ethnography as well. Exhibits ranged from Tahitian tattooing instruments to Fijian sailing needles, fishing implements used in the Pacific Northwest, Indian textiles and palanquins, Chinese utensils and footbindings alongside dioramas of Native Americans. Like society members, "some visitors gained an appreciation for other cultures or new perspectives on the world outside of the city, state, or country, while others reconfirmed preconceived notions of faraway lands and people." As Schwartz argues, objects could lose historical and contextual meaning after passing through multiple hands, but this, too, tells a story. Other items were produced collaboratively for display. A model of the ship Friendship was made by both American and Indonesian craftsmen. A mannequin of Parsee merchant Nusserwanjee Maneckjee Wadia wore donated clothing rooted in "a conscious desire to represent Indian culture in this new American institution." In 1832, Elias Boudinot attempted to similarly influence representations of Cherokee by donating translations of the book of Matthew and other writings in the Cherokee syllabary. These men, understanding the importance of representation to politics, aimed to negotiate the terms of that representation. In 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt affirmed that the East India Marine Hall at PEM stood as a "memorial to the Golden Age of New England Shipping." But Schwartz demonstrates far greater significance. Reading Collecting the Globe is a bit like observing a zoetrope story in motion—the story is compelling, but the mechanism of the story's production is equally fascinating.


Dynamic finite element modeling of a series of penetrometer drop tests into soft clay that were conducted as part of the Mars sample return advanced technology program is discussed. Structural impacts into soil continue to challenge analysts to develop accurate soil material models for finite element simulations to predict the observed deceleration pulse and impact crater. Parametric studies are presented for penetrometers of varying diameter, mass, and impact velocity to a maximum of 45 m/s, which is the expected terminal velocity of a sample return capsule. Parameters influencing the simulation such as the contact penalty factor and the material model representing the soil are discussed. An empirical relationship between peak deceleration and key parameters is developed and is shown to correlate experimental and analytical results. The results provide preliminary design guidelines for Earth impact that may be useful for future space exploration sample return missions.


The susceptibility of 72 isolates of Candida albicans to the antimicrobial honey distillate fraction (HY−1) and several antimycotic agents is presented. All the isolates were sensitive to HY−1, H−115 and Jadit, while about 10% of the isolates were variably resistant to nystatin, miconazole nitrate and clotrimazole. The nystatin, miconazole nitrate and clotrimazole resistant isolates were inhibited by HY−1.


This paper via compares data de-duplication with other data storage methods, analyses characteristics of data de-duplication and applies the technology to data backup and recovery. Highlights special process of asynchronous backup and recovery based on data de-duplication. Data de-duplication can reduce backup volume, then save users data storage space, and cut the cost of storage, asynchronous backup makes it more reliable and controllable used in design process. Finally, it makes an analysis of the feature of backup recovery mode and its security problems, and gives improved advices.


OBJECTIVE
To present reflections upon conceptual and pragmatic relationships between the Patient-and Family-Centered Care and patient safety.

METHOD
A discussion about constructs related to the Patient-and Family-Centered Care and patient safety, which shows their interface with pragmatic issues of clinical nursing practice.

RESULTS
Considering patients and families as partners and agents promoting safe care is mandatory for the safety culture.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Decreasing errors and adverse health care events can be accomplished by understanding manners to incorporate the principles of Patient-and Family-Centered Care into issues related to patient safety.


This paper addresses the issue of 2D human upper-body pose estimation under cluttered environments using a discriminative structured framework. Most previous approaches focus on solving such a problem using generative models. However, a generative model has two drawbacks: a) not suitable for real-time application due to its slow inference algorithm and b) prone to over fitting given limited training data. In this work, we propose to use structured discriminative regression models for 2D human upper-body pose estimation in a model-free manner to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks. In contrast to a standard discriminative regression model, a structured regression model for human pose estimation can not only learn the relevance between image features and the presentation of human pose but also catch the inner relationship between each output. Our experimental results demonstrate the benefits brought by using structured discriminative models to articulated human pose estimation problem on cluttered images from the benchmarking Buffy the Vampire Slayer dataset and the highly challenging images from PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2008 Challenge datasets.


The study aims to examine the impacts of climate change (CC) and financial development (FD) on rice production (RP) in Thailand from the period 1969 to 2016 by using the ARDL and VECM framework. The empirical results revealed that in the long- run (LR) and short-run (SR) there is a reduction in rice production as temperature increase. The carbon dioxide (CO2) positively affects rice production in the (LR), while this connection is negative in the SR. The empirical results further confirmed that in the LR and SR domestic credit provided by the financial sector positively and significantly improved rice production, while domestic credit to private sector by banks negatively affect rice production. The important input factors including cultivated area, fertilizers use and labor force positively and significantly contributed to rice production in both LR and SR. The LR causal link of all variables with rice production is validated. The SR causal association is unidirectional among temperature, CO2 emissions, financial development, labor force and rice production. Additionally, the IRF and VDM outcomes also confirm that both climate change and socioeconomic development are crucial for rice production in Thailand. The study offers important policy implications to improve rice production with the help of improved financial system and climate controls.


Objective: To elucidate the relationship between the dysphagia severity and the location and size of cerebral infarction lesion in acute stroke. Method: One hundred and eighty-one acute ischemic stroke patients with dysphagia and six healthy volunteers accepted videofluoroscopy swallowing study (VFSS) respectively. Abnormal signs of swallowing were recorded. Dysphagic patients were divided into three groups: mild, moderate and serious. The cerebral infarction lesion size and location were measured on MRI -DWI image. Result: The incidence of dysphagia in acute ischemic stroke patients was 66.3%, of which in hemisphere infarction group was 67.7%, in brain stem infarction group was 79.1%. Dysphagia was not found in cerebellum infarction. The severity of dysphagia was closely related to infarction location and size. Severe dysphagia were often found in patients with brainstem infarction and large-area cerebral infarction (P0.001,0.05). The dysphagia severity was not different in patients with left or right cerebral hemisphere infarction (P0.05). Conclusion: The incidence and severity of dysphagia were related to the location and size of cerebral infarction lesion in acute ischemic stroke patients. Patients with brainstem infarction and large-area cerebral infarction often had serious dysphagia.


We came across a very simple but very difficult problem when we simulated an associative memory model with spiking neurons and explored a fitness landscape a weight configuration space of high dimensionality where weight solutions look like peaks. We have already known the location of one peak in the landscape called Hebbian peak a weight configuration in which two neurons are wired when they both fire. We guess many other peaks exist though we have not found yet so far. In searching for such solutions, we observed that the fitness landscape was almost everywhere completely flatland of altitude zero where only the Hebbian peak whose sidewall was extremely steep, was visible. In such circumstances how could we search for other peaks without any gradient information? This paper is a call for challenges to the


Introduction : Lip prints are an adjuvant tool for identification in forensic medicine. The grooves on the lips have discrete characteristics to make it different from one other. This study was conducted on 24 pairs of twins out of which 22 pairs were Monozygotic twins and 2 pairs were Dizygotic twins. Dizygotic twins are unique in all aspects while Monozygotic twins are similar phenotypically and genotypically. The objective of this study is to find the most common pattern in the twins , the commonest pattern among the male and female twins and to know the variations in the pattern of lip prints among Monozygotic and Dizygotic twins. Materials and Methods: A lipstick, drawing chart and magnifying lens were the materials used to record the imprints of the lips. A four compartment method with a clockwise direction approach was used and the analysis was done based on Suzuki and Tsuchihashi classification. Results: The present study shows Type 1' was the most common lip prints observed among the 24 pairs of twins. This pattern was predominantly present in the right lower lip quadrant. Out of the study subjects of 24 pairs of twins, 38 were males and 10 were females in which Type I ' is common in males and type I is common in females. Among the monozygotic twins those which had < 50 % resemblance were 14 pairs, 50% resemblance were 6 pairs, >50% resemblance were 2 pairs in which Type is the commonest. Among the dizygotic twins, both the pairs were totally different from each other yet Type was the common pattern. Conclusion: Based on the analysis of the lip print patterns among monozygotic twins, though similarities were prevailing between them , they are not identical .Whereas among dizygotic twins both the pairs of twins are unique. Hence Lip print can be utilized as a differentiating tool for identification.