The work of the Japanese artist Yanagi Miwa (1967-) explores received images of women and their own self-images in contemporary society, particularly through the reconfiguration of the intergenerational relationship between women. Among the cultural stereotypes reexamined in Yanagi's synthetic photographs and video installations are the images of female characters from classic fairy tales such as "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," and "The Little Match Girl." Yanagi's fairy-tale images reverse, blend, and dissolve the binary oppositions well established in traditional European fairy tales, which are often typified by the opposition between the princess and the witch. Her restaging of the relationship between the young girl and the old woman is more ambiguous and uncertain rather than simply either antagonistic or harmonious, which puts into question the apparent familiarity of the scenes taken from well-known fairy tales. On the one hand, the all-female fairy-tale fantasy staged in Yanagi's work can be seen as a feminist rein- terpretation of the Freudian uncanny (unheimlich) which, instead of repressing autoeroticism with the threat of difference, castration, and death, allows for the sameness, the imaginary relationship with the mother, and the continuity of life and death. On the other hand, the same fantasy reveals itself as just another arti- fice that can constrict women's lives and imagination. In this article I also examine the way in which Yanagi's work dismantles not only the gender stereotypes in fairy tales but also the quintessential storytelling space of the fireside—a symbol of the homely and the familiar (heimlich)—to which women and children have traditionally been confined as marginalized figures in a patriarchal society.


This paper begins with a brief description of the ADVANTAGE I-75 Program. This is followed by a description of the Motor Carrier Project - Mainline Automated Clearance System (MACS). MACS will be the first implementation in North America of commercial vehicle automatic vehicle identification ( AVI)-equipped mainline preclearance and weigh station bypass across multiple states.


Abstract Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with an elevated frequency of mood disorders that may, in part, be explained by changes in white-matter microstructure. This study is the first to examine the relationship between mood disorders and white-matter pathology in a sample of patients with mild to severe TBI using a standardized psychiatric interview. This study reports on a sub-sample of 29 individuals recruited from a large prospective study that examined the evolution of psychiatric disorders following complicated, mild to severe TBI. Individuals with TBI were also compared with 23 healthy control participants. Individuals were invited to complete the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Disorders (SCID) to diagnose psychiatric disorders. Participants who developed a mood disorder within the first 3 years were categorized into a TBI-Mood group. Diffusion tensor tractography assessed white matter microstructure using atlas-based tract-averaged and along-tract approaches. Fractional aniso...


The article is considering the projects active world outlook futurology of Russian cosmists K.E. Tsiolkovsky and V.I. Vernadsky. Tsiolkovsky's technocratic project draws the strategy of human autoevolution and development of new ecological niches by it. V. I. Vernadsky's noosphere project opens horizons of realization of century spiritual aspirations of human community.


Coal mining has a deep history in the Appalachian region, where some local economies have heavily relied on coal production. While coal employment in the region has generally been in a long-term decline, there is variation across counties, with coal employment still representing a large share of total employment for some counties. This paper explores how coal activity—measured by coal employment, coal employment as a share of total employment, coal production, and the number of coal mines—impacts locally provided funding for K-12 education. Using county-level data that spans from 1995 to 2016, results indicate that increases in coal activity have a positive and significant impact on local revenues per student though effects are modest. The findings are robust across different specifications. The implication is that declines in coal activity can hamper school funding, in turn affecting adequate investments in education that are essential for economic development.


Prolonging the period between marriage and the first birth reduces the effective age of childbearing in a woman and thus fewer children during her life. This paper aimed to study the interval between the beginning of the marriage till the conception of the first birth in terms of the length of this interval, childbearing probabilities, and the determinants that had a significant effect, for two groups of women, the first is for women who got married in the period that was characterized by a high total fertility rate. The second included the women who married during periods that were characterized by an acceptable downward trend in fertility rates. The life table, Cox Proportional Hazard Model, and the Egypt Demographic and Health Survey for the year 2014 were used. The results showed a decrease in this interval in the first group, as compared to the second group. The differences between the two groups appeared slight in terms of the childbearing probabilities. There was no difference between the two groups in terms of the variables with a significant effect during that interval. According to Cox's analysis, the woman's education level, age at her first cohabitation, and the previous use of family planning methods are the only significant variables. It is necessary to raise and spread awareness about the married couples' need of getting reassured about the continuation of thei r marriages before deciding to have a child. This aims to reduce the effective age of a woman's ability to bear more children.


Objective: To study the correlation between sulfonylurea receptor 1(SUR1) gene exon 16-3c/t polymorphism and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Hubei Han people. Methods: We used both sib-pairs and random case-control designs, the genotypes of SUR1 gene were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) in 405 samples. Height, weight, blood pressure and fasting blood sugar were measured. Results: In two experimental designs, there were no significant differences in the genotype and allele frequencies between cases and controls(P0.05). Conclusion: The result show that type 2 diabetes mellitus may be little associated with SUR1 gene -3c/t polymorphism of exon 16 in Hubei Han people.


Objective Human papillomaviruses can not be cultured in vitro now, and have tumorgenicity. These properties of HPV severely hampered the vaccine development of human papillomavirus. In order to develop an attenuated recombinant adenovirus vaccine against HPV infection and human cervical cancer, the recombinant adenoviral of HPV16 was constructed. Methods The plasmid pUC19L1 E7 contained L1 ORF and E7 ORF was constructed using polymerase chain reaction. The L1 E7 DNA fragment was digested with HindⅢand SmaⅠ and inserted into pBluescript, to prepare pBSL1 E7. The L1 E7 DNA fragment was cut with HindⅢ and XbaⅠ and inserted into adenoviral shuttle plasmid pCA14, and then cotransfected 293 cells with the adenovirus pBHG10 plasmid, harvested the recombinant adenovirus of HPV16. The expression of the chimeric virus like particle was detected using ELISA, immunoblot assay and the electron microscopy. Results The fusion L1 E7 protein was expressed at high level and able to self assemble into chimeric virus like particle (cVLP), which is morphologically indistinguishable from the native virions and display the conformational epitopes. Conclusion We constructed the recombinant adenovirus of human papillomavirus type 16L1 E7, the L1 E7 fusion protein can be expressed in high level, and can self assemble into the chimeric virus like particles in human cells. The recombinant pUC19L1 plasmid was an potential vector for constructing other chimeric vaccines with the epitopes derived from virus and tumor antigen.


We provide a scheme for exploring the reconstruction limits of compressed sensing by minimizing the general cost function under the random measurement constraints for generic correlated signal sources. Our scheme is based on the statistical mechanical replica method for dealing with random systems. As a simple but non-trivial example, we apply the scheme to a sparse autoregressive model, where the first differences in the input signals of the correlated time series are sparse, and evaluate the critical compression rate for a perfect reconstruction. The results are in good agreement with a numerical experiment for a signal reconstruction.


Advanced mobile autos these days incorporate inserted machines will aid the driver done as much excursion. A paramount requisition that ought to be included with at whatever auto may be that identification Furthermore distinguishment about movement indications. In this paper, we concentrate on the distinguishment of a totally situated about hardware movement indications utilizing those number from claiming Peaks algorithm. Then afterward identifying a movement sign, that algorithm draws three level lines and three verthandi lines crosswise over that picture. Those amount of peaks (crossing starting with An dark pixel on a white pixel) may be ascertained for every of the six lines Concerning illustration the picture is scanned starting with good with cleared out (for level lines) alternately highest point with lowest part (for verthandi lines). The coming about numbers for peaks need aid utilized Toward those decision-tree-like scan algorithm to recognize the middle of 51 hardware street indications with An mean identification duration of the time about 8 milliseconds, 100% identification rate Furthermore in a honestly loud surroundings.


Erskine Caldwell became known in the USSR in the mid-1930s through the magazine publications of his short stories and the Russian edition of the novel Tobacco Road (1938). In his correspondence with the representatives of Soviet literary institutions — Sergei Dynamov, Timofei Rokotov, Mikhail Apletin — Caldwell often discussed his plans to visit the Soviet Union. Caldwell and the famous photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who became his wife in 1939, arrived in the Soviet Union after their trip to China in May 1941, and thus started their acquaintance with the Soviet Union in Alma-Ata. From Kazakhstan the American guests went to Moscow, had time to visit Ukraine, Tbilisi, Sochi, and on June 22 learned about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. They stayed in the warring country until late September 1941. As eyewitnesses to historic events, Caldwell and Burke-White worked as war correspondents: they reported from the USSR for Life magazine and the newspaper PM. Caldwell's reports and Burke-White's photographs were also published in the Soviet press. Since July 1941, Caldwell conducted daily CBS live radio broadcasts from wartime Moscow. M. Burke-White held a photo session with Stalin, captured the historic visit to Moscow of Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal advisor. The article, based on the American and Soviet press and archival materials, reconstructs the history of the American couple's stay and work in the USSR and evaluates their activities as writers and war correspondents in the historical, literary and political context of the first months of the Great Patriotic War. Caldwell's interview with the American Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt for Life magazine, which didn't pass the Soviet military censorship is published in the Addendum.


Highly ordered mesoporous materials are opening the door to new opportunities in catalysis due to their extraordinary intrinsic features. In this study, Nickel was supported on highly ordered mesoporous silica (KIT-6) by the wet impregnation method, and its performance in the hydrogenation of edible vegetable oil was compared with that of Ni/Activated carbon prepared using the same method as well as with unsupported Nickel. The degree of conversion for the 50 : 50 Ni/KIT-6 was 81%, as compared to the 29% obtained with 50 : 50 Ni/Activated carbons. The conversion was found to improve with an increase in mass of supported Nickel on KIT-6 thus 20 : 80 Ni/KIT-6 and 30 : 70 Ni/KIT-6 produced conversions of 71% and 74%, respectively. Key among the benefits of KIT-6 when used as a support material is the very high surface area, open framework of the 3D bicontinuous interconnected channels, and the well-ordered mesopores which bestow on it an advanced mass transfer characteristics.


This paper analyzes the change of the relationships among distributive justice,procedural justice and cooperation behaviors in alliances which formed under the impact of task and institutional environment. Focusing on one cooperation behavior commitment,it founds that the impact of distributive justice on commitment weakened and the impact of procedural justice on commitment strengthened with increasing influence of task environment. It also founds that the impact of both of distributive justice and procedural justice on commitment strengthened with increasing influence of institutional environment,especially regulatory environment.


Based on a high temperature fuel cell and gas turbine hybrid system utilizing biomass syngas,an experimental study was conducted to analyse the influence of parameters and syngas composition on the system performance.The experimental result shows that the efficiency of the hybrid system is up to 54.1% by raising the pressure ratio of gas turbine or operation temperature of the fuel cell stack appropriately.The experiment validates the feasibility of the hybrid system and the high combustion efficiency of the catalytic combustor using anode exhaust gas of the fuel cell.This hybrid system is an efficient and feasible way to utilize biomass energy.


The bourgeois theory of war is that war is an inevitable phenomenon because it arises from the nature of man which is basically aggressive and selfish. Selfishness, it is argued, is part and parcel of the law of nature and the struggle for survival of the fittest. There have always been wars and there will always be war.


The purpose of this work was a quantum chemical study of the directions of oxidative dimerization of diarylamines by calculating the spin density in the amine radical cations and diarylnitrogen radicals, as well as calculating the total energies of the molecules, dications, and dianions of the oxidation products of Ar/sub 2/NH.


Recent advances in finite element techniques have enabled full three-dimensional stress analyses to be undertaken. Economy and accuracy can only be achieved simultaneously if the characteristics of the element are understood. Preparatory work is described in which suitable pitching and disposition of brick-type elements are established for the analysis of cylinders.

The information derived is put to use in the analysis of a cylinder–cylinder intersection. A favourable comparison is made with an independently computed solution.


Whereas speech has always been considered in Western thought to be superior to writing since the former is nearer to originating thought, writing has been thought to be a contaminated form of speech because of its mediating and impure factors. However, the presence and originality of speech are subverted by interpretation, especially when it is put to writing. The speech-writing dichotomy applied to J.M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) reveals the ambiguous relationship between the female narrator's speech and the male writer's attempt to interpret her story artistically.


The power conditioning portion of the high-power study that was performed for the Air Force Aeropropulsion Laboratory by the State University of New York at Buffalo is summarized. This effort defines the power conditioning system and critical component developments which will be required to interface the airborne 10-MW to 50-MW sources defined under separate study efforts with certain loads. Power conditioning systems are considered for use with magnetohydrodynamic generators and turbine driven alternators, both conventional and superconducting. The critical components required for each of the power conditioning systems are identified and then analyzed. The component analyses include estimations of development efforts necessary and of specific weights and volumes for components. The primary components considered are transformers (for alternator as well as for inverter use), switches, capacitors, and inductors. Weight algorithms are developed for each of the components. Following the component analyses, subsystems such as inverters and rectifier and filter packages are considered. The data for the various components and subsystems are then utilized for a comparison of the power conditioning techniques to be used with the various power sources. The weights and volumes of power conditioning systems for 8-point designs (8 variations of power, voltage, duty cycle, and total run time) are derived.


Both optical and mechanical components of infrared optical system may be seen from image plane,and their heat radiation can be transfered into the detectors to cause radiation noise.With the help of a analysis software——LightTools,heat radiation of mechanical components of a reflect-refract infrared optical system is analyzed in this paper.The quantity of heat radiation received on image plane is computed under three different surface emissivity.The result can be used to improve the mechanical design.


The invention discloses a photochromic printing ink which is applicable to intaglio printing. The photochromic printing ink is prepared from the following raw materials by weight: 9 to 11 parts of 1/4 nitrocotton, 9 to 11 parts of 349 alkyd resin, 29 to 31 parts of a photochromic capsule pigment, 28 to 32 parts of propylene glycol monomethyl ether, 18 to 22 parts of isopropanol, no more than 0.3 part of a detifoaming agent and no more than 0.5 part of a leveling agent. The invention further provides a preparation method for the photochromic printing ink. The photochromic printing ink applicable to intaglio printing in the invention has a reversible photochromic function and an irreversible pressure-sensitive chromogenic function, can develop a color when detected with a colorless dye pen and overcomes the problem of no photochromic printing ink applicable to intaglio printing in the prior art.


Background: Elective caesarean section is a risk factor for the development of neonatal respiratory complications, resulted in increased admission to neonatal special care units. Aim: To assess the effect of prophylactic corticosteroids administration before elective CS at term in reducing neonatal respiratory morbidity and admission to neonatal special care units. Subjects and Methods: This randomized trial has been conducted among women subjected to term elective CS at Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Suez Canal University Hospitals. Women who were eligible for the study (n=226) were divided into two groups (study group and control group). At 37 weeks gestation, they received two intramuscular doses of 12mg dexamethasone, while the control group given the usual care without steroids. We examined adverse neonatal respiratory outcomes (Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn) and rates of neonatal care unit's admissions in both groups. Results: Neonates in the treatment group had a significantly lower overall incidence of respiratory distress morbidity 7.9% versus 23% in nontreated group mainly with TTN (7% versus 19.6% in non-treated group, p-value = 0.009*). Meanwhile; according to the degree of respiratory distress there was significantly lower incidence of both mild and moderate degrees of respiratory distress in the treatment group (7% and 0.9%, respectively) to be (17% and 5.3% respectively) in the control group. Conclusion: The effect of prophylactic corticosteroids administration before elective CS at term looks to be promising in reducing neonatal respiratory morbidity.


In this paper we introduce a novel approach for query performance prediction based on ranking list scores dispersion. Starting from the premise that different score distributions appear for good and poor performance queries, we introduce a set of measures that capture these differences between both types of distributions. The proposed measures will employ the ranking list, output of a search system, as an information source to predict query performance in terms of MAP. The obtained results reveal a significant correlation degree with MAP and are very similar to those achievedwithmore complexmethods. Finally some generic open questions that could guide further research on query prediction methods are introduced.


8-Phenylimidazolo-dC ((ph) ImidC, 2) forms metal-mediated DNA base pairs by entrapping two silver ions. To this end, the fluorescent "purine" 2'-deoxyribonucleoside 2 has been synthesised and converted into the phosphoramidite 6. Owing to the ease of nucleobase deprotonation, the new Ag(+) -mediated base pair containing a "purine" skeleton is much stronger than that derived from the pyrrolo- [3,4-d]pyrimidine system ((ph) PyrdC, 1). The silver-mediated (ph) ImidC-(ph) ImidC base pair fits well into the DNA double helix and has the stability of a covalent cross-link. The formation of such artificial metal base pairs might not be limited to DNA but may be applicable to other nucleic acids such as RNA, PNA and GNA as well as other biopolymers.


In this paper, we mainly focus on the problem of quantized feedback stabilization for a discrete-time linear system with faults. The dynamic uniform quantizer is used here, and quantized measurements of the state are available. The research contents are divided into two parts. And the feedback stabilization of the system with sensor or actuator faults is studied respectively. The sufficient conditions that the quantizer should satisfy are given. Numerical examples show that the results are effective.


Wang Zengqi thought that "the novel is the recollection",throughout his novels,the majority texts present an atmosphere of recollection.And what this kind of recollection narrates transmits is the writer's pure emotion to the childhood,sincere pursuance of the village happy life.Its main standpoint lies in the sincere child angle of view and express feelings with the poetic sentiment as the characteristic,thus constructed the unique recollection narrative throughout the writer's creation.


Considering the complexity of the networks, one of the solutions for this complexity could be to centralize its configuration. Thus the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) concept may be an important solution. This paper suggests the implementation of a tool to support the development and testing of networks and services before they are put into production. The use of a tool that simplifies the configuration of a network service makes the networks and services to be less susceptible to errors and failures by those who set them up, thus allowing telecom operators, among others, to be able to create new services, improve the monitorization of their human resources and, above all, improve their financial results. In the end, success will be achieved because with a simple interaction and basic knowledge we are able to manage network services.


ABSTRACT The present research introduces a well to wire pseudo comprehensive carbon footprint model for combined cycle power plants. The mentioned model integrates land use change model, operational model and transmission and distribution model into one comprehensive model. The parameters which their effects are considered in the integrated model are: fuel type, fuel transmission type, emission for fuel extraction and processing, own consumption of the plant, degradation, site ambient condition, transmission and distribution losses. For quantifying the effectiveness of each parameter, sensitivity analyses based on different life cycle scenarios are performed. The result shows that the effect of land use change is negligible. The carbon footprint of electrical energy produced in combined cycle plant until it is delivered to the end users varies from 321 to 522 g CO2 eq/kWh.


Moral disagreement is often cited as a reason for denying that morality is objective. Recent statements of the argument, such as Mackie's, present it as an argument to the best explanation. The best explanation of why there is pervasive moral disagreement is the hypothesis that there are no objective moral facts. But as Brink has pointed out, explanations consistent with moral realism are often available, and Mackie has not shown that they cannot explain the disagreements in question.2 In this essay I propose to consider a different version of the argument. It does not aim to show (directly) that there are no objective moral facts but, rather, to show that moral beliefs (understood on the realist model) are never justified. Furthermore, the argument does not require any empirical premises concerning the nature and extent of actual -disagreements, only the assumption that a certain sort of moral disagreement is ubiquitously possible. Since the argument is deductively valid, its success depends upon the plausibility of the premises. One premise in particular raises a number of important issues in moral epistemology and will provide the focus for my discussion. I shall argue that this premise is too controversial to provide a secure basis for rejecting moral realism. However, those who reject it incur a significant theoretical liability since they must posit the existence of a moral sense.


Detection of the electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) signal has been used in gas plasma for measurement of the symmetry-breaking THz transients. Previously, detection linearity with the THz field was accomplished by either mixing EFISH signal with a second harmonic component of an octave-spanning plasma supercontinuum or by addition of a high voltage DC bias across the plasma. Here we report a new method where controlled injection of the second harmonic signal provides the necessary bias for the coherent signal detection. This is accomplished simply by insertion of the BBO crystal in an optical path. The absence of high intensity or high voltage makes the detection scheme more viable for remote sensing.


Objective To investigate the changes of sleep architecture in school-age children with idiopathic partial epilepsy.Methods Twenty-three children with partial epilepsy(aged 6-12 years old;15 boys,8 girls)and 15 healthy children(11 boys,4 girls)who had same age and gender to the patients with partial epilepsy(healthy control group)were investigated with a national polysomnography system.The 23 children with partial epilepsy were divided into frontal lobe epilepsy group,temporal lobe epilepsy group and occipital lobe epilepsy group according to the location of epileptic discharge;according to the attack time of seizure,they were divided into sleeping seizure group,waking seizure group and full-attack group;according to the condition of antiepileptic drugs consuming,they were divided into carbamazepine(CBZ)group and CBZ+topiramate(TPM)group.They were monitored for a whole night.Most of sleep parameters were analyzed by SPSS 13.0 software between every groups.Results Compared with the healthy control group,the percentage of stage 1 in non-rapid eye movement(NREM)sleep prolonged(P0.05),while the percentage of slow wave sleep(SWS)decreased in partial epilepsy group(P0.01).For the patients with frontal lobe epilepsy,there was no significant difference compared with healthy control group,while the patients with temporal lobe epilepsy had more awaking time compared with healthy control group(P0.05).And the patients with epilepsy in sleep could awake more times than that of healthy control group(P0.05),and the percentage of stage 1 in NREM sleep also prolonged(P0.05),while the patients with waking seizure had less time in SWS compared with healthy control group(P0.05).The partial epileptics treated with CBZ+TPM had more time of rapid eye movement(REM)sleep than that of the untreated patients(P0.05).Conclusions Children with partial epilepsy had a broken sleep architecture,including more light sleep and lower deep sleep.Moreover,different kinds of partial epilepsy had different effects on sleep architecture.As to the epilepsy in wakefulness,it had slight effect on sleep architecture,but the epilepsy in sleep broke the sleep architecture.Co-treatment of CBZ and TPM improved the sleep quality in childhood partial epilepsy,and especially increased the time of REM sleep.


The thermal decomposition of isobutene has been studied in the single-pulse shock tube over the temperature range 1055–1325 K. The generalized mechanism for alkane pyrolysis proposed by Bradley (Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 1974, 337, 199) is found to apply to the pyrolysis of alkenes provided allowance is made for the possibilities of initiation by C—H rupture and of longer lifetimes for alkenyl radicals. Both processes prove of minor significance for this particular alkene although they make computer simulation more difficult. Optimization by computer of the critical reaction parameters led to the following rate constants: iso–C4H8→ C3H5+ CH3(1), k1= 1.82 × 1018 exp(– 375 kJ mol–1/RT)s–1 CH3+ C4H8→ CH4+ C4H7(3), k3= 6.8 × 1010 exp(– 82 kJ mol–1/RT)dm3 mol–1 s–1 CH3+ C2H6→ CH4+ C2H5(23), k23= 3.2 × 1010 exp(–75 kJ mol–1/RT) dm3 mol–1 s–1 H + C4H8→ H2+ C4H7(4), H + C4H8→ C4H9(6)k4/k6= 6.8 exp(20 kJ mol–1/RT) C4H9→ C3H6+ CH3(13), C4H9→ C2H4+ C2H5(14)k13/k14= 1.8 at 1200 k.


Functional equivalence in translation The poet of Malhoun in the work of 'Marguerite'
This work studies a literary work that objectively and meticulously depicts historical data from the last quarter of the 19th century and that relates to the significant events of the French colonization of Algeria. The choice of the literature is due to a lack of testimony. The Algerian writers, who carved the literary productions, evolved, in their works, around their misery and torments. They had not completely restored the historical context of the period studied. Neither did the colonial writers devote their pen to the stories of the country in which they lived. They were colonial thinkers, almost ethnic cleansers, insofar as they advocated theories to oppress the natives. This work aims to situate and investigate the colonial phenomenon by demonstrating how it progressed through discrimination in the fiscal, agricultural and social policy against Algerians.


Conceptual metaphor theory proposes that metaphor is a mental function, rather than solely a literary device. As such, metaphors may be present in any by-product of human cognition, including pictorial art. Crawford and Juricevic previously proposed two heuristic frameworks for the
 identification and interpretation of metaphor in pictures, which have been shown to be capable of describing how pictorial metaphors are identified and interpreted in the comic book medium. The present study tested artists' preference for combinations of contextual and structural pictorial
 information in comic book cover images. We analysed usages of exaggerated size in comic book cover art, as exaggerated size is a pictorial device, which may be used both literally and metaphorically. The goal was to assess how contextual and structural information is combined, and how literal
 and metaphorical information interacts, both when it is congruent and incongruent. This analysis of the use of exaggerated size in comic book art indicates that artists prefer to produce images that have congruent combinations of literal and metaphoric pictorial information, or the incongruent
 combination of metaphoric contextual information and literal structural information. Artists do not, however, prefer to produce images that have the incongruent combination of metaphorical structural information and literal contextual information. Taken together with the Corpus Analysis
 Relevance Theory (CART) argument, this pattern suggests that when processing information, our cognitive systems prefer metaphorical interpretations over literal interpretations and contextual information over structural information.


The authors address the problem of random manufacturing variations in PCB (printed circuit board) structures and describes an empirical technique to perform a statistical analysis of PCB lines. The technique is designed to improve transmission-line characterization by enabling a worst-case analysis of transmission-line effects to be done. This will allow the designer to minimize postprototype problems associated with high-speed PCBs concerning inconsistencies in a manufacturing process. The description of PCB structures is obtained by measuring the scattering parameters and then converting them to frequency-domain characteristic impedance (Z0) and propagation constant (gamma). A deviation in complex Z0 and gamma can be used to model line and discontinuity variations. It is concluded that with the use of this technique, a better representation of Z0 and gamma can be obtained than by previous techniques.<<ETX>>


[1807776-35-7] C18H22Si (MW 266.45)

InChI = 1S/C18H22Si/c1-4-10-16(11-5-1)19(17-12-6-2-7-13-17)18-14-8-3-9-15-18/h4-19H,1-3H2

InChIKey = WFCCDJHNKLUMJE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

(reagent used as a building block for the preparation of mono-, di-, trihydrosilanes, and tetraalkylsilanes)

Physical Data: white crystalline solid, mp 59 °C (n-pentane).1

Preparative Methods: prepared by chloride substitution with cyclohexa-2,5-dienyl lithium on trichlorosilane (eq 1).1

(1)

Solubility: soluble in most organic solvents.

Purification: recrystallization from n-pentane.1

Handling, Storage, and Precautions: reagent slowly rearomatizes when exposed to air for prolonged periods of time.


Background. Screening for trisomy 21 provides pregnant women with accurate risk information. Different algorithms are used to screen for trisomy 21 in South Africa (SA). The Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) provides software to screen for trisomy 21 in the first trimester by ultrasound or a combination of ultrasound and biochemistry (combined screening), and requires regular and stringent quality control. With αlpha software, first trimester combined screening and screening with biochemistry alone in the first or second trimester are possible. The αlpha screening requires quality control of biochemical tests, but not of ultrasound measurements. Ideally, a screening test should have a high detection and a low screen positive rate. Despite the availability of these screening programmes, only a minority of infants with trisomy 21 are detected prenatally, raising questions about the effectiveness of screening.
Objectives. To determine the screen positive and detection rates of prenatal screening for trisomy 21 in the SA private healthcare system. Methods. Data from the three largest laboratories collected between 2010 and 2015 were linked with genetic tests to assess screen positive and detection rates. Biochemical screening alone with αlpha software (first or second trimester) and combined screening using either FMF or αlpha software were compared.
Results. One-third of an estimated 675 000 pregnancies in private practice in the 6-year study period underwent screening. There were 687 cases of trisomy 21 in 225 021 pregnancies, with only 239 (35%) diagnosed prenatally. The screen positive rates were 11.8% for first trimester biochemistry, 7.6% for second trimester biochemistry, 7.3% for first trimester FMF software ultrasound alone, 3.7% for combined first trimester screening with FMF software, and 3.5% for combined first trimester screening with αlpha software. The detection rates for a 5% false positive rate were 63% for first trimester biochemistry, 69% for second trimester biochemistry, 95% for combined first trimester screening with FMF software and 80% for combined first trimester screening with αlpha software. Detection and confirmation rates were highest with FMF software.
Conclusion. Screening with FMF software has a similar screen positive rate and better detection rate than screening with αlpha software. The low prenatal detection rate of trisomy 21 is mainly due to a low prevalence of screening. More research is needed in the SA setting to explore why screening and confirmatory testing after high-risk results are not performed in many pregnancies.


Intermodality represents the main challenge for freight transport, affecting both logistical performance and environmental impacts. Various measures have been applied at a regulatory, technological and logistical level, however, systematic evaluation and assessment related to their short and long term effects is still missing, disallowing knowledge transfer and best practice consideration. The aim of the present paper is to assess the impact of real-time information provision to a WMS (warehouse management system) containing updated time of freight arrival (delays, problems, etc) at a freight center on logistics services and intermodal transportation planning. The specific demonstrator, designed and assessed in the proposed paper, takes place in the rail-truck logistics center of Kuehne Nagel (K+N) in Thessaloniki, Greece, where the information on load decomposition and possible cut-off wagons is provided to the recipients upon train arrival, resulting in excessive costs owing to undesired truck trips. The technology proposed to be adopted by K+N is based on GPS-enabled mountable devices on wagons in combination with wireless communication to e-seals and GSM/satellite connectivity to back-end systems. The integration of the cargo tracking system to the existing WMS provides improved service together with efficient operations and environmental benefit as a result of timely information, based on advanced communication networks.


AIM: To evaluate the results of using the minimally-invasive technique of scleroobliteration in patients with venous malformations.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 2006 to 2020, 41 interventions were performed for venous-cavernous angiomatosis of various localization through scleroobliteration. Nineteen patients (46.3%) underwent complex treatment, which included a combination of this minimally-invasive technique with other surgical interventions (resection of angiomatous tissues, laser coagulation, and radiofrequency obliteration).
RESULTS: Clinical improvement was achieved in 38 (92.7%) patients. According to the data of ultrasound control, 25 patients (61%) experienced no blood flow in the obliteration zone, and there was regression of the initial symptoms within 1 year of observation following intervention. The results of treatment were better due to the local spread of the angiomatous process. With diffuse forms, it was not possible to achieve a positive effect in 3 patients (11.1%).
CONCLUSION: Scleroobliteration can provide a positive result in the treatment of patients with venous-cavernous angiodysplasia, both as an independent method and in combination with other minimally-invasive techniques.


Research on the relevance of location in real estate markets has been limited in studies of time on market. A semi-parametric duration model, adjusted for groupwise heterogeneity and corrected for bias, is employed on residential data to examine marketing time till sold as a function of multiple spatial planes. Including both locally defined neighborhood proxies and absolute location signatures into the models allows for controlling the influence that location externalities have on the components of individual properties and their relationship to marketing time. The results indicate that the impact on marketability from characteristics on a specific property vary by location within a housing market. The results are consistent with the pricing literature, suggesting that prime locations can command price premiums and potentially result in reduced marketing time.


The study was conducted to find out the knowledge of anaemia among the women of reproductive age between 15 to 49 years at Datmara tea state of Fatikchari sub district of Chittagong district in Bangladesh. Total 158 respondents were selected for investigation. Selection of the study sites and number of respondents were done purposively. Respondents were interviewed with the help of prestructurred questionnaires. Among the respondents most of them are 18-27 years age group. Most of them are illiterate (83.54%). Among the respondents most of them belonged to lower class (85.44%) while 14.56% belonged to lower middle class. Maximum (72.79%) respondents reported that they had no idea about anemia. Most of the respondents (91.14%) had no idea about iron containing food. It was found that 3.80% respondents used to take iron tablet and 5.70% took anti helminthicon a regular basis. About 12.66% respondents suffered from helminthiasis and 9.49% suffered from skin diseases. It was found that most of the respondents were moderately anemic. This study on anaemia, the tea garden dwellers will able to get idea about the women of our country regarding the situation.


Abstract Women inmates in Nebraska have demographic similarities and differences which are often at odds with contradicting national data. Over the past fifteen years, the demographics of women incarcerated at the Nebraska Center for Women have experienced substantial change. The number of inmates incarcerated for violent offenses has increased by 8 percent and now constitutes 42 percent of the overall inmate population. The number of inmates incarcerated for drug related offenses has similarly increased and now comprises 36 percent of the population, while 85 percent of all inmates have been identified as having a substance abuse problem. Unfortunately, the inpa-tient treatment program can only handle nineteen of those identified with drug problems, while another seventy remain on the waiting list. The number of inmates who are identified with chronic mental illness has increased and a request to house these individuals has been recommended. As in most prisons, the inmate population has continued to increase dramatically until the facility is now at 115 percent capacity. Inmate misconduct incidents have also accelerated, with misconduct reports heard by the Institution Disciplinary Committee tripling in the last four years. Inmates now receive a longer sentence but stay a shorter average time in confinement. The percent of Black women inmates in the facility has decreased from 43 to 27 percent, while conversely the percent of Hispanic women has risen from 1.3 to 6.7 percent. Vocational and educational programs are also experiencing change and restructuring. With the new required personalized plans and the opportunity to earn positive time, enrollment in college courses has increased from 27 to 43 percent. A live-in nursery program was developed in 1994 that allows mothers to keep their babies with them in the facility up to 18 months. The nursery program is unique for the Midwest, as only Nebraska and New York have such programs in the United States. Programs that continue to emphasize traditional roles for women have been retained. Nontraditional training, such as learning to become truck drivers, was dropped. Other educational and vocational training programs have been evaluated both formally and informally and either changed or eliminated.


Modulation strategies for a matrix structured direct AC to AC converter are developed. In principle, for a given set of input three-phase voltages, any desired set of output voltages can be synthesized by suitable toggling matrix switches. Mathematical proof that the direct AC to AC matrix converter can operate with unity displacement factor is provided by analyses based on the switching matrix approach. A symmetric and antisymmetric switching strategy is developed for synthesizing an output voltage vector from the appropriate combination of input voltage vectors. Unity displacement factor operation is achieved by using the combined symmetric and antisymmetric modulation strategy. This combined algorithm enables unity displacement factor operation without current sensing and current control.


Canopy water content is a direct indicator of vegetation water use and hydraulic stress, reflecting how ecosystems respond and adapt to droughts and heatwaves. It represents an interesting target for Earth system models which attempt to predict the response and resilience of the vegetation in the face of changing climatic conditions. So far, in-situ estimates of vegetation water content often rely on infrequent and time-consuming samplings of leaf water content, which are not necessarily representative of the canopy scale. On the other hand, several satellite techniques have demonstrated a promising potential for monitoring vegetation optical depth and water content, but these large-scale measurements are still difficult to reference against sparse in-situ level observations.

Here, we present an experimental technique based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to bridge this persisting scale gap. Because GNSS microwave signals are obstructed and scattered by vegetation and liquid water, placing a GNSS sensor in a forest and measuring changes in signal quality can provide continuous information on canopy water content and forest structure. We demonstrate that variations in GNSS signal attenuation reflect the distribution of biomass density and liquid water in the canopy, consistent with ancillary relative leaf water content measurements, and can be monitored continuously. Of particular interest, this technique can resolve diurnal variations in canopy water content at sub-hourly time steps. The few rainfall events captured during the 8-months observational record also suggest that canopy water interception can be monitored at 5 minutes intervals. We discuss future strategies and requirements for deploying such off-the-shelf passive bistatic radar systems at existing FluxNet sites.


Introduction: Mutations in both alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene result in the disease cystic fibrosis, which usually manifests as chronic sinopulmonary disease, pancreatic insufficiency, elevated sodium chloride loss in sweat, infertility among men due to agenesis of the vas deferens and other symptoms including liver disease. Case presentation: We describe a pair of African-American brothers, aged 21 and 27, with cystic fibrosis. They were homozygous for a rare frameshift mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator 3791delC, which would be expected to cause significant morbidity. Although 80% of cystic fibrosis patients are colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa by eight years of age, the older brother had no serum opsonic antibody titer to P. aeruginosa by age 13 and therefore would have failed to mount an effective antibody response to the alginate (mucoid polysaccharide) capsule of P. aeruginosa. He was not colonized with P. aeruginosa until 24 years of age. Similarly, the younger brother was not colonized with P. aeruginosa until age 20 and had no significant lung disease. Conclusion: Despite a prevailing idea in cystic fibrosis research that the amount of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator predicts clinical status, our results indicated that respiratory disease severity in cystic fibrosis exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity. If this heterogeneity is, in part, genetic, it is most likely derived from genes outside the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator locus. Introduction Mutations in both alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene result in the disease cystic fibrosis (CF), which manifests classically as chronic sinopulmonary disease, pancreatic insufficiency, elevated sodium chloride loss in sweat, infertility among men is due to agenesis of the vas deferens and other symptoms like liver disease. Except for patients with significant liver disease, the primary disease morbidity is linked to the chronic pulmonary infections and consequent decline in lung function. CFTR mutations are classified as severe (class I-III mutations) or mild (class IV-V mutations) based on their effect on protein synthesis and function, implying that the less CFTR that is made or is functional, the more severe the clinical course of a patient with cystic fibrosis (CF) [1-4]. Importantly, none of the CFTR mutations correlate with sweat chloride levels and only few of the more than 1,500 identified mutations in CFTR result in an expected respiratory disease phenotype in homozygous or compound heterozygous patients. It is well-accepted that the diversity of lung disease among CF patients is not accounted for either by variation in CFTR mutations or by level of sweat chloride as there is considerable phenotypic heterogeneity even in patients with the same class of CFTR mutation. In this report, we describe a pair of siblings with a mild CF phenotype, who are homozygous for the 3791delC mutation, * Correspondence: email@example.com 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood


A new vic-dioxime, (1Z,2Z)-N'∼1∼,N'∼2∼dihydroxy-N∼1∼,N∼2∼dipyridin-2-ylethane-dimidamide (H 2 L) has been synthesized from (E,E)-dichloroglyoxime and 2-aminopyridine in acetonitrile. Mononuclear complexes of Zn(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) have been prepared and were found to have a metal-ligand ratio of 1:1. The synthesis of mixed M,M' dinuclear complexes was achieved with Zn(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) depending on the manner of addition of salts. The complexes were characterized by IR, MS, H and 13 C NMR.


We attempt some methods in teaching of "Differential Equation".These methods include that the variable alternate and invariable variance;linear equation and integral factor;invariable coefficent linear equation and errant integral;linear equation group and "Enler" equation;matrix function and " Laplace" alternate.


The regular meeting of the Alameda County Medical Association was held at the Ethel Moore Memorial Build-ing, Monday, February 21, 1927. The program consisted of a symposium on the subject of allergy, which was pre-pared by Albert H. Rowe. Doctor Rowe read a paper on "Allergy in the Etiology of Disease." He emphasized the fact that allergy is being recognized as the cause of an increasing number of symptoms and that the diagnosis of protein sensitization must be made on the basis of careful history and from thorough skin testing. He pre-fers the cutaneous test over the intradermal in the diag- nosis of this condition. Cases were cited in which allergy was the cause of abdominal pain, and he laid stress on the fact that any individual who has allergy either in the family, or in his own personal history, and who is suffer- ing from indigestion or abdominal pain which is difficult to explain on the basis of a careful diagnostic study, should be investigated from the point of view of allergy.


To evaluate the factors related to delayed diagnosis or referral of women with major congenital malformations in a tertiary care hospital in South India, with a specific emphasis on the socioeconomic and psychosocial aspects.


Abstract Poster session 1, September 21, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Objectives Antifungal resistance is posing several new concerns to clinicians. Increased rates of azole and echinocandin resistance in various non-albicans Candida species and azole resistance in A. fumigatus may arise due to clinical or environmental exposure to these drugs. The study evaluated the antifungal susceptibility for clinical fungal isolates causing otomycosis. Methods A total of 89 Aspergillus isolates containing A. niger (58 isolates), A. flavus (19 isolates), A. fumigatus (12 isolates), and 25 Candida isolates containing C. parapsilosis (14 isolates), C. orthopsilosis (6 isolates), and C. albicans (5 isolates) collected from individuals with confirmed otomycosis during October 2020-November 2021 were tested for antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST). AFST of ketoconazole, voriconazole, tioconazole, amphotericin B, miconazole, fluconazole, nystatin, and itraconazole was conducted using the broth microdilution method based on CLSI (M38-A2, M27-A3) protocols. Conidia of molds and colonies of yeasts were harvested from fungal cultures on SDA incubated at 35°C; the turbidity of the suspension was then adjusted to OD630 nm = 80%-82%T for molds and 75%-77%T for yeasts. Results Mainly, all antifungals examined were effective against most Aspergillus isolates, aside from tioconazole (GM = 5.54767 μg/ml) and nystatin (GM = 2.10151 μg/ml). Terbinafine (GM = 1.69824 μg/ml) had minimal in vitro effects (Table 1). Nystatin (GM = 2.94853 μg/ml) and itraconazole (GM = 1.08673 μg/ml) showed higher GM MICs against all Candida species isolates. Conversely, amphotericin B (GM = 0.07129 μg/ml) in Aspergillus, ketoconazole (GM = 0.02570), and voriconazole (GM = 0.03686 μg/ml) in Candida showed the highest antifungal activity (Table 2). Regarding the CLSI-M59 document for ECV, one A. niger (MIC 8 μg/ml), A. flavus (MIC 2 μg/ml), and A. fumigatus (MIC 2 μg/ml) isolates were non-wild type against itraconazole. A total of 3 A. niger non-wild type isolates with MIC 4 μg/ml against voriconazole were inspected (Table 1). Three C. albicans isolates with high itraconazole MICs (two 8 μg/ml and one 16 μg/ml) were observed (Table 2). Even though the MIC50 of Aspergillus niger for tolnaftate was 0.37 μg/ml, 9 isolates with high MICs (16 μg/ml) were found. Conclusion The foremost commonest yeast isolates in this study, C. parapsilosis, exhibit significant sensitivity to various antifungals, including ketoconazole, voriconazole, tioconazole, amphotericin B, miconazole, fluconazole, and itraconazole. However, contrary to other studies, nystatin had high MICs and is not recommended as an effective drug. Since the pattern of antifungal susceptibility is varied among the cryptic species of Aspergillus sections, we recommend that physicians request a drug susceptibility testing before antibiotic therapy to prevent the development of resistance.


The Henderson apparatus was used to expose mice to aerosols of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (H37Rv), M. kansasii (strain P1), another photochromogenic mycobacterium (P8), and two strains of nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria (T-39 and P2). Organisms were enumerated in the bacterial slurries before and after nebulization in a Collison nebulizer, in air samples from the equipment during nebulization, and in the lungs of animals killed at various intervals after exposure. A Goldberg rotating drum was used to test the ability of the organisms to survive aerial suspension. The mycobacteria withstood aerosolization and aerial suspension about equally well and were found in equivalent numbers in lungs from animals killed immediately after exposure. The numbers of organisms in lungs of animals killed three days later were approximately the same, but thereafter lung clearance rates varied considerably. By the eleventh day, the atypical mycobacteria had been reduced in numbers (with the exception of the photochromogeni...


The bronze orange bug ('Musgraveia sulciventris', Stal) has been classified as a minor pest of citrus for many years. Its status as a minor or infrequent pest of orchards and home gardens has been noted by numerous authors. An earlier review covered publications relating to the classification, description, life cycle, host species and geographic distribution of the insect. This reviews covers those publications which have investigated behavioural and cultural aspects of the bug's biology which influence its pest status. These include feeding and damage, control measures, defensive reactions pheromones, aggregation dispersal and reproductive biology. A number of these aspects have attracted detailed research whilst others have not. This paper provides a summary of their findings, combining research results and anecdotal reports to form a collation of the current knowledge on this species.


The purpose of this research paper was to assess and predict the effect of vibrations induced by an underground railway on nearby-existing buildings prior to the construction of projected new railway lines of the National Railway Master Plan of Cameroon and after upgrading of the railway conceded to CAMRAIL linking the two most densely populated cities of Cameroon: Douala and Yaoundé. With the source-transmitter-receiver mathematical model as the train-soil-structure interaction model, taking into account sub-model parameters such as type of the train-railway system, typical geotechnical conditions of the ground and the sensitivity of the nearby buildings, the analysis is carried out over the entire system using the dynamic finite element method in the time domain. This subdivision of the model is a powerful tool that allows to consider different alternatives of sub-models with different characteristics, and thus to determine any critical excessive vibration impact. Based on semi-empirical analytical results obtained from presented models, the present work assesses and predicts characteristics of trafficinduced vibrations as a function of time duration, intensity and vehicle speed, as well as their influence on buildings at different levels.


"Both "The Encantadas" and Nostromo are (post)colonial texts in the sense that they both portray the evil effects of the 'colonizing project' in both the colonizer and the colonized. Melville and Conrad's colonial and imperial enterprises, however, differ in several ways. Melville depicts settler colonies formed by immigrants; Conrad's Costaguana presents a different panorama: no foreign rulers are installed to govern the new nation of Sulaco; no land is seized for settling immigrants. This is the imperialism of free trade, or 'business imperialism': control over loans and the monopolization of infrastructural development such as the railway and underscored by the role of the foreign mine engineers."


We have evolved an effective interionic interaction potential to investigate the pressure-induced phase transitions from zinc blende (B3) to rock salt (B1) structure in II-VI [ZnSe] semiconductors. The elastic constants, including the long-range Coulomb and van der Waals (vdW) interactions and the short-range repulsive interaction of up to second-neighbor ions within the Hafemeister and Flygare approach, are deduced. Keeping in mind that both of the ions are polarisable, we employed the Slater-Kirkwood variational method to estimate the vdW coefficients. The estimated value of the phase transition pressure (P t ) is higher than in the reported data, and the magnitude of the discontinuity in volume at the transition pressure is consistent with that data. The major volume discontinuity in the pressure-volume phase diagram identifies the structural phase transition from zinc blende to rock salt structure. The variation of second-order elastic constants with pressure resembles that observed in some binary semiconductors. It is inferred that the vdW interaction is effective in obtaining the thermodynamic parameters such as the Debye temperature, the Gruneisen parameter, the thermal expansion coefficient and the compressibility. However, the inconsistency between the thermodynamic parameters as obtained from present model calculations and their experimental values is attributed to the fact that we have derived our expressions by assuming the overlap repulsion to be significant only up to the nearest second-neighbor ions, as well as neglecting thermal effects. It is thus argued that full analysis of the many physical interactions that are essential to binary semiconductors will lead to a consistent explanation of the structural and elastic properties of II–VI semiconductors.


This paper describes the traditional Shona health and healing practices of the Zimbabwean people by exploring the philosophical, clinical, and theological issues surrounding the healing practice. It is through understanding and appreciating the traditional Shona people's worldview of sickness or disease that one can comprehend the thinking behind the traditional Shona healing practices. In Zimbabwe, people visit the traditional healers, the prophets from "Churches of the Spirit," hospitals, and clinics for medical treatment. Diseases or sickness are viewed not only as physical or psychological but also as religious issues. Thus, religious beliefs and values play a significant role in the traditional ways of treatment. Rituals, symbolic representations, dreams, and herbal therapy are some methods that have a central place in the traditional Shona healing practice. Along with the physical, social, emotional, and mental nature of human existence, the spiritual, transpersonal, and ecological aspects are highly regarded.


This essay traces the development of the phrase "democratic socialism" from the early nineteenth century to the present, especially in relation to "social democracy" and "communism." These meanings have changed over time, with democratic socialism and social democracy indicating the opposite of what they meant a century ago when social democracy was the more and democratic socialism the less radical position. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the decline of the post–World War II social-democratic compromise created space for a radical democratic socialism to flourish in our time. Twenty-first-century democratic socialism seeks to democratize the workplace and reorient the state, against the power of the organized capitalist class, to serve the needs of the many rather than the desires of the few.


The application of enzymatic catalysis for the synthesis of carbohydrate fatty acid esters has been investigated as an alternative more environmental and economically attractive for large scale production of these compounds. In this way, a highly concentrated aqueous system was employed in a Lipase from Thermocmyces lanuginosus catalysed acylation in one step of several carbohydrates with decanoic acid as acyl donor. Reaction extents of carbohydrates with different chain lengths containing glucose units were assessed. Parameters as carbohydrate quantity, nature of interactions with water and water content showed affect the reaction. Namely, synthesis reaction is successfully promoted by an excess of solid material in an almost solvent free aqueous system and by interactions with water not strictly of covalent nature. Synthesis of fatty acid esters of β-cyclodextrin (CDs) was also investigated in a reaction lipase catalysed using vinyl-activated and acid decanoic as acyl donors in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). Immobilised lipase from Candida antarctica (CALB) and Amano lipase from Aspergillus niger were investigated for their catalytic properties regarding transesterification in solvents of increasing hydrophilicity. Amano lipase was proved to catalyse in some extent enzimaticaly the reaction. The suitability of the method for the purification of the product and analysis by the degree of substitution (DS) of the modified carbohydrates was also investigated, leading to the most feasible and reproducible results.


According to the data of Chinese OFDI and its domestic export trade during 2003 and 2016, the trade structure of China to host country is calculated in this paper, so as to analyze the influence of OFDI on domestic trade structure adjustment. It is shown that there is a close relationship between the OFDI and the domestic trade export, with OFDI not only expanding the scale of overall export trade, but also promoting the upgrade of domestic trade structure. Further, it is found that the marginal transfer effect of OFDI in China is not significant, while the value chain upgrade effect, industrial correlation effect and reverse technology spillover effect are positive. Specifically, OFDI has significantly promoted the increase in the proportion of exports of intermediate goods, capital goods and technology-intensive products in China, which is conducive to the improvement of Chinese international division of labor. In addition, this paper finds similar conclusions through regression analysis of Chinese OFDI and exports trade data of the Belt and Road countries.


Abstract The Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) diapauses as a last‐instar (fifth) larva. At 30 °C, no larvae enter diapause under any photoperiodic conditions; at 25 °C, the photoperiodic response curve is a long‐day type with a critical length of approximately 13 h light; at 20 °C, diapause is induced moderately even under long days (> 13 h). Cumulative effects of short days or long days on diapause induction are determined by alternate, stepwise and gradually changing regimes of photoperiod at 25 °C. When the larvae are repeatedly exposed to LD 16 : 8 h and LD 12 : 12 h photoperiods every other day, the incidence of diapause is 37%. When the larvae are placed under an LD 16 : 8 h photoperiod for 2 days and then under an LD 12 : 12 h photoperiod for 1 day, it is 38 %. Exposure to an LD 16 : 8 h photoperiod for 1 day and then to an LD 12 : 12 h photoperiod for 2 days induces only 15% diapause. This may indicate that the photoperiodic information is not accumulated in a simple fashion despite the generally accepted hypothesis (i.e. photoperiodic counter). Larvae exposed to an LD 16 : 8 h photoperiod for 5 days after oviposition express a very high incidence of diapause even under short days between an LD 2 : 22 h and LD 12 : 12 h photoperiod. After 10 days exposure to an LD 16 : 8 h photoperiod, however, the short day does not induce diapause strongly. On the other hand, an LD 12 : 12 h photoperiod in the early larval life is highly effective in the induction of diapause. A gradual increase or decrease of photoperiod (2 min day−1) shows that the direction of photoperiodic change does not affect the diapause determination.


The utility model discloses a one-step forming special-purpose device for right angle suspension plate. The one-step forming special-purpose device comprises an upper die and a lower die, wherein the upper die comprises an upper die base plate, a via hole die, an upper die mold, and an upper die cover plate, wherein the upper die base plate, the via hole die, the upper die mold, and the upper die cover plate are orderly connected while matching with one another, the upper die mold comprises circular hole molds and a bar hole mold, the circular hole dies are arranged in installation holes at two sides of the upper die base plate, and the bar hole die is arranged in an installation hole which is arranged at the middle part of the upper die base plate. The lower die comprises a lower die fixed sleeve, a lower die mold, and a lower die base plate, wherein the lower die fixed sleeve, the lower die mold, and the lower die base plate are orderly connected while matching with one another. The upper die mold is fixed through the upper die cover plate which is connected at the bottom end face of the via hole die. Circular hole molds and the bar hole mold are respectively corresponding to punching holes of the lower die mold in a one-to-one manner, wherein the punching holes of the lower die mold match with the circular hole molds and the bar hole mold. The one-step forming special-purpose device is advantaged by greatly simplified right angle suspension plate one-step forming technological process, all spare and accessory parts which are interchangeable, simple and convenient assembly and disassembly, simple and convenient maintenance, simple operation, energy saving and consumption reducing effects, and greatly improved productivity.


The effects of distance from pollen source, and of seasonal and orchard conditions, on performance of Packham's Triumph pears were studied in five orchards in the Goulburn Valley for three years-1965 to 1967. In nearly all situations and years the fruit set, fruit numbers, and fruit seed content, were higher on trees 6 metres from the pollen source (Williams' Bon Chretien) than of trees farther away. Performance varied between seasons and from orchard to orchard. The date and duration of flowering in pears varies considerably between seasons. An overlap of full bloom was found between Josephine de Malines, Packham's Triumph, and Winter Nelis on the one hand and between Williams' Bon Chretien and Beurre Bosc on the other. Although there was not an exact overlap in full bloom between Williams' Bon Chretien and Packham's Triumph, the spread in the duration of blooming of these two cultivars was quite sufficient for a mutual cross-pollination effect.


In a path-breaking paper last year Pat and Betty O'Neil and Gerhard Weikum pro posed a self-tuning improvement to the Least Recently Used (LRU) buffer management algorithm[l5]. Their improvement is called LRU/k and advocates giving priority to buffer pages baaed on the kth most recent access. (The standard LRU algorithm is denoted LRU/l according to this terminology.) If Pl's kth most recent access is more more recent than P2's, then Pl will be replaced after P2. Intuitively, LRU/k for k > 1 is a good strategy, because it gives low priority to pages that have been scanned or to pages that belong to a big randomly accessed file (e.g., the account file in TPC/A). They found that LRU/S achieves most of the advantage of their method. The one problem of LRU/S is the processor


Natural gas hydrate as a potential natural fuel resource, which occur worldwide in the polar regions, mostly associated with onshore and offshore permafrost, and in sediment of out continental and insular margins will provide human enormous energy in the coming 21 century. Three aspects of gas hydrates are important: their fossil fuel resource potential, their role as a submarine geologic hazard and their effects on global climate change. Gas hydrates have become the focus of intense international interest over the past few years because of their abundance and their potential role as a fuel, which could mitigate global climate change. Natural gas hydrate future face to challenges.


A growing body of research shows that human decisions result from the interaction of multiple systems. In particular much recent research has focused on the interaction between Model-free (MF) and Model-based (MB) processes (2, 4, 5). MF components are computationally more parsimonious and re-evaluate choices only after having performed them. Thus, MF values of non-selected choices remain unchanged. MB components re-evaluate both selected and not selected choices by exploiting knowledge on the values of future states and about the transitions between them. If a state is found to be desirable or undesirable, e.g. by visiting them from a another state, the values of choices from any state known to lead to such state can be raised or reduced even before selecting such choices again. This, in turn, affects the values of the states where these choices can be made. The different use of experience results in different dynamics of the estimation of the values of the choices, with model-based component able to faster account for not immediate effects than model-free. This is a crucial point to understand addiction, as the short-term high reward of drug is surpassed by the resulting long-term costs and punishment. The negative overall value of drug consumption is not only an external perception of therapists, clinicians or any not addicted external observer but is also often realized by drug abusers(13). In many conditions addicted subjects have reported to know that consuming drugs has negative consequences but that they cannot avoid doing it. This contrast has been seen as an issue in integration and evaluation of short and long term effects. Consequently addiction has often been interpreted as dominance of model-free decision making component, biased for short term effects, over a model-based component correctly evaluating the long term losses implied by drug assumption. In this work we have explored different (fixed) balances of interaction between the MB-MF action evaluation and found for all of them addiction like behaviours, e.g. repeated selection of a suboptimal high reward goal (drug assumption) followed by continuous punishment (drug aftereffects). One possible cause of this suboptimal behaviour over the whole spectrum of balances is the interaction between model based and model free components of the decision making system which is far from being understood. On the long term a healthy (convergent) model-free component could learn an efficient policy while the values estimated by a model-based component will always be affected by the limited cognitive resources (10, 12, 18, 20, 24) available and may be unreliable in complex conditions, which could actually trigger relapse. Still, most current models have considered only ideal model-based components (14, 19). Moreover during learning both the components affect exploration and refine their knowledge through the shared observations of the performed transitions (i.e. choices and resulting rewards and states). These interactions may lead to both constructive symbioses as well as harming behaviours, but most of the current models consider only


A non-parametric approach is derived for assessing the goodness of fit for the two-phase regression problem. It is shown that the validity of the constant error variance assumption and the constraint of the continuity of change in two-phase regression can be examined. This method is also used to test nested two-phase regression models. Three numerical examples are presented.


Kinetic, spectroscopic, and crystallographic studies have been carried out on products derived from the compound MeRe(NAr)2(O) (1, Ar = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) in reactions with PRn(OR)3-n, abbrevia...


In the note, we discuss Voronovskaya type theorem and saturation of convergence for q-Bernstein polynomials for a function analytic in the disc UR := {z: |z| < R} (R > q) for arbitrary fixed q 1. We give explicit formulas of Voronovskaya type for the q-Bernstein polynomials for q > 1. We show that the rate of convergence for the q-Bernstein polynomials is o(q−n) (q > 1) for infinite number of points having an accumulation point on UR/q if and only if f is linear. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


tag=1 data=Mabo's Case. by Frank Brennan

tag=2 data=Brennan, Frank

tag=3 data=Constitutional Centenary,

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tag=5 data=2

tag=6 data=September 1992

tag=7 data=12-14.

tag=8 data=ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS

tag=9 data=MURRAY ISLANDS

tag=10 data=The High Court has removed the legal basis for the continued dispossession of Aborigines and Islanders retaining traditional affiliations with their lands.

tag=11 data=1992/4/13

tag=12 data=92/0875

tag=13 data=CAB

tag=32 data=MABO, EDDIE


The invention discloses a high-temperature-resistance low-square-resistance conductive silver slurry and a preparation method for the same. The high-temperature-resistance low-square-resistance conductive silver slurry is made by the weight parts of the following ingredients: silver powder 45-55, yttria nanometer powder 1-2, thallium oxide nanometer powder 1.1-1.2, urea 1.5-2.7, methyl cellulose 0.5-0.9, fatty alcohol sodium sulfate 0.4-0.8, medical stone 2-4, pastern 3-5, alkyd 1-3, glycerinum 2.4-3.7, coniferyl alcohol 2.4-3.6, accessory ingredient 30-40 and water. The conductive silver slurry has excellent performance of resisting high temperature, can resist high temperature of being over 200 DEG, and uses the yttria nanometer powder and the thallium oxide nanometer powder to increase the conductivity and adherence of the conductive slurry and is very promising.


Subtitle: There is a dimension beyond that which is known. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between demand and supply, between strategy and tactics, and it lies somewhere between the pit of an enterprise's fears and the summit of its visibility and knowledge.


To study the electrophysiological activity and dynamics of a large neuronal population, Micro-Electrode Array (MEA) based systems are routinely used. 3-D culture models are nowadays considered a way to better mimic the in vivo situation. Here we present a simple approach based on the concept that dissociated cultured neurons are able to grow on micrometric, self-assembled microbeads to form a structurally and functionally connected 3D networks. With this model, we show preliminary results that indicate the possible use of such new experimental system for neuropharmacological studies.


Arguments are sometimes made attempting to justify proprietary awards to unjust enrichment claimants by reference to the 'priority' such awards supposedly give in the defendant's insolvency. Those justifications are variously that unjust enrichment claimants do not take insolvency risks, that the defendant's creditors would otherwise receive an underserved windfall, and that unjust enrichment claimants occupy a position analogous to secured creditors. This paper shows that such arguments are flawed. To award unjust enrichment claimants' proprietary rights is not to give them priority in their defendant's insolvency but to withdraw the right from the estate available for distribution to all the unsecured creditors, whatever their order of priority. Moreover, insolvency 'priority' is not the only consequence of such an award. Finally, when seen for what they are, viz arguments for the award of property rights, the justifications do not, for a number of reasons, stand up.


Base on the documentary analysis, investigation and interview, according to the characteristics of the track and field and its development principles, this study conducts a analysis research on the application of "method of calculation" in the track and field teaching, which proves that the method of calculation is of great practical value in the track and field teaching and is beneficial to both the reform and development of track and field teaching and the improvement of the teaching quality.


A general class of current amplifier-based biquadratic filter circuits is presented which is capable of realizing arbitrary filter functions including the lowpass, highpass, and the bandpass transfer function. These realizations are derived from a class of well-known low sensitivity single amplifier biquadratic (SAB) filter circuits using the principle of adjoint networks. The salient features of the proposed current amplifier filter circuits are that they are synthesized using the same procedure circuits as their op-amp based SAB circuit counterparts, and furthermore, possess the same sensitivities to component variations as the original SAB circuits.<<ETX>>


The term Open Educational Resources (OER) is buzzword in education systems around the world and their potential has even been highlighted with the pandemic crisis as an aid in education systems. However, it is still far from reaching the promises that were envisaged for them. This is especially true for Germany, where challenges have been identified in terms of OER infrastructure and adoption at a macro, meso and micro level. In this study, factors such as OER infrastructure, policy, quality and change are considered in German higher education from an international perspective (Australia, Canada, China, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the United States). As part of a broader research project, this comparative case study between higher education (HE) systems internationally provides insights into OER that could be useful for other HE systems, institutions and faculty members moving towards OER in these times.


Background and Aims The increase in overweight and obese children may be linked to increased rates of dyslipidaemia. The aim was to assess the prevalence of dyslipidaemia and associated risk factors among the Northern Mexican child population. Methods and Results Four hundred and fifty-one subjects aged between 2 and 10 (47.5% girls) took part in the Nuevo León State Survey of Nutrition and Health 2011–2012. According to the 2011 Expert Panel on Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents, serum lipid levels (mg/dL) were categorized into three subgroups (acceptable, borderline-high/low or high/low) as follows: TChol: acceptable <170, borderline-high 170–199, high ≥200; LDL-chol: acceptable <110, borderline-high 110–129, high ≥130; non-HDL-chol: acceptable <120, borderline-high 120–144, high ≥145; HDL-chol: acceptable >45, borderline-low 40–45, low <40; and TG: acceptable <75, borderline-high 75–99, high ≥100 in ≤9 year-old children, and acceptable <90, borderline-high 90–129, and high ≥130 in 10 year-old children. The overall prevalence of borderline-high + high TG, non-HDL-chol, TChol, and LDL-chol was 63.0%, 44.1%, 43.5%, and 29.9%, respectively. The overall prevalence of borderline-low + low HDL-chol was 46.3%. The overall frequency of dyslipidaemia was 54.3%. Thirteen children (2.9%) had all five symptoms of dyslipidaemia. The most common dyslipidaemia was high TG in combination (26.2%) and in isolation (10.6%). Conclusions Half of the children had at least one abnormal lipid concentration. A high TG level was the most frequent dyslipidaemia. Obesity was associated with the occurrence of at least one abnormal lipid level. These findings emphasize the need to pay further attention to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and obesity from an early age.


The selective affinity of amino acids for the pan creas, because of its high rate of protein synthesis, has prompted the development of labeled amino acids for pancreatic imaging. L-[75Se]selenometh ionine was one of the first such agents proposed for pancreatic imaging (I) and is still the most widely used tracer for that purpose (2). However, there are serious disadvantages associated with L [75Se]selenomethionine, including high liver uptake, suboptimal and variable pancreatic specificity, and


Summary The demonstration of dose-dependent increase in plasma deoxycytidine (CdR) in rats after their exposure to relatively low doses of X-rays, suggests that the quantitative determination of this compound as early as 4-hours postirradiation might be of value as a biologic dosimeter or indicator of radiation injury at sublethal doses. Significant elevations in plasma deoxycytidine levels were detected at X-ray doses as low as 25 or 50 R, with a positive dose-response relationship evident at doses up to 100 R. The rapid sampling possible with blood plasma, as well as the absence of significant interference by other UV absorbing substances would suggest that determination of levels of CdR and of other pyrimidines in man after therapeutic irradiation would be feasible and useful. Such studies are presently being pursued.


Many chemical processes can be operationally risky, environmentally harmful and potentially dangerous when abnormal or destructive situations occur. This is due to the fact that chemical processes are often operated under high pressures, at high temperatures, and with fast material flows and complex manufacturing mechanisms. In the extreme, catastrophes such as explosions, toxic release and loss of life will occur unexpectedly and rapidly, particularly when a terrorist who has a sufficient technical background in chemical operations attacks a plant. To assure process security, systematic and effective process security-bearing operational strategies must be developed. This paper introduces a process operational space classification method and a process operational security index. The method and the index can be an effective quantitative tool for characterizing and analysing process security, especially when the process experiences various disturbances set by saboteurs who may be technically very knowledgeable. The efficacy of the quantification method is demonstrated by its application to an exothermic batch reactor.


is so spaced that an excellent and exact zonation can be based on their stratigraphic distribution. At the present time the value of the planktonic Foraminifera for stratigraphic correlation is masked by the incompleteness of our knowledge and especially by the divergent views of different workers on questions of taxonomic grouping. The basis for systematic separation of planktonic Foraminifera has varied greatly from author to author. Features used by one specialist as being of specific value only are used by others for generic and even family separations. The wide limits allowed for a genus in some instances have almost completely masked the true value of the planktonic Foraminifera for stratigraphic correlation. A critical examination of many species of widely varjdng geographic and stratigraphic occurrence makes it obvious that there are distinctive groups of species, within a "genus" as previously known, that are quite restricted in geologic range. Other species, attributed to different "genera" may have identical ranges and only minor distinctions for separation, and may even intergrade. For these reasons the classification of the planktonic Foraminifera definitely requires revision on the generic level. Descriptions and illustrations in many publications, especially early ones, are oftten too generalized, inaccurate or incomplete for a precise species delineation. Lack of care in the collection of samples and failure to recognize reworking has in some instances given exaggerated geologic ranges. In many instances a disregard for the Rules of Nomenclature has caused confusion.


By a curve we mean a continuous one-dimensional aggregate of any sort of elements, and therefore not merely a curve in the ordinary geometrical sense, but also a singly infinite system of curves, surfaces, complexes, &c., such that one condition is sufficient to determine a finite number of them. The elements may be regarded as determined by k coordinates; and then, if these be connected by k—1 equations of any order, the curve is either the whole aggregate of common solutions of these equations, or, when this breaks up into algebraically distinct parts, the curve is one of these parts. It is thus convenient to employ still further the language of geometry, and to speak of such a curve as the complete or partial intersection of k—1 loci in flat space of k dimensions, or, as we shall sometimes say, in a k-flat. If a certain number, say h, of the equations are linear, it is evidently possible by a linear transformation to make these equations equate h of the coordinates to zero ; it is then convenient to leave these coordinates out of consideration altogether, and only to regard the remaining k—h—1 equations between k—h coordinates. In this case the curve will, therefore, be regarded as a curve in flat space of k—h dimensions. And, in general, when we speak of a curve as in flat space of k dimensions, we mean that it cannot exist in flat space of k—1 dimensions.


Background: There have been numerous control strategies employed to prevent the very physiological and psychological impacts of noise exposure in occupational settings. The present study aims to use the Shannon's entropy – PROMEHTEE hybrid model to weigh and prioritize noise control solutions in an oil refinery.

Methods: This study was performed in four stages. At first, the sound pressure levels were measured and determined according to the recommended standard of ISO 9612. Next, criteria and sound control strategies were determined using the Delphi technique. In the third stage, the weights of the criteria were determined using the Shannon's entropy method and in the last stage, the solutions were prioritized using the PROMEHTEE method.

Result: According to Shannon's entropy method, criteria were sorted by the priority order of cost-effectiveness (0.2710), efficiency in reducing the noise (0.2531), executability (0.2435), safety (0.1120), process interference (0.1107) and up-to-dateness of the methods (0.091). Also, according to the PROMEHTEE method, the best solution was determined to be building a noise chamber with a weight of 0.5476, and modification or change of the work process was ranked last with a weight of -0.6905.

Conclusion: The Shannon's entropy – PROMEHTEE hybrid method introduced in this study can be used as a credible scientific tool and solution to select the most appropriate noise control solution in the oil industry and other industries in which a choice of noise control technique is felt as a necessity.


Discloses a composition comprising a high temperature thermoplastic polymer and a filler. A method of forming a coating on the wellbore tool, which comprises forming a powder composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer and a filler, and the composition is applied to the surface. Also disclosed is a wellbore tool, having a component coated with the composition.


The article tries to disclose the living tragedy of LiuYong from two aspects:failing in applying for being a high official but doing it again and again,having applied for being a high official but repenting it.And it points out that it is LiuYong's deep Scholar bureaucrat's complex that dnes to his sorrowful fate.The article proposes that if you read LiuYong's work from this view point,You will find it includes the worshipful feeling of common people and the true qualities of life,Which is widely divergent from the opinions of some orthodox critics.


The alkylchromium(III) complexes trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/(H/sub 2/O)) (a) (R = CHCl/sub 2/, CH/sub 2/Cl; Hacac = 2,4-pentanedione) were prepared by the reaction of (CrR(H/sub 2/O)/sub 5/)/sup 2 +/ with Hacac and triethylamine. Synthetic methods reported previously for (CrR(H/sub 2/O)/sub 5/)/sup 2 +/ (R = CHCl/sub 2/, CH/sub 2/Cl) were improved to give approximately quantitative yields. The complexes trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/L) (L = CH/sub 3/OH, pyridine) were derived by replacing a coordinated water molecule in a with L. The X-ray crystal structure analyses of trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/(py)) (R = CHCl/sub 2/, CH/sub 2/Cl) have been performed. The carbon-bonded ligands CHCl/sub 2/ and CH/sub 2/Cl lengthen specifically the Cr-N bond trans to the Cr-C bond in trans-(Cr(CHCl/sub 2/)(acac)/sub 2/(py)) (b; Cr-N = 2.154 (7) A) as well as in trans-(Cr-(CH/sub 2/Cl)(acac)/sub 2/(py)) (c; Cr-N = 2.201(4) A). The elongation of the Cr-N bonds in b and c is reflected in substantial labilization of the ligand substitution reactions at the position trans to R: trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/(CH/sub 3/OH)) + L reversible trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/L) + CH/sub 3/OH. The rate constants (M/sup -1/ s/sup -1/) at 25 /sup 0/C in methanol for the formation of trans-(CrR(acac)/sub 2/L) are 85 +/- 2 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = py), 98more » +/- 1 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = 4-methylpyridine), 57 +/- 1 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = isonicotinamide), and (1.2 +/- 0.5) x 10/sup 3/ (R = CH/sub 2/Cl, L = py), and the rate constants (s/sup -1/) for the backward reaction at 25 /sup 0/C are 15 +/- 1 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = py), 11 +/- 1 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = 4-methylpyridine), 33 +/- 1 (R = CHCl/sub 2/, L = isonicotinamide), and (5 +/- 2) x 10/sup 2/ (R = CH/sub 2/Cl, L = py).« less


Abstract : The Department of Defense (DoD) spent more than $156 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2014, or more than 55 percent of DoDs total contract obligations, buying contracted services. In other words, the DoD spent more money buying contracted services than it spent buying major weapons systems in FY 2014.


Method and device for conveying and rotating ceramic pieces. The invention automates the slewing of large ceramic parts and ensures proper alignment of the ceramic pieces in rotation and centering off the conveyor rolls. The device comprises a suction cup (12) connected to a piston (11) arranged between both banks (4) groups of rollers (1) and (2), which adheres below the geometric center of the ceramic pieces (17) providing a rotation support.


Recent advances in optical nanoantennas made of high-permittivity low-loss dielectric particles have demanded efficient numerical modeling techniques for electromagnetic radiation and scattering simulations. Here, the facing requirements of fast convergence of iteration methods and good accuracy of results, a modified surface integral equation for high-permittivity objects has been presented. Moreover, based on the proposed surface integral equation, a full study of the dependence of the radiation pattern on the relative permittivity and wavelength has been performed for a single-dielectric nanoparticle with the excitation of an electric dipole source. Then, the directional enhancement of radiation is explored from Yagi-Uda geometry systems made of nanoparticles with optimal permittivities for reflector and directors.


This work analyses the optimal menu of contracts offered by a risk neutral principal to a risk averse agent under moral hazard, adverse selection and limited liability. There are two output levels, whose probability of occurrence are given by agent's private information choice of effort. The agent's cost of effort is also private information. First, we show that without assumptions on the cost function, it is not possible to guarantee that the optimal contract menu is simple, when the agent is strictly risk averse. Then, we provide sufficient conditions over the cost function under which it is optimal to offer a single contract, independently of agent's risk aversion. Our full-pooling cases are caused by non-responsiveness, which is induced by the high cost of enforcing higher effort levels. Also, we show that limited liability generates non-responsiveness.


A novel soft-switching circuit for an AC-DC converter with a four-winding reactor is presented. This AC-DC converter has high efficiency and satisfies the IEC61000-3-2 class D regulation over a wide range of input voltage, for example from 80 to 288 V. The soft-switching circuit reduces the switching power loss and performs power regeneration. As a result, high power efficiency is achieved. The design criteria for the regeneration winding can be further refined for improved performance


This paper focuses on the use of forensic methodologies and methods for detecting subversions, an approach that may help to mitigate risk in a substantial portion of cases of types characterized to date. In essence, we look for the telltale signs of cover-ups.


The purpose of this research is to perceive the relationship between Identity Style (IS) and Psychological Well-Being (PWB) in adolescents. The hypothesis of this study are 1) there is relationship between Informational Identity Style (IIS) and PWB in adolescents, 2) there is relationship between Normative Identity Style (NIS) and PWB in adolescents, and 3) there is relationship between Diffuse-Avoidant Identity Style (DAIS) and PWB in adolescents. The subjects of this research are 235 high school students with age between 16-18 years or in their late adolescent. The instruments used to measure the data are Berzonsky's Identity Style Inventory (ISI-5) adaptation scale and Ryff's Psychological WellBeing Scale (PWBS) adaptation scale. The ISI-5 scale consists of three IS scales, each of which has 9 items and different reliability coefficients, which are IIS α=0.768, NIS α=0.531, and DAIS α=0.682. Meanwhile, the PWBS amounts to 84 items with a reliability coefficient α=0.930. The type of this research is quantitative with Spearman's rho correlation test analysis technique. This results of this research are 1) there is a positive and significant relationship between IIS and PWB (r=0,310; p=0,000<0,05), and then 2) there is a negative and significant relationship between DAIS and PWB (r=-0,407; p=0,000<0,05). This result shows that the higher the adolescents are oriented towards IIS, the higher the psychological well-being of the adolescents. On the contrary, the higher the adolescents are oriented towards DAIS, the lower the psychological well-being of the adolescents. While NIS cannot be tested for correlation because the data is not reliable.


The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of Azotobacter
 chroococcum in tomato and pepper growth and production by using two types of
 inoculation - seed inoculation and seedling inoculation. The effect of
 inoculation was observed thirty days after sowing, thirty days after
 transplanting, and in the phase of technological maturity. The following were
 measured: height of the plants, dry matter of the plants and number and the
 weight of the fruits. Inoculation had a positive effect on these in both
 plants. With tomato, better results were achieved when seedlings were
 inoculated. With pepper, the length of the plant and the dry matter were
 greater with seedling inoculation, whereas the number and the weight of the
 fruits were greater with seed inoculation.


The sports system reform in China is the point that turns the sports reform deeply,the market economy system of perfect for sports system of reform lay an economic foundation and provided the beneficial reference.The article discussed the sports system reform in the market mechanism of motive and encourage characteristics,analyzed the market mechanism and the sports systems in the competition and equilibrium of match the relation,put forward the current sports system circulation mechanism and developed the function of market mechanism reasonably.


Technology has moved from an enabler of people with disability (when simple devices such as television remotes and press button telephones facilitated independence for many) to having a focus on complex devices, modes of access and multi-media interfaces that set up an exclusionary paradigm where only the most able benefit.