The exploration of tourism culture resources is a critically valuable research topic.As one of few provinces with abundant cultural resources in China,Jiangsu should strategically explore tourism sites with distinct cultural characteristics and develop cultural tourism to become a powerful province in tourism.Now,the study on the tourism culture is at early stage.Widely-accepted theory systems and research models have not yet been developed.This paper inquires into the culture composition of tourism resources and their behavior structure and product categories.It classifies tourism resources into three types,including physical culture landscape,institutional and behavioral culture customs,and ideological culture arts from point of culture composition.Furthermore,the systematic structure of tourism culture resources in Jiangsu province was analyzed according to the four hierarchies,such as region of tourism culture,the system of tourism culture,the group of tourism culture,the factor of tourism culture.The proposed strategy to explore tourism culture in this province includes the following three aspects: First,the water culture is the dominant component of tourism culture resources and its development has leading influences on the exploration of tourism resources in Jiangsu."Chinese water culture cradleland with the characters of firmness and flexibleness" can be taken as the aim to explore Jiangsu's tourism culture resources.Secondly,the focuses on exploring Jiangsu's tourism culture resources are: 1) to pay equal attention to protect and to explore the traditional regional culture resources;2) to construct innovative cultural tourism sites with vivid time spirits;3) to create the respective cultural figures of cities and towns;4) to develop much the thematic and dynamic tourism cultures.Finally,with regard to the spatial allocation of tourism culture resources in Jingsu,the following emphasis should be placed on: 1) one main axis of tourism culture,i.e.,one along Jinghang canal;2) three extend axes of tourism culture,i.e.,the first along the Yangtze River,the second along the new Eurasian Continental Bridge,and the third along the shore of Huanghai Sea;3) four areas of tourism culture,i.e.,Chuhan culture one,Weiyang culture one,Jinling culture one,and Wu culture one.


In this paper, the performance of multi-hop free-space-optical (FSO) communications systems over atmospheric turbulence fading channel along with pointing error effects is analyzed considering Pulse Position Modulation (PPM). The analysis is done under weak atmospheric turbulence i.e. Lognormally distributed and transmission using multi-hop which is established on amplify-and-forward relays. We illustrate combined probability density function for multi-hop FSO system. The numerically found results show that the multihop transmission along with M-ary PPM is a good solution for obtaining desired Bit Error Rate (BER) under the effects of weak turbulence and pointing error.


Solid-phase micro-extraction(SPME) extraction conditions of flavor compounds were optimized with a simulated system of blended soy sauce.Based on single factor experiments and Box-Behnken central design,using the total peak area as response value,the optimal extraction conditions were obtained by response surface methodology as follows: using PDMS/DVB,addition of NaCl 0.45g,extraction temperature 43.9℃ and extraction time 35.6min.Under these conditions,a total of 59 volatile flavor compounds were identified in premium soy sauce.


Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which organizations can take a more balanced stance on talent management, especially on the issue of the nature of talent itself.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on experience in organizations and on the case of Michael Faraday as an exemplar of a talented person.Findings – The paper finds that talent management/development is more complex than just identifying supposedly talented young people and developing them.Practical implications – The paper has real practical implications for leaders/managers and learning and development professionals in identifying a better basis on which to develop talent.Originality/value – The paper will be of value to managers and learning specialists who are involved in talent management strategy.


Objectives We aimed to evaluate the value of immunoglobulin (Ig) G, IgM, and IgA isotypes of anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) and anti-C1q antibody in diagnosing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and elucidate their association with disease activity and lupus nephritis. Methods Blood samples were obtained from 96 SLE patients, 62 other autoimmune disease patients, and 60 healthy blood donors. Anti-dsDNA IgG, IgM, and IgA isotypes and anti-C1q antibody were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Disease activity of SLE patients was assessed according to the SLE Disease Activity Index score. Results When specificity was greater than 90%, the sensitivity of anti-dsDNA IgG, IgM, and IgA isotypes and anti-C1q antibody in diagnosing SLE was 75%, 45%, 33%, and 49%, respectively. The prevalence of anti-dsDNA IgG (p = 0.002), anti-dsDNA IgA (p = 0.028), and anti-C1q antibody (p = 0.000) in active cases was significantly higher than those in inactive ones. In addition, the presence of anti-C1q antibody was associated with renal involvement (p = 0.032). Anti-dsDNA IgM showed no significant association with disease activity, but it was inversely linked with lupus nephritis (p = 0.005). When anti-dsDNA IgG and IgA and anti-C1q were combined to evaluate SLE disease activity, the specificity reached the highest level (90%). When anti-C1q positive was accompanied by anti-dsDNA IgM negative, the specificity of diagnosing lupus nephritis was up to 96%. Conclusions This study demonstrated the role of anti-dsDNA IgG, IgM, and IgA isotypes and anti-C1q antibody alone or combination in diagnosing SLE. Anti-dsDNA IgG and IgA and anti-C1q were shown to be associated with disease activity, while anti-dsDNA IgM and anti-C1q were associated with lupus nephritis. When the related antibodies were combined, the diagnostic specificity was significantly higher.


Optical observations of the regions of the two hard X-ray/γ-ray sources 1E 1740.7-2942 and GRS 1758-258 have been carried out. For GRS 1758-258, an accurate position was derived using the data from the ROSAT All-sky Survey. Although both sources have small errors boxes, their optical identification is hampered by the crowding of these low galactic latitude fields, and by the heavy interstellar absorption. Here, images in the filters I and Gunn's z, which appear the deepest so far of these regions, are presented. Several new candidates are revealed, one of which lies at only 2″ from the suggested radio counterpart of 1E 1740.7-2942


Shale Gas is the natural gas produced from shale and has become an important alternative source of energy in recent time, especially after large scale discoveries in the United States over the past two decades. In case of shale gas, the same rock acts as source, reservoir and sealing cap rock. Usually shales are mature source rock and rich in organic matter (TOC=0.5% to 25%). These were earlier viewed as uneconomic ventures because of shale's low permeability (around 0.01mD or less), but now latest emerging techniques like horizontal drilling or hydro fracturing have made shale gas projects profitable. Barnett Shale in Texas is the most prolific shale gas reservoir in the world till date, having an estimated GIIP ranging between 59 km 3 & 850 km 3 and a production rate of 57MMm 3 /d, where over 100 companies have drilled more than 6000 successful wells. This has established shale gas as a commercially viable reservoir world wide. Total US production in 2008 was 3.23 Tcf including 1.1 Tcf from Barnet Shale. India also has huge organic rich (TOC=0.5-14.3%) shale deposits in formations like Cambay Shale, Barren Measures, Baisakhi-Bhadasar, Bhuvanagiri & Raghavpuram shales in KG Basin and Mandapeta, Andimadam & Sattapadi shales in Cauvery Basins. India can emerge as a prolific player when a Shale Gas policy, involving identification and allocation of shale blocks, is put in place. Given the nature of global enthusiasm in the form of participation of large companies in shale gas exploration and exploitation, vast shale deposits of Indian Sedimentary Basins, with high TOC and maturity value, together with increasing oil/gas price, larger Demand Vs Supply ratio and availability of improved modern technologies, can bring India in the top bracket of Shale Gas producers in world.


In mice of various strains the structure and function of the thyroid gland vary, mice of strain Dba having comparatively active glands and mice of strain C57BL possessing comparatively inactive thyroid glands. In C57BL males, a high-fat diet increased the incidence and advanced the onset of degenerative joint disease, while in Dba males, the fat-enriched diet failed to exert significant effects on the articular structures. It was assumed that differences in thyroid activity might be related to the strains differences in the response to the high-fat diet. The fat-enriched ration was, therefore, fed to adult mice of both strains, after their thyroid glands had been destroyed by injection of I131. Following this treatment, the response of the mice of the two strains was reversed. In the absence of thyroid secretions, C57BL mice became less susceptible than Dba mice, while Dba mice became more susceptible to the injurious effect of the high-fat diet than Dba mice with intact thyroid glands.

Radiothyroidectomy also produced characteristic articular chansges, which were different from degenerative joint disease and which were designated "athyroid joint disease". The susceptibility to this lesion likewise varied with the thyroid activity characteristic of the strain. Dba mice showed a high incidence and a severe degree of this disease, while C57BL mice were less frequently affected and showed only low-grade lesions. A fat-enriched diet, in turn, adversely influenced the course of athyroid joint disease in both strains of mice.

Thus the thyroid hormone plays a major role in the development of the growing joint and in the maintenance of the adult articular structures under normal conditions, as well as under abnormal conditions. The extent of this influence varies with the degree of thyroid function characteristic of the particular strain of mice or of the individual.


THE DATE REPRESENTS THE DEADLINE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ENHANCED 911 IN THE U.S. AND IT IS GOING TO BE MISSED. THIS IS WHY.


In order to create a classification model for fungi, it is necessary to have robustness against out-of-distribution data from the viewpoint of practicality. Therefore, in this paper, we perform out-of-distribution detection on a fungi. Unlike the case of conventional out-of-distribution detection, the characteristics of in-distribution data and out-of-distribution data in this paper are very similar. Therefore, the problem in which conventional methods using out-of-distribution data for validation are not effective is mentioned. We also verify whether the accuracy of out-of-distribution detection can be improved using the attention branch network.


The effect of reaction conditions on ethanolysis of enzymatic hydrolysis lignin (EHL) with an unsupported nickel catalyst, that is, Ni(220H), was investigated. The two-dimensional heteronuclear sin...


The ability of wetted cathodes of limited area to support localized corrosion sites on passive materials exposed to atmospheric conditions was studied computationally. The analysis pertains to conditions where metal surfaces are covered by thin layers of moisture in contrast to conditions of full immersion. The moisture may be a continuous layer or in patches with and without particulate on the surface. These conditions are of interest for the surfaces of the waste packages at the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository where waste packages are supported in air. The cathode capacity was characterized by the total net cathodic current, I{sub net}, which the surface surrounding a localized corrosion site (i.e., a pit or crevice) could supply. The cathode capacity increases with increasing cathode area, but it saturates at finite cathode sizes due to the resistance of the thin electrolyte layer. The magnitude of the capacity depends on the water layer thickness, the solution conductivity, and the electrochemical reaction kinetics. The presence of particulates is treated by considering both volume and surface coverage effects. The limited electrolyte volume under thin film conditions can lead to rapid pH changes which decrease the cathode capacity due to the slower electrochemical kinetics at elevated pH.more » These effects can make localized corrosion less likely to be sustained.« less


The main purpose of this study is to provide evidence on the contextual featutres of firms adopting ActivityBased Costing (ABC) compared to those not adopting ABC. The study examines certain organisational and business environment variables which appear to have influenced the adoption of ABC. Based on a review of the relevant literature, it is hypothesised that firm size, the amount of overhead costs, the level of product variety, production complexity, the degree of competition, and the degree of computer usage are factors which encourage firms to adopt ABC. A list of manufacturing companies operating in Bahrain (332 firms) was obtained from the Ministry of Industry. Firms with (50) workers or more were selected for the study. The reason for limiting the study to firms with this number of workers is that small firms are less likely to be able to afford the cost of adopting and implementing an ABC system and its required changes. Total of (111) firms met this size criterion and a questionnaire was developed and distributed to the entire sample. Fifty seven questionnaires were returned completed; a response rate of (51.4%). The results of the study show that a small percentage of Bahraini manufacturing companies are adopting or planning to adopt ABC systems (26.3%). There were significant relationships between the adoption of ABC and the variables selected for the study except production complexity and the degree of computer usage. The results are consistent with previous research. However, further research using a case study approach with semi-structured interviews could be conducted in those firms which claim to have adopted ABC. This approach might be fruitful and would provide more insight in identifying the characteristics of ABC companies in the Bahraini context. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-996-0.ch013


Decoherence and parameter fluctuations are two of the mayor obstacles for solid-state quantum computing.
In this work, decoherence in superconducting qubits of the transmon type is investigated. For this purpose, a time-multiplexed measurement protocol was developed and applied in long-term measurements. The resulting simultaneous measurement of the qubit's relaxation and dephasing rate, as well as its resonance frequency enables analysis of correlations between these parameters. A spectral noise analysis complements these measurements. Together, the results agree well with the interacting defect model of two-level-systems and yield information about the microscopic origin of the intrinsic decoherence mechanisms in Josephson qubits.

Our measurements show inherent correlations between dephasing and fluctuations in qubit frequency on the timescale of seconds to days, which is attributed to the influence of individual defects, located close to conductor edges. Cross-correlation and spectral noise analysis confirm this interpretation and ascribe the source of fluctuation to interactions between thermal fluctuators and surface defects. Single defects reducing the coherence of qubits by up to one order of magnitude are a major challenge for future quantum computers.

Non-tunable qubits are intrinsically insensitive to some decoherence channels and thus ideal for this fundamental analysis. However, to widen the focus and contrast the results of different material systems, we pursue the fabrication of voltage controlled gatemon qubits. In the course of this work, the theoretical foundation and technical implementation of transmon qubits based on regular Josephson weak links, and semiconducting nanowires is given. The experimental design and measurement setup are explained in detail.

Our findings make continuous re-calibration a necessity in today's solid-state qubits, although new materials or processing techniques might mitigate the problem. However, the results of this work imply that fundamental improvements of qubit parameter stability are necessary in order to realize scalable and coherent qubit circuits.


The paper provides the useful information for building green tourism sites with Karst landforms by analyzing the plant distribution principle,plant utilization,plant distribution type,grove distribution and plant distribution art methods of 9 different scenic spots in Songbaishan demonstration base of ecological protection.


With The Echo Maker (2006) these explorations of the novel's investment in giving narrative voice and form to concerns with belonging reach our late-modern present, depicted by Richard Powers in an intricate double perspective: as an encompassing ecosystem in which human troubles shrink in geological scale, and as a tenuous product of a specific narrative economy—that of the human brain. There is a striking congruence to these themes that begs to be read as counteracting the "hyper-liquefying" tendencies of late modernity. Speaking from a world in which daily routines and social relations have become intangible, short-lived and unpredictable to an unprecedented degree, the novel insists on the stoic materiality of that world and pairs it with a narrative activity that is located not in the lofty realm of the psyche but in the materiality of the brain. And if the brain's narrative capacity is firmly grounded in the materialist worldview of cognitive science, the novel renders it, quite naturalistically, as a product of evolutionary contingency. Powers is known as a "content-intense" and "brainy" writer. He thinks of the novel as "a supreme connection machine—the most complex artifact of networking that we have developed" (Williams 104), and of connectivity as the baseline of late-modern problems with belonging.1 His fiction seeks to enhance the novel's


Objective: Racism has been identified as a psychosocial stressor that may contribute to disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease. The goal of the present article was to investigate the relationship of perceived racism to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) in a sample of American-born Blacks and Latinos. Methods: Participants included English-speaking Black or Latino(a) adults between the ages of 24 and 65. They completed daily mood diaries and measures of perceived racism, socioeconomic status, and hostility. Participants were outfitted with ABP monitors; 357 provided data on waking hours only, and 245 provided data on both waking and nocturnal ABP. Results: Perceived racism was positively associated with nocturnal ABP even when controlling for personality factors and socioeconomic status. Conclusions: The results suggest that racism may influence cardiovascular disease risk through its effects on nocturnal BP recovery. ABP = ambulatory blood pressure; SBP = systolic blood pressure; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; CVD = cardiovascular disease; SES = socioeconomic status; HTN = hypertension; AHA = American Heart Association; GHI = gross household income; BMI = body mass index; PEDQ-CV = Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version.


Thesechanges canneither beexplained bythe reduction ofthegeneration time(which isonly10-15%) norfromobserved changes inthereplication timeand inthetimebetween DNA synthesis termination andcell division. Variations were mainly duetotheincrease incell mass perorigin ofreplication, atinitiation, incells grownat39°C. Control ofchromosome replication bytheFplasmid appearstobethereasonfortheincrease intheinitiation mass.Otherpossible causes,such asthemodification ofgrowth temperature, thegeneration time, orboth, were discarded. Theseobservations suggest that atonegrowth rate, theFplasmid replicates ataparticular cell mass toFparticle pumber ratio, andthatthis ratio ishigher thanthecell mass tooriCratio attheinitiation ofchromosome replication. This fact might besignificant tocoordinate thereplication oftwodifferent replicons inthesame cell. Replication ofthechromosome ofEscherichia coliis regulated atthestepofinitiation. Replication isnormally initiated atafixed origin, oriC(2), andproceeds bidirectionally totheterminus region ofthechromosome. Dependence ofinitiation atoriCon dnaAproduct isabsolute (8,22). However, thednaAmutation can besuppressed bythe insertion ofaplasmid into thebacterial chromosome (11, 13, 21). Thereisevidence thatsuchsuppressed strains initiate replication attheplasmid site (3,11,13), whichisinapparent contradiction withthefailure ofinitiation attheplasmid site whenintegrated indnaA+strains. Amodelforthecontrol of replication thatexplains these facts hasbeenproposed by Pritchard etal.(17, 19). Thismodelstates that replicons are controlled bytheir own negatively acting geneproducts. Initiation ofreplication raises theinhibitor concentration, reducing theprobability offurther initiations; growth ofthe hostcell between tworounds ofreplication progressively reduces inhibitor concentration, therefore increasing the probability ofinitiation. A mechanism ofthis typehasbeen demonstrated tocontrol thereplication ofseveral bacterial plasmids, e.g.,ColElandRi(10,12,18). Pritchard's (17) modelalso proposesthatinplasmids abletoproduce integrative suppression, their repressorshould bediluted further thanthechromosomal repressor.Consequently, theseplasmids, whenintegrated indnaA+strains, arepassively replicated as partofthechromosome, withinitiation atthe plasmid site being cancelled. Incontrast, strains lacking the dnaAproduct cancarryoutinitiation attheplasmid site but ata higher cell mass.Totestthishypothesis, we measured thecell mass tochromosome origin ratio atinitiation of replication, theso-called initiation mass (Mi)(7,16)ina dnaAE.coli strain which was suppressed bytheinsertion of theFplasmid into thechromosome. Mivalues arecompared inthisstrain underconditions inwhichreplication iscon


ideas or about vast impersonal forces. What's more, it's about people who face dilemmas and make choices, people who may be caught up in large tides of change, but are still able to swim, to shape the lives they lead, and to take responsibility for them: in the modern phrase, people who have agency. This deceptively simple principle translates into some demonstrably successful teaching techniques: Slavery taught not simply as a moral outrage, but as the life story of Olauda Equiano or Frederick Douglass; the Civil War taught This content downloaded from 184.108.40.206 on Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:10:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 466 REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY / JUNE 1998 not as an irrepressible conflict but as an agony of decisions by men like Webster and Calhoun and Stephen Douglass and Lee and of course Lincoln; the Great Depression not as a gray economic catastrophe recorded in inert tables of statistics, but as Russell Baker's childhood, or Lorena Hickock's or Walker Evans's and James Agee's journeys of discovery through 1930s America; World War II not as a numbing list of battles and confusing diplomatic dances, but as a test of wills between Hitler and Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin; the civil rights movement not as the inexorable triumph of justice, but as the perilous adventure of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the still more dangerous paths taken by the ordinary folk who followed his lead. Or the situation of women in the early-twentieth-century United States, taught not as a recital of finely-parsed theories of gender differences and oppressive laws and customs, but as the mundane yet richly instructive story of the events that ensued when a customer appeared in the Grand Laundry in Portland, Oregon, on the evening of September 4, 1905, deposited a load of soiled clothing on the counter, and politely asked the establishment's foreman, Mr. Joe Haselbock, if he might have his finished laundry back by the next morning. Now, since I am discussing characters and characterization, I should forewarn you that, as it happens, both the customer and Mr. Haselbock, though they appear in this first scene and put in motion the plot line that will carry my story through to its conclusion, figure scarcely at all in the rest of this narrative. That observation leads me, in a roundabout manner, to the matter of


and The aim of this study was to determine if raw, marinated without heat, partially cooked with heat and fully cooked with heat seafood represent potential risk factors for Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio carchariae, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio cincinnatiensis, Vibrio damsela, Vibrio fluvialis, Vibrio furnissii, Vibrio hollisae, Vibrio metschnikovii, Vibrio mimicus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus species in the development of enteral and other secondary diseases. We obtained a list of 38 establishments specializing in the sale of seafood for human with heat seafood represent potential risk factors for the development of enteral diseases and other secundary.


1. Apparatus for folding an article having first and second portions, comprising: a receiving roller having a drive unit for rotating the receiving roller with a variable surface speed in the first rotational direction and configured to selectively retain on itself the first and second parts of the article, the folding roller, having a drive unit for rotation of the folding roller with a variable surface speed in the second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction, wherein the folding roller is made with the possibility of ozhnostyu selectively hold himself on the first part of the article iostsilliruyuschy component configured to transfer a first portion of the article from the receiving roller to the folding roller and having a drive unit for moving an oscillating component with a variable surface speed of both the first and second napravleniyah.2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiving roller and oscillating components form a first gap, wherein the oscillatory component is configured to receive a first portion of the article from the receiving roller in the first nip at roughly the same surface speeds of the oscillating component and receiving valika.3. Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the folding roller and the oscillating component to form a second gap, wherein the oscillatory component is configured to transfer a first part of the article on the folding roller at the second nip at roughly the same surface speeds of the folding roller and the oscillating komponenta.4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first direction corresponds to a counterclockwise direction and the second direction -


Objective To analyse the risk factors of neonatal infection and implement prevention and control measures in nursing.Methods By orderly surveillance,we statistic and analyse neonatal infection factors in neonatal unit within 4 years,ruling out false positives and false negatives.Results From 2007 to 2010,we treated 4785 newborns,207 cases of neonatal infection.Through effective nursing measures,neonatal infection rate fell down from 4.2% in 2007 to 2.1% in 2010,there were statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion The incidence of neonatal infection was closely related to layout process,ward environment,health care and variety of invasive operations in neonatal ward.We can control the incidence by optimizing the layout of the process,strengthening the disinfection,good control of invasive operations,strict aseptic operations,strengthening hand hygiene and etc.


This essay consider several themes related to public gatherings that require more attention by archaeologists. These are (1) the relations between elites and non-elites in public events, (2) what public gatherings indicate about the societies sponsoring them, (3) the social pluralism of public encounters and their wider context and meaning, and (4) some material correlates of public gatherings. Also considered briefly are some theoretical and methodological issues in Andean ethnography and ethnohistory that have relevance to public gatherings and their analogical value in archaeology. Examples from Peru and Chile are employed to demonstrate several points.


Ridefinite Quasi-linear come Composition-linear Weak affine light typing ( WALT) assigns light affine linear formulae as types to a subset of λ-terms in System F. WALT is poly-time sound: if a λ-term M has type in WALT, M can be evaluated with a polynomial cost in the dimension of the derivation that gives it a type. In particul ar, the evaluation can proceed under any strategy of a rewriting relation, obtained as a mix of both call-by-name/call-by-value β-reductions. WALT is poly-time complete since it can represent any poly-time Turing machine. WALT weakens, namely generalizes, the notion of stratification of deductions common to some Light Systems — we call as such those logical systems, derived from Linear logic, to characterize FP, the set of Polynomial functions — . A weaker stratification a llows to define a compositional embedding of the Quasi-linear fragment QlSRN of Safe recursion on notation (SRN) into WALT. QlSRN is SRN, which is a recursive-theoretical system characterizing FP, where only the composition scheme is restricted to linear safe variables. So, the expressivity of WALT is stronger, as compared to the known Light Systems. In particular, using the types, the embedding puts in evidence the stratification of normal and safe argume nts hidden in QlSRN: the less an argument is impredicative, the deeper, in a formal, proof-theoretical sense, gets its representation in WALT.


Aims & rationale/Objectives : The main objectives of this project were to: - conduct an audit of research skills and experience of primary health care staff in nine south western Victorian not-for-profit agencies - identify capacity for research in five pre-identified areas - investigate unpublished research endeavours/innovative projects taking place in the linked community organisations. Methods : A 9-item survey was developed and will be distributed to all primary health care staff at the nine agencies via the internal email system of each organisation. The survey was developed after consultation with several agency directors, to obtain an organisational perspective on research capacity issues. Staff were also invited to take part in informal focus groups exploring key themes. Principal findings : This study is in progress, and is expected to be completed at the end of March, 2007. Expected findings are the identification of primary health care staff's capacity for research, and discussion of relevant organisational assistance which would develop their research skills or enable continued participation in research. Discussion : Phase 2 of the Australian PHC Research, Evaluation and Development Strategy aims to support the development and expansion of the primary health care research workforce. Findings from the current study will support this goal by assisting rural primary health care workers to identify the training and support they need to undertake quality research. The data could also be used to: a) assist the consortium to identify common research interests; b) to inform the consortium regarding the potential for collective research efforts; and c) to support funding submissions from the consortium or from individual agencies. Implications : These findings will help to inform improved strategic planning in relation to building research capacity. The data could also be used by participating agencies to support applications for research grant funding. Presentation type : Poster Session theme : Building research capacity


We measure the mean lifetime and speed of cosmic ray muons at sea level using coincidence techniques with scintillation detectors. We find the mean speed v of muons traveling near normal to earth's surface to be 29.8 ± 2.5 cm/ns, corresponding to βμ = 0.994 ± 0.08 and γμ of 9.14. Our result is in agreement with the accepted average speed of vμ, which is listed as between 0.994 or 0.998 depending on the source [6]. Additionally, we find the mean lifetime of cosmic ray muons to be ultimately 2.19 ± 0.01 μs, in agreement with prior experiments that have found the value to be 2.197 μs [2]. We find that classical physics is unable to explain our results and that the travel of muons through the Earth's atmosphere can only be sufficiently understood within the framework of Special Relativity.


Women's economic empowerment (WEE) can be defined as the process of change that gives women (i) access to and control over resources and markets; (ii) increased agency and choice and; (iii) the capacity to improve and control specific outcomes or achievements (such as enhanced well-being and dignity and improved economic opportunities); and (iv) the ability to influence the wider policy, regulatory and institutional environment (WIEGO, 2016). Improving women's labor force participation has long been seen as key to WEE. However, the vast majority of the world's women, including in the Indian Ocean region, face significant challenges in entering the labor market, and if they succeed in doing so, are likely to work in low-paid jobs with little access to social protections. Hence, increased labor force participation may not necessarily lead to substantive poverty reduction but may, indeed, entrench poverty (UNIFEM, 2005, p. 19). This paper argues thatWEE should beplacedhighon the agenda of the IndianOcean Rim Association (IORA), with a focus on improving the conditions of women's labor force participation to achieve gender equality in work, which can be defined as the 'ability of women to find employment and be compensated fairly for it, share unpaid care work equitably, have the skills and opportunity to perform higher-productivity jobs, and occupy leadership positions' (McKinsey Global Institute, 2015, p. 42). A significant hurdle in building a common agenda for IORA is the socio-economic diversity of countries in the region. All countries of the region, however, face significant challenges in the area of women's labor force participation. Themajority of femaleworkers in the IndianOcean region, in bothdeveloped and developing countries, are engaged in precarious work through non-standard forms and self-employment in both the formal (regulated) economy and informal (unregulated) economy. While not all workers in non-standard forms of employment and self-employment face economic insecurity, research shows that the majority of such workers often have diminished or no access to legal and social protections and therefore experience significant economic uncertainty (ILO, 2013, 2016a). Finding ways to overcome these challenges should become not just a focus of consultations between officials and civil society leaders, but a means of facilitating people-to-people links through the sharing of experiences and strategies for securing better social and legal protections for female workers.


BACKGROUND
This study was planned in an attempt to develop a scale for the quality of life in pediatric oncology patients aged 7-12, with child and parents forms.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
In collecting the study data, we used the Child and Parent Information Form, Visual Quality of Life Scale, Scale for Quality of Life Pediatric Oncology Patients Aged 7-12 and the Scale for the Quality of Life in Pediatric Oncology Patients Aged 7-12 for Parents. We also used Pearson correlation analysis, the Cronbach alpha coefficient, factor analysis and ROC analysis for the study data.

RESULTS
In this study, the total Cronbach alpha value of the parent form was 0.96, the total factor load being 0.54-0.90 and the total variance explained was 82.5%. The cutoff point of the parent form was 93 points. The total Cronbach alpha value for the child form was 0.96, with a total factor load of 0.55-0.91 and the total variance being explained was 78.3%. The cutoff point of the child form was 65 points.

CONCLUSIONS
This study suggests that the Scale for Quality of Life in Pediatric Oncology Patients Aged 7-12 Child and Parents Forms are valid and reliable instruments in assessing the quality of life of children.


ABSTRACT We developed previously an emulsion gel adsorbent for improved metal adsorption. This study focuses on a continuous adsorption–desorption process of metal ions from a solution onto emulsion gel beads using the fixed-bed method. The monodisperse millimeter-sized emulsion gel beads, a polymeric hydrogel containing randomly distributed oil microdroplets of di-n-hexylsulfide as an extractant, were prepared using an automatic production method combining sedimentation polymerization and two-fluid atomization. The isotherms and the kinetics for Pd(II) adsorption were investigated. A continuous adsorption–desorption process was successfully demonstrated, and the breakthrough curve was successfully predicted by a mathematical analysis.


Atherosclerotic plaque characterization is an important task in vulnerable atheroma detection and in differentiation between low-risk and high-risk plaques. Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is a powerful technique to analyse histological properties of vessel walls. In plaque characterization process, training data validation is a difficult task because of large variability in tissue labeling by physicians, therefore ground truth precision is ensured by comparing post-mortem (ex-vivo) IVUS data and corresponding histological analysis of the tissue. In this work we propose a framework to extract raw radio frequency (RF) data from an IVUS equipment, to reconstruct IVUS images from RF data, to extract features from both images and data power spectrum to train a classifier for automatic plaque characterization. Classification task is performed by different classifiers, combining separate predictions in an Error Correcting Output Code matrix to infer the final decision. Results are validated and overall accuracy for fibrotic, lipidic and calcified tissue characterization is 91.12%. We also demonstrate that this result can be improved by including data selected from in-vivo IVUS analysis, using Sequential Floating Forward Selection algorithm.


Nowadays, the development of science and technology has been increasing demand for energy. Energy problem has become a bottleneck to restrict the development of international social economy. People pay more and more attention to the development and research of renewable resources. Solar energy is a kind of renewable resource with great potential and no pollution. The commercialized solar cells are mainly silicon solar cells, among which the conversion efficiency of single silicon solar cells is the highest, but the cost of silicon solar cells is high. Therefore, people have been exploring new materials, among which titanium based nano ZnO dye sensitized solar cells have been paid more and more attention by scientists at home and abroad. Based on this, the preparation and performance of nano ZnO dye sensitized solar cells based on titanium are studied. In this paper, the optical anode materials of DSSC are used as the research objects. Three-dimensional ZnO nanoband, one-dimensional graded ZnO nanotube array and one-dimensional sub grade ZnO nanowire array are prepared by anodizing and hydrothermal synthesis. The photovoltaic properties of the three materials are studied. One dimensional graded ZnO, nanotube array films were prepared by two-step hydrothermal synthesis. One dimensional hierarchical ZnO nanowire array is obtained by two-step hydrothermal synthesis. The results show that DSSC is assembled by one-dimensional graded ZnO nanotube array film, and the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 5.1%. Compared with one-dimensional ZnO nanowire array, the efficiency is improved by nearly 90%. The ZnO nanowire of the sub grade is used instead of DSSC The efficiency of photoelectric conversion is only 4% in the photoanode, which is higher than that of the smooth ZnO nanowire photocell.


Solar type III radio bursts often occur for prolonged periods (≳ 1 hour) with small time intervals (≲ 1 minute) between bursts. Such phenomena usually are confined to decametre wavelengths (frequency ≲ 100 MHz) and are called 'type III storms' (e.g. Stewart and Labrum 1972).


The frequency-dependent polarizabilities of a number of halogen-substituted benzene species are computed using ab-initio methods. The polarizability tensors are analyzed for possible additive properties. Simple group or atom additivity trivially fails (the overall polarizability is not a sum of isotropic atom or group polarizabilities). If, however, the separate polarizability tensor elements are studied, they are additive, to quite substantial accuracy, for benzene with F, Cl, Br, and I substituents. This tensorial additive property has important implications for design of controlled refractive index materials, and we present calculated refractive indices utilizing ab initio calculated polarizability tensors.


The remix is pervasive in modern culture. Popularized in contemporary art by early hip-hop, it traces its roots back to both Dadaism and, later, the cut-ups of William S. Burroughs [1]. The basic approach is well understood: Take pre-existing material, then subtract, add, and adjust until something novel and engaging emerges. The remixer becomes a mash-up unto themselves: part sculptor, part curator, part engineer.


Some of the most important cultural icons in the world are oil paintings. Preserving them for future generations requires a fundamental understanding of the long-term chemical, mechanical, and physical behavior of their components. If the properties are understood, modeling and even predicting the effects of exposure to changes in temperature, relative humidity, shock, and vibration are possible.


A comparison of the x-ray diffraction from twisted nylon 66 and poly(ethyleneterephthalate) monofilaments is made with the scatter predicated by a model assuming an affine deformation of the fiber. The x-ray diffraction of the model is characterized by an approximately constant intensity over the entire range of the azimuthal dispersion. With twisted nylon 66 fibers the (010) reflection is split into a bimodal intensity distribution about the equator, while the (100) reflection maintains a distinct maximum on the equator. It is proposed that this difference is due primarily to the fact that a plastic deformation involving rotation of crystal planes occurs more readily when the shear stress acts in [010] direction than in the case when it acts in the [100] direction. A similar behavior is found with poly(ethylene terephthalate) fiber.


This volume of Mediterranee looks at "Water issues in the Eastern Mediterranean". The themes of the Mediterranean and water are often associated and presented as archetypes and as such benefit from a diverse and abundant literature. Often, however, the proposed analyzes focus on the Maghreb countries or specific cases such as, for instance, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Nile, or the Euphrates and the Tigris. Papers looking at the Eastern Mediterranean, with a view to outlining a broad...


Abstract The C/C–SiC composites were fabricated by the liquid silicon infiltration method. The mechanical and tribological properties of C/C–SiC composites were assessed and compared based on different C/C densities and the carbon fiber textile architecture. The results demonstrated that the bending and shear strengths of C/C–SiC were lower than those of C/C composites, which resulted from the carbon fibers being corroded during the process of infiltration of liquid silicon. In contrast to C/C composites, the compressive strength of C/C–SiC exhibited higher values due to the presence of SiC ceramics. Moreover, the mechanical strength of C/C composites increased gradually with the increase of the C/C preform density. The tribological properties of various C/C–SiC composites showed a stable friction phase at an intermediate braking stage. When the density of C/C preforms was around 1.78 g/cm3, the C/C–SiC composites exhibited excellent friction coefficients (0.438 and 0.465), and low wear rates (linear and weight wear rates were 0.450 µm/time and 0.123 g/cycle, respectively). Furthermore, the C/C–SiC composites fabricated with non-woven carbon fiber needling preforms showed relatively a higher friction value and wear rate than those of C/C–SiC with PANOF integral C/C preforms. Therefore, C/C–SiC composites have been considered promising friction materials for braking system applications.


The prevailing trend among members of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM of SA) is to interpret the Bible in a biblicist and literalist way, which conflicts with how early Pentecostals read the Bible. Empirical research completed in 2020 supports the observation. In contrast, early Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation of meeting God. Their precritical, canonical, and text-centered interpretation focused on the text inductively before they deductively compared it with related texts in a straightforward manner to formulate their teaching. The new generation of Pentecostals applied conservative Evangelical hermeneutics to focus on the world behind the text, using the historical-grammatical method to arrive objectively at the author's intended meaning. It was rooted in the Scottish Common-Sense school of philosophy in a synthesis with the Baconian method. Their new hermeneutic was based on a theory of inspiration that accepted that divine revelation terminated at the end of the first century, resulting in a discrepancy that conflicts with Pentecostals' expectation for extrabiblical revelations, miracles, and wonders to continue. The article aims to suggest an alternative hermeneutical approach that can constructively address the discrepancy, based on the recently developed scholarly hermeneutic that employs post-critical and postmodern approaches such as literary, reader-response, and advocacy hermeneutics. It utilizes quantitative research and a comparative literature study to realize the aim.


The factors and analytic approach for the selection of sewage drainage system were introduced. Combined with the actual engineering cases, the selection method of the sewage drainage system in mountainous cities with multiple drainage basins was analyzed, and the centralization or decentralization of the sewage drainage system was discussed especially. It is pointed that when installing the sewa-ge drainage system, full consideration should be given to the effects of these factors such as scale-economy, network investment and construction difficulty, convenience of reuse of the effluent, and sequence of city construction. It is consistent with the actual condition that the appropriate decentralized sewage treatment system is selected in the multiple drainage basins with complicated terrain.


A profile describes a set of properties, e.g. a set of skills a person may have, a set of skills required for a particular job, or a set of abilities a football player may have with respect to a particular team strategy. Profile matching aims to determine how well a given profile fits to a requested profile and vice versa. The approach taken in this article is grounded in a matching theory that uses filters in lattices to represent profiles, and matching values in the interval [0,1]: the higher the matching value the better is the fit. Such lattices can be derived from knowledge bases to represent the knowledge about profiles. An interesting question is, how human expertise concerning the matching can be exploited to obtain most accurate matchings. It will be shown that if a set of filters together with matching values by some human expert is given, then under some mild plausibility assumptions a matching measure can be determined such that the computed matching values preserve the relevant rankings given by the expert. A second question concerns the efficient querying of databases of profile instances. For matching queries that result in a ranked list of profile instances matching a given one it will be shown how corresponding top-k queries can be evaluated on grounds of pre-computed matching values. In addition, it will be shown how the matching queries can be exploited for gap queries that determine how profile instances need to be extended in order to improve in the rankings (Martinez-Gil et al., 2018).


In digital publishing, a low-resolution image is highly undesirable. Inexperienced users often try to include lowresolution images from the Internet or digital cameras in documents they are composing. Current preflight tools are able to single them out, but what if those low-resolution images have been interpolated? They may have a sufficient resolution, but their quality has been compromised, especially images interpolated by nearest-neighbor (which includes pixel replication) and bilinear interpolation. The interpolated images often display blocky artifacts, blurry artifacts, or loss of texture. In this paper, we outline novel nearest-neighbor and bilinear interpolation detection algorithms that are designed to estimate rational resampling factors (above 1×) in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions. The robustness of these algorithms to several common post-processing algorithms is also evaluated.


The potential for bacteriophages—viruses that target and kill specific bacteria—as a way to defeat antibiotic resistant infections took a leap forward last week when researchers reported significant recovery in the first patient to be treated with phages for a mycobacterial infection.1

You could say so. Phages were first explored more than a century ago, but were ditched in favour of antibiotics. Their resurgence is a response to the shrinking ammunition against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Over the past two years, phages successfully treated a patient with a multidrug resistant …


This paper puts forward three basic foctors which decide the innovative capability: desire to innovate, scientific quality and imaginative ability and gives the fundamental definitions of them. Based on these factors, the problem of how to cultivate college students′ innovative capability has been discussed. It is pointed out that the cultivation of innovative capability is throughout the whole education procedure, which is mainly reflected in the management of students′ affairs, teaching and the extracurricular activities. While the cultivation of innovative capability is emphasized, the overall negation of the traditional education and the one sidedness in the cultivation of innovative capability should be avoided.


Big data has become an enormous asset for on-demand content distribution services, helping information supply and decision- making, regarding both the content of the database and suscribers to the database. In this article we describe and define big data and data management in a media company devoted to on-demand audiovisual content distribution: Netflix . This article suggests that big data is a prime strategy in media business and outlines the upcoming challenges that follow its global expansion.


This paper develops a cost-benefit approach that helps to quantify the optimal level of international reserves in low-income countries, focusing on the role of reserves in preventing and mitigating absorption drops triggered by large external shocks. The approach is applied to a sample of 49 LICs over the period 1980-2008 to yield estimates of the likelihood and severity of a crisis. The calibration results suggest that the standard metric of three months of imports is inadequate for countries with fixed exchange rate regimes. The results also highlight the role of overall policy frameworks and availability of Fund-support in determining optimal reserve levels, raising questions about the uniform applicability of standard rules of thumb across countries.


Good biocompatible fluorescent gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) stabilized by cysteine with blue-green emission were first synthesized through a core etching process. The as-prepared clusters were found to be useful as label-free fluorescent sensors for the detection of the biologically important molecules pyrophosphate (PPi) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP). The approach was based on the competition between cysteine and PPi for coordination of Cu2+. The fluorescence of Au NCs could be quenched by Cu2+. PPi could recover the Cu2+-quenched Au NCs fluorescence selectively, and in this way PPi could be detected (with a detection limit of 2 μM). Upon addition of ALP, PPi was hydrolyzed and Cu2+ was released, which re-quenched the recovered fluorescence. As a result, an assay for ALP activity was established (allowing detection of 0.1 mU mL−1 of ALP). The strategy employed here offers a new way to construct novel nanomaterial-based biosensors.


Incasesofheadinjury withmorethanafewhours' survival, microscopic examination ofthebrain may reveal lesions whicharenotapparent onnaked-eye inspection. Inthefirst place, anoxic cell changes are frequently seenincaseswheretheinjury hasbeen complicated by respiratory troubles. Secondly, there arediffuse microscopic lesions attributable toaccelerations within thebrainsubstance atthe timeofinjury. These maybeintheformofmultiple capillary haemorrhages-which tothenakedeye areoften indistinguishable fromthenormal vascular markings ofa congested brain-or intheformof microscopic disruptions ofnervoustissue, without haemorrhage. Itisthepurposeofthis paperto showthattheuseofa simple silver impregnation enables onetopickoutthese tinylesions withthe scanning powerofthemicroscope. Itissuggested that astudy ofthesites, numbers anddistribution ofthese lesions mightthrowuseful light on the mechanisms ofacceleration injuries tothebrain. METHODS Thebrains fromcases ofheadinjury areexamined after twotofourweeks' fixation in10%neutralized formalin. Theyaresliced, andthenaked-eye lesionscontusions, lacerations, haemorrhages, softenings, internal tears, herniations, etc.-are noted. Inmost cases, blocks aretakenforhistology, themainpoints ofinterest being: 1.Thepresence orabsence of'anoxic' cell changes, andofareas ofacute infarction whicharenotrecognized bypalpation ornaked-eye inspection; 2.The presence or absenceof diffuse capillary haemorrhages, indistinguishable bynakedeyefrom


Predicting when to carry or when not to carry is like trying to predict the future. If wecould predict the future, we would know when bad things were going to happen andintervene. Our inability to predict such leaves us with the next best option – always beingprepared. Officers are armed because the nature of their job has proven to be not onlydangerous but also deadly. As we rang in the New Year, we ended 2012 with the loss of126 officers (ODMP.org, 2012).


Abstract Existing systems for the control of mould level of continuous steel casting in Czech Steelworks have had problems with the stability of the steel level position. A new control algorithm is designed on the basis of mathematical modelling and digital simulation. This should better satisfy the actual demand on the control quality. A PI controller with a variable gain and dither signal was used. During several months of practical tests and the experimental tuning of the controller, parameters were determined regarding the required shape time diagram of the steel level for all types of steels, resulting in very good slab surface quality.


Through the example of Bernhard Epassi, a teenager from Cameroon hired to perform in the 1896 "First German Colonial Exhibition" in Berlin, this article examines the ambiguous and tenuous positions occupied by blacks in turn-of-the-century Germany. It traces the ways the exhibition both reinforced and undermined colonialist visions of Germany's place in the wider world and also examines Epassi's ultimately unsuccessful efforts to secure a place for himself in German society.


In the present study, the running movements of Tyson Gay (9.85 seconds) and Asafa Powell (9.96 seconds) who finished first and third, respectively, in the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics were analyzed. Their data were compared to past data (Ito et al., 1998) in order to determine the characteristics of both sprinters. Maximal sprint running velocity was 11.85 m/s for Gay and 11.88 m/s for Powell. For Gay and Powell, step frequency was 4.90 and 4.96 steps/s, respectively, and step length was 2.42 and 2.40 m, respectively. According to Ito et al. (1998), sprint running velocity is not related to maximum thigh angle "high knee", but the faster the sprint running velocity, the greater the minimum knee angle. The maximum thigh angle for Gay and Powell was comparable at 65° and 70°, and the minimum knee angle for Gay and Powell was 41° and 38°, respectively, and these numbers were similar to the data obtained by Ito et al. (1998). The horizontal distance from the toe at the point of landing to the center of gravity for the two sprinters was 0.31 m, and this number is comparable to that for sprinters who run 100 meters in 11 seconds (Fukuda and Ito, 2004). Therefore, it is not necessarily good to land immediately underneath the center of gravity when landing. In support leg movements, an interesting finding was seen with maximum knee extension velocity for Gay and Powell. During landing, the knee joint of both sprinters always remained bent, and when acceleration force was expressed during the later half of the support phase, the extension velocity had a negative value: -50 degrees/s for Gay and -68 degrees/s for Powell. Training guidance that attempts to increase sprint running velocity by reducing the deceleration associated with landing must be reexamined because the landing distance for Gay and Powell is comparable to that of sprinters who run 100 m in 11 seconds. What is important here is that Gay and Powell continue to bend the knee of the support leg during the support phase, and training guidance that instructs sprinters to actively extend the knee and ankle joints of the support leg must be reevaluated.


Women with high sociosexual orientation inventory (SOI) scores may trade signs of willingness to invest for signs of ability to invest, instead of, or in addition to, genetic benefits. The target person's status traits affect women's judgments of sexual/physical attractiveness more than men's. An objective measure of a physical trait such as FA is therefore crucial in untangling the factors affecting women's judgments of attractiveness.


Naltrexone microspheres for injection were prepared using poly(lactic-co-glycolide) as carrier. The in vitro release, in vivo pharmacodynamics in mice and pharmacokinetics in rabbits were evaluated. The results showed that the in vitro release of the preparations and the in vivo release in rabbits as well as the antagonistic effects on morphine in mice could maintain for 30d.


This master thesis deals with the professional competence and continuing education of pedagogues in leisure centre. The theoretical part deals with the concepts of the compe-tence and education and there is characteristics of this leisure centre. In the practical part is given qualitative research that explores with the method of open coding recorded interviews with pedagoues. In conclusion, the plan for continuing educa-tion is presented.


Simple Summary The bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus, is a widely distributed species found in all oceans, even if irregularly, inhabiting continental shelves and slopes, islands, and mid-ocean ridges in deep seas. The species is currently classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as globally near-threatened, with a decreasing population. Despite some records in Brazil, the known distribution of this species in the Southwestern Atlantic is very patchy and, in some cases, not yet recorded in the world reference literature, such as in northeastern Brazil. This study, therefore, highlights new records for the species in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic, particularly off the northeastern Brazilian coast. This information is paramount to establishing distribution maps for the species employed in a population status assessment by the IUCN. Abstract The bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus, is a widely distributed demersal species found in tropical and temperate waters of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, inhabiting continental shelves and slopes, islands, and mid-ocean ridges at depths ranging from 200 to 1100 m. In the Southwestern Atlantic, this species has been recorded from northeastern to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Despite this, the known distribution of this species in the Southwestern Atlantic is very patchy and, in some cases, still mostly ignored in the literature, such as in northeastern Brazil. This study, therefore, aimed to report 23 new records of Hexanchus griseus in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic and highlight the presence of this species off the northeastern Brazilian coast. So far, Hexanchus griseus was officially reported from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, and the state of Ceará along the northeast coast of Brazil. Herein, the known distribution is extended to the continental shelf breaks and upper slopes of other Brazilian states, reinforcing the previously reported occurrence of the species near the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago.


Biological cells contain large numbers of active proteins that repeatedly change their conformations and need a supply of ATP or other substrates to maintain their cyclic operation. Whereas these protein machines have a variety of specific functions, acting as motors, ion pumps, or enzymes, they also induce fluctuating hydrodynamic flows in the cytoplasm. Because such fluctuating flows are nonthermal, energy can be extracted from them and work can be performed. We show that these flows can substantially enhance diffusive motions of passive particles. Furthermore, when gradients in concentrations of active proteins or substrate (ATP) are present, a chemotaxis-like drift should take place. Such nonequilibrium effects are universal: They hold for all passive particles and also for the protein machines themselves. (See pp. E3639–E3644.)


1 The fate of (15S)‐15‐methyl prostaglandin E2 methyl ester and 16,16‐dimethyl prostaglandin E2 in the pulmonary circulation of rat isolated lungs was compared with that of prostaglandin E2 by means of bioassay. 2 Calculated on the basis of height of response of the assay tissues, the inactivation of prostaglandin E2 was 96 ± 1%, of 15‐methyl prostaglandin E2 methyl ester, 53 ± 6% and of 16,16‐dimethyl prostaglandin E2, 50 ± 4%. 3 Responses of the hamster stomach strip to the prostaglandin E2 analogues passing through the pulmonary circulation were prolonged and slower in onset than those to the analogue given directly to the tissue. No such difference was observed with prostaglandin E2. 4 Bromocresol green, bromothymol blue, bromocresol purple and thymol blue (10−5 M) all inhibited the inactivation of the three prostaglandins studied, as did diphloretin phosphate (1.5 × 10−6 M). All five inhibitors also reversed the shape change in response seen after transpulmonary injection of 16‐16‐dimethyl prostaglandin E2. 5 We conclude that the inactivation of the methyl analogues is due to uptake, as they are not substrates for prostaglandin dehydrogenase. 6 The lung may act as a depot for some compounds taking them up from the pulmonary vessels and later releasing them slowly into the systemic circulation.


The unique mosaic of ecosystems of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, comprising an extensive network of channels, shallow pools and hundreds of lakes, combined with marshes, reed-beds, lagoons, islands and floodplains, form a valuable natural area, sheltering a high biodiversity. One of the main drivers of the functionality of these ecosystems is the climate change, affecting especially the shallow lakes, where increasing temperatures and the reduced precipitation level, particularly in summer, affect the hydrology and chemistry of these lakes, inducing cascading effects at ecosystem level. Due to the very low precipitation ratio in the area, these ecosystems rely almost entirely on the discharge and water quality of the Danube River, who recorded a declining trend in the last decades, accelerating the changes occurred at lakes level. This study aims to present some of the changes driven by climate change in selected shallow lakes and recommend measures to increase their resilience to cope with this impact.


Magnetic field and temperature dependent electronic transport measurements have been carried out on Bi2SeTe2 topological insulator single crystals. The measurements reveal an insulating behavior and the carriers were found to be electrons (n-type) from Hall measurement. Magneto-resistance (MR) measurements in the field range (B) of 15 T to -15 T carried out at 4.2 K showed a cusp like weak anti-localization behavior for lower fields (-5T 5T. Upon increasing temperature, MR transforms to linear dependence of B at 40, 50 and 100 K. On further increasing temperatures (> 200K), a parabolic MR is observed. Temperature dependent Hall data also showed a transition from a nonlinear to linear behavior upon increasing temperatures. Disorder induced changes in the electronic transport characteristics of bulk and surface electrons are believed to cause such changes in the magneto-transport behavior of this system.


The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings-made by the great English poet W.H Auden-is a perfect introduction to his work. Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote.


1. A study has been made of the T‐system and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in slow muscle fibres of the frog, Rana temporaria.


The effect of a hard wall on the clustering and continuum percolation of a hard spheres fluid is studied using Monte Carlo simulations and connectedness theory. We calculate an averaged pair-connectedness function ρ†(r;z) which is the probability density of finding two particles in the same cluster and separate by a distance r under the assumption that one of them is fixed at a distance z from the wall. We also obtain the mean size S for the cluster containing the fixed sphere and the critical percolation density ρc at which it becomes macroscopically large. Monte Carlo results allow us to conclude that, for given number density and connectedness distance, the wall causes the decrease of S and the increase of ρc in comparison with those found for the bulk in the absence of the wall. Both effects diminish with increasing z. The simulation data also show that, in the presence of the wall, the clusters are eccentric with cylindrical symmetry, slightly flattened in the region of contact with the wall. The the...


This article describes the challenges in applying the Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP) software development practices, summarising several years of industry experience. The crucial questions are: How applicable are these practices in an enterprise context, and do they show their well-known advantages under today's characteristic business conditions? The assessment takes the project management, enterprise, human, software engineering, and business viewpoint in order to shed light on applicability gaps, and best practices to fill them.


Abstract: We compared habitat use, home range size, movements, and activity during summer between rural (12 animals km-2) and forest (<; 1 animal km-2) white-tailed deer populations, hypothesizing that competition for natural forage at high density would influence deer behaviour. Biomass of preferred forage at forester sites was 6 times greater in the forest than in the rural landscape. Forest deer avoided conifer and mixed stands, whereas rural deer tended to avoid stands of shade-tolerant hardwoods. Rural deer intensified their use of cultivated fields at night and ate a greater variety of native plants than forest conspecifics, including species rarely consumed by forest deer (e.g., ferns). Rural deer used smaller home ranges but moved at a greater rate than forest counterparts. Activity pattern of deer did not differ between the two landscapes, with peaks at dawn and dusk. Our results suggest that rural deer adapted to the rarity of natural forage by exploiting agricultural crops.


INTRODUCTION The Southwestern Basins Province is located in the Rocky Mountain Foreland. It is an irregularly shaped area encompassing about 40,500 sq mi and is a composite of several basins and adjacent uplifts in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah: the Laramie, Shirley, Hanna, Carbon, Great Divide, Washakie, Sand Wash, and Green River Basins. The province is bounded on the north and northeast by the Beartooth, Absaroka, and Wind River Uplifts, and the Sweetwater Arch. The eastern boundary is the Laramie Range and the southern boundary passes through the northern part of the Medicine Bow and Park Range Uplifts along the Wyoming-Colorado State line, the Axial Arch, and the Uinta Uplift. The WyomingUtah-Idaho Thrust Belt forms the western boundary of the province. Total sedimentary rock thicknesses in the individual basins in the province vary greatly. In the Hanna Basin, one of the deepest in the Rocky Mountain region, the total thickness of sedimentary rocks is more than 42,000 ft. In the northern part of the Green River and Washakie Basins the sections are about 32,000 ft. thick In contrast, the thickness of sedimentary rocks in the Laramie and Shirley Basins is less than 13,000 ft. Stratigraphic nomenclature is also variable through the province area.


The globalization has a great contribution to intensify the contact between Indonesian language and English. Many English terms had already been taken in mass media, in this matter especially by the writer of Kompasiana. The data of this research were the sentences containing the English borrowing words in Kompasiana published on March 2010 untill April 2011 especially in Politik and Media rubrics. There were three main problems, which were formulated in this research: (1) what are types of English borrowing words in Politik and Media rubrics? (2) What are the reasons of using English borrowing words according to writers? (3) What are the advantages of English borrowing words according to the reader? The researcher used Haugen's theory in analyzing the forms of English borrowing words into Indonesian which were accumulated into five main points. They were definition of borrowing; types of borrowing which consists of loan word, loan blends and loan shifts; reason for borrowing; Kompasiana which consists of internet and mass media online; and syntactic rules of EYD. In collecting the data, the researcher used documentation method. The researcher used descriptive method to describe and analyzed the English borrowing words. The result of this research paper showed that: (1) There were two forms of English borrowing words in Kompasiana especially in Politik and Media rubrics: loan word and loan shift. Loan word consists of two categories; pure loan word and modified loan word. There were 35(26. 12 %) data that could be classified as pure loan word, which consists of a) the spelling, the pronunciation, and the maintained meaning and b) the data included the pronunciation was changed but the spelling and the meaning were maintained. There were 98 (73, 13%) data that could be classified as modified loan word. They consist of data including the spelling and the pronunciation were changed but the meaning was maintained and data included the spelling was changed but the pronunciation and the meaning were maintained. Loan shift only consists of 1 data. (2) The reason of using English borrowing words could be classified as follow: (a) More popular, (b) fill lexical gap (c) More prestigious (d) Receptivity of recipient language (e) Giving sufficient meaning. The advantage of English borrowing word was aimed to give contribution or educational field that help the readers. Commonly, it solved the difficulties in reading comprehension and gave the new vocabulary.


Ru3(CO)12 and Ru(CO)3(PPh3)2 catalyse the reductive carbonylation of aromatic nitro compounds to the corresponding carbamates with high selectivity in the presence of NEt4+Cl– as co-catalyst.


The problem of discovering association rules between items in a large database of sales transactions has been considered in this paper. A new algorithm has been presented in this paper for solving the particular problem which is fundamentally different from the known algorithms. The empirical evaluation shows that the algorithm outperforms the known algorithms, factors ranging from three for small problems to more than an order of magnitude for large problems. The scale up experiments shows that the algorithm scales linearly with the number of transactions.


An attempt to view the methodological evolution of the studies on the educational potential of the family is made. The original author's conception regarding the investigation into the educational achievements of the family is stated.


Telephone networks normally transmit narrowband (NB) speech with a bandwidth restricted to 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz. While human speech comprises frequencies even further than the NB, there is a degradation of speech quality and intelligibility in such networks. This can be enhanced by recovering the speech components existing beyond the telephone bandwidth using Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) to give a perceptually superior wideband (WB) speech signal. QMF banks utilized as the fundamental mathematical tools to analyze and synthesize speech signals to coding of speech signal in sub-bands. Utilization of QMF's allows evading the aliasing effects due to samples decimation when signal is divide into sub-bands. In this paper, the performance of bandwidth extension (BWE) of speech through QMF was assessed by objective parameters like Log Spectral Distortion (LSD) and Itakura-Saito distance (ISD) and subjective parameters like Mean opinion score (MOS), Absolute Category Rating (ACR), Comparison Category Rating (CCR) and Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) which demonstrates that the recovered WB speech signal provides speech quality compared by original WB speech signal.


At present, Thailand fully steps to the aging society that government private sectors including business units must prepare to seek products and service to satisfy their the needs of elderly consumers. Therefore, information from different countries being in the aging society era is a good guideline in applying to the Thai context. Moreover, marketing tool used to satisfy the needs of elderly consumers is so called marketing mix (4 P's) including product, price, place, and promotion.


This research analyzed Saudi undergraduate students' writing before and after individual face-to-face feedback. The intervention was in the nature of individual written feedback on Saudi EFL students' paragraph writing. The participants were 23 EFL Saudi students exposed to a pre and post-test across six criteria that targeted to evaluate their writing with individual corrective feedback from the teacher. The intervention was one semester long. The study reported that individual corrective feedback plays an important role in developing students' writing skills. Results showed that development occurred in all the six criteria evaluation criteria adapted from Savage and Shafiei (2007), with significant statistical values (Sig. <.05). Furthermore, the criteria were ranked as: inclusion of specific words; inclusion of correct adjectives; writing good conclusion; writing good topic sentence; adding more descriptive details; and the use of background information. The study recommends making use of face-to-face corrective feedback in developing students' abilities in different language skills.


In this work, we report the fabrication and characterization of a 5-tubes nested hollow-core anti-resonant fiber (Nested HC-ARF), which exhibits outstanding optical performance in terms of a record attenuation value of 0.85 dB/km at 2 μm wavelength and excellent modal. The power handling capability of Nested HC-ARF is also firstly demonstrated in this work. The maximum average power of 60.5 W at 2 μm has been transmitted through the fabricated Nested HC-ARF in robustly single-mode fashion without introducing any damage to the input and output fiber end-faces, which represent the highest average power delivered by HCF in this wavelength, to the best of our knowledge.


Dr. Burton has asked how to screen a patient for allergy in the absence of a reliable test. The steps for allergy screening are as follows: 1. Search for a family history of allergy. When there are allergies on both sides of the family an allergic diathesis is very likely. 2. As a new born baby was the patient easy to rear or did it cry excessively, have colic, bring back its feed or show signs of being "difficult"? 3. Did the patient as a child have its tonsils or adenoids removed, were grommets needed? In childhood did the patient have asthma or eczema, recurrent infections, frequent colds, convulsions, tantrums, tummy aches, growing pains, nightmares, bed wetting or any other indication of allergy? 4. Has the patient ever suffered from migraine, catarrh, sinusitis, hay fever, urticaria, mouth ulcers, an irritable bowel or trouble with bright lights? 5. does the patient now have a low energy level, wake tired in the morning, feel sleepy in the day, have problems with sleep such as snoring, and are there any addictions? 6. Where there is no clinical evidence of an allergic diathesis find out what happened immediately prior to the onset of the illness. Look for a poisoning, a viral illness or any incident which could have damaged the immune system and so set the scene for an allergic illness. 7. Where there is a strong suspicion that the patient does have an allergic diathesis then the final test is to put the patient on an elimination diet for two weeks. 8. If the patient then experiences initial withdrawal symptoms followed by amelioration of his original symptoms the screening for allergy is positive.


Diffractive (or binary) optics offers unique capabilities for the development of large-aperture, high-performance, light-weight optical systems. The Geostationary Earth Observatory (GEO) will consist of a variety of instruments to monitor the environmental conditions of the earth and its atmosphere. The aim of this investigation is to analyze the design of the GEO instrument that is being proposed and to identify the areas in which diffractive (or binary) optics technology can make a significant impact in GEO sensor design. Several potential applications where diffractive optics may indeed serve as a key technology for improving the performance and reducing the weight and cost of the GEO sensors have been identified. Applications include the use of diffractive/refractive hybrid lenses for aft-optic imagers, diffractive telescopes for narrowband imaging, subwavelength structured surfaces for anti-reflection and polarization control, and aberration compensation for reflective imaging systems and grating spectrometers.


We found a pathogenic mutation in COL17A1 gene, which codes BPAG2. Using PCR amplification of specific allele(PASA) the result was verified. It showed that the patient had a S265C homozygous mutation in exon 11 of COL17A1 gene. This S265C mutation has not been reported before in GABEB and may be pathogenically related with GABEB. The probands father carried the mutation. The mutation was not found in 50 normal controls by PASA.This result further confirmed that S265C was the pathogenic mutation in this family.


It is widely accepted that trade liberalization enhances economic efficiency and accelerates growth. Nevertheless it faces with the challenges imposed by any intra-regional economic integration to the tax structure. As trade barriers come down and capital mobility increases, the challenges for emerging countries become particularly acute, because taxes on international trade are a large source of revenue and their tax administration capabilities are generally poor. Despite a declining trend over the world, taxes on international trade accounted in 1995 for about 5.5% of GDP in Africa, 3.6% in non-OECD Asian countries and 3.6% in the Middle East (Ebrill et al., 1999). Two different tax policy issues are strictly related to the economic performance of the MEDA countries (henceforth MEDAs): the tax revenue consequences of trade reform due to a reduction in foreign trade taxes and the increasing tax competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). As non-tax barriers decline, investment decisions and location of investment become more tax sensitive. Within free trade areas firms can supply different national markets from a single location. The relevant issue here is the temptation for such countries to broaden the scope of tax incentives to attract and compete for FDI. The main argument in favour of these national policies is that FDI can contribute to increase productivity of the domestic economy, but the effectiveness of tax incentives is highly questionable (Bernardi et al., 2005). Moreover, as noted by Tanzi and Zee (2000), a tax system that is riddled with such incentives will inevitably provide fertile grounds for rent-seeking activities. Recent evidence (OECD, 2001) suggests that tax incentives can have effects on the location of investment, especially between locations that are similar in other respects. However, it is also recognized that neighbouring countries within a region could compete against each others in offering tax incentives in a way that provides benefits to the investor without increasing the total amount of FDI allocated to the region.


W. 0. RICHTER, A. C. SOENNICHSEN, M. M. RITIER, P. SCHWANDT Severe obesity leads to an increased risk for coronary heart disease. Although the relative increase of risk is low (from 1.0 in normal weight subjects to 1.55 in persons with an overweight >40%) in comparison to other diseases (e. g. increase in mortality rate for diabetes mellitus from 1.0 to 7.55 in obese wom en) it has great importance for public health [1]. The factors leading to the in creased risk include a higher frequency of hypertension and other cardiovas cular risk factors. A positive energy balance and especially a high fat intake during weight gain negatively influences serum lipoproteins. But also under a weight maintaining diet distinct'lipoprotein alterations are present in obesity. Characteristic are an increase of serum triglycerides, VLDL-triglycerides and VLDL-cholesterol, and decreased HDL-cholesterol concentrations. Table 1 illustrates these findings in 158 men also indicating that there is no correlation between BMI and total or LDL-cholesterol. In moderate obesity there may be a slight increase of total cholesterol but in severe obesity (BMI >36 kg/m2)


A fast algorithm of color fill between contours based on the topological relation bintree of contours was proposed to achieve the real-time visualization of atmospheric environmental impact assessment(EIA).After closing the non-closed contours,a new topological relation identifying algorithm was presented by combining the Voronoi-based topology judge algorithm for natural closed contour(NCL) and the topology judge approach for boundary closed contour(BCL).Based on this new approach,the topological relation bintree of contours can be well generated for the topological contour filling application.An application in the GIS-based visualization for atmospheric EIA was illustrated.The color filling effect of the atmospheric diffusion contours shows that the proposed method has satisfactory results.


Objective To observe the effect of sinomenine (SIN) on the proliferation and apoptosis of THP-1 cell induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS).Methods THP-1 cells induced by LPS(1 mg/L,2 h) were divided into four groups and cultured with high,middle and low concentration of SIN and control solution for 24 hours,respectively. The cell proliferation was measured by MTT assay. The apoptotic index was detected using flow cytometry with propidium iodide (PI) staining and the apoptotic level was examined under a fluorescent microscope with acridine orange (AO)/ ethidium bromide (EB) staining. Results Compared to that in the control group,the cell proliferation in high and middle concentration of SIN groups was decreased significantly (P 0.01 and P 0.05,respectively). Flow cytometry showed an elevated apoptotic rate in the three different concentrations of SIN groups. Apoptotic changes including nuclear fragmentation and cell membrane injury were observed in cells treated with SIN. Conclusion The therapeutical effect of SIN on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the immunosuppression of SIN are probably activated by inhibiting the proliferation of monocytes and then increasing apoptosis.


IntroductionIn psychological assessment, the speed-power-issue has existed almost since the beginnings of psychological testing. Most intelligence tests have a time-limit, which is often only due to organizational reasons (to make test administration possible for a group of testees, for instance). Apart from this, some intelligence and achievement tests involve speed by scoring. For example, the commonly used Wechsler tests (e.g. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition, WAIS IV; Wechsler, 2008) include subtests that credit quick solutions with bonus points. The desirable advantage of such a scoring procedure is an attainment of information about a testee's ability. The scores of the testees are more differentiated and thus, measurement would take place in a more precise way. Of course, the advantage of such information is only valid if the assumptions underlying the scoring procedure are correct. Particularly, using bonus points assumes that "power" and "speed" are confounded but not separated traits. This means the ability to solve an item and speededness of a testee in finding the solution are assumed to be a manifestation of the same latent trait and reflect only gradual differences in the measured trait. This assumption is to be scrutinized, as there are empirical results that show speed and power are actually separated (Carroll, 1993; Partchev, De Boeck, & Steyer, 2011). Partchev, De Boeck, and Steyer (2011) even remark that the current focus should be on avoiding a mixture between speed and power. However, in practice, scoring procedures combining speed and power do still exist, which makes the application of methods which test the validness of such a scoring procedure important.Nowadays, it is easy to record response times for each item and there are increasing attempts to use these response times not only in psychological but also in educational assessment. Large-scale tests that have been applied for years, are currently going through a transition from paper-based administration to a computer-based one. In the first part of the special topic "Current Methodological Issues in Educational Large-Scale Assessments" by Stadler, Greiff, and Krolak-Schwerdt (2016) in this journal Burger, Krohne, and Goldhammer (2016) give a short overview which of the broad-based international large-scale assessments have already changed their administration mode or are planning to change it in the near future. This transition to a computer-based administration provides the opportunity to record not only the response of the examinee but many other variables including the item-specific response time. Response times provide an additional information about how the testee did work on the test. So far, there are many attempts to use response times to increase the measurement accuracy and to minimize measurement errors in psychological and educational assessment. For example, a variety of studies dealt with the detection of guessing in multiple-choice items by using the response times (DeMars, 2007, 2010; Kong, Wise, & Bhola, 2007; Schnipke, & Scrams, 2007, Wise, Pastor, & Kong, 2009). Weeks, von Davier, and Yamamoto (2016) are using response times to distinguish between missing responses which were skipped and those the testee had tried on which but did not give a response.Another option to use the information of response times in large-scale assessment is to incorporate the response times into scoring; that is analogous to intelligence tests which use some credit points for quick solutions. This approach is thought of as a means of increasing measurement accuracy which is of need especially in large-scale assessments where the number of items is limited due to organizational restrictions.A variety of approaches were introduced for incorporating response times in assessments. Van der Linden (2011) gives a fine overview of actual IRT methods modeling response times. He distinguishes between models that include the distributions of response times without any reference to the quality of the item response, and models that integrate item responses and response times (e. …


The magnetic field distribution of Nb3Sn super-conducting coil is analyzed and obtained when the coil flows the maximum current, the field intensity values of some particular points are given. When the pulse current flows through the super-conducting coil, the large alternate current (AC) loss will appear. Therefore, based on the calculation of the coupling loss time constant for the super-conducting coil, its AC loss are calculated accurately.


Stable isotopes are widely employed to describe energy flow in aquatic communities, though interpretation of results can be confounded by the fact that organisms integrate over vastly different time scales. We used results from a 56-day whole-lake 13C addition and a bioenergetic modeling approach to estimate dorsal muscle carbon turnover rates in a natural setting for three sizes of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), and yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Generally, dynamic δ13C models with a metabolic tissue replacement term were better supported than models predicting isotopic change from growth alone, except when relative growth rates were highest (age 0 bluegill). Across species and size classes, the percentage of carbon change due to tissue replacement was variable (2%–80%) and independent of fish size. The half-life of δ13C in age 0 fishes was similar and ranged from 8 to 18 days. In contrast, adult tissue half-lives were much longer (116–173 days). Based on these...


The conjectured inequality is where n is a positive integer, and The inequality with an extra factor 1/∞ on the right, was proved by Lyons in [2]; but numerical evidence suggested that the extra factor is not necessary. When ∞ = 1 the two sides are equal, by the binomial theorem. The conjecture was proved for with strict inequality, by E.R. Love [1]. The proof established, by means of Legendre's duplications formula for the gamma function, an identity where B denotes the beta function.


We prove several inequalities estimating the distance between volumes of two bodies in terms of the maximal or minimal difference between areas of sections or projections of these bodies. We also provide extensions in which volume is replaced by an arbitrary measure.


Abstract : A network which sorts n numbers when used to sort numbers of only two sizes, 0 and 1, can be regarded as forming the n frontal (unate) symmetric boolean functions of n arguments. When sorting networks are constructed from comparator modules they appear to require: (1) delay time or number of levels of order (log of n to the base 2) squared, (2) size or number of elements of order (log of n to the base 2) squared, and (3) formula length or number of literals of order n (log of n to the base 2). If one permits the use of negations in constructing the corresponding boolean functions, these three measures of complexity can be reduced to the orders of log of n to the base 2, n, and n to the 5th power respectively. The latter network however is incapable of sorting numbers and may be thought of as merely counting the number of inputs which are 1. One may incorporate this network, however, in a larger network which does sort and in time proportional to only log of n to the base 2. (Author)


All open systems that exchange energy with their environment are non‐Hermitian. Thermal emitters are open systems that can benefit from the rich set of physical phenomena enabled by their non‐Hermitian description. Using phase, symmetry, chirality, and topology, thermal radiation from hot surfaces can be unconventionally engineered to generate light with new states. Such thermal emitters are necessary for a wide variety of applications in sensing and energy conversion. Here, a non‐Hermitian selective thermal emitter is experimentally demonstrated, which exhibits passive PT‐symmetry in thermal emission at 700 °C. Furthermore, the effect of internal phase of the oscillator system on far‐field thermal radiation is experimentally demonstrated. The ability to tune the oscillator phase provides new pathways for both engineering and controlling selective thermal emitters for applications in sensing and energy conversion.


This paper presents an efficient 3-dimensional sesimic analysis for a soil-foundation-superstructure system. The dynamic substructure method is used to advantage in formulating the whole system as an integral of the far-field, the near field, the foundation and the superstructure. An axisymmetric modeling is taken for the soil and foundation in order to account for its 3-demensional body with use of the Fourier harmonics expansion for response in the circumferential direction. The interface or the interbody partitioning is applied between foundation and surrounding soils, depending on the type of the foundation concerned. The general 3-dimensional analysis is carried out for the superstructure for its complex geometry. The coupled motion between the soil-foundation system and the superstructure is formulated from the component modes method to attain a drastic reduction of the degrees of freedom for frequency response analysis. Case studies are given as numerical examples.


Dynamic channel allocation is an important part of RRM (radio resource management) in TD-SCDMA systems. It consists of slow DCA and fast DCA. In this paper, the fast DCA in CAC procedure is studied, several algorithms are proposed. The performance of each algorithm is simulated; meanwhile, comparisons and analysis are given


Summary. Lower bounds for the condition numbers of the preconditioned systems are obtained for two-level additive Schwarz preconditioners for both second order and fourth order problems. They show that the known upper bounds are sharp in the case of a small overlap.


The research focuses the attention on the role of Lord Shaftesbury as Patron of the Arts, particulary in relation to the decoration of the kKng's Staircase at Hampton Court Palace, realized by the Italian painter Antonio Verrio during the biennium 1700-1702. The subject matter is a complex allegory taken from "The Satire of the Caesars" written in 361 A.D. by the Emperor Julian The Apostate: in subtance, a celebration of the victory of the protestant William III over the catholic Stuart king, James II, dethroned in 1688, but also -implicity- in such a way as to underline the open contrast between the French Monarchy and his own policy. Hence the need to reconsider a somewhat hastily settled theme like this, often obscured by the most decisive calibre of aesthetic speculation, which has rather interesting implications related both to the contemporary history of European art and to the elaboration of Shaftesbury's theories, so masterfully collected in his "Chasracteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times" (1711); wherein is found a considerable determination not only to understand the contribution made by the Arts in the development of a modern civil consciousness, but also to understand Shaftesbury's opinion on the main artistic "querelles" of his time -like colour vs. design- and the possibility of solving these through the aesthetic and conceptual triad, "art-beauty-truth".


It represents the basic principles of EIB bus system and the basic structure of i-bus control system,analyses the application of the garage of Heyi garden district Tianjin city,sums up the optimum of it,and prospects the applying foreground and develop direction of it in Chinese market.


Machine learning algorithms have become very frequently used in natural language processing, notably sentiment analysis, which helps determine the general feeling carried within a text. Among these algorithms, Support Vector Machines have proven powerful classifiers especially in such a task, when their performance is assessed through accuracy score and f1-score. However, they remain slow in terms of training, thus making exhaustive grid-search experimentations very time-consuming. In this paper, we present an observed pattern in SVM's accuracy, and f1-score approximated with a Lagrange polynomial.


Dielectrophoretic method is widely used in separation and manipulation of micro/nano particles, and the key for realizing the dielectrophoretic manipulation is to design the proper micro electrode arrays to satisfy the required distribution of electric field. Considering the lack of analytical solution of electric filed analysis in the design of electrode arrays, the paper presents an analytical solution based on the Green's theorem. The conceptions and calculation models of conventional dielectrophoresis(cDEP) and travelling wave dielectrophoresis(twDEP) are introduced, and the relationship between the DEP process and the voltage applied on electrodes is also analyzed. After the boundary condition between electrodes is established, the analytical model of non-uniform electric field based on Green's theorem is built and the simulation results under different conditions are derived, and the field distributions so obtained are compared with those calculated by the finite element tool (FEMLAB). The comparison shows the validity of the analytical solution. The solution based on Green's theorem is helpful to improve the pertinence of the design of electrode arrays and shorten the design time.