Abstract The following article frames a particular case study: Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (1960), referenced in the paper with its American title, Breathless. Foraging through the dense and sophisticated thicket of narrative, visual and textual features, the present study will attempt to untangle the overall intrinsic complexity of Godard's film, as it exceeds simple commonalities between genre conventions or traditional stylistic approaches. The abrasive dialectical opposition that Breathless enacts against classical storytelling is indeed central to the specific cluster that can be examined under the labels of "experimental cinema", "auteur cinema", "art cinema", predicated on Godard's abundant departures from cinematic (mainstream) norms. The methodology adopted in the article will encompass both a cultural studies approach and the visual strategies of textual analysis from the perspective of film studies. This will spur a close examination of Godard's directorial style, paying attention to a rich plethora of technical devices inscribed within salient sequences and offset against the matrix of creative options presented by the French Nouvelle Vague.


Nitrogen ions were implanted in a Co-29 mass%Cr-6 mass%Mo alloy (ASTM F799-95) with reducing the amount of nickel in order to improve the friction-wear properties. The friction-wear properties of unimplanted and nitrogen-ion-implanted Co-Cr-Mo alloys were evaluated using a pin-on-flat-type reciprocating friction tester in air and phosphate-buffered saline, PBS(-), as a quasi-biological environment under applied stress of 3.54 MPa to understand the performance of this alloy for metal-on-metal-type artificial hip joints. As a result, the wear loss in PBS(-) was much smaller than that in air and increased with the increase of applied stress in both air and PBS(-), while the friction coefficient in a steady state during the test was larger in PBS(-) than in air, according to the lubrication behaviors of wear debris and PBS(-). Nitrogen-ion implantation is effective to decrease the friction coefficient in PBS(-) at the sliding interface between mutual Co-Cr-Mo alloys as well as to decrease the wear debris in, PBS(-). Both in air and PBS(-), the surface of a N 2 + -implanted flat specimen was smoother than that of an unimplanted flat specimen. Cobalt phosphate was precipitated as a corrosion product on the pin during the friction-wear test.


We have previously reported on a red light-triggered, singlet oxygen-mediated fluorogenic reaction that is templated in a highly sequence specific fashion by nucleic acids (S. Dutta, A. Fulop, A. Mokhir, Bioconj. Chem. 2013, 24(9), 1533-1542). Up to date it has remained a single templated reaction responsive to non-toxic >650 nm light. However, it is operative only in the presence of relatively high (> 2 nM) concentrations of templates that dramatically limits its applicability in nucleic acid detection. In the current work we established that an inefficient intermolecular electron transfer involved in reduction of the 1,4-endoperoxide intermediate, formed in the rate-limiting reaction step, is responsible for inhibition of the reaction at low reagent concentrations. We suggested the solution of the problem including combination of a cleavable (9-alkoxyanthracene) moiety with a two-electron donating fragment in one molecule that enables the efficient intramolecular electron transfer to the endoperoxide intermediate in the critical reaction step. Due to the intramolecular character of the latter process, it is practically independent upon concentration of the reagents. The reaction based on the improved cleavable moiety was found to be >200-fold more sensitive than the previously reported one. It is fast, sequence specific and compatible with live cells. Accounting for short reactions times (< 30 min), nontoxic trigger (red light), excellent sensitivity and sequence specificity, this is the best reported up to data photochemical templated reaction compatible with live cells.


Based on a co-rational (CR) framework, a 2-noded element formulation of 3D truss was presented, which was used for accurately modeling of suspension bridges with large displacements and rotations. The CR framework could consider the out-plane stiffness by the geometric stiffness, which was applicable to the analysis of 3D cable bridges. Using the co-rational truss united with the energy convergence criteria and the Newton with Line Search Algorithm, the nonlinear behavior of 3D cable structural system was simulated conveniently and accurately. Therefore, the traditional truss elements based on elastic modulus modified method and complex catenary elements were avoided. In order to simulate the hanging of girder and the structural system changing during the construction, the elements' killing and activating methods were realized by the modulus modified methods.


The development level of service industry is an important symbol to measure the modernization progress and overall competitiveness of one country or one region.In recent years,Yantai City has been attaching great importance to the development of service industry and has taken corresponding measures.Service industry in Yantai has gained great development,but compared with that of Jinan and Qingdao,it still has a long way to go,with a lot of problems existing.At present,there are good opportunities for the development of Yantai service industry.Therefore,feasible measures must be adopted to quicken the development of Yantai service industry.


The invention relates to fireworks and crackers producing, storing, transporting process dynamic monitoring system and method. The method is formed by supervising and monitoring center systems. It includes that real time collecting and dynamically displaying safe parameter and video information for the firework and crackers production field, band and transportation vehicle; dynamically display the safe parameter, position information, speed information for the transportation vehicle; classing early-warning, warning, processing for the safe parameter; statistical analysis for corporation safety condition; searching corporation monitoring information and warning processing; when the transportation happens accident, the monitoring server will start corresponding emergency beforehand. The invention can prevent large malignancy accident from happening in firework and crackers producing, storing, and transporting to protect people life and property better.


The article presents data on the study of the effect of foliar treatment with the mineral fertilizer «Idrofloral brand 14-11-22+8CaO» and the growth regulator «Stimoros» on the biometric parameters of pear seedlings with a closed root system in protected soil conditions. The research was conducted in 2018-2020 in the Orenburg branch of the Federal Horticultural Research Center for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery. The objects of research were pear varieties of the summer ripening period Lada and Chizhovskaya. The seedlings were obtained by winter inoculation in the third decade of December. The drugs were used three times: 1st processing in the phase of the 5th present sheet, then 2 times with an interval of 10 days. The studied concentrations of non-root top dressing were determined according to the instructions for them. Biometric observations of seedlings were carried out according to the following parameters: seedling height (cm), number (pcs.) and leaf area (cm2 ). Mathematical processing of experimental data was carried out using the dispersion analysis according to B. A. Dospekhov. As a result of the conducted studies, the positive effect of these drugs on the growth and development of pear plants, different depending on the variety, was revealed. The greatest effectiveness on the Chizhovskaya variety was shown by the use of the mineral fertilizer «Idrofloral brand 14-11-22+8CaO» with a rate of application of 3.75 g/l, which contributed to an increase in the length of vegetative growth by an average of 45.6 %, the number of leaves — by 33.7 %, the foliage of seedlings-by 40.0 % compared to the control, thereby having a positive effect on the processes of formation and development of the leaf apparatus. In the Lada variety, the best results were noted when using the drug «Stimoros» at a dosage of 0.94 ml/l: the growth parameters of seedlings increased by 18.4 %, the number of leaves — by 12.1 %.


The function of performance depended by its work-time was so called time-efficiency function. The time-efficiency function had its very unique characteristic, and also had its general characters. For human beings, time-efficiency function could be divided into 4 types: the lark-type, for those the peak performance appeared in the morning; the owl-type, for those the peak performance appeared in the evening or at night; the sparrow-type, for those they had 2 peak performance times, one appeared in the morning and the other appeared in the afternoon, and there was a clear bottom shape between the two peaks, and the function curve pattern was like a capital letter "M"; the mixed-type, for those they had more than 2 peak performance times in one day, but its every peak performance duration appeared much shorter compared with other 3 types, and their every peak time duration and the phase every peak appeared were generally similar. Following students' individual time-efficiency function to arrange their learning task, their task performance could get its ideal results. The author also developed a procedure to determine the time-efficiency function spatial for memory task. Carried on this procedure, a personal time-efficiency function for memory task could be determined within 7 days.


This study aimed to decompose productivity and efficiency change and also investigated the determinants of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Secondary data for a sample of 38 small-scale sugarcane growers was applied covering the period 2013 to 2016 in the Amatikulu region in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. The results of the Färe-Primont Index revealed technological progress–driven TFP and mix efficiency, technical and scale-efficiency has retracted annual growth in small-scale sugarcane productivity while other components revealed mixed results. The policy-related variables analysed by the Bayesian Averaging Modelling approach revealed the link between the experience and education of the farmer and sustainability investment as sources of TFP growth and further confirms that improving Research and Development (R&D) may increase TFP productivity. The paper concludes that both productivity and efficiency need to be improved without increasing the size of plots as well as increasing extensions visits to the farms.


Taking into consideration the two clustering factors, the mutual distance between clustering objects and the centralizing effects of the higher level objects on the lower, a new clustering method based on minimum cost span tree with control vertexes is proposed. The MST is built based on the power of the clustering objects' mutual distance, and the selecting standard of the splitted edges is controlled by the higher level vertexes. Each splitted edge should be the longest edge under the condition that the two descendant trees must include at least one controlling vertex, and each descendant tree would include one and only one controlling vertex by the end of the algorithm. It has been verified by clustering the data built by ourselves and the earthquake data that this method, with simple input and little intervention, can discover better the true law of data distribution in some cases. To fulfill the needs of data mining, the selecting standard of the controlling vertexes, the 'inconsistent edges' and the efficiency of the algorithm should be improved.


Developmental milestones are anxiously awaited by every parent, particularly in the first year of their child's life. One such milestone is the eruption of their child's first tooth. Natal and neonatal teeth are most commonly a part of deciduous dentition and erupt in the same position as that of deciduous teeth in the arch .natal teeth are those teeth that are present at the time of birth and neonatal teeth are those that erupt within 30 days of life. Clinically, natal teeth are small or normal size, conical or of normal shape. They may reveal an immature appearance with enamel hypoplasia and small root formation. The management of natal and neonatal teeth is largely aimed at their preservation for aesthetics and maintenance of space for eruption of successor tooth. Paediatric dentists should make every effort to educate the parents and the paediatrician on the preferred treatment for the natal teeth. Extraction should be done only by the paediatric dentist to avoid any undue trauma to the underlying tissue. Periodic follow-up by a paediatric dentist to ensure preventive oral health is very essential. Hence, to avoid any further complication, early diagnosis and adequate treatment should be a prime concern in the management of natal and neonatal teeth.


The general firm/trade union bargaining literature is brought to bear on a specific North American sports league model, where talent supply is perfectly inelastic and profit-maximizing clubs receive local (gate) revenue plus an equal share of league broadcasting revenue. Club and player representatives negotiate a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on the levels of local revenue sharing, salary cap, and salary floor. Results characterize the set of efficient bargains and the Nash bargaining solution and show how they are affected by increases in broadcasting market size, focusing on player salaries, competitive balance, the content of CBA documents, and comparisons with laissez-faire.


The evolution regarding Intelligent Systems Development, especially the advances in the field of Deep Learning Networks facilitate the design of complex prediction systems in multiple fields like image recognition or time series prediction spanning over different sectors like manufacturing or service industry. The accuracy achieved in those complex systems comes at the price of total in non-transparency of model results. In order to tackle that research gap we propose a systematic scheme that proposes several methods for interpreting and visualizing deep neural network results. We then characterize the methods and give a comprehensive overview over the current state of the art and provide limitations and further research proposals.


This study describes how scents can be a trigger for the memories about relationships. Scents inhaled do not only awaken a person's thoughts and feelings about the beautiful and fun memories in the past, but can trigger emotions also, especially the emotion of love ending up in miserable way, without power to strengthen it. Change is constant, as well as scent, its existence can always be a trigger of the emotional memories of love that is still tethered. Scents send specific messages of communication. They are associated with attraction and often trigger emotional romantic feelings. What can be triggered by scent or what sort of emotions that can be caused by a particular scent really depends on the experience, memories, and, to some extent, cultural background because every culture has various mapping on scent. Scent is closely linked to perception. In communications, scent is classified as artifactual communication or nonverbal communication. Olfactics or olfactory communication, or the study of scent is very important in a variety of communication situations. Olfactics in communications is to attract people's attention, to complement the flavors and tastes, to recall the events of emotional situations, and to form an image of one self and identity. Scents specifically trigger the memories of romantic feelings and affect a person's feelings. This study analyzed the love relationships experienced by informants who have had romantic relationship for at least one year. The paradigm used in this study is positivism, with descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques are in-depth interview and observation.


A moderate perturbation device assists various population with neurological disorder, elderly and athletes, to strengthen their muscles around ankle and hip to strategically stabilize their balance during a perturbation. Current systems use tilt angle board technology to create a moderate perturbation or a complex design like cable-pulley system. We propose a novel mecanum-assisted caster platform (MACP) that can generate perturbation in multiple directions. The aim of the study is to design and test whether MACP generates moderate perturbation. 10 healthy participants volunteered for this study. KINVENT force-plates were used to collect the ellipsoidal surface area (ESA) and the weight distribution characteristics of the participants. To prove the ability of MACP to generate productive perturbation, a result of different perturbation characteristics of postural instability from the participants was expected while undergoing quiet stance(0.0 m/s2) and perturbation by MACP(0.5 and 1.0 m/s2). The MACP moved in anteroposterior and mediolateral directions. One-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc test were used to find any difference in ESA between three accelerations stages. The weight distribution characteristics between different directions of the platform movement were tested using MANOVA and Thkey's post hoc test. ESA was different for all three stages of acceleration and platform direction. Weight distribution between all three stages of acceleration and platform movement directions was different. However, using a post hoc test that analyzed a single leg performance, the anteroposterior direction had a non-significant (p-value 0.071) difference. The above results suggest that the MACP was able to generate productive perturbation.


On January 30, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the international outbreak of new coronavirus 2019-nCoV (Public Health Emergency of International Concern -PHEIC), as enshrined in the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005). The current pandemic has uncovered our vulnerability and fears turning our lives upside down. We have been forced to a more resourceful approach with a view to contain and limit potential damage. The current events have put significant strain on hospital organisations all over the world.


Costa Rica and Central America, in general, recelty knew epidemic on coffee plant which has an impact on losses of production. The need to qualify and quantify yield losses caused by pests and diseases become urgent. Factors which influence production loss are numerous and their interactions are complex. In the contact of the doctoral research of Rolando Cerda which aimed at assessing coffee plantation yield losses, my objective was to propose statistical methods which permit to explain the influence of production situation on pests and diseases indidence and on yield. A conceptual model was created, to illustrate this link and bring to light factors impacting yield losses of the coffee plant. This study is using data from 69 coffee plots in rural part of the area of Turrialba, Costa Rica where we can find different production situations. A qualitative and quantitative approach was conducted to provide strong understanding of all the relation. A first step was the treatment of data, and creates variables. For the qualitative approach, the use of PLS (Partial Least Squares) approach to select information before clustering was very important. Finally Fisher's exact test and correspondence analysis permit to resume all the interaction between profiles of combination of pests and diseases incidences with typologies such as soil, management, climate, coffee plant production characteristics, etc. It permits to synthesize the impact of production situation on injury profiles, which them self have an impact on yield losses.


The containment capability of mined subterranean caverns for siting nuclear power plants depends on the flow of groundwater through porous media surrounding the cavern. For a simple cylindrical containment cavern, design correlations were developed relating depth of burial to cavern overpressure. Considering 50 psig as the maximum containment overpressure following a postulated loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA), the minimum depth of burial below the groundwater table for a cavern of 50-ft radius is approximately 200 ft. These conditions assure no cavern water flow through the rock to the atmosphere and no cavern contaminant seepage into the groundwater following a postulated LOCA. (auth)


Polarized emission from a quasar is produced by wavelength-independent electron scattering surrounding its accretion disc, and thus avoid the contamination from its host galaxy and reveal the intrinsic emission spectrum of the accretion disc. Ultra-violet (UV) emission from a quasar is normally free from the contamination from its host galaxy. Polarization fraction of the quasar's disc emission can therefore be determined by comparing total UV emission with polarized visible to near-infrared (NIR) emission; and the resulting continuum spectrum from UV to infrared can reveal the theoretically expected Balmer edge absorption feature. We fit the polarized spectra in visible and NIR bands together with the total UV spectra of two type-1 quasars (3C 95, 4C 09.72), to an extended geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disc model. In addition to the standard model, we include the Balmer edge absorption due to co-rotational neutral gas on a narrow annulus of the accretion disc. We find that the extended thin accretion disc model provides adequate description on the continuum spectra of the two quasars from UV to NIR wavelengths. A Monte-Carlo-Markov-Chain fitting to the continuum spectra is able to well constrain the true polarization fraction of the disk emission, which allows the Balmer edge feature to be completely revealed from polarized visible to UV continua. The Balmer edge feature is prominent in both quasars' spectra, and is significantly broadened due to the orbital motion of gas in the accretion disc. The broadening of the Balmer edge feature is therefore related to the quasar's inclination. This work proves the concept of determining quasar's inclination from the Balmer edge feature in their continuum spectra.


We examine the applicability of fuzzy Q-learning to a multi-player non-cooperative repeated game. First, we formulate a transportation problem as a repeated game, where many agents (i.e., many game players) compete with one another at several markets. Each agent is supposed to choose one market for maximizing his own profit obtained by selling his product at that market. It is assumed in our game that the market price of the product is determined by the demand-supply relation at each market. After formulating the repeated game, we explain how Q-learning can be employed by each agent for choosing a market. Then the Q-learning is extended to fuzzy Q-learning for utilizing the information about the previous market prices when each agent chooses a market. The previous price of each market is represented by two fuzzy linguistic values "low" and "high". By computer simulations on a numerical example with 100 agents and five markets, we clearly show that the fuzzy Q-learning can learn effective strategies as fuzzy If-Then rules for choosing a market.


Control over quantum electrodynamics (QED) radiative corrections is critical for precise determination of neutrino oscillation probabilities from observed (anti)neutrino detection rates. It is particularly important to understand any difference between such corrections for different flavors of (anti)neutrinos in charged-current interactions. We provide theoretical foundations for calculating these corrections. Using effective field theory, the corrections are shown to factorize into soft, collinear, and hard functions. The soft and collinear functions contain large logarithms in perturbation theory but are computable from QED. The hard function parametrizes hadronic structure but is free from large logarithms. Using a simple model for the hard function, we investigate the numerical impact of QED corrections in charged-current (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic cross sections and cross-section ratios at GeV energies. We consider the implications of mass singularity theorems that govern the lepton-mass dependence of cross sections for sufficiently inclusive observables and demonstrate the cancellation of leading hadronic and nuclear corrections in phenomenologically relevant observables.


We use the cost-of-carry model to investigate the extent of market efficiency in the EU futures market for carbon dioxide allowances over the period of June 2005 to December 2007. We reject the cost-of-carry hypothesis for the entire data sample, but find some evidence of improvement in market efficiency over the period. Recursive estimates of some cost-of-carry model parameters start approaching their theoretical values when estimated on progressively smaller and more recent sub-samples.


The invention discloses an anti-caking powder coating. The anti-caking powder coating is prepared from, by weight, 30% to 40% of polyester resin, 30% to 40% of curing agents, 0.8% to 1.2% of flatting agents, 0.8% to 25% of pigment, 0% to 30% of inorganic fillers, 0% to 5% of assistants and 0% to 1% of gas-phase aluminum oxide. The mass ratio of the polyester resin to the curing agents is 1:1. Compared with the prior art, the anti-caking powder coating has the advantages that the polyester resin with the high glass transition temperature is prepared, the other raw materials with low influences on the glass transition temperature are used in cooperation, and the prepared powder coating has the high glass transition temperature, so that the powder coating can not be caked in the production process and the storage process, the quality of a film formed after spraying can not be influenced after the coating is stored for a long time, and the problem that the quality of the powder coating is influenced by use of the powder coating in summer and caking during long-distance transporting is solved.


The research is focused on determining the tax fraud ways and analyzing the amount of tax evasion. The authors stress the need to strengthen the fight against tax frauds and tax evasions in the EU overall and in Slovak Republic in particular. For achieving the aim of the paper the systems and mechanisms of tax carrying out control were investigated. The authors analyzed the activities of tax authorities and demonstrated how these bodies can fight with tax fraud and tax evasions. Analyzing the data from the VIAS and the Eurostat systems the tax evasions in the Slovak Republic, in some other EU member states and their share in the total tax duty were compared. Within this part, the authors proposed the system of international tax information exchange of EU member states and the VIES system which will work with information about intercommunity businesses in EU member states and the Eurostat system. The results of cluster analysis showed that within the EU member states, by the estimated volume of tax evasions (in particular, the value-added tax as a significant share of the total taxes duty) Slovakia takes one of the lowest places among the EU member states. Since value-added tax offers the most opportunities to avoid tax duties and provides the biggest room to make tax frauds and connected tax evasions the authors determine the mechanism of the overall tax administration in the Slovak Republic and some EU member states. Increasing the effectiveness of the fight against tax evasions and frauds can be realized by taking the measures of the compulsory establishment of an equal business accounts, the establishment of the registrar of fines of individual taxpayers, an introduction of a unified valueadded tax rate and in some cases the cancellation of VAT and the introduction of a turnover tax.


This article discusses the CSR reporting provision in the Danish Financial Statements Act. Particular attention is paid to the option to report through a Communication of Progress Report submitted to the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, and the background and possible impact of that option.


: Malaria constitutes one of the major health problems in Nigeria. One of the reasons attributed for the upsurge was the development of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum and the emergence of multi-resistant strains of the parasite to anti-malaria drugs. A continued search for other effective, safe and cheap plant-based anti-malaria agents thus becomes imperative in the face of these difficulties. The objective of this study is therefore to evaluate the in vivo anti-malarial efficacy of ethanolic extracts of Chromolaena odorata and Androgaphis paniculata leaves. The two plants were evaluated for their anti-malaria efficacy in vivo in a 4-day curative test assay against Plasmodium berghei strain in mice. The group treated with 500mg/ml dose of ethanolic extract of A. paniculata plant showed parasite suppression with increase in Packed Cell Volume (PCV) value except day 3 which showed a slight decrease in PCV value. During the 4-day curative test, an increase in the PCV values, weight measurement and zero count of Plasmodium berghei parasite values was recorded after day 3 of drug administration. These results obtained in group treated with A. paniculata extract showed anti-malarial efficacy with higher mortality rate in parasitaemia count when compared with Chromolaena odorata group. These results justify the use of ethanolic extracts of A. paniculata plant as medicinal herb used in folklore medicine in the treatment of malaria. ,


The utility model discloses a chair cushion used for correcting sitting posture. The chair cushion comprises a chair cushion body, wherein pressure sensors are respectively installed at the left side and the right side of the chair cushion body, a vibrating motor is installed at one corner of the body, the pressure sensors input collected signals to a singlechip, and the signals are output to the vibrating motor after being processed by the singlechip. When the sitting posture of a person changes, the gravity centre of the human body firstly changes, the pressure sensors dispersively arranged on the chair cushion body detect the pressure error values on the left side and the right side exceed a set range and judge the sitting posture as an unfavorable sitting posture, and then, the singlechip controls the vibrating motor or an alarm loudspeaker to alarm so as to effectively prevent physical diseases and distortions caused by incorrect sitting postures, so that the chair cushion is suitable for most people sitting on chairs to work or study for long time and is particularly suitable for students.


An argon plasma generated between the cone-shaped electrode powered by commercial electronic ballast and grounded plane electrode has been investigated. Since the electronic ballast has positive and negative cycle in a period, two different discharge modes of remote plasma-the normal glow discharge mode and the hollow cathode discharge mode-have been observed. It is noted that the hollow cathode discharge mode has wider operation window in gas pressure than the glow discharge one. The glow discharge started to be extinguished at pressure higher than 4.1 torr and turned to the hollow cathode discharge mode in the holes on ground plate, while the hollow cathode discharge mode kept growing until 10 torr. These results show that the stable operation window of the system could be defined by the glow discharge mode rather than the hollow cathode discharge mode and could be improved by optimizing the applied voltage waveform and electrode configuration.


The new AP CS GridWorld Case Study will be introduced through demonstration, presentation of the narrative and code, a role play involving conference participants, debriefing of the role play, and question and answer period. While the case study is a required part of the AP CS curriculum, it is also of interest to college faculty who may choose to include it in their Java programming courses.


Stanislaus County covers portions of 3 geologic provinces: Coast Ranges, Great Valley, and Sierra Nevada. Each has been exploited for a distinct set of mineral resources, which include sand and gravel, ball and fire clay, placer gold, manganese, chromite, magnesite, mercury, diatomite, building stone, and mineral pigment. Of these, sand and gravel, clay, and diatomite have been the most important commodities produced recently. Sand and gravel, particularly that along the Tuolumne River, is and will continue to be the county's main mineral product; other potentially important areas include alluvial fans along the west side of the Great Valley. Clay and diatomite could resume importance in the future. There is also potential for quartz-rich specialty sands. Although the county is largely rural, it is undergoing one of the highest growth rates in California. Several new residential communities are being proposed in the county, which would have two major effects on mineral resources: (1) large sources of aggregate will be required for construction, and (2) development of residential areas may preclude mining of resources in those areas. Maps of mineral resources produced by this study, will assist decisions on such potential conflicts in land use.


Four Hsp70 genes of the malaria vector Anopheles albimanus were isolated from a genomic DNA library as two non‐overlapping clones each containing a pair of divergently transcribed genes having 75% DNA sequence similarity to the protein‐coding regions of the Drosophila metanogaster Hsp70genes. The clones were assigned to two loci on chromosome 2R by in situ hybridization. These clones hybridize strongly to heat‐shock but only weakly to non‐shocked mosquito RNA. The Hsp70 gene family of A. albimanus is undergoing concerted evolution probably by gene conversion. The general arrangement of the genes suggests that divergently transcribed pairs of genes at two loci is an ancient Dipteran arrangement predating the Nematocera/Cyclorrapha divergence.


The B-cell leukemia/lymphoma-2 gene (Bcl-2) was discovered some 20 years ago through its association with the t(14:18) translocation in follicular lymphoma [1]. With this discovery came the identification of a family of structurally related proteins which function as important regulators of apoptosis [2]. Early on, the inhibitory action of Bcl-2 on apoptosis was hypothesized to be a cause of chemotherapy resistance, a notion supported by clinical studies that showed an inverse correlation between Bcl-2 protein expression and survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) [3,4]. The arrival of rituximab (R) on the therapeutic landscape, however, ushered in a new era of immunochemotherapy and raises the question of whether Bcl-2 is still a biomarker of treatment failure [5]. With this question in mind, Gascoyne et al. [3], Wilson et al. [6] and others [7] retrospectively analyzed 140 cases of DLBCL treated with immunochemotherapy and report their results in this journal. Notably, unlike their historical results with CHOP, they did not find Bcl-2 to be a biomarker of outcome following R-CHOP, a finding similar to reports from the NCI and GELA groups with DA-EPOCH-R and R-CHOP, respectively. Such results raise provocative questions regarding the biological specificity of rituximab and the role of the Bcl-2 in the outcome of DLBCL. It has been long recognized that Bcl-2 is not a simple biomarker in DLBCL. When Gascoyne and colleagues first identified Bcl-2 as a biomarker in DLBCL, it was known that only some cases harbored t(14;18), indicating the presence of other mechanism(s) of Bcl-2 overexpression. Indeed, in their series, t(14;18) translocation was not an adverse factor, suggesting that the pathogenesis of Bcl-2 overexpression and not overexpression itself might drive the adverse prognosis [3]. Our understanding of Bcl-2 pathogenesis and its role as a biomarker in DLBCL has been greatly aided by the recent molecular taxonomy of DLBCL [8 – 10]. Employing gene expression profiling, two DLBCL subtypes based on cell of origin have been identified; the germinal center B-cell (GCB) type, derived from germinal center B-cells, and the activated B-cell (ABC) type, derived from an activated post-germinal center B-cell [8,9]. As shown in the mRNA heat map (Figure 1), Bcl-2 is expressed across both subtypes as well as unclassified cases. In the case of the GCB subtype, Bcl-2 is almost always associated with the t(14;18) translocation, whereas in the ABC subtype, Bcl-2 expression is secondary to amplification and/or NFk-B activation. However, Bcl-2 mRNA and protein expression is significantly higher in the ABC subtype where the constitutive activation of NFk-B is associated with expression of multiple anti-apoptotic genes in addition to Bcl-2 [9,11]. When one also considers the clinical finding that the ABC subtype has a significantly lower survival than the GCB subtype with CHOP based treatment, it suggests that Bcl-2 may be a surrogate for the ABC subtype [9]. If Bcl-2 is functioning as a surrogate biomarker for the ABC subtype, one might expect that other biomarkers of ABC would have adverse prognostic value. It is revealing, therefore, that a recent study by Winter et al. found that Bcl-6 negative compared to Bcl-6 positive DLBCL had a significantly worse outcome with CHOP [12]. Similar to Bcl-2 clinical results, the addition of rituximab (to CHOP) obviated the negative prognostic effect of absent Bcl-6 expression. As shown in the mRNA heat map,


The current efforts on programming grid applications often rely on service-oriented approaches like grid services. This work presents HOC-SA -a service architecture for higher-order components, which provides the programmer with reusable and composable patterns of parallelism and is interoperable with the latest Globus toolkit implementations. We describe our implementation of HOC-SA using OGSA-DAI, a framework for integrating grids with distributed databases. We present a simple example application and report first measurements on our grid testbed.


PURPOSE: To produce a video disc limited in the surface vibration, strain of signal track, uneven thickness and the like by reducing pressing force at a location close to the softening point of a thermoplastic resin. CONSTITUTION: A video disc material 1 made of polyvinyl chloride is inserted between a video disc stamper 2 and a mirror finished stamper 3. Then, a heating steam is passed through stamper cases 4 and 5 to heat the stampers 2 and 3 and the material 1 up to 140W160°C exceeding the softening point thereof and the cases 4 and 5 are pressed under a pressure of 100W150kg/cm 2 . This condition is maintained for some hours. Subsequently, with the suspension of the heating steam, the cooling water flows until the stampers 2 and 3 and the material 1 are cooled down to 70W 85°C close to the Vicat softening point and then, the pressing force is lowered down to about 0.3kg/cm 2 . After the reduction in the pressure, the cooling further proceeds until the pressing force go down to zero under below 45°C of the video disc temperature. The casings 4, 5 are opened to take out the molded video disc. COPYRIGHT: (C)1980,JPO&Japio


Objectives: We aim to assess the influence of COVID-19 on the social needs of emergency department (ED) patients, and assess patients' access to social services. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 175 purposively sampled adult ED patients. Results: Approximately half of participants stated that COVID-19 negatively impacted their social needs with statistically significant differences observed for race, ethnicity, and insurance status. Many participants did not know of available social services, and a majority welcomed assistance from the ED. Conclusion: This study suggests that unmet social needs have risen because of COVID-19, and EDs may be positioned to identify and assist affected patients.


Abstruct-A detailed theoretical and experimental analysis is given of the performance of a self-resonant ultrasonic oscillator under both lossy and reactive loading of the ultrasonic transducer. A simple but useful technique is used to determine the model of the transducer accurately from experimental data. Using this model, the change in the magnitude and phase of the oscillator loop gain is studied under simulated resistive and reactive load conditions. Thus, the necessary design information is acquired to predict power transfer to the load.


A two-dimensional numerical device-simulation system is presented. A novel discretization scheme, called "finite boxes," allows an optimal grid-point allocation and can be applied to nonrectangular devices. The grid is generated automatically according to the specified device geometry. It is adapted automatically during the solution process by equidistributing a weight function which describes the local discretization error. A modified Newton method is used for solving the discretized nonlinear system. To achieve high flexibility the physical parameters can be defined by user-supplied models. This approach requires numerical calculation of parts of the coefficients of the Jacobian. Supplementary algorithms speed up convergence and inhibit the commonly known Newton overshoot. The advantages and computer resource savings of the new method are described by the simulation of a 100-V diode. We also present results for thyristor and GaAs MESFET simulations.


Tachykinin (TAC) signaling is an important element in the central control of reproduction. TAC family is mainly composed of substance P (SP), neurokinin A (NKA) and NKB, which bind preferentially to NK1, NK2 and NK3 receptors, respectively. While most studies have focused on the reproductive functions of NKB/NK3R, and to a lesser extent SP/NK1R, the relevance of NK2R, encoded by Tacr2, remains poorly characterized. Here, we address the physiological roles of NK2R in regulating the reproductive axis by characterizing a novel mouse line with congenital ablation of Tacr2. Activation of NK2R evoked acute LH responses in control mice, similar to those of agonists of NK1R and NK3R. Despite the absence of NK2R, Tacr2-/- mice displayed only partially reduced LH responses to a NK2R agonist, which, nonetheless, were abrogated after blockade of NK3R in Tacr2-/- males. While Tacr2-/- mice displayed normal pubertal timing, LH pulsatility was partially altered in Tacr2-/- females in adulthood, with suppression of basal LH levels, but no changes in the number of LH pulses. In addition, trends for increased breeding intervals were detected in Tacr2-/- mice. However, null animals were fertile, with no changes in estrous cyclicity or sex preference in social behavioral tests. In conclusion, stimulation of NK2R elicited LH responses in mice, while congenital ablation of Tacr2 partially suppressed basal and stimulated LH secretion, with moderate reproductive impact. Our data support a modest, albeit detectable role of NK2R in the control of the gonadotropic axis, with partially overlapping and redundant functions with other tachykinin receptors.


Carbonate sediments, which consist largely of the skeletal remains of microplankton (calcareous nannoplankton, planktonic foraminifers, pteropods and heteropods) cover nearly 47% or 126 million sq km of the ocean floor. Their distribution is particularly dominant in the warm-water belt between approximately 45°N and 45°S and over submarine topographic elevations such as the mid-oceanic ridge systems and isolated seamounts. This distributional pattern is affected both by conditions controlling production of microplankton in the overlying surface waters and by their postmortem dissolution or destruction in the water column, either at the sediment-water surface or within the sediment column. In areas where the dissolution rate of carbonates exceeds supply, a "compe sation condition" is reached and, in general, carbonates are not accumulating in depths greater than 4,000 m. Because of low productivity of calcareous microplankton in surface waters coupled with greater water depth, the lowest sedimentation rates of biogenous carbonates occur under the North and South Pacific central water masses. A general distribution pattern of carbonate sedimentation in the past can be pieced together on the basis of nearly 1,000 pre-Pleistocene piston cores and from the results of the U.S. Deep Sea Drilling Project. A considerable part of the abyssal floor once received calcareous sediment. Carbonate sediments were later replaced by clays as the basin deepened and the dissolution rate exceeded supply. The resulting facies boundary is broadly time-transgressive wit increasing age away from the axes of the mid-oceanic ridge systems. End_of_Article - Last_Page 363------------


A clutch (6) includes an outer ring (7), a drive rotor (8), a driven rotor (10) and rolling elements (11). Each rolling element (11) is provided between an inner peripheral surface (7d) of the ring (7a) and a corresponding control surface (19) of the driven rotor (10) and has a diameter which is smaller than a distance between a circumferential center section (19a) of the control surface ( 19) and the inner peripheral surface (7d) of the ring (7a), but greater than a distance between each of the opposite circumferential end portions (19b, 19c) of the control surface (19) and the peripheral surface (7d) of the ring (7a). The central portion (19a) is disposed radially outwardly with respect to a straight line connecting the end portions (19b, 19c) connects. Each intermediate portion (19d) formed between the center portion (19a) and the end portion (19b, 19c) is disposed is arcuately bulged away from a straight line connecting the center portion (19a) and the end portion (19b, 19c) connects.


This case report presents an 8-year-old girl, from Fars province in Iran, diagnosed with cutaneous leishmaniasis in the form of multiple nodular, ulcerative and crusted lesions disseminated on the face, trunk and extremities. The result of direct smear of ulcers was positive for Leishmania parasite. The patient had no immunodeficiency or relevant family history making her susceptible for disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis. The skin lesions failed to respond to multiple treatment courses of meglumine antimoniate or amphotericin B but were successfully treated with simultaneous miltefosine and liposomal amphotericin B.


The theory of global value chains provides a new research perspective into the production patterns under the background of economic globalization.This paper examines how governance affect upgrading in global value chains and its dynamics based on the research on governance and upgrading respectively.Then the authors study the uncertainty of the upgrading trajectory and results under different internal and external conditions.The authors argue that upgrading will not be realized automatically by just insertion into global value chains.Firms' efforts and supports from government are necessary.


Introduction Moment matrices Positive moment matrices and representing measures Existence of representing measures Extension of flat positive moment matrices Applications Generalizations to several variables References List of symbols.


To provide a vehicle-mounted device can be changed smoothly drive source in-vehicle apparatus with an operation state of the power system, the vehicle-mounted device is provided with a vehicle-mounted device is applied to a power system, the vehicle-mounted device (2) comprising: from a first auxiliary output shaft (23) of the drive shaft (12) to obtain power from the engine (11) of the drive shaft clutch (22) connected to or released from the first auxiliary output shaft, is driven by a first auxiliary output shaft a pump (24) and a pressure device (25) operated by a pump, the vehicle-mounted device with the power system (3) includes a clutch control unit configured to (35), a motor (41) with a first auxiliary shaft connected to the output of the engine rotational speed detection unit (51), an engine control unit for controlling based on the detection value (34), the motor rotational speed detecting section (52), the motor torque detecting unit (53), based on the motor control unit these detection values from controls ( 37) and a basic instruction unit (31) issues a command to the clutch control unit, an engine control unit and a motor control unit (36), respectively.


Abstract The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the meatiness of the Puławska pig carcass and selected physical and chemical parameters of pork offal. The study was conducted on a group of 50 porkers of the native Puławska breed, whose carcasses were classified into five classes: E, U, R, O, and P, covering 10 specimens each. Samples were collected from the tongue, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, and the pH (pH45, pH24), percentage of free water and chemical composition (ash, fat, protein) were determined. To summarise the obtained results, it can be concluded that the increase of the meat content in carcass significantly and primarily affects the reduction of the offal's weight and then the reduction of the pH45 as well as the increase of the free water content primarily in the kidney and the lungs. In the case of chemical composition an increase of the meatiness in the carcass affected the reduction of fat content in the kidneys, lungs, heart and liver. The liver and the heart were the offal with the greatest susceptibility to the effects of the carcass meatiness. In this offal the increase of the carcass meatiness significantly decreased the fat content and energy value, and also increased the ash and protein content. Offal from the studied meatiness classes of the pigs' carcasses was characterised by adequate quality and suitability for processing.


Since the introduction of inking technology, computer science and engineering education has experienced a flurry of new instructional approaches. Many studies have assessed qualitative improvements...


Syndecan‐1 binds basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), modulates neovascularization, plays a role in epithelial differentiation and is up‐regulated by WT1. Malignant mesothelioma of the pleura is one of the most aggressive tumours known and expresses high levels of angiogenic growth factors. This study has analysed syndecan‐1 expression in mesothelioma tumours and cell lines by immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting, using anti‐syndecan‐1 antibody directed against the core protein, and has examined its relation to morphology, bFGF, WT1, and intra‐tumoural microvascular density (IMD). Shedding of syndecan‐1 in the conditioned medium of mesothelioma cell lines was detected in variable amounts. These studies indicate that (1) there is no correlation of syndecan‐1 with either bFGF expression or IMD in mesotheliomas in vivo; (2) syndecan‐1 is strongly expressed in the epithelial type of mesothelioma and in the epithelial component of biphasic mesotheliomas and the expression is reduced or lost in sarcomatoid differentiation; together with the finding that (3) syndecan‐1 correlates with WT1 immuno‐expression, this suggests that syndecan‐1 might relate to the differentiation state of mesothelial/mesothelioma cells; and (4) syndecan‐1‐positive tumours are associated with a longer survival (p =0·02) than mesotheliomas with no or little syndecan‐1 expression, on univariate analysis. These findings therefore indicate that syndecan‐1 can be an important prognostic indicator in mesotheliomas and its loss may be important in the epithelial–mesenchymal transformation of mesothelioma cells. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


e consider the classical problem of broadcasting a large message at an optimal rate in a large scale distributed network. The main novelty of our approach is that we consider that the set of participating nodes can be split into two parts: "green" nodes that stay in the open-Internet and "red" nodes that lie behind firewalls or NATs. Two red nodes cannot communicate directly, but rather need to use a green node as a gateway for transmitting a message. In this context, we are interested in both maximizing the throughput (i.e. the rate at which nodes receive the message) and minimizing the degree at the participating nodes, i.e. the number of TCP connections they must handle simultaneously. We consider both cyclic and a cyclic solutions for the flow graph. In the cyclic case, our main contributions are a closed form formula for the optimal cyclic throughput and the proof that the optimal solution may require arbitrarily large degrees. In the a cyclic case, we propose an algorithm to achieve the optimal throughput with low degree. Then, we prove a worst case ratio between the optimal a cyclic and cyclic throughput and show through simulations that this ratio is on average very close to 1, which makes a cyclic solutions efficient both in terms of throughput and of number of connections.


We report the presence of Synophis lasallei (Nicéforo-María, 1950) in the department of Tolima, Colombia, which represents the first record of this species in the Central Cordillera. In addition, we report a range extension for Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría & Torres-Carvajal, 2016 to the departments of Caldas and Tolima; our new records of this species represent the southernmost documented localities in Colombia.


A 16-week-old, male boxer dog developed multifocal nodular dermatitis followed by rapidly progressive and fatal neuromuscular disease. Protozoal tachyzoites were demonstrated by aspiration and biopsy of dermal lesions. Necropsy and histology revealed necrotising inflammation associated with intralesional protozoal organisms in various organs including the brain, heart, skeletal muscle and skin. Serology suggested active infection with Neospora caninum. Immunohistochemistry provided a definitive diagnosis. Dermatitis is a finding rarely associated with juvenile neosporosis. The possible role of immunosuppression is discussed.


This miniature ultrawideband bandpass filter is formed with a folded three-line microstrip structure and a semicircular defected ground structure for spurious control.


The specific heat of single crystals of potassium baryum nitrite K2Ba(NO2)4 has been measured between 130 K and 435 K. There are two transitions at 208.6 K and 428 K, respectively. The low temperature transition exhibits second order features and the excess specific heat is characterized by critical exponents 03B1 = 03B1' = 0.60 ± 0.03. The high temperature transition occurs a few degrees below the decomposition temperature and so cannot be studied in detail. J. Physique 43 (1982) 337-339 FTVRIER 1982, Classification Physics Abstracts 77.80B 65.40


Chronic hepatitis in the dog encompasses a diverse group of liver diseases characterised by a mixed inflammatory infiltrate within the hepatic parenchyma but with multiple causes. The aetiology is often unknown. Potential causes include hepatic copper accumulation, drugs, infections, and, speculatively, immune-mediated disease. Diagnosis is made based on liver biopsy. Treatment is predominantly supportive, while corticosteroids may be indicated in selected cases with idiopathic chronic hepatitis.


The end of the Cold War produced great hope that the risks and dangers associated with nuclear weapons could be minimized or tamed in a cooperative international environment heavily regulated by arms control. If arsenals could be reduced, nuclear weapons marginalized, destabilizing factors constrained or eliminated, and proliferation prevented in a world increasingly governed by negotiated arms control, the nuclear perils of the Cold War would be left behind. Nearly three decades later, these hopes have been dashed. Instead, relations among the major nuclear powers have grown more contentious, the spread of nuclear weapons to new states has resulted in worrying regional nuclear orders, and technological advances are raising new threats and possibly introducing new instabilities, while arms control is in a state of near total collapse. A new nuclear order, combining traditional concerns with distinctive new dangers, is here. The perils of this new and still evolving nuclear reality must be understood if they are to be safely managed.


Drugs, known as "Magnetic Resonance (MR) Contrast Agents (CA)" are firmly established in current clinical practice. According to recent data, MR CAs are administered in about 25–30% of all MR Imaging(MRI) procedures; it is estimated that in 2005 about 20 million procedures involving injected CAs were performed worldwide. In standard applications, they are administered intravenously with the intent to modify the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)characteristics of tissues. Since the extent of contrast agent impact varies with tissue type, the differential effect of drug action on imaged lesions modifies their appearance on MR images. This phenomenon is used to aid the clinical diagnosis. Physical principles governing the behavior of CAs are discussed first, with emphasis on mechanisms that play a major role in MRI applications. CA's main role is to modify the NMR relaxation properties (longitudinal relaxation time T1, transverse relaxation time T2, or both) of its molecular environment. Since the effect is proportional to CA's concentration in the tissue, the biodistribution of CA has a major impact on the overall efficacy of the drug. Thus, in addition to NMR relaxation processes, fundamentals of compartmental analysis are discussed. The segment is concluded with taxonomy of CAs currently available for clinical use. The second part of the presentation describes clinical applications of MR CAs. Currently, routine applications explore non‐organ targeted relaxation enhancement mechanisms of action. In this method, a bolus of CA is injected intravenously and data collection for MRI begins a few minutes later, after tissue uptake mechanisms have established stationary conditions throughout the patient's body. Abnormalities within organs accumulate higher concentrations of CA, which shortens their T1 relaxation time and makes them appear brighter (relative to their background) on T1‐weighted MR images. However, two major off‐label areas of use have emerged already: contrast‐enhanced MR Angiography (MRA) examinations and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DCE) studies of tissue perfusion. Strengths and weaknesses of these techniques are reviewed. The segment ends up with a discussion of tissue‐specific CAs, such as superparamagnetic iron oxides (SPIO) used in imaging of the liver. The last part of the lecture focuses on the safety issues associated with the use of MR CAs. Despite rigorous pre‐market evaluations (MR CAs are considered drugs and are subject to FDA regulations) some side effects emerge only after the drug has been on the market for considerable time, when the large volume of available clinical records reveals patterns that remain hidden within smaller data pools. The recent alarm caused by emergence of the Nephrogenic Systemic Ribrosis (NSF) syndrome as a serious consequence of using Gadolinium‐based CA during MR studies in patients with acute or chronic kidney disease is used to describe and analyze safety issues related to the use of MR CAs. Educational Objectives: 1. Understand the physical mechanisms governing the action of contrast agents used in MR Imaging. 2. Become acquainted with the taxonomy of contrast agents used in current clinical practice. 3. Learn about safety issues related to the use of contrast agents in MRI practice.


This article is another 100 colletions for Annotations of A complement to the great collection of the oracle inscriptions.On the base of reading over the former annotations,consulting some related rubbings,copies,photos and existing fruits,linking wenli(文例),we correcte the mistakes in the annotations,such as the missing or redundancy,mis-reading or self-contradictories,and some other problems.In the article we collate the errors item by item.


On the ground of usefulness to Asclepias, butterflies may be thrown into three divisions. The Papilios are the most useful, and pollinia were found on all of our species except Ajax. They suck with their wings in motion. Using their legs to offset the motion of the wings, they rapidly repeat those movements which are necessary to draw the pollinia from the anther cells and insert them into the stigmatic chambers. Other large butterflies, like Danais, hold their wings still in sucking, spending moretime on an umbel, but generally carrying pollinia. Small butterflies are worse than useless. They remain long on the umbels, sucking, but resting their feet superficially on the flowers, and seldom effecting pollination. Of twenty-three species bearing pollinia, only three are smaller than Chrysophanus Hypophleas; while of twelve species on which no pollinia were found, with the exception of Eudamus Tityrus, which was not caught, the Chrysophanus is the largest. As stated before, butterflies have corpuscula on their claws less frequently than Hymenoptera. Since several moths were found entrapped on the flowers, pollination must often be brought about by night-flying Lep-


: In order to provide scientific data for exactly evaluating effects of O 3 on crops, the research has been carried out on responses of oilseed rape to elevated O 3 . In present study, the oilseed rape was exposed to two O 3 regimes: CF100 exposure to consistent concentration of O 3 of 100nL · L -1 and CF100D exposure to mean O 3 concentration of 100nL · L -1 with obvious diurnal variation of O 3 concentration for about 35d. The results showed that CF100 and CF100D aggravated lipid peroxidation, increased H 2 O 2 content in oilseed rape leaves, and decreased their photosynthetic pigments content and photosynthesis rates ( Pn ) . Subsequently, reductions of biomass and yield were found in oilseed rape. In comparison to CF, CF100 exposure decreased oilseed rape yield by 3.7% , and CF100D exposure by 18.6% . Besides, the experiment also indicated that CF100D exposure had more detrimental impact on oilseed rape than CF100 exposure did, although both regimes had nearly same mean concentration and dosage. It indicated that the available mean concentration and dosage indices could not be enough accurate to estimate the damage of elevated O 3 to crops.


Matteo Ricci's acceptance by Confucian scholars, which Ricci saw as necessary to his mission. Ricci's writings on friendship in Chinese provided the point of ethical contact which permitted inter-faith friendship (distinguished here from inter-faith discourse) and led to a genuine humanist intercourse across a cultural and theological gulf. Finally, David Harris Sacks traces the view, culminating with Richard Hakluyt, that the disparities of resources across the world which made commercial intercourse possible and necessary were divinely instituted to engender friendships through trade. This in turn promoted global unity through the spread of Christianity, thereby incorporating new disruptive forces of colonisation and economic exploitation in a harmonious model, based on the traditional theory of friendship as the principal bond uniting humankind. This volume does not set out to offer social–structural analyses of friendship networks. Rather, it demonstrates the very specific ways in which the discourse of friendship directly affected practice – choices of friends, network construction and political behaviours – and how these in turn fed back into changing theories of a phenomenon which was, for pre-modern Europeans, a subject not for psychology but for political science.


Abstract The effects of blue light supplementation to red light on growth, morphology and N utilization in rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Sasanishiki and Nipponbare) were investigated. Plants were grown under two light quality treatments, red light alone (R) or red light supplemented with blue light (RB; red/blue-light photosynthetic photon flux density [PPFD] ratio was 4/1), at 380 mol m−2 s−1 PPFD. The biomass production of both cultivars grown under RB conditions was higher than that of plants grown under R conditions. This enhancement of biomass production was caused by an increase in the net assimilation rate (NAR). The higher NAR was associated with a higher leaf N content per leaf area at the whole-plant level, which was accompanied by higher contents of the key components of photosynthesis, including Rubisco and chlorophyll. In Sasanishiki, preferential biomass investment in leaf blades and expansion of wider and thinner leaves also contributed to the enhancement of biomass production. These morphological changes in the leaves were not observed in Nipponbare. Both the changes in physiological characteristics, including leaf photosynthesis, and the changes in morphological characteristics, including leaf development, contributed to the enhancement of biomass production under RB conditions, although the extent of these changes differed between the two cultivars.


A brief consideration of field-work is followed by a general discussion of Scouse, and the main problem for description is found to be the phonology rather than the grammar or the vocabulary. In particular, the question is raised of the relation between Anglo-Irish and North~Western English in the formation of Scouse. Before the phonology proper, attention is paid to articulatory setting and voice quality. In the phonology, rhythm and the rhythmic framework are taken as basic, and essential for the identification of the peculiarities of Scouse. Intonation is closely related to rhythm, and vowels and consonants are described in the context of rhythmically defined syllables. Finally, a number of phonological variables are discussed, and the nature of the variation is identified by reference to the Scouse sound-patterns described in earlier chapters.


Traffic accidents are the main reason of disability and the second reason of mortality in Iran. Therefore finding out the effective factors is vital. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between mental health and taxi drivers' behavior in Kerman. This is a cross-sectional descriptive research in which Manchester driving behavior questionnaire (MDBQ) and "general health questionnaire (GHQ)" were used. The questionnaires were distributed between 186 taxi drivers during February and March 2015. Our study was conducted in the province of Kerman in the east south of Iran. We used descriptive methods as well as t-tests, chi-square tests, and logit models for data analysis. The data analysis showed that the driving behavior of Kermanian taxi drivers is good (0.481±4.13) and the mental health situation of them is partly good (0.662±3.61). The Pearson's correlation test showed overall driving behavior score is correlated positively with mental health score (r=0.83, P=0.000). Also there were positive correlations between all driving behavior dimensions and mental health dimensions at a level of significance of 0.005. The result of Chi-Square Test showed that there the younger drivers and who had less driving experience had higher mental health score. Single drivers and who had less education, which had faced with financial loss in their previous accidents, which had lose their driving license for a while, higher driving behavior score compared to the others (P<0.05). By some improvement actions in driver's mental health, we can effect on their behavior. And by proper driving behaviors, we can avoid from some mortalities, disabilities and heavy costs on society.


Performing haemodialysis therapy at home has been associated with improved survival for end‐stage kidney disease patients and can generally be delivered at a lower cost to the healthcare system when compared with centre and satellite unit dialysis. However, only a minority of dialysis dependent end‐stage kidney disease patients successfully sustain haemodialysis at home. Current practice for determining dialysis treatment modality and location takes into account medical suitability and social situation, but infrequently formally examines the contribution of psychological factors. This study explores demographic, health, and psychological factors that may predict patients' ability to sustain home haemodialysis.


Magnetron Sputtering system is a vacuum process used to deposit thin films on substrate for a wide variety of commercial and scientific purposes, such as making ultrathin semiconductors, metal films, etc. It plays an important role in a coating system. In order to get the uniform deposition of material surface, high voltage and electric current are used in magnetron sputtering system. That energy is converted to heat, which must be removed by the appropriate cooling system. Otherwise, it may damage the target, the magnets, and the substrate as well. Therefore, in order to maintain the uniform deposition, the design of effective cooling system is important above all things. The main parameters affecting the cooling performance are the flow path of cooling water, inlet size and flow rate, etc. The flow characteristics of inside cooling system with various flow paths of cooling water and flow rates are investigated and results are graphically depicted. NOMENCLATURE p pressure v velocity ρ density μ dynamic viscosity eff k thermal conductivity τ viscous term A ampere T temperature


Having been crushed activated by supersonic speed airflow, the wollastonite, added with stearic acid, still kept its needle like or columnar structure. Some grain matter arranged regularly on the surface of wollastonite. The results were due to chemical reaction or chemical adsorption between carboxyl group at one end of stearic acid and ionic bond or activated point on the surface of wollastonite crushed activated by supersonic speed airflow. At the other end of stearic acid is C 17 alkyl group which is similar to the molecular structure of natural rubber. So that, the interface on the modified wollastonite/rubber was linked fairly well.


Low-intensity transient absorption spectroscopy has been performed on the isolated D1-D2-cyt-b559 reaction center complex of photosystem II from spinach. The excitation intensity was low enough to keep annihilation at a relatively low level (∼11%) and still maintain a very high signal/noise ratio. The kinetics has been measured with ∼200 fs resolution over two time ranges extending up to 200 ps for two different excitation wavelengths (680 nm, preferential primary donor excitation, and 670 nm, preferential external chlorophyll excitation). Detection wavelengths both in the pheophytin Qx region (535−555 nm) and in the chlorin Qy region, including the stimulated emission range (660−760 nm) have been employed. The data for all excitation/detection wavelength pairs and from both time ranges have been analyzed by combined global analysis. A highly complex kinetics, i.e. six lifetimes, has been found necessary for a good description of the data over the entire excitation/detection matrix and time range. These l...


CuAlMn alloys are cheaper and more promising alloy types compared to NiTi alloys. In this study, based on CuAlMn shape memory alloy, thermodynamic and structural characteristics of some new alloys containing four elements were investigated in detail. In this study, five new quaternary shape memory alloys, each containing a CuAlMn base alloy and a different fourth additive element (Ga, Nb, V, Zr, and Cr), were produced. The properties of the obtained alloys were characterized using a series of analysis methods such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and differential thermal analysis (DTA). The results showed the effects of different elements on the crystal structures of the alloys and how different elements could change the thermal behavior of the alloys.


To evaluate the relationship between atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease (AD), we conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis to study the difference of carotid intima–media thickness (CIMT) and the prevalence of atherosclerosis between AD patients and non‐AD controls.


Ley D. F. and Anderson G. (1975) The delphi technique in urban forecasting. Reg. Studies 9, 243–249. The adaptive system is information-consumptive; this attribute holds for social, urban and regional systems, and is particularly true for information of future states of the system's environment. The battery of forecasting techniques available to elicit this information may be categorized into technical and intuitive methodologies, each with advantages and shortcomings. The Delphi technique is suggested as a linking methodology which retains both systematization and firm contact with the real world. An empirical Delphi forecast of the urban future of Nanaimo, British Columbia indicates the versatility of the instrument, its avoidance of biases inherent in other methods, and its particular appropriateness to participatory planning.


Histone acetylation is an epigenetic post-translational modification recognised by the bromodomain, a protein module that forms part of multi-component complexes affecting transcription. This interaction plays fundamental cellular roles, and shows association with particular diseases including inflammation and cancer. The biological roles of bromodomains and the progress of ligands developed so far has been summarised in introductory Chapter 1. Work within the group has led to the development of a nanomolar ligand for BRD4, a BET bromodomain implicated in cancer and numerous diseases. Evaluation in an NCI-60 cancer cell screen indicated antiproliferative activity in a variety of cancer types. However, metabolic predictions indicate that this compound is unoptimised for use in vivo . Chapter 2 describes synthesis of a collection of analogues to improve the physical and pharmacokinetic properties of this series of compounds. This work identified compounds with equivalent affinity but greater predicted metabolic stability, as well as more potent derivatives. This research will direct the design of potent and metabolically stable derivatives that can be used in animal models. Chapter 3 describes work carried out towards the development of small molecules to target bromodomains for which there are no known ligands, using the FALZ bromodomain as an initial target. A fragment-based approach has identified a number of compounds that bind to different non-BET bromodomains. These fragments will be a useful starting point for the development of more potent and selective non-BET bromodomain ligands. As well as acetylated lysines, a number of other acylation post-translational modifications occur on lysine residues. Chapter 4 describes work carried out to investigate the interaction of other acylated lysine residues with bromodomains. This work highlighted that other acylated lysines can interact with bromodomains, and selectivity for particular bromodomains can also be achieved. These modified lysines could be incorporated into cognate peptides to improve in vitro peptide displacement assays, aiding the development of small molecular bromodomain probes.


By means of transmission electron microscopy(TEM),the microstructure evolution of FeCoV alloy deformed by equal channel angular pressing(ECAP) and tempered at different temperatures was investigated.The results show that FeCoV alloy deformed by ECAP for four passes produce the nano-precipitates after tempering.The process of precipitation is as follows in the process of tempering.Firstly,some big carbide particles separate from the boundary of equiaxial subgrain and thin laths.The fine carbide and nanophase separate from the big carbide particles.With the proceeding of precipitation,the proportion of nanophase increases. The nanophase grow up with increasing of tempering temperature.The precipitation obviously occurs and high density of precipitated phase is observed on the extruding surface.The less effectiveness of precipitation is observed on the side face(L) of the ECAPed sample.


Maria Dahvana Headley boasts that she "didn't cheat" in her translation of Beowulf—she "translated every line of the Beowulf poem." It's true that her new text has a line for every line of the Old English poem, but it is a radically domesticating piece of work, a firecracker riff on the lines of the source. J. R. R. Tolkien compared the poetics of Beowulf to masonry: "The lines ... are founded on a balance; an opposition between two halves of roughly equivalent phonetic weight, and significant content ... more like masonry than music." What Headley has tried to do is to swap out most of the bricks with a very different poetics, moving so fast that the structure stays up. Her virtuosity is best appreciated by someone who has followed the curve of the wall before she got to work on it—who has read a soberer translation of the poem. As one admirer comments, hers is "a psychotic song of gold and blood," and the ideal reader will be, as another admirer calls himself, "a Beowulf nerd." A new translation of Beowulf is not a rare event; Headley's isn't the only one to have been published in 2020. It is, however, the most discussed in the past twenty years (the competition being J. R. R. Tolkien's posthumous version), with reviews in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and (albeit grouped with other "horror fiction") the New York Times, as well as a place on the Atlantic's year-end list of "The 15 Best Books." Her translation is of particular interest because it follows (and sprang from, as she notes in the Introduction) her novel The Mere Wife, which tells a story about Ben Wolf and the two beautiful boys Gren and Dil, but mostly about the boys' mothers, who suspect their sons are monsters—to be protected (Gren) or discarded (Dil). The vital translations of the past fifty-plus years have been two: E. Talbot Donaldson's 1966 prose version and Seamus Heaney's 1999 verse rendering. These are the translations that decades of high-school students and undergrads have read in the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Donaldson's may have turned its young readers off, but Heaney's was part of a new popular interest in the poem, with a spurt of film, television, and comic-book adaptations—as well as more translations. Heaney's so perfectly fulfills the needs of most readers for a version that is both accurate and poetic that it frees other


To achieve a competitive advantage, businesses are often advised to develop capabilities in key functional areas. This study investigates the factors that influence marketing capabilities development and what effect these capabilities have on organizational effectiveness. In this study of the largest strategic business units (SBUs) of Fortune 500 companies, business strategy, organizational structure and market information processing capabilities were found to influence marketing capabilities development. Of equal importance, the SBUs with the highest degree of marketing capabilities development outperformed SBUs with less-developed marketing capabilities.


Hedysarum Laeve is a perennial legume.In Sand buffer zone Sand-Stabilization of Hedysarum Laeve is established for controlling the quicksand to internal spread.In small watershed at the eastern edge of Hunshandak sand,there is a broad distribution of macular-sand.With the water and wind interactive erosion,comprehensive control of small watershed was extremely difficult.Using the sand-stabilization of Hedysarum Laeve technology,small watershed can improve the sand-fixation efficiency,as well as speed up the macular-sand vegetation create,which will provide the technical support for soil and water conservation,ecological construction in the region.


Programming by Demonstration (PbD) lets users with little technical background program a wide variety of manipulation tasks for robots, but it should be as intuitive as possible for users while requiring as little time as possible. In this paper, we present a Programming by Demonstration system that synthesizes manipulation programs from a single observed demonstration, allowing users to program new tasks for a robot simply by performing the task once themselves. A human-in-the-loop interface helps users make corrections to the perceptual state as needed. We introduce Object Interaction Programs as a representation of multi-object, bimanual manipulation tasks and present algorithms for extracting programs from observed demonstrations and transferring programs to a robot to perform the task in a new scene. We demonstrate the expressivity and generalizability of our approach through an evaluation on a benchmark of complex tasks.


A high temperature thermal characterization system for thin polymer films based on a surface acoustic wave sensor was developed that could operate up to 400° C. Sensor heaters examined included thick film on alumina and etched foil. It was found that viscoelastic properties ofpolymers could be measured including the temperature of first and second film resonance points. Gravimetric studies were inconclusive due to the much larger viscoelastic response. The etched foil heater could operate up to a temperature of 500 °C versus 320°C for the thick film heater.


The stability of unloading block on the left bank slope has been a critical issue for Baihetan hydropower station.Study on the geologic condition,failure characteristics and deformation mechanism indicates that the sliding failure of three dimensional rock blocks along discontinuities is the main potential failure mode of the left slope.General limit equilibrium method and continuum mechanics method both have some limitations in analyzing the stability of complex block system.In this paper,the method of automatically identifying block is employed to establish the block system model of the left slope.Three-dimensional elasto-viscoplastic block element method(BEM)is adopted to calculate the strength reserve safety factor of sliding blocks.And the controlling discontinuities and the key blocks are revealed.Research results are consistent with both the general limit equilibrium analysis and geomechanical model test,which supports the reinforcement measures for the left slope.The study in this paper could be a guide for the stability analysis of complicated rock block system.


Magnetic properties of quark matter is discussed by evaluating the spin susceptibility within Fermi-liquid theory. We take into account the dynamical and static screening effects. At finite temperature, an anomalous T^2 ln T term for susceptibity is shown as a non-Fermi-liquid effect due to the dynamical screening of transverse gluons.


This article introduces the design principle of the closed-loop control system of modulated ion source discharge,which is based on electrostatic probe measure,and discusses hardware design,software design and the working principle of this system.This system has been applied successfully to experiment and preliminary experimental results are acquired,which also provides a reliable guarantee for later related physical experiments of neutral beam injection.


We analyze the femtosecond polarization and wavelength-dependent nonlinear switching response of birefringent fiber rocking filter. We show by perturbation theory and numerical simulations that, in the presence of the Raman self-frequency shift, the soliton switching efficiency may be optimized by injecting pulses in the fast fiber axis and with a negative wavelength offset from the center of the filter bandpass.


Patients with liver disease struggle to access palliative care. We aimed to compare carers' perceptions of end‐of‐life care for decedents with non‐malignant liver disease, malignant liver disease and other non‐malignant diseases, and to identify associated factors in non‐malignant liver disease.


AIM: To prepare and characterize oridonin-loaded nanopa rticles. METHOD: The PCL-PEO-PCL copolymers were synthesiz ed by ring opening polymerization of caprolactone initiated by the hydroxyl groups of poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) with stannous octoate as catalyzer. In optional sol vents these copolymers could form micelles-like nanoparticles(Nps). RES ULT: From SEM the drug-loaded Nps exhibited a regular spherical shap e. The particles size and size distributing obtained by dynamic light scattering(D LS) of the Nps were about 200 nm, while the highest Zeta potential almost -30 m V. The critical micelle concentrations (CMC) of the Nps in water were comparativ ely low while their drug loading content is relatively high (about 9%). CONCLUSION: The Oridonin-loaded Nps used as New Drug Delivery System is promising and deserved to deepen its research.


An overall discussion on algorithmic modeling techniques in computer-aided fractal art pattern design is given from the viewpoint of generation or composition of fractal pattern. Several algorithms of fractal modeling and their combination with traditional methods are introduced, and illustrative examples created by these modeling algorithms are presented.


Involvement of local people in every development and welfare project right from its inception is now realized and widely appreciated. It is the only way to reduce the poverty in rural areas and the remedy to widespread protests among people towards government's development plans. lt would also check corruption and malpractices to a great extent and bring transparency in the implementation of plans. The present work gives this message clearly and suggests for the empowerment of people concerned to determine the course of their own development. K.S.Singh suggests that the tribal people should be given rights over their own resources and the state should 'ensure their share in the power structure so that they exercise control over their own resources for their own benefits'. For the first time in the history of India the government formulated a National Policy on Scheduled Tribes in 2004 by issuing The Draft of the National Policy, which laid certain guidelines. The researchers expect that such a Policy will guide all thoughts and actions of the governments as well as NGO's and social activists 'that are held and carried out in collaboration with people for amelioration'.


The utility discloses a self-lifting slop tank which has the structure that a slop inlet pipe (3), a scum barrier (4), a water level controller (6) and a slop lifter (2) are arranged on a tank body (1), wherein, the scum barrier in which the outlet end of the slop inlet pipe is arranged is a screen frame mechanism in the tank body; the slop lifter which is an anti-clogging pump with an automatic washing valve is also positioned in the tank body; the water level controller comprises a water level sensor and an intelligent controller (8) and the water level sensor is arranged inside the tank body. The self-lifting slop tank combines the slop tank, the water level control and lifting facilities, filteration, washing and automatic control as a whole and has the advantages of compact structure, flexible installation, convenient maintenance, civil engineering construction saving, light weight of the tank body, high strength and beautiful appearance. In addition, the scum barrier provided in the interior can increase the efficiency of slop treatment while the washing valve can automatically remove the residue. Meanwhile, the self-lifting slop tank can be directly placed in a place on demand without digging a pit on the ground so as to ensure that the slop can be discharged in a seal state without odour and pollution.


The two isomeric compounds, octadecylfumaric acid and octadecylmaleic acid (C18H37OCOCH=CHCOOH) have been synthesized, and Langmuir–Blodgett films of their cadmium salts have been studied by means of transmission and grazing incidence reflection infrared spectroscopy. These measurements provided information about the orientation of molecular segments relative to the substrate surface as well as about the lateral packing of the chains in the unit cell. A structural change of the maleate film was revealed at elevated temperatures. Polymerization of the films was brought about by either UV irradiation or thermal treatment and was followed spectroscopically as a function of exposure time. By comparison with films polymerized on the water surface of a Langmuir trough, it was concluded that the molecular structure is independent of where the polymerization occurs. Interestingly, upon polymerization on the water surface the fumarate undergoes an expansion at constant surface pressure whereas the maleate contract...


Disclosed is a selective catalytic reduction to reduce the pollutants in the exhaust gas of the vehicle (SCR), to provide a can reduce an aqueous solution of deposits of cyanuric acid by-product of this process. Aqueous The invention is capable of suppressing the formation of deposits based on cyanuric acid, comprising a component that generates ammonia gas exceeds 200 ° C. as a main component, at least one multifunctional additive agent is an aqueous solution containing as a subcomponent. The HLB value of a multi-functional additive is 7-17, the deposit, spray device for exhaust gas aftertreatment, in particular, is a deposit which is formed in the selective catalytic reduction device. .BACKGROUND


PURPOSE
To compare short- and long-term outcomes of patients with rotator cuff calcific tendonitis who did and did not undergo ultrasonographically (US)-guided percutaneous treatment.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Institutional review board approval and informed patient consent were obtained. Of patients referred for US-guided treatment of rotator cuff calcific tendonitis, 219 (86 men, 133 women; mean age, 40.3 years +/- 10.9 [standard deviation]) were treated; 68 (31 men, 37 women; mean age, 40.2 years +/- 11.3) patients refused treatment and served as control subjects. After local anesthesia was induced, two 16-gauge needles were inserted into the calcific deposit. Saline solution was injected through one needle, and the dissolved calcium was extracted through the other needle. Shoulder joint function was assessed by using Constant scores, and pain was assessed by using visual analogue scale (VAS) scores. Mann-Whitney U and chi(2) tests were performed.

RESULTS
At baseline, no significant difference in age or sex distribution, Constant score, or VAS score was detected between treated and nontreated (control) patients. Compared with control subjects, treated patients reported a significant decrease in symptoms at 1 month (mean Constant score, 73.2 +/- 6.2 vs 57.5 +/- 3.9; mean VAS score, 4.8 +/- 0.6 vs 9.1 +/- 0.5), 3 months (mean Constant score, 90.2 +/- 2.6 vs 62.6 +/- 7.2; mean VAS score, 3.3 +/- 0.4 vs 7.3 +/- 1.8), and 1 year (mean Constant score, 91.7 +/- 3.1 vs 78.4 +/- 9.5; mean VAS score, 2.7 +/- 0.5 vs 4.5 +/- 0.9) (P < .001). Symptom scores were not significantly different between the groups at 5 years (mean Constant score, 90.9 +/- 3.6 vs 90.5 +/- 4.8; mean VAS score, 2.6 +/- 0.5 vs 2.8 +/- 0.7) (P >or= .795) and 10 years (mean Constant score, 91.8 +/- 5.0 vs 91.3 +/- 9.6; mean VAS score, 2.5 +/- 0.6 vs 2.7 +/- 0.6) (P >or= .413).

CONCLUSION
US-guided percutaneous treatment facilitated prompt shoulder function recovery and pain relief. Treated patients had better outcomes than did nontreated patients at 1 year. However, 5 and 10 years after the procedure, the nontreated group reported outcomes similar to those of the treated group.


We introduce two approaches to augmenting English-Arabic statistical machine translation (SMT) with linguistic knowledge. The first approach improves SMT by adding linguistically motivated syntactic features to particular phrases. These added features are based on the English syntactic information, namely part-of-speech tags and dependency parse trees. We achieved improvements of 0.2 and 0.6 in BLEU score on two different data sets over the state-of-the-art SMT baseline system. The second approach improves morphological agreement in machine translation output through post-processing. Our method uses the projection of the English dependency parse tree onto the Arabic sentence in addition to the Arabic morphological analysis in order to extract the agreement relations between words in the Arabic sentence. Afterwards, classifiers for individual morphological features are trained using syntactic and morphological information from both the source and target languages. The predicted morphological features are then used to generate the correct surface forms. Our method achieves a statistically significant improvement over the baseline system according to human evaluation.


Despite that existing deep-learning-based super resolution methods for satellite images have achieved great performance, these methods are generally designed to stack unaccountable and dense modules (i.e., residual blocks and dense blocks) to reach an optimal mapping function between low-resolution and high-resolution patches/images at the expense of computing resources. To address this challenge, we propose a deep unfolding method (LDUM) that includes two major components: 1) the pretreatment network and 2) the unfolding blocks. The main responsibility of the pretreatment network is to generate initial high-resolution images. Further, we model high-resolution images with the prior information, which can be seen as a combination of low-resolution and high-frequency residual images, and solve the optimization problem via the iterative proximal strategy. Specifically, we unfold the iterative process into a deep neural network to refine the reconstructed results, as each layer serves as an iterative step of the proposed optimization model. Thus, the proposed method is able to iteratively generate residual maps and high-resolution images by combining the powerful feature extraction capability of data-driven deep-learning-based methods and the interpretability of traditional model-driven algorithms. Experiments show that the proposed method, featured by its interpretable and lightweight merits, outperforms other state-of-the-art methods from quantitative and qualitative perspectives.


Vascular targeted photodynamic therapy (V-PDT) has shown satisfied efficiency in treating vascular-related diseases including age-related macular degeneration, port-wine stains (PWS), and prostate cancer. Its efficacy is a complex function of photosensitizer (PS) uptake, oxygen concentration, PS-activating light dose and tissue optical properties. In order to non -invasively monitor PS distribution and photobleaching, blood vessel contraction and blood flow velocity for V-PDT response, a multimode optical imaging (MOI) system was developed to capture PS fluorescence image, narrow band image and laser speckle image, respectively. V-PDT in vivo studies were performed, which suggests that our MOI system is capable of monitoring dynamic response during V-PDT treatment.


Modern computing systems are dealing with a diverse set of complex and dynamic workloads in the presence of varying job arrival rates. This diversity is raising the need for the development of sophisticated run-time mechanisms that efficiently manage system's resources. In addition, moving towards kilo-core processor architectures, centralized resource management approaches will most probably form a severe performance bottleneck, thus the study of Distributed Run-Time Resource Management (DRTRM) schemes is now gaining a lot of attention. In this paper, we propose a job-arrival aware DRTRM framework for applications with malleable characteristics, implemented on top of the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) many-core platform. We show that resource allocation is highly affected not only by the internal decision mechanisms but also from the incoming application interval rate on the system. Based on this observation, we propose an effective admission control strategy utilizing Voltage and Frequency Scaling (VFS) of parts of the DRTRM which eventually retains the distributed decision making thus improving system performance in combination with significant gains in its consumed energy.


ABSTRACT The paper begins with a discussion of the problems involved in establishing the location, layout and functions of temporary medieval camps in Britain. It then examines the historical and archaeological evidence for a possible camp created for Edward i in the spring of 1284 after his conquest of Wales. This camp may have been relevant for discussions of political, social, military and commercial matters between the victors and losers of the war, and held as a Round Table. But its actual location may shed further light on Edward's deep belief in his symbolic inheritance.