In the science learning process practical always have a significant role especially chemistry learning is completed with practical. Chemistry student's concepts clear after the practical performance in the laboratory. The purpose of this research is to improve the learning process in chemistry by comparing two countries' students' practical skills, especially experimental and manipulative, observation, drawing and reporting, and interpretive skills. This research is an experimental, observation sheet used for data collection, observation sheet was validated by three experts, reliability was checked in one class in both countries and modified for data collection. 71 Pakistani and 70 Indonesian organic chemistry undergraduate students were under observation, independent t-test used for data analysis. According to results, there is a significant difference between Pakistani and Indonesian students' practical skills in general, while according to each aspect Indonesian student's practical skills dominate Pakistani students in experimental and manipulative skills. On the other hand, in observation skills, drawing skills, and reporting and interpretive skills, there was no significant difference found, hence Indonesian and Pakistani students have the same practical skills in the last three aspect. Research can be held with different aspects for different results.


Abstract 1. 1. RNA, which previously had been shown to prolong homograft survival in rats, mice, and rabbits, has prolonged homografts clinically in five patients with burns. 2. 2. RNA inhibits the permeability caused by passive cutaneous anaphylaxis. 3. 3. Explanation of the method by which RNA prolongs homografts is discussed.


A digital goods auction is a type of auction where potential buyers bid the maximal price that they are willing to pay for a certain item, which a seller can produce at a negligible cost and in unlimited quantity. To maximise her benefits, the aim for the seller is to find the optimal sales price, which every buyer whose bid is not lower will pay. For fairness and privacy purposes, buyers may be concerned about protecting the confidentiality of their bids. Secure Multi-Party Computation is a domain of Cryptography that would allow the seller to compute the optimal sales price while guaranteeing that the bids remain secret. Paradoxically, as a function of the buyers' bids, the sales price inevitably reveals some private information. Generic frameworks and entropy-based techniques based on Quantitative Information Flow have been developed in order to quantify and restrict those leakages. Due to their combinatorial nature, these techniques do not scale to large input spaces. In this work, we aim at scaling those privacy analyses to large input spaces in the particular case of digital goods auctions. We derive closed-form formulas for the posterior min-entropy of private inputs in two and three-party auctions, which enables us to effectively quantify the information leaks for arbitrarily large input spaces. We also provide supportive experimental evidence that enables us to formulate a conjecture that would allow us to extend our results to any number of parties.


Social computing is now ubiquitous on the Web, with user contributions on sites like online review forums, question-answer forums, wikis, or Youtube forming a growing fraction of the content consumed by Web users. But while there is plenty of user-generated content online, the quality of contributions and extent of participation vary widely across sites. We survey some recent work taking a game-theoretic approach to the problem of incentivizing high quality and participation in these social computing systems.


RNA interference (RNAi) is a normal cellular process in which small RNAs control gene expression. siRNAs introduced into cells suppress gene expression through their recognition and cleavage of cognate mRNAs in a sequence specific manner. Due to its highly specific mode of action, RNAi has recently ...


This paper proposes a modified, genomial, version of function architecture co-design rnethod so that wider cvaluation of architecturcs from both functional arrd structural point of view can bc pcrformed. The topological rnodellirrg technique is used to creatc thc Computatiorr Irrdependent Modcl that is abscnt in thc original method. A case study has been performcd that clarif ics thc kcy idcas of this approach.


For the solution of the influence of pressure measurement by crystal deposition,a quasi-statical foil-like manganin sensor for high pressure measurement is designed.Compared with the coil-like manganin sensor,this manganin sensor has the advantage of reliable response and good environmental adaptation.A double-layer cylinder of shrink and autofrettage is used and the computed formula of elastic strength is derivated.A sealed structure of leadthroughs is designed.A pre-bottling liquid medium is determined.An experiment on the manganin sensor characteristics is proceeded.Main statical index is obtained.


The estimation of RCS of a phased array depends on various parameters, namely, array geometry, operational frequency, feed network, mutual coupling between the antenna elements and so fourth. This paper presents the estimation of RCS of linear dipole array with series-feed network by tracing the signal path from the antenna aperture into the feed network. The effect of mutual coupling exhibited by the dipole antenna is considered for three configurations namely, side by side, collinear, and parallel in echelon. It is shown that the mutual coupling affects the antenna pattern (and hence RCS) significantly for larger scan angles. Further it is inferred that the RCS of phased array can be optimized by (i) reducing the length of the dipole, (ii) termination of the isolation port of the coupler with a suitable load, and (iii) using suitable amplitude distribution.


Temporal variations of radionuclide levels in the epiphytic Usnea sp. lichens from the two islands Sakhalin and Kunashir, the Sakhalin region, Russia have been evaluated using the already published (2011–2013) and new experimental data (2015). A total of 62 lichen samples were measured using high purity germanium γ-ray detectors and multichannel analyzers. In the period 2011–2015, activity concentrations of the anthropogenic radionuclides 134Cs and 137Cs and the natural radionuclides 7Be and 40K were found to be in the range of (<0.53)–41.3, 0.55–50.6, 99–603 and 35–95 Bq kg–1 on dry weight, respectively. The activity concentrations of 134Cs and 137Cs in lichens were statistically significantly higher at Kunashir than at Sakhalin. The present-day levels of radiocesium activity concentrations in lichens are low: < 6 Bq kg–1 for 137Cs and <1 Bq kg–1 for 134Cs. A decline in the annual median 137Cs activity concentrations in lichens from 2011 to 2015 corresponds to a biological half-life of 1.2 y for Kunashir and 1.1 y for Sakhalin. The activity concentrations of 137Cs and 134Cs in lichens were strongly correlated (r=0.978, P<0.01) and the 134Cs biological half-life value of 1.2 y in the period 2011–2013 was similar to the corresponding 137Cs biological half-life value. The soil-tolichens aggregated transfer factor, Tag, for 134Cs at time t=0 after the Fukushima accident is calculated as 0.56 m2 kg–1 at Sakhalin and 0.31 m2 kg–1 at Kunashir. In contrast to radiocesium, the natural radionuclides 7Be and 40K did not show clear time-dependent variations in the Usnea lichens. No correlation was found between 7Be and 40K as well as between 40K and cesium radioisotopes. However, positive and statistically significant (P<0.05) correlations were obtained between 7Be and cesium radioisotopes. High abundance of the Usnea sp. lichens in the study area and large values of Tag for radiocesium in the lichens make these organisms suitable candidates for detection of low levels of airborne radioactive contamination of the environment.


Three sex pheromone components (cis-8-dodecenyl acetate (Z12Ac), trans-8-dodecenyl acetate (E12Ac), cis-8-dodecenol (Z12OH)) of the Oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta, were chemically synthesized. Especially to increase the composition of cis-stereoisomer, a triple bond intermediate was hydrogenated at with catalytic . The resulting product consisted of the acetates with a stereoisomer ratio in 92:8 (Z:E). The biological activity of the synthesized pheromone compounds was analyzed both in male responses and orientation disruption. The indoor pheromone effect was determined by male flight behavior showing wing movement in response to lure. Different mixtures of the synthetic pheromone components were prepared by mixing acetate and alcohol components in 100:0, 99:1, and 90:10 (g/g) and tested with a comparison of a standard commercial pheromone lure. The highest pheromone effect was observed in only acetate mixture (100:0) and the effect was reduced with the addition of the alcohol component. This indoor pheromone effect could be observed in field monitoring trial, in which 100:0 mixture showed the highest trap catches. Orientation disruption assay was conducted indoor by using a cage, in which the center had a commercial lure on sticky plate and the four candidates were placed at 6 cm away from the central lure on each of four directions. Test males were released to the arena during overnight (12 h) and then the caught males on the sticky plate were counted. The synthesized pheromone as well as the commercial pheromone showed 100% orientation disruption. However, the orientation disruption effect was reduced with decrease in the number of the surrounding disrupting pheromone baits. These results clearly suggest that the synthesized sex pheromone of G. molesta is biologically active and can be used for field mating disruption.


Solid state power controller (SSPC) has been widely used in spacecraft. At present, its power distribution and protection mostly adopt the "SSPC + fuse" mode. In order to prevent the SSPC from acting first when the downstream load is short-circuited, resulting in the power failure of the entire channel, accurate SSPC protection characteristics must be obtained during the matching analysis. Through the analysis of SSPC protection circuit, the calculation model of SSPC protection time and the upper and lower limit curves are obtained, and a matching design method of SSPC and fuse used in series in spacecraft power distribution system is given. The simulation and experimental verification are carried out with a 100V-SSPC used in a satellite as an example, and the correctness and feasibility of the matching design method are proved.


We present a novel adaptive algorithm implementing the stochastic Galerkin finite element method for numerical solution of elliptic PDE problems with correlated random data. The algorithm employs a hierarchical a posteriori error estimation strategy which also provides effective estimates of the error reduction for enhanced approximations. These error reduction indicators are used in the algorithm to perform a balanced adaptive refinement of spatial and parametric components of Galerkin approximations. The results of numerical tests demonstrating the efficiency of the algorithm for three representative PDEs with random coefficients are reported. The software used for numerical experiments is available online.


Nganjuk is one of the central production areas of onion with 140.22 tons production in 2014. It has contributed as much as 11.84% to the national onion production. On the other hand, SISKAPERBABO mentioned that onion has fluctuated price. However, the fluctuating price of onion does not seem to affect the onion farmers. It is proved by an increase of onion data production in Nganjuk rather than other substitute commodities. The research aims to know the characteristic of farmers in planting onion and non-onion commodity at Rejoso District of Nganjuk Regency. The data used in this research is primary data, and respondents are divided into two categories namely onion farmers (30) and non-onion farmers (30). It is analyzed using descriptive qualitative. Research result shows that both onion and non-onion farmers are in productive age (15-55 years), income of onion farmers are mostly >30.000.000 meanwhile non-onion farmers are <15.000.000, the educational background of onion farmers are mostly Senior High School, and non-onion farmers are mostly have not graduated elementary school, the majority of the experience of onion farmers and non-onion farmers ranged between 15- 30 years and land area of both are < 0.5 Ha.


The present invention, At least one transmitter transmitting multimedia data signal; at least one receiver for receiving the multimedia data signal; receiving the multimedia data signal by radio from said at least one transmitter, the at least one receiver receiving the multimedia data signal by wire from the machine, providing a short-distance wireless transmission system including at least one master receiver transmits the synchronization control signal.


An eight-configuration diatomics-in-molecules formalism with symmetrically orthogonalized diabatic input is used to calculate the three lowest potential energy surfaces and nonadiabatic couplings for Na+H/sub 2/ collisions. The singlet diatomic input for NaH and the singlet and triplet diatomic input for H/sup -//sub 2/ are chosen to reproduce the accurate adiabatic curves for those cases, and the diatomic input for H/sub 2/ is based on theoretical interpretations of the resonance states. Trajectory calculations are carried out using the calculated 2 /sup 2/A' potential surface and nonadiabatic couplings, and the choice of H/sup -//sub 2/ input is found to sensitively affect the H/sub 2/ vibrational excitation in the resonance-line quenching process. One H/sup -//sub 2/ curve, based on the work of Wadehra and Bardsley, yields an amount of vibrational excitation similar to that observed experimentally. The resulting set of potential energy surfaces provides a reasonable microscopic interpretation of the chemical dynamics of the quenching process Na(3p/sup 2/P)+H/sub 2/(v = 0, low j) ..-->..Na(3s/sup 2/S)+H/sub 2/(v',j').


Roads, highways etc cause noise, air pollution and other unwished contamination of the environment. For a road system these effects can be modelled in terms of regions (buffer zones), defined for parts of the road called 'sections', in which the negative effects are considered to be unsustainable high for combination with human inhabitance (for example). In the design process of (parts of) a road, these effects are dealt with by determining its environmental load to living areas. This quantity is identified with the surface area of the intersection of the buffer zones with the actual domain where people live. For the latter, postal code zones can be used. The problem handled by the DEMIS group is Development of an algorithm, for determining the environmental load of each section of the 'road in design' in the design phase. The following restrictions and simplifications are to be used in the algorithm: (1) The algorithm must be implementable as interactive tool, in order to adapt the road design for decreasing the environmental load. (2) Buffer zones are defined as polygons, and so are the postal code zones. (3) Overlapping parts of road segments must be counted properly. In the present modelling this means 'counted only once' (4) Therefore one has to deal with handling the overlap between the buffer zones of different sections. A (possible) complication: Overlapping buffer zones do not necessarily belong to adjacent road segments.


This essay studies the different methods of body waste collection during medical practices, and it intends to introduce to the ecuadorian market, a new product for medical body waste collection, designed by students of the faculty of economics and business of the Espol, to achieve a more hygienic and efficient body waste collection and at a lower cost, in order to reduce and/ or try to eliminate the high contamination levels due to medical body waste. This article analyses the possibility for a product, with high relevance for the health care of hospitals and the environment, to have a wide acceptance in the national market, hence, competing with products that are already established in the market at a high cost and are inefficient. Through a market research and a extensive financial analysis we determined the problems, solutions and recommendations to start this project. Palabras Claves: medical body waste collection.


Pitted Keratolysis Pitted keratolysis, first described as keratolysis plantare sulcatum, is often diagnosed in barefooted individuals in tropical climates. It is believed to be first diagnosed in the digital region in shod walkers in temperate locales. The condition, however, is globally distributed and has no racial predilection, but males with pedal hyperhidrosis are most susceptible. The documented incidence rate has ranged anywhere from 1.5% in residents of Japan to 53% among soldiers in Vietnam. The etiology of pitted keratolysis is attributed to a Grampositive bacterial infection. It is characterized by superficial erosions and 1to 3-mm crater-like pits primarily along the weight-bearing aspects of the foot (Figure 1). The Gram-positive bacteria responsible for this condition are Corynebacterium species, Kytococcus sedentarius, Dermatophilus congolensis, and Streptomyces. It is believed that prolonged occlusion, hyperhidrosis, and an increase in skin surface pH allow the bacteria to proliferate and produce proteinases, which create defects by destroying the stratum corneum. These defects gradually develop into the characteristic crater-like pits. Where the skin is pitted, the area is generally flesh colored and macerated. In addition to the pitting, there can be plaques, fissures, and/or annular lesions present. Two types of pitted keratolysis have been described histologically: the superficial type (minor), in which coccoid bacteria exist in groups or chains, and the classic type (major), where both coccoid and septate hyphae occur. Because of the ease of diagnosis on clinical findings, biopsy of pitted keratolysis is rarely performed. If a Wood ultraviolet lamp is used, the skin will not fluoresce in the presence of pitted keratolysis. Although this condition is generally not painful, patients are usually concerned with hyperhidrosis and malodor. Less frequent concerns include pain during ambulation, tenderness, pruritus, and a mild burning sensation. The associated malodor is attributed to the production of sulfides, thiols, and thioesters by K sedentarius. This species also produces 2 extracellular enzymes that are responsible for the degradation of human keratin. The differential diagnoses for this condition includes hyperkeratosis, plantar verruca, tinea pedis, eczema, keratolysis exfoliativa, yaws, porokeratosis, tungiasis, and basal cell nevus syndrome. Several modalities have been offered in the treatment of pitted keratolysis. These include the topical forms of salicylic acid, sulfur, clotrimazole, antibacterial soaps, neomycin, erythromycin, mupirocin, imidazoles, and injectable botulinum toxin. Other treatments, such as cotton socks, open footwear, and proper hygiene, have also been recommended. Topical clindamycin has classically been described as a treatment option because of its bactericidal action on Corynebacterium. In addition to clindamycin, Shah et al advocated topical erythromycin as a curative agent. Fitzpatrick et al advocated the use of daily applications of benzoyl peroxide, as well as benzoyl peroxide soap products. The authors chose to examine an off-label treatment for pitted keratolysis by monitoring its response to the application of a topical acne medication consisting of clindamycin 1% and benzoyl peroxide 5% in a gel vehicle. The authors believe this is the first time this topical treatment for pitted keratolysis has been described in the literature.


The invention discloses a double-end cable oscillatory wave partial discharge locating system and method based on pulse injection. The double-end cable oscillatory wave partial discharge locating system comprises a master device, slave devices, analysis sub stations, an oscillatory wave voltage generation module and a pulse generation module, wherein the oscillatory wave voltage generation module and the pulse generation module are connected with one end of a power cable; the master device at least comprises a master device partial discharge collection module; the slave devices at least comprise slave device partial discharge collection modules; the analysis sub stations intercept partial discharge signals collected at the two ends of the power cable through the length of the power cable and the premeasured partial discharge propagation speed, acquire double-end signals at a same time base and the time difference through analysis of the double-end partial discharge signals, and conduct locating on partial discharge positions, wherein the time difference refers to the difference between the time that the partial discharge signals reach the master device and the time that the partial discharge signals reach the slave devices, and the partial discharge signals are generated by a same partial discharge source. By the adoption of the double-end cable oscillatory wave partial discharge locating system and method, the partial discharge points of long cables and short cables can be conveniently and accurately located at low cost.


The first T100 micro gasturbine entered operation at Thyssengas GmbH in Duisburg/Germany in April 2001. This plant, from Turbec AB of Malmo/Sweden, delivers a net electrical output of 100 kW and a thermal output of 167 kW, at heating water flow and return temperatures of 70/50°C. Continuous operation was tested on a test bed for one year from the beginning of June 2001. Energy balances, emission and immission behaviour and electricity quality were examined. The cost-effectiveness of the system was also determined. Numerous faults occurred in the system during the first 3,000 hours of operation. Operational performance improved after several modifications were made by the manufacturer and the plant ran faultlessly for the next 4,500 hours. Further operation should now establish whether the components used and improvements carried out reach the desired useful life. There is still room for improvement in terms of investment costs and performance data as series production increases and the system is refined.


Dissolution of aluminum in its potentiodynamic anodic oxidation in an 0.1 M solution of boric acid was studied as influenced by the scanning rate of anodic potential.


Contents: Introduction: warming up 'Take me out to the ball game': a brief history of music, sports, and competition 'Let's get physical': female identity, music and the fitness industry 'Who let the dogs out?': sports music, marketing crossover, and the business of performance enhancement 'We will rock you': sports anthems and hypermasculinity 'It's a man's, man's, man's world': constructing male identity in African American music and sports 'Go West': the integration of sports and music in constructing national and transnational identities 'Gonna fly now': visual media and the soundtrack of sports 'Na na hey hey kiss him goodbye': codas and overtimes Bibliography Index.


In part because of the growing number of scenarios developed within the professional research community,the IPCC decided during its 25th session (April 2006) that the research community would undertake development of scenarios for assessment in a possible AR5,while the IPCC's role would be limited to catalyzing and assessing such work. And the IPCC decision indicates that RCPs (Representative Concentration Pathways) as stabilization pathways in order to emphasize that while they are based on existing scenarios in the literature that have underlying socio-economic assumptions and emissions outcomes,they are being selected on the basis of their emissions pathways and associated concentrations of radiatively active gases and aerosols,and their primary purpose is to provide these concentration pathways to the climate modeling community to produce new climate change projections. The RCPs should be "compatible with" the full range of emissions scenarios in the peer reviewed literature. In order to take into account the effects of emissions of all greenhouse gases and aerosols,the RCPs have been selected based primarily on their emissions and associated concentration outcomes,measured as the net radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols. The paper suggest DC/EIT to actively attend the development of new models and scenarios in order to advance scientific research and political negotiate of greenhouse gas emission and emission right distribution.


The traditional distribution inspection has the problems such as patrol personnel can not be put in place in time,the use of paper records,and low efficiency,etc..The advanced and reliable RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)is used to develop an intelligent inspection system to realize the functions of power distribution equipment management,personnel in place management,and equipment condition assessment,etc.So the managers can accurately grasp the real-time running state of equipment,scientifically make the plan of the inspection and maintenance to ensure the safe and stable operation of the equipment,so as to achieve intelligent inspection management.


vi PART 1 – BIOGRAPHY 1 Lee Orville Erwin Jr. in Huntsville 2 Lee Erwin's Education 3 Erwin's Work on Radio and Television (1931-1967) 9 Erwin's Return to Film Music 16 PART 2 – ERWIN'S SILENT FILM MUSIC AESTHETIC 26 PART 3 – THE LEE ERWIN COLLECTION 35 Introduction and Description of


To enhance the scalability of high performance packet switches, recently a two-stage load-balanced switch was introduced by Zhang, in which each stage used a deterministic sequence of configurations. The switch was simple to be scalable and had been proved to provide 100% throughput. However, in its basic fabric, the load-balanced switch may mis-sequence the packets. A new algorithm called FFS (full frame stuff) was proposed in this paper, which maintains packet order in the two-stage load-balanced switch and has excellent switching performance (in terms of mean delay and throughput).This algorithm is distributed and each port operates independently.


In recent years, digital workflows and digital printing presses have become quite common. We can expect a focus on two kinds of research and development as we enter the next stage. The first is automating the printing process, which until now has required the skills of a highly experienced operator, and the other is finding ways to assure high-quality printing using digital printing automation. In order to solve the problems involved in achieving these goals, Dainippon Screen has developed two printing support systems. One is a system that measures the image on printed sheets during printing in real time, and that can be used to control the ink fountain keys automatically, as well as to monitor the dampening water. The other is a system that controls the ink fountain keys during printing based on a single shot of the entire image on a printed sheet. I will explain these systems in greater detail.


Additional results from a Monte Carlo simulation of SU(2) pure gauge theory near the finite-temperature, deconfining phase transition are presented. The new data are from a 15/sup 3/ x 4 lattice at a value of 4/g/sup 2/ = 2.285 that is just inside the confinement phase. The Wilson line-line correlation function has a correlation length of 6.25 lattice units. This is consistent with a growth and divergence according to the critical exponent of the three-dimensional Ising model. The susceptibility shows a rapid and apparently divergent growth. For this quantity, the data favor an exponent that is a little smaller than that of the Ising model.


We examined a two-dimensional mathematical model for the problem of elasticity theory on welded dissimilar elastic half-planes containing rectilinear cracks under the action of mechanical efforts on the shores of a crack. As a consequence, the intensity of stresses in the vicinity of tops of the cracks increases, which significantly affects strength of the body. This may lead to the growth of a crack and to the local destruction of a structure. Such a model represents to some extent a mechanism of destruction of the elements of engineering structures with cracks when the water, contained in them, freezes to ice. It creates normal pressure on the shores of the cracks. Based on the application of the apparatus of singular integral equations (SIE), the problem is reduced to the system of SIE of the first kind on the contours of cracks. We obtained numerical solutions to the corresponding integral equation in particular cases of two welded dissimilar half-planes with one randomly-oriented crack, as well as a two-link irregular crack, which crosses the line of junction when the crack's shores are exposed to uniformly distributed normal pressure. By employing these solutions, we determined stress intensity coefficients (SIC) at the tops of the crack, which are subsequently used to determine critical values of the normal pressure on the shores of the crack. We built graphic dependences of SIC, which characterize distribution of the intensity of stresses at the tops of a crack, on the angle of crack inclination and elastic characteristics of half-planes. This makes it possible to analyze the intensity of stresses in the vicinity of a crack's tops depending on the geometrical and mechanical factors, as well as to determine the limit of permissible values of normal pressure on the shores of the crack at which the growth of the crack starts, as well as the local destruction of the body. It is shown that the proper selection of elastic characteristics of the components of welded dissimilar half-planes can help achieve an improvement in the strength of the body in terms of the mechanics of destruction by reducing SIC at the crack's tops


1. Positive psychology in search for meaning: An introduction Dmitry A. Leontiev 2. Personal meaning: A challenge for psychology Dmitry A. Leontiev 3. On knowing more than we can tell: Intuitive processes and the experience of meaning Samantha J. Heintzelman and Laura A. King 4. Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches Crystal L. Park and Login S. George 5. Some key differences between a happy life and a meaningful life Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, Jennifer L. Aaker and Emily N. Garbinsky 6. Sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood Antonella Delle Fave, Ingrid Brdar, Marie P. Wissing and Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 7. The mind's eye: A photographic method for understanding meaning in people's lives Michael F. Steger, Yerin Shim, Brenna R. Rush, Libby A. Brueske, Joo Yeon Shin and Leslie A. Merriman 8. Predicting meaning in work: Theory, data, implications Tatjana Schnell, Thomas Hoge and Edith Pollet 9. Pride and the experience of meaning in daily life Jeanne Nakamura


In the extrusion moulding of physical high-foaming LDPE sheet by use of butane as foaming agent,the technology,formulation and equipment to be concerned with all technical improvements for forming quality were elaborated.


This conceptual paper explores theoretical linkages between community well-being and key dimensions of public spaces (i.e., physical characteristics, technical experts, and communities). It draws on environmental justice literature and the Tripartite Framework to contextualize the concept of access to public spaces. The nexus between the key dimensions of public spaces and community well-being are explored by drawing on the Network Theory of Wellbeing. The main contribution of this paper is its merging of the aforementioned seminal work (i.e., Tripartite Framework and Network Theory of Wellbeing), two important bodies of scholarship that have yet to intersect but which offer a formidable platform to advance knowledge on how technical (e.g. planners), social (i.e. communities) and physical (e.g. built spaces like parks) dimensions of public space production can contribute to communal benefits derived from a public resource and community well-being. The applicability of the conceptual synthesis is illustrated through the discussion of specific examples in Maryvale.


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> As to the fundamental mechanisms of fibrillation we have plenty of theories, but none is universally accepted… we may note in passing that they all center around two ideas … (a) that the impulses arise from centers or pacemakers, or (b) that the condition is caused by re-entry of impulses and the formation of circles of excitation. Each of these views, again, has two groups of exponents … (a) those who believe that a single focus, or excitation ring, occurs, and (b) those who favor the idea that multiple foci, or numerous circus rings, are developed.
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> —Carl J. Wiggers, 19401

Ventricular fibrillation (VF) was likely recognized as early as 3500 BCE when the Ebers Papyrus2 described key features of fibrillation as follows:

> "If the heart trembles, has little power and sinks, the disease is advancing and death is near."

The modern scientific effort to understand fibrillation did not begin until 1543, when Vesalius3 described worm-like movements in animal hearts during dissection just before they died. Erichsen4 in 1842 documented tumultuous, tremulous, and irregular behavior of ventricles consequent to coronary ligation. Hoffa and Ludwig5 first recorded VF using a kymograph (mechanical wave recorder) in 1850 (Figure, left). Interestingly, Hoffa, who was Ludwig's pupil at the time, meant to stimulate neurons but accidentally stimulated the myocardium. They showed that irregular contractions of the ventricles could be induced by faradization (electric stimulation) and resulted in cardiac arrest that could not be checked by vagal stimulation. These studies of autonomic control of the heart suggested a neurogenic VF mechanism.

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The first recordings of ventricular fibrillation were acquired by Hoffa and Ludwig using a …


We consider a buyer's decision problem of sustainable supplier selection and order allocation (SSS & OA) among multiple heterogeneous suppliers who sell multiple types of items. The buyer periodically orders items from chosen suppliers to refill inventory to preset levels. Each supplier is differentiated from others by the types of items supplied, selling price, and order-related costs, such as transportation cost. Each supplier also has a preset requirement for minimum order quantity or minimum purchase amount. In the beginning of each period, the buyer constructs an SSS & OA plan considering various information from both parties. The buyer's planning problem is formulated as a mathematical model, and an efficient algorithm to solve larger instances of the problem is developed. The algorithm is designed to take advantage of the branch-and-bound method, and the special structure of the model. We perform computer experiments to test the accuracy of the proposed algorithm. The test result confirmed that the algorithm can find a near-optimal solution with only 0.82 percent deviation on average. We also observed that the use of the algorithm can increase solvable problem size by about 2.4 times.


Sometimes during the histological or histopathological analysis of human samples, it is possible to identify normal or pathological structures that are similar to human expression, organs, or even famous artworks. In this communication, we show a low-magnification image of a rectum mucosa biopsy stained with GAP-43, which was described as a specific axonal marker. The rectum conserves the main layers of the digestive tract (mucosa, submucosa, muscular propria, and the serosa), and it is a frequent material in pathology. In this unusual case, it is possible to observe the rectum mucosa and a highly innervated submucosa. Interestingly, the manner in which the biopsy was taken and the changes following tissue processing conferred to this sample a peculiar morphology that clearly resembles the mushroom called Morchella esculenta. The curveted and rounded morphology of the mucosa resembles the mushroom cap, the crypts of Lieberkuhn resemble the characteristic pits of the mushroom surface, and remaining connective tissue resembles the mushroom stem (Figure 1). 558264 IJSXXX10.1177/1066896914558264International Journal of Surgical PathologyCarriel et al research-article2014


As part of the international Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration, we have compared the electron cloud (EC) effect for different Damping Ring (DR) designs respectively with 6.4 km and 3.2 km circumference and investigated the feasibility of a shorter damping ring with respect to the electron cloud build-up and related beam instability. The studies for a 3.2 km ring were carried out with beam parameters of the ILC Low Power option. A reduced damping ring circumference has been proposed for the new ILC baseline design SB2009 [1] and would allow to considerably reduce the number of components, wiggler magnets and costs. We discuss the impact of the proposed operation of the ILC at high repetition rate 10 Hz and address the necessary modifications for the DRs. We also briefly discuss the plans for future studies including the luminosity upgrade option with shorter bunch spacing, the evaluation of mitigations and the integration of the CesrTA results into the Damping Ring design.


Objective To study the clinical significance of the changes of brain natriuretic peptide(BNP) in children with incomplete Kawasaki disease (IKD). Methods Of 25 cases of acute IKD ,20 cases were at the re-covery stage after 2 weeks treatment. 30 cases of upper respiratory tract infection at the same period were taken as controls. The plasma level of BNP,peripheral blood WBC count and C-reaction protein (CRP) levels were detected. Results BNP, WBC and CRP levels in acute IKD children were higher than that of control group (P < 0.01) , which were higher in 20 cases of acute phase than in recovery phase (P < 0.01). Conclusion BNP contributes to the early diagnosis of IKD in children.

Key words:
Kawasaki disease;  Brain natriuretic peptide;  C-reaction protein;  peripheral blood leuco-cyte


Sir, In the May issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Sabbatini et al. [1] discussed insomnia in maintenance haemodialysis patients. They found that the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in their patients was 46%. Their methodology for diagnosis of RLS was using a questionnaire devised by Holley et al. in 1992 [2]. As several conditions including cramps, neuropathy and akathisia may mimic RLS, the International RLS Study Group (IRLSSG) has formulated a well-designed questionnaire for accurate diagnosis of the condition [3]. These include: (i) a sensation of an urge to move the limbs (usually legs); (ii) motor restlessness to reduce sensations; (iii) quescegenic: onset or worsening of symptoms when at rest; and (iv) marked circadian variation in occurrence or severity of symptoms. RLS is diagnosed only if the responses to all the four questions are affirmative. The questionnaire used by the authors does not include all the IRLSSG questions relevant to the diagnosis of RLS. Hence, we feel that the figure quoted by them may not reflect a true picture of the prevalence of RLS in their patients.


JAMES W. WOOD, PATRICIA L. JOHNSON AND KENNETH L. CAMPBELL Demographic and endocrinological aspects of low natural fertility in highland New Guinea page 57 K. SHAIKH AND S. BECKER Socioeconomic status and fertility in rural Bangladesh page 81 FARHAT YUSUF AND MAZHAR HUSSAIN Abridged life tables for Pakistan based on the 1971 Population Growth Survey page 91 JOHN H. RELETHFORD Examination of the relationship between inbreeding and population size page 97 C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR A survey of a Cambridge suburb: familial resemblances andlQ components page 107 MICHAEL JOFFE AND JEANE ANN GRISSO Comparison of ante-natal hospital records with retrospective interviewing page 113


A survey of the fishes of the Muddy Boggy River in south central Oklahoma produced 90 species representing 21 families. Eleven additional species have been reported by others, for a total of 101 species known to occur in Muddy Boggy River. Thirty-four species are new records for the Muddy Boggy River drainage. A description of the Muddy Boggy River System, a brief history of ichthyological collections within the drainage, an annotated checklist with remarks on distribution and probable abundance of each species are included.


Existing secure communication mechanisms between set-top box and smart card in digital television broadcasting are unfair and inconvenient since the subscribers cannot receive programs for themselves on any set-top boxes owned. In this paper, a novel scheme for fair use is presented to receive programs for subscribers themselves on any set-top boxes. Moreover, the proposed scheme can prevent McCormac Hack and smart card cloning problems which are serious threats in digital television broadcasting.


The Oxford English Dictionary, in defining the word spectrum as "the coloured band into which a beam of light is decomposed by means of a prism or diffraction grating," credits Newton with its earliest use in this sense, at least in English. The O.E.D.'s reference is to Newton's famous first paper on light and colors (1672), where indeed the word appears shortly after Newton's phrase about " the celebrated phaenomena of colours." 1 But it appears only once; and, so far as a rapid inspection has revealed, Newton did not favor the word in his later optical papers, though he used it again in the Opticks of 1704. Here it occurs a number of times, but always interchangeably with the terms Newton preferred: the "image," the " oblong image," and the "coloured image." The word appears once or twice in the papers of Franciscus Linus and Anthony Lucas of Liege, but these critics seem to have picked it up from Newton's first paper. The earliest writer to show a distinct preference for " spectrum," and to use it almost exclusively when writing about light and color, was Newton's disciple, J. T. Desaguliers, in his first published paper in the Philosophical Transactions (1717).2 Wide currency was soon after given the term through its systematic use by Henry Pemberton in his View of Sir Isaac Newton's Phi-


This paper presents the concept of the in to the user, in order to foster the creation of terminology resources and to maintain their up-to-datedness by integrating automated data extraction and user-supported clean-up of raw terminological data and sharing user-validated terminology. The platform is based on cutting-edge technologies, provides single-access-point terminology services, and facilitates the establishment of emerging trends beyond conventional praxis and static models in terminology work. A cloud-based, user-oriented, collaborative, portable, interoperable, and multilingual platform offers such terminology services as terminology project creation and sharing, data collection for translation lookup, user document upload and management, terminology extraction customisation and execution, raw terminological data management, validated terminological data export and reuse, and other terminology services. K eywords: terminology work, terminology resource, cloud service 1. Welcome to the C loud: Beyond the Conventional Terminology Work Cloud computing technology is rapidly becoming a predominant computing paradigm applied for a large variety of data processing tasks and applications. Among its key benefits are platform and application independence, up-to-datedness, and low service costs for the user (Muegge 2012). In the language industry, the cloud-based offerings for translation services appeared at the end of the previous decade with the launch of pioneering solutions for translation management (for example, Lingotek, Lionbridge Freeway, and Google Translator Toolkit). To execute a translation project or to build a machine translation system in the cloud is no longer a new concept in language work1 expensive single-company-made solutions anymore. Cloud offerings allow and run a scalable workflow out of flexible and interoperable services, without any consumption of local computing resources. However, conventional praxis and static models might still hinder productivity and overall progress, for example, terminology work and the creation of terminology resources suffer from time-consuming manual processing and out-of-date work patterns. The language of the profession is developing so rapidly that the conventional approach to terminology work and the creation of terminology resources no longer fits user requirements. There is an urgent need to find a more efficient approach in terminology work as language workers acknowledge that terminology is a backbone of 1 See, for example, the LetsMT platform at letsmt.com (Vasiljevs et al. 2010). professional communication. Consistent terminology ensures the accuracy of created or otherwise managed content. It also ensures the quality of documentation within its life cycle, the satisfaction of users, and the consistency of brands. Obviously, the time has come to facilitate the establishment of emerging trends in the creation of terminology resources, their management, and their utilisation in various applications, reflecting the latest developments in corpus-based terminology (see, for example design (Vasiljevs et al., 2011). Though a number of terminology work supportive tools currently exist, there is no single tool that could cover all the major steps within a term life cycle from identification to translation and further exploitation in other language applications the so-called portable solution. Existing and/or available tools are not adjusted to new trends in terminology work, for example, few tools integrate facilities for corpus work, most tools have limited language coverage, few tools have sharing facilities and are adherent to ISO standards, no tool is based on cloud computing, etc. This paper presents the platform TaaS2 that is being created within the EU FP7 project TaaS3. It pioneers a new fashion in terminology work: an automated approach to terminology identification applying linguistic intelligence, translation lookup using major terminology finally, a professional who validates the result. 2 The Beta version of the platform is available at http://demo.taas-project.eu. 3 The public project website is available at http://taas-project.eu. 2. Overview of the TaaS Platform TaaS is based on cloud computing technology that rapidly becomes one of the predominant computing paradigms applied for a large variety of data processing tasks and applications. To automate various tasks in terminology work, the TaaS platform provides a set of interoperable cloud-based services (see Figure 1). The services are integrated into several workflows. These workflows automate the identification of term candidates in user-uploaded monolingual documents and the lookup of translation equivalents for identified and extracted monolingual term candidates. Translation equivalents are retrieved from online terminology term banks, multilingual terminology automatically extracted from comparable and parallel resources on the Web (in online and cashed scenarios), as


IoT-aided smart grid heavily depends on the most innovative communication technologies that could make the grid system susceptible to false data injection attacks (FDIAs). The main objective of the FDI attackers remains in damaging or corrupting the state estimation strategy in the smart grid resulting in blackouts and/or to influence the electricity market. With a number of features involved in the smart grid system, FDIA detection is said to be complicated. By the conventional bad data detection systems, the FDIA detection accuracy and validation made by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were marginally acceptable. However, due to the time complexity and overhead incurred, the detection of FDIA is a hot research topic. In this work, we design an efficient FDIA detection method by coupling cooperative paired swarm optimization and relational vector learning techniques (CPSO-RVL), to address the above-said issues. First, the cooperative paired particle swarm optimization model is proposed to attain an appropriate feature for improving the computational efficiency of FDIA detection. Next, with the obtained significant features, the relational vector learning-based FDIA detection model is designed for robust classification between FDIA and non-FDIA with minimum overhead. The extensive experiments show that the proposed method outperforms existing baseline approaches by 16% and 34% in terms of computation time and computation overhead, respectively.


The embodiments of the present invention provide an adapter upgrade method and apparatus, said method comprising: by means of a data cable in the charging interface of the adapter, the adapter receiving upgrade data in universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) format, sent by a converter; the converter is used for converting the upgrade data in universal serial bus (USB) format, sent by a personal computer (PC) terminal, to upgrade data in UART format, and sending to the adapter the upgrade data in UART format; by means of an internal micro control unit (MCU), the adapter processing the upgrade data in UART format and upgrading the adapter. In the embodiments of the present invention, the upgrade data of the PC terminal is downloaded to the MCU of the adapter, thus adjusting the operating mode of the adapter and accomplishing the upgrade of the adapter. In contrast to the prior art, wherein the operating mode of an adapter is adjusted by changing the adapter hardware, The solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention accomplish with more flexibility the adapter upgrade, while also effectively reducing production costs.


A major goal of modern biology is to extend our understanding of biological systems investigated in the laboratory to their ecological and evolutionary context. With extensive understanding of the function, development and genetics of C. elegans, exploring the link between this laboratory model and the environment in which this system evolved would be very interesting because very little is known about the natural history of this premier model organism. A new strain of Caenorhabditis briggsae (SoAf) with an associated bacterium, Serratia sp. SCBI, has been isolated from South Africa using common entomopathogenic nematode trapping methods. This study taxonomically identified and evaluated entomopathogenic behavior of C. briggsae SoAf and Serratia sp. SCBI. Hemocoelic injections of Serratia sp. SCBI demonstrated pathogenicity in insect larvae, Galleria mellonella. Caenorhabditis briggsae SoAf and other Caenorhabditis, including C. elegans , were capable of infection, growth and reproduction within the insect larvae in the presence of Serratia sp. SCBI. Identification of a putative entomopathogenic C. briggsae expands on our understanding of Caenorhabditis ecology and provides a framework for further investigation of entomopathogensis in other free-living nematodes.


Infrared thermography is used to determine the instantaneous transition location of a supersonic flat plate boundary layer. In order to have sufficient contrast for the IR measurements a stainless steel plate is uniformly heated before the wind tunnel is started. During the run the plate cools down rapidly and the decreasing wall temperature stabilises the laminar boundary layer, causing a moving transition front. A linear relation between the transition location and wall temperature is found. The obtained results agree well with surface oil flow measurements that were carried out on a cold plate.


Background: Choroidal fissure cyst is a developmental variant that is characterised by a small cyst in the choroidal fissure. These are cysts that are specific to a specific location and can be neuroglial, neuroepithelial, or arachnoid in nature. In routine radiological cross-sectional imaging studies, these are considered incidental findings. There is dilemma in follow up of these cysts because of their asymptomatic nature or of some vague complaints and invites a lot of debate on their follow-up. Methods: Five children aged 10 to 16 years who presented to the outpatient department with a vague headache, vertigo, or unexplained seizures underwent non-contrast computerized tomography (NCCT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head to rule out any intracranial pathology. Results: Three of the cases had pure cysts in the brain, while the other two had tuberculomas of various sizes and types that resembled cystic appearances. One of the brain cyst cases involved a 14-year-old female, and NCCT head findings revealed a small cyst in the right choroid fissure.  On multiplanar and multisectional plain MRI, this was later confirmed as a choroidal fissure cyst. The other two cystic pathologies were vesicular cysticercosis and posterior fossa arachnoid cyst. The other two were tuberculomas with ring enhancement, as confirmed by MR spectroscopy.
Conclusion: The case of the choroidal fissure cyst required special attention due to the patient's and clinician's concern for the follow-up. We reviewed the literature for the fate and follow up of these types of case


Objective To investigate the curative effect of sodium nitroprusside on severe heart failure. Methods Sodium nitroprusside was continuously intravenously pumped. Dopamine was added for patients with low blood pressure. The curative effect of 28 dilated cardiomyopathy patients with severe heart failure were studied.Results Fifteen patients were marked effective (53.6%). 11 patients were effective (39.3%). 2 patients were ineffective (7.1%). Conclusion Sodium nitroprusside in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy patients with severe heart failure is safe and effective.


The beginnings of a global economy has been traced to expansion of ~ trade by European maritime nations during the period 1450 to 1640 and emergence of chartered trading companies from the fifteenth century. = The modem phase of the global economy is traceable to the post second world war period and was spurred by events such as formation of international organizations like the IMF, World Bank and GATT etc. ~ all of which aimed at creating a new post-war international economic order. Revolutionary changes in communication technology such as the development ofthe transistor at Bell Telephone labs in 1948 and the subsequent development of the Integrated Circuits in 1950s and micro-processors in the 1970s contributed immensely to the emergence of the global economy (Dicken 1992). The signs of global interdependence and integration of the world economy are already evident in the debate on world trade and high unemployment rates in the industrial economies, the world debt crisis which emerged over the second half of the 1970s, and the increasing signs of environmental changes such as global = warmmg and depletion of the ozone layer all of which are attributable to the increasing global pattern of production and consumption. Observers have noted that globalisation process is spawning similar patterns of consumption and have seriously questioned whether the earth can support a high mass consumption economy (Daly, 1977). ~20


Background: Skin diseases can be one of the factors affecting the quality of life of the growing elderly population. In treating various dermatoses in the elderly, structural and physiological changes of the skin due to ageing need to be considered. Phototherapy has been proven to be a valuable modality for many skin diseases in adults. However, there is currently no study evaluating the use of phototherapy to treat skin diseases in geriatric population in Indonesia. Objective: To learn the efficacy and safety of narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy in geriatric patients. Methods: A retrospective study using data from medical records of patients aged 60 years and above that received NB-UVB phototherapy in Dermatovenereology Clinic at the Dr Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital in 2014–2018. Results: From 34 included patients, 21 (61.7%) patients had psoriasis, 9 (26.5%) had vitiligo, and 5 (14.7%) patients had other dermatoses. Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI) 75% was achieved by 52.4% psoriasis patients with a median of 22 sessions and cumulative dose of 26.6 J/cm2. Initial repigmentation was seen in 100% of vitiligo patients starting from a median of 6 sessions and a cumulative dose of 1.5 J/cm2. The side effect of erythema presented in 10 (47.6%) patients, with an event rate of 1.48% per session. Severe erythema was experienced by one vitiligo patient requiring a delay in phototherapy session. Conclusion: Phototherapy is a safe and effective modality for the geriatric population with various skin diseases, using doses and frequency similar to those of adult patients.


Funding of £93,000 from South Norfolk Council has enabled a local housing association to build eleven new affordable homes in Long Stratton.


Curtain-grouting is necessary to improve hydraulic and dynamic properties for dam foundation stability. Adequate evaluation of grouting improvement is extremely important for its rational execution. Such evaluation is conducted in accordance with the non-exceedance probability for a target Lugeon value. Ordinarily, for the grouting area, the probability is calculated from Lugeon values of regular pattern holes and supplementary ones individually. The probability for regular pattern holes conducted equally in the area represents the overall grouting effectiveness. However, although the probability for the supplementary holes does not represent the effectiveness, it has been regarded in many cases as the criterion of effectiveness. A new rational process of evaluating the probability is provided herein: it synthesizes both holes. Additionally, a rational process is provided for the reduction of supplementary holes. These processes were demonstrated as useful for curtain-grouting quality management at a domestic dam construction site.


In this paper, we found out the problems of textbooks for communicative Chinese and we tried to found out the way how we write the textbook for communicative Chinese and HSK Students for communicative Chinese do not major in Chinese and they take class only one semester. But most universities use the textbooks for Chinese major. We think it is not reasonable. Some students do not major in Chinese, but they want to take HSK grade like Aerial service, so we think that the textbooks for communicative Chinese include related contents. Therefore, we have to find out differentiated textbooks for these purpose.


With the deep-going of the enterprise informatization construction,enterprises have work up to the importance of abandoning the out-dated managing methods and ideas and of introducing information technology and the latest scientific method of management into their own management system in order to keep themselves alive and the ball rolling in keep competition.This paper calculates the contribution rate of informatization construction in economic growth of enterprise by using the Solow growth velocity equation which has simple mathematical form,clear economic meaning and reasonable hypothesis conditions.


This paper takes a close look at US institutional investors' investment behavior on foreign assets by studying the ownership after considering all the transaction costs, including capital control in the foreign countries, explicit transaction costs and implicit transaction costs, and confirms there is still clear home bias existing among US institutional investors. Further tests on the sources of such bias show that US investors fail to predict stock to earn excess returns from US stocks and thus the irrationality of investment behaviors, such as neglect of diversification benefits and choosing stocks by familiarity rather than information advantage, are the main causes for home bias.


Juvenile delinquency research has identified two vital (and related) concepts to this area of study: age of onset and escalation. In this investigation, escalation is examined as a function of early drinking. Added to this are the influences of deviant peers and the social control effects of family and church. My analysis shows that consuming alcohol at a young age is correlated with illegal drug use, committing a greater number of illegal acts, committing more serious offences, and being confronted by police for delinquent behavior. Moreover, I show that peer influence has a greater impact on individual behavior than do other social control mechanisms. In conclusion, I offer a critique of current policies aimed at teenage drinking and argue in favor of preventative, rather than prohibitive strategies.


The radiographic goal of the FXR Optimization Project is to generate an x-ray pulse with peak energy of 19 MeV, spot-size of 1.5 mm, a dose of 500 rad, and duration of 60 ns. The electrical objectives are to generate a 3 kA electron-beam and refine our 16 MV accelerator so that the voltage does not vary more than 1%-rms. In a multi-cell linear induction accelerator, like FXR, the timing of the acceleration pulses relative to the beam is critical. The pulses must be timed optimally so that a cell is at full voltage before the beam arrives and does not drop until the beam passes. In order to stay within the energy-variation budget, the synchronization between the cells and beam arrival must be controlled to a couple of nanoseconds. Therefore, temporal measurements must be accurate to a fraction of a nanosecond. FXR Optimization Project developed a one-giga-sample per second (gs/s) data acquisition system to record beam sensor data. Signal processing algorithms were written to determine cell timing with an uncertainty of a fraction of a nanosecond. However, the uncertainty in the sensor delay was still a few nanoseconds. This error had to be reduced if we are to improve the quality of the electron beam. Two types of sensors are used to align the cell voltage pulse against the beam current. The beam current is measured with resistive-wall sensors. The cell voltages are read with capacitive voltage monitors. Sensor delays can be traced to two mechanisms: (1) the sensors are not co-located at the beam and cell interaction points, and (2) the sensors have different length jumper cables and other components that connect them to the standard-length coaxial cables of the data acquisition system. Using the physical locations and dimensions of the sensor components, and the dielectric constant of the materials, delay times were computed. Relative to the cell voltage, the beam current was theoretically reporting late by 7.7 ns. Two experiments were performed to verify and refine the sensor delay correction. In the first experiment, the beam was allowed to drift through a cell that was not pulsed. The beam induces a potential into the cell that is read by the voltage monitor. Analysis of the data indicated that the beam sensor signal was likely 7.1 ns late. In the second experiment, the beam current is calculated from the injector diode voltage that is the sum of the cell voltages. A 7 ns correction produced a very good match between the signals from the two types of sensors. For simplicity, we selected a correction factor that advanced the current signals by 7 ns. This should reduce the uncertainty in the temporal measurements to less than 1 ns.


The current status at home and abroad on preparing aluminum foam and aluminum foam sandwitch by powder metallurgy method is introduced, the advantages and disadvantages of existing methods are pointed out. The key techniques of powderconstituent, foaming agent and space-holder selection, compacting powder, the system of elevating temperature are emphatically expounded. The existing problem and the development trend of foam aluminum are analysed.


The vibrational spectrum of the neutral vacancy in diamond is investigated by using a periodic approach (supercells including 32, 64, 128 and 256 atoms have been considered), a "hybrid" functional (B3LYP), and a local basis set as implemented in the CRYSTAL14 code. The Raman spectrum, that shows a single peak in the perfect bulk (at 1333 cm−1 from our simulation, in excellent agreement with the experimental result at 1332 cm−1), presents a complex structure at lower frequencies (from 200 cm−1 to the bulk peak) when the defect is present. The details of this structure are changing with the concentration of the defects. The IR spectrum (that is completely flat in perfect diamond) shows a fine structure with intensities that are however very low, not easily detectable in the experiment. The ADP (Atomic Displacement Parameters), representing the mean displacement of the atoms as a consequence of their vibration, show how the first neighbors are elongated along the defect direction (the principal axis is nearly twice the two others along the orthogonal directions), and how the nearly spherical shape of the "unperturbed" bulk atoms is recovered at the third-fourth neighbors. The difference in the vibrational DOS between the perfect and defective system completes the analysis.


This essay concerns itself with the historical background to what it refers to as existential pedagogy, which designates the way in which existential literature presumably seeks to affect the reade ...


This paper explores the phenomenon of contemporary Indonesian Muslim youth who have developed an Islamic (popular) cultural movement in Indonesia through an organization called A¢â'¬EœForum Lingkar PenaA¢â'¬â"¢ (Lingkar Pena Forum). This organization was founded by some tarbiyah campus activists in 1997 at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta. The primary purpose of the organization is to prepare young writers who are concerned with daA¢â'¬â"¢wa issues in this global era. In the beginning, FLP consisted of approximately 30 activists. Over time, FLP grew to include activists from the province of Indonesia as well as abroad. They claim that there are now a total of 5000 members both within and outside Indonesia. Almost 75 per cent of them are women.FLP uses modern technology like the internet, in order to network and communicate with one other. They disseminate A¢â'¬A"newA¢â'¬Â� Islamic popular values in IndonesiaA¢â'¬â"¢s public sphere by publishing various works including short stories, comics, essays etc. Such writings use special terms like A¢â'¬EœikhwanA¢â'¬â"¢ to refer to men and A¢â'¬EœakhwatA¢â'¬â"¢ for women. FLP has also developed writing courses, especially for teenagers. This form of Islam is generally influenced by Ikhwanul Muslimin (Islamic brotherhood) movement ideas in Egypt.Several years ago, some of FLPA¢â'¬â"¢s founders started to publish their ideas in Annida Magazine. Annida is an Islamic magazine for Muslim youth. It was founded in 1991 at a time when secular: magazines like Aneka, Anita, and Hai dominated the types of media aimed at adolescents in Indonesia. The presence of magazines like Annida provides an alternative to other Islamic magazines such as Sabili, which presents a more hardline view of Islam. At the same time, Annida has differentiated itself from A¢â'¬A"secularA¢â'¬Â� popular media.As the Islamic community became united through the writings of the daA¢â'¬â"¢wa movement, they developed various A¢â'¬EœsunnaA¢â'¬â"¢ (traditions) from the era of the Prophet Muhammad. This includes, for example, wearing the jilbab (hijab or head scarf) for women and growing a beard and wearing koko clothes for men. Their main focus is on disseminating a popular or trendy version of Islam among teenagers. They are most concerned about Islamic youth. They circulate their ideas among school students through religious institutions like Rohis (Kerohanian Islam).Almost all FLP members have a background Rohis in the school. This study attempts to explore the contemporary Muslim youth movement in Indonesia, which is occurring at a time when globalization is at its strongest.


This paper reviews the dynamics model about anaerobic biological treatment of organic matter, also generally discussed the degradation mechanism of anaerobic biological,the classification and characteristics of biological treatment technology,and the numerical flow of the typical anaerobic biological treatment UASB reactor as well as the kinetics have been simulated.


Cycle slip detection and correction is very important for high-precision positioning with GNSS. In past research, a lot of work has been done on this subject, especially for current dual-frequency GPS (the global positioning system). However, few have been done about the reliability. Similarly to ambiguity resolution, reliability is important to cycle slip detection and correction. In this research work, methods on how to assess and ensure the reliability of cycle slip detection and correction are proposed.


product for injection in cases where calcium therapy is indicated. It contains 14*8 per cent of calcium and is non-toxic in therapeutic doses. ' Hypoloid' Calcium Laevulate is indicated in the treatment of tetany, in the vomiting of intestinal obstruction, in coeliac rickets and as a preoperative measure in various surgical operations. It is issued in boxes of 5 ' Hypoloid' ampoules. From Messrs. Glaxo Laboratories, London. Adexolin. Messrs. Glaxo Laboratories have sent us a booklet


blogs at bmj.com/blogs Secondly, agreement is needed on how to cost and value the immediate and longer term health benefits of mitigating climate change. The multiple health benefits of reducing carbon emissions and their effect on the economy are yet to be systematically captured and valued. The importance of doing this was recognised in the Stern review.12 Designing and agreeing systematic measures of the health benefits of taking action requires interdisciplinary collaboration between health professionals, economists, and climate change scientists. It also involves interagency collaboration between the Department of Energy and Climate Change; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; the Department of Health; and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to ensure that this is done in rigorous ways that benefit patients, the public, and future generations. These methods need to quantify the multiple benefits in ways that stimulate action from all parts of the global health system, from local nurses and doctors to global drug companies. 1 Costello A, Abbas M, Allen A, Ball S, Bell S, Bellamy R, et al. Managing the health effects of climate change. Lancet 2009;373:1693-733. 2 Jarvis L, Montgomery H, Morisetti N, Gilmore I. Climate change, ill health, and conflict. BMJ 2011;342: dl819. 3 Gilding P. The great disruption: how the climate crisis will transform the global economy. Bloomsbury, 2011. 4 Griffiths J, Rao M. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. BMJ 2009;339;b4952. 5 Roberts I, Edwards P. The energy glut: the politics of fatness in an overheating world. Zen Books, 2010. 6 Zander A, NiggebruggeA, Pencheon D, LyratzopoulosG. Changes in travel-related carbon emissions associated with modernization of services for patients with acute myocardial infarction: a case study. J Public Health 2011;33:272-9. 7 Connor A, Mortimer F, Higgins R. The follow-up of renal transplant recipients by telephone consultation: three years experience from a single UK renal unit. Clin Med 2011;11:242-6. 8 NHS Sustainable Development Unit, Forum forthe Future. Fitforthe Future. Scenarios for low-carbon healthcare 2030. Cambridge: 2009. 9 HM Treasury. The green book. 2011.www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ data_greenbook_index.htm. 10 Atkinson S, Ingham J, Cheshire M, Went S. Defining quality and quality improvement. Clin Med 2010;10:537-9. 11 World Bank. Data. 2009. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/. 12 Stern N. Stern review on the economics of climate change. 2006. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.


This is a report of a lecture by Professor Louise Newman at a seminar organised by the Australian Institute of Family Affairs in March 2012. The lecture explored the effects of detention on asylum seekers, particularly children and families and examined factors that promote the health and wellbeing of young asylum seekers and families and key barriers to protecting these vulnerable groups.


Salinity has become one of the most important challenges in agriculture. A pot experiment was conducted during 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons at the greenhouse of Fac. Agric., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt, on Triticum aestivum L., var. Gemmiza 10. Plants irrigated with diluted seawater with tap water (control), 4.0 6.0, 8.0 and 10.0 dS m-1 to investigate the utilization of co-inoculation of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the addition of compost individually or in combination as an environmentally sustainable tools to alleviate the effects of salinity on wheat plants at both 75 days after sowing (DAS) (elongation stage) and 150 DAS (maturity stage). Salinity stress caused significant reduction in shoot height, shoot fresh and dry weights, K+/Na+ ratio and nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium contents of shoot at 75 DAS, however, Na+ concentration increased significantly. At maturity yield and its attributes, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium contents in grain and straw decreased significantly with increasing irrigation water salinity level. Co-inoculation and/or compost amendments increased significantly the growth parameters and yield components compared to untreated plants under all irrigation water salinity levels.


The invention provides a high-strength plastic fiber composite material prepared by waste car plastics. The high-strength plastic fiber composite material is prepared by, by weight, 15-35 parts of waste car roof, 15-35 parts of waste car trim, 25-45 parts of waste car foot mat and 5-25 parts of waste fiber plate. The prepared composite material has the advantages that the material is high in strength and good in corrosion resistance, fire resistance, impact resistance, high temperature resistance and water soaking resistance, and products produced by using the composite material to replace wood plates can keep performance stability under long-term high-temperature insolation and are high in water soaking resistance and corrosion resistance and widely applicable to various fields.


We describe some properties of the geometric Goppa codes on the curve determined by the equation /-Cxi^-i + lW^-i + l)* over a finite field K = Fqn with an arbitrary odd q, n > 1, where s = a + b, s \ q — l, u = 1 for odd n and u = 2 for even n. We find the number of the Fqn -rational points of the curve and the degrees and ramification indexes of the maximal ideals of the discrete valuation rings of the field K(x, v). In some cases, the bases of the codes are found.


We develop in the present paper a genetic algorithm for the one-dimensional bin packing problem. This algorithm performs a series of perturbations in an attempt to improve the current solution, applying some problem dependant genetic operators. Our procedure is efficient and easy to implement. We apply it to several benchmark instances taken from some problem sets and compare our results to those found in the literature. We find that our algorithm is able to generates competitive results compared to the best methods known so far and computes, for the first time, one optimal solution for one open benchmark instance.


Most equity risk models applied in practice assume stable return correlations over time. However, there is considerable evidence suggesting that correlations among stock returns and hence, variance–covariance matrices (VCMs) become unstable over time. In this paper, we account for correlation instabilities in US stock returns and derive VCMs from time-varying factor model estimates. To do so, we use three different estimation approaches: (1) moving window least squares, (2) flexible least squares and (3) the random walk model. Our empirical results suggest that a time-varying estimation of return correlations fits the data considerably better than time-invariant estimation and thus, increases the efficiency of risk estimation and portfolio selection.


The invention discloses a heatproof hybrid epoxy resin containing phosphosilicate as well as the preparation method and the application thereof. The preparation method of epoxy resin is that: counting in mass fraction, 100 epoxide polyalkyl silicane, 50 to 120 organic solvent are mixed with 0.001 percent to 0.5 percent catalyst agent of epoxide polyalkyl silicane mass, then under 50 to 120 DEG C, 10 to 40 deionized water is dropwised in mixing solution by hydrolyzing and reflowing for 2 to 8 hours before 1 to 100 active material containing phosphor is added in, and the organic solvent used for reaction is removed after 3 to 10 hours reaction under 100 to 160 DEG C, thus acquiring the heatproof hybrid epoxy resin containing phosphosilicate, the number-average molar mass is 500-6000. After being separately solidified or compound solidified with normal epoxy resin, the heatproof hybrid epoxy resin containing phosphosilicate has the advantages of good mechanical property, flame retardant property and heat-resistant quality, tensile strength up to 43 to 94 Mpa, limiting oxygen index up to 23 to 38 and glass transition temperature up to 165 to 187 DEG C, can be used widely as electronic industrial base material with high-performance.


The luciferase reporter assay is a powerful method of studying gene expression at the transcriptional level because of its high sensitivity and convenience. It detects the activity of luciferase, a light-producing enzyme encoded by the luxCDABE operon. By cloning promoters of interest upstream of the luxCDABE operon in the pCS26 vector, light production can be correlated to promoter activity. In this study, we developed steps toward a luciferase assay system that can be used to investigate gene expression in a variety of biological models by attempting to establish positive and negative controls within the context of the previously proposed AcrS repression of the acrAB and acrEF operons. To assess this repression, luciferase activity can be compared in the Escherichia coli wild-type BW25113 and ΔacrS JW3232-1 strains transformed with pCS26 vectors fused with promoters. Attempts at cloning the promoters of acrAB and acrEF into pCS26 through Gibson cloning failed, likely as a result of inefficient enzyme activity. We assessed the suitability of ydcWp-pCS26 as a positive control, which contains the promoter of ydcW, an aldehyde dehydrogenase gene, fused upstream of the luxCDABE operon. Through luciferase assay measurements, we determined that ydcWp-pCS26 acts as an appropriate positive control for studying AcrS repression which produces light at consistent levels regardless of the presence of AcrS. ydcWp-pCS26 can be similarly evaluated in future experiments as a potential positive control due to its constitutive expression. We also attempted to create a negative control containing a non-promoter insert upstream of the luxCDABE operon in pCS26 which should not produce light in any condition. Cloning the negative control by inverse PCR was unsuccessful but should be continued along with construction of the acrABpand acrEFp-pCS26 constructs in future experiments to create a complete luciferase assay system functional for investigating regulation of acrAB and acrEF and various other biological systems.


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In order for labour market policy to contribute fully to competitiveness, inclusion and prosperity at the local level, flexibility is necessary in the management of policies and programmes. This chapter presents the results from research conducted in 25 OECD countries to evaluate the degree of flexibility available in the management of labour market policies and programmes at both the regional and local levels. Denmark, Switzerland, the United States, Finland and the Czech Republic present the highest degree of flexibility at the level of local labour markets (or "travel to work" areas), followed by Austria, New Zealand and Poland. In general, however, there is some way to go before offices at this level have an adequate level of flexibility to fully adapt employment policy to local needs and to priorities set in partnership with other local actors.


This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks Room Ballads as well as the masterly novel Kim propelled him to the pinnacle of literary success before he was forty. With illuminative reinterpretations of his work, it also follows Kipling through the next three decades that took this complex, troubled, and brilliant man to tragic personal disappointments and galling disrepute among the lions of literary fashion. In all, biographer Ricketts brings vibrantly to life the diverse worlds of imperialist India and Victorian London that both inspired and betrayed Kipling's genius.


Outlines the hydrodynamic processes involved in the development of the estuary of the Lay river, Vendee, France, noting that no control is exerted by pre-existing morphologic or geologic conditions.


The crystal structure of (2,2 ′ -bipyridine)( N -(1-naphthyl)methyl-1,3-propanediamine)platinum(II) chloride was determined by X-ray crystallography. The title complex crystallized in the monoclinic space group C 2/ c and Z = 8 with cell parameters a = 23.3026(14)Å, b = 17.4118(12)Å, c = 12.3816(7)Å, β = 109.032(8) ° , V = 4749.1(6)Å 3 . The R 1 [ I > 2 σ ( I )] and wR 2 (all data) values are 0.0242 and 0.0490, respectively, for all 5435 independent reflections. In the crystal structure, disorder was observed for the N -(1-naphthyl)methyl-1,3-propanediamine moiety. Hydrogen-bond network was formed between the (2,2 ′ -bipyridine)( N -(1-naphthyl)methyl-1,3-propanediamine)platinum(II) cations and chloride anions.


ABSTRACT Alternative methods of trend extraction and of seasonal adjustment are described that operate in the time domain and in the frequency domain. The time-domain methods that are implemented in the TRAMO–SEATS and the STAMP programs are compared. An abbreviated time-domain method of seasonal adjustment that is implemented in the IDEOLOG program is also presented. Finite-sample versions of the Wiener–Kolmogorov filter are described that can be used to implement the methods in a common way. The frequency-domain method, which is also implemented in the IDEOLOG program, employs an ideal frequency selective filter that depends on identifying the ordinates of the Fourier transform of a detrended data sequence that should lie in the pass band of the filter and those that should lie in its stop band. Filters of this nature can be used both for extracting a low-frequency cyclical component of the data and for extracting the seasonal component.


Despite the importance of seatbelt use in the reduction of injuries and fatalities, the majority of past studies failed to account for the complex nature of seatbelts on the safety of roadways. The complexity of seatbelt use is especially related to a possible association between seatbelt use and other factors at the time of crashes. Ignoring those interaction terms might result in unrealistic or biased point estimates regarding the underlying impact of seatbelt use on roadway safety. For instance, is the impact of seatbelt use on the severity of crashes stable or varies based on other factors such as gender? Or does the impact of seatbelt use changes based on whether a driver is under the influence of alcohol or not? The mixed logit model was used to model the severity of crashes. In this study we focused on interaction terms between seatbelt use and all other plausible predictors of crashes. The results highlighted that there are important and significant interaction terms between seatbelt status and other predictors such as drivers under the influence (DUI), drivers with invalid driver's licenses, lack of attention in crashes, having a citation record, ejected drivers, and other environmental and roadway characteristics. For instance, it was found that the impact of seatbelt use on the severity of crashes varies based on the actions that drivers took before crashes, such as improper lane changes or following too close. On the other hand, seatbelt use is more effective in crash severity reduction for ejected drivers and less effective for drivers under the influence of alcohol or unattended drivers. The results provide important information to gain a better understanding regarding the effectiveness of seatbelt use.


A Validated Method for the Analysis of 142 Pesticide Residues Using Atmospheric Pressure GC Coupled with Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry L. Cherta,1 T. Portolés,1 J. Beltran,1 E. Pitarch,1 J.G.J. Mol,2 F. Hernández,1 D. Roberts,3 and R. Rao3 1 Research Institute for Pesticides and Water, University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain 2 RIKILT Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands 3 Waters Corporation, Manchester, UK


Extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (ENKTL), nasal type is a rare, aggressive disease affecting the midfacial and nasopalatal region in the head. The pathogenesis of the disease is unknown, but the disease has been linked to Epstein - Barr virus (EBV) infection. Early diagnosis of the disease is the best way to increase the prognosis and quality of life in the patients. However, it is still a challenge to diagnose this disease earlier. Early sign and symptoms like nasal blockage and rhinorrhea of this disease mimic that of the benign nasal diseases and in the later stage, it is confused with other destructive nasal diseases. This disease is diagnosed histopathologically. Cytoplasmic CD3 (Epsilon), CD2 and CD56 antigens of NK and T cells are expressed by the diseased tissue. Pathologically, tumor cells surround the vessel in a circular manner sometime infiltrating the vessel itself and destroying it. CT and MRI scans are helpful in staging the disease and finding out the extent of destruction. Radiotherapy is used in the early stage of the disease with or without chemotherapy, but the later stage and relapse cases are treated with chemotherapy. Relapse rate is high in this disease.


The family is the smallest social institution which has a great influence on society. A harmonious family will contribute towards the creation of a prosperous society and nation. Ibn Sina, a wellknown Islamic scholar, also discussed the role of Muslims as member of a family and a community in one of his works, al-Siyasah. This study is a preliminary review of Ibn Sina's thought on family contained in the book. This study uses descriptive method and the data was obtained through library research. Based on Ibn Sina's thought, it was found that he emphasized on financial management, husband's leadership as the head of household and proper education for the children in order to preserve the well-being of a family. It is hoped that this study will give more exposure to the thinking of our past scholars to the society in order to create social harmony according to Islam.


The Group Embedded Figures Test and the FIRO-B were administered to 100 Canadian undergraduates in business administration. One FIRO-B measure of wanted affection correlated significantly but only .20 with scores on the Group Embedded Figures Test.


The sixteen elements of the Mueller matrix are associated with sixteen degrees of freedom, seven nonpolarizing, and nine depolarizing degrees of freedom. Combinations of polarization elements are associated with all the degrees of freedom demonstrating that physically realizable polarization elements span all sixteen degrees. Two alternative polarization basis states are introduced.


This brief paper investigates the optimal selection of online controllers for a linear system with actuator faults in the framework ofH1 control. The occurrence of actuator faults is modeled as a Markov chain to predict future faults. A compatible relationship of H1 controllers is proposed for successive fault modes. In order to shrink the set of all H1 controllers, seven methods are presented to construct a small set of controllers for dierent demands. Then ve selection schemes are proposed to choose a proper controller from a given set of controllers for a given fault mode. Another selection scheme and a pre-selection scheme are presented when there might be false fault detection and identication. Considered together, they provide a powerful solution for all kinds of demands. A motivating example is used to illustrate the proposed methods.


This thesis examines four exchange rate pairs of fiat currencies in comparison to four of the main cryptocurrencies based on market capitalization. The primary goal is to obtain new estimates for the cryptocurrencies based on the use of the GARCH (1.1) model, the EGARCH (1.1) model and simple historical volatility (SHV). The volatility is regarded as an essential risk measure in the management of financial flows, which makes it reasonable to conduct a multilateral scientific analysis and a comparison of this new digital phenomenon. The calculated volatility estimates are based on the Banks of International Settlement's data on currency exchange rates, together with the cryptocurrency data retrieved from Yahoo finance. Concretely, the aim is to reveal the significant differences between the volatility of the following exchange rates EUR/USD, GDP/USD, CNY/USD and YEN/USD in comparison with the closing prices of bitcoin, ether, xrp, and xlm. Furthermore, the period of observation is divided into an in-sample and an out-of-sample period. The models are estimated in the in-sample period and then used to forecast the volatility in the out-of-sample period. This thesis uses the squared returns as an unbiased approximation of the latent volatility. The forecasts are evaluated using the mean squared error as a loss function. Estimation of volatility shows that the volatility of the cryptocurrencies, in general, are significantly higher than the fiat currency exchange rates volatility. In this regard, it can be concluded that the recognition of cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange is premature, concerning their violation of the essential requirements. The findings of the thesis show that both the GARCH (1.1) model and the EGARCH (1.1) model predict fiat currency exchange rates more accurately. The EGARCH model has a better accuracy of predicting the currencies overall in the sample. The simple historical volatility was ten times higher on the cryptocurrencies compared to the fiat currency rates. Among the cryptocurrencies, there is an ambiguity to predict the most robust model, since no superior model could be identified by the mean squared error estimates. This also involves further research into the prediction among the cryptocurrencies themselves. (Less)


This paper explores the themes and criticisms raised in the film "Philomena" regarding the Irish order of nuns and their treatment of women and children. The film sheds light on the injustices committed by the nuns, such as forced adoptions and the oppression of unmarried mothers. It highlights the role of religion in shaping societal attitudes towards sexuality and the consequences faced by those who violated these moral standards. The paper discusses the film's portrayal of both compassionate and cruel nuns, questioning the credibility and morality of the entire Catholic order. It emphasizes the need for specificity when addressing the injustices committed by the nuns and acknowledges that not all nuns share the same behaviours or beliefs. Furthermore, the paper explores the role of journalism in uncovering these past injustices and the tension between the media and the secretive nature of the convent. Overall, "Philomena" serves as a timely reminder of the historical mistreatment and oppression endured by women and children in Catholic Ireland, calling for a re-evaluation of religious moral standards and the treatment of the vulnerable.


This is ICT's first year of participation in the TDT evaluation. We participate in two tasks: Hierarchical Topic Detection (HTD) and Tracking. The two systems are both based on vector-space model. We use the method of multi-layered clustering to produce directed acyclic graph (DAG) of topics and improve the performance using the technology of traditional detection task. We only implement a baseline system for the tracking task. Our preprocessor of text help reduce the tracking cost.


An evanescent-wave laser absorption technique using an optical waveguide has been developed to measure the density of the metastable atoms in the vicinity of the barrier surface in a plane parallel barrier gas discharge. The optical waveguide on the surface of barrier material, LiNbO3 crystal, is produced by a proton exchange in an H2PO4 solution. A property of an optical transmission in the waveguide is checked experimentally and light with three TM-modes can propagate in the waveguide. The waveguide depth is estimated to be about 0.88 μm. The LiNbO3 with the waveguide is utilized as one dielectric of a barrier discharge and the matastable density existing in the penetration depth of evanescent-wave from the surface, 50 nm, is directly measured from the absorption signal. The surface density is measured at various gas pressures of Ar and frequencies of pulsed voltage applied from a power supply. The surface density is also compared with the density in the bulk plasma.


We develop a one-dimensional model for the transient (unsteady) fluid--structure interaction (FSI) between a soft-walled microchannel and viscous fluid flow within it. An Euler--Bernoulli beam equation, which accounts for both transverse bending rigidity and nonlinear axial tension, is coupled to a one-dimensional fluid model obtained from depth-averaging the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations across the channel height. Specifically, the Navier--Stokes equations are scaled in the viscous (lubrication) limit relevant to microfluidics. The resulting set of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations is solved numerically through a segregated approach employing fully-implicit time stepping and second-order finite-difference discretizations. Internal FSI iterations and under-relaxation are employed to handle the stiff nonlinear algebraic problems within each time step. The Strouhal number is fixed at unity, while the Reynolds number $Re$ and a dimensionless Young's modulus $\Sigma$ are varied independently to explore the unsteady FSI behaviors in this parameter space. A critical $Re$ is defined by determining when the maximum steady-state deformation of the microchannel's soft wall exceeds a certain {\it a priori} threshold. Our numerical results suggest that this critical $Re$ scales as $\Sigma^{3/4}$, which is associated with "wall modes." Furthermore, the maximum wall displacement at steady state is shown to correlate with a single dimensionless group, namely $Re/\Sigma^{0.9}$, independently of whether we consider pure bending or both bending and tension. Finally, the linear stability of the final (inflated) microchannel shape is assessed via an eigenvalue analysis, showing the existence of many marginally stable modes, which further highlights the computational challenge of simulating unsteady FSIs.


Polish Film and the Holocaust displays the same virtues as Marek Haltof's Polish National Cinema, from the same publisher, to which the new book forms in a sense a companion piece. Here too one has a judicious and well-organized chronological survey (the three central periods being 1955–1965, 1965–1980 and 1981 to the present), the result of a good deal of compilation, research and effective synthesis. The work is highly economical, packing discussion of a large number of films (almost all of the 46 features listed in the extensive filmography receive at least a paragraph, many a page or two, and a select few a chapter or large chapter-portion, though inevitably less attention can be paid to the 68 documentaries, shorts and television films that constitute part two of the filmography) into 229 pages of discursive text. The book also includes a fourteen-page 'Select bibliography'. One of the encomia on its cover describes the subject as 'significant and little examined', thus raising the question of the causes of its previous neglect. Part of the answer lies in its frequent dissolution into larger studies of Holocaust representation, which can only sample the Polish contribution to it,


Women's studies work on sexuality generally focuses on sexual harassment or workplace romance to the exclusion of strategic forms of erotic capital. I consider women's strategic sexual performances as a form of social influence and address the positive and negative consequences that may follow. This thesis highlights the occurrence and complexities of erotic capital in Ice Goddess (@Icegoddess15 & @IceGoddess66) video performances nor discusses the important implications of use Her erotic capital (i.e. breast and ass) to influence others or gain desired ends. In so doing, the findings highlight a need for rethinking traditional conceptualizations of empowerment whereby resistance equals empowering and reproduction equals disempowering, and initiates a new direction for feminist scholarship in this regard. This thesis dedicating to Ice Goddess, as my intellectual tribute for the adorably cute dangerously manipulative female. Ice Goddess is God. She's crazy bodacious and has the nose job of an angel. I don't know if She's omniscient, but no one can deny she's not omnipresent. She floats above us all, even the deniers and the haters.


When a generated solitary wave starts to propagate, it needs an establishment distance to create fully developed velocity profiles. We consider that the solitary wave moving in a viscous fluid under laminar flow. An important detail to state is the proper location to measure the solitary wave velocity profile due to its finite extent. This article discusses the establishment distance and the reattachment point on the bottom in the wave's deceleration phase.