Development is often oriented only to economic activities, thus creating social disparities and creating other more complex social problems, one of which is poverty. The impact of development based on the fulfillment of the economic sector has made minority groups increasingly depressed, including the diffable groups. Persons with disabilities often do not have a place in the community. This group was excluded and unable to contribute at all due to inability and lack of access. The research approach used a descriptive analytical approach, while the data collection method was carried out by literature study. The research is more focused on the analysis of the disabled empowerment program by the CSR of PT. Pertamina Fuel Terminal (TBBM) Boyolali in the new normal period. Therefore, development steps based on inclusive empowerment can be an effective step in solving development problems. As a result, equality and social justice can be achieved if inclusive development is successfully implemented. The diffable group as a minority group has access to help increase the bargaining price in society so that it can have an impact on economic, social and political development. When the position of the diffable group is strong in society, the community will respect and respect its existence. This is evidenced by the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic which has affected many businesses and community groups. Sriekandi Patra is proof that inclusive development has succeeded in helping minority groups to survive in such a difficult situation. In the New normal era, Sriekandi Patra was actually able to show his real contribution to society.


Abstract Background. Primary bone tumors are rare and affect especially young persons, being at the same time very aggressive and mutilating, often also implicating the disarticulation of the affected hip. That is why it is necessary to find alternatives of treatment, so that these young people to be able to keep their normal functionality and mental comfort. Objectives. The objective of this paper was to be able to offer a surgical treatment alternative to the hip disarticulation in case of malignant tumors of the proximal femur in young patients. Methods. We present the case of a 25-year-old female patient, who was hospitalized in our clinic for pain and functional impairment of the right hip. The clinical and radiological exams established the diagnosis of fracture of pathological bone of the proximal femur and it raised the suspicion of a tumor with malignant characters. We performed arteriography of the right inferior member, which showed a very good vascularized tumor, possibly vascular, localized to the proximal femur, arterially powered by the branches of right profunda femoris artery. We surgically intervened and made an incisional biopsy with anatomopathological exam, which established the diagnosis of osteosarcoma. Then, we practiced the segmental resection of the tumor, preceded by the embolization of the right femoral artery and after that the reconstruction with bipolar cemented modular prosthesis of the right hip. The patient had a favorable evolution, she did neuromotor rehabilitation, and then she presented to the oncologist for the initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy, which she followed conformably to the recommendations.


The use of somatostatin analogs is a new conservative therapeutic approach for the treatment of chyle fistulas developing after thyroid cancer surgery. The combination therapy with a total parenteral nutrition should avoid the high morbidity of are-intervention with an uncertain outcome. This promising trend is supported by the present case report of a chyle leak occurring after total thyroidectomy with central and lateral neck dissection for a papillary carcinoma, which was treated successfully without immediate or distant sequelae.


This study sought to establish the role and impact of online repositories in peer-based learning and conducted a case study of the competency-based curriculum teacher training workshops. The specific objectives of the study were: to determine the challenges of traditional repositories in peer-based learning, determine the benefits of online repositories, establish factors affecting the adoption of online repositories, develop and validate an adoption framework for online management system in peer-based learning. The study adopted a descriptive research design and purposive sampling was used to collect data from thirty-two teachers who had successfully attended CBC training workshops using an online google questionnaire with open and closed-ended questions. Data was presented using tables, graphs and pie charts and analysed using frequencies. The findings from this study revealed that online repositories play a very crucial in the acquisition of information, knowledge, skills and professional growth in peer-based learning. The study also found out that peers are willing to adopt online repositories if ICT infrastructure in availed.


This paper discusses the subjective identity processes produced in the transnational migration experience through the concept of interstitial identities. To illustrate the uses of this concept, a case built from life stories, in-depth interviews, and photo stories is analyzed. Thus, Maria is identified, a skilled Brazilian immigrant in Santiago de Chile, who chooses to descend from the upper to low socioeconomic class in the destination country to construct herself as the subject of her history. In addition, it reflects on the processuality of their identities and on the identity negotiations that she establishes in the interstice between different cultural configurations she relates transnationally, in which gender and class are relevant categories. Finally, it is concluded that thinking about the migratory experience from interstitial identities does not allow to build identity typologies but to explore the articulations between subject and culture in migration.


Brain connectivity patterns are useful in understanding brain function and organization. Anatomical brain connectivity is largely determined using the physical synaptic connections between neurons. In contrast statistical brain connectivity in a given brain population refers to the interaction and interdependencies of statistics of multitudes of brain features including cortical area, volume, thickness etc. Traditionally, this dependence has been studied by statistical correlations of cortical features. In this paper, we propose the use of Bayesian network modeling for inferring statistical brain connectivity patterns that relate to causal (directed) as well as non-causal (undirected) relationships between cortical surface areas. We argue that for multivariate cortical data, the Bayesian model provides for a more accurate representation by removing the effect of confounding correlations that get introduced due to canonical dependence between the data. Results are presented for a population of 466 brains, where a SEM (structural equation modeling) approach is used to generate a Bayesian network model, as well as a dependency graph for the joint distribution of cortical areas.


This paper aims to investigate the influence relationship and mechanism of influencing factors of the intelligent medical logistics system. Firstly, through literature reviews, we constructed the hierarchical structure consists of 18 factors. Secondly, we conducted questionnaires to acquire the experts' assessments of the influence between every two factors. Then, the fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (F-DEMATEL) was employed to obtain the total influence values and the net influence values that could be used to draw a visual causal map. The results show that "The practicability of the logistics platform", "the management level of the intelligent medical logistics platform" and "the different needs for medical logistics from various customers" are the top three in terms of total influence value and net influence value, Therefore, they can be regarded as crucial factors. When developing an intelligent medical logistics system, it is necessary to take the actual situation into account to build an intelligent medical logistics platform.


ABSTRACT The use of Black people in popular Western science fiction narratives indicates unspoken desires in authors and readers to create and accept fictional, and by extension, real worlds, where the absence or presence of blackness marks differing types of human-ness. The persistent retention of perceived 'universal' bodies, which qualify to represent Humanity in response to alien bodies and considerations, are not ultimately accidental. Where the Black body is present, its role remains suspect, as extant stereotypes and allusions of dispensability remain in place, and its absence allows the continuation of normality. This paper will explore these concerns, interrogating how widely accepted science fiction films and stories reproduce racialised conceptions of the future.


The aim of this research was to study the effects of nutritional levels in ration for weaning pigs (28 to 70 days), considering feed intake (FI), weight gain (WG), feed conversion (FC) and live weight costs (LWC). The experiment was conducted at the Animal Science of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, from October to November/93. Twenty-eight days crossbred weaning pigs (Landrace x Largo White) were used. A total of 24 pigs was distributed in cages. A completely randomized experimental design was used, with 3 treatments, replicated 8 times. The treatments were: T1 - ration A (28 to 70 days old): T2 - ration A (28 to 42 days) and ration B (42 to 70 days); T3 - ration A (28 to 42 days , ration B (42 to 56 days) and ration C (56 to 70 days). The rations contained: 20, 18 and 16% of CP, 3240, 3250 and 3260kcal ME/kg, 0.79, 0.69 and 0.59% of Ca and 0.64, 0.59 and 0.49 of P, respectively for rations A, B and C. The results were: FI = 45.67, 46.19 and 45.49kg/animal; WG = 23.85, 23.62 and 22.69kg/animal; FC = 1.92, 1.96 and 2.00 and for LWC = 0.476, 0.457 and 0.456 US$/kg, respectively for treatments T1. T2 and T3. The analysis of variance did not show significam difference (P >0 .05) between treatments for none of the studied parameters. It was concluded, that performance of the pigs, in the period from 28 to 70 days, were not influenced by the tested nutritional levels.


ABSTRACT Paenibacillus polymyxa strain YC0573 is a plant growth–promoting rhizobacterium with antimicrobial activity, which was isolated from tobacco rhizosphere. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of P. polymyxa YC0573. Antifungal and antibacterial genes were discovered.


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This paper explores an efficient technique for the extraction of common subtrees in decision trees. The method is based on a Suffix Tree string matching process and the algorithm is applied to the problem of finding common decision rules in path planning.


Previous studies suggest that both air-sea heat flux anomalies and heat advection caused by an anomalous Leeuwin Current play an important role in modulating the sea surface temperature (SST) variability associated with the Ningaloo Nino. However, the estimates of surface heat fluxes vary substantially with the datasets, and the uncertainties largely depend on the time scale and locations. This study investigates air-sea flux variability associated with the Ningaloo Nino using multiple datasets of surface fluxes. The climatological net surface heat flux off the west coast of Australia from six major air-sea flux products shows large uncertainties, which exceeds 80 W m-2, especially in the austral summer when the Ningaloo Nino develops. These uncertainties stem mainly from those in shortwave radiation and latent heat flux. The use of different bulk flux algorithms and uncertainties of bulk atmospheric variables (wind speed and air specific humidity) are mostly responsible for the difference in latent heat flux climatology between the datasets. The composite evolution of air-sea heat fluxes over the life cycle of Ningaloo Nino indicates that the anomalous latent heat flux is dominant for the net surface heat flux variations, and that the uncertainties in latent heat flux anomaly largely depend on the phase of the Ningaloo Nino. During the recovery period of Ningaloo Nino, large negative latent heat flux anomalies (cooling the ocean) are evident in all datasets and thus significantly contribute to the SST cooling. Because the recovery of winds occurs earlier than SST, high SST and strong winds favor large evaporative cooling during the recovery phase. In contrast, the role of latent heat flux during the developing phase is not clear, because the sign of the anomalies depends on the datasets in this period. The use of high-resolution SST data, which can adequately represent SST variations produced by the anomalous Leeuwin Current, could largely reduce the errors in latent heat flux anomalies during the onset and peak phases.


Due to extensive mining for 40 years in YangShuling mining areas,the ground-water level is declined,the earth sur- face is subsided in variable degrees and the river is polluted,which induce multi-geological disasters,such as water-loss,soil-e- rosion,karst collapse;and earth surface's cracking,etc..From the viewpoint of effective and negative in coal mining,the prob- lems and their mechanisms caused by coal mining are discussed in detail,in which protections and solutions are given according to different environmental problems.


A new video by decorating guru Julia M Usher that shows how to successfully adapt any rolled cookie recipe for 3-D baking and decorating.


The failure of a long distance gas transmission pipeline can lead to serious threat to people and establishments in the immediate vicinity of the failure location. In order to avoid or reduce the losses arisen from the failure consequences, this paper focuses on the optimum estimation of safety area. Based on the critical value of thermal radiation from sustained jet-fire, the definition and the expression of safety distance are presented. Example analysis shows that the distance is related to the pipe diameter, the operating pressure and the pipeline length between the failure point and starting point of gas gathering. With the increase of the length, the safety distance decreases gradually. In addition, the safety distance increases when the operating pressure or the internal diameter of pipeline increases. And the safety distance is more sensitive to pipe size rather than operating pressure.


Historically, the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has been viewed as a reliable source of information given its near century-long work of compiling statistics and reports about race relations and the social conditions affecting different race groups in South Africa. I make the case that the IRR should not be considered a reliable source of information about race groups and their social conditions in contemporary South Africa because of how the IRR misrepresents the views of ordinary South Africans with the intention of influencing policy towards the IRR's preferred ideological positions. Rather than presenting criticism of their ideological slant, I show how their policy proposals are not supported by their survey data or their interpretation. Furthermore, I argue that their misrepresentation of South Africans' beliefs is damaging to democratic processes because what the public claims it wants from government has a significant impact on what government's mandate from its citizenry is thought to be.


We retrospectively analysed the efficacy of intratympanic injection of dexamethasone (ITD) after 3 months in unilateral Meniere's disease. All patients were evaluated by DHI, caloric testing and the VEMP, including cVEMP and oVEMP. The DHI scores of patients who received ITD were significantly lower than those who received lifestyle adjustments and medical treatment both in the early stage and late stage, especially in patients who received ITD eight times. The CP value showed a significant decline for patients who received ITD eight times in the late stage. The threshold of cVEMP and oVEMP showed a significant decline in patients who received ITD eight times. No significant correlation between the DHI score and CP value or VEMP thresholds for patients who received ITD.


W HEN IN I932 T. S. Eliot furnished a preface to CharlesLouis Philippe's Bubu de Montparnasse in translation, he stated that he had first read the novel after he came to Paris in i9io.' That is to say, at the period when he was being introduced by Alain Fournier to Crime and Punishment, which helped shape "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," he became acquainted also with the work of the French naturalistic writer whom in the same preface he was to compare with Dickens and to credit with having "an intense pity for the humble and oppressed, a pity still more akin to that of Dickens' Russian disciple Dostoievski." And, like Dostoievski, Philippe exerted upon Eliot's poetry a conspicuous influence in I9IO and I9II. Bubu de Montparnasse stands in the same relation to Eliot's third "Prelude" and to "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" as Crime and Punishment to "Prufrock."2 The first two "Preludes" were composed at Harvard in I909 or I9IO and hence could owe nothing to Philippe. The third, written at Paris in i9ii, and the fourth, written upon Eliot's return to Cambridge in the same year, as well as the "Rhapsody," also dating from I9II, reflect a studious contact with Philippe's sensibility. Into each of these-into the fourth "Prelude" from Marie Donadicu, a superior novel which is unfortunately not so well known in this country-there passed much of the gloom and exhaustion that one finds in Philippe's stories of the Paris underworld. Eliot himself (after confirming my original supposition that in the third of the "Preludes" he was drawing upon Bubu de Montparnasse) has kindly suggested that he may have taken something from the other book.3 His hint has been invaluable to the precise determination of his debt, which I have since


Larra bicolor was introduced to Florida for biological control of mole crickets (Scapteriscus spp.) and has spread to adjacent states. The objectives of this study were to determine the seasonal and diurnal activity of L. bicolor in its expanded range and to compare ornamental plants as nectar sources. Experiments with colored, pan-type traps and sugar solutions to monitor for L. bicolor were unsuccessful and direct observations of wasps feeding on flowers or hunting in turfgrass were used to monitor activity. Seasonal activity of L. bicolor was monitored on four sites in coastal Mississippi from 2006-2008. Wasps are active from June to October and were active later in the season on flowering plants. Diurnal activity on flowering plants was monitored during August and October. Activity began at 0700 h in August and 0900 h in October and continued to near dusk. Populations on flowers were typically male-biased with numbers of females on flowers being greatest in the afternoon (about 1300 h). Sixteen plant taxa representing nine genera and seven families were evaluated in common garden experiments during 2007 and 2008. Of these, wasps only fed on Pentas lanceolata and Spermacoce verticillata. However, pentas, a popular ornamental, may be a more aesthetic and less problematic alternative to S. verticillata, a weed in turfgrass, as a nectar source for L. bicolor in urban landscapes.


This paper reflects on the ontological, epistemological and methodological underpinnings of the two major research approaches i.e the quantitative and the qualitative approaches. Their differences, occasioned by these philosophical foundations are discussed and practical implications examined. It is our view that this paper will have positive impact on the work of researchers and students undertaking courses in research studies. Key words : Research paradigms, ontology, epistemology, methodology, quantitative, qualitative


Abstract Naik, R. S., Venkatesan, M., and Gowda, D. C. 2001. Plasmodium falciparum: The lethal effects of tunicamycin and mevastatin on the parasite are not mediated by the inhibition of N-linked oligosaccharide biosynthesis. Experimental Parasitology 98, 110–114.


The health benefits of Green leafy vegetables (GLVs) have been related to their phytochemical components. In Ayurvedic system of medicine they have been used to cure various lifestyle-related disorders. An attempt has been made to quantitate the Total Antioxidant activity (TAA) and to correlate it with the Total Phenolic content (TPC) of leafy vegetables consumed in the Eastern part of Sri Lanka. TAA was estimated by ferric reducing ability method while TPC was measured using Folin–Ciocalteau reagent. TAA of fresh GLVs ranged from 4.12±0.16 μmol g -1 Wet Weight (WW) for Moringa oleifera to 38.59±1.05 μmol g -1 WW for Murraya koenigii. TPC of leafy vegetables when fresh ranged from 21.82±15 mg Tannic Acid Equivalent (TAE)/ 100 g WW for Mollugo oppositifolia to 560.1±51 mg TAE/ 100 g WW for Delonix elata. Most of the GLVs showed an increase in TPC and TAA content during storage but the increase was observed more at room temperature than at 4oC. The increase in TPC and TAA may be due to breakdown to free phenolics during storage. A positive correlation existed between TPC and TAA in fresh GLVs as well as GLVs stored at room temperature and 4oC. Introduction Consumption of green leafy vegetables may play a role in preventing human disease in which free radicals are involved, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and aging. (Guptha and Prakash, 2009). Fruits and vegetables contain a wide variety of bioactive, non-nutritive compounds known as phytochemicals. These phytochemicals impart health benefits beyond basic nutrition (Oomah and Mazza, 2000). Some of the European International Journal of Science and Technology ISSN: 2304-9693 www.eijst.org.uk 124 bioactive compounds neutralize free radical species generated during biochemical reactions in our body (Halliwell 1994). The ability of various parts of plants to cure diseases has been recognized since ancient times by physicians practicing traditional health system. The scientific basis of traditional health practices are being currently investigated especially to identify the bioactive compounds in plants that are regularly used. Some of the GLVs are very popular among rural communities in many parts of the world, including Sri Lanka, and well accepted in their traditional diets and medicines. Most of the phytochemicals from plant extracts, fruits and green vegetables have been identified to exhibit antioxidant activities. They have different antioxidants such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Carotenes, Lycopenes, Polyphenols and other phytochemicals (Prior and Cao, 2000). GLVs are living tissues subject to continuous changes after harvest. Enzymatic browning, microbial spoilage, dehydration, rapid wilting and senescence are the factors that shorten shelf life of GLVs (Reyes, 1996). Packaging is often used to increase the shelf life of food as well as to improve the quality (Cutter, 2002). Refrigerated storage has been reported to enhance the shelf life quality of green herbs (Sankat and Maharaj, 1996) Gupta et al (2005) reported that several GLVs are rich sources of antioxidant vitamins. The antioxidant activity of GLVs grown in Batticaloa district, which is located in the eastern part of Sri Lanka with extremes of temperature, where a number of medicinal plants are available, has not been reported. Therefore a study was initiated to determine the of total phenolic content (TPC) and total antioxidant activity (TAA) of selected GLVs under common storage conditions (freshsoon after harvest, stored under refrigerated condition, stored at room temperature) and to find out the relationship between TPC and TAA of selected GLVs. Materials and methods Chemicals All chemicals used in the study were of analytical grade and distilled water was used for the preparation of reagents. Sources of green leafy vegetables Ten popular market places in Batticaloa district namely Arayampathy, Batticaloa, Chenkalady, Eravur, Kaluwanchikudy, Kallar, Kattankudy, Kiran, Oddamavadi and Valaichenai were selected for the study. During the preliminary study it was found that roughly 20,000 people/ month regularly used these markets. Interviews were conducted for a period of 10 months and 5 subjects were interviewed during each visit to the market selected on a random basis. A total of one thousand subjects were interviewed from these markets, at the end of the survey (5 people x 2 times per month x 10 places x 10 months). The interview mainly focused on the types and purpose of consuming green leafy vegetables. Percentage consumption of each GLV for food or medicine based on the interview was calculated. GLVs consumed frequently were selected for the study and they were purchased from the markets. Identification of the GLVs was done with the help of herbarium specimens from the Department of Botany, Eastern University and other published and unpublished documents. The identified species were re-confirmed with the help of National Herbarium, Peradeniya European International Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 2 No. 8 October 2013 125 Preparation of GLVs, storage and packing The GLVs collected from field were cleaned and shoots separated. The shoots were washed thoroughly under running tap water for 5 minutes to remove soil particles and dirt. Then the washed shoots were placed in a plastic container with paper towel and allowed to drain for 5 minutes. The cleaned, washed, air-dried shoots of GLVs were wrapped initially with paper and then in polyethylene bags for each GLVs. They were stored both at room temperature (30± 2oC) and 4oC (refrigerator) for 4 days. Estimation of total phenolic content (TPC) Preparation of extracts for estimation of TPC Samples of GLVs (1 g of each), in 30 ml of methanol were ground using a mortar and pestle. After recovery of the finely ground mixture, 15 ml methanol was used to wash the mortar and pestle and then pooled with the first mixture. It was made up to 50 ml with methanol, mixed thoroughly and centrifuged to obtain a clear supernatant. The extracts were prepared using 3 samples collected at different time for each GLVs and all analysis were carried out in triplicates. TPC was determined by adopting the procedures of Gupta and Prakash (2009). A sample of methanolic extract (0.2 ml) was mixed with 1 ml of Folin–Ciocalteau reagent (tenfold diluted) followed by the addition of 0.8 ml of 2% Na2CO3. The volume was made to 10 ml with 4:6 water/ methanol. This was allowed to stand for 30 minutes and absorbance read at 740 nm in a specrotphotometer (Hach DR 2500). Concentration was calculated using tannic acid as standard and the results were expressed as mg tannic acid equivalent /100 g wet weight (WW). Tannic acid, in varying concentrations (0, 50, 100, 150, 250 and 500 mg/l), were used to prepare a standard curve. This curve is used to relate the absorbance of the unknown samples to Tannic acid equivalents (TAE). Determination of total antioxidant activity (TAA) Preparation of extracts for estimation of TAA Samples of GLVs (1 g of each) were cut into small pieces and mashed using a mortar and pestle with 9 ml cool 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.6). It was then made up to 10 ml with the phosphate buffer and centrifuged to obtain a clear supernatant for measurement of antioxidant activity. The extracts were prepared using 3 different samples of each GLVs and all analysis were carried out in triplicates. Antioxidant activity was measured using Ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay (Benzie and Strain 1996). One ml of freshly prepared FRAP reagent (Acetate buffer: TPTZ solution: FeCl3.6H2O solution in the ratio of 10:1:1) was mixed with the extract and absorbance measured exactly after 4 minutes at 593 nm. TAA was calculated using 1 mm FeSO4 standard and expressed as μmol/g WW.


The Lotka-Volterra system is traditionally integrated with the classical Runge-Kutta method of order four or the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method which fails to preserve the special structure of the system in long term integration. This paper transforms the Lotka-Volterra system into a Hamiltonian system and integrates it with two highly efficient symplectic methods. The results of the numerical simulation show the robustness of these methods.


N FL z or aging, change. This is the atrophy of the media and the replacement of muscle and elastic fibers by collagen aZ5E~e~e5S which occurs as a diffuse symmetrical process, giving wide, long tortuous vessels such as we see on the temples of many people soon after they become adult, and increasingly visible as they age. Similar changes occur in coronary, Splenic, and other arteries and in the aorta, and there appears to be a familial pattern for this change, which causes no decrease in lumen but the reverse, and hence does not cause vascular accidents or insufficiency. Another change, calcification of the media, is symmetrical but not uniform, and as it only occurs in vessels fixed to body tissues at points where no flexion occurs, this does not result in fracture and thrombosis, nor in narrowing of the lumen. It may be related to dietary defects, and is not common in man or other mammals. Like another medial change which really is a softening, called aortic mucinous degeneration, cystic degeneration, or medial necrosis, the pathogenesis of calcific degeneration is obscure. Mucinous degeneration commonly precedes dissecting aneurysm, and occurs more often in hypertensive hypothyroid subjects than in others. Quite different from these disorders of the media is the regenerative intimal thickening which appears in arteries supplying tissues which decrease in bulk and functional activity with age. This is part of the vascular atrophy of disuse, and is most striking in ovaries after the menopause, and in brains in which disseminated focal cortical atrophy occurs because of neuronal involution and death. Such sequelae of age atrophy must be clearly distinguished from vascular disease leading to tissue necrosis, and during life this can best be done by demonstrating an increase in arterio-venous oxygen difference in the latter situation, and a decline in oxygen use by the whole organ, but no increase in A-V


Social and cultural aspects of modern globalisation processes are analysed in the article. The negative aspects of modern globalisational development are actualised at this time. Strategies of globalisation deployment, which are based on the Euro-Atlantic integration model, copying the Western cultural models, excluding the national socio-cultural traditions, are recognized as ineffective today. Economic development, which assumes unlimited increase in consumption, contradicts the objective resource and environmental constraints. The further development of civilisation based on the values of Euro-Atlantic culture, in the version as they are implemented in consumer society, is recognized impossible. Contemporary globalisation and the processes of transformation of national cultures that are associated with it, contain the threat of substitution of ever greater unification and replacing of the traditions and symbols of national culture, which is an expression of the historical system of values and ideological grounds, with ubiquitous products of mass culture, which are deprived, regardless of their origin, of any connection with the basic national and religious grounds and traditions. The unprecedented nature of contemporary globalisation processes, the emergence of global information space change the nature of intercivilisational and intercultural interaction. Globalisation strategy, which suggests the unification on the basis of false values that are replicated by mass culture, will lead to the establishment of a global atomized society of consumption, which excludes the possibility of integrating synthesis. The conclusion is made about the impossibility of generating alternative strategies of civilisational development, which involves the integrating synthesis without saving value based on local cultures.


Timely and urgent, this book examines university culture regarding both sexual violence and excess in elite student societies. Taking a criminological and sociological perspective on the institutions, offenders and victims involved, the author recommends measures to improve crime prevention, accountability and the support for survivors.


This is a study of individual differentiated pay (IDP) for teachers in Sweden. We regard IDP as part of the observed accountingization of professional work. Our aim is to contribute to the understanding of accounting as a performative calculative device through the study of how performance is made an element of individual pay. As we sought to answer "How are merits and performance of professionals turned into a set IDP?" we observed the ways in which IDP had diverse performative consequences, which made the connection between performance and merit less influential in the process of setting wages. We contribute to the theorizing of accounting as a performative practice by introducing two propositions that indicate the importance of considering the extent to which accounting is turned into a dominant narrative and the extent to which the operations can be visualized in a relevant, stable manner. The propositions are the result of the approach to include visualizations as a focal dimension of performativity. The concept stresses the importance of recognizing the prerequisites of relevance and correspondence.


We present spatially resolved internal kinematics and stellar chemical abundances for a sample of dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the Virgo Cluster observed with the Keck telescope and Echelle Spectrograph and Imager. In combination with previous measurements, we find that four out of 17 dE's have major-axis rotation velocities consistent with rotational flattening, while the remaining dE's have no detectable major-axis rotation. Despite this difference in internal kinematics, rotating and nonrotating dE's are remarkably similar in terms of their position in the fundamental plane, morphological details, stellar populations, and local environment. We present evidence for (or confirm the presence of) faint underlying disks and/or weak substructure in a fraction of both rotating and nonrotating dE's, but a comparable number of counterexamples exist for both types that show no evidence of such structure. Absorption line strengths were determined based on the Lick/IDS system (Hβ, Mg b, Fe5270, and Fe5335) for the central region of each galaxy. We find no difference in the line-strength indices, and hence stellar populations, between rotating and nonrotating dE galaxies. The best-fitting mean age and metallicity for our same of 17 dE's are 5 Gyr and [Fe/H] = -0.3 dex, respectively, with rms spreads of 3 Gyr and 0.1 dex. The majority of dE's are consistent with solar [α/Fe] abundance ratios. By contrast, the stellar populations of classical elliptical galaxies are, on average, older, more metal-rich, and α-enhanced relative to our dE sample. The line strengths of our dE's are consistent with the extrapolation of the line strength versus velocity dispersion trend seen in classical elliptical galaxies. Finally, the local environments of both rotating and nonrotating dE's appear to be diverse in terms of their proximity to larger galaxies in real or velocity space within the Virgo Cluster. Thus, rotating and nonrotating dE's are remarkably similar in terms of their structure, stellar content, and local environments, presenting a significant challenge to theoretical models of their formation.


From the Book:
When I first approached the idea for this book, it was based in part, on my personal experience with the power of the Internet. When I was first introduced to the Internet I became almost instantly entranced by the online world. I noticed that I was spending far more time online than I had planned to each time I went online (and still do). I also noticed that the Internet experience was exciting to me. It felt like an adventure, and it was fun. The colors, sounds, and information all available 24 hours a day felt almost intoxicating. Like many of you, I had already been using a computer. I had essentially used it for word processing, desktop publishing, and financial programs. Although I liked the computer, it never excited me the way it did after I went online.


The influences of four different pretreatment methods upon the performance of the sized wool yarns had been studied through sizing trial and testing sizing performance.The performance of the sized wool yarns was evaluated in terms of hairiness index,abrasion resistance,breaking strength and breaking extension percentage.It was discovered that the pretreatment methods showed evident effect upon the performance of the sized wool yarns.The superficial performance and the wetting performance of wool yarns were improved and better sizing performance was also achieved by hot water pretreatment,acetic acid pretreatment and H_2O_2 pretreatment.The performance of the sized wool yarns pretreated with acetic acid was obviously increased,but the performance of the sized wool yarns pretreated with protease was slightly reduced.


Context: Code Smells indicate potential problems in the making of software projects. If considered harmful, they must be removed from the source code. Thus, it is important to enable developers to spot the source code artifacts that have been affected by Smells. Problem: however, there is a lack of adequate approaches to make the identification of Code Smells easier while providing details about their occurrences. Goals: in order to help developers to identify Code Smells, we have developed VISMELLS, an interactive visualization. Method: we elicited requirements with the purpose of defining the functionalities of VISMELLS. After implementing the visualization we went through a qualitative analysis of its application with the help of professional software developers and computer science students. Lastly, we used the data obtained from the evaluation to determine if VISMELLS met the targeted requirements. Results: as a result, we were able to confirm that VISMELLS fulfilled its intended purpose as it received good reviews from testers.


The tunability in Josephson junctions is foundational to the superconducting classical and quantum applications. Here, we demonstrate the local manipulation of supercurrent realized in a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with two Nb/TiO x /Nb Josephson junctions that is biased at the TiO x layer. Our measurements indicate that the multi-port device allows for an easy and in situ tunability of the supercurrent. The control mechanism can be finely explained by simple yet valid theoretical methods, which take an effective electronic temperature across the SQUID and the self inductive magnetic flux into account. Furthermore, we show that the phase difference and kinetic inductance of this device can be tuned locally via the injection current. Thus, the device provides perspective for several superconducting electronics such as tunable superconducting circuits, sensitive magnetometry, and fast digital elements.


Introduction Partition polynomials have been introduced and studied by Bell [l, 27; they are multivariable polynomials defined by a sum over all partitions of their indexes. Riordan [6,7] called Bell polynomials the partition polynomials associated with the derivatives of a composite function; he discussed several applications of these polynomials in Combinatorics, Statistics and Number theoIT. Other properties and statistical applications have been discussed by the author [3]. Touchard [8] in his work on the cycles of permutations generalized the Bell polynomials in order to be able to study some problems of enumeration of thi permutatio~ns when tllr cycles possess certain properties. A natural generalization of the Bell partition polynomi& are the bipartitional polynomials which are the subject of this paper. The ide:a of using, kipartitional functions in Statistics goes back to R A. Fisher [4]. The bipartitional polynomials, denoted by


Owing to the very magnitude of the task, agricultural statistics in India must be based on estimation rather than measurement. The degree of sophistication of estimates increased after independence; this has led to spreading doubts among academic workers about the quality of British Indian agricultural statistics. Dr Islam's first task in this book is to argue that those statistics for Bengal were nevertheless good enough after the modifications he carries out. He then goes on to use the modified statistics to answer some extremely interesting questions. As is well-known, pre-independence agricultural statistics covered three things: area under different crops, standard yields and annual condition factors. Area statistics were necessary for the calculation of land revenue in some parts of India, but not in Bengal. In Bengal, therefore, none of the statistics had an administrative use, and were collected simply to keep the government informed about output trends. Owing to its zamindari tenure Bengal did not have any revenue staff at the village level; annual statistics of area and condition factors were therefore reported by Thana or Circle Officers, who were general administrators presumably subject to the


Abstract Research was conducted to determine if hypnotic susceptibility could be increased by either having Ss practice hypnosis through repeated induction, or receive instruction about hypnosis. Ss were. 37 college students divided into 3 groups. Group one experienced various hypnotic induction techniques, group two was given information about hypnosis through instruction, and group three was the control. The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales, Forms A and B (Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1959) were the pre- and posttest measures. Differences were found between both treatment groups and the control group, although no differences were found between the treatments. Repeated hypnotic induction and instruction about hypnosis proved useful techniques for increasing susceptibility. Results were not significantly related to initial level of anxiety.


Arguably RFoF has found wide application in broadband cable TV (CATV) systems and more recently in wireless cell applications. The use of RFoF also has a history in Radio Astronomy (RA) instrumentation. Typically in the distribution of high quality Local Oscillator reference signals to reflector antennas. On the scale of a small number of reflector antennas there are several examples where Directly Modulated (DM) laser diodes or Externally Modulated (EM) RFoF links have been used for wideband RF or IF transmission of the radio astronomy signal bandpass from the receiver package back to a centralized digital signal processing rack. In the last decade the radio astronomy community has developed an appetite for wide field of view, large N phased arrays, essentially N element distributed antenna systems (DAS). The Square kilometre Array (SKA), the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) all have thousands of receptors. ASKAP in particular is already demonstrating a 6840 RFoF link based DAS architecture with 36 remotely located 12m reflector antennas and RFoF spans up-to 6km. Each reflector having a 188 element L-Band phased planar array feed (PAF) at the prime focus. In this paper we report our development of the low cost RFoF "building block" for the generic RA signal transmission application.


The invention relates to an unburned and non-autoclaved caustic calcined dolomite brick and building block, which comprises the following components in part by weight: 5 to 40 parts of caustic calcined dolomite powder, 4 to 35 parts of conditioner solution, 5 to 85 parts of aggregate, 0.01 to 8 parts of water-resistant admixture, 1 to 50 parts of industrial residues, 1 to 30 parts of reinforcing and thickening agent and 0.01 to 0.5 part of water reducing agent. The unburned and non-autoclaved caustic calcined dolomite brick and building block has the advantages of greatly utilizing the industrial residues and agricultural wastes, saving resources and energy and not producing emissions of waste gas, wastewater and the industrial residues, along with freeness of burning, vapor-free or autoclaving-free maintenance, high normal temperature reaction and curing speed, strong strength, high water resistance, no absorption of moisture and separation of halide, no scumming, resistance to frost, acoustic insulation, thermal insulation, heat preservation, fire retardance and the like.


BACKGROUND
The FEM is often used in investigations of dentin loading conditions; however, its anisotropy is mostly neglected.

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the anisotropy and the elastic properties of an equivalent homogenous material model of human dentin as well as to compare isotropic and anisotropic dentin FE-models.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Analytical and numerical dentin homogenization according to Luciano and Barbero was performed and E-modulus (E), Poisson's ratios (v) G-modulus (G) were calculated. The E-modulus of the dentin matrix was 28.0 GPa, Poisson's ratio (v) was 0.3; finite element models of orthotropic and isotropic dentin were created, loaded and compared using Ansys® 14.5 and CodeAster® 11.2 software.

RESULTS
Anisotropy of the dentin ranged from 6.9 to 35.2%. E-modulus and G-modulus were as follows: E1 = 22.0-26.0 GPa, E2/E3 = 15.7-23.0 GPa; G12/G13 = 6.96-9.35 GPa and G23 = 6.08-8.09 GPa (highest values in the superficial layer). In FEM analysis of the displacement values were higher in the isotropic than in the orthotropic model, reaching up to 16% by shear load, 37% by compression and 23% in the case of shear with bending. Strain values were higher in the isotropic model, up to 35% for the shear load, 31% for compression and 35% in the case of shear with bending. The decrease in the volumetric fraction and diameter of tubules increased the G and E values.

CONCLUSIONS
Anisotropy of the dentin applied during FEM analysis decreased the displacements and strain values. The numerical and analytical homogenization of dentin showed similar results.


API Steel 5L Grade B is pipe which is made and produced based on API standard that is American Petroleum Institute which this pipe has carbon max 0,3%, Mn max 1,2%, P max 0,05%, S max 0,06% (from: Independent Pipe And Supply Corp.) that is included in middle carbon steel. In book (Wiryosumarto,2000) mentioned middle carbon steel is having level of good enough weld ability compared to high carbon steel.
There are some factor influences strength of metal for example carbon grade contained by the metal, height of temperature heating (temperature of austenite), detention time ( homogeneity austenite), and cooling speed.
Purpose of performed by this research is to increase strength of material API steel 5L Grade B with Annealing treatment.
From result of research is obtained conclusion for heat treatment with temperature 750, 800, 850 oC consisted of by metal base district, HAZ and Las that for base metal from API steel 5L Grade B without heat treatment gotten best hardness.


Parasitic infection is an infectious and contagious disease, caused by parasites that lodge especially in the digestive system, produced by protozoa and helminths that affect more 2 billion of the world's population and constitute a public health problem. The objective was; To determine sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with parasitic intestinal infection in the inhabitants of the Chade and Joa comune Jipijapa Canton. The type of research was descriptive, prospective, cross-sectional analytical design, the methods were used; analytical, descriptive and bibliographic allowing to study, know and identify the problem of the subject addressed, the sampling was selectedapplying sampling formula with a confidence level 1.96 and probability 0.5 obtaining in the Chade commune 169 inhabitants, Joa 194 inhabitants. They were used surveys, study s macroscopic and microscopic coproparasitario with saline, lugol and technical formalin (Paratest) with prior authorization informed consent, applying ethical principles of confidentiality. The prevalence of intestinal parasites was 97 (57,4%) inhabitants of the Chade commune identifying the parasites; Entamoeba histolytica / uneven complex 18,3%, Entamoeba coli 4,70%, Giardia lamblia 7,7%, Blastocystis spp 18,0%, Enterobius vermicularis 2.4%, E. histolytica / dispar - G. lamblia 3%, E. histolytica / dispar - Blastocystis spp 2,40% and E. coli - E. histolytica / dispar 0,60%. In the commune Joa the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis was 110 (56,7%) inhabitants identifying the parasites: Entamoeba histolytica / dispar complex 11,3%, Entamoeba coli 1%, Giardia lamblia 4, 1%, Blastocystis spp 23,7%, Enterobius vermicularis 1%, E. histolytica / dispar - G. lamblia 2.10%, E. histolytica / dispar - Blastocystis spp 8,8% and E. coli - E. histolytica / dispar 4,6%. Having a total of 207 parasitized people. According to the type of parasitic infection in the Chade commune, 9,7% monoparasites, 10,3% poliparasites were present, in the Joa there were 72,7% monoparasites and 27,3% poliparasites. It is suggested to apply preventive measures, permanent health education at family level and semiannual deworming in order to improve the lifestyle of the population.


It designs a correction controller of the battery pole-piece continuous rolling production line with MCU C8051F020as the control core. There often appears wandering phenomenon when battery pole piece is in continuous rolling production line,due to the mechanical error and deviation,the guide rod vibration and sheet tension fluctuation in the unit. It makes the pole piece rolling process easy to cause damage, seriously affecting the quality of the products and economic benefits.Correction system in the winding process can effectively prevent the tower type roll phenomenon. So rectifying system in battery pole piece plays an important role in the continuous rolling production line.Then it replaces the control mode of PLC,in the completion of the production while reducing the cost. It introduces the design of the correction controller hardware,and PID algorithm is applied to the design of software program.The test results show that it meets the practical needs of production.


Civil war looms on the Plains of Myth. To stop their world from dying, the dark forces of the Nox Aeterna wish to invade the Realm of Man and force humanity to worship the old gods and legends. The benevolent Lux Aeterna fiercely oppose this; their leader Odin wants to reactivate disused energy portals known as Limen between realities and increase the flow of energy from our world to theirs. The only thing preventing the total destruction of the Plains and humanity is the world tree Yggdrasil – but she is secretly being attacked by the Nox's leader, the great Polynesian sea god Tangaroa, to force the Lux into agreeing an invasion.In our world, the mighty Japanese dragon Tatsu, masquerading as elderly oriental gentleman Mister Tsume, recruits human experts in legends on behalf of the fake Earth Cultural Organisation to aid Odin's plan. His brief is simple – locate long-lost artefacts used in the worship of mythical beings and place them in their original locations. This leads to the rebirth of faded beasts and creatures and the reactivation of long-disused Limen - but the clock is ticking.First to be approached is historian Hisako Kobayashi, and while she is fascinated by ancient Japanese history, the same cannot be said for her half-English twelve-year-old daughter, Nanami Roberts. The two don't get on; Nanami feels overlooked and ignored, misses her separated father and just wants a 'normal' life. Things get even worse when she accidentally discovers the true nature of Mister Tsume, and is reluctantly drawn into the beasts' brutal fight for survival.As Nanami struggles with her secret knowledge, a second expert, Dr. Malcolm Questor, arrives along with his thirteen-year-old son Owen. He's as big a nut on myths as his father, making him a less than ideal friend for Nanami but when their tutor Miss Keening arrives, they find a mutual enemy in the beautiful, chilling woman. From this point, the two kids are hurled into a breathless fight between the reality of their own world and the Plains, with one of them discovering along the way their connection with the fantastic is far stronger than they could ever have imagined...


Objective To investigate the effect of mild moxibustion at Zusanli(ST36) in regulation of immunity of patients with gastric carcinoma.Methods Sixty-four patients with gastric carcinoma in our hospital were randomly divided into two groups(32 cases in each group) from October 2010 to August 2012.The treatment group received moxibustion plus oral traditional Chinese medicine and the control group received only traditional Chinese medicine.The changes in T lymphocyte subsets and nature killer(NK) cells in the peripheral blood and the changes in clinical symptoms of spleen deficiency were detected after treatment for 6 months.Results The CD3+T cells,CD4+T cells and NK cells were significantly up-regulated in the treatment group compared with the control group(P 0.05).The patients' immune function and the symptoms of spleen deficiency were improved in both groups after treatment(P 0.01).And there were significant differences between the two groups(P 0.05),suggesting the prompt treatment efficacy was improved.Conclusion Mild moxibustion at Zusanli can improve the immunity of patients with gastric carcinoma.


In this paper we study an integral equation from biomathematics using the step method and we prove that the sequence of successive approximation generated by the step method converges to the solution of this integral equation.


Evaluation of: Brown DM, Heier JS, Clark WL et al. Intravitreal aflibercept injection for macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion: 1-year results from the Phase III COPERNICUS study. Am. J. Ophthalmol. 155(3), 429–437 (2013). Macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion is a significant cause of vision loss that had been untreatable until the recent introduction of intraocular triamcinolone injections, dexamethasone inserts and the newly developed VEGF-binding drugs, such as bevacizumab and ranibizumab. The VEGF-binding fusion molecule aflibercept recently completed the Phase III registration trials COPERNICUS (1-year results) and GALILEO (6-month results). Most patients (55.3%) receiving monthly injections of aflibercept in the COPERNICUS trial improved by at least 15 letters of vision at 52 weeks, and they outgained those in the original sham group by an average of 12.4 letters. Based on the results from these trials, aflibercept received US FDA approval for the treatment of central retinal vein occlusion-associated macular edema.


AbstractMost previous studies have not found measures which contribute to the prediction of law school achievement (LGPA) over and beyond the weighted combination of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and the undergraduate grade point average (UGPA). In this study, the undergraduate major area of study and thirteen undergraduate environment indices were used in combination with the LSAT and UGPA to predict LGPA.The first-year LGPA was obtained for 639 Law School students at Indiana University (HI.) who had received their undergraduate degrees at other than I.U. (non-I.U.). After being grouped into undergraduate major area categories, the students were divided into two random samples within each category. One sample was used to determine the predictor measures which significantly contributed to the estimation of LGPA and the second sample was used to determine if the finding would be replicated. The results generally indicate that, using undergraduate major area of study and the undergraduate institution...


The report describes the main results from a preliminary analysis of the effects of changes in speed limits on speed and accidents in Norway after 1979. From that year on, the criteria for speed limits have been changed so that the part of the highway network with special speed limits, usually 60 km per hour, has been increased from 14 to 24 percent. The investigation shows that these changes have reduced the speed and the number of accidents. Some improvements of the way in which speed zones are dealt with are also suggested. (TRRL)


PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing the audience demand for televised post-season games of the Korean professional baseball league.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from a total of 129 games – the entire post-season games from 2008 to 2016. Two dependent variables representing audience demand for televised baseball matches, obtained from the third-party television audit company AGB Nielsen, were regressed on a series of match-related and unrelated antecedent factors associated with each match. Pooled OLS regression with wild bootstrap standard errors with 100,000 replications was applied in the analysis.FindingsRegarding match-related factors, higher television ratings and the greater numbers of television viewers were associated with matches with greater significance, outcome uncertainty and score sum. In terms of the match-unrelated factors, the broadcast platform appeared to be the most powerful predictor of both television ratings and the numbers of viewers. Other than the broadcast platform, night matches, matches with full stadium occupancy and team values showed positive impacts on both the television ratings and the numbers of viewers.Practical implicationsThe sales of media rights and sponsorships are the major sources of revenues for professional sports leagues, and the size of these two streams of revenues is in proportion to the size of the audience demand for television and other media. This study provides valuable insights to the sports marketers of professional sports clubs and leagues by establishing proper understanding of the determinants of the audience demand for televised sports.Originality/valueThe characteristics specific to each professional league and country play unique roles in determining the antecedent factors of audience demand for televised sports; this study is one of the few attempts to examine Koran professional baseball league.


With the popularity of smartphones, mobile application markets have been growing exponentially in terms of the number of users and downloads. As a report from Statista.com says that by 2020 mobile apps are forecast to generate around 189 billion U.S. dollars in revenues via app stores and in-app advertising. So, Google Play store is a crucial place in the field of business. In this work a system has been developed that can mine important data from google play store with the help of app crawler and find correlation among apps rating, reviews, installs and price. The correlation using Spearman Rank Correlation and Pearson Correlation have been compared as well. Besides, reviews have been crawled from the play store for better understanding. The analysis on review tells the top positive and negative keywords in free and paid apps. The system will help to give an overview of google play stores current condition.


The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) region which is located between 2 earthquakes, namely the tectonic plate subduction zone in the south and the Back Arc Thrust zone in the north, is very interesting to study considering the very active tectonic earthquakes that are significantly destructive in this region which have earthquake characteristics shallow and large magnitude. A study has been carried out that aims to determine the vulnerability of the tectonic earthquake to significant damage when seismic waves pass through these islands. The vulnerability information generated can be useful as a reference for disaster mitigation and factors that need to be considered before carrying out development in the NTT region. The input data studied are shallow earthquake data from 1997-2018 at a depth of 60 km and a magnitude M≥5 SR at coordinates 8o 30'-13o 10' South Latitude and 118o 30'-125o 30' East Longitude. The number of earthquake events is 198 data. The attenuation function used refers to the attenuation function Zhao, et. al 2006. The results of the study show that. the vulnerability of the tectonic earthquake to significant damage in the East Nusa Tenggara region clustered on the MMI V-VIII intensity scale. Most of these islands are clustered on the MMI VII-VIII intensity scale and only a small part is clustered on the V-VI MMI intensity scale. The NTT region which has an intensity scale of VII-VIII MMI has a high vulnerability to destructive earthquakes, so it is necessary to disseminate disaster mitigation from an early age to the public about the threat of earthquakes and it is recommended that this information be used as a reference in developing the area.


Firstly some likely problems are presented in the prestressed concrete engineering in this article,then rely on an actual project management and practice,reasonably refers that the interface control is the key to the prestressed project success,and analyses the specific contents of prestressed project interface,ultimately made an effective means of interface management.


Korean government has a goal to reduce 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions prospect(BAU base) by 2020. In order to fulfill this commitment, Korea has adopted a target management system and it plans to install a emission trading scheme by 2015. The GHGs reduction policy is expected to have a direct economic effect on energy costs including coal and electricity. This paper aims to analyze the empirical effects of such increases in energy costs on the steel industry. Empirical estimation is performed on the first differences of time series data over the 1971-2011 periods. Results show that an increase in coking coal prices has a negative effect on value-added in the steel industry. The rate of change in the electricity price is also shown to have an adverse effect on industry profits. As theories predict, GDP and prices of steel products have significantly contributed to the two performance measures. Policy implications include the need of special attention to those firms that are heavily relying on electricity energy in designing a country-wide emission trading scheme.


With the increasing adoption of renewable energy generation and electric devices, electric load forecasting, especially short-term load forecasting (STLF), is becoming more and more important. The widespread adoption of smart meters makes it possible to utilize complex machine learning models for both aggregated load and single-home residential load forecasting. Similar homes in nearby locations are likely to have similar load consumption patterns and this similarity can be used to improve the overall forecasting performance. However, most current work on load forecasting focuses on single learning task without exploiting the benefit of joint learning. In this paper, we propose the use of the multi-task learning (MTL) framework with long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks for both aggregated and single home STLF. We propose a MTL-based forecasting algorithm for aggregated load forecasting in which single home forecasting is formulated as a single learning task within the MTL framework. This algorithm is extended for single home load forecasting in which load forecasting for a particular home becomes the primary learning task. Experimental results on real-world data sets demonstrate that residential load forecasting for both aggregated load and a single home can be improved within the MTL framework.


In horizontal washing machines, accurate estimation of unbalanced loads, including their magnitudes and locations in washing drums, is always required to achieve quiet highspeed spinning operations. Many estimation algorithms have been developed for the purpose and their estimation accuracy needs to be evaluated in real laundry processes. Nevertheless, lack of true information on the unbalanced loads during the process against which different algorithms could compare makes the evaluation a nontrivial task: it is very hard, if it is not impossible, to directly quantify the actual unbalanced load magnitude/location while the laundry is being washed. To tackle the problem, we use multiple mechanical measurements from laser displacement sensors, accelerometers and load cells which are installed in different locations on a horizontal washing machine, to derive true unbalanced load information inside a drum. Neural networks with PCA preprocessing are employed for the estimation and experiments have been designed to train and test the neural networks. Performances of the neural network-based estimation algorithm are reported.


The paper analyzes comparatively the same and the difference between the Chinese minority education policies and American multicultural education policies in the policy background and path,the policy content and area,policy idea and the value orientation of the policy.Based on these analyses,it points out that there are the similar things of them in orientation of protecting minorities,and American multicultural education policies have certain reference meanings to the Chinese minority education policies,and because of the difference between them we must research how to localize American multicultural education policies for better improving the Chinese minority education policies.


The invention discloses a directional-drilling three-dimensional geological information acquisition method. The method comprises the following steps of drilling and sampling along a linear trend of a preset tunnel, acquiring a rock core and obtaining a drill hole, and analyzing the rock core so as to acquire corresponding first geological information; pumping a detection sensor into ground along with a water pressure type rope corer through the drill hole and carrying out physical prospection on three-dimensional surrounding rocks of a periphery of the drill hole so as to acquire second geological information; combining and analyzing the first geological information and the second geological information so as to acquire omni-directional three-dimensional geological information of a tunnel area and a rock mass area of a periphery of the tunnel. By using the directional-drilling three-dimensional geological information acquisition method of the invention, a horizontal drill hole or a slow inclined drill hole can be detected so as to acquire the omni-directional three-dimensional geological information of the detected tunnel area; the method has a significant meaning for engineering enforcement and geologic body transparency; tunnel engineering plan changes during a later period of engineering enforcement and engineering accidents are avoided and engineering cost is reduced.


The present study aimed assessing the microbiological quality of Karish cheeses and examining the microbiological quality of coated and uncoated karish cheese samples with edible whey protein films, also studying the inhibitory effect of varied concentration of Rosemary essential oil as antimicrobial agent after incorporated it with the tested film samples. The study also investigated the rheological and organoleptic properties of karish samples before and after coating and during storage periods at 40C and 250C.


Old method used for deciding a water quality is taking sample of water to the laboratory and after testing, quality is decided but this is time consuming way of deciding the water quality. In today's world different kind of sensors are available for measuring a parameter which can be used to decide quality of water. This paper described the implementation of wireless sensor node on water for water quality monitoring. pH and Turbidity are the recommended parameter to be measured for deciding a quality of water. Here we present an application of wireless network: The wireless transmission follow the standard IEEE 802.15.4 protocol and implement the routing protocol based on ZigBee standard. This is a qualitative and quantitative approach for a water quality monitoring. Main future of this application is that it is easy and effective way for doing real time water quality monitoring and it is extensible to any type of monitoring system just by interfacing an appropriate sensor.


Purpose: Superficial low energy X‐ray treatments are widely available in many cancer centers for skintumours. In comparison with the low energy electron treatmentsdelivered by modern Linacs, it has the advantage of easy setup, less resource intensive, and cost effective, but still achieves the same purpose of tumour control or cure. For some tumour sites, it is a better choice than Linac. To our knowledge, however, there is no suitable software package for superficial treatment management. Dose calculations are mostly based on home made calculators and independent check is not always available. For treatment safety and treatment management, we developed a superficial calculation and information management system. Methods: This program is a web based application in a server‐client infrastructure. The server provides web and database services for client access and data storage. Any network device with a modern web browser can launch the application through a webpage. Results: Application access is restricted to authorized users only. At the front end (client side), physics group has the permission to perform system commission. Physicians and therapists can perform patient information management, dose prescription and treatment calculation. At the back end (server side), the application is database driven. All measurement, patient and treatment information are stored in a relational database. Users can calculate doses for all biological tissues provided in AAPM TG61 with field diameter <20cm. Dose calculation is based on the in‐air method (40–300kV tube potential) of AAPM TG61. Because of the lower calculation intensity requirement, all computations are on the server side. This makes the application's availability for even handheld devices. Conclusions: A web based superficial dose calculation and management system has been developed. This system can be used either as the primary system or as a QA tool for independent check of the calculating results.


The aim of present study is to develop an optimized formulation as immediate release tablet containg Mycophenolate mofetil (250mg) and Prednisolone (5mg) using Quality by Design (QbD) concept. According to QbD, the Target productm profile (TPP) was developed in which values of critical quality attribute of the product was predicated. Formulation variables and process variables were selected for initial risk assessment of the product, and for this purpose two design layouts were prepared using design expert software 8. The responses were the final evaluation parameters for the tablets, were disintegration time (Y1), dissolution times for MMF (Y2) and Prednisolone (Y3). To select the one good design layout predicted Vs actual results were compared by graphical analysis. Design layout 1 was selected for further data analysis to understand the effect of variables on CQA of product. Some statistical model (sequential mode of sum squares, model summary statics design, ANOVA) were applied on the data of both the design layouts and also draw the perturbation plot contours plot and 3D contours plot. The optimized batch containing Croscarmellose sodium (2.75% w/w), Polyvinylpyrrolidone K-30 (2.75% w/w), Aerosil (0.55 %w/w) and mixing time 45 minutes, as per design expert software, was finally validated.


Recently, we proposed a new speckle-based hologram multiplexing recording technique. In this method, a multi-mode LiNbO3 single crystal fiber is employed to generate speckle patterns which are used as reference beams in hologram recording process. The compact modulation architecture of this new technique allows a fiber array structure which can dramatically increase the system storage capacity as well as realize image adding function. To explore the functionality and the performance of a fiber array structure, a dual-fiber configuration has been set up in our laboratory and the preliminary experimental results are presented in this report.


Objective To explore the relationship between the changes of BAEP in deaf-mute children and its concerned factors.Methods 29 deaf-mute children's BAEP were recorded by Nervous Potential. Results There were 56 abnormal ears in 29 deaf-mute children, the rate of abnormality was 96.6%.Conclusion BAEP can objectively reflect the degree of auditory nerve's damage and also has special value of assess audition.


Abstract The nano-Sm2Zr2O7 powder prepared by co-precipitation was sintered at high temperatures (from 130 to 1550°C) for 0·25−8 h. The morphology of the Sm2Zr2O7 powder before and after calcination was investigated using scanning electron microscopy. The grain growth mechanism was determined. The results indicated that from 1300 to 1550°C, the grain size of Sm2Zr2O7 increases with temperature and increasing time. At 1550°C, the grain growth has a huge variation with different sintering times, and the grain size grows from 488 to 1116 nm as the sintering time increased from 0·5 to 1·5 h. The results taken from 1400 to 1500°C show a similar trend. The grain growth mechanism is that as the growth activation energy increases to a critical value, the grain grows at a high speed. Moreover, the grain growth is stimulated when oxygen-vacancies expand the atomic field, especially the diffusion of the grain in the grain boundary.


Purpose Nystagmus consists of involuntary to and fro oscillations of the eyes. The differences between nystagmus associated with albinism and idiopathic infantile nystagmus (IIN) are unclear. Recently mutations in a novel gene called FRMD7 have been found to underlie a significant proportion of X-linked IIN. Phenotypic variations in eye movements between FRMD7 and non-FRMD7 types have also been recently described. We have compared clinical and eye movement characteristics between albinism and IIN with and without mutations in the FMRD7 gene.

Methods Clinical features and eye movement were recorded from 37 albino subjects, 83 subjects with the FRMD7 mutation and 45 subjects without the FRMD7 mutation.

Results Mean visual acuity was significantly worse in albinos compared to IIN patients (p 0.05) for nystagmus amplitude or foveation, the frequency of nystagmus was significantly slower in albinism (p<<0.0001). In addition, nystagmus associated with albinism was significantly more likely to be jerk nystagmus rather than pendular nystagmus compared to FRMD7 group (p<<0.0001). The most common waveform associated with albinism was pure jerk nystagmus, whereas non-FRMD7 was more likely to be associated with jerk with extended foveation.

Conclusion Contrary to available literature, nystagmus associated with albinism shows distinct differences to IIN both with and without FRMD7 mutations. This suggests the possibility of different underlying mechanisms to albinism and IIN in generating eye oscillations although these are yet to be elucidated


The production situation of PVC was introduced briefly.It was indicated tnat the there was large market demand for PVC paste resin,and some enterprises wanted to expand production scale or remould the original facility.The application situation of spray drying technology in the production of PVC paste resin was introduced.


This paper explores the causality issue between financial development and economic growth in the Moroccan context over the period 1970-2000 based on Granger causality tests. The evidence presented in this paper suggests a spasmodic short-term, rather than long-term causality relationship between finance and growth. These findings may be attributed to the newness of financial sector reforms in Morocco, along with the absence of an appropriate investment climate required to foster significant private investment and promote growth in the long run. In addition, aggregate data suggest that financial deepening in Morocco benefited household and government consumption more than private sector investment. An empirical investigation of the impact of credit to the private sector on consumption is therefore provided and confirms the hypothesis that the expansion of credit to the private sector witnessed in Morocco since the reforms have helped maintain consumption patterns, even during times of hardship.


ABSTRACT We study the variable selection problem for a class of generalized linear models with endogenous covariates. Based on the instrumental variable adjustment technology and the smooth-threshold estimating equation (SEE) method, we propose an instrumental variable based variable selection procedure. The proposed variable selection method can attenuate the effect of endogeneity in covariates, and is easy for application in practice. Some theoretical results are also derived such as the consistency of the proposed variable selection procedure and the convergence rate of the resulting estimator. Further, some simulation studies and a real data analysis are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, and simulation results show that the proposed method is workable.


[Objective]To understand the hygienic status of rural drinking water in Rizhao city,and to provide basis for further improvement of rural area drinking water hygiene management.[Methods]Drinking water supply projects in the rural area of Rizhao city were selected randomly and the samples of finished water and tap water were tested both in flooding and dry seasons.[Results]From 2009 to 2012,946 water samples were collected and the total qualified rate was 59.30%.The qualified rates were 36.36%,38.24%,68.30%,and 68.37% for selected years respectively.The difference in qualified rates among the four testing years were statistically significant(χ2=46.58,P0.0001); the qualified rates of water samples in the dry season was higher than those in the flooding season(χ2=12.12,P=0.0005); the qualified rates of the finished water samples were higher than those of the tap water samples(χ2=33.15,P0.0001).[Conclusion]The most important problem of rural drinking water is unqualified microorganism index.Some unqualified physical and chemical indices also need to be addressed.


The objective of this work was to estimate the irrigated rice grain yield as a function of solar radiation and minimum air temperature by using procedures for multiple regression analysis. Data from sowing date experiments conducted during three crop seasons (2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007) were used. The dependent variable (Y) was the average grain yield and the independent variables were the average of global solar radiation (X1), average of minimum air temperature (X2) and the square of the average minimum air temperature (X3), computed in different plant development stages. For cultivars of medium cycle, the most important variables explaining grain yield were the global solar radiation from panicle differentiation until the beginning of flowering (R2) and the minimum air temperature from the beginning of the flowering until the grain maturation (T3). Regression models are suitable for estimating grain yield of irrigated rice in the Pelotas region, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.


This paper explores how context influences the evaluation of risky and ambiguous bets in the classic two-colour Ellsberg task. In three experiments context was manipulated via the presence/absence of additional bets against which the risky and ambiguous bets could be compared. In Experiment 1, three bets were added that were 'intermediate' in the sense that the information they yielded regarding the proportion of coloured balls lay between that provided by the risky and ambiguous bets. The presence of these intermediate bets reduced the price gap between the risky and ambiguous bets – and hence ambiguity aversion – by reducing the pricing of the risky bet relative to a condition in which only the risky and ambiguous bets were presented. In Experiment 2, we examined the individual effect of each of those intermediate bets on the valuations and found that the specific type of additional bet did not significantly affect the extent of the respective price gap. Finally, in Experiment 3, we explored the impact of the presence of 'filler' bets that were not necessarily in between the risky and ambiguous bets in terms of the information they yield. We found that having these filler bets also reduced ambiguity aversion. Overall, the findings suggest that the presence of additional bet(s) changes people's valuations, and narrows the well-documented gap between the risky and ambiguous bets of the Ellsberg task, regardless of whether these additional bet(s) yield relatively more or less information.


Individual enforcement of performer's economic rights in practice is ineffective in many respects and in some cases is simply impossible. Therefore, the subject of the present article is the collective management of performers' rights which could effectively support the individual enforcement. The article is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the general premises and peculiarities of the collective management of performers' rights. The outcome of the analysis shows that collective management is unavoidable for a number of reasons. First, a part of the economic rights is mandatorily enforced only in a collective way. Second, collective management is beneficial for both performers and their contractors. Also, the Lithuanian Neighbouring Rights Association, AGATA, which is currently responsible for the collective administration of performers' rights in Lithuania, is introduced in the article.


AimIn order to introduce and analyze the system of digital high school.MethodsBased on platform of SuperMap SDK ,adopt twice program with Visual Basic.ResultsThe digital NWU based on platform of SuperMap SDK is built.ConclusionAs the realization of digital NWU, it Gives a practical method and useful reference to the development of digital city.


This paper presents a generalization of the bias-variance tradeoff applied to the recent trend toward natural multi-hazard risk assessment. The bias-variance dilemma, a well-known machine learning theory, is presented in the context of natural hazard modeling. It is then argued that the bias-variance statistical concept can provide an analytical framework for the necessity to direct efforts toward systemic risk assessment using multi-hazard catastrophe modeling and inform future mitigation practices.


Copper‐coated ZnS : Mn powdered phosphors which can be excited with dc field were prepared and time responses of electroluminescence to unidirectional rectangular voltage pulses were studied at room temperature. Over the manganese concentration range studied (5×10−4−8×10−3 g/g Mn) emission decay time was found to be nearly proportional to the average nearest distance of Mn2+ to Mn2+ luminescent centers. An electroluminescent panel using the phosphor with 1×10−3 g/g Mn was most efficient under the pulsed voltage which has pulse width of 120 μs and repitition rate of 60 Hz.


Hydropower is the world's largest renewable energy source, and further development is expected. Hydropower plants have also been installed world-wide many decades ago, and these plants need refurbishment and upgrading. Hydrological as well as market and grid situations are changing, leading to a need for re-design of many hydropower facilities. Further, modern requirements to include environmental and social aspects of hydropower re-design, re-licensing and expansions will lead to new solutions. At the same time the environmental consequences need to be carefully evaluated and in many cases mitigated. In order to achieve cost-efficient mitigation of negative impacts on the fish fauna in regulate rivers, it is important to identify the bottlenecks for improved conditions for fish. This can be done by finding a diagnosis for the fish population. A number of tools and methods are developed to assess the river regulation and its fish species with classification systems for characterisation of the ecological state of river stretches and identification of the main bottlenecks to give the diagnosis. Having a suite of different mitigation measures to choose from, we have developed tools to evaluate the most cost-efficient mitigation measure aiming at improving conditions for fish without reducing hydropower production significantly. The aim of optimizing hydropower production as well as fish production with the most cost-efficient combination of mitigation measures and environmental flows will be demonstrated in several examples.


The present study aimed to compare the anti-inflammatory activity in vitro of the extracts of the leaves and flowers of Echeveria peruviana Meyen. The anti-inflammatory activity was evaluated by the human red blood cell membrane stabilization method (HRBC). A sample of 10 mL of human blood was used, where four serial dilutions were used, 400, 200, 100 and 50 μg / mL of the different extracts at increasing polarity (Ethereal, Chloroform, Dichloromethane, 70 ° GL, Ethanolic 96 ° GL and Aqueous), using an isosaline solution (0.85%, pH 7.2) as a dilution medium, and as standard drugs for dexamethasone (200, 50 μg / mL) and diclofenac sodium (200, 50 μg / mL). Where the percentages of hemolysis and protection of the red blood cell membrane were determined, considering the latter as the anti-inflammatory activity that the drug or the extract of the plant under study can exert. From the results it can be said that in all extracts and at all concentrations evaluated the anti-inflammatory activity is favorable, since the minimum average of the percentage of protection is 61.43 ± 0.06 for the 96 ° ethanolic extract of leaves (50 μg / mL) and the maximum average obtained is 97.33 ± 0.03 for the dichloromethane flower extract (400 μg / mL), it was also observed that the activity is dose-dependent, since as the concentration of each of the Extracts tested increases the percentage of protection of the erythrocyte membrane is greater. The statistical analysis of uniderectional variance (ANOVA) and the Duncan Test indicate statistically significant differences with a p <0.05, that is, there are differences between the results of the intervention groups. It is concluded that the extract of flowers of Dichloromethane 400 μg / mL of Echeveria peruviana Meyen achieved the highest percentage of hemolysis protection with 97.33% while in the extract of chloroform leaves at 400 μg / mL achieved its highest percentage of protection with 94.45%, likewise, the dichloromethane flower extract exceeded Dexamethasone 200 μg / mL and sodium diclofenac 200 μg / mL with 91.10% and 84.79% respectively


Due to its highly dynamic nature, coastal waters are necessary to be continuously monitor. Aerial wireless coastal buoy (AWCB) is one of the ocean instrument commonly deployed for observing oceanographic phenomena in coastal waters and around small islands. In this paper we describe the design, construction and the stability test result of new AWCB. The new AWCB is using water temperature sensors to collect data and transferring them through specific aerial wavelengths at real time and low cost in coastal areas. The AWCB is completed three steps. First, the buoy was designed using CAD software to determine its size, form and color. Next, the buoy was constructed using material from fiberglass. Last buoy was tested for its buoyancy and stability at the Acoustic and Instrument Laboratory, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University. At sea-trial was also carried out around Pramuka Island, and during the trial it shows that the buoy is stable condition within waves swaying and surface water current. It is floating well on seawater surface and stable for six days installing duration.


The Hilbert and Moore treemap layout algorithms are based on the space-filling Hilbert and Moore curves, respectively, to map tree-structured datasets to a 2D treemap layout. Considering multiple snapshots of a time-variant dataset, one of the design goals for Hilbert and Moore treemaps is layout stability, i.e., low changes in the layout for low changes in the underlying tree-structured data. For this, their underlying space-filling curve is expected to be continuous across all nodes and hierarchy levels, which has to be considered throughout the layouting process. We propose optimizations to subdivision templates, their orientation, and discuss the continuity of the underlying space-filling curve. We show real-world examples of Hilbert and Moore treemaps for small and large datasets with continuous space-filling curves, allowing for improved layout stability.


OBJECTIVE
To study the chemical constituents from ethyl acetate extract of Micromelum falcatum.

METHODS
The constituents were separated and purified by silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 and HPLC. Their structures were elucidated by spectral analysis (NMR, MS).

RESULTS
Ten compounds were isolated and identified as micropubescin (1), phebalosin (2), scopoletin (3), citrubuntin (4), thamnosmonin (5), hopeyhopin (6), arnottinin (7), casegravol (8), 2-methoxy-5-hydroxy cinnamate (9), threo-syringoylglycerol (10).

CONCLUSION
Compounds 1 - 10 are obtained from this plant for the first time.


Abstract The aim of the study was an empirical verification of a model assuming the influence of subjectively perceived sexual attractiveness and positive childbirth experience (PCE) (independent variables) on the level of women's sexual satisfaction after home birth or hospital birth (dependent variable) with the mediating involvement of subjectively perceived partner's support during pregnancy. The study was conducted with a group of 253 women after childbirth. Three standardised research tools were used in the study: the PCE Questionnaire, Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire and Body Esteem Scale as well as original tools for the evaluation of subjectively perceived partner's support during pregnancy and childbirth. The empirical verification of the theoretical model was performed with the use of multiple regression methods. The level of subjectively perceived partner's support during pregnancy, level of attractiveness and PCE had influence on the level of women's sexual satisfaction. Such an influence was, however, not noticed in relation to the partner's presence during childbirth, level of partner's support during childbirth or role of the place of childbirth. Subjectively perceived partner's support during pregnancy is of key importance, mediating between PCE and the level of women's sexual satisfaction after childbirth.


As a result from the latest financial crisis, the banking industry has undergone major modifications during the last years in order to limit banks' risks. A vast majority of existing literature ten ...


This Thesis aims at exploring the modern consciousness in the An-seo`s poems. An-seo is a poet and poetic theorist in the beginning of Korean modern poetry. But his poems and poetic ruts have been underestimated Generally An-seo is uttered a poet that had not enough modern consciousness and his poems are premodern. But he is very important poet that search for modern poem`s identity in 19th, the beginning of Korean modern poetry. Although his poems has many defects, for example having no implication, own individuality, and poetic devices, they are results of his groping and agony. An-seo shows many poetic experimentations. They can be explained the poet`s modern consciousness. He did his best to find out new poems distinguished former ages`s them. He recognized that the poems are written in words and focused on the words. And he identified the rhythm as poetic identity distinguished from the prose and sought the way of introducing the rhythm into our poems to cope with the situation in which the poems were consistently changed into the prose after the period of enligtenment. An-seo`s various experiments are now playing a role as a criterion to establish the Korean modern poems. Also he was concerned about Esperanto, and considered it had international possibility that Korean poems extend their power. These aspects show An-seo is a symbol of modern poet.


The use of backscattered electron (BSE) imaging in low voltage scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has increased over the past few years. This appears to be due to several factors including improved performance of SEMs at low voltages, reduced beam penetration, more reliable metrology, improved atomic number (Z) contrast information (for low Z) and reduced charging artefacts over secondary electron (SE) imaging. Understanding the factors involved in low voltage BSE detection may assist in improving the information attainable. It has been shown that the signal Sdet from a BSE detector, for EB ≫ Ew is given by where η is the BSE yield, Ω is the solid angle subtended by the detector to the specimen, D is the internal conversion efficiency of the detector, EB is beam accelerating voltage, Ew is the energy barrier of the dead layer on the detector's surface, IB is the beam current, F(Z) and F(Ω) are functions which take into account the variation of BSE energy with atomic number Z and collection angle respectively.


Magnetic properties of a series of hematite particles of pseudocubic or pseudoellipsoidal shape consisting of sub-nanoparticles, as well as irregularly shaped hematite agglomerates, were investigated. The microstructures of hematite particles directly obtained from a hydrothermal process were finely controlled with different experimental conditions, such as the type of counter anion, Fe3+/OH- ratio, surfactant, and aging time. Although samples with different microstructures have a nearly same value of the saturation magnetization, a large variation in the coercivity (Hc) is observed. Hc is found to be closely related to the microcrystal size and its packing density, as well as the formed particle morphologies. The findings obtained in this work contribute to further understanding about the correlation between the microstructural features and the magnetic properties of hematite superstructures. With such fundamental knowledge, it is possible for a systematic search of controlling synthesis parameters which will further lead to the fabrication of hematite particles with optimized magnetic properties for different technological demands.


In experiments with young plants of the Dwalganup strain of subterranean clover, nitrogen deficiency was associated with increased concentrations of isoflavones in the expanded leaves and cotyledons. In the first trifoliate leaves the concentration of total isoflavones (formononetin+genistein+ biochanin A) was approximately doubled at low nitrogen supply. Biochanin A was much less affected than the other two isoflavones. The increase in isoflavone contents of nitrogen-deficient leaves was associated with decreased protein synthesis, but not always with increased sugar contents. The supply of carbon substrates for isoflavone synthesis may depend on starch as well as sugar contents. Practical implications of the results are considered briefly.


On the basis of the coherently coupled nonlinear Schrdinger(NLS) equation for the propagation of a light pulse in fiber Bragg gratings,a computer simulation of the modulation instability of laser pluses in parabola squared apodization fiber Bragg gratingshas been studied in both anomalous and normal dispersion regime.The results show that modulation instability can be produced both in anomalous dispersion regime and in normal dispersion regime.The gain spectra have been restrained by parabola squared apodization function not only in anomalous dispersion regime but also in normal dispersion regime.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the histocompatibility of homologous acellular dermal matrix as a wrapping material for a hydroxyapatite orbital implant and compare the speed of fibrovascular ingrowth in hydroxyapatite orbital implant wrapped with homologous acellular dermal matrix and homologous sclera respectively.

METHODS
Twenty four New Zealand rabbits were divided into two groups randomly. One group is implanted with hydroxyapatite orbital implant wrapped with homologous acellular dermal matrix behind the globe, the other group with homologous sclera. The observation included immunological reaction of the globe postoperation. Biopsies of implanted material were taken on weeks 1, 4, 8 and 12 postoperation for histopathological and electron microscope examination.

RESULTS
Histological examination showed the homologous acellular dermal matrix has no immunological and inflammatory reaction after implanted in orbit. But the speed of fibrovascular ingrowth is a little slower than that of homologous sclera.

CONCLUSIONS
The homologous acellular dermal matrix has the better histocompatibility as an encapsulating biomaterial, it can be a new material instead of homologous sclera.


The problem of finding interior eigenvalues of a large nonsymmetric matrix is examined. A procedure for extracting approximate eigenpairs from a subspace is discussed. It is related to the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure, but is designed for finding interior eigenvalues. Harmonic Ritz values and other approximate eigenvalues are generated. This procedure can be applied to the Arnoldi method, to preconditioning methods, and to other methods for nonsymmetric eigenvalue problems that use the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure. The subject of estimating the boundary of the entire spectrum is briefly discussed, and the importance of preconditioning for interior eigenvalue problems is mentioned. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This chapter presents a review and a case of study of honeypots and honeynets. First, some of the most important and widely used honeypots in the current market are selected for comparative analysis, evaluating their interaction capacity with an attacker. Second, a self-contained honeynet architecture is implemented with virtual machines. An intrusion test is performed against the honeynet to observe the quality and quantity of the information collected during the attack. The final goal of this analysis is to assess the capacity of monitoring and threat detection of the honeynets and honeypots.