The automobile repair businesses in Taiwan strive to meet many challenges today The most critical ones are the close connections of sale networks, the information sharing of repair and technique, the integration of educational training, and the establishment of service information network. In order to face these challenges, one strategy is to apply information technology in automobile repair businesses. This study investigates how automobile repair businesses utilize information management and consumer oriented service system to achieve their automotive management goals. An in-depth case study of the automobile repair businesses was performed by conducting interviews with key decision makers and academic researchers. We found information management was being launched for transaction development to enhance the technician skill and customer satisfaction in Taiwan. Implications for instruction and testing are discussed.


The contact pressure between primary support and the secondary lining of shallow buried loess tunnel is got by doing the field monitoring to a tunnel in northwest region.Research method and results of the secondary lining mechanical characteristics of shallow buried loess tunnel have certain reference value for analyzing the structure stress characteristics of soft layers and building a more scientific and reasonable tunnel design method.


A mathematical model of the drilling mud flow through the side nozzle is made up. Research on the formation of a waterproofing screen permeable environment was conducted. The rationale for the possibility of using the jetting treatment of the barrel during drilling, as a method of preventing absorption, up to 20-25 m3/h is provided.


Deals with the modeling and the mathematical analysis of problems involving a rectangular container. The container is controlled via a longitudinal acceleration in order to move it from one location to another, and the key problem is the suppression of sloshing during transportation. Practical control problems involving this system have been studied, from a numerical and experimental point of view. For these aspects we refer to Terashima et al. (1993), where the mathematical analysis is not deep enough for the study of controllability or stabilization problems. Here we develop a suitable theoretical framework which is similar to the one used by Mottelet (2000), since the physical system is the same, but with different input and output operators. This framework allows us to show that approximate controllability in finite time does not hold. We also study the stability of the system when the elevation of the surface is measured at the right end of the container, and a static negative acceleration feedback is used. We show that strong stability holds (but with a non-uniform decay), although the perturbation caused by the feedback on the system operator is not dissipative in the natural topology.


Foreign correspondent Waghorn compares long-term assignments in China and Israel and observes: "Whereas in China the challenge was engaging the viewers' interest in somewhere so unfamiliar and alien, here [Israel] it is keeping them interested in somewhere they find over familiar. Rock- throwing, suicide bombs, helicopter gunships, funeral rallies and weeping relatives - they have seen it all before, time and time again." And in terms of physical obstacles to reporting, he writes, in Israel "they come in more dangerous forms than in China. In Gaza, for example, we operate with the risk of kidnapping and although dodging around in taxis, trying to remain unnoticed, can feel the same as ducking and diving to avoid Chinese police interference, in China a western correspondent can be fairly confident that the worst to fear is detention, losing your tapes and an occasional roughing up. Here there are more mortal dangers and neither side in the conflict has ever shown sufficient interest in the health and safety of journalists in the heat of battle." But in terms of obtaining information, Israel is light years ahead, he believes.


Solutions of the radial particle and energy transport equations in a hypothetical tokamak reactor have been investigated. Sensitivity of the solutions to various physical processes was examined.


Hard Cr coatings on Ni and Cu surface were deposited by means of ion beam assisted deposition(IBAD) for the replacement of electroplated chromium so as to avoid the problems of pollution and hydrogen embrittlement.The morphologies and mechanical properties of the coatings were examined using SEM,AFM,optical metallographic microscopy,micro-hardness tester,scratch tester,and profile meter.The influences from processes on the performance of coatings are presented.Some results were analyzed and compared with that of the electroplated coatings.The results showed that it is feasible to obtain fine Cr wear-resistant coatings on Ni surface with optimized process.Ion bombardment and gradient layers play important roles for the coatings during their depositions.


Minimization and control of line-edge roughness (LER) and contact-edge roughness (CER) is one of the current challenges limiting EUV line-space and contact hole printability. One significant contributor to feature roughness and CD variability in EUV is photon shot noise (PSN); others are the physical and chemical processes in photoresists, known as resist stochastic effect. Different approaches are available to mitigate each of these contributions. In order to facilitate this mitigation, it is important to assess the magnitude of each of these contributions separately from others. In this paper, we present and test a computational approach based on the concept of an 'ideal resist'. An ideal resist is assumed to be devoid of all resist stochastic effects. Hence, such an ideal resist can only be simulated as an 'ideal resist model' (IRM) through explicit utilization of the Poisson statistics of PSN2 or direct Monte Carlo simulation of photon absorption in resist. LER estimated using IRM, thus quantifies the exclusive contribution of PSN to LER. The result of the simulation study done using IRM indicates higher magnitude of contribution (60%) from PSN to LER with respect to total or final LER for a sufficiently optimized high dose 'state of the art' EUV chemically amplified resist (CAR) model.


Convolutional neural network (CNN) is now widely applied in bearing fault diagnosis, but the design of network structure or parameter tuning is time-consuming. To solve this problem, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to optimize the network structure and a self-adaptive CNN is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, a theoretical method is used to automatically determine the window size of short-time Fourier transform (STFT). To reduce the computation time, PSO is only applied to obtain the optimal key parameters in CNN with a small number of training samples and a small epoch number. To simplify the CNN structure, a fitness function considering the numbers of kernels and neuron nodes is used in PSO. According to the verification experiments for two well-known public datasets, the proposed method can get higher accuracy than other state-of-art methods. Furthermore, the parameters that are required to be input only involve the bearing parameters, so the proposed method can be applied in industry readily.


Based on MIMO-OFDM system, this paper proposes oblique projection subspace method, and the received signal space is divided into the past, future and present subspaces, thus separating the channel matrix information perfectly. This paper introduces the channel model, the received signal matrix and oblique projection operator. Two oblique projection algortthms are proposed and we finally analyse the complexity of the oblique projection subspace and noise subspace and compare the two methods' performance using the simulation method.


Switched reluctance generators (SRGs) possess a range of advantages, such as simple structure, good heat dissipation, high fault tolerance, which have, thus, been applied to wind power generation systems and other distributed generators. In order to maximize SRG performances, stable and reliable communication is essential to facilitate system monitoring, fault detection, and energy management system development. In this article, we propose a new modulation–demodulation strategy to realize effective power-line communication (PLC) between SRG and other converters in an inverter-interfaced distributed power grid. The newly designed modulation method utilizes and controls the turn-on/off angle (TOA) of an SRG, so as to modulate the voltage ripples to convey information to the receiving end. An innovated demodulation method is also devised in this article, using maximum entropy spectrum estimation (MESE) method, for the purpose of acquiring useful signals from the sending end. Vigorous experimentation is conducted, which verify the functionality of the proposed TOA-MESE modulation–demodulation method for data transmission between SRG and other converter-based installations.


Parikh matrix mapping or Parikh matrix of a word has been introduced in the literature to count the scattered subwords in the word. Several properties of a Parikh matrix have been extensively investigated. A picture array is a two-dimensional connected digitized rectangular array consisting of a finite number of pixels with each pixel in a cell having a label from a finite alphabet. Here we extend the notion of Parikh matrix of a word to a picture array and associate with it two kinds of Parikh matrices, called row Parikh matrix and column Parikh matrix. Two picture arrays A and B are defined to be M-equivalent if their row Parikh matrices are the same and their column Parikh matrices are the same. This enables to extend the notion of M-ambiguity to a picture array. In the binary and ternary cases, conditions that ensure M-ambiguity are then obtained.


Public debate on higher education reform today is dominated by competing views about what higher education institutions, particularly universities, are or should become. To a surprising extent, these views are based upon highly simplified characterisations of university history. The claims in question have been repeated so often that they have become cliches. Historical research has challenged all these conventional claims. The article aims to acquaint readers with the most important of these challenging results. Central here is an analysis of The Humboldt Myth about the rise of the modern research university in Germany and its alleged export to the US, and of the reasons why that myth remains so powerful, even though it has very little relation to realities on the ground. A second goal is to try to bring out some of the implications that a revision of standard views of higher education history might have for current policy debates, focusing in particular on the Bologna process.


How to cite: Wibowo, M., & Naini, R. (2021). Self-Compassion and Forgiveness among Senior High School Students: A Correlational and Comparative Study. Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.25217/igcj.v4i1.1370 E-ISSN: 2614-1566 Published by: Institut Agama Islam Ma'arif NU (IAIMNU) Metro Lampung Self-Compassion and Forgiveness among Senior High School Students: A Correlational and Comparative Study


The right to data may be a basic right that underpins sensible governance, democracy, financial condition destruction and therefore the sensible realisation of human rights. Sensible governance isn't achieved just by having economical government or perhaps a democratically elective government. The norms of freedom of knowledge and therefore the assurance of widespread subject participation publicly affairs and a full of life civil society square measure essential for the total realisation of democracy - a system of state aware of the wants of its voters - and to develop a culture of human rights and irresponsibleness.


A CONSTRUCTIVIST PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE REMEDIAL MATHEMATICS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION FEBRUARY 1989 RONALD BARRY NARODE, B.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS M.A.T., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor Klaus Schultz The recent increase in enrollments in college remedial mathematics courses makes clear the need for the development of pedagogy and curriculum which is tailored to this relatively new class of service courses. Besides the need for courses which teach basic skills in arithmetic, general mathematics, and elementary and intermediate algebra, a growing concern for better thinking skills among college students has added an important new dimension to the teaching of remedial mathematics. The author has contributed substantially towards the development of a program at the University of Massachusetts which attempts to teach college freshmen basic arithmetic and critical thinking skills by incorporating recent research results in cognitive processes, metacognition, and cooperative learning into a specially designed curriculum. This dissertation develops a theoretical basis from which the remedial program may be evaluated and improved. The theoretical exposition includes a brief history of the philosophy of the constructivist perspective as well as an examination of the role of metacognition in From these two theoretical perspectives, and mathematics education. from the recent literature on constructivist mathematics education, a pedagogy is developed for remedial college mathematics. A curriculum, prepared largely, though not exclusively, by the author, is described from the point of view of the pedagogy. Instructional methods and sample lesson plans are also developed to illustrate how the curriculum may serve the pedagogy. Data from student performance on a preand post-test is analyzed for the evaluation of the UMass program and for the identification of gender differences in test performance. Finally, the author, in collaboration with a colleague who assisted in the preparation of the original curriculum, has rewritten a portion of the curriculum to illustrate some of the changes which this study indicates may be helpful.


The results are reported of the first interhemispheric model of the 7320 A airglow covering mid- and low latitudes, at all longitudes. A comprehensive model of the ionosphere and thermosphere is used to compute volume emission rates as a function of altitude, latitude, longitude, and local time. Selected results are shown here to illustrate the computational capability. In particular, the diurnal and seasonal variability and interhemispheric coupling of conjugate photoelectrons are discussed. The model is particularly well suited for airglow studies, and provides a valuable tool for the comparison, interpretation, and planning of spectroscopic observations made from orbiting platforms for all significant thermospheric emissions.


Aim of this work is particle system simulation by the new programming language therefore we reviewed several methods for simulation of plasma systems. The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is then applied on a simple plasma system. In the PIC method ions are considered as a neutral-stationary background where electrons move around their initially occupied equilibrium states in one-dimension according to the Maxwell velocity distribution and the electromagnetic wave introduced as a disturbance into the system. The simulation starts from the point where the electromagnetic wave disturbs locations and velocities of the system particles (electrons) to reach an equilibrium state. The simulation program is written in SQL/Q-Basic. Here we demonstrated the successful use of PIC method on a wide variety of N particle plasma systems. In addition, this method could be used in three dimensional cases and with other field calculation methods, e.g. cloud-in-cell (CIC).


Multimedia applications inWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) require different approaches with respect to traditional networks due to the adopted devices' limitations in energy consumption and computational capabilities. This paper proposes a low-complexity algorithm for selecting speech packets according to their perceptual importance for voice transmission over WSNs. The proposed algorithm allows wireless sensor nodes to select which packets to protect during transmission in order to increase speech quality while at the same time minimizing the necessary energy. Experimental results based on cooperative transmission among devices show that the proposed algorithm achieves a good speech quality level while reducing the need to protect packets by 40% when compared to random selection.


We live in a world that is addicted to the quick fix – quick and easy solutions for instant weight loss, turning your baby into Einstein, and instant abs in 5 days. We rely on money and medications to help quickly solve our problems. Yet, I find myself falling victim to these tactics of the quick fix as responsibilities increase and deadlines approach.


PURPOSE: An integrated heat radiator for an LED(Light Emitting Diode) and a manufacturing method thereof are provided to improve heat radiation by integrating a heat sink with a body through an extrusion process. CONSTITUTION: An integrated heat radiator for an LED includes a cylindrical body(10) and a heat radiation unit(20). The body receives an LED source. The heat radiation unit includes a plurality of heat sinks(201) with a fin shape. The heat sinks are formed around the body. The heat sink has a thickness between 0.5 and 1.5 mm and a cross section between 1.2 and 3.5 cm^2. The body is integrated with the heat radiation unit through an extrusion process.


Resumen en: Despite post-modern anticipations we are immersed in the atmosphere of modernness: in it we breathe, to it we belong. We can capture some of its effects,...


For the last 25 years, the ionosphere Total Electron Content (TEC) has been reconstructed from GPS L1/L2 code and phase measurements in order to mitigate ionospheric effects on satellite-based positioning [1] [2]. Depending on the application and on the positioning technique, the error due to the ionosphere is influenced by absolute TEC and/or TEC gradients. In particular, local variability in the Total Electron Content also referred to as "irregular gradients" can strongly degrade the performances of differential or relative positioning applications [3]. Irregular gradients in TEC are due to different types of ionospheric "disturbances". At European mid-latitudes, the most frequent disturbances are Medium-Scale Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs) [4].


The invention discloses a kit used for diagnosing the immune associated diseases of human or animals, and the kit comprises antibodies or cell factors, antibody antigens or the stimulation sources of the cell factors, and other reagents required by forming the kit, wherein the antibodies are two or more than two antibodies or sub-antibodies with the function of distinguishing different immune response types; and the cell factors are two or more than two cell factors with the function of distinguishing different immune response types. In the kit, a special biomarker serves as a diagnosis indicator to realize the purpose of diagnosis and the purpose of distinguishing different immune response types of the first class, the second class and the like. The diagnosis has the important meaning that the disease developing degree can be identified by the diagnosis indicator at the same time; and according to the dynamic variation of the indicator in a therapeutic process, clinicians can be correctly guided to regulate a therapeutic scheme in time, thereby properly treating diseases, and making a correct judgement for prognosis.


This paper describes the application of an expert system based fuzzy logic controller to a single axis underwater vehicle, the Aquacube, consisting of a steel exoskeleton frame and a single thruster centrally mounted. A differential pressure sensor is included to measure depth as is sufficient flotation material to give it slightly positive buoyancy. >


: From 1991 to 2005, we surveyed American woodcock ( Scolopax minor ; hereafter, woodcock) hunters in 3 Canadian provinces to assess hunter satisfaction. Across all submitted reports, 42.0% of the respondents reported a 'poor' experience, 35.2% of the hunters reported an 'average' experience, and 22.1% of the hunters reported a 'good' experience. We analyzed hunter satisfaction rate with an ordered logistic regression that included province, Singing Ground Survey Population Index (SGS index), number of woodcock harvested, hunting effort (hours hunted), environmental conditions before and during the nesting and brood-rearing periods (i.e., prior to the hunting season), precipitation during the post-fledging period, and year as explanatory variables. We also included a random effect for each individual hunter, to account for repeated answers, and for year, to account for short-term irregular perturbations in hunter satisfaction. Hunters from Nova Scotia were on average more satisfied than hunters from Ontario. Hunter satisfaction was positively correlated with the SGS index and the number of woodcock harvested by the hunter during a hunting trip. Hunter satisfaction was negatively correlated with the amount of precipitation during the nesting period and positively correlated with the amount of precipitation during the post-fledging period. However, there was considerable variation in individual hunter response, with 27.7% of the hunters more satisfied than average and 22.8% less satisfied than average. In fact, the individual hunter response accounted for approximately 75.0% of the variability observed in the model, indicating that accounting for hunter satisfaction would require further investigation. In the meantime, promoting woodcock habitat conservation in southern Canada could increase woodcock populations, harvest opportunity, and, by extension, hunter satisfaction.


Michelle Taylor-Sands rejects the argument 'commonly used to justify selective reproduction, that it is better to be born than not'.1 The supposed inadequacy of this position is one of the things that pushes her towards an alternative 'relational' approach. Here, I consider briefly her three main objections:

1. The Non-Identity Problem does not apply to all the risks associated with the preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) process.

2. The 'life not worth living' standard applied in wrongful life cases is not suitable for selective reproduction.

3. The reasoning described above has 'morally objectionable' implications.

One of Taylor-Sands' most interesting suggestions is that there might be a difference between selecting a (future) child because it is congenitally deaf and some other forms of selective reproduction. Taylor-Sands accepts thatAn embryo selected because it is deaf could only ever become a deaf child. There are no other options for that child apart from becoming a deaf child, apart from non-existence (p. 18).1

But what goes for the deafness case does not, she claims, apply to the whole of selective reproduction… additional risks of harm associated with the PGD process (which involves ART and embryo biopsy) … could be avoided if the child is born naturally. The non-identity problem is not relevant to these risks of harm because there is another option for the child—to be born as a result of natural conception (p. 18).1

It is difficult, however, to see much difference between the deafness case and the saviour sibling case in this respect. In the choosing deafness case, the parents have a choice between several embryos, one of …


       Near Bridgetown, Barbados Early January 1921 Again Captain Wormell sought out a friend and fellow ship's captain—G. W. Bunker of Calais, Maine—and together they walked the Barbadian beach, out near the towers and the windmill of the British prison at Saint Ann's Garrison, Wormell nearly exhausted now by the extra work that fell to him and by the strain of bearing up against the unruliness of the schooner's crew, the worst—he said again and again in virtual disbelief—in his entire career. "Would they turn on you?" Captain Bunker asked. Wormell paused, but not out of surprise. He had given that question no small amount of thought already, as indeed every captain since the Phoenicians had so wondered. Every master would have his mettle tested by the sea and by the men who said first with their signatures and then by their work and obedience that they trusted him to lead them through and over and across it. "Not all of them, I don't think," Wormell said at last.


In recent years, there has been a considerable interest in Renewable Energy. This paper discusses an educational effort that incorporates Renewable Energy in a Senior Design course offered at a university in northeastern United States. The senior design project provides an environment that engage students in their studies. Multidisciplinary design teams were used whereby the students interact with their peers and with the faculty inside and outside of the class room/laboratory. Some design examples are offered to show our experiences of incorporating Renewable Energy projects in the senior design course. A concluding section discusses our experiences from offering such a course.


A sensitive and simple flow injection chemiluminescence (CL) system was constructed for the determination of meropenem, in which the CL intensity of the KMnO_4-rhodamine B (Rh B) reaction was enhanced in the presence of CdS quantum dots (QDs). A CL resonance energy transfer (CRET) occurs between CdS QDs as a donor and Rh B as an energy acceptor. Based on the strong specific quenching effect of meropenem on the CL intensity, a novel chemosensor for meropenem sensing was developed. Under the optimized conditions, the quenched CL emission intensity was proportional to the concentration of meropenem in the range of 0.002-10.0 mg L^−1 with a detection limit (3 s ) of 0.8 µg L^−1 Moreover, the feasibility of the induced CL system was studied via the meropenem determination in environmental water samples.


The synergistic catalyzing effect in the Li–S system can realize the coupling of Li+-ion diffusion and electron transfer at the cooperative graphene-TiO2 interface.


Major activities included coding and verifying equations of motion for the earth-moon system. Some attention was also given to numerical integration methods and parameter estimation methods. Existing analytical theories such as Brown's lunar theory, Eckhardt's theory for lunar rotation, and Newcomb's theory for the rotation of the earth were coded and verified. These theories serve as checks for the numerical integration. Laser ranging data for the period January 1969 - December 1975 was collected and stored on tape. The main goal of this research is the development of software to enable physical parameters of the earth-moon system to be estimated making use of data available from the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment and the Very Long Base Interferometry experiment of project Apollo. A more specific goal is to develop software for the estimation of certain physical parameters of the moon such as inertia ratios, and the third and fourth harmonic gravity coefficients.


A construction of tight wavelet frames over bounded domains is quite different from construction of tight wavelet frames over unbounded domains. Concrete examples in [3] show that it is impossible to construct tight wavelet frames over bounded domains by modifying tight wavelet frames over unbounded domains. The authors in [3] developed a general theory of non-stationary tight wavelet frame construction over a bounded interval using univariate splines. In this paper we introduce a simple constructive method for tight wavelet frames over bounded domains. We apply this simple method to construct B-spline tight wavelet frames over interval and box spline tight wavelet frames over bounded domains. One of the advantages of our method is that our method works in the multivariable settings. To be precise what we study in this paper, let us explain the concept of tight wavelet frames first. A tight wavelet frame over a bounded domain Ω is based on a half infinite sequence of nested subspaces over Ω in L(Ω). That is, a sequence of nested subspaces {Vk}k∈Z+ in L(Ω) satisfies V1 ⊂ V2 ⊂ · · · ⊂ Vk ⊂ · · · → L(Ω)


Laboratory colonies of Monomorium pharaonis (L.) were given access only to food containing the juvenile hormone analogue isopropyl-11-methoxy-3, 7, 11-trimethyl-dodeca-2, 4-dienoate (Altosid). In contrast to control colonies all the brood died in 4–8 weeks and queens ceased to lay eggs at about this time. Comparison of ovaries dissected from treated and untreated queens showed the former to be atrophied and without developing oocytes. In treated colonies the worker caste became extinct between 9 and 20 weeks after treatment commenced but queens remained alive for more than 20 weeks. Treatments were lethal with exposure periods of one week only. Juvenile hormone analogues show real potential for the control of M. pharaonis .


Background: Simple mandibular angle fracture can occur in different group of people due to different etiology.Objective: The purpose of the present study was to find out the demographic characteristics and etiology of simple mandibular angle fracture.Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Dhaka Dental College & Hospital, Dhaka and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 2010 to December 2010 for a period of one (01) year. Among all patients admitted/attended to the hospital IPD or OPD with fracture of mandibular angle with or without other associated fracture sites were selected as study subjects. The details of demographics characteristics and etiology of fracture were recorded. Result: A total number of 30 patients were recruited for this study. Majority of the respondents 21(70%) were male and rest 09(30%) were female. Mean age of the patients was 29.5±6.795 years. Among the 30 respondents 46.7% had history of Road Traffic Accident, 43.3% due to assault and only 10% for other causes.Conclusion: In conclusion the most common etiology of mandibular angle fracture is road traffic accident. Male and younger adult are frequently encounter the mandibular angle fracture.Journal of Current and Advance Medical Research 2018;5(2):45-48


Objective: The conditions of immobilized Acetobacter by modified Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles were optimized,the feasibility of Fe3O4 nanoparticles as immobilized carrier was discussed.Method: Using the modified Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles by Ammonium citrate as immobilized carrier,immobilized rate was studied under different levels of pH,fixed time,the weight ratio of Acetobacter to Fe3O4.The stability of immobilized Acetibacter(modified) was analysised by reusing.Result: 4.5 of pH,40 minutes of fixed time,1: 1 of the weight ratio of Acetobacter to Fe3O4,3% of the weight ratio of Ammonium Citrate to Fe3O4,were selected as the best immobilized conditions.The fixed rate was still more than 70% reusing ten times.Conclusion: The modified Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles by Ammonium Citrate had a better ability immobilizing Acetobacter.The immobilized Acetobacter could be reused,so it had a good value in application.


Background: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of citric acid (CA) on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility and gastrointestinal pH of weaned piglets. Methods: A total of 120 weaned piglets with an initial BW of 7.15±0.01 kg, were randomly divided into four groups including control treatment each with three replicates of 10 piglets each. Each group was supplemented with 0.5% (control group), 1%, 1.5% and 2% CA in the basal diet, respectively.
Result: The results showed that the average daily feed intake (ADFI) and average daily gain (ADG) of added 1% CA group were significantly higher than that of 0.5% group (P less than 0.05). Dietary CA significantly improved the utilization rates of crude protein, calcium and phosphorus (P less than 0.05), while there was no significant difference between adding 1% and 1.5% CA (P greater than 0.05). Compared with the control group, adding CA effectively reduced the pH of the stomach, duodenum jejunum and ileum contents and adding 2% CA were significantly lower than those in other groups (P less than 0.05). Therefore, the addition of 1.0% CA in the diets of weaned piglets is suitable.


The boss of a CPP is significantly larger than that of a conventional propeller of similar size, to accommodate the pitch changing mechanism. This will not only influence the chordwise pressure distribution on the blade sections near the boss but will also affect the performance characteristics of a propeller in the open water. This paper presents a propeller lifting surface method with the inclusion of the effect due to the boss. A surface source distribution is used to replace the boss and the vortex lattice representation of propeller blades is also incorporated. Numerical results indicate that the blade pressure distributions in inner radii are significantly different from those without a boss. The precision of performance prediction characteristics of a propeller with a large boss can be upgraded by the inclusion of the effect of the boss.


Performance measurements are reported for prototype photovoltaic modules in various residential applications in the Northeast, in New Mexico, in Florida and in Hawaii. Current-voltage characteristics were measured and the dependence of power delivered upon cell temperature is measured. Failure analysis of high leakage current modules, visual examination results of modules at the Northeastern and New Mexico sites, and examination of photovoltaic/thermal liquid collectors are presented. (LEW)


Ifound the work of Mohan, Mikhailidis, and Stansby investigating platelet activation status before, during, and after bypass surgery to the lower limbs very interesting. They showed that platelet activation occurs after surgery and that this persists despite the use of aspirin or warfarin. Indeed, these medications did not affect the levels of platelet activation, which remained significantly elevated compared with baseline. The authors propose newer antiplatelet agents such as clopidogrel and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, which have a different mode of action and could inhibit platelet aggregation in response to shear stress. Cilostazol [6-(4-[1-cyclohexyl-1H-tetrazol-5-y]butoxy)-3, 4-dihydro-2(1H)-quinolinone, OPC-13013] is an adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate phosphodiesterase inhibitor, which exerts a selective inhibition of guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate-mediated reduction of cAMP PDE3 in platelets. It is a novel and unique agent that operates through its action as endotheliumtarget antithrombotic therapy, achieving its effects by improving endothelial cell function and reducing the number of platelets partially activated by interacting with activated endothelial cells. The agent may also exert an antiproliferative effect on vascular smooth cells, which could reduce restenosis rate at the site of anastomosis. Actually, the main indication of the drug is the treatment of patients with intermittent claudication. More data are needed to better understand its mechanisms of action and weigh up benefits and safety in patients with vascular disease. However, I believe that newer research protocols should consider cilostazol as well, and not only clopidogrel and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, as alternative adjacent antiplatelet therapy of surgically treated patients with peripheral arterial disease.


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Abstract We find values of superposition of Marczewski-Burstin operation and operation of finding Bernstein sets. Several counterexamples of Marczewski-Burstin systems are given.


Mata is Stata's matrix language. In the Mata Matters column, we show how Mata can be used interactively to solve problems and as a programming language to add new features to Stata. Macros are the subject of this column.


This paper explores the imagery of vineyards, grapevines and wine to see how it has been used and developed to speak of the health and well-being of the people of Israel, or the lack thereof, and their relationship with God over time. Different traditions of this imagery are traced through Israel's literary history well into the New Testament.


The scalar model of a low energy pi D scattering within the limtts of deuterons binding energy epsilon yields O has been considered. The corrections to the impulse approximation due to the multiple scattering and production of a virtual meson are obtained. (auth)


The current study examined content and structure of mother–daughter conflict interactions during early adolescence. Participants were 30 dyads of 12-year-old Dutch adolescent girls and their mothers, who were observed during a conflict interaction task and who completed measures on several aspects of relationship quality. Conflict management behaviours of both mothers and daughters were consistently related to perceived relationship quality, suggesting that interactions wherein daughters have a more active role and mothers are more passive are associated with more dominance and open communication in the relationship as perceived by mothers and daughters. Furthermore, when there was greater dyadic variability, mothers perceived more dominance and criticism from daughters, while daughters perceived more dominance and less open communication from mothers, suggesting that variability of dyadic behaviour is indicative of a realignment of the parent–adolescent relationship towards greater equality.


The aim of this study was to evaluate morphological responses of the absorptive apparatus of the jejunum to di erent diet ingredients in weaning pigs. In this study, seven crossbred (Landrace Large Yorkshire Duroc) pigs, they were a litter, were used after weaning. Before weaning, they fed with creep feed for six days. Six pigs were divided into two groups ; one received dairy-based feed and the other received vegetable-based feed. The remaining pig was used as a non-treatment control. Dairy-based feed contained mainly animal-based feed, and vegetable-based feed contained mainly oil-seed cake and meal. Drinking water was provided throughout the experimental period. Jejunum samples were collected immediately after weaning from a non-treated control pig (D ). The similar samples were collected from each pigs of dairy-based feed and vegetable-based feed groups respectively, on (D ) and days (D ) after weaning. The samples were processed for morphological observation of absorptive epithelial cells and heights of villi and microvilli. A significant increase in height of intestinal villi on D and in size of the absorptive cells on D were found in animals that received vegetable-based feed , ultrastructural transition of epithelial cells on D . An increases in microvilli height on D and D were seen in animals that received vegetable-based feed. Presumably, the ingredients of vegetable-based feed are more easily digested and absorbed through the intestinal wall than are ingredients of dairy-based feed. As a result, the growth of intestinal villi and (growth of) absorptive epithelial cells in vegetable-based feed group were greater than those in dairy-based feed group, leading to a more e cient absorptive function of the small intestine.


Abstract Europium and terbium salts of methacrylic acid (MA) and octanoic acid (OCA) were prepared by a method similar to that described in the literature. Either Eu(MA)3 or Tb(MA)3 with three double bonds (C˭C) was used as a crosslinker containing rare earth metal ions, but the octanoic acid salts were used as additives. The salts were dissolved in methacrylic acid ( 80%) using AIBN (0.2 wt%) as initiator. The two types of polymers, one containing Eu(MA)3 or Tb(MA)3 and the other with Eu(OCA)3 or Tb(OCA)3, were synthesized by bulk copolymerization in molds made of two glass plates and characterized. The fluorescence spectroscopy of these polymers under ultraviolet/visible excitation light was investigated. The fluorescence excitation and emission spectra of the polymers showed the characteristic spectra of the free Eu3+ or Tb3+. The fluorescence intensity of the rare earth metal ions increased with increasing rare earth metal content. Fluorescence me...


We apply the quantum Hamilton–Jacobi formalism, naturally defined in the complex domain, to complex Hamiltonians, characterized by discrete parity and time reversal (PT) symmetries and obtain their eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Examples of both quasi-exactly and exactly solvable potentials are analyzed and the subtle differences, in the singularity structures of their quantum momentum functions, are pointed out. The role of the PT symmetry in the complex domain is also illustrated.


Abstract Since its independence, Morocco suffered from many economic, social, environmental, and urban challenges. To deal with the existing dysfunctions, the State will look towards creating structuring projects, laws, national programs, etc. Except that all, the measures taken to remedy this do not integrate the population. The objective of this study is the participatory approach concretization in the process of sustainable development through a questionnaire targeting the resident population and the daily citizens in Rabat. As a result, various dysfunctions affecting mobility, pollution, and the living environment in general in Rabat were highlighted. These results will be the subject of a roadmap for an integrated and inclusive sustainable development project in a safe environment.


BACKGROUND
 Digital technologies are gaining an important role in the management of patients with diabetes. The GlucoMe solution integrates multiple aspects of diabetes care: 1) Wireless blood glucose monitor - communicates glucose data automatically to any smartphone; 2) Mobile-app - securely transmits real-time blood glucose monitor data for cloud based analyses, and enables 2-way communication between patients and health care professionals; 3) Digital diabetes clinic – analyzes and presents data to the health care professional; and 4) Control tower software provides population management reports and sends individualized alerts.

 OBJECTIVE
 Assess clinical outcomes and user satisfaction of incorporating the GlucoMe digital solution in diabetes clinics of a developing country.

 METHODS
 Five hospital endocrinology clinics in Vietnam participated in a market acceptance evaluation pilot of the GlucoMe system. The clinics sequentially recruited all patients willing to join, so long as they had a smartphone and access to internet connectivity. Patients were provided with the GlucoMe app and blood glucose monitor and instructed in their use in individual or groups sessions. The digital diabetes clinic and control tower software were installed in the clinic computers. Face-to-face visits were conducted at baseline and at 12 weeks, with monthly digital visits scheduled in the interim and additional digital visits performed as needed. HbA1c levels were measured at baseline and at 12 weeks (±20 days). Treatment modification was at the discretion of the treating physician. Outcome measures included adherence to glucose monitoring, change in glycemic parameters and patient and physician satisfaction as assessed by questionnaires. Only patients completing the pilot were included in data analyses.

 RESULTS
 The study recruited 300 patients of whom 279 patients completed the evaluation. Dropout was due to change in internet access availability (18) or death (3). Adherence to glucose measurements gradually declined, yet, at study end 81% of the patients were measuring glucose at least once a week. Digital contact from the health care professional to the patient or vice-versa (excluding automated alerts) occurred in average every 6.2 days. Average glucose levels declined from 170.4±64.6 mg/dl in the first two weeks to 150.8±53.2 mg/dl in the last two weeks (P<0.001) (n=221). HbA1c levels at baseline and 12 weeks were available for only 126 of the patients and declined from 8.3±1.9% to 7.6±1.3 (P<0.001). Over 95% of the physicians and patients stated they would strongly support the broad usage of the GlucoMe platform in diabetes clinics across the country.

 CONCLUSIONS
 The GlucoMe digital solution was broadly accepted by both patients and health care professionals and improved glycemic outcomes. The digital platform yielded increased number of patient-health care professional interactions, yet of short duration, enabling judicious allocation of limited time resources. The durability, scalability and cost-effectiveness of this approach merit further study.


The categories of representations of finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebras [Dri90] and weak Hopf algebras [BNS99] are finite multi-tensor categories. In this thesis I classify exact module categories, as defined by Etingof and Ostrik [Ost03b, EO04], over those tensor categories. Closely associated with this classification is the question whether relative Hopf modules are projective or free over comodule algebras. For quasi-Hopf algebras I prove that for an H-simple H-comodule algebra A, every finite dimensional quasi-Hopf bimodule in HMA is projective as an Amodule, and if A is a coideal subalgebra of H, then it is even free. In particular, finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebras are free over their coideal subalgebras. This is a generalization of Skryabin's results on the freeness and projectivity over comodule algebras in the Hopf algebra case [Skr07], and it contains Schauenburg's quasi-Hopf algebra freeness theorem [Sch04]. I deduce that a module categoryM over a finite dimensional quasi-Hopf algebra is exact and indecomposable if and only if it is of the form AM for some H-simple H-comodule algebra A. For this purpose I prove among other things a structure theorem for quasi-Hopf bimodules over smash products and a bijective correspondence between H-stable ideals of an H-module algebra R and the H-costable ideals of R#H. The results on the exact module categories over quasi-Hopf algebras have a direct application to H-comodule algebras and smash products: They imply that H-simple H-comodule algebras are quasi-Frobenius and that, in the case when H is semisimple, the smash product R#H of an H-simple H-module algebra R by H is also a semisimple algebra. For weak Hopf algebras it is not possible to generalize the Nichols-ZöllerFreeness Theorem [NZ89] or Skryabin's theorems [Skr07]: I construct an example of a weak Hopf algebra which is not free over one of its weak Hopf subalgebras. However, Etingof and Ostrik [EO04] showed that surjective tensor functors between finite multi-tensor categories map projective objects to projective ones. Considering the restriction functor HM → KM, where K ⊂ H are weak Hopf algebras, this implies that weak Hopf algebras are projective over weak Hopf subalgebras. I conjecture that for a quasi-Frobenius H-simple Hcomodule algebra A every weak Hopf module inMA is a projective A-module, and I show that this holds for weak Hopf algebras which are free over their base algebras. In this case, I classify the exact indecomposable module categories over H by quasi-Frobenius H-comodule algebras which are simple from the right and have trivial coinvariants. My classification also gives a new and more direct proof for the classification in the Hopf algebra case [AM07].


A windowing and multilayer acceleration methodology for rigorous electromagnetic analysis of extreme ultraviolet masks in three dimension is introduced and used to explore strong feature asymmetries associated with off-axis illumination. Specifically synthesizing large features from smaller simulation domains and replacement of the multilayer substrate by upward radiating equivalent sources are used and allow mask corner effects to be analyzed in about 10 h on a 200 MHz workstation. Windowing synthesizes the fields for a large mask feature from simulation of smaller domains such as corners. With off-axis illumination at angles of even a few degrees, hot spots in the near field occur at edges of the mask which face the illumination. This effect is associated with diffraction of the upward reflected light and its propagation in the presence of the side wall of the mask edge profile.


This article offers the theoretical aspects of reengineering the business processes of construction enterprises. There are determined the essence, role and necessity of reengineering the business processes. There was revealed the stages of reengineering, the observance of which is a necessary condition of efficiency of realization of reengineering the business processes for a construction enterprise.


The efficacy of SSRIs and psychotherapy for short-term and maintenance treatment of late-life depression has been studied only infrequently, and results have been variable. These researchers from a depression clinic for elderly patients examined the effects of 2 years' maintenance treatment with these modalities in 116 patients age 70 or older (mean age, …


The history of higher physical education in America has 140 years from its beginning to now.During the course of development,the America higher physical education grew to form it's own system and feature.Under the background of higher education reform,population structure change,health and sports industry booming,competitive sports development,America higher physical education makes subject reorganization through changing the name of department and major,strengthens subject of natural science education in order to meet the demand of social change.Those reforms have important revelation and reference for our higher physical education development.


Editorial department of International Journal of Oral Science took the reference of foreign and domestic counterparts editing experience,and founded the first oral medicine English professional periodicals of P.R.China in 2009.According to the concept and mode of international journals,International Journal of Oral Science has been indexed by SCI-E,Medline,and other famous international database,which is realizing the solid step towards the world.Practice has proved that the subject area of China has the resource and capability to found professional journals recognized by international counterparts and among the world's most academic periodicals.Accelerating to cultivate the international first-class sci-tech periodicals,upgrading the international influence of our periodicals is an important content of sci-tech journals for future development.


Crown walls are often constructed on the top of sloping dike to meet the requirement of overtopping and stability and cut down costs of construction.Using a three-component balance,wave loads on crown walls are measured for the cases of different bottom elevations and wall height.Stability and overtopping of different types of arc crown walls are discussed.The characteristics of wave loads are analyzed.


Objective
To investigate the value of ultrasound contrast in differential diagnosis of liver alveolar hydatid disease and hepatic malignant tumor.

Method
Totally 36 cases of liver alveolar hydatid disease and 31 cases of hepatic malignant tumor were retrospectively analyzed, who visited the Ultrasound Department of Qinghai Red Cross Hospital from March 2010 to September 2013, the performance characteristics of gray-scale ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) on hepatic malignant tumor and liver alveolar hydatid disease were compared.

Results
Gray-scale sonography of 36 liver alveolar hydatid diseases showed clear boundary, heterogeneous hypoechoic nodules, and the maximum area was (5.06 ± 2.46) cm2 in 49 lesions; gray-scale sonography of 31 hepatic malignant tumors showed unclear boundary, hypoechoic nodules, and the maximum area was (7.29 ± 5.83) cm2. CEUS of liver alveolar hydatid disease showed non-enhancement in three phases, and rim enhancement was seen synchronized with the liver parenchyma. CEUS of hepatic malignant tumor showed hyper-enhancement in arterial phase, equal-enhancement or hypo-enhancement in portal phase and delayed phase, and abnormal perfusion areas were clear.

Conclusion
Liver alveolar hydatid disease is different in the performance of CEUS from hepatic malignant tumor, CEUS has a great value in the differential diagnosis of liver alveolar hydatid disease and hepatic malignant tumor.

Key words:
Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography; Liver alveolar hydatid disease; Primary hepatic carcinoma; Hepatic metastasis


This paper investigates the application of SVC hybrid controller for improving damping inter-area modes of oscillations. The proposed controller comprised fuzzy logic proportional and derivative controller with the conventional proportional and integral controller (FUZZY PD+PI) turn by genetic algorithm techniques. The proposed control scheme implements the characteristics of the GA's global optimization to optimize the FPD control parameters, kp, kd, KP, KI and KD to obtain the best control effect by minimizing the integral time square error online. This type of hybrid control is proved to be more robust and effective in damping electromechanical oscillations of the power systems in comparison with the conventional PID regulators or Fuzzy only used for SVC control. The performances of the controllers and the improvement in the system response are presented to highlight the effectiveness of the proposed SVC controller in a two -area four machines power system.


New technology for recognizing fingerprints for security purposes is proving reliable but efficient recognition depends on the quality of the input fingerprint image. Recognition of the fingerprint becomes a complex computer problem while dealing with noisy and low quality images. The proposed SWT based composite method is used for fingerprint image enhancement using SWT transform, morphological operation, quick mask and spatial filters. We have applied the proposed method on FVC2002 fingerprint database and experimental results show that this composite method is more effective and robust than the other existing method. Finally the result is compared using the texture descriptors


In this paper, we study the gravitational perturbation of traversable wormhole spacetime, especially the Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetime, by using the linearized theory of gravity. We restrict our interest to the first order term and ignore the higher order terms. We assume that the perturbation is axisymmetric. We also assume that the time dependence follows the Fourier decomposition and the angular dependence is expressed in terms of the Legendre functions. As a result, we derive the gravitational perturbation equation of traversable wormhole in terms of a single linear second-order differential equation. As a consequence, we could analyze the unstability of the spacetime with the effective potentials. Furthermore, we consider the interaction between the external gravitational perturbation and the exotic matter, constituting traversable wormholes and its effect on the stability of traversable wormholes.


Boolean factor analysis aims at decomposing an objects × attributes Boolean matrix I into a Boolean product of an objects × factors Boolean matrix A and a factors × attributes Boolean matrix B, with the number of factors as small as possible. This paper is a continuation of our previous paper where we proved that formal concepts of I are optimal factors for Boolean factor analysis. In particular, we concentrate on the implications of the proof. Namely, on the fact that finding factors can be reduced to the set covering problem for which there exist efficient approximation algorithms. In this paper, we present the algorithm for finding factors which results this way and present several experiments on factorizing Boolean matrices.


Authorship is very important because academic achievement often assessed in terms of published articles, and the authors of each article are considered to have played a principal role in clinical or experimental studies. It is reasonable that readers of a journal think that authors are experts in their field of study. However, the editorial office of Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) sometimes receives letters requesting modifications of the authorship of an article, including addition, removal, and changing the order of authors. This is an awkward situation for the journal office. In many high-quality journals, author modification is not easy and can only be permitted with justifiable grounds. Some journals even request a description of the role of each author specifically to ensure fair attribution of authorship in the manuscript submission process. For example, an author can play a role in study conception and design, analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting the article, critical revisions for important intellectual content, final approval of the article, statistical expertise, and/or collection and assembly of the data. What, then, is the consensus for assigning authorship correctly? In 2013, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors suggested 4 principles for defining authorship [1]. 1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND 2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND 3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND 4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Those who do not meet all 4 criteria should be acknowledged. The provision of funding does not make an individual eligible for authorship. The same holds for general supervision or proofreading. The first author is held to have made the greatest contribution to the research. The corresponding author is the individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process, and who typically ensures the proper completion of all the jour-nal's administrative requirements, such as providing authorship details, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation , and conflict of interest forms and statements, although these duties may be delegated to 1 or more coauthors. The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer …


India is facing a pandemic of 'Coronavirus disease -2019' (COVID-19). In the
absence of proper medicine and vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19, the Government of India has
imposed the country lockdown from 25 March 2020 to avoid chain/community transmission of
coronavirus in humans. Consequently, the educational institutes were also closed during the lockdown
period and traditional classroom teaching switched to online teaching in India to compensate for the
educational losses.

This article aims to measure the impact of online teaching on education as well as the health of
the students.

 The online survey was conducted on the students to measure the impact of online teaching
on their education and health. There are 792 valid responses obtained from the survey.

According to the survey, online teaching was equally important in all segments of education
during the period of a pandemic, but about 30 % of students are not satisfied with the delivery of content
through online teaching. The students below 14 years were getting addicted to mobiles and laptops and
consequently, they suffered from mental sickness and eye problems due to the screen effect.

Online teaching has played a vital role during the pandemic, but its consequences can not
be ignored. The online classes can not be accessed by each student due to the unavailability of smartphones,
laptops and mobiles network to especially poor families and remote areas. This creates discrimination
among the students of poor and rich or urban and rural. The students below 14 years are not
aware of the screen effect and get addicted to mobile that causes mental and eye problems. Thus, online
teaching can not take the position of traditional classroom teaching for a long time and we will need to
get back to traditional teaching after a pandemic ends.


We present a combinatorial coverage measurement analysis for (subsets) of the TLS cipher suite registries by analyzing the specified ciphers of IANA, ENISA, BSI, Mozilla and NSA Suite B. The method introduced here may contribute towards the design of quality measures of cipher suites, and may also be applied more broadly to the analysis of configurable systems. Keywords—Combinatorial testing, coverage, measurement, TLS, subsets, cipher suites.


Numerical calculations are carried out on harmonic mixing with an externally pumped Josephson junction. Bias conditions for optimum conversion efficiency are studied for a variety of junction parameters. The predicted noise temperature for harmonic mixing is compared with that for fundamental mixing at the same signal frequency.


This report investigates the correlations between acoustic parameters and the perception of hoarseness by trained listeners. Both sustained vowels and connected speech were examined. Fourteen acoustic parameters from samples of sustained vowels and 2 from connected speech were measured. The results show that jitter, shimmer and cepstral peak prominence (CPP) are correlated with the perception of hoarseness in sustained vowels. CPP is strongly correlated with the perception of hoarseness in connected speech. Some evidence is seen that perception of hoarseness in connected speech is more valid than the perception of hoarseness in sustained vowels. It is concluded that CPP for connected speech is a more valid objective measure of hoarseness than jitter, shimmer or CPP for sustained vowels and that perception of hoarseness may be most accurate in connected speech, rather than isolated vowels.


STING pathway agonism emerged as a potential therapeutic mechanism to stimulate an innate anti-tumor immune response. While in principle systemic administration of a STING agonist would have many therapeutic benefits, including the delivery of STING to all tumor lesions, such an approach may be limited by toxicity. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) constitute a proven therapeutic modality that is ideally suited to allow systemic administration while stimulating the innate immunity in a targeted manner. We have previously demonstrated that targeted delivery of a STING agonist with an ADC induces robust anti-tumor immune responses. linked to the infusion of of the tumor with 690 nm non-thermal red the drug and results in targeted and rapid tumor necrosis. Previous preclinical have shown that RM-1929 treatment triggers immunogenic cell death and activates the innate and adaptive immune response. A retrospective analysis of PD-L1 expression from the phase I/IIa clinical trial in patients with recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (rHNSCC) (NCT02422979) was conducted. The analysis explored correlations of PD-L1 expression, including combined proportion score (CPS) and tumor proportion score (TPS), with clinical outcomes such as response rate and overall survival.


Reed-Solomon codes are polynomial evaluation codes and it has been shown that these can be efficiently repaired in the case of single node failures by considering the code symbols as vectors over a subfield and the helper nodes transfer multiple symbols over the subfield for repair. Tamo-Barg codes are a class of optimal LRCs which are also polynomial evaluation codes. These codes have Reed-Solomon codes as their local codes. In the case of single node failures, the repair takes place only within the local groups. In this paper, we address the question of whether the repair bandwidth within the local group can be further reduced by using the technique of Reed-Solomon repair. We give a construction based on cosets where the scheme requires lesser repair bandwidth than naive Reed-Solomon repair. We also give another construction based on optimal Reed-Solomon codes which achieve the cutset bound, where the Tamo-Barg codes are designed such that the local Reed-Solomon codes can be optimally repaired. We make the connection between these class of codes and the codes with local regeneration.


The philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is of great importance in the early modern period. Boyle was at the centre of the scientific community of 17th-century England, and an accurate view of the Enlightenment scientific revolution is impossible without recognition of the contributions that he made. Work on Boyle's philosophy is also shedding light on contemporary issues in the philosophy of science - it can help us understand the nature of scientific explanation and the role that the mechanical model of explanation plays in present-day science. Boyle on Fire examines Boyle's work concerning a method of experiment common in the seventeenth century called Fire Analysis. In the Sceptical Chymist (1661), Boyle attacked elemental theories of chemical explanation primarily by raising objections against Aristotellan and Paracelsian interpretations of Fire Analysis. The book reconstructs Boyle's 'corpuscular' account of Fire Analysis and then compares it to these objections. This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, characteristics that have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise.


Paper processing apparatus comprising: a setting section (1a), the setting section (1a) setting paper sheet; feed means (2), the feed device (2) charged in this paper is provided at the setting section (1a) sheet; conveying means (9), said conveying means (9) conveying the sheet (2) charged by the feeding means; judging section (detector), the judging section (detector) identified by the conveying means (9) whether the paper sheet is conveyed damaged bills, and discriminates the type identification after damage and dirt of damaged banknote paper sheet; and a plurality of stacked cassettes (28-33), said plurality of stacked cassettes (28-33) sorting and collection according to the type identified by the determination section (detector) damage and dirt.


This chapter chronicles the life of Saw Ralph and his family after the revolution. It begins with his time living as a refugee in Thailand and then turns to his eventual move to Australia. Here, Saw Ralph reflects on the difficulties and challenges his family endured as a result of Saw Ralph's participation in the revolution. It also covers Saw Ralph's day-to-day life in Australia, particularly his attempts to learn English and his efforts to delve further into Christianity. Alongside these activities, Saw Ralph faces difficulties adjusting to civilian life, although he further reveals that despite his old age, he remains as active as ever.


The paper studied an approach to purification of CS<inf>2</inf> waste gas in low concentration using biological trickling filter. The results of preliminary experiment showed that, when the gas flow was 100–500mg/m3, the CS<inf>2</inf> removal efficiency arrives percent 70–78% by using trickling filter, But the biological elimination of CS<inf>2</inf> in waste gas could be increased from 2.06mg/(L h) to 22.52mg/(L h); meanwhile the gas flow was increased, the CS<inf>2</inf> removal efficiency was declined from 74.5% to 37.1%. The kinetic model of adsorption-biofilm theory had a good applicability for describing process of CS<inf>2</inf> waste gas. The interrelation coefficient between experimental points and calculated points was very well.


Private practitioners in San Francisco were surveyed about their perceptions of fine needle aspiration cytology. The overall response rate was 60% (369/614). The responding group was uncertain about the utility of fine needle aspiration cytology in several specific clinical settings, but 83% (307/369) believed fine needle aspiration cytology will be used more extensively in the future. Diagn Cytopathol 1985;1:249–54.


MethodsZZA total of 107 adolescent patients with on-line game addiction were enrolled in an online game clinic and research center, OO hospital. In order to rule out psychiatric Axis I comorbidity, all participants were interviewed by a psychiatrist. In addition, their symptoms were assessed using the Young Internet Assessment Scale-Korean (YIAS-K), Korean Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Rating Scale, Child depression index, Aggression scale extracted from Korean child behavior checklist, and Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)/Behavioral activation system (BAS). The participants were classified according to three groups ; pure on-line game addiction group (pure-Game), on-line game addiction with attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome (ADHD-Game) group, and on-line game addiction with depression group (Dep-Game).


A characteristic value for the transverse motion of the vehicle is specified a criterion is derived as a function of the actual value of the yaw angular velocity as well as the predetermined characteristic value. As a function of the criterion, influencing of the travel behaviour of the vehicle takes place by an intervention in the steering of the vehicle. For the derivation of the criterion, in addition the floating angle, the steering angle and the vehicle velocity are evaluated, and for the derivation of the criterion, the lateral forces at the wheels of the vehicle are taken into consideration.


The aim of this research is to discuss about factors that affect corporate turnaround with literature study. Corporate turnaround become a treasure to a company that had financial distress which can cause a company have bankruptcy. This literature study discusses some past research about factors can affect corporate turnaround. In this research we select the factors such as firm size, free asset and assets retrenchment as they represent from each corporate turnaround dimension Keywords—corporate turnaround, corporate distress, firm size,free assets, assets retrenchment.


We consider the Bayesian analysis of a high-dimensional statistical model with a spike-and-slab prior, and we study the forward-backward envelop of the posterior distribution -- denoted $\check\Pi_{\gamma}$ for some regularization parameter $\gamma>0$. Viewing $\check\Pi_\gamma$ as a pseudo-posterior distribution, we work out a set of sufficient conditions under which it contracts towards the true value of the parameter as $\gamma\downarrow 0$, and $p$ (the dimension of the parameter space) diverges to $\infty$. In linear regression models the contraction rate matches the contraction rate of the true posterior distribution. We also study a practical Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from $\check\Pi_{\gamma}$. In the particular case of the linear regression model, and focusing on models with high signal-to-noise ratios, we show that the mixing time of the MCMC algorithm depends crucially on the coherence of the design matrix, and on the initialization of the Markov chain. In the most favorable cases, we show that the computational complexity of the algorithm scales with the dimension $p$ as $O(pe^{s_\star^2})$, where $s_\star$ is the number of non-zeros components of the true parameter. We provide some simulation results to illustrate the theory. Our simulation results also suggest that the proposed algorithm (as well as a version of the Gibbs sampler of Narisetti and He (2014)) mix poorly when poorly initialized, or if the design matrix has high coherence.


Tetra-n-butylammonium peroxydisulfate was prepared and found to be a good source of tetra-n-butylammonium sulfate radical by its oxygen - oxygen bond cleavage. The sulfate radical can be utilized for the efficient organic synthesis in organic solvents. Electron deficient olefins such as α,β-unsaturated ketones or lactones were smoothly β-masked formylated by treatment of the olefins with 1,3-dioxolane in the presence of tetra-n-butylammonium peroxydisulfate. Extremely high diastereofacial selectivity (˜100% de) was obtained in β-masked formylation of α,β-unsaturated lactone, (S)-5-(t-butyldiphenyl silyloxymethyl)-2(5H)-furanose.


Objective To investigate the immunoregulation of IL 2 and IL 15 on the phenotype and function of NK subsets in PBMC and mixed lymphocyte culture. Methods The phenotypic changes of NK cells in human peripheral mononuclear cell (PBMC) and mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) in the presence of IL 2 or IL 15 were detected by double fluorescent staining and flow cytometry. 51 Cr release assay was employed to measure the specific lysis of NK cells killing target K562 cells. Results Both IL 2 and IL 15 could increase the ratios of NK cells in PBMC and MLC. In addition, IL 15 was more effective than IL 2 in improving the proliferation of CD56 bright NK subsets in PBMC while IL 2 was more effective than IL 15 in increasing the number of CD56 bright NK subsets in MLC when 50 U/mL IL 2 or IL 15 was added at the beginning of the culture. The cytotoxicity of NK cells in PBMC culture and MLC were greatly enhanced by the addition of IL 2 or IL 15 with a dose dependent manner. Furthermore, IL 15 was more powerful than IL 2 at 50 U/mL in enhancing the cytotoxicity of NK cells in PBMC, whereas IL 2 was more powerful than IL 15 in enhancing the cytotoxicity of NK cells in MLC at the same concentration. When 50 U/mL IL 15 and 50 U/mL IL 2 were added,the cytotoxicity of NK cells was higher than that of the cells cultured only with IL 15 or IL 2 at the same concentration. Conclusion IL 15 is more effective than IL 2 in upregulating the proliferation of CD56 bright NK subsets and cytotoxicity of resting NK cells at low concentration while IL 2 is more effective than IL 15 in improving the proliferation of CD56 bright NK subsets and cytotoxicity of MLC gene rated NK cells at certain concentration. The different pattern of immunomodulation by IL 2 or IL 15 on NK cells may be due to the different expression of IL 2R or/and IL 15R on NK cells in the given condition or other cytokines presented in the culture forming a cytokine net work.


This invention relates to a industry Ethernet imbed real time control system, which comprises two pieces of CPU boards with same frame and function through two network gates and central control system communication to accept orders and feedback information; wherein, when there is fault, message is rapidly switched into redundant channel without impact on work to re-establish connection; two boards are connected to vxWorks operation system to realize communications between boards to test CPU board to judge whether or not normal to trigger CPU and switch between main and assistant without gap.


Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a new technology integrated with communications, embedded technology, and network functions; having capability of real-time collecting, communicating, and sensing, for which dynamic target locating and tracking is its critical task, as well as a basic element in its commercial and military application such as battlefield information accessing and traffic monitoring. Sensor target tracking is the technology of target location estimate based on measurements from corresponding sensors. An inaccurate estimated location may very easily lead to target tracking failure which reduces the reliability and stability of the target tracking [1]. Experts and scholars have done a lot of researches to solve problems exited in wireless sensor target tracking, and many new tracking algorithms have been proposed, among which tracking algorithms such as target contrail-fitting, linear prediction, Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter(UKF) and particle filter[2] are most common applied. Sikdar, with his partners, has proposed target location tracking algorithm based on linear sensor which is proved better than conventional contrail fitting algorithm in its effects. Zhang Xiaoping , with his partners, has proposed WSN target tracking algorithm through modeling for quadratic polynomial motions which has improved target tracking accuracy[3]. However, there is a problem in common: all the algorithms above assume the tracking target contrail-fittings being in linear motion, while the actual contrail fitting is of uncertainty and variability, and the estimated accuracy can hardly be improved after being to a certain level. In this condition, the tracking error of the above algorithms can be greater [4]. Kalman filter algorithm can be applied for weakly nonlinear models, but for strongly nonlinear models, Unscented Kalman Filter algorithm can be better. Kalman filter work well in cases based on model-linear and Gaussian noise, thus its estimated accuracy is not that ideal [5, 6]. Particle filter algorithm is based on optimal regression Bayesian filtering algorithm in Monte Carlo simulation, which can accurately estimate the any distribution state with only a small amount of mobile anchor nodes. PF algorithm has distinguished advantages in processing non-linear, non-Gaussian cases [7]. However, in PF application process after several iterations, diversified degradation of the particles will occur, which is likely to lead a target tracking loss, thus further affect WSN target tracking accuracy [8]. In order to solve the diversified degradation of the particles in Particle Filter algorithm, this paper Research on the Target Tracking Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Based on Improved Particle Filter Liang Peng,Xinhan Huang, Li He


We investigate the homological ideal $\mathfrak{J}_G^H$, the kernel of the restriction functors in compact Lie group equivariant Kasparov categories. Applying the relative homological algebra developed by Meyer and Nest, we relate the Atiyah-Segal completion theorem with the comparison of $\mathfrak{J}_G^H$ with the augmentation ideal of the representation ring.
In relation to it, we study on the Atiyah-Segal completion theorem for groupoid equivariant $\mathrm{KK}$-theory, McClure's restriction map theorem, permanence property of the Baum-Connes conjecture under extensions of groups and a class of $\mathfrak{J}_G$-injective objects coming from $\mathrm{C}^*$-dynamical systems, continuous Rokhlin property.


The intensity of neutron scattering for tunnel splitting levels of NH + 4 ion is calculated in terms of the orientationally localized states. The k -dependence of the transition integral and the temperature dependence of the spectra are derived. In conclusion, C 3 v , orientation is the best model to yield the observed spectra and two big additional peaks are anticipated in E >3 meV.


BACKGROUND: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a widely used simple and cost-efficient lab test for the diagnosis and follow-up of many diseases. Even though the Westergren method is considered as gold standard, it has many drawbacks such as long test time duration, infection risk to technician, and need of citrated blood sample and to overcome these limitations, automated ESR analysis techniques have been introduced. This study aimed to compare and assess the agreement as well as to analyze the correlation between the ESR values obtained by two automated ESR analysis techniques– Ves Matic Cube 30 and Mixrate-X20 against the gold standard–Modified Manual Westergren method. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four milliliter blood samples were collected from 1174 patients who came to the Central laboratory with complete blood count and ESR test request forms, after taking informed consent. Each of these samples was subjected to ESR test in both Mixrate X20 and Ves Matic Cube 30, followed by ESR analysis through the modified manual Westergren method. All values obtained were recorded and analyzed using SPSS software. Mean, standard deviation, Bland–Altman agreement analysis, Linear regression, and Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis was done. RESULTS: Of 1174 study samples, 588 were male and 586 were female and major proportion of the study sample was in the age group of 50–59 years. Bland–Altman agreement analysis of manual ESR Vs Ves Matic cube 30, showed a mean difference of −2.44 ± 13.01 with 95% limit of agreement (LOA) between −27.93 and 23.05 whereas it was 0.05 ± 1.68 with 95% LOA between −3.24 and 3.34 for manual ESR vs Mixrate X20. Pearson's correlation coefficient for manual ESR Vs Ves Matic Cube 30 was r = 0.891 whereas r = 0.998 for manual ESR Vs Mixrate X20, indicating a strong positive correlation between ESR values obtained through manual method and both automated ESR analyzers. CONCLUSION: ESR results from both automated analyzers are agreeable to the reference method with no proportional bias statistically. However, the results from Mixrate X20 ESR analyzer correlate very well with the manual ESR, with close readings that do not affect the clinical interpretation and so can be used in clinical laboratories to optimize workflow and use of human resources.


Cervical cancer is the most gynecologic carcinoma of the 5 types of cancer that occurs in women. Obtained an increased risk of cervical cancer occurs in women under 25 years even those who are still in high school (teenage girls). Primary prevention can be done by avoiding the causative factors and vaccinating HPV. Research on adolescent girls' problems about cervical cancer with this teen's interest in using the HPV vaccine in class XI students at SMAN 2 Sampang. The research method uses cross sectional analytics, the population in this study is the teenage girls of class XI at SMAN 2 Sampang with a sample of 20 teenage girls with simple random sampling. The research instrument used a questionnaire as primary data. The statistical test used was the Spearman Rating with α = 0.05 and obtained ρcalculation = 0.761> ρtable = 0.45 with significance ρ = 0.01 <α. The results showed 65% of young women had enough knowledge about cervical cancer and 70% of young women were not interested in using the HPV vaccine.


The objective of this work is to develop a high efficiency two-dimensional reactive flow solver to investigate perforated-plate stabilized laminar premixed flames. The developed code is used to examine the impact of the operating conditions and the perforated plate design on the steady flame characteristics. It is also used to numerically investigate the response of these flames to imposed inlet velocity perturbations. The two-dimensional simulations are performed using a reduced chemical kinetics mechanism for methane-air combustion, consisting of 20 species and 79 reactions. Heat exchange is allowed between the gas mixture and the solid plate. The physical model is based on a zero-Mach-number formulation of the axi-symmetric compressible conservation equations. The steady results suggest that the flame consumption speed, the flame structure, and the flame surface area depend significantly on the equivalence ratio, mean inlet velocity, the distance between the perforated plate holes and the plate thermal conductivity. In the case of an adiabatic plate, a conical flame is formed, anchored near the corner of the hole. When the heat exchange between the mixture and the plate is finite, the flame acquires a Gaussian shape stabilizing at a stand-off distance, that grows with the plate conductivity. The flame tip is negatively curved; i.e. concave with respect to the reactants. Downstream of the plate, the flame base is positively curved; i.e. convex with respect to the reactants, stabilizing above a stagnation region established between neighboring holes. As the plate's thermal conductivity increases, the heat flux to the plate decreases, lowering its top surface temperature. As the equivalence ratio increases, the flame moves closer to the plate, raising its temperature, and lowering the flame stand-off distance. As the mean inlet velocity increases, the flame stabilizes further downstream, the flame tip becomes sharper, hence raising the burning rate at that location. The curvature of the flame base depends on the distance between the neighboring holes; and the flame there is characterized by high concentration of intermediates, like carbon monoxide. To investigate flame dynamics, linear transfer functions, for low mean inlet velocity oscillations, are analyzed for different equivalence ratio, mean inlet velocity, plate


An iteratively regularized projection scheme for the ill-posed Hammerstein type operator equation KF(x) = f has been considered. Here F : D(F) ⊆ X → X is a non-linear operator, K : X → Y is a bounded linear operator, X and Y are Hilbert spaces. The method is a combination of dis- cretized Tikhonov regularization and modified Newton's method. It is assumed that the Frechet derivative of F at x0 is invertible i.e., the ill-posedness of the operator KF is due to the ill-posedness of the linear operator K. Here x0 is an initial approximation to the solution ˆ x of KF(x) = f. Adaptive choice of the parameter suggested by Perverzev and Schock(2005) is employed in select- ing the regularization parameter �. A numerical example is given to test the reliability of the method.


Efficient parallel processing used to implement complex decoders. Hypercube multiprocessor connection scheme practical to decode long convolutional codes with efficient use of hardware. Hypercube design reduces both communication time among processors and space needed for interconnection. Decoding concept applicable to concurrent processing of digital signals using convolutional codes for error correction.


This paper presents a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system with the new operation method considering voltage regulation in distribution system. In proposed system, PV system adjusts real power and reactive power injection at connection point, in order to maintain the overall system voltage within acceptable range and improve power quality. It consists of modeling of PV array, inverter and inverter controller using PSCAD/EMTDC, and development of operation method of PV generation for voltage regulation in distribution system. PV array modeling is accomplished using 2-diode model which is generally used, and inverter with control system is implemented using proposed operation method based on instantaneous power theory and hysteresis current control. Proposed operation method consists of 3 stages control and using that operation method, overall system effectiveness is improved. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed system, it is compared with system with conventional operation under variable case such that connection, disconnection, load changes and voltage sag using PSCAD/EMTDC.


We report detailed measurements of current-voltage characteristics for a ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}$${\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}$${\mathrm{Ca}}_{2}$${\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}$${\mathrm{O}}_{10}$/Ag tape immersed in liquid neon (27 K) and in liquid oxygen (54\char21{}90 K) as a function of applied magnetic field up to 17 T. It is found that the electric-field-versus-current-density (E-J) curves can be well described by the relation E/J\ensuremath{\sim}exp[-(${\mathit{J}}_{0}$/J${)}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\mu}}}$], where ${\mathit{J}}_{0}$ is a constant. The exponent \ensuremath{\mu} at elevated temperature (T\ensuremath{\ge}54 K) is less than 0.9, and is inconsistent with the vortex-glass description, which predicts \ensuremath{\mu}1. At low-temperature (T=27 K), a plateau in the value of \ensuremath{\mu}(\ensuremath{\approxeq}1.45) is found for 2\ensuremath{\le}H\ensuremath{\le}8 T, which may be described by the collective creep theory at this temperature and field range.


The paper presents the possibilities of the use of voltage-source active rectifiers to minimize the effect of voltage drops on the DC link voltage magnitude of frequency converters. The control of voltage-source active rectifiers can compensate the short-term voltage drops within a certain range. The paper describes principle of the operating of voltage-source active rectifiers and the range of the voltage drops that can be compensated. The paper points out that it is important to observe the load current and the DC link voltage of converters.


Given the extensive number of empirical studies pertaining to this subject, a bibliometric study was required to create an overview of the literature on green technology and environmental sustainability. The objective of the study is to identify the most cited research journals. Six research questions were developed to study the number of publications per year, the number of citations per article, the country-wise contribution, etc. Using a bibliometric analysis, this study analyses and summarises the related literature from 1997–2023. The paper provides an all-around intellectual structure for the literature. It was found out that the research paper by Sharifi et al. (2020), entitled "The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management", published in the journal "The Science of the Total Environment," was most cited journal. China contributed the most as far as green technology and environmental sustainability are concerned. It was also found out that most of the papers were published in 2020.


The optimisation of radiological equipment and equipment parameters is a key stage in the optimisation of image quality and patient dose in diagnostic radiology. It is essential, however, to underp ...


The results of experiments on crossbreeding of Black-Speckled cows with Simmental and Kazakh White Head bulls are submitted. It is suggested that under the given farming conditions the most promising way of increasing beef production should be the practice of commercial crossing of native cattle breeds with the native breeding stock.


BACKGROUND
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) in umbilical cord blood samples are associated with attained birth weight in premature infants and low-birth-weight neonates.

OBJECTIVE
The objective was to investigate relations between the EFA composition of cord and maternal plasma phospholipids and birth weight in term neonates.

DESIGN
This was a cross-sectional study in 627 singletons born at term. The plasma phospholipid EFA composition of the mothers was determined by gas-liquid chromatography at study entry (< or = 16 wk gestation), at delivery, and in cord plasma at birth. Birth weights were normalized to SD scores.

RESULTS
In cord plasma, the dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid concentration was positively related to weight SD scores. Both arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) were negatively related to weight SD scores. EFA-status indicators showed similar negative associations, whereas eicosatrienoic acid concentrations were positively related to neonatal size. In maternal plasma, proportions of n-3 long-chain polyenes (LCPs) and n-6 LCPs decreased during pregnancy. Larger decreases in AA, DHA, n-3 LCP, and n-6 LCP fractions were observed in mothers of heavier babies. Higher concentrations of LCPs in maternal plasma were, however, not related to a larger infant size at birth.

CONCLUSIONS
A lower biochemical EFA status in umbilical cord plasma and a larger decrease in maternal plasma LCP concentrations are associated with a higher weight-for-gestational-age at birth in term neonates. Our findings do not support a growth-stimulating effect of AA or DHA; however, they do suggest that maternal-to-fetal transfer of EFAs might be a limiting factor in determining neonatal EFA status.


Abstract The excavation of a tunnel by I'Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS) presented inter alia the opportunity to construct a longitudinal profile of the glacier speed and also to observe the speed of the transverse contraction of a circular section. The swift change of shape without fracture was noteworthy. A second tunnel driven from the glacier snout straight up the subglacial stream gave the opportunity to establish a definite connection between the form of the glacier sole and its surface. Finally, measurements of the glacier speeds on the surface and their variations from year to year gave a closer indication of the nature of Forbes's bands.


The shortcomings of a commonly used technique, difference in difference, have recently been addressed with Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) method. This study relaxes some of the restrictions of GDD and utilizes hurricanes as exogenous shocks to determine their impact on wages and employment in three different industries (construction, manufacturing, and leisure & hospitality) in Louisiana from 2001 to 2010. The results suggest that the hurricanes have a significant adverse effect on wages in construction and leisure & hospitality sectors. During the time period studied, the parishes that are directly hit by a hurricane suffer a 6 percent drop in wages in leisure and hospitality sector while the neighboring parishes suffer 5 percent drop in construction sector.


The objective of this pooled analysis was to evaluate the effect of Syngenta Enogen Feed Corn (SYT-EFC) and corn processing methods with byproducts on finishing cattle performance and carcass characteristics. Treatment factors consisted of SYT-EFC or commercial corn (CON) processed as dry-rolled (DRC) or high-moisture corn (HMC). Byproduct comparisons were 0, 18, or 30% distillers grains inclusions or with 30% Sweet Bran to determine if SYT-EFC effect was impacted by byproducts. Seven trials (n = 2,340 steers; initial BW = 327 ± 20 kg) consisting of 252 pen means with 12 treatments were analyzed utilizing contrasts. Feeding SYT-EFC as DRC resulted in heavier final BW (P ≤ 0.03) and greater 12th rib fat (P < 0.01) compared to CON. There was a linear interaction between hybrid and distillers for G:F (P < 0.01). As distillers increased, G:F improved at a greater rate for CON compared to SYT-EFC. Feeding SYT-EFC as DRC with increasing distillers was not significantly different (P ≥ 0.68) from CON for G:F, but was 3% better than CON with 0% distillers. Feeding SYT-EFC as DRC with 18% distillers resulted in heavier final BW (P < 0.01) compared to 0 or 30% distillers. Feeding SYT-EFC as DRC with Sweet Bran resulted in heavier final BW (P ≤ 0.02) and greater ADG (P < 0.01) compared to CON. This increase in ADG with no difference in DMI, resulted in SYT-EFC diets having a 5.08% increase in feed efficiency (P < 0.01). The improvement for the corn is calculated to be 9.58% (5.08 / 0.53) when SYT-EFC was fed with Sweet Bran compared to a CON corn hybrid. No positive effects were observed when SYT-EFC was processed as HMC. These data suggest that SYT-EFC is better than CON hybrids when distillers inclusion is low or when fed with Sweet Bran.


A linearized model for rotorcraft dynamics has been developed through the use of symbolic automatic equation generation techniques. The dynamic model has been formulated in a unique way such that it can be used to analyze a variety of rotor/body coupling problems including a rotor mounted on a flexible shaft with a number of modes as well as free flight stability and control characteristics. Direct comparison of the time response to longitudinaol, lateral and directional control inputs at various trim conditions shows that the linear model yields good to very good correlation with flight test. In particular it is also shown that a dynamic inflow model is essential to obtain good time response correlation especially for the hover trim condition and also that at translational flight trim conditions the main rotor wake interaction with the tail rotor and fixed tail surfaces is a significant contributor to the response. A relatively simple model for the downwash and sidewash at tail surfaces based on flat vortex wake theory is shown to produce good agreement. Finaly, the influence of rotor flap and lag dynamics on automatic control systems feedback gain limitations is investigated with the model.