We have created an innovative method for the production of binary series of arbitrary length, which appear to be random to an uninformed third party. Our method is based on the symbolic dynamics of a special family of recursive maps exhibiting extremely complex trajectories in their phase space. Among other applications, our binary series can be used as encryption keys in protocols based on the Vernam 'one time only' secure communication protocol. Based on fast software implementation, due to the simple form of the defining formulas, such protocols would combine the absolute security of the Vernam protocol with an ease and speed of use that would permit their application in every form of digital communications in the Internet or any other communication network, including wireless and mobile telephony. Key-Words: Encryption, recursive maps, sign function, modulo function, perturbation parameter, binary series, "one time only", security, communication protocols.


This study is relevant to developing biomass, specifically microalgae, as a source for biofuel production through hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a thermochemical conversion that requires no drying of the feedstock because the whole microalgae biomass is decomposed and converted in hot compressed water. A biocrude oil is obtained as the main product, along with gaseous, aqueous and solid by-products. It was observed in different studies that catalysts, particularly alkali catalysts, improve liquefaction efficiency. This study investigated the effects of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) on the yield and properties of biocrude oil. Different amounts of catalysts used were 5, 7.5, and 10 wt. %, respectively. Biocrude oil was produced from hydrothermal liquefaction of Arthrospira platensis (formerly referred to as Spirulina platensis) in a micro-reactor at 280 and 350 degrees Celsius for two levels of residence time, 15 and 45 minutes. The biocrude produced under these different conditions were analyzed for C, H, O, and N content. Biocrude oil yield and its calorific value were also determined. The highest biocrude oil yield with catalyst (32.18 wt. %) was obtained at 280°C with 15 minutes residence time and 5 wt. % K2CO3. Highest HHV of 39.17 MJ/kg was obtained with the addition of 10 wt. % K2CO3 at 280°C and 45 minutes residence time. Biocrude oil obtained from the experiment runs had almost similar H/C, and O/C values to that of biodiesel and plant oil and was better than biomass pyrolysis oil. The N/C ratios of the biocrude oil ranged between 0.03 to 0.09.


This research started from the observation that soil state defects that occur in a season may result in even more serious after-effects in the following year. The objective of this study was to investigate the striking forms of dete rioration in a Chernozem soil that occurred both in the surface and in the deeper layer. In one respect, dust formation, crumb reduction, surface silting, and surface crusting were studied, and an attempt to investigate additional consequences of the dust sedimentation to the nearest compacted layer was made. The degree of the soil deteriora tion was compared under treatments of bare and covered surfaces and in degraded and preserved soil conditions setting in the selected parts of a long-term trial. Surface cover significantly influenced soil vulnerability resulting in different responses of soil attributes. The surface crust reducing effects of a higher (≥ 55%) surface cover ratio and a lower proportion of dust could statistically be proven (P < 0.001). A favourable rate of surface cover reliably reduced the ratio of clods produced by primary tillage in dry (0.138–0.158 g/g) soil. The results indicate that it is possible to complete methods adaptable to the climate threats mitigation.


(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)There are some issues which have been debated for long time but have been not resolved in the literature of development economics, the affect of various factors on the GDP as economic growth of country is one of them. In this research study GDP represents the dependent variable; and Gross Capital Formation and Trade Balance are taken as independent variables. GDP is the most recognized indicator used for assessing a nation's economic growth. GDP is the monetary value of all the products and services that are produces by the people and property of a given country, for the period of one year (Afzal, 2007). The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in India expanded 7 percent in the second quarter of 2015 over the same quarter of the previous year, slowing from a 7.5 percent growth in the previous quarter and below market expectations. Annual Growth Rate of GDP in India averaged 6.01 percent from 1951 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 11.40 percent in the first quarter of 2010 and a record low of-5.20 percent in the fourth quarter of 1979.Gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment) may be defined as the outlays on additions to the fixed assets of the economy plus net changes in the level of inventories. Fixed assets include land improvements (fences, ditches, drains, and so on); plant, machinery, and equipment purchases; and the construction of roads, railways, and the like, including schools, offices, hospitals, private residential dwellings, and commercial and industrial buildings. Inventories are the stocks of goods held by firms to meet temporary or unexpected fluctuations in production or sales, and "work in progress". In simple words Gross Capital Formation may be defined as the Investment and investment depends on savings. In terms of GDP, Gross Capital formation is defined as the percentage of the investments made each year out of the total GDP of country. Gross Fixed Capital Formation in India averaged 4519.74 INR Billion from 2001 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 8548.02 INR Billion in the first quarter of 2015 and a record low of 2021.90 INR Billion in the first quarter of 2002. Impressive secular increase is experienced in Gross capital Formation over the past three decades.Through this paper an attempt is made to understand the impact of gross capital formation and trade balance of country. While reviewing the literature, it was also found that the Inflation, exchange rate and interest rate are three important determinants of a country's comparative level of economic health. Inflation not only creates problems within the economy, but also in the sphere of external trade of a country, that is, country's trade balances with the rest of the World. A country's transactions with other countries, get adversely affected if the domestic price rise is high. Exchange rate and interest rate have also an important bearing on economic growth and investment of country. These three factors have a great impact on country's level of trade, investment and economic growth.After reviewing the literature, it was realised that there is need to study the impact of these factors on economic health of India. This paper is an attempt to study these impacts also.The paper is divided into two sections. First section dealt with analysing the impact of Gross Capital Formation and Trade Balance on GDP of India. The second section studies the impact of exchange rate, inflation rate and interest rate on GDP, Gross Capital Formation and Trade Balance of India.Review of literatureMboya Oude and Kennedy (2012): investigated the effect of Exchange Rate fluctuations on Gross Domestic Product in Kenya from 2008 to 2012. The model of the research work decomposed GDP as a function of exchange rate, inflation, exports, imports and government expenditure. Regression was conducted to test the impact of the variables on GDP and showed that government expenditure impacted highly on GDP. …


Most newly announced high performance microprocessors support 64-bit virtual addresses and the width of physical addresses is also growing. As a result, the size of the address tags in the L1 cache is increasing. The impact of on chip area is particularly dramatic when small block sizes are used. At the same time, the performance of high performance microprocessors depends more and more on the accuracy of branch prediction and for reasons similar to those in the case of caches the size of the Branch Target Buffer is also increasing linearly with the address width.In this paper, we apply the simple principle stated in the title for limiting the tag size of on-chip caches. In the resulting indirect-tagged cache, the duplication of the page number in processors (in TLB and in cache tags) is removed. The tag check is then simplified and the tag cost does not depend on the address width. Applying the same principle to Branch Target Buffers, we propose the Reduced Branch Target Buffer. The storage size in a Reduced Branch Target Buffer does not depend on the address width and is dramatically smaller than the size of the conventional implementation of a Branch Target Buffer.


Details of the settlement study on the pile foundation bearing the large-area-flexible load are discussed taking into account the interaction of piles and soil.A method to calculate the settlement of the pile foundation bearing the negative friction under this condition is proposed.Analysis results for an engineering example show that the proposed method is feasible.


Contemporary Korean means the Korean language of the 20th century. The period of Contemporary Korean, which began at Kabogeongjang(1894) and covers throughout the 20th century to the present. could be divided into three terms. - The first term (l894-the end of 1910s): the formulating period of Contemporary Korean - The second term (the beginning of 1920s-1945): the establishing period of Contemporary Korean - The third term (1945-the present): the growing period of Contemporary Korean During the first term, the Korean language still maintained the properties of Modern Korean period even though several new grammatical elements were formulated. For example, the use of '-ki' nominalization increased and many derivative words were newly formed reflecting the rapid change in lifestyle. Tense became a stable grammatical category, and the syntactic formatives tended to be used more in the formation of passives, causatives and negation etc. Also, in written materials, conjoined sentences of some length are often found. In the second term, the Japanese language affected almost all aspect of Korean including morphological properties and phrasal structures etc. In addition to the use of stereotypical conjoined sentences formed with '-ni', the use of simple sentences started to increase during this period, and various types of complex sentences came to take shape. Even though Korea was unfortunately divided into two language areas in the beginning of the third term, the Korean language is under steady progress. In the formation of complex words, the number of words which are formed against existing formation rules are increasing and loan words from English and other languages are used more. Also, the syntactic expressions in passives, causatives, negation, nominalization and future tense etc. are found more often than their morphological counterparts.


It is of fundamental importance in discussing retinal detachment to be acquainted with the anatomy of the retina especially its thickness and its connections to the choroid and the vitreous body. During the last decade, changes in the periphery of the retina and the special anatomical arrangements here, have been taken into consideration in explaining in part the complex pathophysiology of retinal detachment. The retina is 0.10 mm thick in the foveolar region. I n the vicinity of the optic disc where all the nerve fibres gather the thickness increases to a maximum of 0.56 mm. At the equator the thickness diminishes to 0.18 mm and it decreases further in the periphery to 0.10 mm. At the ora serrata the different layers of the retina have disappeared and they are replaced by a unicellular layer a t the pars plana ciliaris. This epithelial layer continues over the ciliary processes. It is important to appreciate that this epithelium can be detached from its underlying pigment epithelium just as the retina proper, and can also develop breaks. However, these detachments are localised phenomena without the same clinical importance as the ordinary detachment in the posterior portion of the fundus. The chorioretinal adhesion is quite strong in the peripheral part of the retina but is somewhat different in different parts of the circumference. On studying the peripheral part of the fundus one observes the pigment band a t the ora serrata. On the temporal side this band is about 2 mm broad with a wavy posterior border. On the nasal side, the band is narrower and the posterior border is characteristically scalloped. This serration gives the ora its name. The 'saw-teeth' form small meridional retinal folds which belong to the normal anatomical features


SUMMARY This paper presents a robust adaptive impedance controller for electrically driven robots using polynomials of degree N as a universal approximator. According to the universal approximation theorem, polynomials of degree N can approximate uncertainties including un-modeled dynamics and external disturbances. This fact is completely discussed and proved in this paper. The polynomial coefficients are estimated based on the adaptive law calculated in the stability analysis. A performance evaluation has been carried out to verify satisfactory performance of the controller. Simulation results on a two degree of freedom manipulator have been presented to guarantee its successful implementation.


The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between parameters of the glucose tolerance test (GTT) of young heifers and their body weight after calving and at the peak of lactation, as well as the level of β-hydroxybutyric acid in blood serum at the peak of lactation. The GTT was conducted on 60 heifers HF at the age of 9-10 months. The animals were infused with 1 g glucose/kg W0.75 and 10 blood samples were taken at 6 min intervals. For 24 h before taking blood samples the animals received only water. Serum glucose concentrations and insulin activity were estimated. Correlation and regression between the area under the glucose concentration and insulin activity curves, the ratio of these areas (the glin index), maximum insulin activity, peak glucose concentration, glucose half-life, and body weight at the test, after calving and at the peak of lactation, were calculated. The index "glin" seems to be the best parameter for estimation of body weight after calving and at the peak of lactation.


Objective: To improve the recognition of periperative nursing to senile patients with gastric carcinoma. Methods: All the data between the 128 patients above 65 years old and the 212 patients below 65 years old were compared and analysed. Results: The elder groups had more preoperative complications and more proportion of gastrectomy as well as cymphysis internal organs, more wounds, more complications not relative to operation, lower level of civilization and social support. Conclusion: All-round assessment and sufficient preparation for the operation, flexble health education in and full social support from the senile patients with gastric carcinoma before the operation, the prevention and the nursing of the complications related to respiratory and cardiovascular systems as well as other related complications such as anastomotic leakage, delayed gastric emptying, pancreatitis, pleural or abdominal effusions, etc. after the operation, were the important principles in clinical practice.


A precise formulation of U (1) local gauge invariance in QED is presented, which clearly shows that the gauge coupling associated with the unphysical longitudinal photon field is non-observable and actually has an arbitrary value. We then re-examine the Dirac quantization condition and find that its derivation involves solely the unphysical longitudinal coupling. Hence an inconsistency inevitably arises in the presence of Dirac monopoles and this can be considered as a theoretical evidence against their existence. An alternative, independent proof of this conclusion is also presented.


The invention discloses a window operation method. The window operation method comprises the following steps: displaying an intersection position of sight lines of window operation personnel on display equipment in real time; obtaining a window operation instruction of the window operation personnel and positioning a sight line selection position; judging that the window operation to be executed is window opening operation or operation to the existing window; if the window operation is the window opening operation, conducting window opening operation by using the sight line selection position after positioning as a window opening start point; otherwise, determining a window to be executed according to the sight line selection position after positioning, and conducting corresponding operation to the determined window to be executed. The window operation method has the advantages that since selection is completed through sight lines, the effect of controlling the display equipment and completing the window operation under the situation that a mouse and a keyboard are not used can be realized, and the movement range of operation personnel is expanded; in addition, since the method does not depend on the mouse and the keyboard, the method is particularly suitable for operation by people who suffer from impaired mobility and the disabled.


Purpose: Through a study of the literature this paper aims to investigate the imaging pathway which should be undertaken by patients presenting to the emergency department with renal colic and flank pain. Method: The British Journal of Radiology, Journal of Endourology, Radiology, RadioGraphics, American Journal of Radiology and Adult Urology were searched to find any previous studies into this area through the use of keywords: calculi, renal, computed tomography (CT), plain imaging, abdominal, ultrasound, intravenous urogram (IVU) and x-ray. Conclusion: This literature review determined that the use of non-enhanced helical CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis should be utilised as the initial imaging technique. CT is able to demonstrate all stones, can be performed rapidly and can diagnose other pathologies which may be mimicking renal colic. Plain film and contrast imaging studies including intravenous urography (IVU) are seen as being of little diagnostic value for frontline identification due to their inability to demonstrate a large number of stones due to size, location and composition. Ultrasound has been shown to be of use as a tool for pregnant or paediatric patients, however its inability to accurately demonstrate the ureters and diagnose extra-urinary pathology limits its use for the general population. The use of low-dose CT is also discussed, and its use advocated for patients with repeat presentation of these symptoms. As more education is provided into this area, the authors believe this will become the modality and technique of choice. An imaging pathway flowchart devised by this review is provided.


This paper examines the constraints faced by the farmers in adaptation activities in response to climate change and their suggestions to minimize the constraints. The investigation was carried out in all three districts of the North Konkan Zone i.e. Raigad, Thane and Palghar. Two tahasils from each district and five villages from each tahasil were randomly selected to conduct the study. Majority of the respondents reported 'no information on weather forecast' and irregularity of extension services'. More than sixty per cent (63.33 percent) respondents mentioned 'lack of information about ill effects of climate change' followed by 'inadequate knowledge about recommended mitigation strategies' and 'lack of believe on current weather forecast system. Whereas, mitigating to climate change in agriculture as majority of the respondents suggested 'need of weekly metrological data', and demand 'regular and effective extension services', 'proper advisory system on climate change' followed by 'awareness among the people about ill effects of climate change and its consequences', and need 'proper government policy support during natural calamities'.


The principle of self-activity is more and more taken into consideration.. The more active the pupils are, the more 'easily they achieve a thorough insight into a subject. As to the instruction in geometry it is important that the pupils should occupy themselves as much as possible with the objects in question and carry out the necessary constructions. The knowledge the blind acquire by aid of their hands is infinitely more valuable to them than that acquired by hearing. In addition to this the hand is exercised, and of what great significance this fact is to the blind may be easily conceived! In drawing geometric figures we have for many years made use of an ordinary drawing-boardon which is stretched a metal screen of a suitable size. Further we use a prodder, an adjustable T-square, a triangle which is in most cases used as a ruler, a measuring rule, and a pair of compasses which must not be too sharp as the paper is then easily spoilt. The paper which is fastened onto the board with thumb-tacks should be fairly thick and firm. To begin with, the pupil-s are taught to draw lines in different directions, when care should be taken that they make them straight and distinct so as to be easily felt. From the first the children should learn to feel the indented lines on the upper-side of the paper. After a figure has been completed the paper may be turned over as the raised lines in the other side are more distinctly felt. The next step is to mark out certain stated distances on the lines by aid of the measuring rule and the compasses. As the latter is often used the pupils should at the same time learn to draw circles of different sizes. In drawing angles theabove mentioned triangle, of which the degrees for each angle should be 90, 30 and 60, comes very handy.


ABSTRACT The flagellum protein flagellin of Listeria monocytogenes is encoded by the flaA gene. Immediately downstream of flaA, two genes, cheY and cheA, encoding products with homology to chemotaxis proteins of other bacteria, are located. In this study we constructed deletion mutants with mutations in flaA. cheY, and cheA to elucidate their role in the biology of infection with L. monocytogenes. The ΔcheY, ΔcheA, and double-mutant ΔcheYA mutants, but not ΔflaA mutant, were motile in liquid media. However, the ΔcheA mutant had impaired swarming and the ΔcheY and ΔcheYA mutants were unable to swarm on soft agar plates, suggesting that cheY and cheA genes encode proteins involved in chemotaxis. The ΔflaA, ΔcheY, ΔcheA, and ΔcheYA mutants (grown at 24°C) showed reduced association with and invasion of Caco-2 cells compared to the wild-type strain. However, spleens from intragastrically infected BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice showed larger and similar numbers of the ΔflaA and ΔcheYA mutants, respectively, compared to the wild-type controls. Such a discrepancy could be explained by the fact that tumor necrosis factor receptor p55 deficient mice showed dramatically exacerbated susceptibility to the wild-type but unchanged or only slightly increased levels of the ΔflaA or ΔcheYA mutant. In summary, we show that listerial flaA. cheY, and cheA gene products facilitate the initial contact with epithelial cells and contribute to effective invasion but that flaA could also be involved in the triggering of immune responses.


This article mainly intended as a tribute to one of the fathers of Infant Research, Daniel Stern, who with his studies on the development of the sense of self in children, has expanded the field of observation of the mother-child relationship, from a simple vision drives a real relationship, characterized by sensory elements global. His research has been forming the basis of the theoretical and methodological focus of music therapy to psychodynamic. The ability to reproduce the relational process characterized by affective attunements in a rehabilitation setting - music therapy where there are dis-evolution, as in the case of patients with Alzheimer's disease, you can reactivate capacity affective and relational residual strengthening in the subject 'personal and social identity mortified by the disease. Role within that path is done by a very peculiar type of neurons, mirror neurons, the subject of study in recent years by the neurosciences, whose characteristic would be to get excited is when a person performs a certain action, both when it is another to do it before his eyes.


The Chinese language media in Australia has developed with the rapid growth of the Chinese community in the country.It has played an important role in the assertion of the Chinese Australians'cultural identity and sense of community,and in the promotion of the harmonious existence and development of the Chinese in Australia under the auspice of multiculturalism.The Chinese language media has also served to preserve and promote the Chinese culture,and to link the cultural and social relations between the old and new generations of Chinese immigrants.This paper is an analytical study of the Chinese language media's historical development,the status quo,the challenges and their responding strategies.


The ongoing consolidation of the integrated library system vendor environment, coupled with the increased shift towards closed remotely hosted software options, has created a situation in which librarians can no longer evaluate the technology that serves as the primary infrastructure for library service. This shift, coupled with inadequate preparation for systems librarians through LIS graduate coursework, sets the stage for a future in which librarians' professional values of openness and equity will stand at odds with the necessary choices in library software providers. Advocacy and professional development through organizations dedicated to technology in libraries, and open source development, may help to prevent the total loss of institutional autonomy.


Significance Shallow landslides are destructive and widespread natural hazards, but what controls their size distribution is poorly understood. We present a generalized theory to explain landslide size distribution at specific locations by combining a mechanistic slope stability model with a spatial-statistical description of the variability in hillslope conditions. We perform numerical experiments to explore how landslide size is controlled by the spatial structure of hillslope strength variability. We find that this structure must obey particular constraints in terms of amplitude, form, and wavelength to reproduce observed size distributions. Our theory can account for the broad similarities and occasional differences in field-mapped landslide inventories; it highlights the critical need to constrain the spatial variability in material strength properties of hillslopes. Rainfall-triggered shallow landslides are destructive hazards and play an important role in landscape processes. A theory explaining the size distributions of such features remains elusive. Prior work connects size distributions to topography, but field-mapped inventories reveal pronounced similarities in the form, mode, and spread of distributions from diverse landscapes. We analyze nearly identical distributions occurring in the Oregon Coast Range and the English Lake District, two regions of strikingly different topography, lithology, and vegetation. Similarity in minimum sizes at these sites is partly explained by theory that accounts for the interplay of mechanical soil strength controls resisting failure. Maximum sizes, however, are not explained by current theory. We develop a generalized framework to account for the entire size distribution by unifying a mechanistic slope stability model with a flexible spatial-statistical description for the variability of hillslope strength. Using hillslope-scale numerical experiments, we find that landslides can occur not only in individual low strength areas but also across multiple smaller patches that coalesce. We show that reproducing observed size distributions requires spatial strength variations to be strongly localized, of large amplitude, and a consequence of multiple interacting factors. Such constraints can act together with the mechanical determinants of landslide initiation to produce size distributions of broadly similar character in widely different landscapes, as found in our examples. We propose that size distributions reflect the systematic scale dependence of the spatially averaged strength. Our results highlight the critical need to constrain the form, amplitude, and wavelength of spatial variability in material strength properties of hillslopes.


Intraduodenal tests of pancreatic function are invasive, expensive and time consuming. The measurement of pancreatic chymotrypsin in faeces is a commonly used alternative but it has not been adequately validated. We have assessed the test by simultaneous measurements of duodenal and faecal chymotrypsin in 30 children, aged 3 weeks to 13 years, with exocrine pancreatic function ranging from nil (5) through partial insufficiency (1) to normal function (24). Duodenal fluid was collected for 5 consecutive 10 minute periods following i.v. pancreozymin (2 units /kg). Apparent secretion rates (ug/kg/50 mins.) and mean concentrations of chymotrypsin were determined. Mean faecal chymotrypsin concentration was determined from 3 randan stools passed on separate days within 72 hours of the intraduodenal test. In the 25 children with measurable pancreatic function, the mean faecal chymotrypsin concentrations were significantly positively correlated with both duodenal chymotrypsin apparent secretion rate and mean concentration (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient 0.63 and 0.45, p = <0.001 and <0.01 respectively). The 5 children with undetectable levels of duodenal chymotrypsin had very low faecal chymotrypsin concentrations of only 3-10% of the lower limit of the reference range (120 ug/100 g stool). The child with reduced but measurable duodenal chymotrypsin had a faecal chymotrypsin of 33% of the lower limit. All 24 children with normal function had mean faecal chymotrypsin concentrations within the reference range. Faecal chymotrypsin is a rapid, simple, cheap, readily repeatable, non-invasive test which should always be done before contemplating intraduodenal assessment of pancreatic function.


David Arter is Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the Nordic Policy Studies Centre. His most recent publications include Democracy in Scandinavia: Consensual, Majoritarian or Mixed? (Manchester University Press, 2006) and 'Scottish Committee Activity Outside Edinburgh: Towards a Mobilised Small Democracy?', Journal of Regional and Federal Studies, 3 (2006). He has contributed several articles to The Journal of Legislative Studies and is currently working on the policy oversight function and performance of the West European standing committee systems.


In the light of some defects existing in some mechanic components of original design in No.1 and No.2 vertical furnaces in the carbonization workshop, this paper makes transformation on some components such as the roller axle, and safety pin, etc. in the process of coke exhaust of erective furnace, and also transforms the garbage door.


Abstract : This report presents a detailed experimental study on dielectric spectra and transconduction of 'pure' ice crystals with evaporated gold electrodes. (Author)


Can any contemporary event or phenomenon be categorized as defining for our society without it also being legitimized as such by Slavoj Žižek's urgent critical attention? Could Slavoj Žižek ever refrain from projecting his brand of social and ideological critique on any pressing issue and crisis of our time? The answer to both these questions is a resounding no. More cynically inclined voices would surely attribute this certainty to Žižek's media-savvy persona, his almost compulsive desire to be part of the conversation and his pop-icon aspirations and would most likely not fall far from the truth. My take on the matter and a perspective that I think is rather helpful in reading "Pandemic!," as it deserves to be read, is that Žižek's impulsive eagerness to comment on current affairs is that of an old-school Marxist for whom critique and social engagement are not just empty practices and catch phrases but fundamentally necessary processes of the self and of society as a whole. For these kinds of intellectuals refraining to comment on cornerstone issues of their time would resemble something like gross negligence. For differently suited intellectuals, writing a divisive book on the Covid-19 pandemic not even 100 days into it, when lack of data, research and certainty is still symptomatic and disinformation is rampant, would resemble something like gross recklessness. To the surprise of critics and fans alike Žižek approaches the burgeoning Covid-19 pandemic with a nuance and restraint that is uncharacteristic for his provocative and irreverent style of critique. Of course, the usual Žižekian tropes like Hegelian, Marxist and Freudian concepts, pop culture references and a philosophical aesthetic of free-flow association are present in "Pandemic!" but to a much lesser degree than usual and are often overshadowed by salient observations


The temperature dependence of liver microsomal CYP2E1 (cytochrome P450 2E1) activity was examined in selected genotypes of the viviparous fish Poeciliopsis. Activity of this enzyme, as a function of incubation temperature, was determined by measuring 6-OH-chlorzoxazone formation from chlorzoxazone, a specific CYP2E1 substrate. Chlorzoxazone-6-hydroxylase activity was examined among five species of Poeciliopsis, as well as among nine genotypes within a species, P. monacha. Among Poeciliopsis genotypes, P. monacha contained the greatest activity, 9.5 [+-] 1.5 U with a temperature optimum (T[sub O]) of 25 C. The lowest activity was in P. occidentalis, 0.65 [+-] 0.11 U, with a T[sub O] of 27 t 28 C; P. prolifica, P. fasciata, P. lucida, and P. viriosa had intermediate levels of activities, 1.1 to 5.5 U, and T[sub O] from 25 to 31 C. To determine if metabolic differences exist within species, enzyme activity was examined from nine genotypes of P. monacha by comparing expression among P. monacha-lucida hybrids. These hybrids were given identical paternal genomes of lucida but retained the original maternal Monacha genomes sampled from wild gene pools. The greatest activity was found in genotype T70-3 P. Cw, 3.6 [+-] 0.1 U, at a T[sub O] of 29 C, and themore » lowest was in genotype SV73-7s, 0.40 [+-] 0.12 U, at a T[sub O] of 27 C. The other naturally occurring genotypes, M65-24, M65-26, SV73-7v, as well as the laboratory-produced synthetic hybrids, Syn4 and Syn5, had intermediate activities, 0.73 [+-] 0.38 to 2.1 [+-] 0.69 U, and T[sub O] of 25 to 27 C. No hybrid had activity levels as high as the maternal parent, P. monacha, and only one had a T[sub O] as low as either parent. Apparently the genes involved in xenobiotic activity vary widely among the closely related species of Poeciliopsis but also within species, suggesting that these phenotypes can be acted upon by natural selection.« less


To estimate fast reactor core transient behavior in three-dimensional geometry, we have applied the improved coarse mesh method to time dependent problems. The improved quasistatic approximation is used with the feedback of fuel temperature change and coolant temperature change. The shape function describing flux distribution is calculated using effective cross sections which are functions of mesh intervals and the amplitude function. To allow large axial coarse meshes with control rod partially inserted, a bilinearly weighting method is used to calculate homogenized cross sections. Using these methods KICOM code has been developed. The validity of this code has been checked by comparing with a two-dimensional transient code FX2-TH for the case when a control rod at core center is withdrawn. The KICOM code has been applied to calculate the power change of a prototype fast reactor and a large fast reactor for the case when a core center rod or an off-center rod is withdrawn. For the prototype reactor, the ...


Our study demonstrates that laminin potentiates cisplatin‐induced apoptosis in NCCIT, a testicular tumor germ cell line. When cultured on laminin, NCCIT cells displayed a significantly higher susceptibility to cisplatin‐induced apoptosis than on plastic or on other ECM components including fibronectin, Type IV collagen and vitronectin. This high cisplatin sensitivity observed on NCCIT cell cultured on laminin was mediated by the α6‐integrin signaling. The knockdown of the α6‐integrin subunit by small interfering RNAs suppressed the higher cisplatin‐sensitivity supporting the existence of a crosstalk between laminin‐α6‐integrin signaling and cisplatin‐induced apoptosis. Our findings indicate that in cisplatin‐treated NCCIT cells, the laminin‐α6‐integrin signaling induces the activation of executioner procaspase‐3 and ‐6 as well as apoptosis‐inducing factor (AIF) transcription and expression. The ability of integrin‐mediated specific stroma–tumor cell interactions to modulate the chemosensitive phenotype of a tumor cell might provide new insights to overcome cisplatin resistance of tumor cells. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Looking at today's energy development, the traditional singlepower generation and transmission phase is gone forever. We are now in the Internet of Smart Energy era, which requires clean, intelligent, efficient, and reliable power. With the largescale adoption of renewable sources and Internet of Things technology, the development of the energy Internet has become irreversible. Global newenergy companies are urgently exploring and actively responding to this trend.


[Objective] To observe the curative effect of tiny-wound endoscope treatment for esophageal cancer and gastric carcinoma during the progressive stage.[Methods] Divide the 600 cases of such sufferers who could not or are unwilling to be operated into three groups in random.200 cases were given tiny-wound treatment combined with holistic chemotherapy,200 tiny-wound treatment,200 holistic chemotherapy.During the treatment,observe the curative effect,survival time,metastasis status and untoward reaction of the sufferers.[Results] The effective rate of treatment for the tiny-wound group is 77%,tiny-wound combined with holistic chemotherapy 89.5%,holistic chemotherapy 21.5%.There is marked difference between the curative effect of the tiny-wound group and that of the chemotherapy group(P 0.05).The treatment of tiny-wound combined with chemotherapy can help to improve the curative effect.The survival time for the tiny-wound group is 30 months,tiny-wound combined with chemotherapy group 35 months,chemotherapy group 16 months.There is little difference in the rate of metastasis of original focus between groups.[Conclusion] The tiny-wound treatment has better clinical curative effect during the treatment for the upper digestive tract malignancy in its progressive stage.Combined with holistic chemotherapy it can improve the curative effect.It deserves being widely applied and popularized.


academics and sought to hold together preaching and theology. The contributions of Professor Cheyne and Professor Macdonald help us to appreciate their skills in the pulpit. It is a pity that there is no single essay devoted to Donald Baillie's posthumous volume, The Theology of the Sacraments, but this subject is helpfully dealt with in the second of Professor Cheyne's essays. These are just a few selections from the rich contents of this study which is warmly commended to all who are concerned with relating theology to church and society today.


【Escherichia coli has been used as an expression work horse for foreign genes. This article summarized recent development in genetic engineering techniques for overproduction of medical proteins and industrial enzymes. Special emphasis was placed upon research activities concerning folding and refolding of inclusion bodies at genetic and fermentation levels. Plasmid and mRNA stabilization, development of strong inducible promoters, modification of translational elements and reduction of rpoteolytic degradation were carried out to elevate an expression level of a target protein. Optimization of culture conditions, improvement of denaturation and renaturation steps and coexpression of molecular chaperones or foldase were accomplished to produce active proteins in soluble form. Fusion protein systems with selective separation and surface display technology were also performed in an effort to make the E. coli expression system more effective and versatile.】


Goal perspectives of adolescents in academic context. Drawing from contempor ary social cognitive theories of achievement motivation, this stud y examined the interrelationships between adolescents' academic goal orientations, beliefs a bout success in the classroom, and expressed inter est in and enjoyment of academic activities. 967 adolescents between 11 and 16 y ears old completed scales assessing their goal orientations, beliefs a bout the causes of success, and degree of satisfaction/interest spe cific to the academic context. Two goal-beliefs f actors or "personal theories of achievement" emerged. Students who were high in the task g oal-belief factor reported greater enjoyment of school and less boredom. Scores on the ego goal-belief f actor were positively related to f eeling bored in school. The implications of these f indings in terms of maximising students' in vestment in the educational domain are discussed.


In communication,the choice of the personal dexis is decided by the social relations of thsides,at the same time,it can change the pragmatic distance of both communication of sides,enlarge or reduces interpersonal relationship distan.It can manifest human's social attribute in the certain condition,and reflects the interpersonal function of language.The deduction of the initial pragmatic distance is often determined by the choice of personal deixis.We can use a personal deixis which is unsuitable for the initial pragmatic distance to create a contradiction between them.Then we can change the ongoing pragmatic distance and achieve a special pragmatic purpose.


As a newly discovered RNA interference method,long noncoding RNAs(lncRNA) play an important role in the development and progression of carcinomas,just as other epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation,histone modifications and chromatin remodeling.Recent researches have highlighted that lncRNA can interact with other epigenetic mechanisms.lncRNA can regulate DNA methylation,histone modifications,chromatin remodeling and other RNA interference through many ways,and the expression and role of lncRNA can be regulated by DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling.The complex relationship affects the development and progression of carcinomas.


AIMS
To determine the rate of hypertensive patients hospitalized at the department of medicine who are treated or are candidates for fixed dose drug combinations.

BACKGROUND
Despite the high prevalence of hypertension and rates of awareness, The number of patients treated and well controlled are low. The main reasons for not achieving blood pressure target levels are compliance and persistence with drug therapy.

METHODS
A multicenter, retrospective records review was conducted of hypertensive patients hospitalized at departments of medicine during 2014.

RESULTS
The study group consisted of 803 patients' records from 6 medical centers. Half of the study group were males, mean age 75±12 years. The most frequent comorbidities were hyperlipidemia (60%) and diabetes (49%). The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure at admission were 143±27mmHg and 75+16 mmHg, respectively. Only 48% of the patients had well-controlled blood pressure levels. Beta blockers were the most common drug treatment (54%) and only 7% were treated by fixed drug combinations, mainly including diuretics. A quarter of the subjects were treated with one medication, 36%, 21%, 12% by 2, 3 >4 medications, respectively. The candidates for fixed drug combination therapy are unbalanced patients and those who are treated by/with several medications; under these two conditions, half of the patients in our research were found suitable for the fixed drug combination therapy.

CONCLUSIONS
There is a need to increase the use of fixed dose drug combination medications to achieve better blood pressure control.

DISCUSSION
Hospitalization is an opportunity for increasing the use of fixed-dose drug combinations to improve blood pressure control.


We obtain polynomial type bounds for the size of the integral solutions of Thue equations $F(X,Y) = m$ defined over a totally real number field $K$, assuming that $F(X,1)$ has at least a non real root and, for every couple of non real conjugate roots $(\alpha, \bar{\alpha})$ of $F(X,1)$, the field $K(\alpha, \bar{\alpha})$ is a CM-field. In case where $F(X,1)$ has also real roots, our approach gives polynomial type bounds that the Baker's method was not able to provide other than exponential bounds.


In this paper, I will briefly describe my ongoing feminist journey and the significance and meaning of aligning myself with feminism. Additionally, I will discuss my feminist perspective, mainly feminist cultural studies, and how this framework informs my sport psychological research and practice. Lastly, I will discuss the potential of a feminist approach for broadening what it means to be a "sport psychologist."


The present study investigates how female drug offenders adjust to their incarceration and whether there are detectable differences in the patterns of adjustment between women incarcerated for possession offenses, drug trafficking offenses, and nondrug offenses. Participants were 630 women incarcerated at a maximum security state prison who completed self-report adjustment measures. Results indicated that possession offenders reported less internal distress, lower levels of conflict, greater satisfaction with institutional conditions, and less of a tendency to view life in prison as worse than life outside than did women convicted of nondrug offenses. Possession offenders reported less internal distress and less conflict than did drug offenders incarcerated for trafficking offenses. Women convicted of possession offenses reported fewer mental illness symptoms than either the trafficking offenders or the nondrug offenders. Present results also confirmed that women of color are disproportionately represented within both drug offense groups.


PURPOSE: An energy transfer amplifier is provided to improve transfer of energy to a radio position sensing system inserted in a human body. CONSTITUTION: An apparatus for supplying current to a power circuit of a medical device inserted in a human body, comprises a power transmitter and a passive energy transfer amplifier(40). The power transmitter is adapted to generate an electromagnetic field having a predetermined frequency for inductively supplying current in the power circuit, from a part of a human body. The passive energy transfer amplifier is disposed around the medical device so as to increase the current driven in the power circuit by the electromagnetic field. The passive energy transfer amplifier has a resonant frequency at the frequency of the electromagnetic field.


An experiment shows that maps can be designed to accommodate the approximately 4 percent of the population with red-green color-vision impairments. The experiment used seven pairs of maps with seven different color schemes to determine the effects of color selection on the map-reading ability of people with impaired or normal color vision. One rendition in each pair had colors that were potentially confusing to people with red-green impairments; the other had colors selected specifically to accommodate this group. On the set with potentially confusing colors, people with red-green impairments were less accurate and took longer to respond than those with normal color vision. They were just as accurate as those with normal color vision on the set with accommodating colors but continued to have longer reaction times. Logit analysis of accuracy confirmed the interaction between vision group (normal, impaired) and rendition of the map (confusing, accommodating) and indicated that performance differed from one ...


CL-PKC is a kind of public-key cryptosystem,which was proposed recently.It preserves the advantages of non public-key certificate and also has solved the key escrow problem in the ID-PKC.Many people are highly concerned about the design method of safe and efficient signature scheme in the certificateless system.In this paper,we construct a new certificateless undeniable signature by using bilinear pairings and zero-knowledge proof protocol.


This paper describes the research activities for the localization of human shapes using visual information carried on at the University of Parma, Italy, in the frame of a common project with the TACOM Department of US Army. The paper proposes the application of a stereoscopic technique as a preprocessing for the localization of humans in generic unstructured environments. Each row of the left image is matched with the epipolar row of the right image. This creates a map of each object in the scene as well as the slope of the road. Preliminary results have proved to be promising.


vitamin 3 responsive epithelia. J Biol Chem 1999; 274: 8. Bataille P, Achard JM, Fournier A, et al. Diet, vitamin D and vertebral mineral density in hypercalciuric calcium stone formers. 8375–8378 Kidney Int 1991; 39: 1193–1205 5. Quamme GA. Renal magnesium handling: new insights in 9. Maesaka JK, Fishbane S. Regulation of renal urate excretion: understanding old problems. Kidney Int 1997; 52: 1180–1195 a critical review. Am J Kidney Dis 1998; 32: 917–933 6. Platzer L, van 't Hoff W, Shan V et al. Urinary supersaturation 10. Rodriguez-Soriano. Hypomagnesemic states. In Barratt T, Avner of calcium oxalate and phosphate in patients with X-linked E, Harmon W, eds. Pediatric Nephrology. Williams and Wilkins: hypophosphatemic rickets and in healthy schoolchildren. 1998: 557–558 J Pediatr 1999; 135: 611–617 7. Praga M, Vara J, Gonzalez-Darra E et al. Familial hypomagneseEditor's note mia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis. Kidney Int 1995; 47: 1419–1425 See also Original Article by Benigno et al. in this issue.


One of the most striking recent developments within the field of criminology has beenthe growth of interest in issues of governance and regulation. This literature hasexamined the diversification of security provision, particularly through an expansionof private or commercial security as well as the emergence of new hybrid public-private forms of policing. These various transformations raise important concerns inlight of traditional definitions of the state as the monopoly provider of policing (and'legitimate coercion' generally). In this chapter, I examine the governance of crimeand security in Ireland in light of the issues raised by this emerging literature. First, Ielaborate the key features of criminology's engagement with governance. Second, Ioutline the historical context of the governance of crime and security in Ireland, bothin terms of the stability that for decades characterised this field, and a series ofchanges from the 1970s and 1980s onwards that radically altered it. In the thirdsection, I examine some of the most significant recent Irish developments in this area,before concluding with some observations on the challenges that these developmentspose for the democratic governance of security in Ireland.


An internal combustion engine 10 comprising an engine management unit 11, a combustion chamber 12 having an inlet port 16 and an outlet port 17, a valve train mechanism 19, to permit introduction of air to the inlet port 16 of the combustion chamber 12 and release exhaust gases from the outlet port 17 of the combustion chamber, and an external exhaust gas recirculating (EGR) system 23. Whereby exhaust gases from the outlet port 17 may be passed to the inlet port 16, wherein the engine management unit 11 is operable to control the valve train mechanism 23 to retain and/or rebreath exhaust gases within the combustion chamber 12 (internal exhaust gas recirculation), to cause the engine to operate in a controlled auto ignition combustion mode. Said system controls the external recycling system to supply exhaust gases to the inlet port 16 in the controlled auto ignition combustion mode. Sensors may be provided to detect one or more engine parameters (air mass flow, exhaust composition 34, crank shaft position 35, cam shaft position, exhaust gas temperature 33, intake pressure 31, and intake temperature). The quantity of exhaust gasses re-breathed and/or recirculated may be based on one of these parameters. Further control may be provided by controlling the fuel supply and the throttle 15. The engine may also comprise a spark plug 26 to facilitate a mode of spark ignition combustion.


1. Del Giglio A, Soares HP, Caparroz C et al. Granisetron is equivalent to ondansetron for prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomit. Results of a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Cancer 2000; 89: 2301–2308. 2. Grunberg SM. Phase I and other dose-ranging studies of granisetron. Semin Oncol 1992; 19 (Suppl 10): 16–22. 3. Perez EA, Hesketh P, Sandbach J et al. Comparison of single-dose oral granisetron versus intravenous ondansetron in the prevention of nausea and vomiting induced by moderately emetogenic chemotherapy: a multicentric, double-blind, randomised parallel study. J Clin Oncol 1998; 16: 754–760. 4. Perez EA, Lembersky B, Kaywin P et al. Comparable safety and antiemetic efficacy of a brief (30-sec bolus) intravenous granisetron infusion and standard (15-min) intravenous ondansetron infusion in breast cancer patients receiving moderately chemotherapy. Cancer J Sci Am 1998; 4: 52–58. 5. Blower P. A pharmacological profile of oral granisetron (Kytril tablets). Semin Oncol 1995; 4 (Suppl 10): 3–5. 6. Tyers MB, Bunce KT, Humphrey PP. Pharmacological and anti-emetic properties of ondansetron. Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 1989; 25 (Suppl 1): S15–S19.


Received April 29, 1996; accepted August 2, 1996. BACKGROUND. Although successful xenotransplantation of human tumors in nude mice highly predicts prognosis, little is known regarding the biologic background of this correlation. In this study, the relationship between the macroscopic growth pattern of first-generation xenografts of human renal cell carcinomas in nude mice and prognosis was studied. METHODS. Macroscopic growth patterns of the first-generation xenografts of locally confined renal cell carcinomas were analyzed according to the best-fit Gornpertz recursion formulas. RESULTS. The parameter "b" of the growth pattern, the measure of the intensity of growth deceleration as a function of tumor growth, strongly predicted prognosis after nephrectomy as a single factor; faster growth deceleration, i.e., lower b values, predicted better prognosis (mean follow-up, 5.2 years; P = 0.000008 for the disease free period and P = 0.000018 for overall survival). It is also the most significant single prognostic parameter among others (including staging and grading) according to a multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS. The parameter expressing the Gompertzian macroscopic growth deceleration of the first-generation xenografts of clinically locally confined renal cell carcinomas in nude mice explains the strong prognostic impact of xenotransplantation. Cancer 1996; 78:2170-2.


This research aims to know the training program, the quality of the coaches, the circumstances of the organization, the facilities and infrastructure, and the funds used in North Sumatera wushu development. This research used descriptive qualitative method with sample of North Sumatera Wushu provincial officials. Data collections were observation, interview, and documentations. To data sources were officials, coaches, and athletes of North Sumatera wushu. The documents or substantiations used to prove the data were charters, photos, management structure and others. The results of this research concerned were: (1) The development of wushu athletes of North Sumatera achievement was very good, (2) The organizational management was friendly, opennes among others and made the things run well (3) The quality of coaches were excellent and competedt in training. The conclusions obtained in the wushu development of North Sumatera were: (1) the wushu development of North Sumatera should be an icon of sports development model in North Sumatera, supported by the good function of the management, can reach the set target, (2) Having a complex organizational structure in line with the work programs and responsibilities, (3) Having the International and National competence and supported by the complete facilities and infrastructures. Keywords—component; Management; Wushu; North Sumatera


A series of pH-activatable aza-BODIPY-based fluorescent probes were developed for rapid cancer visualization and real-time fluorescence-guided surgery by harnessing topical spraying. These probes exhibited good water-solubility, a tunable pKa from 5.0 to 7.9, and stable intense NIR emission at ∼725 nm under acidic conditions. AzaB5 with a pKa value of 6.7 was able to rapidly and clearly visualize pulmonary and abdominal metastatic tumours including tiny metastases less than 2 mm via topical spraying, further improving intraoperative fluorescence-guided resection. We believe that AzaB5 is promising as a powerful tool to rapidly delineate a broad range of malignancies and assist surgical tumour resection.


This paper describes how an increasing number of urban areas are facing air quality issues and are considering the introduction of a low emissions zone. In the United Kingdom (UK) this follows the example of the introduction of such a scheme in London, which is considered to have resulted in the use of a cleaner commercial fleet than would otherwise have been the case. During the evaluation of a low emissions zone for Reading in the Thames Valley the study team became aware of many issues that made the economic appraisal a journey into uncharted territory. This paper aims to air the challenges faced, outline the issues discussed during the appraisal process and initiate discussion as to how the appraisal would be conducted in other European countries. The first set of challenges arose during the modeling work to produce the forecasts of vehicle flows in and around the low emissions zone as a result of the introduction of the scheme. The Reading Transport Model is a variable demand model with income segmentation developed to test a road user charging scheme with associated public transport measures and highway network changes. The paper discusses the issues associated with first establishing the base year level of demand by commercial vehicles and then estimating the behavioral responses of commercial operators to a charge if their vehicle does not meet the set Euro specification. Some vehicles may re-route to avoid the low emissions zone area and the challenge is to ensure that these vehicles remain only on suitable routes. Others will upgrade their vehicles or fit abatement equipment while others will pay the charge, but modeling these responses posed challenges. Secondly the appraisal required consideration of all the benefits that would flow from the scheme. Only some of these could be valued using the Department for Transport's TUBA software, such as journey time and vehicle operating cost changes for commercial vehicles and other road users. A significant proportion of the benefits came from the air quality benefits from cleaner vehicles but the appraisal had to consider the rate at which the fleet would have become cleaner anyway, without the low emissions zone. The paper also considers other potential benefits considered such as accident reductions, road maintenance savings, noise issues and pedestrian ambience benefits.


Rapid population growth and migration to the cities exert pressure on the urban land units as well as its encircling ecosystem land units. Since Japan has relatively less habitable area with mostly population is concentrated in major urban centers, urban and agricultural activities have to be conducted in a very small densely populated districts. In this study we have attempted to study the landuse changes caused due to the emergence of subway network within Sapporo city during the eighties as a part of urbanization process. Present study focusses along the 500 meters buffer zone of subway network within Sapparo city. ARC/INFO GIS was used for digitization and other data entry operations along the buffer zone. In some cases, some more areas in outer polygons were also considered in order to maintain the continuity along the buffer boundaries like river, marshes. The landuse maps of 1977 and 1993 prepared by Geographical Survey Institute, Japan were used as base thematic layers for analysis. Detailed urban landuses such as residential, commercial areas, industrial areas, Recreational areas etc. and also other ecosystem units such as agricultural/fallow lands, orchards and marshy areas were re-grouped and digitized. Then landuses were integrated to derive landuse changes. Using the INFO/TABLES database integrator within the ARC/INFO GIS environment, landuse statistics tables were generated for landuses in 1977 and 1993. Based on the change trends, break-up details for landuse conversion to commercial areas in 1993 were analysed and details are tabulated. The major findings are the conversion of agricultural fallow/marshy areas into other urban uses, including the conversion of marshy canal into an expressway.


We often discuss globalization and the emergence of international gender norms. However, despite these international norms societal differences exist. One must understand these differences if one is to have any comprehension of women's roles in politics. Thus one must ask what nations with different cultural heritages are doing and how women are faring in these societies even as globalization is becoming more and more evident and people with divergent cultural norms and behavioral expectations are sharing beliefs, behaviors and expectations. In addition, one must be cognizant of a range of issues that confront women in all societies. In other words, there are cross-cutting issues that must be recognized and addressed.


2-Isonicotinoylacetophenone (1) reacts with aqueous ammonia in the presence of acid to produce the deep blue 3-(4-pyridyl)-1-[3-(4-pyridyl)-1H -1-isoindolylidenemethyl]-2H-isoindole which changed to the deep bluish green adduct showing the wavelength maximum at 744 nm by treating with methyl iodide. From the reaction of 1 and glycine or its methyl ester the red 3,3′-di-(4-pyridyl)-1,1′-vinylenebis(2H-2-isoindoleacetic acid) or its derivative were obtained respectively.


This paper is the fourth in a series dealing with the construction of a test bank of items designed to assess the degree to which learning takes place from playing a total enterprise simulation. It provides data as to whether the test central to this research is valid. In this study, relationships between results on this study's learning test and two criterion variables – self report of learning and forecasting accuracy - were examined. The results revealed no relationship between learning scores on the test and forecasting accuracy, and they showed a correlation of .33 between learning scores and the degree to which students said they learned financial analysis by playing the game.


The article discusses the concept of « borealism », elaborated by analogy with Edward Said's « orientalism », and the way it might be applied to the works of three French language scholars from the second half of the nineteenth century who visited the north of Scandinavia as well as North Africa and the Middle East. The travelogues from trips to Lapland and to Algeria by the botanist Charles Martins and the philologist Xavier Marmier, both members of La Recherche-expedition (1838-1839), are examined in the first place. The essay of Belgian historian and traveler Eugene Goblet d'Alviella, Sahara and Lapland (1873) completes the picture. The similarities and differences in the discursive and imaginary structures of the texts, describing geographically and culturally distant territories (even seen as opposite according to the North/South paradigm), show in each case the importance of the context of utterance (historical, ideological, individual) and make it possible to evaluate the methodological validity of the concept « borealism ».


Intellectual capital (IC) is the most significant factor for improvement in any enterprise in the current competitive world. Managing IC effectively can greatly enhance the competitive advantages of the enterprises. This study evaluates the enterprise who utilizes IC, in best effective way. This research study tried to establish a unique assessment model to measure the performance of IC management. The research target is the Indian public sector enterprises (PSEs). The research collected data from the Annual Report of PSEs listed in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) for the period 2001–2002 to 2010–2011. A total of 50 companies randomly selected amongst Indian PSEs. The result shows that this assessment method identifies the relative performance and benchmarking for Indian PSEs as far as Intellectual Capital is concerned. The best company is chosen both in operational performance and productivity improvement. This is a performance evaluation model to have IC along with the financial capital.


Purpose: Early childhood is a time of physical, psychological development and the development of a child of this time is deeply related to the environment. Especially, It is very important to provide supportive environment for children with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to analyze domestic facility for disordered young children based on User Benefit Criteria Methods: A field visit to `DongSim-Won` was Data were collected though in-depth interview with manager and recording the physical characteristics. Results: Features which were made through remodeling were highlighted & described according to user benefit criteria. There by Knowledge base was provided to designed features. All Those features were found to have considerable impact resident behavioral change such as self confidence. Implications: The facility showed evidence of designed work.


The paper identifies the evolving nature of headquarters-subsidiary relations during the whole process of R&D internationalization. In-depth data on five Japanese multinationals revealed that the role of overseas laboratories actually evolved over time, from the 'starter' to the 'innovator' and then to the 'contributor'. Such a shift in role of overseas laboratories affected the nature of headquarters-subsidiary relationship accordingly. 'Semi-connected freedom' was identified as an optimal condition for the overseas laboratories to reconcile the two competing pressures: need for local autonomy and need for internal information connectivity. Various managerial steps were suggested for the laboratories to reach that state: increase in process linkage, active broker's role, short-term socialization, and project-level socialization. Some practical and theoretical implications were drawn from this research, and future research direction was suggested.


This paper discusses firstly the operation process of inherit optimizing algorithm in the case of single variable,and proposes a modified inherit optimizing algorithm in the case of multiple variables and when they have correlation each other.Then for the minimizing of multicarrier system PAR,it proposes a multicarrier system PAR minimizing algorithm based on inherit optimizing method.The simulation results show that this algorithm can effectively make the multicarrier PAR value be minimizing in the system accuracy range.


This study highlights the differences in performance of commercial banks operating in Pakistan in the context of credit portfolio management. Specifically, we look at their credit allocation policies and outcomes in the shape of nonperforming loans (NPLs). We categorize a sample of 34 banks into four major groups public, private, Islamic and foreign banks. The study tests several hypotheses related to the overall efficiency of banks' credit portfolio management over time as well as the drivers of NPLs and priority sectors for lending across these four categories. The findings broadly suggest that public banks tend to suffer most from NPLs, whereas Islamic and foreign banks manage their portfolios more efficiently. NPLs are highest in the priority lending sectors across all types of banks, which underscores the inefficiency of managerial decision-making when managing credit portfolios. Over time, at an aggregate level, all four types of banks have become less efficient, as reflected by the increase in NPLs as a percentage of gross credit and assets.


This study aims to analyze the application of financial accounting standards for entities without public accountability for inventories at PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, aiming to find out whether the company's financial accounting standards are running well or not and to find out whether the inventory complies with the company's regulations. The subject of this research is PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 and the object of this research are inventory reports and financial reports such as profit and loss and balance sheets of PT. This is because PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 only presents the income statement as financial statement information. Based on the results of the analysis, it is also known that PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 has not applied the Financial Accounting Standards for Entities Without Public Accountability for the reports of fuel oil inventories provided. This is because PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 only presents inventory reports in a very simple way, namely only recording in the accounting book. As for the obstacles PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 in applying the Financial Accounting Standards for Entities Without Public Accountability for inventories, namely the lack of knowledge of the owner. Kezies SPBU 142031142 feels that he is not yet professional in implementing SAK ETAP and the views of the owner of PT. Kezies SPBU 142031142 that the recording activities are carried out only to meet the needs of calculations and transparency so that it does not need to be done.


This paper reviews the shift of teacher role in light of the development and innovation of EFL instruction in China and analyses the EFL teachers' roles in classes adopting the PAD (Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion) mode. It points out EFL teachers play a wide range of roles in PAD classes to meet students' needs and contribute to their language learning.


Prebiotic snack bar is a food innovation in the form of a bar that contains a source of functional nutrients that can improve chronic small intestinal inflammation syndrome (pediatric environmental enteropathy) in stunting children, increase the absorption of nutrition, and then improve the nutritional status of stunting children. The aim of this research was to determine the sensory characteristics of snack bar with any level of banana flour and tempeh flour addition. Sensory analyses were carried out on flavor, color, taste, texture and overall of the snack bar. The results showed that the ratio of banana flour : tempeh flour (95% : 5%) was more acceptable in terms of flavor (3,89), color (3,60), taste (3,91), texture (3,77) and overall (4,00). The result also showed that the addition of tempeh flour and banana flour to the formulation snack bar had a significant effect (p ≤ 0,05) on the sensory quality of prebiotic snack bar


In a clinicotopographic study of 14 patients with internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) confirmed by electrooculography (EOG), the pattern of visual dysfunction was compared to the location and severity of lesions of the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Of the 12 patients with classically-defined 'anterior' INO, nine were classed as having definite multiple sclerosis (MS), and three as probable or possible. Five of the 12 had MR-imaged MLF lesions, and five including one with MLF lesions, had cerebellum-associated lesions. Of the two patients with so-called 'posterior' INO, one presented a heredodegenerative disease and cerebellum-related lesions, and in the other, a non-visual neurological condition was not diagnosed. The finding that MR-imaged MLF lesions do not always occur simultaneously with INO may indicate that INO could be the expression of a functional disorder in the posterior fossa, preceding MLF lesion development.


We used multiple linear regression analyses to explore empirical relationships between dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations, weather, and acidification in long-term data sets from 12 small Boreal Shield lakes in Ontario, Canada. In two lakes in which pH changes have been very large (4.5 to ~6.0), pH explained most of the temporal variation in DOC concentrations. In the remaining lakes, long-term average previous temperature (on the scale of a decade or more) was usually the best explanatory variable for DOC concentrations. Lake-specific multiple regres- sion models constructed from long-term and short-term attributes of weather (long-term average previous temperature and precipitation, winter-spring precipitation, summer precipitation, summer sunshine) and pH explained between 41% and 96% of the temporal variation in DOC concentrations during the entire monitoring period for these lakes (n = 16- 26 years). Multiple regression models considering only the period common to all lakes, 1987 to 2003 (n = 16- 17 years), explained 35%-96% of the variation in DOC concentrations. The importance of long-term and short-term attributes of weather in explaining temporal variations in DOC concentrations suggests that changes in climate will have large effects on lake clarity; however, the interactions between weather-related effects may be very complex. Resume : Des analyses de regression multiple lineaire nous servent a explorer les relations empiriques entre les concentrations de carbone organique dissous (DOC), les conditions climatiques et l'acidification dans des ensembles de donnees a long terme provenant de 12 petits lacs boreaux du Bouclier laurentien en Ontario. Dans deux des lacs dans lesquels les variations de pH ont ete tres importantes (4,5 a ~6,0), le pH explique la plupart des variations temporelles des concentrations de DOC. Dans les autres lacs, la temperature moyenne anterieure a long terme (a l'echelle d'une decennie ou plus) est ordinairement la meilleure variable explicative des concentrations de DOC. Les modeles de re- gression multiple specifiques aux divers lacs bases sur les caracteristiques a court et a long termes des conditions cli- matiques (temperature et precipitations moyennes anterieures a long terme, precipitations d'hiver-printemps, precipitations en ete, ensoleillement en ete) et sur le pH expliquent entre 41 et 96 % de la variation temporelle des concentrations de DOC durant la periode entiere d'observation de ces lacs (n = 16-26 ans). Les modeles de regression multiple qui ne prennent en compte que la periode d'observation commune a tous les lacs, soit de 1987 a 2003 (n = 16-17 ans) expliquent de 35 a 96 % de la variation des concentrations de DOC. L'importance des caracteristiques cli- matiques a court et long termes comme variables explicatives des variations temporelles des concentrations de DOC laisse croire que les changements climatiques auront des effets importants sur la clarte des lacs; toutefois, les interac- tions entre les effets lies aux conditions climatiques pourraient s'averer etre tres complexes.


The emerging field of quantum mereology considers part-whole relations in quantum systems. Entangled quantum systems pose a peculiar problem in the field, since their total states are not reducible to that of their parts. While there exist several established proposals for modelling entangled systems, like monistic holism or relational holism, there is considerable unclarity, which further positions are available. Using the lambda operator and plural logic as formal tools, we review and develop conceivable models and evaluate their consistency and distinctness. The main result is an exhaustive taxonomy of six distinct and precise models that both provide information about the mereological features as well as about the entangled property. The taxonomy is wellsuited to serve as the basis for future systematic investigations.


We study the Coulomb drag between two strange-metal layers using the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model from holography. We show that the low-temperature dependence of the drag resistivity is ρ D ∝ T 4 , which strongly deviates from the quadratic dependence of Fermi liquids. We also present numerical results at room temperature, using typical parameters of the cuprates, to provide an estimate of the magnitude of this effect for future experiments. We find that the drag resistivity is enhanced by the plasmons characteristic of the two-layer system.


The invention discloses a method for processing a landfill leachate, which comprises the following steps of ammonia nitrogen removal, flocculent precipitate, electrolysis, capacitance desalination, anaerobic treatment, aerobic treatment, membrane filtration and membrane concentrate treatment. The method for processing the landfill leachate has the advantages that an electrolysis technology, a membrane technology and a bio-chemical technology are combined to form a method for processing the landfill leachate, the method has the characteristics of stable operation, strong adaptive capacity on water quality change, low cost, high treatment efficiency, effective reduction of index of ammonia nitrogen, COD, SS, chromaticity in the landfill leachate and standard discharge of effluent.


Knowledge of competitive plant interactions is important in designing more productive cropping systems in both agriculture and forestry. These interactions are often variable in nature, and may be competitive, synergistic or complementary depending on several factors such as species mixture, environmental conditions and management practices, which are also influenced by prevailing socioeconomic factors. Most of these interactions often involve primarily competition for the major plant growth resources namely: light, moisture, nutrients and space. Unfortunately, segregating the specific mechanisms involved at any time in the competition process has often been a major problem for many agro-ecologists because of the complex interactive nature of the requirements by plants for these growth resources. Although significant attempts and gains have been made with respect to understanding mechanisms for competition for a single aboveground resource (i.e. light), little progress has been made with respect to competition for a broad range of belowground resources (i.e. nutrients and moisture). This is mainly because of the multiple belowground interactions involving complex processes and mechanisms of availability, uptake and utilization by plants. In the case of nutrients, plants compete for a broad range of essential plant mineral elements that differ in molecular size, valence, oxidation state and mobility within the soil. Unofortunately, and leess understood, belowground competition often reduces plant performance more than aboveground competition (Wilson 1988), and it is the principal form of competition occurring in ecosystems with extremely low plant densities such as arid lands and low fertility sites (Fowler, 1986).


A damped and driven collective spin system is analyzed by using quantum state diffusion. This approach allows for a mostly analytical treatment of the investigated non-equilibrium quantum many body dynamics, which features a phase transition in the thermodynamical limit. The exact results obtained in this work, which are free of any finite size defects, provide a complete understanding of the model. Moreover, the trajectory framework gives an intuitive picture of the two phases occurring, revealing a spontaneously broken symmetry and allowing for a qualitative and quantitative characterization of the phases. We determine exact critical exponents, investigate finite size scaling, and explain a remarkable non-algebraic behaviour at the transition in terms of torus hopping.


In this paper we are going to investigate some properties of almost periodic functions in view of the Lebesgue measure with particular emphasis on their behavior under convolution. These considerations allow us to establish the main result concerning almost periodic in view of the Lebesgue measure solutions to linear differential equations of the first order. We also apply the theory of continued fractions to examine asymptotic behavior of a certain classical almost periodic function of that type. For that purpose we provide a new general method of calculation of certain type of limits.


A new technique of dynamic symmetry-breaking was introduced and an adaptive flow was proposed which can analyze a given Boolean optimization problem and pick the symmetry-breaking technique that is the best suited to the problem characteristics. Preliminary experimental results show that this approach accelerates problem-solving in many cases compared with pure static symmetry-breaking and pure dynamic symmetry-breaking.


Deep neural networks (DNNs) and auto differentiation have been widely used in computational physics to solve variational problems. When a DNN is used to represent the wave function and solve quantum many-body problems using variational optimization, various physical constraints have to be injected into the neural network by construction to increase the data and learning efficiency. We build the unitary constraint to the variational wave function using a monotonic neural network to represent the cumulative distribution function (CDF) . Using this constrained neural network to represent the variational wave function, we solve Schrodinger equations using auto-differentiation and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) by minimizing the violation of the trial wave function to the Schrodinger equation. For several classical problems in quantum mechanics, we obtain their ground state wave function and energy with very low errors. The method developed in the present paper may pave a new way for solving nuclear many-body problems in the future.


Background: The term shear zone is generally used for areas with a strain higher than the surrounding rock. These areas are found in either Planer or Non-planer which formed both conjugated and single shear zones. Objective: The research aims were to determine in the exact boundaries of the Izeh and Dezful shear zones, Geometry of them, angle (2) between these two shear zones, widths zones shearing, degree of overlap between them and type of shearing in addition to its stresses cause deformation phases. Results: Tectonic and Seismotectonic studies of the province faults show that the transformed region is under a pressure with north–north east trend. This trend is along strike slip faults and is almost parallel. The convergence towards north reveal right-lateral strike-slip movements occurred throughout Izeh shear zone (with N-S trend) while left-lateral strike-slip movements occurred all over the Dezful shear zone (with W-E trend). Conclusion: Izeh and Dezful shear zones manifest a brittle behavior based on their location in folded Zagros. Izeh shear zone is a right lateral one and its west and east borders are 28 to 30 kilometers wide. The new shear zone introduced here as east – west zone is located in north of Dezful embayment. It is a left lateral shear zone which is 180 to 190 kilometers long and almost 45 kilometers wide. Izeh and Dezful shear zones have collided in a very small region. Kamestan anticline is the collision spot. The consequences of the collision which is actually a mingle of north – south elements belonging to Izeh shear zone and east – west elements of Dezful shear zone can be seen in the spot.


A lattice Boltzmann model for a compressible fluid is stably calculated by the finite difference scheme (FDLBM), and aerodynamic sound is directly calculated. Aeolian tone and edge tone are successively obtained by the thirdorder upwind scheme in space and the second order Runge Kutta technique. In order to calculate sound emitted from moving body, the arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) technique is also applied to the FDLBM and techniques for connecting still mesh and moving mesh are presented. Sounds emitted by an oscillating square cylinder and cube and also rapidly rotating elliptic cylinder are successively simulated.


We investigated the measurement techniques of the nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA) test bench, to fully characterize the nonlinear behavior of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) driven by complex modulated signals. In order to extend the baseband measurements, two kinds of NVNA phase reference approaches are developed as alternative solutions, so that the baseband phase measurements can be achieved with those of modulated components at multiharmonic RF bands. In the first approach, a modulated baseband signal is combined with another modulated RF one to become the desired NVNA phase reference. While as an alternative solution, the second phase reference design is based on a "stepped" multisine, which is stepped through the baseband and each harmonic following the NVNA swept measurements, to achieve stable phase measurements. To validate these proposed NVNA test bench designs, an RF PA, driven by a large-signal long-term evolution-like multisine, was tested and compared with digital real-time oscilloscope measurements.


In this paper we present the tangible 3D tabletop and discuss the design potential of this novel interface. The tangible 3D tabletop combines tangible tabletop interaction with 3D projection in such a way that the tangible objects may be augmented with visual material corresponding to their physical shapes, positions, and orientation on the tabletop. In practice, this means that both the tabletop and the tangibles can serve as displays. We present the basic design principles for this interface, particularly concerning the interplay between 2D on the tabletop and 3D for the tangibles, and present examples of how this kind of interface might be used in the domain of maps and geolocalized data. We then discuss three central design considerations concerning 1) the combination and connection of content and functions of the tangibles and tabletop surface, 2) the use of tangibles as dynamic displays and input devices, and 3) the visual effects facilitated by the combination of the 2D tabletop surface and the 3D tangibles.


Fourteen patients undergoing hip replacement surgery under psoas compartment block combined with general anaesthesia were studied. Group 1 (n = 7) received plain and Group 2 (n = 7) received 0.25% bupivacaine with adrenaline. The mean maximirm peak concentrations were 1.93 (SEM 0.46) μg/ml and 1.04 (SEM 0.19) μglmlat 10 minutes in groups I and2 respectively. Bupivacaine concentrations were higher at all times in the group which received plain that the group receiving solution containing adrenaline. These differences were statistically significant at 10, 15 (p< 0.05) and 30 minutes (p < 0.025). The highest recorded plasma bupivacaine concentration was 4.54 μg/ml in one patient receiving plain bupivacaine. No patient developed any signs of toxic svmptoms, the duration of analgesia was longer (p < 0.005) in the group receiving bupivacaine with adrenaline. Bupivataine 0.25% with adrenaline 1:200 000 is safe for psoas compartment block, and is recommended for hip surgery.


Coupling is one of two fundamental attributes of software that significantly impact system quality. This work presents a method for measuring coupling in a software system using two matrices. The coupling calculation is performed in two major steps. The first step creates a matrix that captures the nature of the underlying software system. The second step produces a matrix that indicates the degree of coupling between each pair of system components, and also measures the overall system coupling.


The research was aimed to evaluate the effect on the physical and mechanical behavior of the incorporation of recycled aggregate in concrete, to fulfill the purpose of the investigation gravel, sand and debris were used. To accomplish this project was first conducted sampling, then manually separated to go to the crushing operation, having the particles having a particle size analysis based on the NTC-77 standard is performed, the test with a brand PINZUAR electric Sieving was performed, to identify the variability of aggregate grading density tests were performed, this test was conducted under the NTC-176 standard; finally concrete mixes recycled aggregates from the ACI method is performed, the mechanical behavior by NTC-673 standard was assessed, the cylinders were evaluated by the Universal Testing Machine PINZUAR PC42D references. (1)
Identified as relevant data that 87.3% of the amount of debris is constituted by waste reusability as coarse aggregate, because they are constituted by brick, concrete and stone.
Only 12.7% of the debris is composed of unwanted material to the valuation process of debris; which consists of organic matter, lime, metal, plaster and glass.
It was established that the No3 mixture which was formed by adding 45% traditional and 55% aggregate recovered, showed the best mechanical behavior resisting 24.7 MPa, a density of 2.1 kg / m3 and 3% water absorption.


Prostate cancer is one of the three most relevant cancer types in men, ranking second in death rate and first in newly diagnosed cancer cases according to the US cancer statistics in 2015. In recent years, the impact of nutrition on cancer prevention has been increasingly recognized. Accordingly the study of natural compounds for cancer prevention and treatment has drawn attention, mainly for the low toxicity to normal tissues.


This paper discusses on the homology of the library and the leisure, advances some measures for how the library to develop the leisure functions and to externalize the humanistic solicitude.


Chronic angiotensin II (Ang II) infusion leads to hypertension, intrarenal renin‐angiotensin system activation, stimulation of proximal tubular AGT and renal MΦ infiltration. Treatment with immunosuppressive drugs reduces MΦs infiltration, intrarenal Ang II levels and blood pressure, suggesting that MΦ contribute to intrarenal RAS activation and hypertension. However, the contribution of MΦ to AGT augmentation has not been delineated. To elucidate the role of MΦ in AGT augmentation, cultured rat MΦ were treated with 0.05‐5 μM Ang II up to 48 h. After removal of MΦ, the culture medium was incubated with rat PTC for 24 h. mRNA levels of interleukin 6 (IL‐6) in MΦ and AGT in PTC were evaluated by real‐time RT‐PCR. Treatment with 5 μM Ang II activated p38 MAP kinase and increased IL‐6 expression (2.65 ± 0.11, ratio to control) at 48 h; this response was attenuated by AT1 receptor blockade with olmesartan. Incubation of PTC with the culture medium of Ang II‐stimulated MΦ increased AGT expression in PTC (1.71 ± 0.49 by 5 μM Ang II). A neutralizing IL‐6 antibody added to culture medium attenuated the AGT augmentation in PTC (1.17 ± 0.27). These results demonstrate that Ang II mediated increases in IL‐6 production by MΦ increase AGT expression in PTC, suggesting that the Ang II mediated accumulation of MΦ in the kidney stimulates IL‐6 production in the MΦ, which augments intrarenal AGT expression contributing to hypertension.


Farmers in Mediterranean-type environments should plant annual crops as early as possible to maximise yield. Greater rainfall variability at the start of the growing season potentially exposes early-sown crops to water deficit, which may be severe enough to cause crop mortality or to reduce potential productivity. This paper shows that in a typical Mediterranean-type environment at Merredin, Western Australia, much longer dry periods between rainfall events are likely in April rather than in May or June, but with a sowing rule based on farmer behaviour the likelihood of damaging water deficit is small. Soil water at sowing is a good indicator of this likelihood. The implications of early water deficit for crop productivity were investigated for faba bean in two experiments at Merredin in 1997 and 1998. In 1997 simulated plant available water in the top 40 cm (PAW40) at sowing was 24 mm and 8-week-old plants displayed severe wilting after 6 weeks without rain. There was no crop mortality even after 8 weeks without rain and plants recovered quickly when rewatered. Water deficit reduced grain yield through lower evapotranspiration since withholding water reduced total supply but also because severely stressed plants could not extract water from as deep in the soil as less stressed plants. In 1998 simulated PAW40 at sowing was 41 mm and no wilting was observed when water was withheld for 8 weeks. Apparent transpiration efficiency was not affected by mild water deficit in either year, but was reduced by 35% by delaying sowing in 1998. This was due to higher atmospheric vapour pressure deficit during reproductive growth of the later-sown crop. These results suggest that delaying sowing in faba bean is more likely to reduce faba bean grain yield unless there is a strong likelihood of severe water deficit soon after sowing. This likelihood can be judged from the amount of soil water at sowing.


Quantitative methods of evaluating ingrowth into porous coated implants have traditionally involved destructive mechanical testing. In this study, it was hypothesized that the response to a vibrational stimulus could estimate the shear strength at the bone-implant interface as measured by pushout. A derived model predicts that the square of the frequency at resonance is linearly related to this interfacial strength. It was further hypothesized that the level of vibration required for a meaningful response would not be destructive. This study was done using nonloaded, porous coated cylindrical implants which were press fit in the distal femora of dogs. Femora were harvested at 2, 4, and 6 weeks postimplantation. The implants were sectioned into 4-mm slices and then evaluated by vibration, pushout, and light microscopy. Vibrational response analysis was conducted with broad band random excitation using Fast Fourier transform signal analysis. Pushout values were obtained using a materials testing machine. The resulting correlation was statistically significant (F = 201, r2 = 0.90, p < 10−6). Light microscopic evaluation of vibrated samples showed no difference at the bone-implant interface when compared to controls.


The difficulties can be quite varied depending on the choice of the set X, the space B and the family ,̂ and over the years this question has given rise to a very rieh body of knowledge. In the present article we shall be concerned with two variants of the general approximation problem whose origins can, in retrospect, be traced back to the seminal ideas of Weierstrass and Runge. Of particular interest here are situations that occur when X is either the entire real line P or a bounded simply connected domain Ω and & is the set of all complex analytic polynomials. In each of these settings we have the framework for a problem that has been widely studied and which is closely related to a number of important questions in various parts of analysis. Our main objective is to extend certain well-known theorems from the line to the planar context and in so doing we shall draw heavily from three areas. They are:


In order to solve the problem of data omissions and low efficiency caused by artificial operation in the process of traditional chemical equipment inspection,on the basis of the analysis of business process,a chemical equipment inspection system is designed and implemented by using the RFID as the main data acquisition technology.This system uses four layer architecture of J2EE which implements the separation of business logic and data.The chemical equipment inspection and maintenance management can be completed efficiently and conveniently by using this system.


Experimental measurements show that Internet traffic exhibits self-similarity and long-range dependence (LRD). A delicate issue is the estimation of traffic statistical quantities that characterize self-similarity and LRD, such as the Hurst parameter H. In this paper, we propose to use the modified Allan variance (MAVAR), a well-known time-domain tool originally studied for frequency stability characterization, for estimating the power-law spectrum and thus the H parameter of LRD traffic time series. This novel method is validated by comparison with one of the most widely adopted algorithms for analyzing LRD traffic: the log-scale diagram technique, based on wavelet analysis. Both methods are applied to a pseudo-random data series, generated with known values of H. MAVAR exhibits outstanding accuracy in estimating H, better than the classical log-scale method. Finally, both techniques are applied to a real IP traffic trace, providing a further example of the capabilities of MAVAR.


It is assumed that the reaction proceeds via a tandem process of carbon dioxide incorporation into propargylic alcohols and subsequent hydrolysis.


Ten esotropic patients with near/distance disparity and diminished vision in one eye had monocular horizontal strabismus surgery combined with a posterior fixation suture placed on the medial rectus. Before surgery, all patients were at least 20 prism diopters (delta) more esotropic at near than at distance fixation. The disparity in the near/distance deviation was reduced by 18 delta.