The quantitative analysis of Zhoushan tourism region and its communication region based on the theory of tourism regional zone shows that the present regional position of marine tourism in Zhoushan has not formed a greater attraction to the major tourism market in China. In order to become a nation-wide tourist destination, Zhoushan tourism must reconstruct its industrial position and great effort should be made to establish the "island tourist scenic spots". Therefore, the space layout of Zhoushan marine tourism should change its original single mode to multiple mode, from competitive mode to cooperation and development mode.


For SDN hybrid network topology, this paper builds a relationship model of SDN hybrid network flow and capacity based on cross entropy, and makes quantitative analysis and simulation about packet arrival rate normalized probability transmitted by the OpenFlow switches on the ith link. Seen from the results of the analysis, the probability can be up to 66.17%, and this arrival rate of packets can not be improved only by increasing the total cost of network operation or the average length of packet. The analysis results are of important reference for the packet arrival rate normalized probability to apply in LAN of hybrid SDN network and performance optimization.


The problem is outlined of finding a place for healing within medicine in general, and psychiatry in particular. The experience of trauma as a necessary concomitant of human life is discussed. Defence mechanisms are identified, protecting against psychic pain but at the cost of wholeness of being. The therapeutic task of approaching trauma from a psychospiritual standpoint is summarized and, since spirituality is a profound source of healing, it is argued that taking a spiritual history should be intrinsic to good practice. Where the opportunity arises, further exploration of spirituality becomes a powerful therapeutic tool. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This study aims to describe students' mastery of concepts in solving misconceptions in biology subjects. The sample used is grade 12 students majoring in science  and using purposive sampling as a sampling technique. The instrument used is in the form of open test questions containing misconceptions that have been validated by 2 experts and are considered valid because they come from a collection of misconceptions with ISBNs. Data analysis used in this study is the CRI technique. The results of the analysis of the research data can be concluded that the level of understanding of students through their CRI analysis is at a level > 2.5 with the category of misconceptions. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that grade 12 science students have very low mastery of concepts that trigger misconceptions so that it is necessary to review certain concepts that have been studied.


In microbial research, the heterogeneity phenomenon is closely associated with microbial physiology in multiple dimensions. For now, A few studies were proposed in transcriptome and proteome analysis to discover the heterogeneity among single cells. However, microbial single cell metabolomics has not been possible yet. Herein, we developed a method, RespectM, based on discontinuous mass spectrometry imaging, which can detect more than 700 metabolites at a rate of 500 cells per hour. While ensuring the high throughput of RespectM, it integrates matrix sublimation, QC-based peak filtering, and batch correction strategies to improve accuracy. The results show that RespectM can distinguish single microbial cells from the blank matrix with an accuracy of 98.4%, depending on classification algorithms. Furthermore, to verify the accuracy of RespectM for distinguishing different single cells, we performed a classification test on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii single cells among allelic strains. The results showed an accuracy of 93.1%, which provides RespectM with enough confidence to perform microbial single cell metabolomics analysis. As we expected, untreated microbial cells will spontaneously undergo metabolic grouping coherence with genetic and biochemical similarities. Interestingly, the pseudo-time analysis also provided intuitive evidence on the metabolic dimension, indicating the cell grouping is based on microbial population heterogeneity. We believe that the RespectM can offer a powerful tool in the microbial study. Researchers can now directly analyze the changes in microbial metabolism at a single-cell level with high efficiency.


Leadership is an extremely complex topic and one that has been written about from a variety of perspectives. In this article we argue that understanding leadership in extreme situations can bring into much clearer relief the success factors, contingencies, and interdependencies involved in less dangerous contexts faced by executives and other key decision makers. Insights from the study of in extremis leadership can help researchers and practitioners understand the individual, team and contextual factors that influence leadership and ultimately organizational efficiency and effectiveness The objective of the paper is to review the existing literature in dangerous situations and to propose a multi-constituency framework for understanding key dimensions of leadership in extreme situations that exert enormous stress on the acting persons because they have to face physical damage or death to themselves, their companions, or third parties. Our theoretical, conceptual contribution, then, is aimed primarily at developing an awareness of the complexity of such leadership contexts, at supporting the advance of current leadership theory by highlighting important contingencies, and by formulating key propositions for future research.


The online measurement of the metal surfaces' parameters plays an important role in many industrial fields. Because the surfaces of the machined metal pieces have the characteristics of strong reflection and high possibilities of scattered disturbing irradiation points, this paper designs an online measurement system based on the measurement principles of linear structured light to detect whether the parameters of the machined metal surfaces' height difference and inclination fulfill the compliance requirements, in which the grayscale gravity algorithm is applied to extract the sub-pixel coordinates of the center of laser, the least squares method is employed to fit the data and the Pauta criterion is utilized to remove the spurious points. The repeat accuracy of this system has been tested. The experimental results prove that the precision of inclination is 0.046° RMS under the speed of 40mm/sec, and the precision of height difference is 0.072mm RMS, which meets the design expectations. Hence, this system can be applied to online industrial detection of high speed and high precision.


Symposium "Beyond Montesquieu: Re-thinking the architecture of contemporary governance": The internet needs new types of legal ordering, which are adapted to selfregulation and the rapid transformation of knowledge and social norms. Data protection, public investigation, "social media" and financial markets challenge the classical orientation of the legal system towards individual behaviour. The new "addressees" of law are networks as quasi-subjects. New regimes of proceduralisation can structure the development of a "netfriendly" paradigm of a law beyond the individual. The article tries to demonstrate the feasibility of such a model with reference to the above-mentioned challenges. A. Preliminary Remarks This article looks at the reasons for the lack of a discussion on "network oriented" media and internet law. The Internet has fundamentally changed the conditions of communication.1 It has broken down or undermined all borders between formats, individual and mass communication, communication content, and technologies of * University Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Hamburg Faculty of Law. Bremen Research Professor, University of Bremen, Bremen Graduate School in the Social Sciences [BIGSSS]. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com 1 See YOCHAI BENKLER, THE WEALTH OF NETWORKS (Yale UP, 2006); CLAY SHIRKY, HERE COMES EVERYBODY: THE POWER OF ORGANIZING WITHOUT ORGANIZATION (Penguin Books 2009); LAWRENCE LESSIG, CODE AND OTHER LAWS OF CYBERSPACE (Basic Books 2006), who describe the new logic of the internet as not only a new means of communication.


Unlike many other engineering materials, deformational behaviour of fabrics is marked by specific nonlinearities. For the purpose of certain engineering analyses, nonlinearity can be approximately described by means of appropriate models. A number of possibilities in approximation of tensile nonlinearity are statistically analysed and compared for the representative selection of woven fabrics. Second-order parabolic approximation is estimated to combine simplicity and good accuracy for a selected woven fabric. It is then included into deformational analysis of specimen in asymmetric tensile loading, as the case representative for structural application of textile, where geometric conditions combined with material properties define the mechanical behaviour of the body. The results indicate the factors of stress concentration due to load eccentricity. Simulation of tensile test gives the theoretical prediction of apparent reduction in stiffness and strength of the specimen in terms of the load eccentricity.


Food industry affects wellbeing and society. Food selection of customers challenges the survival of food business. Xenophilia (people's attraction to that which is foreign) of several Vietnamese groups caused difficulties for market competition of Vietnamese companies. The objectives of this research were to identify factors and assess their impacts on food selection of Vietnamese customers. Patriotism, food safety concern, product information, price strategy, marketing, and consumers' preferences were found as determinant for food selection. We also suggested practical solutions for Vietnam's government and companies in identification of customers' demands and business policy and strategy development to improve competitiveness of Vietnamese products that promotes local food market.


Has been noticed a decline in students' interest in learning science. It is necessary, therefore, an implementation of teaching strategies that enable students to understand the usefulness of learning science and relevance of scientific knowledge. Given the unquestionable importance of pedagogical integration of technology, the design of digital learning resources can be relevant to motivate and encourage the involvement of young people in the construction of learning. It is this philosophy that fits PROFILES European project, and its predecessor PARSEL. This paper will present the basic principles of these projects, also referring to the potential of inquiry in the teaching and learning of science. In close connection with the inquiry and educational technology this paper also presents two examples of digital educational resources, developed by us, to enhance the learning of science, more effective and meaningful for students.


Automatic methods for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have been shown to produce state-of-the-art network models. Yet, their main drawback is the computational complexity of the search process. As some primal methods optimized over a discrete search space, thousands of days of GPU were required for convergence. A recent approach is based on constructing a differentiable search space that enables gradient-based optimization, which reduces the search time to a few days. While successful, it still includes some noncontinuous steps, e.g., the pruning of many weak connections at once. In this paper, we propose a differentiable search space that allows the annealing of architecture weights, while gradually pruning inferior operations. In this way, the search converges to a single output network in a continuous manner. Experiments on several vision datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with respect to the search cost and accuracy of the achieved model. Specifically, with $0.2$ GPU search days we achieve an error rate of $1.68\%$ on CIFAR-10.


Children who are actively reading constitute a fundamental and integral part of the library system. Consequently, they grow up to be adults who are actively reading. Therefore, most public libraries focus primarily on children. This article illustrates the focus on children and the improvements that Taichung City Cultural Affairs Bureau has been recently implementing. Some of these improvements are special, while others include book drive-through, enticing decorative environments, the creation of "Fun Fun ABC", and reading programs for pre-school children.


Muratori and Maestro (2007, this issue) lay out fundamental issues by highlighting the importance of looking at early signs of autism, essential for early intervention, and by combining the most recent and relevant psychological and neuropsychological approaches to the syndrome. In accordance with Muratori and Maestro, we start from the recent definition of 'shared intentionality' to stress the importance of differentiating the ability to share intentions (neural representation), which has recently been reported to be deficient in autism, from the intention/motivation to share experiences. Intersubjectivity requires both in order to let interpersonal experiences become part of a 'dialogical self'. An inability to understand social interactions, in addition to other cognitive impairments, might lead to an impoverished and distorted internal dialogue, resulting in an incapacity to satisfy the preserved desire to share. Muratori and Maestro (2007, this issue) do the field of autism research a great service by highlighting how in combination, cognitive (or representational) impairments and affective (a motivation or capacity to share attention) impairments help explain why individuals with autism are not fully able to deal with social interaction. Many recent neurodevelopmental models do emphasize that the developmental and behavioural impairments shown by individuals with autism cannot be explained by cognitive deficits alone [whether in theory of mind, executive function, central coherence or other cognitive processes (for a review, see Burack,Charman, Yirmiya, & Zelazo, 2001)], but instead by a combination of factors that altogether are responsible for development of the disorder. As mentioned by Muratori and Maestro (2007, this issue), an interesting recent explanation is that the social impairments seen in children with autism reflect a disturbance in the mechanism that normally draws infants' attention to social stimuli and social interactions (Mundy & Neal, 2001; Tomasello, Carpenter, Call, Behne, & Moll, 2005). According to the recent literature the developmental foundations for interpersonal AUTHORS' NOTE. Please address correspondence about this article to Livia Colle, Center for Cognitive Science, University and Polytechnic of Turin, Department of Psychology, Via Po 14, 10123 Torino, Italy. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


Ceramic-polymer nanocomposites with high dielectric constant and energy density are becoming increasingly attractive in modern electronic and electric industry. However, the breakdown strength of composites was usually largely reduced due to the unstable interfacial interaction between ceramic filler and polymer matrix. In this study, the flexible nanocomposites comprising dopamine encapsulated BaTiO3 nanofibers (BTnfs) with a large aspect ratio prepared via electrospinning as fillers and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) as matrix were fabricated by a solution casting method. The obtained nanocomposites displayed desirable dielectric properties and storage energy density with their loss tangents suppressed at low values. The energy density of the nanocomposites was significantly enhanced, and the maximal energy density of 0.0035 J/cm3 was obtained in the composite material containing 10 vol% modified BTnfs, which is more than doubled as compared with the pure PVDF. Our strategy provides a simple and effective way to prepare high performance flexible dielectric composite capacitors with high storage density.


The deep learning arena explores new dimensions once considered impossible to human intelligence. Recently, it has taken footsteps in the biological data world to deal with the diverse patterns of data derived from biomolecules. The convolutional neural networks, one of the most employed and persuasive deep learning architectures, can unravel the sequestered truths from these data, especially from the biological sequences. These neural network variants outperform traditional bioinformatics tools for the enduring tasks associated with such sequences.

This work imparts an exciting preface to the basics of convolutional neural network architecture and how it can be instrumented to deal with biological sequence analysis.

The approach followed in this paper can provide the reader with an enhanced view of convolutional neural networks, their basic working principles and how they apply to biological sequences

A detailed view of critical steps involved in deep learning, starting from the data preprocessing, architecture designing, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation metrics, are portrayed. A comparative analysis of convolutional neural network architectures developed for protein family classification is also discussed.

This review contributes significantly to understanding the concepts behind deep learning architectures and their applications in biological sequence analysis. It can lift the barrier of limited knowledge to a great extent on the deep learning concepts and their implementation, especially for people who are dealing with pure biology.


Purpose To synthesize block copolymer Poly (ethylene glycol)-block-Poly (L-lysine) (PEG-b-PLL), to prepare the PEG-b-PLL and pDNA self-assemble nano-complex and to investigate the potential of the self-assemble nano-complex as a novel gene delivery carrier. Methods The block copolymers PEG-b-PZLL were synthesized by the ring-opening polymerization of Lys (z)-NCA onto amine-terminated PEG, and then by acidolysis to remove benzyloxycarbonyl to obtain PEG-b-PLL. The PEG-b-PLL and pDNA self-assemble into nano-complex through electrostatic interactions between the negative phosphates along the pDNA backbone and positive charges displayed on PLL. The properties were evaluated. Results The obtained pDNA loaded PEG-b-PLL nano-complexes were approximately spherical in shape with average particle size of (150.3±5.5)nm and Zeta potentials of (-15.82±2.34)mv. The nano-complex could protect pDNA from plasma and nuclease degradation in vitro. It showed a low cytotoxicity to HepG2 cells and the results of the gene transfection experiment in vitro suggested that the self-assemble nano-complex could transfer the loaded gene into HepG2 cells, and the gene could express well inside the cells. Conclusion pDNA loaded PEG-b-PLL self-assemble nano-complex could be prepared easily with excellent characteristics and would be a promising non-viral gene vectors.


Under the guidance of Chinese education,the paper concerns the relationship between the individual and the parole,and furthermore according to the difference of the existence forms in the activity of the human's parole,advances the new idea of"three types of porale's world",but also points out the inevitable relations between"three types of porale's world"and Chinese education.In order to construct"the parole's world owned by oneself subjectively",Chinese education must start with"the parole's world owned by oneself subjectively",and not only "the parole's world in the present society"is a prerequisite for or a background of Chinese education,but also"the parole's world in the classic text objectively"is the best scientific and the most efficient way.With this basis,"the art of extending"must become a found mental form in the course of Chinese teaching.


Abstract
Title: The Social Construction of Crisis: constructed realities of employees at Scandinavian Airlines as they face organizational change
Seminar Date: 3 June 2008
Course: (BUSM18) Thesis Degree Project, Managing People, Knowledge and Change
Authors: Andrew Donham and Abdul Al Mukit
Advisor: Tony Huzzard
Company: SAS Ground Service of SAS Group AB
Five key words: Social Construction, Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, Organizational Development, Change Management
Purpose: Explore the socially constructed reality found among employees of SGS at Malmo Airport with respect to the preparatory stage of Strategy 2011 Change Program
Methodology: Abductive approach is taken following a postmodernist, poststructuralist meta-theoretical frame of reference
Theoretical perspective: Social construction is explored as a process interconnecting discourse, understanding and identity. Empirical foundation: Empirical sources include internal corporate text communications as well as print media. Face-to-face interviews with organizational members from management, union and worker levels of the organization were also conducted. Conclusion: Though the value is apparent in managing through an interpretive sense, findings illustrate the difficulty in doing so, based on the ambiguous nature of meaning making in management.


By depositing a superconductor on gapped graphene (graphene grown on SiC substrate), the motion of quasiparticles in this superconductor is explained by the massive Dirac equation. In this paper, we study the spin dependent transport properties of graphene-based ferromagnetic/insulator/superconductor (FIS) junction and graphene-based ferromagnetic/ferromagnetic barrier/superconductor (FFBS) junction in which only the superconducting region is deposited on the gapped graphene and the other graphene regions are gapless. We found that in the graphene-based FIS junction and in the thin barrier approximation, by opening the energy gap in the superconducting region, the charge conductance is an oscillatory function of barrier strength (χG), despite the large Fermi energy mismatch between ferromagnetic and superconductor regions. As an important result, we analytically obtained that for the normal incident of charge carriers, this junction is not totally transparent. This means that the second characteristic of ...


Offshore building structures are buildings commonly used for oil and gas exploitation activities. The distance is quite far from the coastal area, it is necessary to support transportation facilities for the mobility of offshore structures such as ships and helicopters. To support this mobilization activity, a helicopter landing medium is needed, namely the helideck. This study aims to identify the shock loads that occur on the helideck and calculate the strength of the helideck santos sangu PT.McDermott Indonesia. This study used data from PT.McDermott Indonesia on one of the projects located in Block 16, Bangladesh. The helicopter data used in this study was a jet-A1 type helicopter with a maximum weight of 5307 Kg. The results showed that the value of the helicopter dynamic load on a normal landing was 10348.65 Kg with a working stress of 62163.41 N/mm2 and had an interaction ratio (IR) = 0.35, while for an emergency landing the dynamic load was 1724.75 Kg, the working stress was 103606.45 N/mm2, interaction ratio (IR)= 0.59.


As part of research into the introduction of web scraped data sources in consumer price index measurement, the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics has conducted some research to investigate the potential impact of these data on item-level indices. This paper is an investigation into approximate weight allocation methods for the products used in the calculation of an item's index. Alternative data sources, such as web scraped data and point of sale scanner data, are becoming more commonly available and have potential to improve consumer price indices through more frequent data collection, increased coverage and larger sample sizes. However, the main drawback with web scraped data is that, since all prices are scraped, calculating an unweighted index at the lowest level of aggregation means more popular items would not have enough influence on the index. Unweighted indices may not be representative of consumer spending if the prices of less popular products behave differently to those of more popular products. In the absence of product-level expenditure or quantity information, we have investigated various methods for approximately assigning weights to products, including deriving weights from the product position on a web page or the market share. Geometric Laspeyres indices are calculated from these derived weights, such that their behaviour can be compared to the unweighted Jevons index calculated from the same data source. Further analysis considers how the difference in behaviour between items should be considered; does the market distribution indicate the existence of a market leader or is there perfect competition? Investigating the use of approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data in consumer price indices 20/04/2019 Office for National Statistics 2


Abstract Using secondary data analysis, this study compares alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems experienced by African-American students attending a historically Black university who use alcohol only versus those who use alcohol plus marijuana. Results indicate that students who used marijuana plus alcohol experienced more AOD problems than their counterparts who used alcohol only. The current findings are similar to previous research with a majority White college student population.


This article describes second language uses of Internet communication tools, Web environments, and online gaming, and critically reviews existing research and emerging technologies representing diverse pedagogical conditions in three distinct computer-mediated configurations: (1) instructed and institutional intraclass discussion and interclass partnerships, (2) transcultural partnerships and structured participation in "open" Internet environments, and (3) interaction in ongoing Internet-mediated environments that include popular culture blogs and Web sites, fanfiction communities, language and/or culture communities, and online games. We propose that a critical-and-constructive appraisal of existing and emerging digital media, communicative genres, literacy practices, and the communities made possible through them, can help to forge more responsive, and more ecologically responsible, language-learning opportunities for students who are expected to navigate increasingly mediated social and professional worlds.


Hardware improvement of cybernetic human HRP-4C for entertainment is presented in this paper. We coined the word "Cybernetic Human" to explain a humanoid robot with a realistic head and a realistic figure of a human being. HRP-4C stands for Humanoid Robotics Platform-4 (Cybernetic human). Its joints and dimensions conform to average values of young Japanese females and HRP-4C looks very human-like. We have made HRP-4C present in several events to search for a possibility of use in the entertainment industry. Based on feedback from our experience, we improved its hardware. The new hand, the new foot with active toe joint, and the new eye with camera are introduced.


The environment may affect the forensic drug evidences in crime scene and is able to produce impurities, which contain vital information for tracing their origin of manufacture and can be used to provide link in crime scene investigation. In this work the response of forensic drug flunitrazepam to the UV irradiation was investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. We found the substantial change in GC pattern involving multiple GC peaks, indicating the complex reaction of degradation in flunitrazepam upon UV irradiation. GCMS analysis identified one of the GC components to be amino-flunitrazepam. The new GC peaks and the GC pattern change may serve as "chemical signatures" of flunitrazepam. Such information may promote the identification of the forensic drug flunitrazepam as a "chemical fingerprint" in forensic sciences.


There is a dispute over whether COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu Disease mortality does not have to be a parameter that correctly describes the threat Sometimes population mortality does it better However this parameter can be calculated after all and does not help to prevent spread of new disease such as COVID-19 Unfortunately, the IFR for influenza is difficult to calculate Nevertheless, this study makes such an attempt for the USA This was possible in the case of the USA because it is a country that monitors both diseases relatively well According to these data, the estimated IFR (infection fatality rate) for COVID-19 was approximately 15 times higher than for influenza, whereas CFR (case fatality rate) was approximately 60 times for COVID-19 than for flu


All known frequency weighting systems for evaluating the effects of noise on speech discrimination will be reviewed and evaluated. These will include the articulation index (AI); the speech interference level (SIL); speech, noise, and alternate noise contours (SC, NC, NCA); the speech transmission index (STI) and modulation transfer function (MTF). Also there will be a discussion of the problems associated with measuring speech level (vocal effort) and with measuring those aspects of noise that affect talking and/or listening levels and the discriminability of spoken language. It has been found that the equivalent noise level (Leq) measured in dB(A) is a good measure of the effects of time varying noise on speech intelligibility (discrimination). Therefore it will be suggested that the A‐weighted level of noise, which is not the best speech interference measure for steady‐state wideband noises, may be the best simple comprehensive measure of the speech interfering aspects of noise.


of other elements and also about the same amount more positive than that of the emitting hydrogen atoms. It is of interest that self-reversal of the hydrogen emission lines has been previously found in two high-velocity semiregular variable stars, AG Aurigae and WY Andromedae, and also in the peculiar cepheid, W Virginis. The structure of the Hb line reported by Abt in W Virginis at some phases is, in fact, quite similar to that found in T Centauri at Ha. Since the lightcurve of T Centauri shows marked variations in the depth of minimum, and since its mean visual range is quite small, about 2.1 magnitudes, it seems that this variable is in several respects more similar to other types of variable stars than to typical Miratype stars of longer period.


The destabilisation of a double-stranded DNA fragment, which results when substitution of a single nucleotide introduces a G · T base pair, is determined from an equilibrium monitored using imino proton resonances in the n.m.r. spectrum in H2O.


Nowadays, medicine is following an exponential curve in scientific knowledge, but things are not very optimistic from the perspective of patients because many diseases are discovered too late by doctors. Over time, the predictions have proven to be very important and useful in various fields such as medicine, industry, politics, marketing. Therefore, this paper describes an artificial neural network that can help doctors in predicting coronary heart disease using the symptomatic information and laboratory analysis of patients. At the end of this study, the accuracy of the neural network (84.73%) proves that it can be a reliable tool, able to support the physician's decisions. The implementation of the neural network was performed in the Matlab platform using Neural Networks Toolbox and Matlab language.


Analysis and systematisation of modern scientific knowledge in the context of assessment of effectiveness allows making a conclusion that objectivity of an assessment directly depends on the level of sufficiency of assessment criteria, which could be defined as the degree of referentiality of a set of consecutively built properties, which do not correlate with each other. The specified problems require solution in the form of development and systematisation of criteria of assessment of effectiveness of the system of corporate management, which is proposed to perform by means of combining quantitative, qualitative and cost approaches to assessment of effectiveness and realisation of their predicative model of managerial decision making. This would allow formation of strategic measures on optimisation of the system of corporate management depending on the rank of the obtained mark of effectiveness.


One base asphalt and four modified asphalts were selected to conduct steady flow and static creep tests at high temperatures,respectively.By fitting the testing data with the rheological models,the zero shear viscosity(ZSV) values of asphalt binders were obtained to do a deep analysis.The results show that the steady flow test may express the steady flow states of the asphalt binders,and the ZSV value fitted from this test,which is correlated significantly with the dynamic viscosity at 60℃,is able to better evaluate the high-temperature properties of the base asphalt and some modified asphalts,but it can not accurately describe the outstanding rut resistance of the high-strength modified asphalts.The ZSV values of the modified asphalts fitted with the data from these two kinds of tests diverse from each other,among which the fitting results from the static creep tests are obviously smaller,indicating that the modified asphalts fail to enter into steady flow state,and the longer creep times will be required to obtain the accurate ZSV values of the modified asphalts.


The 1995 version of nuclear data sheets for A=196 has been revised. The experimental data for all known nuclei of A=196 (Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Po, At, Rn) have been reevaluated. Summary band structure drawings and level schemes from both radioactive decay and reaction studies are presented. Associated spectroscopic data and adopted properties for levels and γ rays are given in tables. Also of special interest are the new identification of a superdeformed band and of a two-particle-two-hole-intruder state in196Pb.


This course offers a survey of theory and empirical research in psychology and law. Throughout the course we will examine the implications of psychological theory and research for legal theory and for a variety of policies, procedures, and practices within the legal system. The course will draw on research in social, cognitive, and clinical psychology to examine evidence law (e.g., eyewitness testimony, polygraphy, expert testimony), procedure (e.g., line-ups, trial conduct, jury selection, settlement negotiations), and various topics in criminal law, tort law, antidiscrimination law, family law, and other areas. We will also address the concepts of intent, responsibility, deterrence, retribution, racial bias, and procedural and distributive justice.


Two-component interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) of the SIN type (simultaneous interpenetrating networks) were prepared from two different polyurethanes (a polyester type and a polyether type) and a polyacrylate of two different crosslink densities. The linear polymers and prepolymers were combined in solution, together with crosslinking agents and catalysts, films cast, and subsequently chain extended and crosslinked in situ. In all cases, maxima in tensile strengths significantly higher than the tensile strengths of component networks occurred. This was explained by an increase in crosslink density due to interpenetration.


Intelligent transportation is the future direction of traffic, and the video-based vehicle detection and tracking is one of the key technologies. Traffic condition is affected by climate, light and other factors, its changes are very complex so as to affect the effect of vehicle detection. The paper puts forward a background reconstruction algorithm of dynamic updating. Through comparing the current frame with background frame, the method obtains the dynamic frame of continuous changes to build new background image, and then to achieve dynamic-updating background. And according to the background obtained, the method detects moving targets with background subtraction and it will be applied to video-vehicle detection. Experimental results show that the algorithm is very fast for reconstruction and has achieved good results in the video vehicle detection.


Nasal bone fracture accounts for approximately 40% of faciomaxillary bone fractures. The presentation and the management issues are simple yet varied. However, there is no universally accepted classification for such fractures and only physical examination cannot determine the complexity of these fractures. This leads to a clinical dilemma in selecting the appropriate management. Classifying nasal bone fractures with respect to the force sustained and fractures detected radiologically can provide insight to appropriate management. Michael Lee's classification on nasal bone fracture has been adopted for the patients in our region. This has been correlated with type of injury, duration of presentation and management issues. As no such study in this aspect is available, our study intends to throw new light in the management of nasal bone fracture.


The equivalent Dang Van stress under Hertzian contacts is evaluated over the subsurface space using four computational approaches. The accuracy and computational efficiency of the different models is assessed. It is found that an approach consisting in finding the minimum circumscribed hypersphere to the deviatoric stress path in time gives a good trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. It is also shown that a very computationally cheap approximation employing half the peak Tresca shear stress results in good agreements in the entire subsurface space for conditions relevant under wheelrail contacts.


This article presents a case study of the use of digital video technology with a new pedagogical approach under a constructivist framework in an elementary school foreign language methods course. Data were collected through interviews with the methods course instructor, field notes, analytical notes from videotaped student presentations of their learning from the video clips, students' mid-semester evaluation of the use of video clips, and end-of-semester student reflections on open-ended questions regarding the use of video clips. A careful examination of the data identified themes that illustrate the characteristics of the use of digital video technology under a constructivist framework. Those themes include the flexibility and capability of digital video technology, the development of the video clips, students' ownership of knowledge, feedback from the students, and evaluation of the use of video clips. This case reports the vision of technology integration being realized. It results from the presence of technology, the instructor's pedagogical knowledge, and his or her content expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]


: The interest in the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been well documented. Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) studies in CAM are critical for paving the way for intervention efforts to raise awareness. The aim was to measure the knowledge and attitudes of adults and to identify the factors associated with the use and practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. An observational cross-sectional, community-based, and multi-center study was conducted. After receiving consent, data were collected using a Google form-based online questionnaire. Most of the participants (82.5%) preferred to use CAM in combination with conventional medicine. The most common health problems were menstrual pain (49.5%) and abdominal pain (24.5%). The commonly used CAM remedies in this study were honey (65%) and Zamzam (Believed to be blessed holy water in the Islamic faith) (59.6%). The common causes given by the participants for preferring CAM remedies were because they were natural products (34%) and also avoiding the side effects of drugs (33.5%). Participants younger than 18 were the most supportive age group. Honey was the most chosen modality, contrary to the findings of the Qassim study. It was found that the common cold was the commonest reason for CAM use in the study's population , whereas in the Bahrain study diabetes mellitus was the reason. In conclusion, awareness about CAM was remarkably high among the participants of this study. A high proportion of respondents prefer to use CAM along with traditional medicines. The high proportion use of CAM encountered in this study was remarkable for the health education that addresses both advantages and drawbacks of CAM. Proper scientific research into safety and effectiveness is needed.


Underlying metaphysical doctrines and value systems upon which various religions are constructed, tribal or otherwise, act as primary pathways upon which religious conversion takes place. In other words, the initiate must recognize an underlying truth within the new sign system from the established system of signs comprising their own value paradigm, that is known as culture. The focus of this study is the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Formally, perhaps the only cannibalistic tribe having its own system of writing and divination, the Batak resisted conversion to Islam by Acehnese to the north for several hundred years, yet many were converted to Christianity quite willingly during the 19th century. This marked the beginning of a conversion process still going on to this day. Today, most of the approximately 1.5 million Batak are either Catholic or Protestant. There are, however, still many who maintain practices from the old religion, adat, as well as a minority particularly in the southern Batak lands who have converted to Islam either from Christianity or from the original animist religion. Such conversions and shifts between religious and cultural paradigms still occur quite frequently in the region to this day. Therefore, the Batak region is an ideal place to study the inherent metaphysical mechanisms involved in the process of such paradigm shifts and conversion. Furthermore, in all Batak regions, elements of the adat are maintained simultaneously with the newer monotheistic religions. Key Words : meta-religious symbology , religious and cultural paradigms


Summary Determinations of red cell volume using radiochromium 51 tagged red cells have been made in normal and tourniquet shocked rats using varied mixing times. Red cell volume determinations were significantly reproducible in the normal rat using mixing times of from 5 to 30 minutes. A 15 minute mixing time in the tourniquet shocked rats allowed significantly reproducible determinations of the red cell volume.


Active cameras provide a navigating vehicle with the ability to fixate and track features over extended periods of time, and wide fields of view. While it is relatively straightforward to apply fixating vision to tactical, short-term navigation tasks, using serial fixation on a succession of features to provide global information for strategic navigation is more involved. However, active vision is seemingly well-suited to this task: the ability to measure features over such a wide range means that the same ones can be used as a robot makes a wide range of movements. This has advantages for map-building and localisation. The core work of this thesis concerns simultaneous localisation and map-building for a robot with a stereo active head, operating in an unknown environment and using point features in the world as visual landmarks. Importance has been attached to producing maps which are useful for extended periods of navigation. Many map-building methods fail on extended runs because they do not have the ability to recognise previously visited areas as such and adjust their maps accordingly. With active cameras, it really is possible to re-detect features in an area previously visited, even if the area is not passed through along the original trajectory. Maintaining a large, consistent map requires detailed information to be stored about features and their relationships. This information is computationally expensive to maintain, but a sparse map of landmark features can be handled successfully. We also present a method which can dramatically increase the efficiency of updates in the case that repeated measurements are made of a single feature, permitting continuous real-time tracking of features irrespective of the total map size. Active sensing requires decisions to be made about where resources can best be applied. A strategy is developed for serially fixating on different features during navigation, making the measurements where most information will be gained to improve map and localisation estimates. A useful map is automatically maintained by adding and deleting features to and from the map when necessary. What sort of tasks should an autonomous robot be able to perform? In most applications, there will be at least some prior information or commands governing the required motion and we will look at how this information can be incorporated with map-building techniques designed for unknown environments. We will make the distinction between position-based navigation, and so-called context-based navigation, where a robot manoeuvres with respect to locally observed parts of the surroundings. A fully automatic, real-time implementation of the ideas developed is presented, and a variety of detailed and extended experiments in a realistic environment are used to evaluate algorithms and make ground-truth comparisons. 1


The article considers the university complex as a cluster of innovative development of educational and social spheres in a region. The innovative structure of the complex and basic directions of strategic partners' activity are revealed.


BACKGROUND
Qualitative methods were used to better understand how to obtain interviewer-administered recalls of physical activity from children.

METHODS
Subjects were 24 third- and fifth-grade children from 1 school in Columbia, South Carolina. Cognitive interviews targeted different retention intervals (about the same or previous school day). Round 1's protocols used an open format and had 4 phases (obtain free recall, review free recall, obtain details, review details). Round 2's protocols used a chronological format and had 3 phases (obtain free recall, obtain details, review details). Trained coders identified discrepancies across interview phases in children's recalls of physical activity at physical education (PE) and recess. Based on the school's schedule, children's reports of PE and recess were classified as omissions (scheduled but unreported) or intrusions (unscheduled but reported).

RESULTS
Across interview phases, there were numerous discrepancies for Round 1 (regardless of grade, sex, or retention interval) but few discrepancies for Round 2. For Rounds 1 and 2, respectively, 0% and 0% of children omitted PE, while 33% and 0% intruded PE; 44% and 56% of children omitted recess, while 33% and 0% intruded recess.

CONCLUSIONS
Results provide important information for facilitating interviewer-administered recalls of physical activity with elementary-age children.


We have performed the Fourier decomposition analysis of 11-yr V-band light curves of a carefully selected sample of 100 RR Lyrae variables, detected in the central regions of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), with the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, phases II and III. The sample consisted of 84 fundamental mode pulsators (RRab stars) and 16 first-overtone pulsators (RRc stars). The Fourier decomposition parameters were used to derive metal abundances and distance moduli for these RR Lyrae variables. The average metal abundance of the RRab stars on the new scale of Carretta et al. is found to be 〈[Fe/H] C09 〉 = ―1.62 ± 0.41 dex (std, with a standard error of 0.05 dex). The distance modulus of the SMC was found to be 〈μ〉 = 18.90 ± 0.18 (std) from the RRab population in a distance scale where the distance modulus of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is μ LMC = 18.52 ± 0.06 (std). The 1σ line-of-sight depth for the RRab stars was found to be σ int = 4.13 ± 0.27 kpc, in good agreement with that estimated from red clump stars and eclipsing binaries. There is a clear indication that the metal-poorer and metal-richer objects in the sample may belong to different dynamical structures. The metal-rich stars have smaller scaleheight and could be part of a disc-like structure, while the more metal poor objects could be part of a much thicker structure, such as an inner halo or a bulge component.


Abstract: This chapter addresses the analytical methods of the whirl flutter investigation. It describes both the basic and advanced analytical models of whirl flutter. First, the fundamental solution using two-degrees-of-freedom model and a rigid propeller is provided, and the influences of the major structural parameters are described. Then, the fundamental solutions of the propeller aerodynamic forces and the influences of the main aerodynamic parameters are described using Strip Theory. Next, the more complex mechanical models, such as the four-degrees-of-freedom model including wing flexibility or a model including blade flexibility with hinged blades or twisted blades, are described. Then, the more complex solution of the propeller aerodynamic forces is described using the lifting surface theory. The final part of the chapter addresses the comprehensive computational models utilising the experimental modal data, multi-body simulations or the CFD-based simulations.


Chitosan and CMC as biopolymers and ecofriendly compounds were self-assembled to form 3-dimensional network and hybrid with ZnO nanoparticles, CS/ZnO-CMC/CaCl2 was used as a carrier for in-vitro release of 5-FU as a drug model depending on pH sensitivity emulated to the human gastrointestinal medium. The drug loading capacity and entrapment efficiency were investigated. Swelling behavior of the prepared systems by different concentrations of the raw materials and cumulative release of 5-flourouracil were studied at pH 2.1 and 7.4. Kinetic studies were applied on the drug release data using Korsmeyer-peppas as a kinetic equation model to identify the diffusion mechanism. The prepared copolymers were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM).


The thermodynamic effects of correlations between the motions of molecules in neighbouring cells in the Lennard-Jones and Devonshire cell theory of liquids and solutions are calculated approximately, and found to be sufficiently small to be negligible for many purposes.


In this paper a circuit-oriented approximate solution to an explicit nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) problem is proposed, based on piecewise-affine functions defined over simplicial domain partitions. The resulting controller is suitable for circuit implementation in programmable devices, such as microcontrollers or FPGA, enabling the application of NMPC to systems with low sampling times. The proposed approach is validated through hardware-in-the-loop simulations.


Objective To explore the reason of ureteral stenoses and the value of imaging in ureteral stenotic diagnosis. Methods Fifty-eight cases with ureteral stenoses proved surgically and pathologically were analyzed,retrospectively.Fifty-eight cases with IVP,15 cases with RPP,51 cases with US,12 cases with CT,6 cases with MRU were evaluated. Results All the ureteral stenoses were demonstrated in 58 cases, 48 were reported with IVP, 15 with RPP, 16 with US, 12 with CT, 6 with MRU. The most common sites were the superior stricture(36/58), other sites 22 cases; unilateral stenoses 54 cases,bilateral stenoses 4 cases; congenital ureteral stenoses 24 cases, inflammatory stenoses 17 cases, compression by vessel or fibroplasia 13 cases, other reasons 4 cases. The stenotic sites demonstrated with IVP,RPP,US,CT,MRU was accorded with that in operation,the corresponding rate between IVP,RPP,US,CT,MRU and surgical pathology was 71%,73%,63%,83%,67%,respectively,in ureterostenosis etiological diagnosis.Conclusion The useful approach of diagnosing ureteral stenoses is imaging,IVU should be the first choice.


The sense of "good" that has been of principal interest to philosophers and that is the focus of chapters 3, 4, and 5 is evaluative "good." Hereafter, the modifier "evaluative" is dropped. "Good" is a gradable adjective. Accordingly, chapter 3 examines the semantics of gradable adjectives. The chapter argues that "good" is the unmarked member of an antonym pair of relative gradable adjectives, the marked member being (evaluative) "bad." The lexical meaning of "good" is associated with a non-significant degree on an open scale of unspecified value. In tokenings of sentences of the form "x is good," the degree associated with "good" is modulated to a significant degree. Significance of degree is a quantity that exceeds the upper bound of a range of numeric values based on a contextually determined comparison class.


An efficient methodology for the enantioselective synthesis of the decahydro-1,5-methano-pyrido[1,2-a][1,5]diazocine skeleton found in tricyclic lupine alkaloids is described, starting from 3,5-disubstituted piperidines as chiral building blocks. Alkyne- or vinylsilane-terminated N-acyliminium ion cyclizations performed on appropriate 3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane derivatives allow for the highly stereoselective construction of piperidino-quinolizidine ring systems. A preliminary application of this methodology results in the synthesis of the quinolizidine alkaloid virgilidone.


In this paper it is proposed an explanation for certain information transmitted by Diodorus Siculus, according to which the Egyptian god Osiris was wrapped with a fawn skin with stars.


In recent years, approach to marine community
ecology has become empirical and conceptual.
Terrestrial plant ecologists were the pioneers in the
field of quantitative ecology and the application of
their models in marine ecosystem analyses has thrown
open a vast new field of interest to those marine
biologists who are mathematically oriented.


This editorial has been prompted by the publication of a slim, elegantly produced volume, celebrating the achievement of one of the most illustrious contemporary British psychiatrists, Edward H. Hare (Hare, 1998). That it has been produced in less than two years after his death is a living tribute to the devotion and editorial skills of his close friend, John Crammer (who succeeded Hare as editor of the British Jownral of Psychiatry in 1978), and the love and unflagging assistance, in a multitude of ways, of Fiby, Hare's wife for his last 26 Y I had the good fortune to be presented with a copy of the book and also received a four-page leaflet entitled 'Publications of E. H. Hare'. It is a formidable compilation detailing over 120 publications, the vast majority written as sole author, and serves as an illustration of the profundity of his scholarship, the catholicism of his interests as well, of course, of his highvoltage intelligence. For our convenience, his publications are grouped under nine broad headings: historical, clinical and metabolic, neurological, pharmacotherapy and physical, social psychiatry, epidemiologicaUdemographica1. It continues with a list of publications, chapters in books, articles for non-specialists and finally, editorial works. It follows from this vast oeuvre that the selection of what is to be included in this book presents far more difficulty than what is to be excluded. However, John Crammer has risen splendidly to the occasion, and his skills as an editor plus his intimate knowledge of the material have allowed him to select only eight papers which, collectively, suffice to give us the flavour of Hare's unique writings. The predominant feature emerging from the picture of Hare is primarily of a scientist, but of a scientist capable of subjecting his data to sophisticated statistical analysis. The result of this fine tuning is that detail in his data begins to emerge which would have escaped the attention of the less observant which includes, in effect, the vast majority of us less-gifted mortals. A prime example is to be seen in his well-known hypothesis which argues that schizophrenia taken with the season of birth dates pointed to the possibility that the onset of mental illness was a delayed after-effect of a viral infection in foetal life. In Chapter 1, 'The changing content of psychiatric illness', we see Hare as a clinician, epidemiologist and historian par excellence. Nothing expresses his philosophy more aptly and more succinctly than his final few lines. He writes:


Single-phase phase-locked loops (PLLs) are used in various types of power electronics applications, including voltage source inverters, pulse width modulation rectifiers and different types of grid-tied power converter utilities. The orthogonal signal generators (OSGs), used in single-phase PLLs, are generally based on various types of filters, and they need to operate robustly in relation to the grid voltage disturbances and frequency variations. In this study, a novel OSG is proposed based on a modified first-order all-pass filter, which enables the PLL phase detector to operate at different response speeds, tuned by means of a single parameter. The PLL is experimentally verified and compared with a number of conventional solutions. Tests include responses to phase angle disturbances, frequency steps, and PLL input voltage distortions. Results show that a novel OSG filter enables faster PLL responses when compared with several conventional OSG filters, all designed to have the same disturbance attenuation at double fundamental frequency.


This paper describes the architecture and the current implementation of the hardware unification unit (HUU). The HUU performs the literal unification operation in Prolog processing. It is designed as a coprocessor to a host system that handles other operations of Prolog processing such as bookkeeping and sequencing. After the host system provides input values to the HUU and activates it, the HUU works independently from the host system; when it finishes its operation it reports the result to the host system. The HUU contains local memory that stores the variable binding information. The microinstructions and a sample microprogram of the HUU are described. Performance measures obtained from the HUU simulator are presented and discussed.


Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is a kind of classic cluster method, which has been widely used in various fields, such as image segmentation and data mining. Euclidean distance is a frequently used distance metric in FCM, but it is only suitable for data with spherical structure. As an extension of Euclidean distance, Mahalanobis distance has been used in Gustafson–Kessel FCM and its variants to tackle ellipsoidal data. For the convenience of optimizing, most existing Mahalanobis distance-based FCM algorithms only focus on squared Mahalanobis distance. However, squared Mahalanobis distance may not be the best distance metric for FCM because it is easy to enlarge the influence of outliers. In this article, we propose a novel $\ell _{2,p}$-norm and Mahalanobis distance-based FCM model, abbreviated as LM-FCM, which can help FCM improve the ability of tackling ellipsoidal clusters and outliers. Then, in order to reduce computational complexity, we propose a more simplified model, abbreviated as SLM-FCM. Furthermore, we develop an iteratively reweighted optimization algorithm to optimize the proposed models and provide a rigorous monotonous convergence proof. Finally, compared with the existing state-of-the-art FCM algorithms, we conduct extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets to manifest the superior clustering performance and robustness of the proposed algorithms.


Legged robots are much more effective and useful in uneven terrains than wheeled robots because they can easily climb rocks and rough surfaces. Because their mechanized legs are designed for these surfaces, legged robots such as Quadruped robots can easily climb terrains such as rocks, sludge, incline and decline surfaces. Quad Bots can be built in a variety of shapes and sizes. The first quad robot was designed in the appearance of a dog. The spider-shaped quadruped robot shown below was created. This is a basic quadruped robot prototype. These robots can also be controlled via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and AI can be used to automate them. This concept depicts the use of various creeping walks to achieve coordinated robot innovation. The purpose of the research work is to create a dependable framework for integrating reliable and secure walking on smooth or off-road terrain. This also has a variety of sensors embedded in it for detecting the situation of the environment in real time and transmitting it to the ground station via a receiving set module.


Pharmacological treatments can have a major impact on the outcome of rheumatic diseases. To achieve the best results, individual treatment regimens comprising analgesic agents, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are used. The success of the latter two groups of drugs in controlling symptoms and suppressing disease is tempered by their potential for adverse effects. Careful and continuous monitoring is needed to maximise the benefits and minimise adverse effects.


Chinese agricultural logistics enterpriese take on the looks of high transaction cost and excessive competition,which means an institution unbalance of agricultural logistics enterprise.An small institution balance model put forwards the "interior union" and "exterior cooperation" of the agricultural logistics enterprises.As applying approaches of them,the third party logistics and supply chain based logistics can achieve the targets of specialization,scalization and socialization of agricultural products logistics.


The objectives of this paper consist on two main parts:a descriptive one and an explanatory one. For the first part I used transition matrices to identify people who entered and left the poverty line in Peru between 2001-2003.Probabilistic regressions models were used to explain the main determinants of poverty dynamics. Changes in house members, decrease of active members,changes in years of schooling and changes in the access of essential public services play an important role to explain the dynamics poverty in Peru in those years. Otherwise,just only 28% of the households were never poor,15% were poor for once and 38% were always poor. This document also tries to explain that poverty in Peru can not be treated like a static process and the public policies never be focus in established profiles of poverty in a unique period of time, they have to be in constant checking.


This article presents an overview of mathematical and numerical methods used to simulate air pollution phenomena. Each method is discussed without introducing its mathematical notation. Advantages, disadvantages and limits of applicability of each technique are addressed.


Does color improve object recognition? Is the improvement greater for images with low spatial resolution where there is less shape information? Do people with low visual acuity benefit more from color than people with high acuity? We used a reaction-time (RT) procedure to study object recognition in normal and low vision. In this paper, we will focus on the low-vision findings.


A specially designed apparatus and circuit working on the principle of inverse piezoelectricity due to the effect of polarization was used to find the relationship between resistance and peak to peak voltage of Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT-5A4E) by shocking it at variable frequencies and at variable resistances under various thermal conditions within Curie temperature limit using equivalent circuit method. It was found that by increasing temperature, peak to peak voltage increases and similarly by increasing frequency, peak to peak voltage decreases and with the increase in resistance peak to peak voltage decreases.


BACKGROUND
Organophosphate pesticides pose risks to health and the environment, and their monitoring is an urgent task.

OBJECTIVE
Development of a method for their determination in water and food.

METHODS
A simple photometric method for the determination of some organophosphate pesticides was demonstrated. Ag-EDTA-Zr and Au-EDTA-Zr nanoparticles were synthesized and were applied for the determination of some organophosphate pesticides(OP) (dimethoate, chlorpyrifos, and diazinon).

RESULTS
It was demonstrated, that silver nanoparticles provide more sensitivity in comparison to Au nanoparticles. As a result, Ag-EDTA-Zr nanoparticles were further applied for the determination of these pesticides in tomatoes.

CONCLUSION
The lowest detectable concentrations for dimethoate, diazinon, and chlorpyrifos in water reached 0.1 (SD 0.082), 0.4(SD 0.075), and 0.4 mg/L(SD 0.088) respectively whereas in tomato lowest detectable concentrations for these pesticides were 0.5 (SD 0.789), 2 (SD 0.085,) and 0.5 mg/L(SD 0.088). The sensitivity of detection in tomatoes is lower than in water however these concentrations are comparable with allowable concentrations of OP pesticides.

HIGHLIGHTS
A novel approach for quantitative detection of organophosphate pesticides was developed. Ag-EDTA-Zr and Au-EDTA-Zr nanocomposites interact with these pesticides and as a result, optical changes of these nanoparticles take place.These changes correlate with the concentration of pesticides.


KM3NeT/ORCA is a large-volume water-Cherenkov neutrino detector, currently under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2450 meters. The main research goal of ORCA is the measurement of the neutrino mass ordering and the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters. Additionally, the detector is also sensitive to a wide variety of phenomena including non-standard neutrino interactions, sterile neutrinos, and neutrino decay. This contribution describes the use of a machine learning framework for building Deep Neural Networks (DNN) which combine multiple energy estimates to generate a more precise reconstructed neutrino energy. The model is optimized to improve the oscillation analysis based on a data sample of 433 kton-years of KM3NeT/ORCA with 6 detection units. The performance of the model is evaluated by determining the sensitivity to oscillation parameters in comparison with the standard energy reconstruction method of maximizing a likelihood function. The results show that the DNN is able to provide a better energy estimate with lower bias in the context of oscillation analyses.


Abstract Effects of top electrode annealing on the ferroelectric properties and reliability characteristics of the PZT films with various Zr/Ti ratios were investigated as a function of top electrode annealing temperature and its thickness. It was observed that the hysteresis loop of the PZT film was seriously deformed by both sputtering and reactive ion etching (RIE) of Pt. An annealing of the top electrode restores the deformed hysteresis loop by removing the effect of structural defects and space charges formed by sputtering and RIE induced damage. An optimum annealing temperature at which maximum in remanent polarization occurs, increases with decreasing Zr/Ti ratio. An excess annealing above the optimum temperature decreases in the remanent polarization probably due to PbO evaporation. For the same annealing temperature, PZT film with thicker top electrode shows larger switching charge because larger compressive stress is induced. The stress effect is larger on (100) oriented film than on (111) orien...


We investigate the repair of trust by examining the cognitive and interpersonal processes through which people resolve differences in their interpersonal beliefs. We begin by discussing the phenomenon of trust, the ease with which trust can be violated, and the challenge of trust repair. We then draw from an array of literature to develop a multilevel conceptualization of how trust repair may be pursued. Finally, we integrate these insights to identify three overarching implications for research.


In Time of Arrival (TOA) positioning technology based on base station (BS), besides the measurement error caused by mobile station (MS), Non Line Of Sight (NLOS) propagation become the main factor of the positioning error. Aiming to solve this problem especially in indoor positioning, we introduced the differential calculus method to linearize the positioning equations, and Mirror Image Method (MMI) to turn the NLOS propagation into LOS propagation, then we collected a small amount of feature point information in the positioning region which include the received TOAs at this point, feature point coordinates and BS coordinates or the mirror image coordinates of BS. In the following 3D scenario simulation, we took use of the differential calculus as well as Least Square (LS) method to get the position of the MS. Simulation results show that by using the whole mechanism, we can achieve a high positioning precision.


It is widely accepted that medium-term generation planning can be advantageously modeled through market equilibrium representation. There exist several methods to define and solve this kind of equilibrium in a deterministic way. Medium-term planning is strongly affected by uncertainty in market and system conditions, thus extensions of these models are commonly required. The main variables that should be considered as subject to uncertainty include hydro conditions, demand, generating units failures and fuel prices. This paper presents a model to represent medium-term operation of electrical market that introduces this uncertainty in the formulation in a natural and practical way. Utilities are explicitly considered to be intending to maximize their expected profits and biddings are represented by means of a conjectural variation. Market equilibrium conditions are introduced by means of the optimality conditions of a problem, which has a structure that strongly resembles classical optimization of hydrothermal coordination. A tree-based representation to include stochastic variables and a model based on it are introduced. This approach for market representation provides three main advantages: robust decisions are obtained; technical constraints are included in the problem in a natural way, additionally obtaining dual information; and big size problems representing real systems in detail can be addressed.


Imaging the internal structure of quasi-transparent three-dimensional (3D) objects is one of the most challenging tasks for optical systems. If the light propagates coherently through the volumetric object, then collection of phase projections from different angles and tomographic reconstruction are required. However, a single shot from a high space-bandwidth-product camera is often sufficient to yield 3D information if the object is sufficiently sparse. For incoherent 3D sources or scatterers, the mutual intensity of the propagated field has sufficient degrees of freedom to reconstruct the source but it is limited by the sensitivity (contrast) of the interferometric measurement. We describe two complementary methods of phase recovery. (1) For the coherent sparse case, which typically leads to rapid phase oscillations at the exit pupil, we have implemented several generations of digital holographic imaging systems which can be deployed underwater to image, e.g. aquatic organisms, seed particles, or bubbles in a flow. (2) For slowly varying optical density profiles, we have been investigating phase recovery via the Transport of Intensity Equation (TIE) and we have developed methods to improve contrast and eliminate the inherent scanning requirement by exploiting the (known) object dispersion. We will present experimental results and discuss these methods comparatively.


This paper aims to explore the mediation effect of psychological capital and perceived organizational support on therelationship between authentic leadership and intention to stay. The structural equation modeling technique was usedto test the hypothesized model. A survey was administered to collect data targeting a sample of randomly selectedteachers working at high schools in Tehran. The results suggest that authentic leadership significantly influencesteachers' intention to stay, psychological capital, perceived organizational support. As predicted, both perceivedorganizational support and psychological capital had a significant positive direct effect on intention to stay. Theeffect of authentic leadership on intention to stay was found to be mediated by teachers' psychological capital andperceived organizational support. This study shows how leaders can enhance teachers' intention to stay by applyingauthentic leadership, engendering psychological capital and creating supportive environment.


The distribution of nutrients in plants, litter, and soil were studied before and after a prescribed burn in southern California chaparral. Total N, P, K, Na, Mg, and Ca were measured. The various nutrients were distributed differently in the plant parts and the litter before fire and this affected their redistribution by fire. Measurable losses of only 2 nutrients occurred–N (146 kg/ha) and K (49 kg/ha). Erosional losses of nutrients during the first rainy season after fire are also reported.


The purpose of this instrumental case study was to understand the development of a sense of community in a fully online course, which was offered in the first online semester following the emergency remote teaching period (Spring 2020) in the COVID-19 pandemic era. The study further aimed to examine how the particular course elements supported the community-building processes. The data were collected with the Sense of Community Index survey and semi-structured interviews conducted at the mid-and end of the semester. The findings showed that the four community elements, reinforcement, influence, membership, and shared emotional connection, were all present in this course, although to varying degrees. They also indicated that the adapted course elements for online modality mostly supported the community-building processes. The implications of the findings for the design of more effective online courses were discussed.


FIELD: personal use items. SUBSTANCE: clothing article (10) for going in for sports for wearing on the body including at least one zone of the main fabric from an elastically extensible textile and at least one compression zone, (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11), compression means formed by inserts provided on the textile side facing the skin surface. Compression zones (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11) with asymmetric distribution in relation to the body halves are located in provided for torso (20) and/or for upper and/or lower extremities (21, 22, 23, 24) zones. EFFECT: proposed is a clothing article for going in for sports. 24 cl, 2 dwg


A new set of methods for the testing of large electric machine coil insulation is proposed in this paper, by analyzing the test procedure and results of stator bars of Three Gorges units.


A handling apparatus for groups of thermoformed object constantly held in a correct axial alignment. The apparatus include at least one picking up and release head having as many receiving seats extending parallel to one another from the head as are the stacks to be handled, and a drive apparatus arranged to move a respective pick up and release head between a stack pick up station and a stack release station of one or more stacks of thermoformed objects and to position it correctly both at the stack pick up station and at the stack release station. At least one mobile pusher member is arranged to engage the stacks of thermoformed objects located in each receiving sear, and control drive apparatus for each mobile pusher member to follow and hold down each stack while each stack is being released from its respective receiving seat.


In this letter, we develop a converse bound on the asymptotic load threshold of coded slotted ALOHA (CSA) schemes with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-multipacket reception capabilities at the receiver. Density evolution is used to track the average probability of packet segment loss and an area matching condition is applied to obtain the converse. For any given CSA rate, the converse normalized to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula> increases with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, which is in contrast with the results obtained so far for slotted ALOHA schemes based on successive interference cancellation. We show how the derived bound can be approached using spatially coupled CSA.


Abstract The vision of network-centric operations is to increase operational capabilities through networked collaboration. NATO and its member nations state this vision in strategic documents at a very high level of abstraction. While suitable for giving an overall feel, current documentation renders the steps toward implementing those visions largely unsupported. We outline a method that is based on agile requirements engineering, for converting high-level strategic visions into capabilities whose forms lend themselves to incremental implementation. We illustrate the use of this method in two cases that deal with both operational capabilities and technical capabilities. We also show how the method enables one to prioritise which capabilities to develop first. We conclude that it is necessary to formulate and implement some form of explicit methodology with which to span the gap between strategic visions and an effective implementation of those visions.


This research aims to evaluate three varieties of Bactris gasipaes in the process of obtaining oil through the implementation of two thermal treatments and using two types of solvents, with the purpose of enticing food use.
We applied a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with a factorial arrangement A * B * C with three levels in the Factor (chontilla yellow, and red chontilla Chontaduro), two levels in Factor B (crude and pre-cooked) and C Factor (petroleum ether and ethyl ether di) resulting 12 treatments with 2 replicates giving a total of 24 experimental units.
We used 2 kg of chontilla red and 2 kg of chontilla yellow of the coastal zone and 2 Kg Chontaduro amazon; which were distributed in 250 g for each treatment and repetitions. We used the method of solvent extraction by manipulating a Soxhlet extractor.
The extractions and the analysis of acidity was conducted in the Laboratory of Food Science of the State Technical University Quevedo. The analysis of lipid profile of the oil obtained it is carried out to each of the treatments and their repetitions using the HPLC method (chromatography) corresponding to the internal method of Laboratory Multianalityca Cia, Ltda., in the city of Quito.
The results of the proposed variables were calculated using the statistical package Statgraphics centurion XVI version 1.16.18 for the determination of....


As part of a project at the University of Minnesota to investigate the application of high-strength concrete in prestressed girders, four shear tests were performed on high-strength concrete prestressed girders. Originally constructed in August 1993, the girders, Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) 45M sections were 45 in. (114 cm) deep. Each girder utilized 46 0.6-in. (1.5-cm) diameter prestressing strands on 2-in. (5-cm) centers. The girders were designed assuming a 28-day compressive strength of 10,500 psi (72,398 kPa). Later, a 4-ft-wide (1.2-m-wide) and 9-in.-thick (23-cm-thick) composite concrete deck was added to each girder using unshored construction techniques. The shear test results were compared with predicted results from ACI 318-95 Simplified Method, ACI 318-95 Detailed Method (AASHTO 1989), Modified ACI 318-95 Procedure, Modified Compression Field Theory (AASHTO LRFD 1994), Modified Truss Theory, Truss Theory, Horizontal Shear Design (AASHTO 1989), and Shear Friction (AASHTO LRFD 1994). The calculated shear capacities were in all cases conservative compared to the actual shear capacity.


A model is presented for the determination of the unit-cell size for ordered and disordered binary σ phases from a geometry assuming spherical atoms. The basis of the calculations is the assumption of an average radius of the atoms occupying each of the five crystallographic sites in the unit cell. The model is then used to predict the changes in lattice parameters produced by fast-neutron irradiation and by the addition of a third element in some ternary a phases. The calculated parameters are compared with experimental results.


Many researchers have recently considered patients' health and provided an optimal and appropriate solution. With the advent of technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things and 5G, information can be exchanged faster and more securely. The Internet of things (IoT) offers many opportunities in the field of e-health. This technology can improve health services and lead to various innovations in this regard. Using cloud computing and IoT in this process can significantly improve the monitoring of patients. Therefore, it is important to provide a useful method in the medical industry and computer science to monitor the status of patients using connected sensors. Thus, due to its optimal efficiency, speed, and accuracy of data processing and classification, the use of cloud computing to process the data collected from remote patient sensors and IoT platform has been suggested. In this paper, a prioritization system is used to prioritize sensitive information in IoT, and in cloud computing, LSTM deep neural network is applied to classify and monitor patients' condition remotely, which can be considered as an important innovative aspect of this paper. Sensor data in the IoT platform is sent to the cloud with the help of the 5th generation Internet. The core of cloud computing uses the LSTM (long short-term memory) deep neural network algorithm. By simulating the proposed method and comparing the obtained results with other methods, it is observed that the accuracy of the proposed method is 97.13%, which has been improved by 10.41% in average over the other methods.


This study examined the relationship between reticence (Keaten & Kelly, 2000) and instant messaging (IM), including affect for IM, usage of IM, and self-perceived competence using IM in difficult interpersonal situations. Participants (N = 336) from undergraduate courses responded to self-report measures of reticence, affect for IM, general usage of IM, as well as usage in challenging interpersonal situations, and communication competence. A structural equation model indicated that reduced anxiety and inhibition, IM competence, and increased preparation and control explained 34% of the variance in frequency of IM use in a difficult personal situation. Results showed that higher levels of reticence were associated with positive affect for IM, which, in turn, increased the likelihood of using IM in a difficult personal situation.


: This study took the ergonomics design course as an example to propose a design teaching model of multidisciplinary participatory design (MPD), and investigated the e ff ects of this teaching model on the engineering design behavior of college students. We used lag behavior sequential analysis to compare the design behaviors of three student groups: a participatory design (PD) experimental group, an MPD experimental group, and a control group. The results of the study show that (1) students in the PD experimental group had 13 significant sequential engineering design behaviors, students in the MPD experimental group had 10, and students in the control group had only seven. The engineering design behaviors of the experimental groups were more diversified than those of the control group. (2) The three groups of students had a small number of significant design behavior transfers in the engineering design process, indicating that the students' sequential design behaviors between two di ff erent design activities were insu ffi cient. We concluded by detailing the pros and cons of using the MPD teaching model based on the results of this study, and hopefully by providing a reference for teaching engineering design.


David Sellar QC assesses the implications of recent Court of Session decisions and how an administrator may approach adjudication of creditor claims.


Based on the interpretation of new urbanization,the bias and effects of China's township government on the exercise of governmental functions were analyzed,then the requirements of new urbanization on township government were elaborated,finally several suggestions for promoting township government functions transformation were put forward.


PLM system has been widely used in whole industry. But, many technologies & solutions adoption for each PLM area causes the integration difficulties & maintenance problems now. Specially, in case of the company that produces wide range of product, each business unit deploys special PLM system to meet their own needs. It brings difficulties to integrate whole PLM system, so it is not easy to implement the enterprise PLM system. However the enterprise PLM system is inevitable to secure the cost reduction for the system maintenance, efficient system operation and real time KPI analysis. This paper describes an implementation process of the enterprise PLM system includes PLM scope, solution selection procedure, POC, PLM system implementation and deployment.


The Commission was wise to keep its options open by pleading both pure Section 5 violations and also violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act....If the Commission does find a pure Section 5 violation, however, it should only do so if it does this while utilizing the consumer choice framework.


[Objective] To study the effect of pneumoperitoneum on respiratory and circulation system of the obesity during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. [Method] 80 patients who received elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were divided into 2 groups according to the BMI:control group (group A): BMI25(n =20) and the pressure of CO2 was 14mmHg; obesity group(group B ): BMI30(n =60), which was divided to three subgroups according to the pressure of CO2: group B1(12 mmHg)(n =20), group B2 (14 mmHg) (n =20), group B3(15 mmHg)(n =20). The HR, SBP, DBP, PETCO2, PH, SaO2 of group A and group B2 were analyzed at the different time: 5min before insufflation, 10 min after insufflation, 10 min after operation. The HR, SBP, DBP, PET CO2, PH, SaO2 and the operative time (OT) of group B1, B2, B3 also were analyzed at the 5 min before insufflation and 10 min after insufflation. [Result] The HR, SBP, DBP, PETCO2 of group A and group B2 was increased (P 0.01), while the DBP, PH, SaO2% were no difference compared with the preinsufflation. In group B, the HR of group B1, B2, B3 were significantly increased (P 0.01) compared with the preinsufflation. The PET CO2, SBP, DBP of group B except subgroup B1 were significantly different from the preinsufflation (P 0.01). When it comes to the comparisons among the internal of group B, the HR, SBP, DBP, PETCO2 of group B2, B3 were much higher than group B1,whereas there was no difference between the group B2 and B3.there was no difference among the three subgroups. [Conclusion] CO2 pneumoperitoneum of laparoscopic cholecystectomy results in more significant effects in respiratory and circulation system on obesity patients. A 12 mmHg CO2 pneumoperitoneum could help to reduce the effects.


In mobile bed experiments,the measurement of water level needs to be real-time and automatic.This paper represents the technology of fast measurement for water level and software platform constructing.The system consists of pressure sensor and analogue-digit transform card,the digit quantity is processed by the software.In software platform development,design pattern is applied to make the system extendable and maintainable.


DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the U.S. Government. Neither the United States nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S. Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the U.S. Government or any agency thereof. Abstract This document explains the procedure to retrieve temperature and moisture profiles from high-spectral resolution infrared radiance data measured by the U.S. Department Of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation (ARM) Program's atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI) instrument. The technique has been named the AERIPROF thermodynamic retrieval algorithm. The software has been developed over the last decade at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has matured into an ARM Value-Added Procedure. This document will describe the AERIPROF retrieval procedure, outline the algorithm routines, discuss the software heritage, and, finally, provide references with further documentation. iii


Why Use The Stress Management Intervention In Women With Breast Cancer? Empirical Research With The B-Smart Program Essentials Of The B-Smart Program Implementing The B-Smart Program - Special Considerations And Case Assessing Progress In The B-Smart Program.


Early stages of Ca cervix (Stages IA to stage IIA1) are considered operable and is treated by Type III Radical Hysterectomy (RH) with bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy especially in younger patients and is designed to surgically cure the disease. Radical hysterectomy typically involves the parametrial resection (PR) requiring extensive ureteric dissection resulting in hemorrhage and injuries to ureter and bladder leading to urinary fistulae. Pelvic autonomic nerves also get transected during PR leading to a host of physiological dysfunctions and morbidity (urogenital, rectal and sexual dysfunction). This is considered necessary because parametrium remains one of the common sites of spread, and parametrial metastasis (PM) is considered to be a high-risk prognostic factor in Ca cervix. Rates of PM varies from 6-13% in various studies and depends on many factors like tumor size, LVSI, Depth of stromal invasion (DOSI), and Pelvic LN metastasis (PLM). Though cases with obvious PM undergo primary radiotherapy (RT), being a clinically staged disease, ABSTRACT


The formula of energy levels of two dimensional harmonic oscillator in the uniform magnetic field is derived.The shell structure of two dimensional harmonic oscillatorin in the uniform magnetic field is discussed.


Mucositis induced by high-dose chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy is an expensive doselimiting adverse effect that affects the majority of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation conditioning. We performed a literature review of cryotherapy combined with standard treatment for prophylaxis of oral mucositis. Were found 16 items related to the object of study. There are no conclusive studies but reports suggest that cryotherapy may be beneficial in some administration conditions, in the treatment of oral mucositis induced by radiation and chemotherapy treatments and the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In these cases the patients showed a significant reduction in the severity of mucositis, pain relief, decreased use of opioid analgesics, improvement of nutritional intake and have a consequent reduction in use of total parenteral nutrition. Keyworks: stomatitis, cryotherapy, bone marrow transplantation. *contact: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Over the past 40 years, the massive LBV/WR system HD 5980 in the Small Magellanic Cloud has undergone a long-term S Doradus type variability cycle and two brief and violent eruptions in 1993 and 1994. In this paper we analyze a collection of UV and optical spectra obtained between 1979 and 2009 and perform CMFGEN model fits to spectra of 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2009. The results are as follows: a) The long term S Dor-type variability is associated with changes of the hydrostatic radius; b) The 1994 eruption involved changes in its bolometric luminosity and wind structure; c) the emission-line strength, the wind velocity and the continuum luminosity underwent correlated variations in the sense that a decreasing V$_\infty$ is associated with increasing emission line and continuum levels; and d) The spectrum of the third star in the system ({\it Star C}) is well-fit by a T$_{eff}$=32 K model atmosphere with SMC chemical abundances.
For all epochs, the wind of the erupting star is optically thick at the sonic point and is thus driven mainly by the continuum opacity. We speculate that the wind switches between two stable regimes driven by the "hot" (during the eruption) and the "cool" (post-eruption) iron opacity bumps as defined by Lamers & Nugis (2002) and Gr\"afener and Hamann (2008), and thus the wind may undergo a bi-stability jump of a different nature from that which occurs in OB-stars.


Acucise endopyelotomy has gained widespread use in the treatment of ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Acute postoperative bleeding is a well-known complication. We report one case with a delayed postoperative formation of pseudoaneurism, and one case which developed arterial hypertension postoperatively


We study query and computationally efficient planning algorithms with linear function approximation and a simulator. We assume that the agent only has local access to the simulator, meaning that the agent can only query the simulator at states that have been visited before. This setting is more practical than many prior works on reinforcement learning with a generative model. We propose two algorithms, named confident Monte Carlo least square policy iteration (Confident MC-LSPI) and confident Monte Carlo Politex (Confident MC-Politex) for this setting. Under the assumption that the Q-functions of all policies are linear in known features of the state-action pairs, we show that our algorithms have polynomial query and computational costs in the dimension of the features, the effective planning horizon, and the targeted sub-optimality, while these costs are independent of the size of the state space. One technical contribution of our work is the introduction of a novel proof technique that makes use of a virtual policy iteration algorithm. We use this method to leverage existing results on $\ell_\infty$-bounded approximate policy iteration to show that our algorithm can learn the optimal policy for the given initial state even only with local access to the simulator. We believe that this technique can be extended to broader settings beyond this work.


We tested three hypotheses used to explain the increase in young-of-the-year (YOY) Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) density with habitat complexity: the territory-size, predator-refuge, and foraging-benefits hypotheses. We manipulated habitat complexity in three different treatments (boulder-removed, control, and boulder-added) at eight sites in Catamaran Brook and the Little Southwest Miramichi River, New Brunswick. The density of juvenile salmon was two times higher in the boulder-added treatment than in the other treatments. Our data were consistent with the territory-size hypothesis; visual isolation was highest and territory size was smallest in the boulder-added treatment, and salmon selected microhabitats to maximize their field of view. Our results showed partial support for the predator-refuge hypothesis; salmon in the boulder-added sites were closer to cover and showed a reduced reaction distance to a novel stimulus, but did not preferentially select microhabitats closer to cover. We found no direc...