This written thesis represents positive effects of experiential child learning. In my opinion, traditional teaching methods are still too often used. We talk and demonstrate a lot while children don't get enough opportunities to through exploring independently find the answers by themselves. In the theoretical part of this thesis I described what a game and toy are, experiential learning, technical correct handling and 2 used materials-paper and plastic. Through a questionnaire I gathered opinions of kindergarten teachers about children's technically correct handling of toys and how they're improving it with children at work. Pre-school children of kindergarten Vrtec Pod Gradom, who were included in the activity, proved, the effectiveness of the experiential learning. I was, in a group aged 5-6 and named Miske, with the help of 3D cardboard jigsaw, developing technically correct handling of toys. I divided the activity into 3 parts, with first being a self-written story, followed by experimental part and finished off with children playing with 3D cardboard jigsaw. I observed the children's game trough a 1-month period and wrote down every important event that happened during that time. Due to newly acquired knowledge and technically correct handling, children were still able to use the toy even after the completed activity and are still using it. By writing this theises I would like to encourage kindergarten teachers, parents and other pedagogical workers to intervene in various teaching methods as often as possible and to enable the children to gain new knowledge and acquire skills through their own activity.


Abstract : This investigation was concerned with estimates of the subjective strength of the Coriolis vestibular reaction evoked by 30 deg. lateral head motions at constant angular velocity in the Slow Rotation Room. In the first experiment, a power relation was obtained between geometric mean magnitude estimates of the Coriolis reaction and angular velocity. These estimates tended to be greater when vision was present than in its absence. In both conditions of visual reference, head motions evoking a pitch-forward sensation were more disturbing than those producing a pitch-back sensation. In the second experiment, it was found that the strongest reaction was produced by the return from the left shoulder (counterclockwise rotation), and the next strongest by the return from the right shoulder. Subjective rankings did not differentiate adequately between the strengths of the right and left tilt motions. (Author)


Both the vastness of pasturelands and the value they contain—e.g., food security, ecosystem services—have resulted in increased scientific and industry efforts to remotely monitor them via satellite imagery and machine learning (ML). However, the transferability of these models is uncertain, as modelers commonly train and test on site-specific or homogenized—i.e., randomly partitioned—datasets and choose complex ML algorithms with increased potential to overfit a limited dataset. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy and transferability of remote sensing pasture models, using multiple ML algorithms and evaluation structures. Specifically, we predicted pasture above-ground biomass and nitrogen concentration from Sentinel-2 imagery. The implemented ML algorithms include principal components regression (PCR), partial least squares regression (PLSR), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), random forest (RF), support vector machine regression (SVR), and a gradient boosting model (GBM). The evaluation structures were determined using levels of spatial and temporal dissimilarity to partition the train and test datasets. Our results demonstrated a general decline in accuracy as evaluation structures increase in spatiotemporal dissimilarity. In addition, the more simplistic algorithms—PCR, PLSR, and LASSO—out-performed the more complex models RF, SVR, and GBM for the prediction of dissimilar evaluation structures. We conclude that multi-spectral satellite and pasture physiological variable datasets, such as the one presented in this study, contain spatiotemporal internal dependence, which makes the generalization of predictive models to new localities challenging, especially for complex ML algorithms. Further studies on this topic should include the assessment of model transferability by using dissimilar evaluation structures, and we expect generalization to improve for larger and denser datasets.


This mission was used to take stock of the entomology trial results obtained since the last mission in February 2001. The halt to monthly insecticide treatments in trial HSF 11 does not yet reveal any depressive effect of Sufetula larva attacks on production. The Yields of coconut palms mulched with cocopeat alone (coconut husk debris) are still significantly higher than in the control. In the meantime the cocopeat totally disappeared from the base of the coconut palms more than a year ago (HSF 14). The new insecticide Imidachloprid has not effectively protected roots from Sufetula attacks. We can confirm that Sufetula does not infest a pineapple monoculture. Hence, it is possible to start up a young coconut planting after one or two cycles of pineapple. Planting coconut palms in an environment free from Sufetula (RSTM/RS CC 07) for several years (up to 3 years) enable the palms to develop very long primary roots (over 5 m on average at about 5 years old). That can thus engender a highly efficient absorbent root system (RII, RIII, and RIV). Subsequent severe attacks on RI might then hinder production less (to be confirmed). On the other hand, planting coconut palms in an environment invaded by Sufetula (RSUP/RS ES 74) leads to immediate attacks on the roots of the young palms. Cocopeat and coconut husks do not protect the roots from Sufetula attacks. Moreover, coconut husks prevent fertilizers from penetrating the soil, which can disrupt young plant development. The complete demonstration of the positive effect of "bare soil" on an estate level is not possible. That is due to a difficulty in carrying out durable weeding in the absence of herbicide, and in removing all dry fronds and coconut husks. The two priorities for the new Management at RSUP are chemical weeding at an appropriate frequency throughout the estate, i.e. around 17,000 ha - Standard application of fertilizers in line with recommendations after leaf analyses. (Resume d'auteur)


Abstrac This article summarizes the development status of bee industry in Hainan Province.The advantages and disadvantage of Hainan bee industry are pointed out.Aimed at these shortcomings,the suggestions for development of Hainan bee industry are proposed,and look forward to the developing prospect of Hainan bee industry.


AbstractA simple, non-perturbing method for measuring the electric field strength in a device, such as a microwave oven, is described. it is based on measurement of the minimum and/or maximum pressure at which a selected gas (in our case Heg) in a small cell breaks down. As microwave breakdown in gases is well understood, pressures measured can be easily converted to absolute values of field strength, with no calibration required. The cells may be small, So spatial resolution is reasonably good. Field strength measurements in a commercially available microwave oven were made using this technique, and were compared to fields deduced from the power dissipated in water loads. Two different methods of computing the field from from power dissipation calculations are compared with the Heg3 measurements.


Tianlin county is the per capita most forestland in Guangxi,the area reached 1.6 ten thousand Mu favorable for developing the undergrowth economy provides space supremacy.Fully utilizing land resources and shadowed space,planting industrial crops such as flower and medicinal materials,developing edible fungi and poultry farming will greatly promote the synthesized economic profit of the forestland,lead single to multiple forestry.It's important role to make full use of forestland resources,foster new points for economic growth and achieve sustainable development of forestry.


Single molecule time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots (QDs) under the influence of moderate applied electric fields reveals distributed emission from states which are neither fully on nor off and pronounced changes in the excited state decay. The data suggest that a 54 kV/cm applied electric field causes small perturbations to the QD surface charge distribution, effectively increasing the surface trapping probability and resulting in the appearance of gray states. We present simultaneous blinking and fluorescence decay results for two sets of QDs, with and without an applied electric field. Further kinetic modeling analysis suggests that a single trapped charged cannot be responsible for a blinking off event.


A novel triblock polyisocyanide having free-base- and zinc-porphyrins as pendants was prepared by living polymerization with a Pt-Pd μ-ethynediyl complex as an initiator, and irradiated at 420 or 556 nm in a THF solution to cause intramolecular energy transfer from the zinc-porphyrin to the free-base-porphyrin.


Dear Sir, A 12-year-old female was referred with a history of fever and abdominal pain for 10 days and swelling all over her body for 4 days. Swelling developed initially over her left leg and arm followed by the right extremities, later involving the entire body. She also gave a history of passage of red-colored urine for 1 day. On general physical examination, she was febrile (temperature −102°F) with mild pallor and erythema over the lips. Her blood pressure was normal and there was no lymphadenopathy. On abdominal examination, mild ascites and tenderness were present. She had pustulovesicular lesions all over the right forearm [Figure 1] and right knee joint along with erythematous skin rash over her buttock and back. The rest of her systemic examination was normal. Investigations are tabulated in Table 1.


Personalized cancer treatment (PCT) has a long history— dating back to 1950s in US. It is a multidisciplinary approach pioneered with in vitro drug sensitivity testing (DST). PCT are widely investigated within 1970s and popularized since then. Despite widely utility, PCT remains to be diversified and perfected in a new era. Central dogma remains to be found out. This article tries to introduce the different characters of PCT and deliver our vision of PCT in future.


One of the persistent areas of uncertainty in modern infectious diseases is the diagnosis and treatment of neurosyphilis.1 Early syphilis is a systemic disease, not only in the secondary stage, but also in many patients in the primary stage. Examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in early syphilis demonstrates Treponema pallidum in 20% to 40% of cases, either by rabbit inoculation, and/or molecular amplification of T. pallidum DNA.2,3 Untreated, as many as a third of patients progress to late stage disease, of which neurosyphilis is most common. Nevertheless, lumbar puncture (LP) is rarely performed in early syphilis. Reasons for this are several-fold. LP is uncomfortable for the patient and time-consuming in the clinic, and most patients have no symptoms of meningitis despite presence of spirochetes in CSF. Most important, a single intramuscularly injection of long acting benzathine penicillin G 2.4 MU (million units) usually results in clinical cure in a neurologically normal patient regardless of CNS involvement,3 even though serum levels of penicillin are too low to penetrate the CNS reliably.4 Failure rates of 10% to 20% after benzathine penicillin therapy of patients with early syphilis, defined by serological criteria, may be due either to reinfection or relapse of the initial infection.5 Examination of CSF is not considered necessary in early syphilis in patients without neurologic, ocular or auditory symptoms or signs. LP in later stages is required to rule out neurosyphilis regardless of symptoms or signs,6 but many physicians treat patients with asymptomatic latent syphilis of uncertain duration with 3 doses of benzathine penicillin, reserving LP for patients with signs or symptoms of neurosyphilis, or failure of decline of RPR titers after therapy.6 Reports of progression of neurosyphilis in HIV-infected persons after benzathine penicillin therapy7 resulted in a move to treat neurosyphilis in HIV-infected patients with intravenous penicillin G.6,7 The rationale is straight forward: neurosyphilis is a form of bacterial meningitis or meningoencephalitis, and should be treated as are all bacterial CNS infections with antibiotics that reach the infected site in adequate concentrations. Current United States Public Health (USPHS) guidelines call for routine use of intravenous penicillin G in all patients with demonstrable late stage neurosyphilis, regardless of HIV status, although benzathine penicillin is still the standard for early syphilis.6 Given the apparent necessity of treating late stage neurosyphilis with intravenous penicillin, accurate diagnosis is imperative. If it were shown that CNS invasion results in a greater risk of treatment failure in early syphilis with single dose benzathine penicillin therapy, it would be more important to do LPs in early syphilis. There have been no controlled trials of therapy of neurosyphilis, in any stage of the disease. Diagnosis of neurosyphilis is not straightforward by either laboratory or clinical criteria. Examination of CSF is the only way to diagnose asymptomatic neurosyphilis. A positive CSF VDRL is considered specific for neurosyphilis, but is not sensitive; CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) is positive in no more than about 50% of patients with symptomatic neurosyphilis. Elevations of CSF white blood cells (WBCs) and protein are both insensitive and nonspecific. The classic triad of positive CSF VDRL, elevated WBCs and elevated protein is found in only 10% of patients with neurosyphilis. Many patients with neurosyphilis have a positive CSF treponemal test, but this probably reflects passive transfer of antitreponemal antibodies across the blood brain barrier (BBB), based on a direct relationship between serum and CSF titers (Christina Marra, personal communication, January 30, 2010). Lack of such a relationship between serum and CSF titers of antiphospholipid (VDRL) antibodies (Christina Marra, personal communication, January 30, 2010) argues for intrathecal synthesis of VDRL antibodies, consistent with specificity of the CSF VDRL test for neurosyphilis. Thus, most clinicians use a positive CSF VDRL as a "rule in" test, but only use CSF treponemal tests for "rule out" purposes: a positive treponemal test is consistent with but not diagnostic of neurosyphilis. Diagnosis of neurosyphilis is particularly difficult in the presence of HIV infection, which may result in opportunistic infections of the CNS, and also may elevate CSF WBCs in the absence of any other cause. In earlier publications, Marra et al showed that neurosyphilis is more likely in


We have studied the reactions of alkylperoxy radicals with olefins in an inert solvent and atmosphere. The peroxy radicals react by addition to the double bond, mainly leading to epoxide formation, and by abstraction of allylic hydrogen, followed by termination between allyl and peroxy radicals. Relative and absolute rate constants at 120°C have been determined of the reactions of tert-butylperoxy radicals with 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene, 1-hexene, α-methylstyrene, propene, 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene and styrene, and of α-cumylperoxy radicals with 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene.

We have found that for olefins having allylic hydrogen the abstraction/addition ratio determines the efficiency as well as the rate of epoxide formation, whereas substantial epoxide formation from olefins lacking easily abstractable hydrogen atoms can be expected only if the double bond is sufficiently reactive to suppress the reactions between the peroxy radicals.


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Membrane Distillation (MD) is a promising technology for separation and purification processes. It is a thermally-driven separation process which allow only vapour molecules are to pass through a porous hydrophobic membrane. MD separation is driven by the vapour pressure difference existing between the porous hydrophobic membrane surfaces unlike normal membrane processes which operate on temperature difference. This paper focus on the expectation of MD treatment process primarily for the readers who have no idea about this membrane process A brief overview is given of MD before treatment process which includes membrane materials, membrane preparation techniques, membrane characteristics, module and configuration. Membrane performance during treatment process will be highlighted. Membrane fouling which is one of the major drawback of MD will be also discussed.


The identification of different teeth in a human dental model is an essential part of virtual treatment planning in digital orthodontics. An algorithm that is almost fully automatic is presented to segment a 3-dimensional dental model (a triangle mesh) into individual tooth objects, along with its implementation in a software tool that can be deployed in clinical settings. The proposed technique avoids the limitations of previous approaches by first separating gums from teeth and then separating individual teeth. The only user intervention needed in most cases is the one-time setting of a certain curvature threshold via an intuitive slider, coupled with real-time visual feedback. The method is found to be robust across a range of real-world models, even in the presence of malocclusions and noise.


The paper describes the background requirements and development work leading to the production of a low cost static wattmeter for use in educational establishments. Initially it was envisaged that the new wattmeter would have some industrial applications and these aspects are described, although no development has been done as yet. The form of the paper follows the growth of the new wattmeter from initial specification to its developed form. The work has been controlled throughout by the need to produce a simple instrument, which, although not a complete replacement for the dynamometer type, can nevertheless be used in many circumstances where the precision and expense of the dynamometer is unnecessary.


Enterprise risk management (ERM) is being adopted by many firms globally and the value relevance of enterprise risk management is scarce. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of enterprise risk management on firm value for companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This study is conducted using a sample of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2012 to 2020. The findings indicate a significant correlation between enterprise risk management and firm value, indicating that enterprise risk management significantly contributes to firm value. These findings may be used to develop and shape enterprise risk management policy frameworks for firms and countries. The study provides new insights, from an Indonesian emerging market context on the value effects of enterprise risk management. Nonetheless, this study found that companies with larger and international samples may improve future studies.

Keywords: Corporate Risk, Enterprise risk management, Firm Value.


Structural optimization using the homogenization method which was introduced by Bendsφe and Kikuchi in 1988 is established as a theory of optimal design of layout (topology and shape). This theory has been applied to the various kind of problems, especially in meso-micro-scale desing, for example in the microstructure of composite and piezo-ceramic material. Frecker and Nishiwaki studied the possibility of the extension of the homogenization design method for topology/shape optimization for elastic structures into the design of flexible structures such as compliant mechanisms. Compliant mechanisms is a relatively new breed of jointless mechanism in which elastic deformation is intended to be a source of motion. In the past, most flexible structural design optimization was considered only for the direction of the flexible point, by using the material density or equivalent homogenization method to identify the optimum layout. Here we shall extend it to the case of a two dimensional design for compliant mechanism which control the deflection of the flexible point. Moreover we also applied the image based design method to extract a FE model for prototype from the optimal layout and propose the integrated structural design methodology.


Cui et al. [1] have achieved the goal of making the mitral valve gradient (MVG) calculation simple and thus simplifying the calculation of mitral valve area from the hemodynamic tracings. How did Cui et al. do it? Since the mean MVG is the pressure difference between the mean left atrial (MLAP) and mean left ventricular pressure during diastole (MLVP) [i.e. MLVG 5 MLAP 2 MLVP], the computation of the mean MVG would be simple if we knew what the MLVP was. The MLAP is easily obtained from the electronically meaned signal on the hemodynamic recorder. The new observation from Cui et al. [1] is how to obtain the MLVP. The gentlemen from China noted that the area under the left ventricular pressure during diastole is roughly a triangle with the three corners formed from the intersections of the diastolic filling period (DFP) starting and ending points (mitral valve closure and opening) marking the vertical lines intersecting with the LV pressure line (rising diagonally across diastole, see Fig. 1). This triangular area can be estimated from the rectangular area LVEDP 3 DFP divided by 2. Thus, the MLVP is equal to the LVEDP/2. From this key calculation, the mean valve gradient is therefore simplified as the MVG 5 MLAP 2 LVEDP/2. Of course, the proof of concept is demonstrated by the extraordinarily strong correspondence between the mitral valve areas calculated by the Gorlin and the Hakki formulae [2,3]. By Gorlin, mitral valve area correlations both before and after mitral balloon valvuloplasty were very close (r > 0.9) with standard error of estimates at 1.6 mm Hg. It was also notable that the greatest differences between Cui method and the Gorlin method was only 4 mm Hg in 3/210 calculations. When comparing Cui MVG to the standard methods for Gorlin and Hakki, mitral valve areas were nearly identical. (see Table I) The Cui MVG slightly overestimated the standard calculation of MVG before but not after mitral valvuloplasty. Hakki significantly underestimated MVGs after mitral balloon valvuloplasty. The Cui MVG was not affected by mitral regurgitation, aortic insufficiency, atrial fibrillation, or heart rate unlike that of Hakki. Cui MVG is very simple but one must still consider potential problems when applying any new method. Heart rate changes will change the shape of the triangular area under the LV pressure curve, and thus tachycardia may cause a potential overestimation of valve Fig. 1. From Cui et al. (1). The area of triangle ABC approximates the area under the LV pressure tracing during diastole (Area LVD). The LVEDP approximates the height of the triangle ABC. So the mean diastolic LV pressure (MDLVP) can be calculated as (area of triangle ABC)/DFP 5 (DFP 2 LVEDP/2)/ DFP 5 LVEDP/2, where DFP is diastolic filling period; LA is left atrial pressure tracing; LV is left ventricular pressure tracing; LVEDP is the left ventricular end diastolic pressure. The horizontal line is my estimate of MLAP, since no mean LAP is shown and the dotted arrow is the late LA 'A' wave.


Original strain, Brevibacterium flavum TQ9806 (Met-+2-TAr + α-ABr+β-HLr+SGr.+Rifr 300 μg· mL-1), was mutated by DES and Lid, UV and LiCl successively. Then an L-leucine producing strain TK0303 which was resistant to rifampin 800 μg · mL-1 was obtained. Under the condition of batch culture in 5 L fermentor, the mutant can produce higher L-leucine production of 26.4 g · L-1 than 22.7 g · L-1 of TQ9806.


The development of a set of stable implosions using indirectly driven plastic microspheres with argon (0.1 atm) doped deuterium (50 atm) has provided a unique source for testing the plasma spectroscopy of the high energy density imploded core. The core reaches electron densities of >1024 cm−3 with temperatures of ∼ 1 keV and has been shown to be reproducible on a shot to shot basis. Moreover, it has been shown that not only the peak temperature and density are consistent, but that the temporal evolution of the mean temperature and density of the final phase of the implosion is also reproducible. These imploding cores provide a unique opportunity to test aspects of plasma spectroscopy that are difficult to study in other plasmas and to develop methods to test stable hydrodynamics. We will present experimental results and discuss spectroscopic analysis algorithms to determine consistent temperature and density fits to determine gradients in the plasma.


Seat belt detection is one of the important detecting functions and is widely needed in the field of intelligent transportation system. However, research for which is still limited in terms of the increasing requirements at present. In this paper, one algorithm for detecting vehicle seat belts on road is proposed. And according to the method discussed in this paper, a type of feature based on gradient orientation is employed to describe and detect seat belts. After the image pre-processing, the front window location and the human face detecting, this feature is finally extracted in the selected region and the conclusion is given by counting the seat belt feature in the area which close to the right side of the detected human face area. Another approach is also designed in case that the human face detection fails. Tests on high-definition vehicle images show that the proposed algorithm is capable of extracting belt-feature under difference circumstances and is also effective to tell whether the driver has fastened its seat belt.


The ERA (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis) project resulted in a homogeneous data set describing the atmosphere over a time span of 15 years, from 1979 to 1993. To validate (part of) these data against independent observations we use the ERA surface winds to drive the WAM wave model. The modeled significant wave heights are then compared with observations. From this comparison the quality of the forcing winds is assessed. The patterns of computed wave heights agree well with observed patterns, and they are of the right magnitude. This confirms the realistic nature of the ERA winds. If one looks in detail, it appears that the significant wave heights resulting from the model are systematically lower than the observed ones in areas of high winds and waves and higher in areas of low winds and waves. It is argued that underestimation at high winds speeds is most likely a resolution effect, as wind and thus wave peaks are missed by finite resolution in space and time, while overestimation at low wind speeds most likely results from internal WAM errors. It is concluded that the monthly mean ERA winds are slightly (less than 5%) too low in areas of high winds, while from this study it is not possible to draw a decisive conclusion on the quality of ERA winds at low wind speeds. At the same time, the hindcast data form a 15-year climatology of global waves. This climatology is analyzed in terms of annual cycle and trends. The largest trends in significant wave height occur in the North Atlantic with an increase of more than 12 cm/yr in January, and south of Africa where the increasing trend exceeds 7 cm/yr in July. These trends, however, are only marginally significant. Furthermore, they exhibit a large month-to-month variability, so that on a seasonal basis the trends are significant only in small parts of the ocean. In conclusion, we are unable to confirm a significant change in wave height during the ERA period.


ABSTRACT Standard theories treat A→C and A→D as equivalent when C and D coincide on A. However, Yablo's incremental conditional does not behave in this way. Consider the following: (1) a = b→Fa. (2) a = b→Fb. According to Yablo, the real content of (1) is Fb and the real content of (2) is Fa. In worlds where a = b is true, both (1) and (2) have the same truth-value. However, 'Fa can come apart truth-value-wise from Fb in worlds where a isn't b.' In this paper, I argue that this feature of Yablo's incremental conditional makes his if-thenism incompatible with fictionalism.


The paper presents two fundamental models of scientific communication and characterizes and exemplifies the concept of 'Scientometrics' and its sub-research areas: publication analysis, including so-called publication point evaluation; citation analysis; and crown indicators for research evaluation. The recent research area 'Webometrics' is briefly discussed. 1. Scientific Communication Models Commonly the scientific production in the form of journal articles, conference proceedings papers and research monographs are evaluated by means of peer reviewing prior to publication. Site visits in laboratories by peers may further assure the quality of the research and its communication to the academic community. Another way of dealing with the recognition and, to a certain extent, quality of research outcome is to analyze the citations received by the publications from peers over a given time period. The latter analysis methodologies assumes that only original and peer reviewed publications form part of the analysis, i.e. that both the cited as well as the citing publications are peer reviewed and follow common academic conventions. In the digital age this assumption (or condition) may be difficult to maintain owing to the variation of digital communication platforms presently available. Two models of scientific communication are competing. The classic model – Diagram 1 – adheres to the pre-web and pre-open access age of scientific communication, i.e. the time prior to 1995. The communication of pre-prints via surface mail was cumbersome. The technical reports were virtually non-accessible, since they were stored as single copies in closed institutional archives. The travel of a publication from research idea to paper or/and journal article was straight forward. Most importantly, access to the full text of the publications was restricted to access to the proceedings and journals proper in their printed versions. Only surrogate records (often with abstracts though) were accessible in libraries, bibliographic and citation databases. Document, Information & Knowledge Wuhan University, China, 2009, p. 1-11 2 PDF 文件使用 "pdfFactory Pro" 试用版本创建www.fineprint.cn ISSN: 1003-2797 Research idea & activities Research idea & activities Technical Research report Technical Research report Peers Peers


A severe problem for mutual information-maximizing lookup table (MIM-LUT) decoding of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is the high memory cost for using large tables, while decomposing large tables to small tables deteriorates decoding error performance. In this paper, we propose a systematic method, called mutual information- maximizing quantized belief propagation (MIM-QBP) decoding, to remove the lookup tables used for MIM-LUT decoding. Our method leads to a very practical decoder, namely the MIM-QBP decoder, which can be implemented based only on simple mappings and additions. Simulation results show that the proposed MIM-QBP decoder can outperform the state-of-the-art MIM-LUT decoder. Moreover, the MIM-QBP decoder with only 3 bits per message can outperform the floating-point belief propagation (BP) decoder at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regions with a maximum of 10 iterations.


Cleanup of contaminated sediments along the Seattle waterfront is complicated by uncertainty regarding sources of contamination and the interrelationship between point sources, non-point sources, vessel traffic, construction projects, and resuspension. The results of field studies are presented that address the potential for recontamination of sediments following proposed cleanup projects, the sources of contamination and their relative magnitudes, and the natural and anthropogenic processes that affect transport of contaminated sediments along the waterfront. The primary factors affecting the success of cleanup projects along the Seattle waterfront are identified as resuspension of contaminated sediments by propellor wash and construction activities, and subsequent transport of the suspended sediments by natural and vessel-induced currents to adjacent areas.


The embodiment of the invention relates to a technology in the data communication field, in particular to a method and device for generating a printed circuit board design file. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring multiple sub-netlist files which are respectively formed in accordance with sub-diagrams of different parts of a printed circuit board schematic diagram; for each sub-netlist file, when the position of the initial base point in the sub-netlist file is different from the position of a preset initial base point, converting position coordinates in the sub-netlist file into those using the position of the preset initial base point as the position of the initial base point; writing the multiple sub-netlist files in a main netlist file, wherein when network items having the same function exist among the multiple sub-netlist files, one of the network items having the same function can be selected according to preset rules and written in the main netlist file; and generating the printed circuit board design file in accordance with the main netlist file. By using the method and device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the working efficiency can be improved under the condition that cost is saved.


The invention relates to an environmentally-friendly method for synthesizing selenomethionine. The method comprises the following steps of: reducing alpha-amido-protected aspartate beta-alkyl grease into alpha-amido-protected homoserine, then carrying out acid catalysis for ring closing to obtain inner grease of the homoserine, then reacting with metal selenide to generate homocystine selenide, obtaining the alpha-amido-protected homoserine, and finally eliminating protection and obtaining a selenomethionine product. The environmentally-friendly method has the advantages that the highly-toxic and rotten dimethyl diselenide is prevented from being used, so that the damage to the environment and operators are greatly reduced; the yield is high, the production cost is lower, the product purity is high, and optical and pure selenomethionine can be produced by large batch; and the obtained product can be used for preparing the intermediate of a selenium-containing medicine, and solves the difficulty that the selenomethionine and the related medicines can not be popularized.


Phase imbalance is
widespread in the distribution networks in the UK, continental Europe, US,
China, and other countries. First, this paper reviews the mass scale of phase
imbalance and its consequences. Three challenges arise from phase rebalancing:
the scalability, data scarcity, and adaptability (towards changing imbalance
over time) challenges. Solutions to address the challenges are: 1) using
retrofit-able, maintenance-free, automatic solutions to overcome the
scalability challenge; 2) using data analytics to overcome the data-scarcity
challenge; and 3) using phase balancers or other online phase rebalancing
solutions to overcome the adaptability challenge. This paper categorizes existing
phase rebalancing solutions into three classes: 1) load/lateral re-phasing; 2)
using phase balancers; 3) controlling energy storage, electric vehicles,
distributed generation, and micro-grids for phase rebalancing. Their advantages
and limitations are analyzed and ways to overcome the limitations are
recommended. Finally, this paper suggests future research topics.


Eight fit male subjects (24 yr, 176 cm, 79 kg) stood, or walked at speeds of 0·5 or 0·9 m s−1 for 20-min periods on grades of − 10 to + 25% with loads of 20 or 40 kg. Energy expenditure (watt) was not significantly different in any of the standing conditions; grade and load increased energy expenditure while standing but not significantly. Although all the standing energy expenditure means were relatively low, high perceived exertion ratings suggest limits to tolerance time in some of these conditions. All the standing means were significantly lower than the walking means. Walking 0·9 m s−1 on a −10% grade was significantly lower than walking 0·5 m s−1 on a + 10% grade, which was significantly lower than walking 0·9 m s−1 on a + 10% grade. In the walking conditions there was a significant difference between loads: means for the 20 kg loads were lower than means for the 40 kg loads. As the condition became more strenuous by increasing load, speed, and/or grade (while walking), energy expenditure became mor...


In this paper, we study the invasion dynamics of a diffusive pioneer-climax model in monotone and non-monotone cases. For parameter ranges in which the system admits monotone properties, we establish the existence of spreading speeds and their coincidence with the minimum wave speeds by monotone dynamical system theories. The linear determinacy of the minimum wave speeds is also studied by constructing suitable upper solutions. For parameter ranges in which the system is non-monotone, we further determine the existence of spreading speeds and traveling waves by the sandwich technique and upper-lower solution method. Our results generalize the existing results established under monotone assumptions to more general cases.


''Is hypertension a fatal disease today?'' The question discussed at this Satellite Symposium of the 2011 Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension is obviously of the utmost importance, and the answer is straightforward: unfortunately, it is. As is well illustrated in the first paper by Professor Chalmers' group, high blood pressure ''is responsible for 7.6 million deaths per annum worldwide, more than any other risk factor''. This predominant role of hypertension among the causes of death is in part due to the success of medicine: reduction of infant mortality, improvement of social and hygienic conditions, increased aging, in such a way that hypertension is no longer the top killer in developed countries only, but it is becoming the top killer in many of the developing parts of the world also.


The object of the invention is a layer (10) acoustically resistive comprising at least one fabric layer (12) of acoustic damping and a reinforcing material, characterized in that said reinforcing material comprises a web (14) son, open area rate adjustable secured to said fabric acoustique.L'invention damping also relates to the method of manufacturing such acoustically resistive layer and a obtenu.L'invention panel also provides a method of making an acoustic damping panel having at least one acoustically resistive layer and the outer panel obtenu.L'application relates more particularly to the embodiment of acoustically damping products for aircraft motoreacteurs nacelles.


Methods of packaging micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) using advanced multichip module (MCM) foundry processes are described. MCM packaging provides an efficient solution for integration of MEMS with other microelectronic technologies. The MCM foundries investigated for MEMS packaging were the General Electric high density interconnect (HDI) and chip-on-flex (COF) processes, as well as the Micro Module Systems (MMS) MCM-D process. Bulk and surface micromachined test die were packaged with CMOS electronics using these MCM foundries. Procedures were developed to successfully release and assemble the MEMS devices without degrading the MCM package or any other die in the module. The use of MCM foundries enables the cost-effective development of microsystems in situations for which monolithic integration of MEMS and microelectronics is not suitable.


Multi-objective image segmentation is an important problem in machine vision. Multiphase level set model is sensitive to the initial contours of zero level set functions and image noise. Inappropriate initial position of zero level set or large image noise will lead to wrong segmentation results. A multiphase level set model-based multi-objective image segmentation method cooperating with spatial fuzzy C-means clustering,i.e. SFCM-MLS,is proposed. Coarse segmentation results are acquired with spatial fuzzy C-means clustering. Initial level set functions of multiphase level set model are defined with these coarse results in order to finish the accurate segmentation. The proposed SFCM-MLS cooperating image segmentation algorithm is tested on magnetic resonance image of human brain and CT image of human liver with tumours. Experiment results indicate that compared with classical MLS,SFCM-MLS algorithm is insensitive to initial contours of zero level set and improves the accuracy of multi-objective image segmentation.


The analysis of parameters and characteristics of Schottky-diode-based short-wave detectors is presented. Factors influencing the basic performance of the detector are considered. Schematics for the diode and the detector to calculate similar devices is given.


UV chemical degradation is a low-cost and sustainable wastewater treatment technology that protects the environment. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mass transfer, and photochemical kinetic models combined with the continuous flow mode of UV/H2O2 were applied for the photochemical reaction of internal airlift circulation photocatalytic reactor to improve the efficiency of the reaction. Results show that with the increase in gas flow rate, the turbulence intensity and internal circulation effect of liquid in the reactor can be enhanced under the condition of constant baffle spacing. The CFD simulation prediction results of the chemical components in the liquid flow show that H2O2 has a high correlation with the OH radical formation, which depends on the intensity of UV. Thus, the degradation rate of methylene blue (MB) has a high correlation with UV intensity. The degradation efficiency of MB is improved with the increase in gas velocity by comparing the experimental data with the numerical simulation data. The experimental data are generally lower than the numerical prediction data, and although a certain difference range is observed, the overall prediction results are better.


Soil biological and chemical activity in two texturally contrasting soils (Amaoba and Ajata soils) exposed to agro industrial effluents were analyzed to ascertain the effects of these effluents on soil microbial distribution and soil chemical properties (soil pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen available P and exchangeable basics) across three soil depths. The agro-industrial effluents were palm oil mill (POME) and cassava mill (CME) collected from industries in Abia state. The bacterial and fungal distribution in the effluent soils and a control soil were observed at three depths, the variations in the chemical properties at the three sampling depths were statistically analyzed using a 2 X 3 X 3 factorial analysis of variance, where factor A represents the type of effluent, factor B represent the depth of sampling and factor C represents the treatment replicates and significant treatment means were separated using FLSD at five percent level of probability. The results indicate a significant (P < 0.05) effect of the effluents on the soil chemical properties. The values for chemical properties decreased with depth of sampling. The microbial diversity was higher in soils exposed to POME in the Ajata soil than those exposed to CME, The bacterial populations identified include Klebsiella Spp, staphylococcus spp, E. Coli, Psuedomonas spp and Staph aureus for the different depths in both sample sites. Fungal populations identified include Penicillum spp, Rhizopus Spp, Trichoderma sppp, Fusarium spp and mucor. There were generally higher populations of these organisms at the 0-20cm depth. However the most frequent occurring bacteria for the POME and CME affected areas were Eschericha coli, pseudomonas spp, and staphylococcus spp. While for fungi the most occurring spp were Penicillum spp, Rhzopus spp, and Aspergillus spp. There were significant differences in the soil chemical properties with respect to the parent material, type of industrial effluent and depth of soil sampling. The microorganisms with the highest occurring frequency were Penicillium spp, Rhizopus spp, Aspergillus spp, Escherishia coli Pseudomonas spp and Staphylococcus spp. The microbial populations in the soil from different parent material responded to palm oil mill effluent (POM) and cassava mill effluent (CM) as they differed from those obtained in the control soil. Soil chemical properties of the effluent soils also differed from the control soil.


We design and implement LRP, a device-based, standardcompliant solution to latency reduction in mobile networks. LRP takes a data-driven approach. It works with a variety of latency-sensitive mobile applications without requiring root privilege, and ensures the latency is no worse than the legacy LTE design. Using traces from operational networks, we identify all elements in LTE uplink latency and quantify them. LRP designates small dummy messages, which precede uplink data transmissions, thus eliminating latency elements due to power-saving, scheduling, etc. It imposes proper timing control among dummy messages and data packets to handle various conflicts. The evaluation shows that, LRP reduces the median LTE uplink latency by a factor up to 7.4× (from 42ms to 5ms) for four tested apps over five mobile carriers.


1. Much controversy has attended discussions of the factors responsible for variation in rate of metabolism in mammals. 2. Potential factors were examined here by analysis of covariance to determine whether they correlate with basal rate of metabolism in mammals. 3. Variation in body mass, taxonomic affiliation, food habits, climate, activity level, propensity to enter torpor and form of reproduction accounts for almost all variation in the basal rate of metabolism in mammals. 4. In all analyses body mass had the greatest impact on basal rate. Often it was the only factor to influence basal rate in small or ecologically constricted sets of species


Wireless Ad hoc network consists a set of mobile or immobile nodes. This network provides wireless services for different nodes without any fixed infrastructure. Quick and economical deployment of ad hoc networks yields its well desirability for different applications. One of the most significant issue in resource management of wireless ad hoc networks is power control. It should be done in a rational way to alleviate interference across the network. Efficient power control saves the batteries as well as guaranteeing a minimum level for SINR to satisfy QOS requirements of all nodes. In this work we propose a new approach based on game theory to change rate, modulation and power in the game algorithm. All users are satisfied of incorporating the game rules. Selfishness of autonomous users are bounded consequently under this framework. It implies the game reaches to the desired point called Nash equilibrium point. Through various numerical results, we show that all users have a tradeoff between benefit maximization and transmission power minimization, considering rate and modulation in their strategies.


Two alternative representations of the wave field in a curved oversized electromagnetic waveguide are discussed: adiabatic modes, matched to the local value of the axis curvature, and full-wave solution of the vectorial parabolic equation. The latter, although being asymptotically equivalent to the adiabatic mode theory, displays additional diffraction effects. A simplified complex WKB analysis is performed in order to estimate residual mode conversion in smooth waveguide bends. Application of the vectorial PE to radio propagation in tunnels is illustrated with numerical examples.


HOMOPHILY, PAYOFF DISTRIBUTIONS, AND TRUNCATION SELECTION IN REPLICATOR DYNAMICS Bryce Morsky Advisors: University of Guelph, 2016 Chris T. Bauch & Daniel Ashlock This dissertation explores the field of replicator dynamics by examining extensions to and relaxations of the classical replicator equation and complimentary agent-based models. We extend the replicator equation by the incorporation of homophilic imitation, a form of tag-based selection. We show that though the equilibria are not affected by this modification, the population's diversity may increase or decrease depending on two invasion scenarios we detail, and there is significant impact on the rates of convergence to equilibria. Two important assumptions of the replicator equation that we relaxed are: mean payoffs, where all replicators earn the mean payoff of the underlying game; and proportional selection, where the probabilities for survival and reproduction are proportional to the difference between the fitness of a replicator and the mean fitness of the population. Our models thus comprise payoff distributions and two types of truncation selection: independent, where replicator above a threshold, φ, survive; and dependent, where the top τ of replicators survive. The reproduction rates are equal for all survivors. We show that the classical replicator equation is a special case of our independent truncation equation. Further, for any boundary fixed point, we may choose a φ such that that point is stable (or unstable). We observed complex and transient dynamics in both truncation methods. We applied this framework to evolutionary graphs that included diffusion, and show where cooperation is facilitated by these models in comparison to spatial and non-spatial proportional selection. Alfred Russel Wallace reasoned that the relatively unfit could coexist with the fit, and it has been argued that this would result in a genotypically diverse population resistant to extinction. This is because natural selection, rather than Spencer's "survival of the fittest," may be better encapsulated by the phrases: "survival of the fit," or "nonsurvival of the non-fit." We argue that truncation selection, here explored, can model this phenomenon, and thus is an important addition to the theoretical biology literature.


An experimental study is conducted to investigate the micro-scale heat transfer at an evaporating moving 3-phase contact line. The moving evaporating meniscus is formed by pushing or sucking a liquid column of HFE7100 in a vertical channel of 600 μm width using a syringe pump. The gas atmosphere is pure HFE7100 vapor. This channel is built using two parallel flat plates. A 10 μm thick stainless steel heating foil forms a part of one of the flat plates. Two-dimensional micro-scale temperature field at the back side of the heating foil is observed with a high speed infrared camera with a spatial resolution of 14.8 μm × 14.8 μm and an in-situ calibration procedure is used at each pixel element. A high speed CMOS camera is used to capture the shape of the moving meniscus, the images are post-processed to track the free surface of the meniscus. Local heat fluxes from the heater to the evaporating meniscus are calculated from the measured transient wall temperature distributions using an energy balance for each pixel element. In the vicinity of the 3-phase contact line the heat flux distribution shows a local maximum due to high evaporation rates at this small region. The local maximum heat flux at the 3-phase contact line area is found to be dependent on the input heat flux, the velocity and the direction of the meniscus movement. The results give detailed insight into the specific dynamic micro-scale heat and fluid transport process.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


This paper describes a robust method of secure remote access for Web based clinical information system using Healthcare PKI authentication. It enables medical staffs to refer the medical data using his own PCs from their home or their mobile phones over the Internet. This system contributes to reduce strain of medical staffs especially in such institutes where intensive care is carried uninterruptedly. For this purpose, it must permit the remote access to the hospital information system from PCs in various conditions, it is necessary to establish a secure connection using VPN or SSL, and control the policy of client PCs for the prevention of computer virus effect etc., and at the last, confirm user authentication with strict identification using Healthcare PKI (HPKI).


This correction is in regard to Figure Figure3a.3a. Compound 2K-3 contains a typo in its sequence at position 13 (S instead of K). The sequence should read KKLAKFLVS*ALK*ALK. Its scramble control, 2K-3-scramble, is listed correctly. Compound analysis and all experiments were performed using the compound with the correct sequence. This typo does not change any of the analysis or conclusions in this paper. We sincerely apologize for this typographical error.

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Thia paper deala with the blind channel identification baaed on accond oder atatiatics. For FIR channels with unconrlated input aquencea, Tong et. al. has pmpored a identification method under the apecial mnk condition. In thia paper, we eatablirh the relction- rhip between the nank condition and identifiability of FIR channels uring recond order cycloatationary atatiatica. We then genenalire fhe method to the FIR channels with correlated input aequencca. For gen- cm1 ARMA channela, we prepoae a method which directly identify the LC~I and the polea of channela. Computer aimulation ahowa e5ectiue- neaa of pmpored method.


In this work,the determination of dimethyl-aminoethyl ginkgolide B mesylate(XQ-1H) in the plasma of beagle dogs was developed by the proposed LC-MS/MS method.The XQ-1H was separated on an XTerra MS C18 column(2.1 mm×100mm,5μm) at 20℃.The mobile phase,which consisted of 0.1% formic acid and methanol(75∶25),was set at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min(isocratic elution) and a total injection volume of 5mL.Lafutidine was used as the internal standard.The electrospray ionization source(ESI) operated at the positive ion mode and multiple reaction monitoring(MRM) was used as the detector.The results indicated that this method had a linear standard curve in the range of 5.0~5044.0 ng/mL with a minimum quantification of 5.0 ng/mL and a methodology recovery of 94.2%;the within-batch RSD and the between-batch RSD were 4.2% and 4.5%,respectively.This method provides a sensitive,specific and easy-to-use alternative for the determination of XQ-1H in the plasma of beagle dogs.


Togainsomeinsight into thestructural and functional roles ofsterols inhigher plant cells, various plant sterols havebeenincorporated into soybean phosphatidyicho- line (PtdCho) bilayers andtested fortheir ability toregulate water permeability andacyl chain ordering. Sitosterol wasthe mostefficient sterol inreducing thewater permeability ofthese vesicles andstigmasterol appeared tohavenosignificant effect. Vesicles containing 24fmethylcholesterol exhibited aninter- mediate behavior, similar tothat ofvesicles containing choles- terol. Cycloartenol, thefirst cyclic biosynthetic precursor of plant sterols, reduced thewater permeability inavery effective way.Oftwounusual plant sterols, 246-methylpollinastanol and 14a,24Udimethylcholest-8-en-3fi-ol, theformer wasfound to befunctionally equivalent tositosterol andthelatter wasfound toberelatively inefficient. 2HNMR experiments havebeen performed with oriented bilayers consisting ofsoybean PtdCho withsitosterol, stigmasterol, or24-methylpoll nastanol. The results provided clear evidence thatsitosterol and24k- methylpolinastanol exhibit ahighefficiency toorder PtdCho acyl chains that closely parallels their ability toreduce water permeability. Bycontrast, stigmasterol shows alowefficiency forbothfunctions. Theseresults showthatsitosterol and stigmasterol, twomajor24-ethylsterols differing onlybythe absence orpresence oftheA22double bondintheside chain, probably playdifferent roles inregulating plant membrane properties; they also mayexplain why9P,19-cyclopropylsterols behave asgoodsurrogates ofsitosterol. Inmammalian cells, thebulkoffree cholesterol islocalized intheplasma membrane whereitparticipates intheregula- tion ofmembrane fluidity andintheactivity ofmanymem- brane-bound enzymes (1). Changes incholesterol content havebeenshowntoinduce modifications incellular func- tions, whichdepend onthedynamics ofthecell-surface membrane such astherecognition ofanexternal signal (1). In higher plant cells, thethree typical phytosterols: sitosterol ((24R)-ethylcholest-5-en-3,3-ol), stigmasterol ((24S)-ethyl- cholesta-5E,22-dien-3/3-ol),


This paper examines an interdependence of returns and volatilities among equity markets using spillover index methodology developed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2009). This paper is an extension of the work done by Diebold and Yilmaz to examine whether the inclusion of both risk and return in VAR model change the spillover index or how much return explain by risk not only by the return itself. We use vector autoregressive framework and forecast error variance decomposition methodology to compute spillover index. For the sample period from January 1,1993 to December 31,2010 , we find that return is associated with risk and provide the evidence of contribution of volatility in explaining the return .We also test the spillover effects over different forecast horizon and find the evidence that spillover effect not much at initial period, however over the time it pick up. In an analysis of 15 equity markets during the sample which include key economic events, we find striking evidence that return spillover plot displays no bursts whereas return and volatility spillover plot shows clear bursts.


Some of the 'early adopters' of risk-based inspection (RBI) failed to cross the RBI technology chasm because as pioneers, they were essentially experimenting with the suitability of this new technology, Figure.1. The followers ('early and late majority') can benefit from the experiences (failures and successes) of these trailblazers. RBI has received considerable attention since the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) [1] and the American Petroleum Institute (API) [2] began publishing guidelines on risk-based inspection and maintenance planning methods in the late 1980's. The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) was one of the first operators in Bahrain to implement RBI. Since RBI planning continues to generate considerable interest in the Middle East, some of the practicalities of applying RBI are also presented in this paper. These experiences arose during a pilot study with TWI, conducted on process plant, storage tanks, boilers and pipelines at BAPCO in 2003. As part of a major joint industry project [3], TWI carried out a questionnaire-based industrial survey in 2001, to gain a better understanding of the reality of RBI usage and the needs of operators. Approximately 90 of the questionnaires that were distributed worldwide, were returned to TWI. Some of the more interesting findings, are reported in this paper for the benefit of operators new to RBI.


An improved video denoising method based on motion compensated sphere bilateral filtering(MCSBF) is proposed.For video sequence degraded by noise,the reference frames of the current frame are built first by motion compensation between the current frame and the past/future frames.Then in the three-dimensional space which is composed of the current frame and the compensated reference frames,a three-dimensional bilateral filter in which the filtering window is a sphere is used to suppress the noise in the current frame.By fully utilizing temporal and spatial correlations in video content,the proposed method can effectively suppress the noise in the video while keeps textures and details well.Simulation results show that MCSBF outperforms conventional denoising methods like spatial temporal joint filtering scheme(JNT),spatial temporal varying filter(STVF) and multi-hypothesis motion compensated filter(MHMCF) both in peak signal noise ratio(PSNR) and visual quality.


During the preparation of The Guide to the Birds of Wallacea, and a review of the conservation and status of Wallacea's endemic birds, it became clear that reviews of little know species or species groups would perhaps aid those species' conservation by drawing attention to them. Secondly such accounts would also provide a useful resource to the growing number of field workers in this, until recently, sadly neglected region. This first account deals with three virtually unknown Tyto Owls endemic to Wallacea.


SUBTITLE: BELL AND BOEING ARE NEARING DESIGN FREEZE ON THE 609 TILTROTOR : IT'S A FIRST FOR CIVIL AVIATION, BUT FOR THE COMPANIES THAT WILL BUILD IT, THE TECHNOLOGY IS TRIED AND TRUE.


Beam-based positron annihilation spectroscopy has been applied to the study of near-surface vacancies created by 2 keV B+ ions implanted into Cz Si. The use of a controllable-energy positron beam means that the probe can be tuned to maximize the response to the subsurface damage. Time-dependent changes have been observed in the near-surface vacancy concentration profile. For example, after one week at room temperature, exposure of an implanted sample to white light for 1 h resulted in the migration of ∼95% of the measurable damage to sinks—primarily, it is assumed, to the surface. The relative importance of temperature, air, and light has been investigated.


Objective To investigate the therapeutic effect of Flupentixol and Melitracen (Deanxit) on patients of functional dyspepsia(FD) with anxiety and depression.Methods One hundred twenty eight FD patients with different degree of anxiety and depression were randomly divided into 2 groups:group 1 is treatment group(64 cases),and group 2 is comparison group(64 cases).For group 2,on the basis of mental leading,patients were dealed with the routine treatment on the principle of idividuality,while for group 1,patients were treated by Flupentixol and Melitracen(Deanxit) every morning and midday,1 pill per time.The course of treatment for both groups was 28 days.The therapeutic effect was assessed according to the change of symptom integral.Results Comparing with group 2,both the apparent efficiency and the total efficiency of group 1 were prior to the other(P0.05). Conclusion Flupentixol combined with Deanxit is therapeutically effective in treating FD patients with anxiety and depression.


In this paper, the system of 16-channel video multiplexer based on AM-209M is introduced. The 16-channel video input image monitor really time the circuit by AT89C55 and the hardward circuit and softward programme are also given.


In the course of the translation from the original language to the target language,translation will cause misunderstanding of the original information and the obstacle to communication.Can the literary translation be equivalent or not? The article tries to deal with the problem from the language,the culture,and the acceptance of the readers and come to a conclusion that the "equivalent literary translation" is so difficult to realize.But we can set a feasible goal and try all our best to be "equivalent" and achieve "the assimilation" in translation.


Objective To explain spontaneous abortion by comparing the expression character of survivin and Ki-67 in trophoblasts of normal pregnancy mouse models and spontaneous abortion mouse models.Methods The abortion-prone CBA×DBA/2 matings were established,while the models of spontaneous abortion and the nonabortion-prone CBA×Balb/c matings were used as the models of normal pregnancy.Immunohistochemistry method(SP) was employed to detect the expressions of survivin and Ki-67 in trophoblasts of mice at the day 13 of gestation.Results Comparing with normal pregnancy models,the expressions of survivin and Ki-67 in trophoblasts of spontaneous abortion models were significantly lower(P0.01).Conclusion The expression levels of survivin and Ki-67 are associated with spontaneous abortion;the lowed expressions of survivin and Ki-67 in trophoblasts might be one of causes of spontaneous abortion.


Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar cells (QDSSC) have great potential to replace silicon-based solar cells. Quantum dots of various materials and sizes could be used to convert most of the visible light into the electrical current. This paper put emphasis on the synthesis of Bismuth Sulphide quantum dots and selectivity of the anionic precursor by Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption Reaction (SILAR). Bismuth Sulfide (Bi2S3) (group V – Vi semiconductor) is strong contestant for cadmium free solar cells due to its optimum band gap for light harvesting. Optical, structural and electrical measurements are reported and discussed. Problem regarding the choice of precursor for anion extraction is discussed. Band gap of the synthesized quantum dots is 1.2 eV which does not match with the required energy band gap of bismuth sulfide that is 1.7eV.


Re-starts the liquid system and the fuel gas supply system. A first storage tank reliquefaction system according to an embodiment of the present invention is to store a first liquefied gas; A second storage tank for storing the liquefied point lower than a second liquefied gas liquefied gas; Article comprising a fuel supply tank to store the second liquefied gas that received from the second storage tank, the unit heat exchangers for the first heat exchange between the second liquefied gas of the first liquefied gas boil-off gas and the fuel supply tank is supplied from the first storage tank to be carried out jaeaek conversion unit that; And receiving jaeaek packer rough supplying a first liquid gas separator to separate the boil-off gas into a liquid component and a gas component; and a.


Most military and civil medical emergency plans, on both sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the iron and bamboo curtains, include provision for the stockpiling and use of the E M 0 vaporiser system' itself or some similar apparatus designed to draw ambient air over volatile agents. Many isolated practitioners in developing countries use such apparatus routinely for economy and out of necessity in the face of a scarcity of compressed medical gases2 On the other hand, most centres throughout the world which profess to practise and teach modern anaesthesia rely entirely on general anaesthetic techniques which are dependent on a supply of medical gases, either piped or in cylinders. Few anaesthetists in such sophisticated surroundings regard techniques dependent on ambient air as anything other than a second best alternative for emergencies and primitive surroundings. The consequence is that most specialist anaesthetists cannot be expected to be motivated to acquire the special expertise which is required to exploit draw-over anaesthesia to the full. This is surely a dangerous state of affairs! What chaos might ensue if, in the event of some emergency, hospitals in the United Kingdom were suddenly deprived of a supply of medical gases? Would there be enough well-maintained draw-over apparatus available and would there by a sufficient number of anaesthetists capable of using it to the best advantage? Is it fanciful or irresponsible to suggest a possible famine of medical gases? We do not think so. Twice in recent years we have come perilously close to being deprived of compressed medical gases. In 1966 nitrous oxide was temporarily withdrawn from many areas in the country for the analysis of the contents of suspect cylinders, following the deaths under anaesthesia of two patients who inhaled nitrous oxide which was contaminated by the higher oxides of n i t r ~ g e n . ~ Last year industry was deprived of oxygen during a strike of delivery drivers. Although supplies to hospitals were maintained on that occasion, who can tell, in the present state of labour relations, whether they too might be forfeit on some future occasion. We also know of at least two instances when main oxygen pipelines to individual hospitals were suddenly severed by mechanical diggers. Surely we owe it to our patients to ensure that apparatus is available to enable us to administer anaesthesia without compressed gases and that we are practised in its use.4 Simple though draw-over techniques are in principle, even experienced anaesthetists can get into trouble if they have not studied the practical details of their use in advance; in particular the purpose of the magnet on the Oxford Inflating bellows is often not immediately obvious to the uninitiated nor is the fact that there are two versions of the dual purpose Ruben and AMBU valves-anaesthetic and resuscitation-the latter being unsuitable for the administration of volatile anaesthetics by spontaneous respiration.5 It is interesting that, in a paper in this issue (p. 772) Towey et al. demonstrate that, contrary to previously held opinion, satisfactory alveolar ventilation can be achieved employing controlled ventilation and a moderate degree of hyperventilation using the E M 0 system with a simple Heidbrink valve, as originally described by Macintosh', at a constant partially closed setting. Can we go further, however? Is it not possible that techniques based on the spontmeous inhalation


CSCW systems are playing an increasing role in activism. How can new communications technologies support social movements? The possibilities are intriguing, but as yet not fully understood. One key technique traditionally leveraged by social movements is storytelling. In this paper, we examine the use of collective storytelling online in the context of a social movement organization called Hollaback, an organization working to stop street harassment. Can sharing a story of experienced harassment really make a difference to an individual or a community? Using Emancipatory Action Research and qualitative methods, we interviewed people who contributed stories of harassment online. We found that sharing stories shifted participants' cognitive and emotional orientation towards their experience. The theory of "framing" from social movement research explains the surprising power of this experience for Hollaback participants. We contribute a way of looking at activism online using social movement theory. Our work illustrates that technology can help crowd-sourced framing processes that have traditionally been done by social movement organizations.


Building on Glenn Johnson's asset fixity theory, this article introduces sunk cost and temporal uncertainty in Jorgenson's neoclassical theory of investment. Under the assumption of risk neutrality, we show how sunk cost and temporal risk affect the implicit rental value of capital and investment and entry-exit decisions. Results suggest there are important interactions between sunk cost and the effects of temporal uncertainty on production behavior.


Defined cDNA sequences encoding segments of envelope glycoproteins of the human immunodeficiency virus were expressed in E. coli. The recombinant env fusion proteins were tested for immunoreactivity with patient sera by radio immunoprecipitation procedures. The regions of the env proteins, carrying relevant antigenic determinants in respect to diagnostic purposes, could be identified.


This paper would like to see the role of UMKM (Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah//W/cro, Small and Middle Scale Unit) in tackling poverty. The main superiority of UMKM in tackling poverty is in its ability to create working spaces. UMKM usually developed in the villages and created a new center of economical growth without eliminating the primary sector (agriculture). The developing of UMKM has been impeded since the government failed to understand the nature of UMKM itself. In framing the policies related to the development of UMKM, the government has misassumption the nature of UMKM and the problems they faced. In fact in general the development of UMKM needs a more conducive environment. The step should be taken by the government in this case is to be more convenience ingiving the information to UMKM. There should be an effort to increase the demand of the product by UMKM.


There are different ways of providing mental health services to Australians living in rural and remote areas. Most involve visiting mental health specialists providing consultancy or clinical service to local medical practitioners or generic health professionals. Few involve the location of a mental health specialist in the community to provide clinical service, consultancy and case management. Yet, such a model is generally acknowledged as probably most likely to provide effective service delivery. Approximately four years ago, a general medical practice in a rural community in Tasmania employed a mental health specialist through a one-off Commonwealth grant. The role of this person includes provision of direct clinical service to members of the community, consultancy on mental health conditions to local medical practitioners, and assisting the professional and general community in gaining a better understanding of mental health issues. In 1999, the University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) in Tasmania was asked to establish a research program to evaluate the model. The UDRH agreed to undertake the research and added to the model by including rural mental health as part of the undergraduate preparation in Medicine, Nursing and Allied health disciplines. The research is currently in progress and the design involves a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. This paper presents the research design for the quantitative method, that involves three stages of data collection, and explores the initial data that has been gathered in the first stage of the research project.


Accurate and rapid flow rate measurement of solids in dense slurries remains an unsolved technical problem, with important industrial applications in chemical processing plants and long-distance solids conveyance. In a hostile two-phase medium, such a measurement calls for two independent parameter determinations, both by non-intrusive means. Typically, dense slurries tend to flow in laminar, non-Newtonian mode, eliminating most conventional means that usually rely on calibration (which becomes more difficult and costly for high pressure and temperature media). These issues are reviewed, and specific solutions are recommended in this report. Detailed calculations that lead to improved measuring device designs are presented for both bulk density and average velocity measurements. Cross-correlation, chosen here for the latter task, has long been too inaccurate for practical applications. The cause and the cure of this deficiency are discussed using theory-supported modeling. Fluid Mechanics are used to develop the velocity profiles of laminar non-Newtonian flow in a rectangular duct. This geometry uniquely allows the design of highly accurate `capacitive` devices and also lends itself to gamma transmission densitometry on an absolute basis. An absolute readout, though of less accuracy, is also available from a capacitive densitometer and a pair of capacitive sensors yields signals suitable formore » cross-correlation velocity measurement.« less


The influence that the randomness of train parameters has on the train-bridge coupled random vibration cannot be ignored.Based on the train-bridge vertical coupled model and considering the randomness of a few train parameters including the train load,the stiffness and damping of primary suspension and secondary suspension,,this paper selected the disperse representative points from multi-dimensional random variables by utilizing the number theory collocation method,and subdivided the joint probability density of representative points of Voronoi area according to normal distribution,thus obtaining the initial probability assignment.Then the random dynamic equation for probability density evolution method was established,and by using MATLAB,the program for analysis of train-bridge coupled random vibration was developed.Eventually,the newmark-βintegration method and the double edge difference method of TVD format were adopted to obtain the mean value,the standard deviation and the distribution of the time dependent probability density evolution.Results show that compared to the Monte Carlo method,the probability density evolution method has a higher accuracy and computation efficiency,with efficiency being improved by 1~2order of magnitudes.The results also verify that the random load of vehicle body is one of the major causes that incur train-bridge random vibration.The effects that the random stiffness and damping of secondary suspension has on the train vertical vibration should not be neglected.The bridge deflection mean first increased and then decreased with train speed.The coefficient of variation of bridge deflection was affected by train speed.


Several thousands of drugs are currently available on the U.S. market. These drugs can occasionally cause adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in patients. To assure the safety and efficacy of all regulated marketed drugs, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set up a spontaneous postmarketing surveillance system called MedWatch to monitor drugs, especially new ones, for unknown ADRs. However, as a passive reporting system, this method suffers from underreporting, inconsistent reporting and latency.
We propose a collaborative multi-agent software system, named ADRMonitor, for actively monitoring and detecting ADR signal pairs based on electronic patient data stored in different healthcare systems. To empower intelligent agents with effective decision-making capability, we have developed a fuzzy logic-based computational recognition-primed decision (RPD) model that utilizes fuzzy sets, fuzzy rules, and fuzzy reasoning to represent, interpret, and compute imprecise and subjective information. The fuzzy RPD model has been validated by using it to calculate the extent of causality between a drug (Cisapride, withdrawn by the FDA from the market in 2000 due to ADRs) and some of its adverse effects for 100 hypothetical patients. The simulated patients were created based on the profiles of over 1,000 real patients treated with the drug at our Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit before its withdrawal. The model validity was demonstrated by comparing the decisions made by the proposed model and those by two independent experienced internists. The levels of agreement were established by the weighted Kappa statistics and the results suggested good to excellent agreement between the physicians and the model.
To establish the advantages of our multi-agent approach over the current spontaneous postmarketing surveillance approach, we have investigated several major questions at the system level. We performed a simulation study using 275,400 hypothetical patient cases that were created on the basis of the real veteran patients. In the simulation, healthcare professionals and their intelligent agents were simulated by fuzzy RPD models with different decision-making capabilities. The simulation shows that (1) the number of ADRs detected by the multi-agent system is 7.8 times of the spontaneous reporting strategy; (2) the detection rate of an intelligent agent with moderate decision-making skills is 5 times higher than that of spontaneous reporting; (3) if the number of connected medical centers (each of them is comparable to our local medical center in terms of the number of patient cases) increases from 30 to 70, ADRs could be detected 15 month earlier. These results suggest that this novel multi-agent system has the potential to identify unknown ADRs much earlier than the current passive reporting system.


Abstract. Back fat thickness (BFT) and intramuscular fat (IMF) contents are known as major issues affecting meat performance. Several types of fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs), which involve signal transduction pathways, are abundantly presented in tissues such as intestine, liver, kidney, mammary gland, heart, and red skeletal muscle (Nechtelberger et al. 2001). FABPs have been reported to be differentially expressed genes during porcine adipogenesis (Samulin et al. 2008) and related to fat deposition (Szczerbal et al. 2007). Accordingly FABPs may be candidate genes to explain variation of fat related traits in pigs. Therefore, it is an essential process to search genetic variants that may provide useful genetic information to study associations with quantitative loci (QTL).


This study analyzed the factors that affect Regional Expenditures in Cities and Regencies in West Kalimantan. This study used a panel data which is a combination of time series and cross section data, while the overall data sample is 56. Data analysis was carried out using multiple linear regression. The results of the study proved that Regional Original Income (PAD) has a negative and significant effect on Regional Expenditures, because the sig value on the PAD variable is 0.000 < α=0.05. General Allocation Fund (DAU) has a positive and significant effect on Regional Expenditures. Based on the results of data processing, the sig value on the DAU variable is 0.000 < α=0.05. Special Allocation Fund (DAK) has a positive and significant effect on Regional Expenditures. Based on the results of data processing, the sig value for the DAK variable is 0.041< α=0.05. Local Revenues (PAD), General Allocation Fund (DAU) and Special Allocation Fund (DAK) simultaneously have a significant effect on Regional Expenditures based on the results of data processing in this study obtained a sig value of 0.000 <α=0.05. Based on the Coefficient of Determination Test (R2), the value of Adj R2 is 0.653 or 65.30 percent, meaning that the variability of Regional Expenditures can be explained by the variables of Regional Original Income (PAD), General Allocation Funds (DAU) and Special Allocation Funds (DAK) of 65.30 percent whereas 34.70 percent is explained by other variables outside the research model.


The development of molecular tools and phylogenetic methods have contributed to the explosion of taxonomic and phylogenetic investigations on parasites (both microand macroparasites, i.e. from viruses, bacteria, protists to arthropods and helminths), increasing our knowledge of considerable, and often cryptic, parasitic diversity. Concomitantly, the studies of host–parasite interactions and parasitism have influenced many scientific disciplines from biogeography to evolutionary ecology by using various comparative methods based on phylogenetic information to unravel shared evolutionary histories. The idea behind this book is indebted to the influential contributions of Roderic Page and Dan Brooks. Rod Page, in his edited book Tangled Trees (Page, 2003), has shown the importance of history, depicted by phylogenetics, for understanding the processes that may explain the macroevolutionary patterns of host–parasite co-diversification. Daniel Brooks and Deborah McLennan, in their book Nature of Diversity (Brooks & McLennan, 2002), have shown the importance of history, using also phylogenetics, as a background that is necessary for understanding processes and contingencies explaining the co-diversification of hosts and their parasites. The main objective of this book is to join two active fields of research activities – phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology – in order to better explore the diversification processes that may reveal and explain the patterns of parasite diversity, and concomitantly the diversification of their hosts. The two important aims of this book are, first, to provide an overview of recent advances in the evolutionary diversification of several major groups of microand macroparasites, and, second, to present an insight into established and emerging tools that can help test mechanisms and hypotheses that underlie the diversification and adaptation of these parasites. The present book is organized in three parts, namely (1) evolutionary ecology of parasite diversity, (2) evolutionary history of parasite diversity and (3) combining ecology and phylogenetics. The first part of this book starts with a chapter on quantifying parasite diversity, where Robert Poulin presents an overview of the ways in which parasite diversity can be measured. Several indices that quantify different facets of diversity, and that can be


The economic cycle adjusts economic operation through market self-improvement in order to realize economic equilibrium. Such an adjustment, however, may hurt economic growth by its re-allocation of resources. The government's macro control, through its anti-cycle operations, plays a significant role in reducing the negative effects caused by the economic cycle. Liu Wei and Cai Zhi-zhou have made an investigation of the economic cycle with its quantitative characteristics and operating mechanism in China. They point out that, in or order to maintain a sustainable and stable economic growth, an effective macro control should be implemented under specific economic conditions in China.


We describe an algorithm to compute the reduction modulo [Formula: see text] of a crystalline Galois representation of dimension [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] with distinct Hodge–Tate weights via the semi-simple modulo [Formula: see text] Langlands correspondence. We give some examples computed with an implementation of this algorithm in SAGE.


I dare say that the UNU Peace and Progress has never been this ambitious yet since its inception in 2013. For one, the journal only reopened its doors for publication this year following a two-year hiatus (the last issue was published in 2016). In the months leading to this publication's release, the Board also produced a total of three bi-monthly Transforming Our World newsletters relating to each of UNU's thematic clusters for 2015 to 2019: Peace and Governance (Jan-Feb 2019); Global Development and Inclusion (Mar-Apr 2019); and Environment, Climate, and Energy (May-Jun 2019).


This works deals with preliminary investigations of an induction machine supplied with voltage containing interharmonics using finite element method. The results of computations in ANSYS Maxwell environment were compared with results of measurements. The investigations were performed for a machine of rated power 3 kW for various interharmonic frequencies.


We show how the traditional protocol stack, such as TCP/IP, c an be eliminated for socket based high speed communication within a cluster. The SCI shared memory interconnect is used as an example, and we demonstrate how existing applications can utilize th e new technology without relinking. This is done by dynamically remapping the TCP/IP socket implemen tation to our high performance SCILAN sockets. We describe a novel mechanism for synchronization of communication through shared memory, aimed at minimizing the interrupt load on the receiving syst em. We discuss the implementation and present an evaluation with comparison to alternative techn ologies, such as 100baseT and ATM. Significant improvement over current solutions are shown both in terms o f thr ughput and latency.


With this essay, I take to task the relations between young men, addiction and spaces of violence with a particular focus on combat zones. Geographic theories of affect help elaborate the complex relations between young men's emotions, their addictive propensities and how that benefits the governance unities that create war machines. Deleuze's notion of the fold complicates those benefits by suggesting why some young men no longer fit the so-called normalcy of life back home and why they desire, rather, a continuous return to spaces of violence. My arguments are focused by Sebastian Junger's War (2010) and Restrepo (2010), Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2009), which present, in different ways, the potency of combat. The work focuses on difference and identity and, by so doing, suggests ways that affect can have political valence.


Anchor rods have been used to lash down guyed cables in telecommunications and power transmission lines. The ones can be buried or encased in concrete below-ground. Electric power companies perform inspections on their anchor rods through invasive techniques to analyze the corrosion levels. A promising nondestructive technique based on a Frequency Domain Reflectometry (FDR) method has been developed to measure the rods condition. A high frequency connector was designed to plug a network analyzer to the anchor rods. An impedance matching circuit was designed and it must be used between the connector and this instrument. Simulated and experimental results are presented for the matching circuit, and laboratory tests are shown, where it was plugged to the high frequency connector and a one-meter anchor rod.


Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (A. a) and its serotypes were commonly associated with Aggressive Periodontitis (AgP). Herpes virus along with A.a in sites of destruction, suggested that their co-occurence reduces the ability of macrophages to respond to bacteria and inhibits their phagocytic activity. JP2 clone is a highly leukotoxic strain of A.a, associated with Keywincreased progression of periodontal disease. The aim of the study was to determine the serotype distribution of A.a and its relationship to the presence of Herpes virus [Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and Cytomegalovirus (CMV)] in patients with AgP. The study included 20 patients with AgP and 20 periodontally healthy subjects. Subgingival plaque samples were collected from deepest pockets using Gracey curettes and transferred to transport media. The cDNA was extracted and analysed by PCR. Serotype d and JP2 were found to be significantly more prevalent among the participants and showed a positive correlation with increased PD and CAL, suggesting an association with the severity of AgP. Though CMV and EBV were also found to be associated with AgP, the results were insignificant. Females showed more association with disease severity than males, but the results were insignificant. There was a positive correlation between serotype d and JP2 with the periodontal status. CMV and EBV were also associated with the severity of AgP, but the results were insignificant. Further quantitative studies should prove the exact role of co- occurrence of serotypes with CMV and EBV and their effect on AgP.


Paris polyphylla Smith, whose place of intorduction is located in Yunnan, Sichuan and parts of Guizhou, has important medicinal value. For many years, scholars from home and abroad have done a lot of research on prediction of agricultural products and medicinal materials. However, there is little prediction about Paris polyphylla Smith. This paper establishes ARIMA time series model based on the market price of Paris polyphylla Smith from July 2013 to August 2018 and forecasts the price from September 2018 to July 2019. Compared with the price from September 2018 to July 2019, R_fitting coefficient is 0.954 and the relative error is within 0.072. The prediction of price strengthens the research about price fluctuation of Paris polyphylla Smith and improves the ability of drug farmers to resist risks of the price fluctuation of Paris polyphylla Smith, which will enable drug farmers to improve revenue. It has extremely significant meaning in the the stability of the pharmaceutical market as well as guarantee the income of farmers.


Stability analyses of two‐dimension conventional Burnett and Woods equations were carried out. The characteristic stability equations of these two equations were first derived and the characteristic curves were achieved. The linearized stability analyses show that the two‐dimension conventional Burnett and Woods equations are not stable. The critical Knudsen numbers for these two extended hydrodynamic equations are 0.353 and 0.130, respectively. The critical Knudsen numbers are smaller than those of one‐dimension equations. The two‐dimension extended hydrodynamic equations are more unstable than one‐dimension equations.


Background Equine gastric glandular disease (EGGD) is a term used to classify erosive and ulcerative diseases of the glandular mucosa of the equine stomach. Epidemiologic studies of risk factors for EGGD have not been reported. Objective To determine risk factors for EGGD. Animals Cases (n = 83) had endoscopic evidence of EGGD; controls (n = 34) included healthy horses and horses with equine squamous gastric disease (ESGD) without EGGD. Methods Retrospective case‐control study. The data were analyzed by multivariable logistic regression modeling. Analysis was performed on the full dataset. An additional analysis compared horses with glandular lesions (n = 43) against healthy horses (n = 22). Results On first analysis, Warmblood breed (OR = 13.9, 95% CI 2.2–90.9, P = .005) and an increasing number of caretakers (OR = 7.3, 95% CI 0.98–55.6, P = .053) were associated with an increased risk of EGGD. On analysis of the subset of data, Warmblood breed (OR = 28.6, 95% CI 2.96–250.0, P = .004) and increasing number of riders (OR = 12.99, 95% CI 0.94–166.7, P = .056) were risk factors. The presence of sand in the colon appeared to have a protective effect against EGGD (OR = 0.195, 95% CI 0.04–1.0, P = .051 for sand versus not having sand). Conclusions and clinical importance This study suggests that Warmbloods are predisposed to EGGD and multiple handlers/riders might increase the risk of EGGD. Identification of risk factors allows speculation on potential pathophysiological mechanisms of EGGD.


Abstract Arthur Smith Woodward's wife, Maud, recorded scientific visitors invited to their home between 1894 and 1944, on an embroidered tablecloth. The tablecloth contains 342 signatures covering a 50-year period. It forms a unique and fascinating historical record including many of the great figures of late nineteenth and early twentieth century biology, geology and palaeontology from around the world. Many other professionals, amateurs and collectors are also represented.


Not a whole lot is essential to me: my identity, my kind, my origins, consequences of these, and that is pretty much it. Of my intrinsic properties, it seems arguable that none are essential, or at least none specific enough to distinguish me from other humans. And, without getting into the question of whether existence is a property, it is certainly not part of my essence to exist.


We report on a theoretical study of CO2 adsorption on Pd6-M (M: Ni, Cu, Pt, Rh) cluster using first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We find that CO2 molecule is adsorbed with a bidendate configuration on Pd7 and on most of Pd6M clusters. The bidendate adsorption configuration is formed due to the filling of the unoccupied n* orbital of CO2 molecule upon its interaction with d-orbitals of the cluster. We find that transition metal doping could modify the adsorption energy, adsorption site and adsorption configuration of CO2 molecule on Pd7 cluster. We also predict that the usage of Pd6M clusters as CO2 hydrogenation catalysts might facilitate the formations of HCOO/COOH.


form a cohesive voting bloc. Most striking is their behavior during the Seven Years War. In contrast to their fellow members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the Pennsylvania legislature, Quaker assemblymen simply abstained from voting on war issues. They remained in the legislature in large numbers until the Revolution finally forced them out of office. This short review hardly does justice to the sophistication of Purvis's work, especially its use of quantitative methods, roll-call analysis, and collective biography. In short, Purvis has done everything that an historian ought to do and deserves considerable credit for it.


Bilingual corpora are essential for the construction of bilingual resources just as for any other work in translation studies, but the alignment itself needs bilingual resources or important interventions of bilingual speakers. This article describes work in progress on bilingual text alignment with a dynamic time warping algorithm (DTW). All other algorithms rely on bilingual resources or on the assumption that there are similarities between the source and the target language (lexical or punctuation cognates): In a DTW approach, only the signal of the corpus to be aligned is compared with the signals of the words in the target text. We show how to define an intuitively correct matrix for the comparison of the signals, how to further enhance the results by including groups of similar words (intra-language cognates à la Levenshtein) in the bilingual word couples, thus including word inflection, and how to use the resulting couples as anchor points for the alignment process. A preliminary version, written in Python, C, and JavaScript, runs on a web server for high accessibility.


Gomez et al "The influence of thinning on production of hypogeous fungus sporocarps in Douglas-fir forests in the Northern Oregon Coast Range." Northwest Science. 2003; 77(4): 308-319