The present invention relates to a sewage overflow water treatment system, and in particular, the combined sewage pipe overflow water (CSO: Combined Sewerage Overflow) is conventionally treated only up to a certain capacity, and flow rate is exceeded regardless of the quality of the water discharged from the unauthorized discharge regardless of water quality automatic measuring equipment If the water quality is good, discharge excess overflow water if the water quality is good, but if the water quality of the overflow water does not meet the standard, treat it using a atmospheric pressure injury treatment apparatus including an atmospheric pressure treatment tank. The present invention relates to a sewage overflow treatment system that has improved the treatment efficiency and improved the management efficiency. Sewage overflow water treatment system according to the present invention is a water quality automatic measuring device for measuring the water quality of the sewage overflow water; An atmospheric pressure floatation treatment apparatus including an atmospheric pressure floatation tank for treating sewage overflow water; And a controller for discharging the overflowed water when the measured value of the automatic water quality measuring instrument satisfies the reference value, and transferring the overflowed water to the atmospheric pressure flotation apparatus when the measured value is not satisfied.


A stereoregular poly(3,3'-diphenyl-2,2'bithienyl-5,5'-diyl) can be obtained by the nickel-catalyzed coupling polymerization of bithienyl chlorides. The polymers obtained had high crystallinity and showed 10 % weight loss at 550-560°C


This paper investigates the determinants of underwriting profitability in the property and liability insurance industry. Some P/L groups have produced high underwriting gains during severe underwriting and interest cycle of 1978-1982. The predictors of high performance in underwriting results are found to be high degree of market focus and high concentration in personal over commercial lines of business. Growth per se does not contribute to high performance. Rather, cost effectiveness relative to competition and careful selection of risks, particularly in liability lines, will enhance the underwriting profitability.


The functiona l change of the government is a great aim for the political system and instituti onal reform,but the important approach of its change is by means of perfect deve lopment of intermediary organizations.Social intermediums are the link between t he government and the society,the carrier of the governmental functional change, the medium of the governmental function transforming into the market.The functio nal change of the government helps to further development of social intermediums .It's clear that the government should speed up legal construction of the interm ediums,have definite relations between the government and intermediary organizat ions,build up and improve the socialist market economy system.


Objective To characterize the intake of macronutrient and fiber in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and examine their association with health indicators. Methods Baseline data from an RCT were examined. Adolescent-parent dyads (n = 257, mean age 12 ± 1.2 years, 49.4% girls) reported dietary intake via two separate 24-hour recall interviews during a two-week period. Demographic and medical variables were abstracted from questionnaires and medical charts. Results Controlling for demographic and diet variables, a higher percentage of daily energy intake from fats was associated with poorer HbA1c. In contrast, an association between higher percent of energy intake from proteins and carbohydrates was found with higher systolic and diastolic BP, respectively. Conclusions Many early adolescents with T1D did not meet diabetes nutritional guidelines. Lower adherence to nutritional guidelines, specifically more than recommended energy intake from fats, was associated with poorer HbA1c. Addressing nutritional guidelines and increasing adherence as part of treatment may improve health outcomes for youth with T1D.


In a recent work, kernel recursive least-squares tracker (KRLS-T) algorithm has been proposed. It is capable of tracking in non-stationary environments using a forgetting mechanism built on a Bayesian framework. The forgetting mechanism in KRLS-T is implemented by a fixed forgetting factor. In practice, however, we frequently meet that the fixed forgetting factor cannot handle time-varying system effectively. In this paper we propose a new KRLS-T with a variable forgetting factor. Experimental results show that proposed algorithm can handle time-varying system more effectively than the KRLS-T.


The article dwells on some economy factors causing migration of the citizens of Tajikistan along the territory of the republic; the peculiarities of inward and outward migration should be taken into consideration as they require different managerial solutions. Actual issues are elucidated in the article: ways of improvement and regulation of migration in Tajikistan, its goals and measures; streamlines of migrational movement of population with taking into account the formed socialeconomic situation under modern conditions of market economy. The author proves that one ought to envisage an implementation of a complex of measures aimed at a creation of additional working places and an elevation of living standard in the areas marked with population's exodus. It is grounded well that the shaped economic situation in Tajikistan demands that the government should find additional sources of development and elaborate new approaches to regulation of migrational streams.


In the paper, we discuss the general law of knowledge growth. A pseudo-linear differential equation, =(α+β-γ)x, which is called knowledge growth equation is obtained. Then, the mathematical model of knowledge growth and knowledge creations is constructed and some conclusions are given.


In pressurized fluidized-bed combustion (PFBC), emissions of particles and alkali metal compounds in the flue gas from the combustor may contribute to the erosion and corrosion of hardware. As part of a program to characterize, monitor, and control both particle and alklai metal emissions from PBFC's, information has been obtained on: (1) two light-scattering, particle-size analyzers for on-line measurements of particle emissions, (2) novel techniques for controlling particle emissions, and (3) the removal of the alkali metal compounds from the combustor gases in a high-temperature getter trap.


ABSTRACT Use of radiotracer in residence time distribution (RTD) studies in industrial as well as lab scale systems has been emphasized in this review. The advantages of radiotracer over conventional tracers are discussed. The injection and detection protocols of the radiotracers are explained. The pretreatment of RTD data obtained and RTD modeling are explained using industrial- and laboratory-scale studies. The detailed RTD studies in (i) oil and gas, (ii) pharmaceuticals and bioprocesses, (iii) fertilizers and pesticides, (iv) polymer, plastic and fiber, (v) mineral processing, organic and inorganic chemicals, (vi) laboratory scale, (vii) pilot plant scale, and (viii) wastewater treatment processes are considered for this review. The case studies are also explained with RTD experiments. The current trend on the application of radiotracer technology in industry is also explained.


The intermittent contract was born, in Brazil, with the 2017 labor reform. This type of hiring represented 85,716 jobs in 2019, according to CAGED data, which justifies your research. Thus, it is imperative to deepen the study in relation to the rights and guarantees of intermittent workers in the light of other workers. It is important to note whether or not this type of hiring characterizes the vulnerability of the worker and protects the dignity of the human person and, consequently, the rights of the employee's personality. The research will be by the descriptive and exploratory method with bibliographic review.


Abstract Background There has been an increasing focus on the importance of national policy to address population levels of physical inactivity. It has been suggested that the four ?cornerstones' of policy comprise: 1) national guidelines on physical activity levels; 2) setting population goals and targets; 3) surveillance or health monitoring systems; and 4) public education. The aim of the current paper was to analyse the policy actions which have addressed each of these elements for children and youth in England and to identify areas of progress and remaining challenges. Methods A literature search was undertaken to identify past and present documents relevant to physical activity policy for children and youth in England. Each document was analysed to identify content relevant to the four ?cornerstones' of policy. Results Physical activity guidelines for children and youth have been in place since 1998 and reviewed periodically to ensure they reflect the latest scientific evidence. The setting of physical activity targets has focused on the provision of opportunities for physical activity, particularly through physical education (PE) in schools, rather than in relation to the proportion of children meeting recommended physical activity levels. There has been much surveillance of children's physical activity but this has been undertaken infrequently over time, by a wide range of organisations, and with varying inclusion of different domains of activity such as school PE, leisure time activity and active travel. There has only been one campaign in England targeted at children and their intermediaries (Change4Life), which was an obesity campaign focussing on dietary behaviour in combination with physical activity. Most recently an infographic supporting the physical activity guidelines for children and young people was developed, but details of its dissemination and usage are unknown. Conclusions There have been many developments in physical activity policy in England targeted at children and youth. The area of greatest progress is national physical activity guidelines. Establishing prevalence targets, streamlining surveillance systems, and investing in public education would strengthen national policy efforts to reduce physical inactivity.


The list of benthic animals numbers 69 species observed in the sand biotope of the Karadag reservation in summer of 1981. Their quantitative characteristic is given. The materials obtained are compared with data available in literature.


: The sun's energy is the best choice for thermal energy generation because it is accessible worldwide and is free to utilize. Poultry egg incubation requires a continuous supply of energy for efficient performance and operation. On-grid power does not reach rural areas in Ethiopia, and even in areas where it is available, electricity may be unreliable or shut off at any time, leading to incubator malfunctions, limited production, and high costs. The utilization of generators increases the operational expenses of incubators


This repository provides different artifacts developed in and used for the evaluation presented in the paper "Classifying and Avoiding Compatibility Issues in Networks of Bidirectional Transformations" by Saglam and Klare at the Ninth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations.

The artifacts comprise a Git repository whose history documents the case study conduction presented in the paper, as well as the developed transformation network with the test scenarios of the case study.
The package contains a prepared execution environment and provides a script to run the environment for the tests scenarios and automatically resolve all dependencies based on Docker.


With Internet of Things (IoT) based subject-oriented and mobile applications gaining more importance, management of services, resources and data in a secure manner is becoming crucial, and requires efficient and sophisticated infrastructure and mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a multi-layered information transmission and storage framework for smart applications in IoT environment. The framework utilizes the concept of mixed Cloud to enhance the security of data to be stored. At the same time, Fog nodes are used to bridge the gap of latency in real time applications. Moreover, we present the security analysis of the proposed model, followed by the conclusion.


It's an honour to have been invited to deliver the 2012 Vernon Parker Oration. Vernon Parker deserves to be remembered in this way. He is not only responsible for the establishment of the Australian Naval Institute.


Home Automation System connects the digital technology and computers to the appliances at home and manages it. It's the frequency of use an position in the home that makes it important to have an aesthetic friendly user interface. There are numerous UI design cases of Display panel or the buttons. However, the usability or aesthetic sensibility design through using a variety of multi-layered emotional satisfaction of feeling that provides the interface design needs to be studied. This study explores the ways to satisfy the emotional needs of Home Automation System and Tangible User Interface (TUI).


Abstract : The Army Science Board was tasked to analyze current Army space uses and needs for future space systems to ensure adequate support for Army XXI and AAN. The Study highlights the importance of space products to the Army warfighters and recommends more active Army participation in the planning and execution of future US space systems. The study provides numerous assessments and recommendations in the areas of: organization/personnel, national space systems, use of commercial space capabilities, and non-space systems. The study also outlines time-urgent organization/process recommendations and time-urgent program opportunities requiring immediate attention from Army leadership.


In the article, I take a look at the obstacles and contradictions that result from the variability of our social reality and are characteristic for the present times (which is why they are irreducible) and, on the other hand, they make it difficult or even impossible for people to create satisfying intimate relationships. Inequalities in the relationship perceived as oppressive and unjust, the need of compromise in the domination of different varieties of individualism and concentration on self, and the negotiating nature of relationships make it difficult or impossible to build happy relationships and such important intimacy.


Introduction The National Review of Asthma Deaths in the UK identified acute asthma care as a potential area of improvement ( Why asthma still kills: the National Review of Asthma Deaths, 2014). Novartis offered English trusts with high rates of asthma admissions unrestricted financial support to audit asthma emergency care pathways. Methods Five hospital trusts developed an individual audit strategy tailored to the local asthma care pathway, focusing on patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs). Results The median rate of asthma emergency admissions per 100,000 population over age 19 years ( NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare , 2015) is significantly higher in the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) served by these five trusts (115.4; range 75.8–218.3) compared with all other English CCGs (78.1; range 32.8–223.9). Combined, the five trusts reviewed 2,511 asthma-diagnosed ED attendances by approximately 2,117 adults. Although individual hospital trusts reported different local issues, common themes emerged. Asthma misdiagnosis or inaccurate coding in EDs can lead to mistreatment or overtreatment. Asthma care bundle adherence was higher on wards than in EDs. ED reattendance rates are an area for improvement; across the five trusts, 10.5–55.5% of patients had ≥2 ED attendances within 12 months. Patients who attend an ED are often not followed up in primary or secondary care, which is a probable cause of ED reattendance. Conclusion Although asthma care pathways differed between the audited trusts, common problems emerged. Respiratory services, EDs and primary care need to work more closely together to implement changes to service design that will improve outcomes for patients with asthma.


The epistemological status of medicine has long been a field of debate for philosophers of science and physicians as well. Many consider medicine to be a genus concept such as philosophy, history, art and science while others consider medicine to be a species concept, subjected to a wider genus proximum, science. Depending on which concept a scholar chooses to adopt when studying such an equivocal and complicated issue, the methodology and results of the research differ. This also applies to the medical practice, since physicians think and act in the context of a Kuhnian paradigm which, in our era, is the so-called biomedical model. In recent years, medicine has experienced an epistemological 'shock' and has transformed from an art to a science. The most important method of contemporary medical science is the adoption of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as a tool to test theories and hypotheses against empirical evidence [1]. However, the 'pyramid of truth' consists not only of RCTs but also of case reports, a fact that weaknesses the scientific character of modern medicine, since it distinguishes it from basic sciences such as physics. Either based on the Popperian perception of science [e.g., 2] or on the French structuralism and post-structuralism [e.g., 3], the methodology of modern medicine is subjected to criticism. Indeed, the scientific objects of every study should be interchangeable, as is the case in physics. When we test the law of gravity against empirical evidence, studying the fall of mass 'm' from height 'h' is the same whether 'm' refers to an apple or a piece of iron. As we can easily understand, this is not true with case reports. It is totally different to study the course of a disease in a Caucasian or an Afro-American, an adult or a child, a man or a woman. Taking into consideration that RCTs consist of cohorts of case reports, we conclude that RCTs and case reports share the same epistemological problem. Those who design RCTs try carefully to address these problems by applying strict criteria concerning the eligibility of the candidates for the study, in an attempt to render them interchangeable. However, these criteria do not deal with the core problem. Males are less different to each other than to females. However, males are not 100% equal. On the contrary, mass 'm' whether it refers to an apple or a piece of iron, remains 100% mass 'm', rendering physics with the (conventional) Popperian criteria 100% science. The question remains the same. Is medicine a science or does it have a different epistemological status than physics? Although the number of case reports in the literature has markedly decreased (possibly another sign of the social origin of the transformation of medicine to science), the very existence of unique cases in daily medical practice is another proof of the epistemological differences between medicine and basic sciences [4]. The scope of medicine is not only the acquisition of new knowledge through RCTs but, foremost, the effective treatment and cure of every single case. It is necessary to understand that being more scientific does not necessarily mean being better or more efficient. After all, doctors know that the best doctor is not the one with many scientific publications but the one that patients remember most.


be covered are not so ^reat as to render the more expensive rigid construction necessary. Ibirticulars are given of the recent success obtained in mooring out a rigid airship to a mast. .She remained for three weeks in charge of watches, each consisting of one X.C.O . and five men, and experienced gusts up to 43 m.p.h., very heavy rain, liright sunshine, and several thunderstorms, including one of exceptional violence, d'his development is one of the greatest importance as it materially reduc'es the difficulties of landing and handling an airship.


Root submergence is a minimally invasive surgical technique introduced to preserve alveolar ridge volume in comparison to other partial extraction therapies that are currently mentioned in literature. This case report describes a conservative method of restoring non-restorable anteriorly fractured tooth in growing patient. The aim of this treatment method is to maintain hard tissue and soft tissue in anterior zone for future implant placement. A 13-year-old female patient presented to our primary care dental clinic with dental trauma that occurred 3 years ago. The chief complaint was to restore the badly broken teeth for esthetic purposes. The tooth was restored with a resin-bonded bridge and root submergence was done considering the need for future implant placement. Root submergence in the upper left central incisor (21) has been done to prevent buccopalatal collapse of the post-extraction bone. The root submergence technique helps in retaining the bone, thus reducing bone resorption. Considerable success has also been demonstrated in maintaining the periodontal tissues at the pontic site with this technique. This enables future dental implant placement without the need for bone augmentation. The treatment was successful and the patient is under follow-up and review visits. We did not notice any signs and symptoms of failure. This technique is minimally invasive and very successful in young patients for whom implant treatment is considered in the future.


After addressing the usual development and implementation methodology of product lifecycle management(PLM) system,this work presented an agile implementation methodology driven by integrated product model(IPM).The object oriented(OO) methodology and the evolution of the IPM were discussed,then an integrated object chain was established.To manage and build the IPM,the IPM was abstracted and an integrated product meta-model(IPMM) was constructed with unified modeling language(UML).With the guidance of PLM ideas,the framework of the IPM which driving the development and implementation of the PLM system was constructed.Finally,with the software development tools Genexus,the agile development and implementation of apparel PLM system driven by the IPM were realized.


The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of organic acids on the pasting and textural properties of rice flour. Nonwaxy (Taisen 2 rice, TS2) and waxy (Taisen Waxy 2, TSW2) were selected as rice materials. Organic acids (including acetic acid, lactic acid, malic acid, succinic acid and citric acid) of 0.1 mM, 1 mM and 10 mM were added to the rice flour (v/w, on dry basis) at 0.5% and 2.0% levels and cooked in Rapid Visco Analyser (RVA; RVA-4, Newport Scientific, Pty Ltd, Narrabeen, Australia) at 95C for 12.5 min. Results showed that addition of 0.1 mM of organic acids significantly (P < 0.05) decreased peak viscosity, trough viscosity, final viscosity and setback of TS2 rice flour. The hardness of TS2 rice flour gel was significantly (P < 0.05) decreased by the addition of 1 mM and 10 mM of these organic acids compared with the control. Reduced final viscosity showed that the addition of organic acids were able to retard the tendency of rice flour gel to retrograde. For waxy rice TSW2, addition of these organic acids had not the same tendency on pasting and textural properties, possibly because of the 22% amylose content in nonwaxy rice and 0% amylose in waxy rice.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

Since rice flour is widely used in the rice food industry, while organic acids are effective for improving flavor and texture of food products, the effects of organic acids on the pasting behaviors and textural properties of rice flour need to be examined. This study is of interest because rice flour is usually used along with other ingredients such as salts, sugar, lipids, emulsifiers and organic acids, etc. The presence of organic acids may influence the rice flour pasting properties differently with waxy and nonwaxy rice. Such investigations are of importance to rice food industries and especially to the rice-consuming peoples.


Poverty is a serious problem facing the Indonesian nation, one of them in Yogyakarta (DIY). However, recently many zakat institutions have succeeded in reducing the poverty level of society. This study aims to analyze the impact of zakat fund distribution conducted by LAZ Dompet Dhuafa to the poverty level mustahik by looking at changes that occur before and after receiving zakat fund. This study uses primary data obtained from interviews and questionnaires distribution in Gunung Kidul district of DIY province, as well as secondary data obtained from BPS and LAZ Dompet Dhuafa DIY Special Region of Yogyakarta. Respondents in this study amounted to 50 mustahik households. This study uses data analysis methods Center of Islamic Business and Economics Studies (CIBEST) which consists of CIBEST quadrant, welfare index and Islamic poverty index. This methods developed by Irfan Syauqi Beik and Laily Dwi Arsyianti in 2014. The CIBEST model analyzes poverty from 2 sides, namely the material and spiritual side. The results of this study indicate that the distribution of zakat funds can reduce material poverty, spiritual poverty, and absolute poverty respectively by 25%, 8%, and 5%. In addition zakat funds can also improve the welfare of the mustahik household by 38%.


The effect of helium and hydrogen synergy on mechanical property (hardness and elastic modulus) and microstructural has been investigated in Fe-10Cr alloy as a reduced-activation ferritic/martensitic steel model following single-He, H and sequential-(He+H) ion irradiation at 773 K, to provide basic understanding concerning the development of fusion reactor components. Nano-indentation results showed that pronounced irradiation hardening was induced by single and sequential ion irradiation. However, hardening due to sequential (He+H) ion irradiation (48%) was smaller than that of single ion irradiations. The elastic modulus of Fe-10Cr alloy encountered a decrease by sequential-(He+H) ion irradiation. No remarkable modulus changes were measured in samples with single He and H ion irradiation. The Orowan mechanism was adopted to correlate damage microstructure and hardening, indicating that the hardening can be attributed to the formation of defects such as dislocation loops and cavities. The synergistic effects of He and H on the defect evolution and irradiation hardening in Fe-10Cr were discussed.


Abstract: The relevance of geographic information to mobile users must be evaluated by taking into account the usage context. This paper assumes that emerging Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) contain contextual information rich enough to be used in order to contextualize such an evaluation process. This assumption is demonstrated through an exploratory analysis of a Foursquare check-in dataset, which reveals the impacts of two contextual factors—temporal and spatial—on mobility patterns. This paper then proposes an approach that may be used to contextualize the evaluation of geographic information's relevance. The proposed algorithm links a priori relevance to the contextualized relevance using the hidden impacts of contextual factors. Improved performance from the experiments carried out confirms the validity of the proposed approach, as well as the benefits of utilizing contextual information within the relevance evaluation process. Keywords: contextualization; geographic relevance; location-based social networks; mobility pattern


A new species of Ariadna daweiensis sp. nov. (Fam. Segestriidae) was collected. The type specimen is deposited in the College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University. All the measurements are given in mm. Holotype ♂, Mt. Dawei, Liuyang County( 28°12′N, 113°36′E), Hunan Province, collected by Prof. YAN Heng-Mei in June,1995. Total length 9.40, cephalothorax 4.60×3.30, abdomen 4.30×2.90. This new species is similar to Ariadna pelios Wang, 1993, but can be distinguished from the latter by the following aspects: 1) body size of this new species larger than that of the latter; 2) femur Ⅰ of this new species with only two prolateral spines and without any ventral spine, but that of the latter with more ten ventral spines, and the ventral spinenation of tibiae and metatarsa Ⅰ-Ⅳ different; 3) the tibia of the palpal of this new species thicker and shorter than that of the latter.


We report on measurements of dissipation and frequency noise at millikelvin temperatures of nanomechanical devices covered with aluminum. A clear excess damping is observed after switching the metallic layer from superconducting to the normal state with a magnetic field. Beyond the standard model of internal tunneling systems coupled to the phonon bath, here we consider the relaxation to the conduction electrons together with the nature of the mechanical dispersion laws for stressed/unstressed devices. With these key ingredients, a model describing the relaxation of two-level systems inside the structure due to interactions with electrons and phonons with well separated timescales captures the data. In addition, we measure an excess 1/f-type frequency noise in the normal state, which further emphasizes the impact of conduction electrons.


The technique of stepwise multiple regression and correlation analysis was employed to determine the contribution of the various traits to the variation in cotton yield. Data were obtained from yield trials carried out in El-Tahrir Province, El-Behera Governorate, Egypt. during 2009 and 2010 seasons. The mean squares of regression analysis were high for nine acceptance variables (traits), i.e., the number of leaves per plant, leaf area per plant, dry weight of leaves per plant, chlorophyll b, total carotenoids, phosphorus, iron, manganese and lint percentage out of eighteen ones. The total contribution of the previously mentioned traits over all variation in seed cotton yield per plant was 99.46 %. However, the residual effect of other nine traits reduced 0.54 % of the total variation in cotton yield. Seed cotton yield was significantly positive and had the greatest values of correlation coefficients with the number of leaves per plant (0.980), leaf area per plant (0.974) and chlorophyll b (0.970). High increase in the range of performances was detected for nine mentioned traits due to the creation of variation via different treatments under study. Finally, as increased number of leaves per plant, leaf area per plant and chlorophyll b may induce positive impacts on cotton yield under salinity conditions.


Clionaterpene (1), a new cadinene sesquiterpene, along with six known compounds 2–7 were isolated from the marine sponge Cliona sp. The structure of 1 with absolute configuration was determined by the spectroscopic data (UV, IR, MS, and NMR) and quantum chemical calculation. Compound 1 was the first cadinene sesquiterpene metabolite isolated from this genus. In addition, the cytotoxic and antibacterial activities of these compounds were evaluated. However, none of them exhibited significant inhibition effects.


This paper presents an analysis of the international scientific publications in the green manufacturing area. We used the Web of Science database to identify 239 articles published between 1991 and 2013. The articles involved 589 authors from 36 countries, 246 institutions, and 142 journals/conferences. We found that 51.4% of the articles were published within the last five years. Among the countries involved, the most prolific were the United States and China. The most prolific journal was the Journal of Cleaner Production with 19 articles. Most of the authors, 85.7%, were one-time authors in the field. The highest yield was 11 articles by one author, and the most cited author received 368 citations. We concluded that the green manufacturing area has increased its relevance in recent years by focusing on theoretical and empirical-theoretical studies.


: Sociological studies on the West societies have explored the impact of neoliberalism on motherhood and child-rearing. In recent years, sociologists have started to pay attention to whether neoliberal ideology has influenced China and whether neoliberalism even exists in China. But there are still blanks about whether neoliberalism has had an impact on motherhood in China's socioeconomic and cultural context, especially lack of study about the empirical research on neoliberalism and motherhood in China's social and cultural context. This paper discusses the role and practice of mothers in children's education in China under the influence of neoliberalism.


A three-component one-pot condensation of aryl aldehydes, 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one and acetamide catalysed by p-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TSA), under ultrasound irradiation and ambient conditions, gives 3-[(acetamido)(aryl)methyl]-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-ones in excellent yield and in short time.


In this study, trace elements (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn) concentrations were  determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) in environmental compartments (water and superficial sediments) near places of vehicle use and maintenance, aiming to investigate if in these places the trace elements had high concentrations. The content of trace elements found on the samples was compared to the maximum values recommended by resolutions of CONAMA (Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente) n. 357 from 2005 for water and n. 454 from 2012 for sediments. Points 11 and 13 were the most critical, with concentrations higher than the recommended for the elements Cu and Pb, either for water or sediment samples. Geoaccumulation index (Igeo) for Cd and Cr in the sediment samples indicated high to extreme contamination in points 5 and 13, while the other elements indicated moderated contamination.


The article examines the reasons for interregional inequality in average incomes and wages from the standpoint of the new economic geography and issues of the distribution of resource rent. Based on an analysis of nominal wages in the regions of Russia, a conclusion is drawn about the rent reason for income differences and about the need to improve the system for using and distributing rent.


This report summarizes an attempt to find an experiment that would test the Haisch, Rueda, and Puthoff (HRP) conjecture that the mass and inertia of a body are induced effects brought about by changes in the quantum-fluctuation energy of the vacuum. It was not possible, however, to identify a definitive experiment. But, it was possible to identify an experiment that might be able to prove or disprove that the inertial mass of a body can be altered by making changes in the vacuum surrounding the body. Other experiments, which do not involve mass modification, but which teach something about the vacuum, were also defined and included in a ranked list of experiments. This report also contains an annotated bibliography. Mass Modification Experiment Definition Study Goals The goal of this study contract was to define an experiment that could conclusively determine, one way or the other, whether the mass of a body could be modified by modifying the vacuum fluctuations around or in that body. If the mass of a body can be modified in even a small way, that fact will be of importance to science. If the mass of a body can be modified significantly, that fact will be of importance to Air Force missions. The study was instigated by the conjectures by Puthoff (1989) and his colleagues Haisch, Rueda, and Puthoff (1994) that the gravitational mass and the inertial mass of a body are induced effects brought about by changes in the fluctuation energy of the vacuum when the body is present. The study was not limited to the Puthoff conjectures. Other theories concerning the various effects of vacuum fluctuations were also considered. Puthoff, Haisch and Rueda were contacted in an attempt to identify a definitive experiment. This requires that the theory proposed by Puthoff and colleagues make a numerical prediction of a specific result, and requires that the experimental apparatus have the sensitivity and precision to measure the predicted result to high accuracy. If the experimental result agrees with the theoretical prediction, then the Puthoff conjecture will have been proven to be "correct" (as much as any theory can be proven to be correct), while if the experimental result does not agree with the theoretical prediction, the Puthoff conjecture will have been conclusively proven to be wrong. Unfortunately, it


The people war againts Dutch colonial in Kerinci is still being local thema in Indonesian history. There was some episodes, that was describing how the Dutch's effots to reclaim the throne of Kerinci from the local kingship. One of them is Depati Parbo. For Dutch, this name is the true enemy as "trouble-maker" for seeding the Dutch's sovereignity in the hinterland of Central Sumatra, especially in Barisan hills. In 2014, this article particiated in the historical seminar in Kerinci Jambi, that is discuccing about the Heroship of Depati Parbo on Defending Kerinci from the Dutch Treat. Before that, in searching for history of Depati Parbo is like swimming in mud. The sources of that are rare, untill I found it in ANRI (National Archive of Republic if Indonesia). I found many various colonial archives. This is the breakthrouht for facing the problem about the tiny chance in searching local historical matter. This article will explain the beginning of Dutch colonial era in Kerinci. Depati Parbo and his fighting is the door for deeping the colonial structures that ever exist in Kerinci. Keywords : local history, colonialism, local struggles and hinterland.


A study of a left moving supercell storm which occurred in the southern part of Jilin Province on July 2 2012 was made based on the Baishan Doppler weather radar data,routine upper air observation,and intensive automatic weather station observation. The results show that this weather process occurred in the deep northeast cold vortex southeast quadrant and near the north side of the super strong high-altitude jet cores,low-level vertical wind shear was not strong and convective available potential energy was not large then. There was a strong warm advection in low level and a wind shear area from southwest to northeast. Low-level convergence,upper-level divergence,near the dew point front and upper-level jet cores were all conducive to convective development. There was always a meso-β-scale( about 120 km) anti-cyclonic circulation when the storm developed,its rotating radius increased gradually from upper to low level and it was stretched into an oval structure in SSE direction,and the storm occurred in the SSW airflow in the northwest quadrant of the circulation,and showed a hook echo,weak echo region,anti meso cyclone and other characteristics of supercell. Anti-meso-cyclone appeared in the strong developing period of the storm,and its gyration radius gradually increased from low to high layer. Hail occurred in front of the strongest inflow and strongest period of the storm,and strong cooling and instantaneous gale disasters weather happened when the storm passed by.


There have recently appeared in the literature several independent reports of experimental studies of the responses of primary auditory neurons in a number of different mammals to tonal stimulation. These studies show that a primary neuron that responds to sound at one frequency can be inhibited by a second tone at a slightly higher or lower frequency, and they suggest that this inhibitory interaction occurs within the cochlea. On the basis of this evidence, we have considered the characteristics of a variety of possible inhibitory‐connection schemes among elements lying within the cochlea. All of these schemes can lead to a sharpening of the frequency sensitivity of any single neuron. One, based on the principle of shunting generator currents away from the site of neural excitation, and consisting of linear operations except for shunting, yields a nonlinear generator function similar to one that Weiss used to fit the input‐output data of single primary units of the cat to click stimuli. Apart from its possible application in the cochlea, shunting inhibition leads to theoretically interesting operations in sensory‐information processing.


Baeyer—Villiger oxidation of a range of cyclic ketones with aqueous H2O2 solution proceeds efficiently in the presence of silica-supported propanesulfonic acid to give the corresponding lactones in good selectivities.


Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) can be used to characterize heavy fuel oils into asphaltenic, paraffinic and light aromatic groups. The asphaltenic content by GPC and ASTM D3279 were found to agree within about 15%. The GPC results can give an indication of previous blending of a fuel oil. The heptane/fuel oil blends showed that if asphaltenes are present in a fuel oil, a fine precipitant can be formed and, at certain heptane/oil ratios, a tar-like deposit can be formed. The ASTM spot test for compatibility, designed for blending a light distillate oil with a heavy fuel oil, was found unreliable as a test for compatibility of two or more heavy fuel oils.


The collective dynamics of a simple model colloidal suspension, namely, a two-dimensional Brownian Yukawa fluid, is studied by Brownian dynamics simulations without hydrodynamic interactions. The results for the intermediate scattering function F(k,t) are employed to assess the quantitative and qualitative accuracy of the single-exponential memory function (SEXP) approximation. We find that, contrary to self-diffusion dynamics, the additional, accesorial approximation of neglecting the three-body correlations in the third moment condition, leads to unphysical predictions of the SEXP approximation. We also show that these spurious features are readily removed by including the contribution of the three-particle distribution function to the third moment of F(k,t), even in a simple approximate manner implemented in this work.


The need for new handling systems in the snack food industry has widely been recognised. There are two basic problems when handling flexible packaged products: damage limitation and the control of dynamically altering objects in real time. To overcome the problems, the concept of closed loop controlled air handling has been introduced. Randomly aligned packets are received onto a transport mechanism and are manipulated into the assembly position using multiple intelligently controlled high speed air jets. Simple error and change in error fuzzy control has been successfully implemented using the fuzzy rule base.


well as political justice. The first nation to succumb to Fascism, Italy was the first to be liberated by the democracies. To many Americans, the Allied advance up through the Italian boot seemed a cleansing "wind of the south" which, matched by the partisans' "vento del nord," would soon purge Italy of her Fascist past, redeem her liberal heritage and ultimately destroy the Thousand Year Reich beyond the Alps. The coming of victory could not help but nurture a revival of Wilsonian idealism, for even if Americans were not fighting to make the world safe for democracy they were at least fighting to make Europe safe from Fascism. Yet the official American attitude toward the war, perhaps best expressed in Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" declaration, could not explain the sentiments of two American writers in Italy at the time of the invasion; Ezra Pound and John Horne Burns. Pound, long a supporter of the Mussolini regime, had become an avid propagandist for the Fascist cause during the war. Burns "discovered" Italy in the invasion, and his account of the occupation throws into doubt any moral meaning of the term "liberation." The activities and the writings of the poet and the novelist suggest two questions: how did the American literati, as a whole, respond to the rise of Italian Fascism, and how was Italy's liberation interpreted by those American writers who participated in that event? To answer both questions is to examine not only an overlooked chapter in Italo-American cultural relations but, more importantly, to present the American writer in a fresh perspective from which he eloquently projected either an affirmation or a negation of his own civilization-a unique perspective that could be shared by a Fascist poet and an anti-Fascist novelist. In the last few years two perceptive studies on the American literary Left1 have appeared; both concentrate on the depression decade when the impact of Marxism and the trauma of the Spanish Civil War fired the


About the Panelist As managing director of the € D F Electric Equipment Department (with an $80 million budget and 400 people, mainly researchers), Jean-Pierre Cerdan coordinates and allocates the resources to EDF li&D projects in various areas involving electric a1 equipment (from FACTS to cables, from electric vehicles to generators, from circuit breakers to fuel cells). Before beginnmg in this position in 199.5, Cerdan was head of the Machines Branch from 1990 to 1992 and head of the Acoustics and Vibration Brarich from 1986 to 1989. Prior to this, he was leader of the team in charge of testing the turbines. Cerdan graduated from Ecole Des Arts et Metiers. He teaches thermodynamics at various universities.


Video images of fish population densities over vast areas of the New Jersey continental shelf have been produced from acoustic data collected on a long range bistatic sonar system during the Acoustic Clutter 2003 experiment. Areal fish population densities were obtained after correcting the acoustic data for two‐way transmission loss modeled using the range‐dependent parabolic equation, spatially varying beampattern of the array, source level and mean target strength per fish. The wide‐area fish density images reveal the temporal evolution of fish school distributions, their migration, as well as shoal formation and fragmentation at 50 s interval. Time series of the fish population within various density thresholds were made over the period of a day in an area containing millions of fish that at some instances formed a massive shoal extending over 12 km. The analysis shows that fish population in the area can be decomposed into a stable ambient population from lower‐fish‐density regions and a time‐varying...


1,2BE Scholar, Department of Electronics and telecommunication, PCET's Pimpri Chinchwad college of Engineering, MH, India ----------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Recently face recognition is attracting much attention in the society of network multimedia information access. Areas such as network security, content indexing and retrieval, and video compression benefits from face recognition technology because "people" are the center of attention in a lot of video. Face recognition is the identification of humans by the unique characteristics of their Faces. Face recognition technology is the least intrusive and fastest biometric technology. It works with the most obvious individual identifier the human face. This system aims at providing a system to automatically record the students' attendance during lecture hours in a hall or room using raspberry-pi with the help of facial recognition technology instead of the traditional manual methods.


In order to optimize the structure of fin-tube heat exchangers,two methods was put forward in the paper.Under refrigeration condition,the spacing of fins was varied in the easily-frosted heat exchangers.Under air-conditioning condition,the thread pitch of the inner screw thread tubes was varied.The results have shown that the heat transfer coefficients in the two cases can be increased by 9.8%% and 3.82% respectively.


This paper presents techniques derived from empirical modelling methods and especially designed to tackle the recognition of dynamic transients with the aim of detecting and diagnosing faults and anomalies in equipment and processes. Applications and results are also presented, covering BWR and PWR plants and spanning from component level diagnostic applications to sub-system and plant level diagnostic applications.


The aim of this paper is to present some difficulties which can be met when a fuzzy model is built with a domain expert help. The paper discusses methods used at succeeding steps of an expert modeling process and also presents some of them on a real example. The main concern of the paper is a high quality of a fuzzy expert model which can be easily ruined when not all aspects of an expert modeling are carefully tackled. One of the most sensitive is the order of rules presented to the expert during an interview with a model creator. As it will be shown in the paper, on the example of a model for car price evaluation, the most simple and the most popular tabular way of rules presentation can be a reason of creating completely useless expert model.


-3-ABSTRACT A series of dry lubricant bearing materials vdll be irradiation tested in the GETR. The preparation of this test is discussed in the body of this report. SUMMARY A series of solid lubricants of WSe2, Cu and Teflon; WSe^, Ag and Teflon; MoSe2, Ag and Teflon; WSe2, Bronze and Poly-imide; MoSe2, Bronze and Poly-imide; WSe_, Bronze and Poly-imide,; 404C Stainless Steel and MoSep were developed at -Che Westinghouse Research Laboratory.•'• These dry solid lubricants have an application in the control dium bearing of the NERVA reactor control system. In order to determine the behavior of these lubricants in a radiation field, and therefore select the best material for this application, a screening test has been designed using the shuttle tube irradiation facility in the GETR. The fabrication of capsules that provide a hydrogen atmosphere and an evacuated atmosphere for these tjrpes of solid lubricants were designed and fabricated. The design of these capsules and a description of the fabrication along with the parameters of the irradiation tests are discussed.


Hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles is likely to contain impurities from its production process, and such impurities may poison the fuel cell catalyst, thus degrading the power generation performance of the polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) especially when the Platinum(Pt) loading is reduced. The effects of anode Pt loading on power generation performance degradation by H2S and NH3 in hydrogen fuel were investigated. The test results indicated that the lower the anode Pt loading, the more rapid the decrease in cell voltage under the influence of H2S in the hydrogen. The amount of H2S supplied to the cell until the cell voltage decreased by the same level (30 mV) was proportional to the anode Pt loading regardless of the hydrogen sulfide concentration. The cell voltage decrease by NH3 in the hydrogen was not dependent on the anode Pt loading, but was influenced by the cathode Pt loading.


This paper reconstructs "Utsuboya-chou" and MKodo-chou" facing on to Kokawa-dohri street in the upper district KamlgyO at the end of the 16th century. "Rakuchu rakugal Zu" depicting the middle of the 16th century's Kyoto showed that there were streets along the both sides of Kokawa-river which flowed from north to south. On the other hand, the "Rakuchu ezu" drawn in the first part of the 17th century showed no street on the west side of Kokawa-river. The transformation can be guessed by the reconstruction from ''Sashidashi" in the "Daichuh'in archives". "Sashidashi" measured not only frontage of dwellings but width


The Moller–Plesset perturbation technique and configuration interaction methods are applied to linear chains of hydrogens in order to analyze the role of electron correlation on equilibrium geometries and binding energies of these systems.


Due to the vast development in the infrastructure section, the production of cement-based concrete is a major driving source for the increased global warming and extensive deployment of natural resources such as river sand. To reduce and mitigate these adverse effects, industrial by-products can be effectively used either in partial or complete levels to replace conventional materials such as cement, river sand, etc without compromising the strength and durability characteristics of concrete. This research work focuses on the experimental investigation of the thermal properties, strength, durability and microstructure analysis of optimized green concrete with pond ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS). The novelty of the proposed work lies in the investigation of the thermal and durability characteristics of sustainable green concrete with GGBS and pond ash as a partial replacement for cement and fine aggregate respectively. An optimum mix ratio obtained from the material characterization of 16 trail mixes was tested for mechanical properties, durability and thermal characterization. Moreover, the microstructure analysis of the optimized mix was performed using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to overview the chemical constituents, bonding of molecules at the interfacial transition zone (ITZ), the effect of elevated temperature, etc Results from the trail mixes revealed that the replacement of 30% GGBS and 20% pond ash increased the compressive strength by 8% at 28 days of curing when compared to the control mix. In addition, a detailed multilinear regression analysis was performed and a new equation was proposed to determine the compressive strength of concrete with GGBS and pond ash. The predictions obtained from the proposed equation showed a good match with the benchmark experiments.


Irving Berlin's 200-odd songs written between 1907, the date of the first one, and late 1914, when his first complete show for the musical stage (Watch Your Step) opened at New York's Globe Theatre, are virtually identical to one another in their published piano/vocal format. Like other Tin Pan Alley songs of the early twentieth century, most of them consist of a brief piano introduction, a few bars of vamp, then several verses, each followed by a chorus. All are in major keys and most have a tempo marking of moderato. Piano introductions are drawn from either the first or last phrase of the chorus, the vamp anticipates the melodic beginning of the verse, and both verse and chorus are usually made up of four 4-bar phrases in C or four 8-bar phrases in other metres.


This article proposes a real-time capable tropospheric delay model for terrestrial radio navigation systems used for aviation. Its functional scope ranges from elevation angles below the local horizon to zenith. Flight experiments were carried out to quantify the improvement in service coverage achieved for measurements close to and below the local horizon, with aircraft distances in the order of 250 km. Mismodeling tropospheric delays at these elevation angles and aircraft distances can result in slant-range error several order of magnitude greater than the accuracy of terrestrial nav-aids, and adequately accounting them translates into improved accuracy and tighter integrity bounds. The proposed method uses a polynomial representation of the atmospheric refractivity instead of the traditional exponential distribution used in GNSS. The resulting method provides tropospheric corrections accurate to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math></inline-formula> 0.5 cm for elevation angles above 5<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^\circ$</tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math></inline-formula> 15 cm at an elevation of 0.2<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>. In addition, the proposed model offers a reduction in the horizontal position error in terms of an order of magnitude from 14 m (for uncompensated tropospheric delay) to below 1.6 cm for all flight segments, that will enable terrestrial systems to support increasingly demanding performance based navigation systems.


Speaking up about unsafe practice and the use of technology to prevent patient falls are among the initial projects being investigated at a new nursing research unit.


On the night between the 26th and 27th of the last month of December, 1755, between eleven o'clock and midnight, there was a considerable earthquake on the frontiers of this country.


Joyce and feminism ? Very strange bedfellows. Change either term to catch the full effect: Woolf and feminism; Joyce and Ireland. Now these couples were meant to share beds. But Joyce and feminism? What possibly have these two to say to one another? Can the conjunction be anything more than the now obligatory ('politically correct'?) supplementing of every analytical survey of the work of any writer with a critique supplied by 'feminism'? After all, on most of the several thousand websites currently citing 'James Joyce', readymade 'feminist' hatchet jobs wait to be read. Caveat lector . Didn't Joyce himself say 'I hate intellectual women'? Did he not, if we believe his close friend Frank Budgen, 'talk bitterly about women . . . [about] woman's invasiveness and in general her perpetual urge to usurp all the functions of the male - all save that one which is biologically pre-empted, and even on that [to] cast jealous threatening eyes'? Where in his work is there a single example of an independent, successful, happily fulfilled woman character? Beyond this, isn't the writing elitist, being, as it is, notoriously and renownedly 'difficult', and isn't such 'difficulty' just another male modernist writer's attempt to elevate his work to the realm of art, above the domain of the popular and populist culture of the newly educated masses or, more pointedly, to 'ward off the onslaughts of women [writers]' who over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were entering the profession of literature in ever-increasing - and increasingly successful - numbers?


Acoustically, sniper gunfire is characterized by a muzzle blast caused by the discharge of a bullet from a rifle and a ballistic shock wave emitted along the trajectory of a supersonic bullet. The location of the firing point can be estimated by using a small microphone array to measure the differences in the angles- and times-of-arrival of the muzzle blast and shock wave. Traditionally, the bullet is assumed to travel at constant speed along its trajectory which, in practice, can lead to significantly biased range estimates. This problem is solved by invoking a physics-based model to describe the deceleration of the bullet along its trajectory. The ballistic model parameters are the initial (or muzzle) velocity and ballistic constant of the bullet, which are assumed to be known a priori. The performances of the traditional and model-based methods for ranging the point of fire are evaluated using 2,500 rounds of 5.56 and 7.62 mm ammunition fired at ranges of 75, 175, 275, 375 and 475 m under two (low and ...


The objective of this paper is to make a rhetorical analysis of the op‐ed entitled Finding Design in Nature by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna, published by The New York Times in 2005, three months after the death of John Paul II. In this essay, the Cardinal states that it is an error to affirm that Catholic doctrine is compatible with the «neo‐Darwinist» theory of evolution and that the Roman Catholic Church accepts that theory. For the Archbishop, the origin of this error lies in the abuses committed in the interpretation of John Paul's 1996 speech in which the Pope affirmed that evolution was more than a hypothesis and showed himself more favourable towards evolutionary theory than his predecessors. In his article the Cardinal described that papal message as «vague and unimportant». In this paper, four argumentative techniques used by Schonborn in his article are analysed: the argumentative lexical choices to make a negative assessment of «neo‐Darwinist» evolutionary theory; the argumentative definition to make a polemical description of that theory; the verbs of speech; and the use of the implicit contents to suggest approximation to the movement of intelligent design. We interpret Cardinal Schonborn's position as a rhetorical change with respect to John Paul II's 1996 speech. From our point of view, the Archbishop directed his criticism against evolutionary theory not only because of its scientific theories (not rejected by Church teaching) but also for being potentially dangerous in its use by certain authors as a scientific argument in defence of their atheism. Resumen El objetivo de este paper es analizar desde el punto de vista retorico el op‐ed titulado Finding Design in Nature, del cardenal Christoph Schonborn, arzobispo de Viena, publicado en 2005 por


Shanahan adds to the above, advice as to the location of a Colony, laying stress on a location which is remote from temptations for the colonists, but accessible to visitors and within easy reach of a large town. He also lays stress on the theraputic and financial value of properly organized industries in Colony life. In starting a new institution, the working class of patients should be the first to be received. The gross value of the products of the Craig Colony for the year ending Sept. 30, 1909 was # 65,863.52. J. F. MUNSON, Sonyea.


The purpose of this study was to develop Pokari-Dahitu learning media (Pop-Ups and Plant Life Cycle Magic Cards) in science learning. The type of research used is Research and Development (R&D) using the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation). However, this research is limited only at the development stage. This research involved fourth grade MI/SD students at MI Al-Husna Tenjolaya, Bogor Regency. Data collection in this study used interviews and a Likert scale questionnaire (product validation). The data collected was then analyzed descriptively to describe the feasibility of Pokari-Dahitu (Pop-Up and Plant Life Cycle Magic Cards) in science learning. The results of the study showed that (1) the Pokari-Dahitu learning media (Pop-Up and Plant Life Cycle Magic Cards) had never been used before for science learning; (2) Pokari-Dahitu learning media (Pop-Up and Plant Life Cycle Magic Cards) get material validation with a percentage of 93% and media validation with a percentage of 81%, so that it is concluded that the development of powtoon media in mathematics subject matter "circumference and area flat wake" is feasible to use.


An efficient method for two-level thresholding is proposed based on the Bayes formula and the maximum entropy principle, in which no assumptions of the image histogram are made. An alternative criterion is derived based on maximizing entropy and used for speeding up the searching algorithm. Five forms of conditional probability distributions—simple, linear, parabola concave, parabola convex, and S-function—are employed and compared to each other for optimal threshold determination. The effect of precision on optimal threshold de- termination is discussed and a trade-off precision «50.001 is selected experimentally. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in speed from 26 to 57 times faster than the exhaustive search method. © 2002 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumen- tation Engineers. (DOI: 10.1117/1.1501094) Subject terms: image thresholding; Bayes's formula; maximum entropy principle; image segmentation.


The relation of the thermoelectric figure of merit and the nanocomposite morphology is studied for thermoelectric thin films consisting of poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) with different amounts of silicon nanoparticles (Si‐NPs). An increase in the figure of merit of up to 150% is found for an Si‐NP concentration of 0.5 wt% as compared to pristine PEDOT:PSS films. The improvement originates from a disruption in the molecular ordering and therefore reduced electrical conductivity, which leads to an increased Seebeck coefficient, while also reducing thermal conductivity for higher concentrations through phonon scattering. The thermal conductivity is measured with steady‐state IR thermography on free‐standing PEDOT:PSS/Si‐NP composite films, enabling a full determination of the figure of merit. The morphology is investigated with grazing incidence resonant tender X‐ray scattering (GIR‐TeXS) around the sulfur K‐absorption edge. Without need for extrinsic labeling, GIR‐TeXS measurements have varying scattering contrast conditions for the components of the ternary system. By comparing the scattered intensities at different photon energies with the corresponding scattering contrast, the Si‐NPs are found to be preferentially dispersed in the large and medium‐sized PEDOT‐rich domains. The changes in size for the PEDOT‐rich domains as function of Si‐NP concentration cause improvement of the thermoelectric properties of the films.


Examines the extent to which a major purchaser can affect company behaviour within those firms supplying to it. Eleven major UK suppliers to Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK were compared with other non‐supply chain companies to examine the extent to which new forms of customer‐supplier relationships are spreading within supply chain firms into wider aspects of organizational behaviour, as a direct consequence of close involvement. Toyota appear to affect supply firms' communication patterns, employee relations, and approaches to problem solving directly.


Magistrates Courts of WA is committed to ensuring that people with a disability and their families and carers are able to easily access the support and facilities which may be provided by the court which they are attending.


Species diversity is high in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains, particularly at the edges characterized by deep ravines and "sky islands". Studies focused on sky-island species are sparse and the patterns observed in response to both geographic and climatic factors are inconsistent. Here phylogeographic and phylogenetic analyses of Gaultheria nummularioides, a species originating in the late Pliocene with its main distribution in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains, were conducted to reveal the pattern of genetic dynamics in response to physical geography, glacial fluctuations, and monsoons. We found that in this species genetic variation is higher among populations than within populations, with a significant phylogeographic boundary between the central Himalaya and the eastern Himalaya and the Hengduan Mountains. We also found a high incidence of private alleles, possibly associated with strong habitat isolation. The phylogeographic pattern recovered is consistent with populations in glacial refugia that have experienced expansion after glaciation. The divergence times of most haplotypes coincide with the time of the weakening of the Asian monsoon in these regions. Models of geographic range size showed a significant decrease from the Last Interglacial through the Last Glacial Maximum to the Current, and a predicted increase from the Current to the year 2070. Our study provides insights for understanding speciation among sky islands in this region.


The electrical parameters of a low pressure ferrite-free inductively coupled discharge have been investigated. In the experiment plasma can be considered as a one-turn secondary load of an air-core transformer. The electrical conductivity ratio between the image part and the real part σi/σr can be obtained through calculating Maxwell equations. The electrical characteristics can be obtained by the calculation of the equivalent circuit.


Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the chelating effect of silver nitrate (AgNO3) by chitosan on growth performances, hematological and biochemical parameters, and the histopathological structure of the liver and the kidney in broiler chicken. Materials and methods: A total of 192 day-old Cobb 500 strain chicks were randomly assigned to 3 treatments of 64 chicks each. Control group was fed on basal diet without supplement (R0) and the two others groups were fed on rations supplemented with 10 mg of unchelated (RAg) or chelated (RCs-Ag) AgNO3 per Kg of feed, respectively. Parameters that have been studied consisted of feed intake, weight gain, blood and serum biochemical, and histopathological analyses of liver and kidney. Results: Results revealed that chelation of AgNO3 by chitosan did not have any effect on growth performances and hematological parameters in chicken. However, chelated and unchelated AgNO3 increased the serum content in triglyceride, and cholesterol and decreased the serum content in creatinin, albumin and alanine aminotransferase (ALAT). Chelating AgNO3 with chitosan prevented and corrected the toxicity induced on the histological structure of liver and kidney. Conclusion: Chitosan can be used as a chelating agent to alleviate the harmful effects of AgNO3 as silver ion for poultry. http://doi.org/10.5455/javar.2017.d210 XML PubReader


Purpose – In this paper, two omni‐directional mobile vehicles are designed and controlled implementing distributed mechatronics controllers. Omni‐directionality is the ability of mobile vehicle to move instantaneously in any direction. It is achieved by implementing Mecanum wheels in one vehicle and conventional wheels in another vehicle. The control requirements for omni‐directionality using the two above‐mentioned methods are that each wheel must be independently driven, and that all the four wheels must be synchronized in order to achieve the desired motion of each vehicle.Design/methodology/approach – Distributed mechatronics controllers implementing Controller Area Network (CAN) modules are used to satisfy the control requirements of the vehicles. In distributed control architectures, failures in other parts of the control system can be compensated by other parts of the system. Three‐layered control architecture is implemented for; time‐critical tasks, event‐based tasks, and task planning. Global var...


We derive a form of the partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) for pricing American options under variance gamma (VG) process. We then develop a numerical algorithm to solve for values of American options under variance gamma model. In this study, we compare the exercise boundary and early exercise premia between geometric VG law and geometric Brownian motion (GBM). We find that GBM premia are understated and hence we conclude that further work is necessary in developing fast efficient algorithms for solving PIDE's with a view to calibrating stochastic processes to a surface of American option prices.


Abstract : Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No. 18: Shipbuilding Evaluation and Analysis System. The objective of this paper is to discuss the elements of the computer model Shipbuilding Evaluation and Analysis System (SFAS) concerning: how SFAS is used in the maritime Administration (MarAd) management decision making process; the capabilities of the model; and the interactive relations between the model users and the shipyards. SFAS is a group of computer modules designed to provide evaluations and analyses pertinent to all phases of the shipbuilding process. The modules provide various reports and graphical information. The graphical information is in the form of workforce curves and scheduling charts. The following are typical SFAS applications: workload analyses of shipyards; assessment of building position. availability and facility utilization; mobilization base analyses; depicting the requirements for critical materials in shipbuilding determining shipyard capabilities; 5-year shipbuilding forecast; budget for U.S. ship construction program with and without CDS; determining labor and training requirements in shipbuilding; analyses of U.S. ship repair and reactivation capabilities; and carriage capacity for specified ship construction programs.


It is often argued, though mostly informally, that outward foreign direct investment (FDI) is a synonym for the export of employment and thus detrimental to the home economy. To see whether and under what conditions this intuition indeed holds true, we construct a model of unionized duopoly and examine welfare implications of outward FDI by paying special attention to the role of domestic competition. We find that the welfare effect of FDI is largely non-monotonic, and there are indeed such things as "excessive FDI." We also show that, when FDI reduces welfare, this negative effect arises more at the expense of consumers rather than the unions: in fact, quite contrary to the popular belief, FDI may actually benefit the unions because it serves to soften price competition between them. The paper points out that welfare effects of outward FDI hinges crucially on the nature of domestic competition, and policymakers must carefully take this aspect into consideration.


The inversion of the burden of proof has been a unique principle of the civil procedure law as regards evidence. The proper application of the principle in judicial process depends on an appropriate understanding of its position in the civil evidence law, as well as a definite determination of its scope of application. The author has pointed out that the existing stipulations on its scope of application in both substantive law and procedure law are too limited to resolve the increasing problems in judicial practice, and has further proposed an expansion of the applicability of the principle.


Summary Because few Upper Miocene localities have been discovered in South China, rhinoceros specimens from the Upper Miocene hominoid fauna of the Yuanmou Basin are critical for understanding the taxonomy and distribution of rhinoceroses of South China during this time interval. Here we report new specimens from this basin, including three isolated lower incisors (i2) and one partly preserved mandible with lower cheek teeth p3-m3. These specimens will improve our understanding of the Late Miocene rhinoceroses in South China.


It is a pleasure to participate in the American Society for Competitiveness Conference. This is an excellent forum as each of us searches for ideas to find success in industries where the nature of the competition increasingly becomes international.


We demonstrate 43.63-Gbps SC-FDMA with O.5-GSample/s sampling-rate receiver for each 32-user. Meanwhile, PAPR reduction is included in the proposed SC-FDMA system. We also compare results with L-FDMA, I-FDMA, and OFDM utilizing high sampling-rate ADC.


According to a confidential report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the theft of a bomb's worth of material would have a one-in-twenty chance of going unnoticed—even if the agency met its own inspection goals.


The invention provides a method for detecting oil field fluid channeling, utilizing water-containing index characteristic curve to measure the performance of production well in the oil field, concretely speaking: collecting oil output and fluid output of the oil well from starting to test at regular intervals; calculating water-oil ratio or water ratio of the oil well at regular intervals; finding first-order derivative of common logarithm of the water-oil ratio or water ratio to common logarithm of time, namely the water-containing index; using the water-containing index as vertical coordinate and producing time as horizontal coordinate to make its half-logarithm relation curve and obtaining the water- containing index characteristic curve; detecting the type of the fluid channeling according to the shape of the water-containing index characteristic curve. And the method has objectivity and strong operability.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present sensitivity analysis of electromagnetic fields in the time‐domain.Design/methodology/approach – The method utilizing adjoint models is commonly used to evaluate sensitivity. In connection with widely applied finite element method, the time‐stepping scheme for discretization of time functions is used.Findings – The proposed semi‐discrete method allows us to obtain time‐domain solution without time‐stepping. For space discretization, the authors use finite elements, as usual. The semi‐discrete method delivers analytical and continuous solution for any given time of analysis, which has a form of exponential functions. In order to obtain an analytical formula, there is necessary the integration of sensitivity equation. The paper finds possible solutions of this problem, either the application of Zassenhaus formula or improvement of commutation properties of two matrices.Research limitations/implications – Drawback of this method is matrices which are losing th...


Placing nutrition value and food composition is obligatory on the packaging according to Regulation (EU) 1169/2011. In European Union countries this regulation applied on 13.12.2014, but nutrition value labeling is obligatory from 13.12.2016. Spreading information about energy value, nutrition facts and composition is important in view of obesity epidemic in high developed countries and also in consideration of strengthening consumer health preservation trend on food market. The majority of food producers places this type of information on the packaging, but the graphic form is elective. Subjects of research were present on Polish market food packages and also designed packaging images in accordance with guidelines of Food and Drug Administration from United State of America. Using the computer program (Tobii Studio) the retrieval speed of information of nutritional value (time between displaying images and click on the area of the package containing the specified data) was investigated. On this basis A/B test was conducted, in order to elect better version of packaging, allowing faster information searching. User Experience tools were reviewed for utility to the testing of packaging. The study allowed to indicate form of graphical presentation of this type of information causing them fast retrieval on the packaging. Also range of required on packaging nutritional information was researched in questionnaire form. The study involved 52 persons of all ages.


The invention discloses an acrylic elastic material system for laying on the ground of a field and a laying method thereof. The acrylic elastic material system comprises an acrylic smooth layer, an acrylic coarse granular elastic layer, an acrylic fine granular elastic layer, an acrylic elastic sealing layer, an acrylic color texture layer and an acrylic color wear-resistant surface layer which are sequentially laid. According to the acrylic elastic material system disclosed by the invention, water-borne acrylic resin is taken as a core material, the acrylic elastic material system does not contain TDI (toluene diisocyanate) or MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) and does not contain benzenes, aldehydes, heavy metals and the like, clear water is taken as a diluent during construction, the addition of any organic solvent is not required, and the harm to the construction staff and environment can be avoided; furthermore, the acrylic elastic sealing layer is taken as a transition layer between a bottom-layer material and an upper-layer material, the layer takes a mixture of a plurality of emulsions taking a high-elasticity acrylic emulsion as a main emulsion as a core component, the formula is scientific, and the layer is meticulously produced; and during construction, a certain amount of quartz sand is added to have the characteristics of flexible-rigid and soft-hard coordination, so that a great buffer transition effect can be realized between the bottom-layer material and the upper-layer material, and the problem of cracking of the surface layer due to the different hardness of the bottom-layer material and the upper-layer material is further solved.


In order to characterize the effect of row spacing on maize yield and field microclimate,four treatments,row spacing of 50 cm,60cm,70 cm,80cm were arranged in this experiment,using Longping206 as material.The results showed that maize yield was highly significantly influenced by row spacings,and the yield of50cm-row-spacing is the highest.Daily mean temperature,relative humidity,light intensity and wind speed in maize field were significantly influenced by row spacings.With the row spacing increasing,daily mean temperature and relative humidity decreased gradually,and daily mean light intensity and wind speed increased.The effect of each climatic factor on yield is different.Relative humidity had the biggest correlation with yield,and its effect on yield was the greatest.The study showed that row spacing had coordinated function on maize yield and field microclimate.With a row spacing of 50 cm,contradictions between each climate factor could be effectively coordinated,and 50cm-row-spacing could lead to the highest yield in all treatments.


Soils of the Arctic sea coasts are one of the least studied due to the complex logistical accessibility of the region, as well as the severe climatic conditions. The genesis of these soils is determined by several factors of soil formation simultaneously—cryogenesis, the influence of river alluvial processes, as well as the tidal influence of the sea. The paper presents data on the morphological structure of soils formed on the seacoast of the East-Siberian Sea (Kolyma Lowland, North Yakutia). Under the influence of cryogenesis and sea water tidal input, marsh soils are formed, with a relatively high level of salinity and the development of gleyization. Autochthonous and allochthonous soil organic matter play a leading role in marsh soil formation here, including the possible accumulation and biochemical transformation of incoming pollutants (e.g., hydrocarbons). The main objective of the study was to evaluate the soil organic matter genesis and alteration under the influence of tidal processes in coastal permafrost-affected soils as well as to obtain the previously unknown characteristics of the structural and elemental composition of different fractions of organic matter. The elemental composition and 13C NMR spectroscopy of humic acids were analyzed. It was revealed that humic acids extracted from the studied marsh soils accumulate up to 50% C and 4% N. Active processes of dehydrogenation are noted in HAs molecules, which indicates a relatively low degree of aliphatic structure development. According to 13C NMR spectroscopy, it was revealed that up to 45% of aromatic structural fragments accumulate in marsh soils, indicating a relatively high degree of organic matter stabilization and resistance to biodegradation.


A solar air heater is very useful for low grade thermal energy applications. It has wide usage in the area of space heating and drying of agricultural products, curing of timbers etc. due to its low cost, simple construction and easier to use. The thermal efficiency of flat plate solar air heater is found to be poor due to low heat transfer coefficient between air and the heat absorbing plate. Methodology of artificial roughness is considered to be a good technique for enhancing rate of heat transfer between absorber plate and air flowing through duct of solar air heater. In this paper, a brief review on the numerical analysis has been carried out for discrete multi V-shaped and staggered rib roughness surface absorber plate on the basis of previous research papers.


Magnetic susceptibility and neutron scattering measurements have been made on a pseudo-binary alloy system Fe 65 (Ni 1- x Mn x ) 35 with x =0.134 and x =0.22. Low field susceptibility measurements have shown that these alloys transform to a low temperature spin-glass phase from a ferromagnetic ( x =0.134) or a paramagnetic ( x =0.22) phase. In the alloy with x =0.134, spin-wave excitations have been observed in the spin-glass phase as well as in the ferromagnetic phase. The spin-wave stiffness constant does not change appreciably at the spin-glass freezing temperature. Spin-wave excitations have also been observed in the alloy with x =0.22 over the wide temperature range in the spin-glass and the paramagnetic phases.


Background Hypertension (HTN) is known to be the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality. We aimed to assess the impact of changes in 3 years in different blood pressure (BP) categories on incident CVD. Methods In this study, 3,685 Tehranians aged ≥30 years (42.2% men) free of prevalent CVD with BP level <140/90 mmHg and not on BP-lowering medications were enrolled. Participants were grouped according to baseline BP category using the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guideline definition: normal BP (<120/80 mmHg), elevated BP (120–129/<80), and stage 1 HTN (130–139 and/or 80–89). The hazard ratio of incident CVD by changes in the BP category was estimated after adjustment for traditional risk factors using Cox's proportional hazard model, with stable normotension as a reference. Results During a median follow-up of 11.7 years, 346 CVD events (men = 208) occurred. Compared to the reference group, among participants with normal BP at baseline, only those with BP rising to stage 1 HTN [1.47 (0.99–2.16)], and among those with stage 1 HTN at baseline, regression to elevated BP [1.80 (1.11–2.91)], remaining at stage 1 [1.80 (1.29–2.52)], and progression to stage 2 HTN [1.81 (1.25–2.61)] had a higher risk for CVD; however, regression to normal BP attenuated this risk [1.36 (0.88–2.12)]. Conversion from elevated BP to any other categories had no significant association with CVD risk. Conclusions Generally, prevalent stage 1 HTN (regardless of changing category) and incident stage 1 HTN were significantly associated with a higher risk of CVD; even regression to elevated BP did not attenuate the risk. Accordingly, these populations are potential candidates for antihypertensive management.


Transport construction projects often occupy much land and deplete many resources, which exercise tremendous impact on the environment. To promote the speedy and sustainable development of transport undertakings and enhance the environmental protection awareness in engineering projects, China has enacted the Law of Environmental Impact Assessment, which for the first time puts forward the concept of environmental impact assessment of planning. But up till now there has not mature theories, measures or procedural systems in this field. This paper analyzes the significance,characteristics and procedures of environmental protection assessment of planning and advance the definition, principles,technical guidelines and content of environmental impact assessment of highway planning in accordance with the newly enacted Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment of Planning and environmental assessment of construction projects.


T HE aim of adequate maternity care is to secure for every pregnant mother the minimum of mental and physical discomfort throughout pregnancy, the maximum of mental and physical fitness at its termination, with'a well baby and the knowledge whereby to care for her baby. Theoretically, every nurse should know obstetrical nursing when she leaves the school of nursing; unfortunately few do. Most student nurses see the maternity patient for the first time when she comes to the hospital in labor, care for her from ten to fourteen days, and do not see her again after she leaves the hospital. Every pregnant mother needs care for at least ten months. The nurse gets very little idea of the need for continuous supervision over this ten-month period of prenatal and later care when her contact with maternity patients covers a period of two weeks or less. This means that nurses may know deliveryroom technic, nursery routine and postpartum bedside care, but practically nothing about care and supervision during pregnancy or the days that follow after the mother leaves the hospital. The nurse in a properly organized and administered general hospital


This subject in native and foreign schools in China to-day is an interesting one to teachers there and may be instructive to American teachers. The problem is not altogether one with that of our school-city or with other attempts of teachers to introduce democracy into the school for an aid to moral and especially civic instruction. It will, however, throw light upon our efforts. The subject in China is an important one in the educational affairs of every part of the empire. In every city is heard the expression "the students." This new and motley class of old and young students of the modern schools which have so recently sprung up everywhere seems to be wielding a great influence among the people. In several cities they are attempting to enlighten the superstitious classes by destroying publicly the old idols and by turning the temples into schools . Officials have had to suppress small riots caused by their rash independence. In a large school in Canton the governing body was compelled by the students to discharge one or two unpopular teachers. In that school, Prof. Young, M.A., Columbia University, '05, found the authorities hesitant about taking any steps contrary to the will of the students. In another school a teacher removed some objectionable notices posted up by the students and thereby almost caused a boycott of the school. In a mission school a boy was whipped by his teacher and immediately a student committee was sent to the principal to say that if that method of discipline was to be used as in the old style elementary schools, they must find other schools, to attend. In that case, though there were only two students present the next day, the explanations and persuasion of the teachers brought all back. In other schools the boycott has been used mercilessly. In the old high schools and in a few modern and even mission schools, the students manage the boarding department and sometimes the renting of the houses. Feeling their importance as the highest class of society, they wish to show their independence and at the same time gain valuable experience in the management of affairs.


The book-length treatment of the TP (Yang, 2016) would have provided a fuller background and assuaged some of the commentators' concerns. For instance, both Wittenberg & Jackdoff and Kapatsinski are incredulous that language could operate like a serial search model, the algorithmic foundation of the TP — because, they argue, the brain is parallel. But is a parallel brain really incompatible with serial behavioral effects? My (presumably parallel) brain can memorize and recite the digits of π in a strictly linear sequence. And there are numerous serial effects in the study of cognition that are the product of a parallel brain: the scanning memory model of Sternberg (1969), the linear search model of number representation and processing (Gallistel et al., 1992, Brannon et al., 2001), not to mention Weber's Law (Gibbon, 1977). More to the point, a serial model is simply a better account of lexical processing. A picture (actually two) is worth a thousand words.


By adopting finite element analysis software AutoBank,the stress deformation for rock fill dam with face slab of Shangzai Reservoir in Majiang County,Guizhou is analyzed.Duncan E-B constitutive model and linear elastic model are applied respectively for the analysis of dam and bed rock.The calculation shows that the deformation for the dam is comparatively small,stress level is not high on the whole,dam damage will not happen and the dam is safe.


PURPOSE: A strapping machine with an improved re-feed function is provided to minimize downtime by constituting modular components, improve automatic supply, retreat, and re-feed of a strapping material, and use only a pair of supply wheels to an automatic re-feed device. CONSTITUTION: A strapping machine(10), positioning a strapping material around an associated load and sealing the strapping material around the load, comprises a frame(12); a feed assembly(18) mounted to the frame to feed, retract and automatically re-feed the strapping material; a guide configured to receive the strapping material from the feed assembly; a strapping head(20) configured to receive the strapping material from the feed assembly via the guide and to position the strapping material around the load and seal the strapping material around the load; and a controller(112) operably connected to a drive. The feed assembly includes only one pair of reversible feed elements and the drive. The reversible feed elements are configured to automatically feed, retract and re-feed the strapping material upon an appropriate signal from the controller.


The paper focuses on the importance of midwifes and physicians in the Maternity and Infancy Hospital. The purpose is showing the ambiguous role of both parts; because despite of the regulations, sometimes they worked together. In addition it highlights the role of women who where the main reason of the Hospital creation and its obstetrics clinic. * Maestra en Historia. Alumna del Doctorado en Historia Moderna y Contemporanea, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jose Ma. Luis Mora. Palabras clave: Parteras, medicos, obstetricia, hospital, mujeres.


the total, appear almost to be an afterthought on the part of the editors. Certainly the systematic methods of research used for the United States entries were not applied for the Canadian. Questionable 'western' articles on the Alabama claims and on Quebec and Confederation are listed while other more appropriate entries are omitted. More seriously, it appears as if whole journals have been missed by those responsible for the Canadian material. Canada, as those in the field are only too aware, has relatively few historical periodicals and it is therefore dismaying that a bibliography which boasts Japanese and German entries should have missed such standard Canadian sources as Social


[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] In the following three case studies, we use mathematical modeling to explore neural computation at the cell and network levels. In the first case study, we explore how oscillatory rhythms -- found throughout the brain during animal behavior -- can modulate how a neuron integrates information. We find that non-linear dendritic spike events drive spiking and that inhibitory inhibition modulates spiking by modulating dendritic spike events in the case of beta inhibition. In the second case study, we explore a novel mechanism for the generation of sharp wave ripples in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. We identify a key role for chandelier interneurons in this process. Finally, we explore how n-methyl d-aspartate receptors have a dual role in neural computation -- one as a driver of spiking, and the other as the biophysical basis of neural plasticity.


The new method of salmonellosis diagnostics by detection of bacteria of genus Salmonella markers, which is based on usage of semiconductor nanomaterials (quantum dots) as precision detector elements of nanophotonic sensing device is offered in this work.


At the present scenario, one of the main reasons of death is cardiovascular related diseases. This project proposes a system to help the doctor to detect cardiac arrhythmia. The techniques used in this pattern recognition comprise: signal pre-processing, filter design analysis and neural network toolboxes in Matlab environment. Normal and disease ECG signals have been tested by using recordings obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) arrhythmia database. Supervised Radial Basis Function (RBF) network architecture is used for filtration, extraction of morphological features of ECG signal and for classification of abnormal cardiac conditions. Different threshold techniques were implemented for best detection of fudicial points on the derivative of the filtered ECG signal through signal processing. All fudicial points and intervals extracted were learned to the RBF network for extraction of features through the overall record which is further processed to ANN for classification. The designed network gives very minimum error in terms of 10-15.


We demonstrate the extra influence of a nitrogen buffering effect in the top indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode layer of resistive random access memory (RRAM) with an NH3 treatment. The nitrogen buffering effect in the switching layer cannot counteract the electric field force, leading to similar current-voltage (I-V) characteristics compared to the ITO/Hf:SiO2/TiN control structure RRAM. However, the effect in the ITO electrode layer, makes it easier for the redox reaction to occur, leading to improved endurance and concentrated voltages.


Nowadays, the use of technological tools for information and communication in the educational system has allowed innovations with the generation of new strategies to achieve learning in classrooms. This article aims to prove some basic experiences in the use of social networks, starting with the analysis of the environment in order to achieve an overview of this atmosphere that encourages the investigation of these new advances in technology. The results so far show that the use of social networks in education is a technological strength that contributes to learning and to the construction of knowledge.


To better understand the ethical decision-making process and why individuals fail to act ethically, the aim of this article is to explore what are seen as the key impediments to ethical behavior and their pedagogical implications. Using the ethical decision-making process proposed by Rest as an overarching framework, the article examines the following barriers to ethical decision making: improper framing, which can preclude moral awareness; cognitive biases and psychological tendencies, which can hinder reaching proper moral judgments; and moral rationalizations, which can obstruct moral judgments from being translated into moral intentions or ethical behavior. Next, pedagogical exercises and tools for teaching behavioral ethics and ethical decision making are provided. The article concludes with its implications.