Background: The airborne feature of cement particles present in the air can be a source of lung nuisance to surrounding populations. This study has as aim to evaluate the environmental and health impact of cement dust on the surrounding populations. Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study that enabled us to select, after systematic random sampling, 200 people in a nearby area (about 500m) away from the factory: Sekandji and 200 people in another area 1.5km from the factory: Agongo. They were submitted to a questionnaire. Measurements of the level of fine particles (PM 2.5) were carried out simultaneously at the factory and in the two areas. The chemical constituent of these particles: silica, alumina, calcium and iron were analysed. The data were analysed with the Epi info 7 and SPSS 17 software. The risk was evaluated by the odds ratio and a p≤0.05 was considered as a significant difference. Results: The mean age: 39±14 years and the sex of the participants were distributed without significant difference in the 2 areas. In Sekandji about 2 to 3 times more participants suffer more chronic bronchitis (p=0.04) or allergic rhinitis (p=0.04) than in Agongo. The level of fine particles production in the factory (83μg/m 3 ) is more than 3 times the WHO standard (25μg/m 3 ), especially the PM 2.5 level in Sekandji is twice superior to that of Agongo. The combined physicochemical analysis of the dust at the 3 sites (inter-site comparison) shows that the chemical elements constituting the klinker: silica, iron, alumina, calcium, are found less in Agongo than in Sèkandji and strongly in factory. Conclusions: There is production of fine dust at the plant associated in part with respiratory diseases found in the surrounding population. responsible for respiratory disorders. Cement is used in building and public works to bind hard materials. It is in the form of a fine powder from the grinding of clinker, a material obtained by the calcination at high temperature of a mixture of clay and limestone materials. Most of the cement plant in Benin produces cement with imported clinker. It is a unit for grinding clinker and bagging the cement produced. The major risk of cement production is dust and noise. The level of dust measured in quarries and cement plants is in the range of 26 to 114mg/m . Frequent measurements of the level of dust and noise make it generally clear that the noise level remains within normal but the level of dust constitutes the major We will on cement dust risk. In fact, pulmonary diseases represent the most important category of occupational diseases encountered in the cement industry, and they can be attributed to the inhalation of airborne dust and to the macro-climatic and micro-climatic conditions of the workplace. The most common health disorder is chronic bronchitis. The airborne character of cement particles in the air can be source of nuisance to surrounding populations


The electrodeposition of tin was investigated in the room temperature molten salt based on 1-methyl-3-ethylimidizalium/ AlCl 3 /SnCl 2 . The results show that the morphology and size of the tin crystallites are strongly influenced by the composition of the melts and the deposition potentials, producing tin deposits with different shapes and widely various size ranges from several micrometers to nanometers. morphology around with more regular shape and uniform size distribution can be obtained by balanced control of the nucleation and growth of


The development of the current monitoring system has become interesting to investigate, especially wireless sensor network based monitoring. Implementation of the wireless-based monitoring system widely implemented in the application of natural disasters, health monitoring, and military operations. One of the health services applications is the monitoring system of heartbeat and body temperature. Examination of the vital sign is a fundamental parameter for medical personnel in performing treatment early to maintain the safety and physical condition of patients. However, the problems that occur in health services is that medical staff need a long time to examine patients, patient data retrieval is still conventional, and equipment used still using the cable media. To solve the problem, the authors propose a heart rate monitoring system and body temperature using Raspberry Pi. This study aims to relieve the burden of medical personnel in monitoring the patient, shorten the time in taking patient data, and reduce the occurrence of misdiagnosis. Test results showed that the success rate of the system in detecting the heartbeat of 97.78% and body temperature of 99.73%. Distance range of sensor data transmission for open space without obstructions of 67 meters and enclosed space with a barrier of 13 meters.


The behavior of ground fault relays in large industrial power systems is generally perceived to be well-understood. In reality, the behavior of these relays can be influenced by more than the magnitude of 60 Hz ground fault induced short circuit currents, current transformer ratios, and relay tap settings. This paper addresses issues that can lead to sympathetic nuisance tripping of ground fault relays and other ground fault protection concerns. Sympathetic nuisance tripping occurs if a feeder with no conventional ground fault current source (generator or utility tie transformer) downstream from the feeder circuit breaker trips when a ground fault occurs elsewhere on the power system. The advantages and disadvantages of various types of ground fault sensing relay configurations are also discussed. Specific protection application considerations relating to high resistance grounding are presented.


The utility model provides a movable three-dimensional cultivation device for greenhouses. The device comprises a cultivation frame, cultivation grooves fixed on two sides of the cultivation frame, guide rails, supporting shafts and a transmission mechanism, wherein the two ends of each of the supporting shafts are provided with an idler wheel respectively; the two guide rails are fixed on the ground of the greenhouse; the two supporting shafts are arranged below the cultivation frame; the idler wheels are matched with the guide rails and can move on the guide rails; and the supporting shafts are driven by the transmission mechanism to rotate. The cultivation device can fully receive the sunlight; the quality of the planted products is good; when not used, the device can be completely unfolded so that the greenhouse can be fully used, and the yield in the unit area can be greatly improved.


Abstract Petrinets have become a useful tool for modelling various classes of systems, especially those involving parallel computations and concurrent processes. The present paper deals with a method for identification of the Petrinet model from a given set of input-output observations. The method actually involves a modification of the system identification techniques of linear system theory. It has been shown that, by assuming the net to be a discrete-time linear dynamical system, it is possible to arrive at a reduced-order Petrinet model for a dynamical process. This procedure will enable one to obtain a Petrinet model for subsequent analysis systematically, thus bypassing normally used trial-and-error techniques.


In this work, we present a computational formulation based on continuum mechanics to study the interaction of fluid membranes embedded with semiflexible filaments. This is motivated by systems in membrane biology, such as cytoskeletal networks and protein filaments aiding the cell fission process. We model the membrane as a fluid shell via the Helfrich-Canham energy and the filament as a one-dimensional Cosserat continuum. We assume the filament to be tethered to the surface of the membrane in a way that it is allowed to float on the surface freely. The novel filament-membrane coupling, which is anticipated to yield interesting physics, also gives rise to unique computational challenges, which we address in this work. We present validation results and apply the formulation to certain problems inspired by cellular biology.


The turn of 20th century is the period of intensive development of science and technology. The new century brings unparalleled information chaos. It penetrates all the aspects of human life and its negative consequences can be spotted also in education. The borders between various disciplines are becoming blurred, what makes it difficult to decide what to teach and how intensive the process of education should be. The efficiency of university research and education would be higher if there were more or less distinct pathways to choose from. Tracing such pathways and than managing them could become a new function of university libraries.


Background: The modulation of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells by glycolipids is considered a potential therapeutic approach for treating immunological diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease. 7DW8-5 is a recently identified glycolipid analog derived from &agr;-galactosylceramide, an iNKT agonist that upregulates cytokine production in humans and mice. Although the effect of 7DW8-5 as a vaccine adjuvant has been established, the potential for 7DW8-5-mediated upregulation of cytokines to exert cytoxic effects on tumor cells and infected tissues remains unclear. Methods: In this study, we investigated the effects of 7DW8-5 on intestinal inflammation in dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced murine model of colitis. Compared to the vehicle control, 7DW8-5 significantly improved acute DSS-induced colitis in a dose-dependent manner, as demonstrated by disease activity, histology, and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Results: However, 7DW8-5 did not affect DSS-induced colitis in CD1d-KO mice. FACS analysis demonstrated that iNKT levels increased in colon tissue derived from 7DW85-treated mice. RNA-seq revealed that Th2 cytokine levels increased in 7DW8-5treated mice compared with control-treated mice. In addition, the expression of IL-4, IL13, and interferon-gamma significantly increased in 7DW8-5-treated mice compared with control mice. Furthermore, 7DW8-5 inhibited colitis-associated tumor development in an azoxymethane/DSS mouse model of inflammation-induced colon carcinoma. Conclusions: 7DW8-5 activates iNKT cells via CD1d and provides a protective effect against intestinal inflammation in mice. Together, these findings indicate that 7DW8-5 might be a promising therapeutic agent for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.


Hybrid Si/InGaAsP Fabry-Perot evanescent lasers are fabricated via wafer bonding. Compared with previous similar devices, the current threshold density, turn-on voltage, output power and slope efficiency are all improved. Images show modal confinement to Silicon.


In this paper, we first characterize the minimality criterion for a convergent power series f on in terms of its coefficients for the cases p = 2 or 3. For an arbitrary prime , the minimality criterion of such a series can be obtained explicitly provided that the prescribed minimal conditions for the reduction of f modulo p are found. Second, we provide the minimality criterion for a rational map of at least degree 2 with good reduction on the projective line over . This criterion enables us to obtain a complete description of minimal conditions for such a map on in terms of its coefficients for p = 2 or 3. For an arbitrary prime , we present a method of characterizing minimal rational maps ϕ of degree on , provided that the prescribed conditions for the reduction of ϕ on to be transitive are known.


Abstract Based on the findings of an exploratory study on support systems and help-seeking experiences of thirty-six survivors of war and Forture, this article presents their experiences with two supportive resources, formal mental health services and community peer groups. The aim of this article is to discuss factors that shape survivors' use of mental health services as well as the functions and benefits of community peer groups.


Motivated by the recent detection of gravitational waves from the black hole binary merger GW150914, we study the dynamical evolution of (stellar-mass) black holes in galactic nuclei, where massive star clusters reside. With masses of and sizes of only a few parsecs, nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems observed in the local universe and represent a robust environment where black hole binaries can dynamically form, harden, and merge. We show that due to their large escape speeds, NSCs can retain a large fraction of their merger remnants. Successive mergers can then lead to significant growth and produce black hole mergers of several tens of solar masses similar to GW150914 and up to a few hundreds of solar masses, without the need to invoke extremely low metallicity environments. We use a semi-analytical approach to describe the dynamics of black holes in massive star clusters. Our models give a black hole binary merger rate of from NSCs, implying up to a few tens of possible detections per year with Advanced LIGO. Moreover, we find a local merger rate of for high mass black hole binaries similar to GW150914; a merger rate comparable to or higher than that of similar binaries assembled dynamically in globular clusters (GCs). Finally, we show that if all black holes receive high natal kicks, , then NSCs will dominate the local merger rate of binary black holes compared to either GCs or isolated binary evolution.


This research aimed to test effect of company performance, earning management toward corporate governance reporting with variable of moderating CEO tenure. Its independent variables were the company performance and earning management whereas the dependent variable was corporate governance reporting and variable of moderating CEO tenure. The object research was manufacture companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). The researcher used 82 samplesand the data collection technique was purposive sampling, while its data analysis techniques were descriptive statistics test, regression test with absolute difference method, classical assumption test, and hypothesis test. The analysis result shows existence of positive impact on the companies performance toward corporate governance reporting, In the other hand, there is a positive significant impact on earning management toward corporate governance reporting, then the impact of companies performance toward corporate governance reporting will continuously desrease with the addition of CEO tenure period and the impact of earning management toward corporate governnace reporting was with decreasing earning management action by CEO having longer tenure period.


An electronic cash system for performing an electronic transaction using an electronic cash, comprises at least one user apparatus each capable of using the electronic cash; an authentication center apparatus, for receiving a user identity information, a corresponding public key along with a certificate issue request from one of the user apparatus and for issuing a certificate for the user apparatus's public key after confirming the identity of the corresponding user; at least one shop apparatus for confirming the identification of the user based on the user apparatus's public key, the corresponding certificate, for producing a challenge value unique to respective transaction using an electronic cash received from the user apparatus and then for confirming the validity of the electronic cash based on a response value from the user apparatus in response to the challenge value, so as to perform an electronic cash transaction with the user apparatus; and at least one bank apparatus for opening an anonymous account to one of the user apparatus and issuing an electronic cash according to the user apparatus's request after confirming the identification of the user based on the user apparatus's public key and the corresponding certificate, and for confirming the validity of an electronic cash received from one of the shop apparatus or the user apparatus so as to credit a corresponding account.


It is proved by international experience that a world-class stock exchange is the core part of an international financial center,and a top trading system is the core part of a world-class stock exchange.So does it in Shanghai.After overviewing the development trends of foreign stock trading systems and the construction achievements of the trading system of Shanghai Stock Exchange(SSE),this paper evaluates the gap between the trading system of SSE and the advanced foreign ones from the following four aspects: transaction processing system,trading system background,network facilities,and market participants.And finally,several strategic suggestions are proposed to better the stock trading system of Shanghai.


In this paper, thermal loading of the state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) High-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and traditional Si Insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in three-level active neutral-point-clamped photovoltaic inverters is presented considering real-field long-term mission profiles (i.e., ambient temperature and solar irradiance). A comparison of Si IGBT against GaN HEMT with three different possibilities: 1) with thermal interface material (TIM) at 10 kHz; 2) without TIM at 10 kHz; and 3) with TIM at 300 kHz has been performed. The assessment results indicate lower thermal stress with GaN HEMT devices at 10 kHz in comparison with Si IGBT. At high switching frequencies, the results show that the significant system level cost savings can be achieved without compromise of operating efficiency with GaN HEMTs. Both simulations and experimental tests are provided to demonstrate the thermal loading analysis approach. More important, the proposed analysis and comparison approach can be used for lifetime and reliability analysis of wide bandgap devices.


We report laser operation of spinning mirror mechanically Q-switched (MQS), flashlamp pumped 2.94 μm Er:YAG laser depending on the angular speed of the mirror, repetition rate, size and temperature of the gain element, pulse duration and jitter of Q-switch pulses, as well as pump pulse energy. The highest output energy of 260 mJ with a pulse duration of 150 ns was realized with the use of 7×120 mm Er(50%):YAG at 5 Hz repetition rate and 4200 rad/s angular speed of the spinning mirror. The efficiency of Q-switched operation was ~50% with respect to free-running regime. Using optical triggering, the pulse jitter was measured to be smaller than 10 ns for 160 ns Q-switched pulses. Optical triggering could be used for synchronization with mode-locked laser in chirp-pulse and regenerative amplifiers. We also report on development of room temperature gain-switched Fe:ZnSe laser pumped by a radiation of MQS Er:YAG laser. The maximum output energy of 9 mJ from Fe:ZnSe laser was demonstrated using MQS Er:YAG laser as pump source.


Stryax officinalis L (Styracaceae )which spread in different parts of the world, especially in Syria is formed by its active components of triterpene sapogenin and a triterpene saponin one of the main plants used for a long time in folk medicine, recent studies came to conduct pharmacological and chemical study of the plant to determine the morphological structure of fresh and dry plant and a set of tests and chemical assays to determine the extract content of chemical Plant fruits were collected from the coastal region and recognizable by their morphological characteristics of sex, gender. The microscopic study that we have had for the fruits of the plant is the first study of its species, and it was proved exsting some character tissue elements like covering trichomes and other elements. Then it was determined the extract content of active substances by making set of general chemical tests for detection alkaloids, Anthraquinone, saponins, cardioactive glycosides and Flavonoids.


The CrN ceramic thin films were deposited using DC reactive magnetron sputtering system on silicon wafer substrate. Oxidation behavior was carried out in air at evaluated temperatures ranging from 500 °C up to 900 °C for 2 h. The structure and element composition of the films at different thermal annealing temperatures ranging were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), respectively. The oxidation activation energies of the films were calculated using Arrhenius equation. The changes in the crystal structure from CrN to Cr2O3 phase were investigated from XRD results. The accumulation of grains on surface was confirmed by FESEM micrographs. The cross-section analysis showed an apparent columnar feature with dense structure for the film annealed at low temperature, and becomes porous when increasing the annealing temperature. The thickness was increased from 1.43 to 2.67 μm. The EDS studies indicated the existence of Cr, N and O with different elements compositions on the deposited thin films. The oxidation activation energy for the CrN thin films is 124.4 kJ/mol.


A colourless transparent polymer material, preferably suitable for optical applications, is produced by radical mass polymerization of a monomer mixture. The monomer mixture contains (a) at least 20 to 40 wt. % of a zirconium (IV) acrylic compound, b) at least 20 to 50 wt. % of a polymerizable aromatic compound, c) at least 20 to 40 wt. % of an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic ester of methacrylic acid, d) at least one bifunctional (crosslinkable) component from b) or c). With the exception of a), the molar ratio of the aromatic to the aliphatic functionalities in the components is from 2 to 1.4, the napthyl residue being weighted by a factor of 1.3 to 1.5 with respect to the phenyl residue. The polymer material has a refractive index nD >/= 1.55 and an Abbe coefficient vD >/= 35; preferably zirconium (IV) methacrylate is used as component a) and styrol as component b).


In order to evaluate the effect of chicken universal adjuvant for DNA vaccines,the fusion protein m LTA-CTLA-4 was expressed and purified based on the vector p ET-m LTA-CTLA-4. Protein toxicity tests were carried out on rabbits. VP2 gene of infectious bursal virus was amplified by RT-PCR,and lately used for p ET-VP2 construction. Ten-day-old free healthy chickens were chosed for animal grouping test,including different doses of m LTA-CTLA-4 plus VP2 group,IBD live vaccine group and control group. Serum and mucosal samples were collected regularly and the neutralization titers of Ig G and Ig A were assayed,while animal protection test was taken to determine the protection rate. The results showed that protein m LTA-CTLA-4 was non-toxic and its protection rate was 100%. Ig G or Ig A levels in IBDV vaccine groups were slightly higher than that in recombinant protein groups. These results indicated that recombinant proteins m LTA-CTLA-4 could be applied with IBDV subunit vaccine protecting chickens from infection.


Colonial rhetoric discourse of difference is characterized construed in by terms its capacity of race, to culture, harness and a rhetoric of difference construed i t rms of race, culture, a d morality for a project of domination. During the first decades of the seventeenth century, Britain had but begun to colonize other territories. The rhetoric that underpinned its early colonizing ventures was not yet a fully developed discourse. However, even in its early moments, what one might call the protocolonial discourse of the period imaginatively constituted non-Europeans so as to legitimate British intervention and rule. This discursive expression of a will to dominate was variously shaped by the different relations of power that obtained in the imperial culture. The protocolonial discourse of the early seventeenth century the period I examine in this essay was markedly influenced by three factors: the accession of a male absolutist monarch, the continued ascendance of a mercantile class within England, and the expansion of commerce with various parts of the world. Thus ideologies of gender, absolutism, and mercantilism variously inflected protocolonial discourse of this period. Protocolonial discourse also varied according to the location of its object: Britain was involved in Ireland, the New World, Africa, and India.1 In this essay, I examine protocolonial rhetoric with particular attention to the expansion of the African slave trade and the increase in commerce between Britain and India. My focus is on


We isolated a clone encoding a putative angiotensin-converting enzyme-related gene from the wing disc cDNA library of the silkworm, Bombyx mori(refer to asBmAcer ). The predicted open reading frame encoded 648 amino acids with about 50% identities with theDrosophila melanogaster angiotensin-converting enzyme AnceandAcer. Northern analysis identified a 2.2-kilobase mRNA which was abundant in wing discs two days after the beginning of wandering. An accumulation of the transcript was observed approximately 2 h after 20–hydroxyecdysone (20E) exposure in vitro and was blocked slightly by a protein synthetic inhibitor. These data suggest that the transcription of the BmAcergene is directly 20E-inducible.  2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Sociologists of U.S. higher education have emphasized the sector's historical expansion, which has limited the attention given to the dynamics of organizational closure. Drawing on an original dataset comprising colleges and universities across all sectors and tiers, we show how general expansion is tempered by 354 organizational closures between 1944 and 2018. Closures cluster in time between 1964 and 1974 and after 2008 reflecting shifting causes of and responses to legitimacy loss. Analyses provide support for hypotheses drawn from institutional theory, and, while controlling for a number of variables, identify two main causes of college mortality. These are demographic exclusivity, i.e., women's and (historically) Black college status, and accreditation. Mortality of exclusionary institutions is further associated with social activism and the system-wide diffusion of related group-differentiated study programs, particularly in the period 1944–1979. By contrast, accreditation becomes more important in the post-1980 period.


We introduce the concept of optical printed circuit board (O-PCB) and discuss the issues regarding the miniaturization, interconnection, and integration of polymer-based photonic devices with a view to using it as a potential platform for VLSI microphotonic integration. We present new approaches to miniaturize and integrate some examples of microphotonic devices and examine the considerations regarding the design, fabrication, and characterization for miniaturization and integration for O-PCB application. Devices that we have used for our study include mode conversion adaptors, micro-ring resonator devices, multimode interference devices, arrayed waveguide gratings. Scaling rules are also discussed.


The high temperature and its distribution are measured by using a CCD camera as a detector based on two-color thermometer technique and image processing technique. The rotary frequency of the filters located on a motor is synchronized with the vertical frequency of the camera. The camera receives the energy emitted from the object at wavelength (lambda) 1 and (lambda) 2. Through an A/D converter, the video signal is digitalized into 8 bit. After processing by operational circuit and a pseudo color processing unit, the digital signals are converted into three channels standard video signals. By inputing those signals into a color monitor, the temperature distribution can be displayed.


A value of a TU Cooperative game represents an assessment by a player of her gains for participating in a coalition. One of the most important values in the literature of TU games is the Shapley value [18]. It is indeed an aggregation of the marginal contributions of a player based on her bilateral interactions. In this paper we introduce a new value for TU Cooperative games. The notion of multilateral interaction of a player is proposed that accounts not only for the player's own inclusion or exclusion in a coalition as considered in computing the Shapley value but also for her influence on her peers in their decision of joining or leaving the coalition together. We characterize this value by the axioms of linearity, anonymity, efficiency and a new axiom: the axiom of parasite player. A parasite player extracts worths of other players. Our model makes her role less significant in presence of multilateral interactions.


Effective load transfer across Portland cement concrete pavement joints significantly decreases pavement deterioration. Dowel bars placed transversely across a joint or crack provide a mechanism for effective load transfer to take place. Dowel bars are used in new construction as well as retrofitted into existing pavements for restoration of load transfer. Areas of concern with using dowel bars include high costs, due to the labor-intensive procedure of retrofitting, and corrosion associated with standard mild steel epoxy-coated dowels. This research addresses these problems by evaluating four dowel bar details tested in an accelerated manner. Retrofit testing was performed using mild-steel epoxy coated dowels and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) dowels. The details tested provide comparisons among dowel bar materials, depth of placement, number of dowels used, and dowel diameter. Verification testing of previously tested details is also presented. accelerated load testing deflections fiber reinforced polymer repeated loads concrete pavements dowel bars load transfer retrofit designs This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. The findings and conclusions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily the Minnesota Department of Transportation or the Center of Transportation Studies. The authors, the Minnesota Department of T ransportation, and the Center of Transportation Studies do not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers' names appear herein solely because they are considered essential to this report.


The Analysis of the influence Leadership and Motivation towards the employees' working performance at PT. Asuransi Jiwa Great Eastern Palembang. This research is done to find out the influence of Leadership and Motivation to wards employees' working performance both partially and wholly. There are two variable groups in this research : Independent Variable, which includes Leadership (X1) and Motivation (X2) as its indicators, and Dependent Variable, which includes Working Performance (Y). Next, the methods used in the research are descriptive and causal. There are 32 employees of PT. Asuransi Jiwa Great Eastern Palembang that are included in the population and the data collection technique used is by distributing questioners. To measure the relationship between variables used, the writeuses both simple linear regression analysis equipment and double linear regression analysis equipment. Based on the result of the regression analysis, it shows that there is a significant influence of Leadership and Motivation to wards the emlpoyees' working performance at PT. Asuransi Jiwa Greats Eastern Palembang both individually and wholly. Hence, the improvement in the quality of leaders and the employees' motivation will be able to increase working performance at PT. Asuransi Jiwa Great Eastern Palembang.


Three novel routes have been developed for the synthesis of ferrocenyl-based phosphino-oxazolines in which the phosphino unit is attached to a ferrocenylmethyl or a ferrocenylethyl side chain. In two of the routes the phosphino-substituted ethyl side chain was built up diastereoselectively. Ruthenium complexes of the type [RuCl2PPh3(L)] of 12 bidentate phosphine-oxazoline ligands were synthesized, characterized, and tested in the transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone. For the best performing complexes a total of 12 additional ketones were screened in transfer hydrogenations and hydrogenations under transfer hydrogenation conditions. Two catalyst precursors in particular delivered products with an enantiomeric excess of up to 98% in transfer hydrogenations and 99% ee in hydrogenations. The transfer hydrogenation results obtained with all novel ligands were compared to those of two well-established FOXAP ligands. Furthermore, a qualitative comparison with the hydrogenation data was carried out. In both cas...


Holmes Rolston III has argued that in some situations where the needs of starving people come into conflict with the protection of natural values, "we" ought to prioritize the latter. Focusing on the threat to pristine ecosystems and endangered species posed by overpopulation in developing countries, Rolston advocates the exclusion of human settlement and activity from the most fragile and valuable wild areas—a strategy sometimes termed "fortress conservation." This approach suffers from at least three serious faults. First, fortress conservation is regarded as an illegitimate imposition by many of the local people on whose cooperation the success of conservation initiatives depends, often leading to failure in terms of conservation objectives. Second, the assumption that conservation and the satisfaction of basic human needs are largely incompatible ignores evidence of widespread environmentally sustainable patterns of resource use. Finally, Rolston's appeal to "us," referring variously to concerned North Americans and to humanity as a whole, implicitly universalizes the preservationist value system of a Northern minority while excluding the values and voices of the people directly affected by the proposed conservation measures.


Methods and systems for the benefit of color for object recognition. A color gradient for each pixel in a gradient image of an object can be calculated. The gradient image can be binarized to produce an image having characters and other structures to white walls. With respect to black areas in the image, a connected component analysis operation can be performed to determine the bounding box and other visual elements in the image and then to identify candidate characters from the image by using character dimensions. Non-character colors can then be eliminated by using an outlier rejection from the image.


During the post-irradiation measuring of fuel elements from PT-IP-262A by, Component Testing Operations, Irradiation Processing Department, one element exhibited 0.069 inch of diametric ellipticity. The element had been fabricated from natural uranium, clad in X-8001 aluminum alloy, and was internally and externally cooled during irradiation. The element was selected for detailed examination to determine the cause of the distortion and was transferred to the Radiometallurgy Laboratory in January 1961. Growth in the radial direction over the total length in one quadrant of the fuel was the cause of the distortion. Maximum ellipticity of the uranium was 0.037 inch. Corrosion of the cladding corresponding to the minor axis of ellipticity made the distortion appear more severe. The uranium had away from the spire braze layer over a three-inch length in the central portion of the element and at the point of maximum ellipticity approximately 110{degree}of the angular distance around the spire contained a gap. Grains in the uranium were larger in the area adjacent to the spire gap than in the remainder of the piece. Two possible causes are: (1) A pocket of large grained, oriented uranium existed in the element when it was canned. (2) Oriented uranium caused growth whichmore » separated the bond. The uranium insulated by the gap became hot enough that localized grain growth occurred.« less


Ultrastructural investigations of the effect of lithium chloride on Botrytis fabae and its host, Vicia faba are described. Five concentrations (1, 3, 5, 7, 9 mM) of lithium chloride are chosen in the study. The results indicate that the chlorophyll content of host leaves is not affected at lower concentration (3 mM), whereas the higher concentration (9 mM) decreased the chlorophyll content. These two concentrations caused a pronounced cellular disorganization of B. fabae that ranged from disruption of the wall to marked cytoplasmic degeneration. Inoculated host leaves with B. fabae led to the appearance of more vacuolated cytoplasm, a disorganized membrane system of chloroplast and an increase in number of plastoglobuli. These observations are similar to those of host cells treated with 9 mM of lithium chloride. Host cells are not affected by the concentration of 3 mM. Ultarstructural studies indicate that the lower concentration of lithium chloride can be used as a safe fungicide to control B. fabae without a harmful effect on the host (V. faba).


In this article, we investigate the discursive transformations that occurred at a migrant-support non-governmental organisation (NGO) located in the outskirts of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and how they intersect with broader sociopolitical and economic processes. In particular, we focus on the revamping of the key notions of language and labour in the institutional imagination of migrant incorporation processes. Our data was collected over the course of a six-year period (2007–2012) and consisted of in-depth interviews with multilingual NGO users and institutional agents, ethnographic narratives and institutional documents. We trace a discursive shift from 'integration-through-labour' during the economic boom to an official 'integration-through-language' to gain access to paid employment in the early years of the recession, and recently, with the worsening of the crisis, a paradigm that focuses on language-cum-affective labour to craft relational and moral selves through voluntary work in local NGOs.


This work focuses on the images representing the myth of Ajax, son of Telamon, as represented in a corpus of finds from Greece and pre-Roman Italy. The iconography of the classical myth is studied together with other characters, such as kind of object, production, painting technique, place of finding, age. The age was fixed in intervals of 50 years, because of the wide chronological range and the uncertainty of the age of some finds. The data table crossing the finds with the characters was first submitted to Multiple Correspondence Analysis, where a strong relation was revealed. This suggested that an attempt should be made to estimate the age on the basis of the other characters. Qualitative Discriminant Analysis, applied to the objects with certain age, gave good classification functions that were used to estimate the age of the finds with uncertain age. In conclusion, the examination of the graphs shows how different meanings and functions of a Greek myth are illustrated throughout Classical Antiquity.


Introduction: Emergency department (ED) crowding and increased patient load has been shown to have an impact on physician decision making and patient mortality. As the volumes in Canadian EDs increase, so does the need to effectively prepare new learners for the challenges ahead. This study aims to determine which level of training varying teaching techniques should be employed to educate Emergency Medicine (EM) residents about ED management and flow in the age of competency based medical education. Methods: We designed a survey that contained a previously derived list of ED flow and management teaching strategies. We piloted and edited the survey based on feedback from operations and educational experts. A total of 21 teaching techniques were included in the final survey ranging from didactic teaching sessions to experiential techniques such as residents running the department with supervision. Then, we invited members of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada EM specialty committee, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Education Scholarship Section, and the Canadian EM Simulation Educators Collaborative to participate in our survey. We analysed the results using simple descriptive statistics. Results: A total of 21 EM (38% female, 62% male) educators from 11 programs (78% of Royal College Training sites) responded to the survey, representing 7/10 provinces, with a mean years-in-practice of 15.2 years (SD 9.7). All respondents were involved in resident education; 66% had a current formal educational role, such as Program Director. Results showed a universal trend towards teaching flow and management skills later in residency. Participants endorsed 35.93% of teaching strategies for the "Core of discipline" and 39.65% for the "Transition to practice" stages of training. Didactic and observational techniques were occasionally considered acceptable at earlier training stages, whereas experiential teaching techniques were skewed towards the later stages of residency. Conclusion: EM educators from across Canada believe that most teaching techniques for flow are better suited for the later stages of residency training, with didactic techniques more suitable earlier on. This work will inform faculty development on managerial/leadership skills teaching in the ED.


Background Compound subtrochanteric fractures of the proximal femur caused by bullet injuries are a severe form of injury that are not common, and yet their management represents a major challenge. A specially designed external fixator can be used to treat these fractures, with avoidance of possible complications such as infection or nonunion. The author reviewed his experience with an external fixator in the management of this pattern of fractures. Aim A prospective evaluation was carried out of the result of treatment of bullet-caused subtrochanteric fractures by an external fixator. Patients and methods During the period between February 2011 and January 2012, eight male patients presented to the Kasr Al-Ainy School of Medicine and New Kasr Al-Ainy Teaching Hospital with compound subtrochanteric fractures of the femur caused by bullets. The patients were between 19 and 48 years of age (mean 33.5 years). All cases were primary fractures. They were followed prospectively after fixation of the fractures using a specially designed external fixator. Results The mean duration of healing was 20 weeks (range 18-26 weeks) according to the degree of comminution and soft tissue injury. Three patients developed pin-tract infection that resolved after removal of the frame. One patient developed shortening of about 2 cm. No deformity developed in any patient. No extra measures were needed. At the last follow-up, the results of all cases were scored as good (five cases) to excellent (three cases), with no fair or poor results. Conclusion An external fixator can be a reliable method to treat comminuted subtrochanteric fractures caused by bullet injuries.


Competitive intelligence and technology insights are the results of using the materials and methods of big data analytics to arrange existing knowledge, integrating big data analytics in the field of patent analysis is an urgent need for any company in the marketplace to gain strong knowledge about the computational environment, this paper is a new paradigm in patent analysis by proposing a full methodology from feature selection to clustering phase based on singular value decomposition (SVD) as a central tool to determine the correlation between the patent's data, semantic patent topics could emerge more relevant topics helping the senior managers in the companies in claiming new management strategy to fill the gaps with the markets with decreasing the cost of the production and time-consuming of the decision-making in each level of the organization.


Visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs) emitting at 615 nm and employing the AlGaInP/GaInP double heterostructure (DH) grown on a lattice-matched GaAs/sub 0.7/P/sub 0.3/ substrate have been fabricated for the first. The external quantum efficiency of 0.156% for the orange LEDs can be achieved by introducing the GaP material as the current spreader and window layer for the DH LEDs. >


In a series of articles H. Kamowitz and I investigated the nature of <x(T), the spectrum of an arbitrary automorphism of an arbitrary semisimple commutative Banach algebra. This study wa& begun as a by-product of [1], in which we made the incidental observation that a(T) must meet {z:\z — 1| ^ 1}, unless T = I. The following is a summary of the known necessary conditions (N) and the known sufficient conditions (S) on a{T). Nl. If T = ƒ (some k ^ 1), then a(T) = a union of subgroups of the group of feth roots of 1, [2]. 51. Every possibility consistent with Nl can occur (direct sums of rotations). N2. If T * I (all k ^ 1), then a(T) =2 the unit circle, [2]. 52. It is common that a(T) = the unit circle, but <J(T) can be an annulus, [2]. N3. If T # ƒ (all k ^ 1), then a{T) must be connected, [3]. 53. The set of <r(TYs is closed under the mapping 1/z, and if U = \Ja o(Ta) is bounded away from 0 and oo, then Ê7 is a(T) for some T. If R is a bounded region such that { l < | z | < a } ç R ç { l < |z|} and {1 < \z\} — R is a semigroup under multiplication, then R is a(T) for some T. The hypothesis that R be connected may be weakened somewhat, [3]. The purpose of this note is to extend the set of constructions of [3] to include cases where <x(T) is not the closure of its interior. The following theorem illustrates the technique of attaching a line segment to a region.


A series of ZSM-5 zeolites were prepared through a chemical liquid deposition (CLD) method and used for adsorption removal of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) from methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE). The structural properties and acidity were characterized, and the proper deposition amount and calcination temperature have been accessed. N2 adsorption test and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results show that methylsilicone oil is deposited on the external surface and narrows the pore size of the zeolite. NH3-temperature-programmed desorption (NH3-TPD) and modified Hammett indicator titration results indicate that the acid sites on the external surface are eliminated while acid sites in the channel are not influenced significantly. Both the pore structure and acidity play important roles in determining the sulfide adsorption process. The optimal modification condition was found as a deposition amount of 30% and a calcination temperature of 500 °C. Adsorption isotherms were also conducted in both parent and CLD...


ROBERT F. MCGIVERN, J. PATRICK HUSTON, DESIREE BYRD, TINA KING, GREG J. SIEGLE, AND JUDY REILLY. Sex Differences in Visual Recognition Memory: Support for a Sex-Related Difference in Attention in Adults and Children. MARCIA K. JOHNSON, MARGARET O'CONNOR, AND JAMES CANTOR. Confabulation, Memory Deficits, and Frontal Dysfunction. LUIS CARRETIÉ, JAIME IGLESIAS, AND TOMÁS GARCÍA. A Study on the Emotional Processing of Visual Stimuli through Event-Related Potentials. TERESA A. BLAXTON AND WILLIAM H. THEODORE. The Role of the Temporal Lobes in Recognizing Visuospatial Materials: Remembering versus Knowing. ALICE MADO PROVERBIO, ALBERTO ZANI, AND CARMELA AVELLA. Hemispheric Asymmetries for Spatial Frequency Discrimination in a Selective Attention Task. ALVARO MORENO AND JESÚS IBAÑEZ. Artificial Life: A Bridge towards a New Artificial Intelligence. MARK A. BEDAU. Emergent Models of Supple Dynamics in Life and Mind. BARRY MCMULLIN. Computing Machinery and Mentality. EVAN THOMPSON. Symbol Grounding: A Bridge from Artificial Life to Artificial Intelligence. FRANCISCO J. VARELA. Patterns of Life: Intertwining Identity and Cognition. TIM SMITHERS. Autonomy in Robots and Other Agents. ALVARO MORENO, JON UMEREZ, AND JESÚS IBAÑEZ. Cognition and Life. The Autonomy of Cognition. DOMENICO PARISI. Artificial Life and Higher Level Cognition. CLAUDE M. J. BRAUN, ISABELLE COLLIN, AND CHANTALE MAILLOUX. The ''Poffenberger'' and ''Dimond'' Paradigms: Interrelated Approaches to the Study of Interhemispheric Dynamics? P. HUSBANDS, I. HARVEY, D. CLIFF, AND G. MILLER. Artifical Evolution: A New Path for AI? MARTIN PEPER AND EVA IRLE. The Decoding of Emotional Concepts in Patients with Focal Cerebral Lesions. SALVATORE AGLIOTI, NICOLA SMANIA, CRISTINA BARBIERI, AND MAURIZIO CORBETTA. Influence of Stimulus Salience and Attentional Demands on Visual Search Patterns in Hemispatial Neglect.


SUMMARY We present a systematic and efficient approach for computing the dispersion curves (i.e. phase velocities for a given frequency) as well as the eigenfunctions of normal modes in a multilayered half-space medium. Our approach is superior to previous approaches in the following aspects. First, it is a simple and self-contained algorithm for simultaneously determining both the phase velocities and the corresponding eigenfunctions. From the basic principle that the normal modes are nun-trivial solutions of the free elastodynamic equation under appropriate boundary conditions, we naturally derive the phase velocities and eigenfunctions. Second, because we use the reflection/transmission coefficients of Luco & Apsel's version (Luco & Apse1 1983), which intrinsically exclude the growth terms, our algorithm not only exhibits the physical mechanism of the formation of normal modes, i.e. constructive interference, as Kennett's did (1979,1983), but also is numerically more stable for high-frequency cases. Furthermore, we derive a high-frequency asymptotic solution of the fundamental Rayleigh mode. Therefore, our approach can provide efficient and accurate solutions in any frequency range, and it is expected to be a powerful and useful tool for simulating the LR and RR phases and complete seismograms at regional distances.


Recent market trend of eco-friendly products let the manufacturers be ready for the high quality of maintenance technologies to assure the system's high efficiency during its entire life span. However, this post-manufacturing activities burden the manufacturer with high warranty cost. Therefore, in order to promote economical businesses, the manufacturers are developing various fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) technologies. This paper presents a general design methodology of the steady-state detector (SSD) which is the preemptive core logic of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) module. The logic of moving window (MW) and decomposition analysis technique (DAT) is embedded in the SSD. Using the MW and DAT, the SSD can detect steady states independently for each component in a system. This independent detection of steady state in a component level provides different perspectives to understand the steady state of the heat pump system which has multiple indoor units.


An engineered strain of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (SMCD1) is capable of the direct extracellular biomineralization of CdS quantum dot nanocrystals from buffered aqueous solution of cadmium acetate and l-cysteine without the addition of a chemically reactive precursor. Nanocrystal synthesis is strongly influenced by both the l-cysteine/cadmium acetate ratio and pH of the solution. The observed trends are consistent with l-cysteine acting as both a sulfur source and nanocrystal capping agent. Enzymatic turnover of l-cysteine by a putative cystathionine γ-lyase forms reactive sulfur in solution, removing the requirement for addition of reactive sodium sulfide typical of most other biomineralization approaches. The utility of the biomineralized quantum dots is demonstrated by phase transfer from the aqueous to the organic phase and subsequent incorporation into a quantum dot sensitized solar cell and chemical growth of a ZnS shell onto the biomineralized CdS core.


PURPOSE: A compost manufacturing system is provided to recycle organic compost using microorganisms cultivated by an effective microorganism method. CONSTITUTION: A compost manufacturing system comprises a storage structure water for collecting and storing waste, a waste fermenting device which is comprised of a hot air supply unit, a waste mixing device(40) for mixing fermented waste, and a waste sorting device(300) for successively sorting the waste mixed in the waste mixing device. The hot air supply unit comprises multiple air supply pipes, a middle connection pipe, and an air feeder.


This thesis presents the results obtained through characterization techniques and wear tests for diverse kinds of cermet and ceramic coatings applied by APS and HVOF
techniques. The Al2O3-13TiO2 and WC-12Co can be applied by high temperature spraying process allowing them to be deposited onto metallic surfaces with less tribological properties. The application of those coatings onto metallic surfaces of
finished parts, increases their performance in industrial applications; reducing maintenance cost, and increasing its operating time.
The actual methods to characterize these coatings are usually destructive methods.
But with non-destructive tests like XRD and XRF it is possible to obtain important information and establish a standard quality.
The most important characteristics of ceramic and cermet coatings are the crystal phase distribution, the amorphous bending phase and in the WC-12Co the decarburization. Depending on the application processes, the original powder
particles are altered, changing their particle size, creating new phases and producing residual stress and deformation of crystal structures by the loss or substitution of atoms in the original crystal structures. Analyzing the diffraction patterns it is
possible to observe which changes occur after spraying processes and evaluate the effect of those processes on the coating. A mapping via XRD allows to observe how homogeneous is the coating applied and if specific uneven zones exist that will present lower wear characteristics.


Application of deep-cryogenic treatment (DCT) in heat treatment of high speed steels are well documented in an number of references. But using DCT is not universal solution for all requirements in high speed steel tools usage. This paper compares the improvements of mechanical and tribological properties achieved by heat treatment with or without application of DCT on test samples made of the HS10-2-5-8 high speed steel. The deep-cryogenic process or three high temperature tempering process has been applied after gas quenching from an austenization temperature selected between 1130 °C, 1180 °C or 1230 °C. The influence of these heat treat parameters to the improvement of the following properties has been compared: dimensional stability, secondary hardening and fracture toughness and erosive wear resistance.


Impregnation, Anguish and Exuberance:
The Repertoire of Chinese American Women's
Transformation in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and
The Kitchen God's Wife
Abstract
 The repertoire of transformation is crucial for Tan's Chinese American women to the mapping out of their positions and searching for their subjectivity. In this dissertation, I will argue that in Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife, these Chinese American women tend to become masters in the postmodern and post-colonial contexts. By possessing the subjective, the recognizable and the powerful positions, these Chinese American women encounter their challenges, constitute their identifications and reconstruct their histories. The phases of impregnation, anguish and exuberance in the repertoire of transformation enable these Chinese American women to experience, recognize and complement their positions in both Chinese and American societies, proposing several significant issues in the postmodern and post-colonial world and conjuring up the multi-faceted perspectives of the eclectic culture.
 The introductory chapter includes four postmodern perspectives and theories which foreground the subsequent argument: Jean Baudrillard's concept of simulations, hyperreality and implosion; Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis on the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real; Michel Foucault's power/knowledge and Friedrich Nietzsche's the will to power. Different positive and negative criticisms help me to analyze the complicated structures and multiple narratives in Tan's novels. Furthermore, I will expound that The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife share the same subject matters which are adequate for me to be in the full-scale of re-interpretation and re-inscription in the novels.
 Chapter Two highlights the phase of impregnation which centers on three interrelated themes: a false concept of masculinity; the misrecognition of Tan's Chinese American women's subjectivity; and the idea of docile bodies. In Tan's first two novels, the Chinese mothers receive, accept and obey the doctrines of their elders without resistance or any comment. They are raised and taught to be docile bodies in their patriarchal society. Their American-born daughters submit themselves to the simulations of American ideal models without question. They are educated and trained to be docile bodies in a white male dominated society. They only suffer from their misrecognition. The main concern of Chapter Three consists in the masculine myth, the function of language and the idea of "the death of God" in the phase of anguish. Tan's Chinese American women confront the deepest, painful tragedies in their marriages; the language barriers of their cultural conflicts and the declaration of non-existence of God in their beliefs. They are encouraged to articulate silence and to express themselves as desiring productions, speaking subjects and autonomous individuals.
 Chapter Four analyzes how a will to transgression and transcendence is operated on a life of exuberance for these Chinese American women. Undergoing the third phase of transformation, I will tend to explore these Chinese American women's potential power and energies to involve revolutions in their lifestyles, discourses, bodies and sexuality and, thus, to achieve the wish-fulfillment of their own. Nietzschean concept of the overman sets up a model for these Chinese American women to embody their personalities. Possessing the will to power, these Chinese American women become masters in the power positions of their cultures as well as societies. Moreover, Foucauldian concept of an "aesthetics of existence" opens up for a new way of these Chinese American women's lives. They, thus, realize and cherish their Chinese heritage. The concluding chapter looks upon the doctrine of the eternal recurrence in repertoires of these Chinese American women's transformation. To be precise, the process of impregnation, anguish and exuberance, at some point, reflects the doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Through the eternal recurrence of transformation, I proceed to applaud these Chinese American women like the overman who tries to break with conformity and overcomes himself in his culture as well as society.


Polymeric materials with an imaging chemistry based on the main chain cleavage under the influence of photogenerated acid are a promising resist platform for EUV lithography. Backbone scission resist materials are, in principle, capable of creating very small structures due to the fact that the removing parts can have dimensions in the order of the monomers that they consist of. Nevertheless, in the case of the commonly used non-chemically amplified materials of this type, issues like sensitivity and poor etch resistance limit their applications, whereas inadequate etch resistance and non-satisfactory process reliability are the usual problems encountered in acid-catalyzed materials based on main chain scission. In this work, we report on optimization of the formulation of new high-sensitive polymeric materials for EUV lithography by tuning the ratio between the photoacid generator (PAG) and the base quencher. In our material design, the acid-catalyzed chain cleavable polymers contain very sensitive acid-labile bonds in their backbone while they remain intact in alkaline ambient. These photoresists were evaluated with several PAG and base quencher (BQ) loadings. The PAG ratio spans from 4% to 7% with respect to polymer weights, whereas the BQ ratio tuned to 5%, 10%, and 15% with respect to PAG weight. High-performance patterning capabilities were achieved for linesspaces down to 22 nm half-pitch using EUV interference lithography. We report linewidth roughness versus dose-to-size for 25 nm and 22 nm half-pitch for different PAG and BQ loadings and provide a comparison.


The chromosome aberration test using cultured mammalian cells is one of the sensitive methods to predi ct environmental mutagens and/or carcinogens, From our recent survey of 951 chemicals which have been tes ted for their clastogenicity in cultured mammalian cells su ch as Chinese hamster fibroblasts or human lymphocytes, it was noted that 47% of them are consistently positive ei ther with or without metabolic activation. Environm ental exposures can result in increased mutation rate, an d the increased is the mutation rate in the target cells the higher is the cancer risk. The first event in the multistep c arcinogenesis (i.e., the initiation) is a mutagenes is requiring cell proliferation in the target cells. Melatonin, a sec retory product of the pineal gland in human brain, has been reported to participate in the regulation of a number of imp ortant physiological and pathological processes. Th e importance of the environmental harmful effects in the worldwi de increase of cancer incidence is established. The present investigation was carried to find out cellular effe cts of gamma radiation on blood lymphocytes and radioprotector using cytogenetic biomarker (chromosomal aberration assay). Peripheral blood samples were collected from human volunteers 5-10 min before, and at 1 and 2 h after a single oral dose of 300 mg of melatonin. At each time point: 1 the concentration of melatonin in the serum and in the leukocytes was determined; and 2 the whole bloo d was exposed in vitro from 2 Gy to 12 Gy of gamma radi ation. Immediately after exposure to the radiation, the lymphocytes were examined to determine the extent of primary DNA damage.


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A comparison is made of the survival and development of eggs of Tipula oleracea and T.paludosa, at certain temperatures, under water only or under water standing over soil. The significance the activity of the soil microflora and mechanical disturbance of the water is discussed.


An attempt to assess the process of devolatilization requires that the details of the parent coal characteristics be well understood. Fundamental coal properties such as rank, chemical structure and maceral composition play an important role in the characteristicand kinetic behaviour of a coal during the devolatilization process. In this chapter the main aspects concerned with parent coal characterisation, with the aid of conventional analytical techniques, are presented and discussed. The following relevant sections are addressed:


This article is to explore the entrepreneurial supporting policies of the French universities and higher education institutions. France showing higher interest in the establishment of the company as the new growth engine to meet the era of converged knowledge has actively supported the entrepreneuri...


The dealumination of Y zeolites with different cations by ammonium hexafluorosilicate (i.e., (NH4)2SiF6, AHFS) treatment was investigated by 27Al and 19F magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR, combined with double resonance MAS NMR. Our results demonstrated that the operating conditions of AHFS dealumination, that is, with and without pH adjustment, strongly affect the amount, state, and nature of extraframework aluminum species (EFAl). Different aluminum fluoro-complexes after dealumination were detected. First, for AHFS treated HY with pH adjustment, XRD revealed that tetrahedral aluminum was expelled from the zeolitic framework, resulting in the formation of (NH4)3AlF6, which was evident from the peak at 0 ppm in the 27Al MAS NMR and at -141 ppm in the 19F MAS NMR. Without pH adjustment, we observed that the Y zeolite structure were progressively destroyed with increasing the amounts of AHFS. Besides (NH4)3AlF6, another phase structure was observed and identified as NH4AlF4 by XRD and MAS NMR. A new broad powder pattern spreads from -20 to -90 ppm (NH4AlF4) is observed at SiAHFS/AlHY > 0.40. The NH4AlF4 crystalline phase observed exhibited two 19F resonance peaks at -151 ppm and -166 ppm, which are assigned, for the first time, to the fluorine atoms in the terminal Al-F and bridging Al-F-Al groups, respectively. Secondly, for AHFS treated NaY with pH adjustment, MAS NMR revealed that tetrahedral aluminum was expelled from the zeolitic framework, resulting in the formation of Na3AlF6, which shows the characteristic peaks at -1.7 and -10 ppm in the 23Na MAS NMR and at -190 ppm in the 19F MAS NMR spectra. Without pH adjustment, the Y zeolite structure was again destroyed with increasing the amount of AHFS. A new NaxAlFy structure was observed with 19F MAS NMR for both treatments. Finally, for AHFS treated NH4Y with pH adjustment, XRD revealed that tetrahedral aluminum was expelled from the zeolitic framework and mainly formed (NH4)3AlF6. The Y zeolite structure was still retained even at a higher SiAHFS/AlHY ratio (~ 1.0) with pH adjustment. Without pH adjustment, on the other hand, the products of dealumination of NH4Y are various AlO6-xFx complexes.


A working model for the effects of porosity on the uniaxial strength of ceramics at low temperatures is developed, validated physically in limiting cases, and tested successfully against experimental data for polycrystals and glass. Other existing models are in apparent conflict with quantitative features of the experimental and physical evidence. The model (1) confirms the Duckworth equation as an approximation but shows that its linearity is significantly in error as P→0; (2) confirms the approximations for glass and for polycrystals, with the same reservation; (3) describes radical values of β in terms of pore type and shape in polycrystals and in terms of pore control of the Griffith crack length, cp, in glass; and (4) conforms to several less obvious features of strength-porosity data.


Background: Pooled safety data has been reported with secukinumab (SEC) in patients (pts) with Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) and Psoriasis (PsO).1 Objectives: To report longer-term safety data of SEC treatment in PsA, AS, PsO pts up to 5 years. Methods: The integrated clinical trial safety dataset included data pooled from 28 randomised controlled clinical trials of SEC 300 or 150 or 75 mg in PsO (11 Phase 3 and 8 Phase 4 trials), PsA (5 Phase 3 trials), and AS (4 Phase 3 trials), along with post-marketing safety surveillance data with a cut-off date of 25 December 2018. Adverse events (AEs) were reported as exposure-adjusted incident rates (EAIRs) per 100 pt-years. Analyses included all pts who received ≥1 dose of SEC. Results: A total of 12637 pts (8819, 2678 and 1140 pts with PsO, PsA and AS, with an exposure of 15063.1, 5984.6 and 3527.2 pt-years, respectively) were included. The most frequent AE was upper respiratory tract infection and EAIR per 100 pt-years for IBD, malignancies and MACE remained low. The EAIR per 100 pt-years for adverse events (AEs) of special interest are reported in Table 1. The cumulative post-marketing exposure to SEC was estimated to be ~285,811 pt-years across the approved indications. Safety data from post-marketing surveillance are reported in Table 2.Table 1. Selected AEs of interest with SEC across pooled clinical trials Variable PsO PsA AS SECN=8819 SECN=2678 SECN=1140 Exposure (Days), Mean (SD) 623.9 (567.7) 816.2 (580.7) 1130.1 (583.0) Death, n (%) 15 (0.2) 13 (0.5) 10 (0.9) Selected AE's of interest, EAIR (95% CI) Serious infections1 1.4 (1.2, 1.6) 1.8 (1.5, 2.2) 1.2 (0.9, 1.6) Candida infections2 2.9 (2.7, 3.2) 1.5 (1.2, 1.9) 0.7 (0.5, 1.1) IBD3Crohn's disease3Ulcerative colitis3 0.01 (0.0, 0.05)0.1 (0.05, 0.2)0.1 (0.08, 0.2) 0.03 (0.0, 0.1)0.1 (0.04, 0.2)0.1 (0.04, 0.2) 0.03 (0.0, 0.2)0.4 (0.24, 0.7)0.2 (0.1, 0.5) MACE4 0.4 (0.31, 0.5) 0.4 (0.3, 0.6) 0.7 (0.4, 1.0) Uveitis3 0.01 (0.0, 0.05) 0.1 (0.04, 0.2) 1.2 (0.9, 1.7) Malignancy5 0.9 (0.7, 1.0) 1.0 (0.77, 1.3) 0.5 (0.3, 0.8) 1Rates for system organ class; 2Rates for high level term; 3Rates for preferred term (PT; IBD for unspecified IBD); 4Rates for Novartis MedDRA Query term; 5Rates for standardized MedDRA query term – 'malignancies and unspecified tumour'; EAIR, exposure adjusted incidence rate per 100 pt-years; N, number of pts in the analysisTable 2. Summary of SEC post-marketing safety Exposure (PTY) PSUR126Dec14 -25Jun15 PSUR226 Jun - 25Dec15 PSUR326Dec15 -25Jun16 PSUR426Jun -25Dec16 PSUR526Dec16 -25Dec17 PSUR626Dec17 -25Dec18 Cumulative 1838 7450 16871 28549 93744 137325 285811                     n (Reporting rate PTY) Serious infections 89 (4.8) 149 (2.0) 232 (1.4) 475 (1.7) 649 (0.7) 1841 (1.3) 3980 (1.4) Malignancy 2 (0.1) 15 (0.2) 21 (0.1) 50 (0.2) 225 (0.2) 422 (0.3) 788 (0.3) Total IBD 4 (0.2) 12 (0.2) 37(0.2) 46 (0.2) 185 (0.2) 340 (0.3) 693 (0.2) MACE 6 (0.3) 15 (0.2) 16 (0.1) 39 (0.1) 151 (0.2) 238 (0.2) 504 (0.2) PSUR, periodic safety update report; PTY, pt-treatment years Conclusion: In this long-term analysis across clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance, of pts with PsO, PsA and AS, SEC was well tolerated, with a safety profile consistent with previous reports.1 Reference: [1]Deodhar et al. Arthritis Research & Therapy (2019) 21:111. Disclosure of Interests: Atul Deodhar Grant/research support from: AbbVie, Eli Lilly, GSK, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Consultant of: AbbVie, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myer Squibb (BMS), Eli Lilly, GSK, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Speakers bureau: AbbVie, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myer Squibb (BMS), Eli Lilly, GSK, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Iain McInnes Grant/research support from: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen, and UCB, Consultant of: AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli Lilly and Company, Gilead, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, and UCB, Xenofon Baraliakos Grant/research support from: Grant/research support from: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Consultant of: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Speakers bureau: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Kristian Reich Grant/research support from: Affibody; Almirall; Amgen; Biogen; Boehringer Ingelheim; Celgene; Centocor; Covagen; Eli Lilly; Forward Pharma; Fresenius Medical Care; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen; Kyowa Kirin; LEO Pharma; Medac; Merck; Novartis; Miltenyi Biotec; Ocean Pharma; Pfizer; Regeneron; Samsung Bioepis; Sanofi Genzyme; Takeda; UCB; Valeant and Xenoport., Consultant of: Affibody; Almirall; Amgen; Biogen; Boehringer Ingelheim; Celgene; Centocor; Covagen; Eli Lilly; Forward Pharma; Fresenius Medical Care; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen; Kyowa Kirin; LEO Pharma; Medac; Merck; Novartis; Miltenyi Biotec; Ocean Pharma; Pfizer; Regeneron; Samsung Bioepis; Sanofi Genzyme; Takeda; UCB; Valeant and Xenoport., Speakers bureau: Affibody; Almirall; Amgen; Biogen; Boehringer Ingelheim; Celgene; Centocor; Covagen; Eli Lilly; Forward Pharma; Fresenius Medical Care; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen; Kyowa Kirin; LEO Pharma; Medac; Merck; Novartis; Miltenyi Biotec; Ocean Pharma; Pfizer; Regeneron; Samsung Bioepis; Sanofi Genzyme; Takeda; UCB; Valeant and Xenoport., Alice B Gottlieb Grant/research support from:: Research grants, consultation fees, or speaker honoraria for lectures from: Pfizer, AbbVie, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Sandoz, Nordic, Celltrion and UCB., Consultant of:: Research grants, consultation fees, or speaker honoraria for lectures from: Pfizer, AbbVie, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Sandoz, Nordic, Celltrion and UCB., Speakers bureau:: Research grants, consultation fees, or speaker honoraria for lectures from: Pfizer, AbbVie, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Sandoz, Nordic, Celltrion and UCB., Mark Lebwohl Grant/research support from: AbbVie, Amgen, Arcutis, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Clinuvel, Eli Lilly, Incyte, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Kadmon Corp., LLC, Leo Pharmaceutucals, Medimmune, Novartis, Ortho Dermatologics, Pfizer, Sciderm, UCB, Inc., and ViDac, Consultant of: Allergan, Almirall, Arcutis, Inc., Avotres Therapeutics, BirchBioMed Inc., Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cara Therapeutics, Castle Biosciences, Corrona, Dermavant Sciences, Evelo, Foundation for Research and Education in Dermatology, Inozyme Pharma, LEO Pharma, Meiji Seika Pharma, Menlo, Mitsubishi, Neuroderm, Pfizer, Promius/Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Theravance, and Verrica, Stefan Schreiber Consultant of: AbbVie, Arena, BMS, Biogen, Celltrion, Celgene, IMAB, Gilead, MSD, Mylan, Pfizer, Fresenius, Janssen, Takeda, Theravance, provention Bio, Protagonist and Falk, Weibin Bao Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Kwaku Marfo Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Hanno Richards Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Luminita Pricop Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Abhijit Shete Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Jorge Safi Shareholder of: Novartis, Employee of: Novartis, Philip J Mease Grant/research support from: Abbott, Amgen, Biogen Idec, BMS, Celgene Corporation, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, Sun Pharmaceutical, UCB – grant/research support, Consultant of: Abbott, Amgen, Biogen Idec, BMS, Celgene Corporation, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, Sun Pharmaceutical, UCB – consultant, Speakers bureau: Abbott, Amgen, Biogen Idec, BMS, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Janssen, Pfizer, UCB – speakers bureau


In this paper, we study the performance of various IDA*-style searches and investigate methods to improve their performance by predicting in each stage the threshold to use for pruning. We first present three models to approximate the distribution of number of search nodes by lower bounds: exponential, geometric, and linear, and illustrate these distributions based on some well-known combinatorial search problems. We then show the performance of an ideal IDA* algorithm and identify reasons why existing IDA*-style algorithms perform well. In practice, we will be able to know from previous experience the distribution for a given problem instance but will not be able to determine the parameters of the distribution. Hence, we develop RIDA*, a method that estimates dynamically the parameters of the distribution, and predicts the best threshold to use, Finally, we compare the performance of several IDA*-style algorithms-Korf's IDA*, RIDA*, IDA* CR and DFS*-on several application problems, and identify conditions under which each of these algorithms will perform well.<<ETX>>


We discuss the tight interconnection between microlensing optical depths, flattening of dark haloes and low-to-intermediate redshift baryonic census. By analysing plots of the microlensing optical depth as a function of Galactic coordinates for different values of axis ratio q of the Galactic MACHO halo, we have shown that observations are best described by a flattened halo with q≃0.6. There is no dynamical obstacle for such a choice of global halo shape. Both extremely flattened q≃0.2 and spherical q≃1 haloes have several difficulties, although not of equal severity. Consequences of such flattening for the cosmological density fraction contained in MACHOs are considered, and comparison with mass in low- and intermediate-redshift Lyα forest and other plausible reservoirs of gas is discussed in context of a unified description of the evolution of baryonic content of the Universe.


other, was Mrs. Miller's only daughter, Miss Anne _ Fitzhugh Miller. "Miss Nannie," she was to all oi us. Beautiful soul, all Are.and haxdj endeavor! • The tremendousness oi gracious memory, but i t is wall for her jalftBlon overwhelmed her. The i as to unlock occasionally this casket energy of her purpose was a great j of memory apd take stwfc of Its ° w which cmiaumed tor.—We all icwtents "lest-we forget." ' » * her barn and die. -'•afrnrtw* tesVery deeplydo I feel, and others sons she taught 'WmmmTM*>0WM*i»*m Woman Suffrage Is a natural and Inevitable step In the forward march of our civilization, it leads toward child welfare and is the next great service to be rendered for the s~£teT~of the home, if we take the trouble to look back along the path of progress in America we shall see slvely demonstrated in states where they have a right to vote. Again, mother love and Instinct are the great protection of the American homes. The boy and the girl.


A multi RF generator is provided to wither cancer cells efficiently by supplying high frequency with plural electrodes by using one RF generator, to increase cauterization range and to improve safety. The multi RF generator includes a channel selecting portion(4), a key portion(3), an oscillator(16), a waveform modulating portion(17), first, second and third channel output portions(10-12) and an MCU. First, second and third channel output portions(10-12) amplify the RMS output of the high frequency output from the wave form modulating portion(17) to be 30-200 Watts and to supply it to the connected electrode. The MCU(5) controls the power, time and phase of the high frequency output from each channel output portions(10,11,12).


Elementary operators on an algebra, which are finite sums of operators x 7→ axb, provide a way to study properties of the algebra. In particular, for C∗-algberas we consider results that are related to the length ` of the operator, defined as the minimal number of summands required. We will review some results concerning complete positivity or complete boundedness. Although all elementary operators on a C*-algebra A are completely bounded, that is induce uniformly bounded operators on the algebrasMn(A), the supremum is always attained for n = `, or for smaller n in case A has special structure. For positivity, there are also results couched in analagous terms, but with different bounds. In recent work with I. Gogić, we have shown that for prime C*-algebras A the elementary operators of length (at most) 1 are norm closed, but that for the rather tractable class of homogeneous C*-algebras more subtle considerations are required for closure. For instance A = C0(X,Mn) fails to have this closure property if X is an open set in R with d ≥ 3, n ≥ 2 (X 6= ∅). Talk time: 07/22/2016 9:00AM— 07/22/2016 9:30AM Talk location: Brown Hall 100


Objective: To determine the prevalence of hypertension and identify variables associated with hypertension among residents of Batey 16. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among adults residing in Batey 16 of La Romana, Dominican Republic. Residents were approached house to house and invited to participate in a blood pressure screening and a survey pertaining to risk factors for hypertension. Blood pressures and waist circumferences were measured. Comparisons between the hypertensive and non-hypertensive group's survey results, heights, and waist circumferences were made using chi square, Student's t-test or Mann-Whitney test, and univariate linear and logistic regression analysis. Results: Of the 187 participants, age 35±16 years (range 18-107 years), 34% were diagnosed with hypertension and 42% with were diagnosed with pre-hypertension. Age, sex, height, waist circumference, and use of medication were not significantly different between the hypertensive and the non-hypertensive participants. These variables in addition to elevated waist circumference were not associated with hypertension. Family history was an independent predictor of hypertension (OR= 2.7, p= 0.013; 95% CI, 1.2-5.8). Conclusions: The batey population has many unique characteristics that may contribute to its prevalence of hypertension and the patterns found in the associated risk factors. Further research needs to be conducted to broaden, explore, and clarify our findings.


In viewof the complicated, disadvantageous and high-cost state of odor pollution supervision and control in China, this paper has proposed the scheme of automatically monitoringmalodorpollution based on the ArcGIS system, in reference to the present monitoring modes of online monitoring devices plus data-collecting means and central platforms. In the online model, we have proposed that laser spectrum, micro-fluidic chip and electronic perception technologies and relevantnational standards be introduced into the model in hoping to develop an automatically real-time online monitoringmalodorpollution system. In addition, the dual core technologywas supposed to be applied to the design of the data-collecting device to conduct the mutual communication between the malodor monitoring center and the malodor online monitoring device, with the ArcGIS technology and Gauss plume model combined for analyzing the diffusion of malodor gases. At the same time,we have utilized the Hadoop cloud accounting technology to construct the malodor monitoring platform that can complete the subject(sensor test)and object(components analysis)detections. Depending on the internet for environmental protection data and information, the monitoring centers can be builtup at different levels so as to help to process the abrupt,unexpected malodor accidents via the internet system and remotely regulate the malodor emission ports. On the basis of the theories and examples of practical application,we have demonstrated that the system can monitor malodor sources and early warning malodor accidents, characterized by strong anti-interference capability, high detection accuracy, easy accommodation to the environmental percussion, and so on. Thus, the system can be used to continuously monitor the malodor sources in real time and heighten the malodormonitoring level and regulation abilities. Thus, the proposed system by us can surely be beneficial for the development of the internet-based environmental protection.


sive development in electronic commerce. The reasons for that are, of course, the Internet and the World Wide Web, which are making electronic commerce much more accessible. They offer easily usable and low cost forms of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce on the basis of the Internet is set to become a very important way of doing business. Forrester (1997) forecasts that businessto-business (B-to-B) electronic commerce will grow to $327 billion in the year 2002 — that is the value of goods and services traded via the Internet. This excludes the value of the hardware, software and services that are needed to perform electronic commerce, whose value is estimated at several hundred billions of dollars likewise. Between 1996 and 1997 electronic commerce has been growing at over 1000 percent per year. While such high growth rates will not be sustained, it is clear that electronic commerce will become pervasive: Datamonitor (1997) expects in 5 years time 630,000 US companies and 245,000 European companies to be involved in fullfledged integrated B-to-B electronic commerce. The Report on Electronic Commerce (1998) expects that the business-to-business penetration rate will grow from 10% in 1997 to 90% in 2001.


This paper proposes a method for human behavior recognition by estimating the human state, i.e., position and orientation, using regression models. In the method, human silhouette in video images is detected by background subtraction technique, and the upper part of human silhouette is used for extracting the image feature. Linear regression technique is introduced to create a model that associates the image feature with human state. Human state estimation from the currently observed image is being performed through this model. Experiments are conducted on indoor space where an Omni Directional Vision (ODV) sensor is installed to the ceiling of crossing hallway. The feasibility and accuracy of our method is discussed through the experimental results.


ISOBUS is the international accepted standard for the communication on agricultural equipment. The world ́s first multi-manufacturer initiative developed an ISO-compatible terminal that is in combination with a sensor system the key component of the demonstrator. A state-of-the-art 3D Time-of-Flight camera has been chosen as a sensor system for ISOBUS integration. This camera provides a single sensor output of the projected volume in relation to a predefined surface. The sensor signal then is transferred and visualized in the ISO-Terminal. This ISO-compatible development of the software and system integration serves as an example for an ISOBUS working environment for education at University level. The system can be adopted to interdisciplinary groups of students, ranging from agriculture to electronics and computer science. Moreover, applying the integration of standard ISOBUS interfaces in research, field tests can be performed more easily using compatible machinery of farmers. Thus the working environment has a high potential for education as well as research.


Powder injection moulding (PIM) is a shape forming technique for advance ceramic or metal that allows low cost and complex shape manufacturing. The segregation between powder and binder is a common occurrence during PIM which leads to the inhomogeneity in the green bodies. A multiphase flow numerical model has been developed based on Eulerian approach to simulate this phenomenon in the injection stage of silicon nitride-based ceramics. A viscosity model based on experimental data of the feedstock is employed in the numerical model. Simulated results from the numerical model have been compared with experimental results. A powder distribution analysis is compared with density distribution test of the green bodies with similar process parameters and flow trends is compared experimental short shots.


ABSTRACT. The so-called Random-Point Approximation (RPA) is applied to identifying the effective diffusivity of a polydisperse spherical suspension. The RPA is based on truncated VolterraWiener Expansion (VWE) with basis function which is a random point function of perfect-disorder type. The VWE is applied consistently, and the equations for the kernels are derived. The contributions of the different kernels to the overall (effective) modulus are identified. An approximate model based on power-series expansion of the kernels with respect to the volume fraction c is developed. It is argued that the contribution of the pure binary interaction (two-sphere solution) is negligible for moderately concentrated suspensions. The issues connected with the application of the fourth-order kernel (one-sphere solution) are tackled, by evaluating some new kind of integrals.


Edoardo Amaldi died on 5 December 1989 in Rome at the age of 81. Typically Amaldi was at work; at 9.00 a.m. he had gone to the Accademia dei Lincei, of which he was the President, to give a welcome address at a scientific conference. He returned to work in his office and a little after 12 noon he had a totally unexpected heart attack in the lift of the Palazzo Corsini. He was rushed to the Hospital Santo Spirito but on arrival was found to be dead. Only three weeks previously on 13 November Amaldi had been at the inauguration ceremony of LEP, the new electron-positron collider at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, where President Mitterrand of France had acknowledged Amaldi's essential role in the rebirth of European physics in his official address. As recently as 31 October he had chaired the Conference on the Frontiers of Contemporary Physics at the Centre for Theoretical Physics at Miramare, Trieste, and the week before his death he met President Gorbachev for the second time - during the Russian President's visit to the Pope - having led a delegation of Italian scientists to the International Forum organized by Gorbachev in Moscow in 1987. The energy, drive and enthusiasm that had been the hallmark of Edoardo Amaldi's life - as a physicist who had been actively involved in the most important advances in physics from 1930 onwards; as an organizer who had been the catalyst for the resurrection of European science after World War II; as an inspirational teacher; as a man of peace; as a historian - never left him until the moment of his death.


stress and the production of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as superoxide (O 2. 2 ), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), and hydroxyl radical (OH . ), have been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, in part by promoting vascular smooth muscle proliferation. Within the vessel wall, ROS are generated by several mechanisms, including vascular NAD(P)H oxidases. ROS formation can be stimulated by mechanical stress, environmental factors, platelet derived growth factor (PDGF), angiotensin II (Ang II), and low density lipoproteins. Because many risk factors for coronary artery disease such as hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking increase production of ROS, it has been suggested that changes in vessel redox state are a common pathway involved in the pathogenesis of athero-sclerosis and vascular injury. 1 6 ROS both HSP90- a and HSP90- b ). The abundance of HSP90 was compared to two intracellular proteins of similar molecular weights; PKC- j (with an antibody which also recognizes PKC- a ), and c-Raf-1. After treatment with LY83583 for two hour, there was a 10-fold increase in HSP90- a present in the conditioned medium, but no detectable HSP90- b , PKC or c-Raf-1. These results suggest that regulated secretion of HSP90- a occurred in response to LY83583.


1. Theoretical strength is about __________ times to average real strength of a material. (a) 1 (b) 10 (c) 100 (d) 1000 2. Hooke's law (a) Elastic range, strain is proportional to stress (b) Plastic range, strain is proportional to stress (c) In both elastic and plastic range, strain is proportional to stress (d) None 3. Following is not the 2-dimensional imperfection (a) Twin boundary (b) Dislocation (c) Surface (d) Grain boundary 4. Figure out the odd one in the following (a) Frenkel defect (b) Tilt boundary (c) Twist boundary (d) Stacking fault 5. Thermodynamically stable defects (a) Point defects (b) Line defects (c) Surface defects (d) Volume defects 6. Taylor dislocation can not move by the following way (a) Slip (b) Climb (c) Cross-slip (d) All 7. Conservative movement of dislocations (a) Slip (b) Climb (c) Both slip and climb (d) None 8. Typical density of dislocations in a solid (a) 10-10 μm (b) 10-10 mm (c) 10-10 cm (d) 10-10 m 9. Burger's vector changes with (a) Kind of dislocation (b) Length of dislocation (c) Both kind and length of dislocation (d) None 10. Which of the following is false? (a) Line defects are thermodynamically stable (b) Dislocation can end inside a crystal without forming loop (c) ABC ABC ABC...is stacking sequence for HCP crystal (d) All 11. Negative screw dislocation is represented by (a) ┴ (b) (c) (d) ┬ 12. Average frequency of atomic vibrations in a solid (in Hz) (a) 10 (b) 10 (c) 10 (d) 10 13. Requirement for cross-slip movement of dislocation (a) Preferred slip plane (b) Preferred slip direction (c) No preferred slip plane (d) No preferred slip direction 14. Beneficial property of foreign particles (a) Reduces density (b) Act as stress raisers (c) Obstructs dislocation motion (d) None 15. Stacking fault energies are in the range of (a) 0.01-0.1 J/m (b) 0.01-0.1 J/cm (c) 0.1-10 J/m (d) 0.1-10 J/m


Objective To find out the infection status of HBsAg positive pregnant women' newborns in Taiyuan city. Methods HBsAg was determined by ELISA. HBV DNA was determined by nested PCR and PBMC HBV DNA was determined by selected PCR. The newborns were regarded as intrauterine infectious if any of the 3 markers was positive. Results The total HBV intrauterine infection rate was 37.75% . HBV intrauterine infection rates were 3.31% for HBsAg , 19.21% for HBV DNA and 23.84% for PBMC HBV DNA in newborns,respectively. Conclusion The detection of PBMC HBV is an important sumplement to the detection of serum HBV DNA. HBV intrauterine infection rate of HBsAg positive pregnant women's newborns is 37.75% in Taiyuan city, and it is lower compared with other study results.


Objective\ To study the relationship between non ulcerative dyspepsia and heart rate variability. \ Methods SDNN, SDANNindex, SDNNindex, rMSSD and PNN 50 were calculated for patients with non ulcerative dyspepsia and the controls by using computer time region analysis technique. \ Results\ The above parameters of patients with non ulcerative dyspepsia were obviously abnormal ( t=2.968-5.773, P 0.01), showing close relation with the age ( t=3.495-4.940, P 0.01), but no relootion with the sex ( t=0.300-1.784, P 0.05). \ Conclusion\ The heart rate variability of the patients with non ulcerative dyspepsia was obviously abnormal, suggesting a close relationship between non ulcer dyspepsia and heart rate variability.


The remedy and treatment of highway slope is a universal technical problem in roading,especially in the mountainous area,the stability of the highway slope is very important.A disaster of a highway slope is taken as a typical example,the reason of the unstable highway slope is discussed in detail,as well as the treatment measures and engineering measures after the disaster happened.


Reconstruction methods and error analyses of retrieving the dielectric constant by using radar scattering data are performed in the present work. Both flat surfaces and rough surfaces are considered, although in the latter case either the small perturbation model or the Kirchhoff model has to be assumed. In general, the reconstructed results are very sensitive to the measured data, and a theoretical guideline is provided for the scattering measurement to be carried out by choosing proper incident angles and inverse algorithms.


This section describes the work carried out for WP4 of PADAMOT by UK partners Intellisci and
British Geological Survey (BGS). The work comprised the simulation of hydrogeochemical
processes that are involved in the precipitation of late-stage secondary calcite. Simulations were
carried out using batch-reaction modelling with the geochemical speciation and equilibrium
computer program PHREEQC2 (Parkhurst and Appelo, 1999) and fully-coupled flow, transport
and reaction modelling with the BGS program PRECIP (Noy, 1998) and the Universidade da
Coruna program CORE2D (Samper et al., 2000).
The overall purpose of doing the simulations was to mimic the geochemical reactions that might
have accounted for precipitation of late-stage calcites and to study the ways that variations in the
contents of the redox-sensitive trace elements Fe and Mn in the calcites are related to variations
in Fe and Mn in co-existing groundwaters and thus to the redox conditions. The insights gained
from this modelling should provide understanding that improves confidence in the interpretations
of data acquired in WP2 of PADAMOT. Work was carried out in several stages between early-
2002 and end-2004.


A method for measuring carriers is disclosed in the present invention, which is used in the communication field. The method includes: acquiring the capability of measuring a first frequency point without activating a compressed mode, where the capability is possessed by a user equipment and the first frequency point includes adjacent frequency of main carriers in a multi-carrier system, or adjacent frequency of a current working frequency point in a single-carrier system; acquiring a pattern by which the user equipment performs time-sharing measurement on the first frequency point, where the pattern includes the time length of implementing the measurement on the adjacent frequency of the main carriers in the multi-carrier system, or the time length of implementing the measurement on the adjacent frequency of the current working frequency point in the single-carrier system; and transmitting the pattern to the user equipment, enabling the user equipment to perform the time-sharing measurement according to the pattern and feedback measurement results.


The reaction of cryptotanshinone and tanshinone ⅡA with several biogenic aminemetabolites involved in the pathogenic pathways of HE were investigated and eight 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene derivatives, 2-6 and 8-10, were obtained. The probable mechanism onreaction was discussed.


Bring forwards the necessary to strengthen safety countermeasure for the gas bottle inside the natural gas-drive auto by analyze the damage level to the human and construction by the natural gas explosion energy and the shock wave.


When flammable gases or vapours are discharged to atmosphere from emergency relief vents, ignition may occur. The resulting flame on the vent pipe, which may be turbulent, will shed thermal radiation on adjacent plant and personnel. By considering the possible size, shape and temperature of this flame, the thermal radiation falling on surfaces in the vicinity of the vent can be calculated. These calculated values may then be compared with the known effects on various materials and human beings to enable vents to be designed and positioned with safety.


Power transformers are expensive and important component in power system. Insulation behavior, loads tap changer performance, temperature and load condition is the knowledge of actual status of the transformer. This is necessary in order to evaluate the service performance concerning reliability, safety and availability. System abnormalities, switching, loading, ambient condition are contribute to aging and failure. In this paper present the causes in the power transformer. Monitoring system will be valuable for preventing damage to the transformer. The faults and online monitoring are also analyzed.


Current oceanborne trade data issues arise from the introduction of: intermodalism; U.S. Customs' Automated Manifest System; and the adoption of the International Harmonized Commodity Coding System. This conference presentation discusses each of these in turn and concludes that, as systems are modified to report these data, we will have more informative data and better reporting systems providing a much clearer picture of oceanborne trade.