Main ideas on which the project proposal is based are : 1. producing a peer production collaborative open access data base for contemporary architecture; 2. proposing a structural visualization method and several modes of mapping and linking information and relevant images; 3. founding and defining a young generation of architectural projects-buildings; 4. gathering an advanced discussion for future architectural design; 5. fabricating new ideas, finding meaning and tendencies through short writings and discussions. Proposed method is to structure the ideas in a singular concept together with revisiting, reediting and rewriting the team's manifesto Restarting Avant-garde for specific declaration of ideas, making from the specific proposed project an active instrument for a future cultural Bucharest. In few words, the team members declaration is to connect and reconnect with the School of Architecture / Faculty of Architecture UAUIM Bucharest, to contribute together and on common principles, militate for, activate and enrolling 21st century architecture to European new setups. The project proposal includes also the architects enrolling and contributing through their own projects to mapping a guide of 21st century Bucharest. keywords: contemporary architecture, Bucharest, cultural capital, 21st century architecture guide.


Recently, global energy consumption has increased due to industrial development, resulting in increasing demand for various energy sources. Aside from the increased demand for renewable energy resources, the demand for fossil fuels is also on the rise. Accordingly, the demand for resource development in the deep sea is also increasing. Various systems are required to efficiently develop resources in the deep sea. A study on an in-line type oil–water separator is needed to compensate for the disadvantages of a gravity separator that separates traditional water and oil. In this paper, the separation performance of the axial-flow oil–water separator for five design variables (conical diameter, conical length, number of vanes, angle of vane, and thickness of vane) was analyzed. Numerical calculations for multiphase fluid were performed using the mixture model, one of the Euler–Euler approaches. Additionally, the Reynolds stress model was used to describe the swirling flow. As a result, it was found that the effect on the separation performance was large in the order of angle of vane, conical diameter, number of vanes, the thickness of vane, and conical length. A neural network model for predicting separation performance was developed using numerical calculation results. To predict the oil–water separation performance, five design parameters were considered, and the evaluation of the separation performance prediction model was compared with the multilinear regression (MLR) model. As a result, it was found that the R square was improved by about 74.0% in the neural network model, compared with the MLR model.


DNA transformation of forest tree species is now a striking reality and offers the possibility to generate transgenic trees with useful new characteristics. However, it is important to make the proper environmental assessment of these transgenic trees when established in field trials. For instance, the DNA released into the soil by decaying leaves and roots from the transgenic trees may become available for incorporation by soil microbes. The objective of this study was to investigate the persistence of recombinant plant marker genes in decomposing transgenic poplar leaf material. We studied the stability of the DNA encoding the neomycin phosphotransferase II resistance marker used in tree genetic engineering. DNA persistence in the environment was determined by placing transgenic poplar leaves in permeable bags that were located on weeds, on the soil, and below the soil and left under natural conditions on the site of a field trial for up to 12 months. This work is the first quantitative analysis of tree DNA stability in a natural forest environment. Our data indicate that fragments of the genetically modified DNA are not detectable in the field for more than 4 months. Resume : La transformation genetique des essences forestieres est devenue une realite frappante et offre la possibilite de produire des arbres transgeniques possedant de nouvelles caracteristiques utiles. Il est cependant primordial d'evaluer adequatement les risques environnementaux lorsque ces arbres transgeniques doivent etre testes sur le terrain. Par exemple, l'ADN qui se retrouve dans le sol suite a la decomposition des feuilles et des racines provenant d'arbres transgeniques pourrait une fois disponible etre incorpore par les microbes du sol. L'objectif de cette etude consistait a etudier la persistance de genes marqueurs de recombinaison dans les tissus foliaires en decomposition provenant de peupliers transgeniques. Pour ce faire, les auteurs ont etudie la stabilite de l'ADN codant pour le marqueur de resis- tance lie a la neomycine phosphotransferase II utilise lors de la transformation genetique des arbres. La persistance de l'ADN dans l'environnement a ete evaluee en placant des feuilles de peuplier transgenique dans des sacs permeables disposes sur la vegetation herbacee, sur le sol et dans le sol. Les feuilles ont ete soumises aux conditions naturelles dans le site d'experimentation sur le terrain pour une periode allant jusqu'a 12 mois. Cette etude constitue la premiere analyse quantitative de la stabilite de l'ADN d'arbres dans un environnement forestier naturel. Les donnees indiquent que les grands fragments d'ADN modifies genetiquement ne persistent pas plus de 4 mois sur le terrain. (Traduit par la Redaction) Hay et al. 982


British Columbia will launch the Green Light Transportation System (GLTS) program for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in 2009. The GLTS uses weigh-in-motion and Automatic Vehicle Identification to improve CMV safety regulation. This research examines the potential benefits and costs of adding Automated License Plate Recognition system (ALPRS) to the existing GLTS. ALPRS does not depend on the voluntary participation so ALPRS participation is estimated to far exceed the rate expected under the GLTS alone. The results suggest that the two technologies be integrated in the current inspection process to maximize the benefits and minimize the limitations of each.


Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their performance may have significant effects to the overall construction project. Some past studies have highlighted common criteria in subcontractor selection. However, in order to fulfill the current needs of the industry, new list of criteria need to be identified. This paper aims to report an on-going study on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry for private sector. Through literature review, it was found that bid price, financial status, adequacy of resources, experience in similar works, current commitment/workload, etc. are among the common criteria in subcontractor selection and some additional potential criteria such as sustainable construction, international standards and ethical business behavior worth to be considered.


Metastatic undifferentiated soft tissue sarcoma has a poor prognosis, with metastatic sites often involving the lungs, bone, or bone marrow. We report a case of soft tissue undifferentiated sarcoma with metastatic involvement of the lungs that relapsed during therapy with an unusual presentation of metastases in the central nervous system (CNS). The 20-year-old patient was aggressively treated with the alkylating agent temozolomide for radiosensitization and systemic therapy during radiotherapy, followed by multimodal treatment with ifosfamide, doxorubicin, and surgery. Two years post-therapy, the patient is still in remission. The benefits of temozolomide for treating CNS undifferentiated sarcoma are discussed.


Buttermilk (BM) and whey are biproducts of the dairy industry, and have stabilizing and emulsifying properties. Micro-particulated whey proteins (MWP) may act as fat replacers in foods. Dairy-based custards added BM and MWP were investigated. Addition of MWP


BACKGROUND
Heart failure (HF), resulting from inflammation and vessel injury, is one of the leading causes of poor quality of life and premature death. The complement system plays a leading role in vessel integrity and inflammation response. However, the association between serum complement level and the prognosis of HF remains unclear.

METHODS
In our study, a total of 263 newly diagnosed hypertension patients with HF were included. Eight classical Cardiovascular(CV) risk factors were collected, and plasma C3a, C3b, C5a, sC5b-9, and CH50 levels were detected.

RESULTS
Compared with control group, plasma C5a(p<0.001), sC5b-9 (p<0.001) and CH50 (p=0.004) levels of hypertension patients with HF were significantly increased. Based on univariate analysis, an older age, higher frequency of alcohol consumption, high level of BMI, medium or high risk of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes were poor prognostic factors while low levels of C5a, sC5b-9 and CH50 were associated with favorable overall survival (OS). When these factors fit into a multivariate regression model, patients with hyperlipidemia (P=0.002, HR=3.09), NT-pro-BNP ≥ 14.8 (P<0.001, HR=11.14), sC5b-9 level ≥ 1406.2 ug/ml (P=0.180, HR=5.51) or CH50 level ≥ 294.6 ug/ml (P<0.001, HR=4.57) remained statistically factors for worsened OS and regarded as independent risk factors. These independently associated risk factors were used to form an OS estimation nomogram. Nomogram demonstrated good accuracy in estimating the risk, with a bootstrap-corrected C index of 0.789.

CONCLUSIONS
sC5b-9 and CH50 levels are increased in hypertension patients with HF. Nomogram based on multivariate analysis has good accuracy in estimating the risk of OS.


We discuss a model of inequity based on iteration of the Nash multi-agent bargaining game on a lattice. Agent's choices are based on a logit function and gradual decay of memories of past profits. Numerical simulations demonstrate the stability of various dynamical regimes, such as disorder, fairness or inequity, according to parameters and initial conditions. When playing the game on a lattice i.e. using neighbouring agent interactions instead of random interaction among the whole agent population, one observes spatial domains and specific patterns in addition to the temporal convergence toward attractors observed when interactions involve any pair of agents. A result specific to the network topology is the co-existence of domains with different regimes, allowing the emergence of the inequity condition even in the absence of tags.


Objective To identify spotted fever group rickettsiae(SFGR) isolated from Dermacentor sinicus, which were collected from the hedgehogs in the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Changping District of Beijing, China.Methods SFGR isolates were identified by morphological and molecular biological methods, followed by phylogenetic analysis.Results SFGR propagated in DH82 cells and caused significant cytopathic effects. After Gimenez staining, a large number of rickettsiae were clearly seen in dark red. Sequence analysis revealed that the 16 S gene of the SFGR isolates was 100% identical to that of Rickettsia sibirica strain 246 and R. sibirica strain BJ-90. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the SFGR isolates were located in the same evolutionary branch as R. sibirica, which further proved that they were R. sibirica.Conclusion The discovery of tick-born SFGR in Changping district provides etiological evidence for potential existence of the natural foci of North Asia fever in this area.


Brain haematoma can often elude a junior doctor at the busy Manchester Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department. Here we described an unusual presentation of brain haematoma—a sub acute on chronic subdural haematoma. Radiologic findings of this 82-year-old gentleman on head CT includes the classic mass effect (ipsilateral effacement and contralateral dilatation) and a layered appearance of different densities—a mixture of biconcave isodense (multiple known causes), hypodense (indicative of >21 days bleed), and hyperdense (indicative of 72 h bleed) collection! Here we discussed the type and duration of bleed with multiple CT evidence, also supporting the clinical finding of Hutchinson pupil in our case—a worrying sign of early tentorial herniation! A brief review on thrombolysis is also discussed.


The specific integral hydrophobicity of denatured forms of legumin and legumin-T from broad beans was evaluated through their hydration heat capacities. These were calculated as differences between partial heat capacities obtained from differential scanning microca-lorimetry data and heat capacities in the gas phase, which were calculated by the use of the method of additive group contributions, taking into account the expansion of protein molecule in the gas phase. It is shown that there is no significant difference between the data for denatured forms of both proteins. The comparative evaluation of the hydration heat capacities of native forms of legumin and legumin-T was carried out. It is shown that the native legumin-T has a greater value of the hydration heat capacity and respectively is more hydrophobic than the native legumin. On the basis of the values of differences between the heat capacities in denatured and native states it is shown that the accessible hydrophobic surface of the native legumin-T related to a mean amino acid residue is 8-13 A 2 greater than that of the native legumin.


This paper questions the widely held view that B2C eCommerce markets are characterised by a high intensity of competition, using a mixture of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. We discuss two hypothesis and survey empirical studies which test them. We argue that the goods sold in B2C eCommerce have to be interpreted as heterogeneous "composite goods", that market transparency in B2C eCommerce is lower than widely assumed, and that high endogenous sunk costs limit the intensity of competition in B2C eCommerce.


Let $\N$ denote the set of all non-negative integers and $\cP(\N)$ be its power set. An integer additive set-labeling (IASL) of a graph $G$ is an injective set-valued function $f:V(G)\to \cP(\N)-\{\emptyset\}$ such that the induced function $f^+:E(G) \to \cP(\N)-\{\emptyset\}$ is defined by $f^+ (uv) = f(u)+ f(v)$, where $f(u)+f(v)$ is the sumset of $f(u)$ and $f(v)$. A graph which admits an IASL is usually called an IASL-graph. An IASL $f$ of a graph $G$ is said to be an integer additive set-indexer (IASI) of $G$ if the associated function $f^+$ is also injective. In this paper, we define the notion of integer additive set-labeling of signed graphs and discuss certain properties of signed graphs which admits certain types of integer additive set-labelings.


SUMMARY Community forestry involves different stakeholders with diverse perspectives and interests in series of decisions and translating these decisions into actions. In decision-making processes, information plays an important role, but information perspectives differ across the users with different social status defined by economic class, caste and ethnicity, gender, education and access to an ,executive position'. People holding an executive position and those without it have conflicting views on the provisions of power sharing and access to information and resources. There are differences in perceiving and evaluating different qualities of information at various levels of policy processes, and what higher policy makers might think is important quality of information for community forest user groups may no longer be valued by the users. This paper explores multiple realities related to information in community forestry through comparative case studies and suggests that more facilitative, interactive policy process are desirable in securing a higher level of informed decisions.


Sectionalising switches play a crucial role in the post-fault reconfiguration of distribution networks. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for the switch placement problem, through which the optimal configuration of manual and remote-controlled switches (MSs and RCSs) as well as field circuit breakers (FCBs) can be determined. The objective is to minimise the installation and operation costs of switches together with the reliability-oriented costs, which include the distribution company's lost revenue due to the undelivered energy and the regulatory incentives (or penalties) associated with service reliability indices. To determine the regulatory incentives (or penalties), two reward-penalty mechanisms are applied to the system average interruption frequency index (SAIFI) and system average interruption duration index (SAIDI). Also, a new reliability assessment model is developed in this paper to quantify SAIFI, SAIDI, and expected energy not supplied. In this model, we consider the possibility of malfunctioning in RCSs and FCBs, which has a high occurrence probability, especially in severe weather conditions. The proposed switch optimisation model is implemented on a test network to validate its applicability. The results reveal the importance of considering the placement of FCBs and the possibility of switch malfunctions in switch placement models.


The present invention concerns a composition comprising (A) at least one carboxy-functional polyester having an acid number in the range from 20 to 250 mg KOH/g, prepared using at least one difunctional monomer (a1) having aliphatic groups with 12 to 70 carbon atoms between the functional groups, and (B) at least one synthetic layered hydroxide, the at least one layered hydroxide (B) being prepared in the presence of the polyester (A). The present invention further concerns the production of the composition and the use of the composition as a coating material.


The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a SrRuO_3 electrode, a method of fabricating a capacitor, and a semiconductor device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of fabricating a SrRuO_3 film by repeating at least one super cycle includes a first step of performing an atom deposition sub-cycle m number of times (m is an integer equal to or greater than 1) to form a SrO layer on a substrate in a chamber; and a second step of performing a chemical vapor deposition sub-cycle n number of times (n is an integer equal to or greater than 1) to form a RuO_2 layer on the substrate while alternating with the first step in the same chamber as the first step.


A method for improving the rigidity of a substantially parallelepiped flexible container being obtained by shaping and welding from a film made of said synthetic material and from wrapping the liquid to be packaged, characterized in that it consists in attaching on the back conformation side of said film 2 does not subsequently coming into contact with the liquid to be packaged a second layer of a film 5 of the same or different material, called over-film, said over-film consisting of multiple bands corresponding to the vertical faces of the final sachet , said strips being welded to said film prior to its conformation along lines corresponding to the ridges of the final parallelepiped container . Application: packaging of food particularly liquids.


Prieto et al. J Infect Dis Epidemiol 2020, 6:155 Citation: Prieto M, Martínez C, Cipolla L, Rocca F, Armitano R (2020) Genetic Diversity of Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Pregnancy-Associated Listeriosis Occurring in Argentina from 1986 to 2016. J Infect Dis Epidemiol 6:155. doi.org/10.23937/2474-3658/1510155 Accepted: September 02, 2020: Published: September 04, 2020 Copyright: © 2020 Prieto M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


Worldwide, approximately three billion people – half the planet – survive on $2 a day. More than one billion of them survive on half that amount or less, the World Bank's definition of the severest poverty.


The presented study examines transformation processes in the economic development of industrial enterprises in the context of the new economy. Aim. The study aims to develop a theoretical and methodological framework for efficient economic development of innovation-active industrial enterprises. Tasks. • To examine the specific aspects of economic development of modern industrial enterprises with allowance for the innovative component. • To determine the prerequisites for the progressive growth of innovation activity of industrial enterprises. • To create a model showing the correlation between the factors and results of economic development of innovation-active industrial enterprises. • To provide a definition of "economic development of a modern industrial enterprise." • To develop a graphical value model for innovation-active industrial enterprises. Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition, concepts of the neoclassical and institutional economic theory, and management theory as applied to the issues of efficient development of economic systems to examine the problem of economic development of innovation-active industrial enterprises in various aspects. Results. In the context of the development of information technology and functioning of the open innovation model, the progressively increasing level of innovation activity of industrial enterprises is determined by such factors as: the emerging opportunity for small enterprises with limited resources to take part in the innovation process; stimulation of the innovation activity of large monopolistic structures by weakening their monopoly as a result of innovation development; short-term nature of the innovation rent due to the accelerated diffusion of innovations in the open model, which forces enterprises to develop and implement new solutions more rapidly. Conclusions. Modern economic conditions and the state of innovation systems are complemented by the possibility of economic development based on the innovative component, which provides a foundation for the creation of enterprise value through innovation rent-seeking. At the same time, the short-term nature of the innovation rent due to the accelerated diffusion of innovations leads to the formation of local maximums of enterprise value, beyond which it can only growth through further implementation of innovations. As a result, economic development based on the innovative component has virtually no restrictions, and the growth in enterprise value often translates into an increase in the value of its intellectual capital.


Clopidogrel is one of the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. It plays an essential therapeutic role in a variety of vascular conditions including acute coronary syndromes, ischemic heart disease treated with coronary stents, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Hypersensitivity reactions to clopidogrel are not uncommon and lead to its discontinuation in 1-2% of patients. Clopidogrel hypersensitivity is especially problematic in patients with newly implanted drug-eluting coronary stents. Premature discontinuation of dual antiplatelet therapy after recent coronary intervention is the most important risk factor for stent thrombosis. Clopidogrel hypersensitivity most often occurs during the first week after initiation, when drug discontinuation carries the highest risk for stent thrombosis. Since stent thrombosis typically results in a myocardial infarction or death, the management of clopidogrel hypersensitivity reactions is a clinical issue of great importance. The current thematic issue explores clinical aspects related to clopidogrel hypersensitivity with particular focus on clinical recognition and the various treatment options. Due to the contributions from an assembled group of experts in the field, this collaborative series represents a unique, comprehensive and authoritative series on the topic of clopidogrel hypersensitivity.


Research in the use of fertilizers on native range forage in the Northern Great Plains is being conducted to find if this may be a method of increasing the returns per acre. Clarke, Tisdale, and Skoglund (1947) reported the long term effect of manuring. An area of Bouteloua-Stipa vegetation, manured in 1928, sampled from 1933 to 1938, inclusive, yielded an average of 850 pounds per acre against an average of 420 pounds per acre from adjacent unmanured range. Work conducted at the Range Field Station at Cottonwood, South Dakota, by Westin, Buntley, and Brage (1955) from 1952 to 1954 showed increased yield on native range after fertilizer applications. Using rates of 20, 40, and 80 pounds of nitrogen per acre on pasture that had been grazed at heavy, moderate, and light intensities, they found the greatest response resulted from the application of 80 pounds of nitrogen per acre to the heavily grazed pasture. Increases in percent protein were obtained from the higher rates of nitrogen. Rogler and Lorenz (1957) conducted a fertilizer experiment on an upland blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) -western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii) site. Both heavily grazed and moderately grazed range showed an increase in yield after applications of 30 and 90 pounds of nitrogen per acre, with a greater return in pounds of hay produced per pound of nitrogen at the 30-pound rate. Crude protein level was higher in the forage from the plots which received 90 pounds of nitrogen per acre than from unfertilized plots. These and other range fertilization experiments have shown that increased yields of forage may be obtained, and the fertilized forage will contain a greater percentage of crude protein. They do not show that the increased yields of forage and crude protein are sufficient to cover the costs of application. Further certain inconsistencies in the results suggest that the response of native range grasses to commercial fertilizers needs further investigation before clear-cut recommendations can be made as to their use as a range management device. This article reports a fertilizer test on Stipu-Boutelouu range near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. The results of the experiments in themselves verify the findings of other work reported. However, observations made during and subsequent to the test indicate that the measurement of certain reactions of the vegetation complex and of individual species to fertilization might be desirable.


This method of microscopic examination is chiefly used for demonstrating Spirochaeta pallida in the unstained specimen, but certain investigators have found it valuable in the study of stained specimens. Hoffmann 1 found the dark field useful in demonstrating the spirochetes of yellow fever and jaundice in stained specimens, and likewise believes that it is valuable for studying tissue sections. Ficker 2 used Hoffmann's method for examining flagellates. Silberstein 3 and Zorn 4 applied the method in examining other forms of bacteria, among them the tubercle bacillus, and state that they could find them much more easily and in greater numbers than in the luminous field. We have tried this method for examining specimens of sputum and urine sediment for tubercle bacilli, and found that we could see them more quickly, in greater numbers and with greater facility than with the light field, and bacilli in thick specimens could be more


Since 2011 JET is equipped with a Beryllium "ITER-like" wall (ILW) and a Tungsten divertor [1]. As it can lead to reduced core temperature and even radiative collapse, high Z core impurity accumulation has to be avoided. Hydrogen minority ion cyclotron heating at sufficiently high power (> 4MW in JET) is already well known to be an effective cure for this problem [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. In the context of exploring the available options for a D − T campaign but without actually using T , this paper reports on investigations checking if D majority ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) scenarios exist that can simultaneously ensure a high ion heating efficiency needed for reaching fusion relevant temperatures and impurity chase-out.


This dissertation presents the factor structure, reliability, validity and calibration of the Occupational Stress Questionnaire for Hospital Health Care Workers (OSQ-HHCW). The study included 2380 participants aged between 18 and 65 years who were employed as healthcare workers in the Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Clinical Hospital "Sestre milosrdnice", General Hospital "Sveti Duh" and Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce during the period from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2008. Participation in the study was voluntary. Response rate was 78% and the actual sample finally included 1856 participants (1253 (67,5%) nurses/medical technicians, 478 (25,8%) physicians, 37 (2,0%) other highly educated employees and 88 (4,7%) non-responders). In addition to the general socio-demographic questions, the questionnaire included perception of 37 workplace stressors referring to: work organization and financial issues, shift work, opportunities for promotion, education, professional demands, interpersonal communication, communication between the healthcare workers and patients and hazards at workplace . The participants assessed their experience on the Likert scale from 1 =''Not stressful at all'' to 5 =' extremely stressful Factor analysis yielded six factors of relatively high reliability of inner consistency (all values of Cronbach α exceeded 0.7): Workplace Organization and Financial Issues, Public Criticism, Hazards at Workplace, Conflicts and Communication at Work, Shift Work, Professional and Intellectual Demands. Discriminative validity of each factor scale was satisfactory: correlation factors range (items - scale) with corresponding scale was higher compared to correlation factors with other five scales. Individual particles logically explain the structure of the corresponding factors and provide good foundation for development of the measuring tool for perceived workplace stressors among hospital workers. All six scales were transformed to range from 0 to 100 were the highest value means the most stressful perception of the corresponding factor. If the score of particular factor exceed 60, the factor is recognized as a stressful and appropriate intervention is needed. The study contributes to the development of a suitable measuring instrument for the assessment of occupational stress among healthcare workers and its implementation in clinical practice. The OSQ-HHCW is a suitable instrument for the recognition and quantification of occupational stress, thus having an important role in the development of evidence-based strategies that target at improving health and safety among hospitals healthcare workers.


We present a gauge--theoretical derivation of the notion of time, suitable to describe the Hamiltonian time evolution of gravitational systems. It is based on a nonlinear coset realization of the Poincar\'e group, implying the time component of the coframe to be invariant, and thus to represent a metric time. The unitary gauge fixing of the boosts gives rise to the foliation of spacetime along the time direction. The three supressed degrees of freedom correspond to Goldstone--like fields, whereas the remaining time component is a Higgs--like boson.


In this paper a programmable steering machine (PSM) and the lightweight electric powered vehicle, designed and made at the Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom (UTH Radom) have been presented. Both these technical objects are the result of the project carried out by the Student Research Group ?Turbodoładowani?. The steering machine has been developed with the programmable algorithms allowing to execute a controllable movement of the vehicle steering wheel. After execution, the system does not need an interaction with the driver. For this reason, a higher repetition of the vehicle traction measurements can be achieved. Such confirmation obtained in tests within which the time waveforms of rotation angle of the steering wheel by a set value of 45, 90, 180 and 360 degrees was recorded.  In particular, the accuracy index for mentioned test conditions was calculated. Obtained results, expressed by the average value of the sensitivity index were lower than 2% within the tests carried out for ?45 degree maneuvers. In case of other tests i.e., for ?90, ?180 and ?360 degree maneuvers the accuracy index value was lower than 0.3%. In this way, it was confirmed that the tested PSM reached the appropriate operating parameters necessary for vehicle traction tests.


Recent advancements in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) based technology has brought transformation in next generation computer networking by enhancing Traffic Engineering (TE) features and Quality of Service (QoS) service parameters. Nowadays traffic management is successfully controlled by MPLS technology especially in case of underutilized or over-utilized links. The main dissimilarity between Internet Protocol (IP) and MPLS lies in the complexity of routing or switching look-up tables that seem to be less complex in latter type of networks. MPLS network tunneling is relied on a QoS routing algorithm thereby establishing a bandwidth guaranteed and less delay paths from source to destination. In this paper, a hybrid algorithm named Hybrid MPLS Tunneling Algorithm (HMTA) which comprises of bandwidth and delay differentiation techniques as well as on the basis of priority bits contained in each data packet is proposed which improves QoS routing of MPLS networks. In proposed algorithm, the differentiation of links is based on the threshold values of bandwidth and delay which is also named as the link state information. The link differentiation is done to reduce the blocking probability and number of times QoS state exchangestake place resulting in increment of QoS overheads. In order to improve the performance, this new approach is using high priority bits to accurately transmit the data-labeled or content-labeled packets to its destination by using the simulation tool MATLAB to perform the experiments. Finally, the simulation experiments demonstrate that proposed approach results in less blocking probability, high utilized bandwidth, lower packet loss, high network utilization with minimal delay.


Objective To examine the occurrence of toxoplasmosis in livestock workers, milker, veterinary, peoples with a close contact with domestic animals in Huadu District of Guangzhou, and to offer strategies for the control of this disease. Method Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay was used to measure anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgG in these peoples. Result Among the total 779 individuals, 71 subjects (9.11%) had serum antibody against Toxoplasma gondii. The proportion of sero-positive male and female individuals was 7.84% (33/421) and 10.61% (38/358), respectively. Milkers (24.00%) and meat processing workers (13.73%) had a higher sero-positive rate than the individuals with a close contact with domestic animals(10.00%) or with pets (9.94%). Conclusion Toxoplasmosis is zoonotic disease. The disease is mainly transmitted through the contacting with the infected animals or through the consumption of contaminated foods. An effective integrated control measure, such as personal hygiene and safety consciousness, may decrease the incidence of infection by Toxoplasma gondii.


LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 53, no. 1, Summer 2004, ("Organizational Development and Leadership," edited by Keith Russell and Denise Stephens). pp.238-257.


Terra Sigillata is one of the most important roman fine pottery groups per excellence. It is known as one of the most interesting movable objects in the scientific field, due to its ornamental richness, its frequent association with epigraphy and its chronological value as a datant and reliable element. However it is often forgotten its relationship with the political context at the beginning of its life, and especially with the Romanization process, and the Spanish case is an obvious example of this. With these bases we try to revalue the important role of Terra Sigillata in the consolidation of the roman process, that the Mediterranean Occident lived during the era change.


Foundation of higher education can fundamentally be explained by human-based ideas. It is an essential task of education to recognize and develop people. Thus, the paper points out that education should be focused on human-based cultivation, learning, administration and direction. In this way, great achievements can be made in every aspect of education and the cause of education be flourished.


typed doubled-spaced (including references) with conventional margins. The overall length is limited to five manuscript pages, including not more than one figure or table. Increases of serum angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE, EC 22.214.171.124; also known as dipeptidyl carboxypepti-dase, kininase II) have been associated with active sarcoidosis and may reflect stimulation of the monocyte-macro-phage system (1,2). We adapted the method of Hoim-quist et al. (3) to a random access analyzer to obtain a simple, automated assay for serum ACE that involves only a single, stable reagent and 5 miii of analysis time. 3-(2-Furylacryloy!)-L-phenylala-nylglycyl-glycine (FAPGG) Buffered substrate solution: In a 100.0-mL flask, mix the following (final concentrations in parentheses): 1.192 g of 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-pipera-zineethanesulfonate (HEPES) (50 mmol/L), 1.753 g of NaCl (300 mmolIL), and 50.0 mg of FAPGG (1.25 mmolIL). Add distilled water and 250 ,uL of saturated NaOH solution. Bring to pH 8.35 at room temperature and store at 4#{176}C. Ronca-Testom (4), using FAPGG with ACE, found a pH optimum of 8.20 (pH measured at 37 #{176}C, identical to pH 8.35 at room temperature for a HEPES buffer solution). Using FAPGG as the chromophoric monitor of substrate hydrolysis was a simple way to measure ACE activity. The k,,, of FAPGG shifts from 305 nm =25000 mol'. L. cm') to 300 nm upon hydrolysis, thus providing the basis of this assay. At the instrument settings listed above, the decrease in absorbance is measured every 30 a from 1 to 5 mm. Measuring absorbance at 340 nm, a wavelength readily available on automated analyzers, one can work with high concentrations of sub-strate, which is not possible at the wavelengths of maximum absorptiv-ity. One unit of ACE activity is defined as the amount of enzyme required to hydrolyze 1 Mmol of substrate per minute. The activity concentration was calculated as follows: UIL = (MImin) x 20400. The enzyme factor (20 400) was derived from: 300/30 = the ratio of total incubation volume to serum volume ; 1/0.7 cm' = 1/optical pathway; 1/(700 mol'. L. cm') = maximum #{163}4 (0.490) when hydrolysis was allowed to go to completion; 106 = factor for converting mol/L (from Beer's law) into ACE activity units. The maximum #{163}4 should be measured for every new batch of substrate. Serum samples were obtained from 97 bloodbank donors, ages 18 to 65 years. The blood was allowed to clot at room temperature and centrifuged within 2 h (2000 x g, 15 miii). Lipemic …


Genetic algorithms are powerful search methods for global optimization problems. Different mutation operators have been suggested in GAs to produce the next generation; it is difficult to choose which mutation operator should be applied in the evolutionary process of GAs. The adaptive mutation approach integrating  various  mutation  operators  into  a  simple GAs; most suitable mutation operator is adaptively selected based on the probability matching technique while solving the problem. In this novel algorithm, each individual has a group of learning strategy along with different behaviour in the search phase. This paper evaluates the performance of our suggested scheme on different problem settings. The experimental result shows that our suggested mechanism is able to select automatically the appropriate mutation operator for different problems. Several mutation operators can obviously enhance the performance of GAs.


Objective To compare the effect on problem-based learning (PBL) method in and lecture-based learning in clinical teaching of cardiology. Methods 36 undergraduate students in college were divided into 2 groups:PBL group and LBL group.PBL and LBL teaching methods were respectively used in the two groups. Results The average score and the fine rate of teaching effectiveness in PBL group are significantly higher than that of LBL group. Conclusion The teaching effectiveness of PBL is better than that of LBL,and PBL should be extensively applied in clinical teachingof cardiology.


Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In Indonesia, the number of people infected with HIV reaches 50,282 while the number of people with AIDS is 7,036. East Java is the province with the highest number of HIV infection cases in Indonesia, while AIDS is in the third position. Jember Regency is the fifth largest district/city reporting AIDS cases in East Java Province. Knowledge is closely related to attitude. Good knowledge will affect a positive attitude, and vice versa. Stigma can be formed because there is no knowledge about how HIV/AIDS is transmitted. Ignorance causes fear so that an attitude of rejection is formed towards People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). This study aims to determine the knowledge of students at the University of Jember towards HIV/AIDS. This research was conducted in 2021 with a cross-sectional research design. Data was collected online based on a questionnaire adapted from Shokoohi et al. (2016). There were 378 students involved in the study. There were 24 questions about HIV/AIDS. The level of knowledge was divided into 3: low (correct score ≤ 12), medium (correct score 13-18) and high (correct score ≥ 19). A total of 80.2% of students have a high level of knowledge. Most of the respondents knew the main routes of HIV transmission and answered correctly about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS. It is necessary to conduct a follow-up reseach in a broader population.


The authors report two cases of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) repeated at the same site within 1 or 2 days causing death in a 53-year-old male and a 48-year-old female. In both cases, platelet aggregation was significantly impaired. Acquired platelet dysfunction may be important in the expansion of hemorrhage in patients with repeated hypertensive ICH. In such cases administration of normal platelets may be required to prevent devastating hemorrhage.


In this paper, we present an ultrasonic sensor based path planning method using fuzzy logic for obstacle avoidance of an intelligent vehicle in unknown environments. Generally, Robot navigation in unknown terrains is a very complex task difficult to control because of the great amount of imprecise and ambiguous sensor information that has to be considered. In this case, fuzzy logic can satisfactorily deal with such information in quite efficient manner. In this study, we propose two fuzzy logic controller which is composed of steering controller and velocity controller respectively. Our object is to develop a fuzzy controller that can enable a mobile robot to navigate from a start point to a goal point without collisions, in the least possible travel time. The ability and effectiveness for the proposed algorithm will be demonstrated by simulation and expeiment.


Background It is well known that p16 negative oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) has a high probability of spreading to the ipsilateral neck. However, no consensus exists as to whether to perform elective treatment for clinical nodal negative in contralateral neck. Methods A total of 85 patients with p16 negative OPSCC who underwent primary tumor excision and bilateral neck dissections between 2005 and 2018 were analyzed retrospectively. Clinicopathologic variables were used to identify factors predicting occult contralateral nodal metastasis (OCNM). A nomogram was developed to assess the risk of OCNM and the model was validated internally by using bootstrap resampling. Results The overall prevalence of pathologically positive contralateral nodes was 30.6% (26/85) in our cohort, and the rate of OCNM was 18.3% (11/60). The presence of ipsilateral clinical extranodal extension (cENE) was significantly associated with contralateral neck metastasis (odds ratio, 5.662; 95% CI, 2.079–15.415) with increased risk of OCNM (odds ratio, 4.271; 95% CI, 1.045–17.458). Moreover, the concordance index of the proposed nomogram model without ipsilateral cENE was 0.623 and could increase to 0.717 with the inclusion of ipsilateral cENE in the calculation. Conclusion The risk of OCNM in p16 negative OPSCC with ipsilateral cENE is notable. Ipsilateral cENE-based nomogram might assist in individual decision-making regarding contralateral nodal negative neck management and help avoid the over- and under-treatment of p16 negative OPSCC.


Viscous computational fluid dynamic simulations are used to predict the aerodynamic coefficients and flowfield for a missile with grid fins. A grid fin is an unconventional lifting and control surface that consists of an outer frame supporting an inner grid of intersecting planar surfaces of small chord. The calculations are made at Mach numbers of 0.7 and 2.0. Full NS equations are discretized into finite volume form and solved by an algorithm in LU-SGS. The comparisons between computations and experimental data are made, the detailed flow structure near grid fins is showed and examined.


Objectives: To examine high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents in mainland China and to provide the reference for the future intervention and prevention.Methods: The articles about high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents were sorted based on our selection and exclusion criteria.We also checked the reference lists of relevant articles.Meta-analysis was conducted to obtain overall effect size of variables on high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents.Results: In total,717 articles were sorted and 75 were included.Meta-analysis showed that the average age for sexual behavior debut was 19.38±1.94;the rate of condom use at sexual behavior debut was 37.2%(95%CI:35.5%-38.9%);the occurrence of sexual behaviors with multiple partners accounted for 33.2%(95%CI:31.0%-35.5%) and the rate of adolescent pregnancy was 15.1%(95%CI:13.9%-16.4%).Compared with female adolescents,male adolescents were 2.09 times more easier to have sexual intercourse(OR=2.09,95%CI:1.79-2.39).Conclusion: The phenomenon of high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents should attract more concern in mainland China.The corresponding intervention and prevention measures should be developed as early as possible.


In this thesis, we explore relationships between social variables that can be used to assess social events and conditions (social weather). Social weather may have hidden causes, and social events may be related to several variables distributed over diverse data sources. We built an infrastructure integrating data sources using the World Bank, stock market, happiness, terrorism, and Internet usage in the US. We performed data cleaning, data normalization and data aggregation and implemented our data store using Influx DB; we used Grafana for visual exploration of the integrated database.
The integrated data store allowed us to explore data trends and relationships among the social variables. In particular, we explored causal links among large amount of social variables using the Tetrad framework. We applied several causal discovery algorithms to generate a support matrix and used the voting approach to find strong causal relationships. We demonstrated that our causal discovery results are consistent with a well-known economic model.


In this study the influence of ammonia-loaded zeolite on growth of grass and legume species, important for forage production, was investigated. Zeolite is traditionally used in agriculture as soil conditioner and as nitrogen retaining medium for nitrogen fertilizing improvements. Our pot experiment was carried out to investigate impact of ammonia loaded zeolite on growth and yield of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) and red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) under controlled conditions. The experiment was conducted on two types of soil (Planosol and Dystric Cambisol) and it included four fertilizing treatments: control; soil with the addition of zeolite; soil with the addition of ammonia-loaded zeolite and nitrogen application by mineral fertilizer; all in 4 replications. The results suggest that different fertilizing treatments could affect crop yield.


Objective To study the effect of asymmetric inlet velocity profile on the wall shear stress of the position where atherosclerosis always happens.Methods Special software is used to construct the TF-AHCB model,set the asymmetric inlet velocity profile,and do the mesh dividing and the simulation work.The flow field of sinus and the distribution of wall shear stress on the different conditions of time and inlet velocity are calculated.The feature of flow field and shear stress which is related to the atherosclerosis is analyzed.Result Asymmetric inlet velocity profile deflexion could increase the area of low shear stress and the gradient of shear stress.Conclusion Asymmetric inlet velocity profile could be one of the dangerous factor to cause atherosclerosis.


Background: Before the year 1993, the gold standard treatment in elective bowel anastomosis were two layer anastomosis, use of nasogastric tube for draining and the start of the oral intake after the 5 th day. These were controversial topics, so we designed several clinical trials to resolve these questions. Results: We demonstrated that one layer anastomosis in elective bowel anastomoses showed the same risk for complications than the two layer anastomosis, but we used less surgical and anesthetic time to do the one layer. We showed in an equivalence study that the use of nasogastric tube does not confer any protective factor against surgical complications; right now we don't use the nasogastric tube after an elective bowel anastomosis in our hospital. Finally we demonstrated that we can start the enteral feeding before the 5 th day safely after an elective bowel anastomosis. In another study we reduced the rate of surgical infections in elective bowel anastomosis using a quality improvement model, showing that standardized perioperative surgical steps are important in the treatment of our patients. Discussion: Before 1993 the therapeutic gold Standard in elective bowel anastomoses was based on a tradicional knowledge more than a scientific one. Using clinical trials we changed the empirical based routines instead of evidence based improvements in pediatric bowel anastomoses. Conclusions: With all this evidence based improvements we change our treatment in benefit for our children.


The vigorous growth of primary mouse tumors usually overshadows the other essential characteristic of their malignancy--their metastatic spread by blood and lymph routes into organs of the host. Vice versa, in another group of malignancies, the leukemias, the outstanding features are the metastatic transportation of malignant cells in the blood and their infiltrative growth in organs, while the primary growth is often disregarded. The purpose of the work reported below was to investigate the spread of leukemic tumors from three sites, namely, (a) the peritoneal cavity, (b) the subcutaneous tissue of the flank, and (c) the subcutaneous tissue of the scalp. The combination of data on the characteristics of primary growth, on the extent of leukemic cell spread into organs, and on the mortality of the host outlined for each strain of leukemia the effect of primary growth of leukemic cells on their fate and on the fate of their host.


It is shown that the assumption that language is non-finite involves the use of a constructive logic which leads to some restrictions on language theory and to the fact that the only possible definition of language is that proposed by generative grammars. Generative grammars can be formulated an normal/Markov/algorithms and thus their study can be reduced to the study of such algorithms of a special type. A new type of generative grammar is defined, called matrix grammar. It is shown that a language generated by a context-restricted grammar can be also generated by a matrix grammar. Some properties of matrix grammars are shown to be decidable. The problem of the explicative power of generative grammars is discussed.


This study assessed the influence of organo-phosphorus (OP) Diazinon pesticide on adult tilapia fish (Oreochromis niloticus) in a semi static renewal bioassay for 30 days. Adult fish were acclimatized to laboratory conditions for 7days and then exposed to varying sub-lethal concentrations of diazinon (1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 mg/l) for 30 days and compared with control (untreated). Total protein was determined in plasma, muscle, gills, liver and kidney. The water quality used for the study showed pH 7.05, dissolved oxygen 6.7 mg/l, temperature 26.0 C, alkalinity 16.25 mg/l, conductivity 106.12ps/cm and turbidity 0.46 NTU. The 96h LC50 of diazinon was 7.65mg/l. At various concentration of diazinon, fish showed uncoordinated behaviour such as somersaulting, convulsion and erratic swimming. The levels of total protein in plasma was significantly lower (P<0.05) in all test concentrations in comparison with the control; but no concentration-dependent among the various concentration of diazinon was observed. Conversely, protein concentrations in muscle, liver, gills and kidney decreased with increased concentration of diazinon (P<0.05). It is concluded that protein concentrations in muscle, gill, liver and kidney are useful biomarkers of sub-lethal effects of diazinon in Oreochromis niloticus.


White light emitting diodes with high efficiency and brightness have been fabricated using phosphorescent materials by spin coating an emission layer. The emission layer consisted of sky blue and orange light emitting materials based on iridium complexes, which were dissolved in toluene solvent with 4,4'-bis(carbazoyl-9-yl)biphenyl (CBP) as a host and polystyrene as a binder. The introduction of polystyrene binder resulted in not only good film forming properties but also better device performance than that of poly(vinyl carbazole) conventionally used as a host material. The device structure was ITO/PEDT:PSS/emission layer/BAlq/LiF/Al. The color of the devices varied according to the composition of light emitting materials and the device having the closest to white emission showed CIE coordinates of (0.33,0.39) with an external quantum efficiency and a current efficiency of 6.1% and 13 cd/A, respectively, at 100 cd/m2.


Menstruation—called haid in Islamic fiqhis not seen as merely physical, biological function of women's bodies. According to most traditional societies, this very exclusive women's experience is apparently perceived to be a symbol signifying specific meaning and myth. Unsurprisingly almost all societies have conceptualized what so called menstrual taboo in an antropological tradition within their cultural systems. One of the major implications of these ideas of menstrual taboos is the emergence of devices signifying the event of menstruation, such as cosmetics, high heel footwear, ad jilbab. Another significant impact is the restriction of women's social role and engagement. This article is addressing these two mythical and social implications of menstrual taboos and compare them with Islamic doctrines of haid. MEMBONGKAR MITOS MENSTRUAI TABOO (Kajian Tafsur Tematik Pendekatan Hermeneutik) ABDUL MUSTAQIM Dosen Jurusan Tafsir—Hadis Fakultas Ushuluddin UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta


Objective To evaluate the effects of allograft fusion cage(AFC) on anterior cervical interbody fusion. Methods AFCs were implanted in 61 degenerative cervical intervertebral spaces of 39 cases, who needed anterior cervical interbody fusion from September 1995 to December 1999. 31 cases were diagnosed as cervical spondylolysis, 2 cases as acute protrusion of cervical intervertebral disc and 6 cases as fracture and dislocation of cervical spine. The clinical effects and complications were observed, and the postoperative presentations of X- ray examination of cervical spine were also evaluated. Results Thirty- nine cases were followed up with a mean period of 28.6 months. No neurologic complications appeared, and no AFCs shifted or dislocated. The clinical effects were satisfactory. 61 intervertebral spaces were confirmed to be solid fused completely by constant X- ray examination at 3.9 months in average after operation. There were no collapse or angular deformities in 59 spaces of them,the other 2 spaces lost a little height because of removal of external fixation too early. Conclusion The implantation of AFC was simple, stable, less injury with similar intervertebral osseous fusion rate compared to the conventional anterior cervical interbody fusion. Forthermore, the implantation of AFC does not need auto iliac crest graft or the use of metal fixations. Some complications caused by implanting auto iliac crest and metal fixations can be avoided.


The polysaccharide was extracted from Pholiota nameko by using ultrasound-assisted extraction under the conditions of ultrasonic time of 16 min, extraction temperature of 75℃, ultrasonic power of 700 W, and material-liquid ratio of 1:30. Under these conditions, the yield of polysaccharide from Pholiota nameko was measured as 9. 17%. The antioxidant activities of polysaccharide from Pholiota nameko were discussed. The hymolysis of red blood cells by itself and H2O2 induced hemolysis were used to evaluate Pholiota nameko polysaccharide antiox- idation capability. The test results showed that polysaccharide from Pholiota nameko could obviously inhibit the the hemolysis of red blood cells by itself and H2O2 induced hemolysis. And it had a protective effect on erylhrocytes.


American mode of consumption caused the prosperity of markets,while it also leads to over-consumption and blind-consumption.When the financial tsunami is coming,people's consumption psychology and behavior change a lot.It influences the market prospects and challenges new product design and development.It was put forward that the great hidden trouble of American style makes designer to rethink the design strategy and try to establish new design concept.


(Chapter 7); and it stresses the importance of extra-familial determinants. The chapters which do not focus on the individual per se are written on a level that is designed to maintain the attention of even the most exacting readers. Their discussion of the scientific method in the study of personality is quite good, and their handling of such issues as the base-rate problem in prediction and clinical vs. statistical prediction is excellent. The major portion of this book was written by Baughman, and only two chapters were written by Welsh. Almost certainly Welsh must be responsible for the discussion on the prediction of behavior (Chapter 15), and probably he contributed heavily to the writing of the chapter on Anxiety (Chapter 13). Together, these two authors are about as unlikely a pair as ever collaborated on a book. Baughman is known primarily for his contributions in the Rorschach sphere and Welsh's major work has taken him to the other side of the subj ective-obj ective continuum in his preoccupation with MMPI folklore and literature. Their common ground, however, aside from the University of North Carolina campus they share, seems to be that they both are committed to a &dquo;hard-headed&dquo; empirical approach to behavioral phenomena. Their style of writing is quite readable, and the format of the book is adequate except for a photograph of Hermann Rorschach (p. 289) which resembles a card on a projective test and undoubtedly was included to frighten freshmen. Certainly, the teacher who would like to introduce his undergraduates to the study of personality as a behavioral science will find this text more than sufficient to meet his needs. The teacher who would like to use this book on


In many parts of the country, but especially in rural areas, anyone with a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Educatiofiarly Childhood Special Education has the potential to become a regional leader in child and family services. But how does an undergraduate program prepare students for leadership? And what will be the nature of that leadership as it unfolds? The leadership-building experience described below developed from feedback from program graduates and their employers. Their comments were gleaned both informally and from a survey conducted annually. Program leaders also reviewed the professional literature in early childhood leadership (Asayesh, 1993; Kagan & Bowman, 1997; Winton, McCollum, & Catlett, 1997). We asked: "What qualities should our graduates have to become effective leaders within their own programs and among agencies in their own region?' and "What desirable leadership qualities are unevenly present or weak among our graduates?' and "What needs to be added to the undergraduate curriculum to help students integrate the attitudes, philosophy, and skills they have learned and, subsequently, articulate these values to benefit diverse stakeholders in early childhood services?" This article describes how one teacher education program answered the above questions and applied the answers in a one-semester course for graduating seniors. Evaluation data and suggestions for replication will also be shared. Though designed for a rural college consortium, the strategies described here


The article analyses the novel Alles verandert (Everything changes, 2015) by Flemish author Kristien Hemmerechts in the context of "feminist rewriting". At the same time "feminist rewriting" is being introduced as a functional literary strategy that enables the writer to challenge and adapt the existing literary canon. Summing up the existing scholarship on feminist/women's rewriting, the article makes a plea to include "feminist rewriting" in the (not only) Dutch literary-analytical toolbox in order to get a better understanding of such practices and their intentions.


Purpose: To identify factors related to the psychosocial adjustment of healthy siblings of children with cancer (HSCC). Design and Method: An integrative review was conducted. Controlled vocabularies relevant to siblings, pediatrics, children, neoplasms, and psychosocial adaptation were used to search Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature and PubMed. Articles that met inclusion criteria (eg, quantitative studies related to HSCC's psychosocial adjustment; had sample sizes of at least 30; and HSCC age between 1 and 19 years) were reviewed. Key findings of selected articles were analyzed according to sibling characteristics, social support, and contextual factors. Results: Seven nonexperimental and 5 quasi-experimental studies were reviewed. HSCC's characteristics (eg, age, gender), perceived social support from family and summer camp, and perceived contextual factors (eg, role overload, family adaptability) were significant factors that correlated with HSCC's psychosocial adjustment. Conclusion: When caring for a child diagnosed with cancer, nurses need to include HSCC in the assessment of a family unit's adaptation to cancer distress and provide appropriate interventions to promote HSCC's psychosocial well-being.


chemical structure and toxicity of the different classes of pesticides, mixtures of chemicals used, climate variations in the areas where the chemicals are used [18]. Therefore, the development of novel pesticide biomarkers is a growing need for improving the risk assessment process. This review aims to analyze and discuss the literature produced in recent years on the sensitivity of CA to a wide range of pesticides in order to foresee perspectives for the development of novel pesticide biomarkers suitable for human and environmental biomonitoring.


A method has been established to determine baicalein,baicalin and chlorogenic acid in chaihuang koufuye and fufang qinlan koufuye by capillary zone electrophoresis.Under the optimized conditions,the three analytes were well separated in 9 min.A good linear relationship existed between peak area and concentration in the 2~200 μg/mL,2~500 μg/mL and 2~200 μg/mL concentration range for baicalein,baicalin and chlorogenic acid,respectively.The detection limits,based on three times noise were 0.32 μg/mL,0.44 μg/mL,0.64 μg/mL for baicalein,baicalin and chlorogenic acid,respectively.Recovery experiments were carried out to verify the viability of the developed method.The recovery for baicalein,baicalin and chlorogenic acid were 97.5%,96.4% and 102.3%,respectively.


Lange, Mary E., Liana Muller Jansen, Roger C. Fisher, Keyan G. Tomaselli and David Morris, eds. 2013. Engraved landscape. Biejse Poort: many voices. Gordon's Bay: Tormentoso. xxix + 141 pages, 127 photographs, 11 maps + sketches, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-620-57982-7. R360 00. Biesje Poort is a necessarily and engagingly flawed book and project. Notionally it brings academic, local and indigenous perspectives or 'voices' into conversation at the Biesje Poort rock art site complex. But at stake is a much larger attempt to map out protocols for diverse claims and engagements with heritage. I understand this process to reside within the triangulation of authorship, authority and audience, and review Biesje Poort accordingly. Put differently: Who can--and who may--speak for the past? Authorship Biesje Poort is located near Kakamas in South Africa's Northern Cape province, and has an established genealogy of research on its rock engravings going back to at least 1967 (p. 50). The engravings are many, varied and spatially associated with other material cultures ranging from ancient stone tools to bullet casings from yesteryear. These past traces also circulate through memory, story and publications. David Morris, an archaeologist, points out that simply ascribing the engravings' authorship to 'San', 'Khoekhoen', 'gatherers', 'herders' or similarly bounded ethno-economic entities is triply problematic because: it unproblematically accepts our modern, etic definitions of past identities; it underplays the historical interplays, coalescings and fissionings between groups of people; and it ignores people who left little material trace and who are rendered historically invisible (p. 48). This caution raises problems about who may, then, identify with and speak for any particular image or material culture. This is where an indigenous perspective--provided by the project's six [??]Khomani Kalahari San--offers a wider context and way out of the narrow essentialist view that the blood in one's veins or the length of time one has lived on a particular landscape a priori trump other claims. The [??]Khomani perspective, possibly influenced by their regular crossings of the modern Botswana-South Africa border, is custodial. Belinda Org, Jan Oeliset Org and Izak Kruiper express an affinity for and responsibility towards this landscape, based on a generalised ancestral authority. Jan puts it so: Wow kyk ons, geslag op geslag, hier staan ons nou op hulle spore. Ons het nie ander spore nie, dis al spoor. Wat ons asseblief in bewaring moet hou, dat hulle nie in verlore gaan' [Now as we look, from generation to generation, here we are standing on their tracks. We do not have different tracks, they are our only tracks. Please, we want to preserve them, so as not to lose them] (p. 113). This is both a duty of care and a provocation. It partially fills the vacuum of what Roger Fisher, an architect, suggests was a fundamental sundering of people from land such that 'the only way we can understand the past is by empathetic projection into the minds of our forebears' (p. 72). But [??]Khomani stewardship is simultaneously a latent provocation to local 'coloured' people--in the South African sense of the word who are genetically and geographically more closely linked to this place, but who remain largely unaware of this vestigial connection because of centuries of colonial, apartheid and postapartheid violence. Indeed, Biesje Poort has been 'white'-owned since at least 1884 (p. 27) and access, while graciously granted by the similarly place-invested Meyer and Engelbrecht families (one of whom has literally inscribed themselves into the rock [p. 119]), still has to be requested. The Biesje Poort landscape is nicely characterised by Tessa Toerien and Liezet Verwoerd, landscape architects, as a 'living archive, and ... as a route and narrative' (p. 119). The physical, genetic, remembered and other residues of this archive are messy, muddled and challenging. …


CO2 molecules were introduced experimentally into the structural channels of synthetic well ordered Mgcordierite (MgztVI][(A14Sis)tIV~Ols]) at temperatures of 600 and 800 ~ C, and pressures of 7, 8, 10, 12, and 25 kbar. Powder infrared spectra of the run products show five absorption bands in the region of the asymmetric stretching mode of CO2. Two of them, strong and sharp, occurring at 2353 cm-1 {2} and 2348 cm -1 {3}, are related to two different types of CO/molecules. The relative intensity of the band {2} (type I) increases with the cell parameter co whereas the relative intensity of the band {3} (type II) increases with the parameter ao of the crystal. It is concluded that COz molecules of type I may be oriented with their elongation parallel to the c-axis of the crystal, while CO2 molecules of type II lie with their O C O vector parallel to the a-axis. Analytical data indicate that the intensity ratio Z of these two bands ({2}/{3}) is a linear function of the CO2 content of cordierite. This ratio depends also on the temperature and, to a less extent, on the pressure under which cordierite entrapped CO2 molecules. It is proposed to combine this infrared parameter Z together with an estimate of the P-T conditions of the incorporation of CO2 into the channels, in order to determine the CO2 content of natural cordierites. The samples do not need to be of high purity and only small amounts (< 5 mg) are necessary. This semi-empirical analytical method, which does not require complicated data treatments, is suitable for CO2-rich cordierites of granulite facies rocks.


Cryptolepis sanguinolenta extracts are currently used by African herbalists to cure malaria but the compounds involved in its antimalarial activity have not been identified. Two alkaloids, cryptolepine and isocryptolepine, have been isolated from the roots of C. sanguinolenta and their antimalarial activity evaluated. Both alkaloids possess intrinsic inhibitory activity against the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum in vitro, whatever the chloroquine‐resistance status of the strains used. Cryptolepine was slightly more efficient for parasite killing with an IC50 in the range of 0.2 to 0.6 μMSC compared with an IC50 of about 0.8 μMSC for isocryptolepine. The antimalarial activity of cryptolepine was confirmed in vivo on the rodent malarial parasites Plasmodium vinckei petteri and Plasmodium berghei ANKA.


This article uses the Northwest Passage as a case for study of one issue relating to the regime of international straits: whether a strait formed geographically and functionally by means of artificial aids for navigation may be regarded as an artificial waterway to which the regime of international straits does not apply. The article suggests that the Northwest Passage could be subject to a bilateral treaty regime between Canada and the United States, largely akin to that which applies to artificial waterways such as the Panama Canal. This solution would guarantee both Canadian sovereignty over the Passage and the interests of international shipping in having a route open and secure.


Equal opportunities (EO), gender and the development of different explanations for understanding women's status within work organizations have emerged as important issues of debate within personnel/human resource management over the last twenty-Ž ve years. It is timely, after a quarter of a century of EO legislation in the UK, to assess critically the way that the concept of equal opportunities has been operationalized and to evaluate different human resource management (HRM) initiatives that have been used in an attempt to promote greater gender equality at work. An understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the HRM contribution to gender equality will be achieved by a critical review of how the concept of equal opportunities has been deŽ ned, drawing on insights from contemporary studies of gender and organization. The books selected for this review essay re ect the different positions in the debate on gender and equal opportunities.


The Mongolian semantic description is the chief problem in construction of Mongolian semantic web. Particularly, more and more Mongolian websites have been created in recent years, and the number of users is sharply increasing, both of them demand for higher quality of Mongolian information retrieval. This paper is based on the study of Mongolian place name recognition and semantic annotation. Under the background of the semantic web, the paper constructs the place name ontology of Mongolian administrative districts, and compiles Mongolian place name lists and jape rules. With GATE, the system realizes place name recognition and annotation in any Mongolian document. Then it adequately digs out the geographical information of Mongolian document, and realizes structured place names, so that it would be a great help to semantic search of geographic information.


In research on the cult of Silvanus, the Roman god of forests andflocks and natural or agricultural prosperity, the province of Dalmatiaholds a special place. Within the province, the locality ofDanilo, located to the northeast of Šibenik, is also a place thatcannot be disregarded. One especially intriguing relief from Danilo,damaged and worn, represents a male figure in movement.The figure has horns on his head, long hair, a bearded face andhairy thighs, and it appears that the figure is either dancing orshown in some kind of movement to his left. In scholarly literature,the figure represented is always named Silvanus, as thiswas the way he was usually presented on the votive monuments of Dalmatia. Still, contemporary theoretical contextualizationof existing material (e.g. votive monuments, reliefs) is reliant oncomprehensive revalorization of (the predominant) data. In thispaper, I will offer a short overview of Silvanus's representationsfrom Dalmatia. On the basis of that overview I will argue the realcharacter of the figure portrayed, and why this representationmight fit more appropriately into the pastoral scenes of Dionysiacmythology.


Purpose
Innovation in rural tourism and hospitality (RT) is a complex process that involves the exchange of knowledge and resources between many actors and the interrelationships between those actors in the business environment. The purpose of this paper is to provide structure to this "knowledge and resource ecosystem" through a thorough systematic review of the extant literature.

Design/methodology/approach
The current study uses a time-tested and reproducible systematic literature review process to identify and analyse 79 research papers that have discussed innovation in RT.

Findings
Through content analyses, this review identifies critical stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem, as well as the enabling and hindering roles these stakeholders play in innovation. The thematic analysis uncovers three key research foci: stakeholders and their roles, outcomes of innovation and business model innovation. The review also identifies types of innovation and critically analyses the bibliographical research profile. The authors summarise the findings in an RT innovation ecosystem model, which includes the various actors and their knowledge and resource sharing roles within the business environment.

Originality/value
This is one of the first systematic reviews to concentrate on RT innovation and, within that focus, on knowledge and resource networks in particular rather than on innovation in tourism in general, which was the focus of prior reviews. The authors encourage cross-pollination of ideas by introducing theories from the strategic management, innovation, knowledge management and business model innovation literature wherever appropriate. To consolidate and present the findings on the innovation process's antecedents and outcomes, the authors present an ecosystem of innovation within the RT framework.


From the basic emotional experience perspective of love and according to the different grades and students,we carried out some exploration of the practical education of"Act of Love"for the students of the higher vocational institutes.And then we blend the"Act of Love"into the value seeking,belief and faith,moral emotion and mode of thinking to stimulate their all-round development.


The purpose of this thesis is to explore how culture influences the perception of entrepreneurship, in the context of immigrant entrepreneurs in a non-core region in Sweden. Our theoretical framewo ...


As reluctant as surgeons are to do nothing, an important trial published last year put a crimp in their confidence. PIVOT followed 731 men with early prostate cancer who were randomised to prostatectomy or observation and followed up for almost 20 years. It found that surgery didn't lead to lower mortality from all causes or from prostate cancer.1

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe, in 45 normal hearts of black Africans adults, the location of the sinoatrial node. Methods: After naked eye observation of the external epicardial area of the sinus node classically described as cavoatrial junction (CAJ), a histological study of the sinus node area was performed. Results: This study concluded that the sinus node is indistinguishable to the naked eye (97.77% of cases), but still identified histologically at the CAJ in the form of a cluster of nodal cells surrounded by abundant connective tissues. It is distinguished from the Myocardial Tissue. Conclusion: The sinus node is located in the cavoatrial junction but, most often, indistinguishable to the naked eye. Therefore, this area should be avoided during cardiac surgery.


. The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spec- tral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital (nonlinear) instability in appropriate periodic Sobolev spaces. The analysis is based on the well-posedness theory, the smoothness of the data-solution map, and an abstract result of instability of equilibria under nonlinear iterations. The resulting instability criterion is applied to two families of periodic waves. The first family consists of small amplitude waves with finite fundamental period which emerge from a local Hopf bifurcation around a critical value of the velocity. The second family comprises arbitrarily large period waves which arise from a homoclinic (global) bifurcation and tend to a limiting traveling pulse when their fundamental period tends to infinity. In the case of both families, the criterion is applied to conclude their orbital instability under the flow of the nonlinear viscous balance law in periodic Sobolev spaces with same period as the fundamental period of the wave.


A rectus-adductor syndrome is a form of groin pain caused by microtraumas which consist of chronic inflammation in the insertion point onto the pubis, that is, of the tendons of the adductors and rectus abdominis. Effective treatment naturally depends on a correct diagnosis. To make this possible, teamwork is essential to create a coherent and valid plan of care.


Mycoplasma pneumoniae‐associated mucositis (MPAM), previously labelled as atypical Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS), SJS with minimal or no skin manifestations, is a rare non‐respiratory manifestation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. The nineteen cases described so far in children and young adults were characterized by a high male gender prevalence (16/19) and a good response to appropriate antibiotic treatment and supportive care in the majority of patients. We describe a case of MPAM in a previously healthy girl, who improved after a 0.5 g/kg daily dose of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) for four consecutive days, after traditional therapy had failed.


In this article, the functions and principles of the color designing, the rules of color matching in machine tools are analyzed and elucidated, and the concrete ways of color design for various parts of machine tools are also introduced in details.


Prose accounts of the evolutionary past are as much works of narrative history as they are works of science. Awareness of the narrative aspects of evolutionary writing leads to the discovery of a host of fascinating and hitherto unrecognized problems in the representation of evolutionary history, problems associated with the writing of narrative. These problems include closure, privilege, sequencing, foregrounding and backgrounding, and the selection of events. Paraphyletic groups, for example, may be seen as devices which promote narrative sequencing and closure, and which uphold a particular canon of evolutionary events. Narrative writing may impose its own structure upon a real historical subject until the distinction is blurred between the structure imposed by the narrative and the structure inherent in the subject itself. If we are conscious of the ways in which narrative writing imposes upon us particular ways of looking at history, we will be better able to decide whether such impositions should be permitted. It may be necessary for evolutionary historians to develop new and creative ways of representing natural history in prose.


in the Book of Joshua, arguing that the picture of the conquest in Joshua is a theological construct reflective of deuteronomistic concerns. Freedman presents a case for reading the Book of Job as a unity. Randall Garr offers an analysis of the type, length, quality, and development of Hebrew vowels. Halpern's large essay on historiography and Ezra 1—6 examines the chronology within and the sources behind Ezra 1— 6 and adopts the positions that (1) Ezra 1—6 was composed earlier than Ezra 7— Nehemiah 13, and (2) the Chronicler is not the author of Ezra 1—6. James Kugel advances a proposal for a university course, "The Hebrew Bible in the Making," focusing on the process of the Old Testament's development. Carol Newsom puts forward her arguments for viewing the Qumran scrolls as a sectarian library, providing in the process some illuminating comments on the criteria for describing a text as "sectarian." Propp provides a series of eleven notes on problematic or curious features of Genesis 2:4b— 3:24. The final essay of the volume is James VanderKam's exploration of the unusual role of the military in the accessions of Jonathan and Simon to the office of High Priest during Maccabean times. As a rapid overview suggests, this volume is intended to convey the multifaceted character of Hebrew Bible studies at present. The level of sophistication of these articles is high; they should prove stimulating for advanced students and practitioners of the discipline. In most cases, they are accompanied by helpful bibliographies. Several of the essays should prove of enduring value, either in raising important issues (especially Collins' essay on the viability of critical biblical theology) or offering significant methodological insights (especially Newsom on the definition of "sectarian" literature). In short, the volume readily commends itself to theological libraries and graduate bibliographies.


Samples from three time-series sediment traps deployed in the Santa Monica Basin off the California coast were analyzed to study the flux and scavenging of uranium and thorium series isotopes. Variations of uranium and thorium series isotopes fluxes in the water column were obtained by integrating these time-series deployment results. Mass and radionuclide fluxes measured from bottom sediment traps compare favorably with fluxed determined from sediment core data. This agreement suggests that the near-bottom sediment traps are capable of collecting settling particles representative of the surface sediment. The phase distributions of {sup 234}Th in the water column were calculated by an inverse method using sediment trap data, which help to study the variations of {sup 234}Th scavenging in the water column. Scavenging and radioactive decay of {sup 234}Th are the two principal processes for balancing {sup 234}Th budget in the water column. The residence times of dissolved and particulate {sup 234}Th were determined by a {sup 234}Th scavenging model.


Statisticians cleaned and adjusted data from the 1970 and 1981 demographic surveys conducted by the Central Statistics Office of Ethiopia to do this demographic analysis. The mean age at marriage increased from 1970-1981 in all administrative regions of Ethiopia (data did not include Eritrea and Tigrai) with the most change occurring in the southern regions (20.5% vs. 5%). Even though the biggest increases occurred in the female population, the mean age at marriage remained low hence having little impact on fertility. Indeed total fertility grew in all administrative regions with the greatest increase in the southern regions (26% vs. 19%). This change could be attributable to the increased disposable income in the southern regions bringing about better nutrition and better health facilities. Since the population of 2 regions in the south consisted of nomads who normally maintain low fertility levels, the total fertility did not change. In the northern regions, the population of 2 regions experienced no change in total fertility because of the continuing drought and famine. Despite widespread underreporting, researchers estimated at 26% and 27% of the population in the northern and southern regions respectively died before age 5 in 1970. There was little reduction in mortality in 1981 (22% and 26% respectively). The population grew between 1970-1981 in both regions. In the northern region, the growth rate increased from 2.44- 2.76 (13% change) while in the southern region, it increased from 2.36- 2.69 (14% change). Little voluntary control of fertility occurred in this time span. Clearly the government must pass legislation to raise the age at marriage and implement a comprehensive family planning program countrywide.


Trifluoromethyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, CF3SO2OCF3, has been synthesised and its gas-phase structure determined from electron-diffraction data. This structural study was supported by HF, MP2 and DFT (B3LYP and B1B95) calculations, which revealed a strong dependence of the theoretical structure on the polarisation of the basis set. Infrared spectra for the gas and solid and a Raman spectrum for the liquid were obtained, and the observed bands were assigned. The experimental vibrational data, along with theoretical (B3LYP) force constants, were used to define a scaled quantum mechanical force field, which enabled reproduction of the measured frequencies with a final root-mean-square deviation of 6 cm–1. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2007)


HMML (The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library) digitized and hosted online a recently donated collection of Orthodox 19th Century religious icons. With R.B. Toth Associates they also conducted collaborative testing of multispectral imaging on these unique HMML collection objects. A joint team digitized all the icons in conjunction with multispectral imaging of a select few icons to analyze the dyes, paints and other materials. The goal of this testing helped determine the feasibility of using multispectral imaging as an art history research tool. The image data enabled digital cataloguing of the collection, which proved indispensable during Covid on-site access restrictions. Digitization and advanced imaging with standardized digitization and data management practices is providing new insights into these unique historic works that are applicable to other icon collections, as well as potentially other artwork on wood and solid substrates. © 2022 Society for Imaging Science and Technology.


Objective To establish a mouse model of temporal epilepsy induced by lithium-pilocarpine and to analyze the relation between the behavioral changes and mossy fiber sprouting of the status epilepticus (SE) mice. Methods The behavioral changes were recorded and the mossy fiber sprouting was detected using zinc selenide autometallography (AMG) at 3rd, 7th, 15th, 30th, 60th days after the mice were injected intraperitoneally with lithium and pilocarpine. Results of the animals injected with lithium-pilocarpine, about 40% animals developed SE, and most of the SE mice showed recurrent seizures during the chronic period. The morphological detection revealed that the mossy fiber sprouting was found predominantly in the inner molecular layer of dentate gyrus of SE mice; furthermore, the number and density of mossy fiber sprouting were increased along with the time prolonged. Conclusion Lithium-pilocarpine induced status epilepticus mouse model is an ideal temporal epilepsy model, and the mossy fiber sprouting is a typical morphological character for evaluating the SE model.


This article explains the design of the electron-ion trap sensor for measuring the density and the composition of the upper atmosphere. The simulation of the electric field between the trap electrodes and the charged particles motion in it is carried out. The calculation of the maximum energy and speed of the particles below which the trap holds all charged particles, even in the case of the most unfavorable direction of their speed-along the gap between the electrodes. It is shown that this critical energy does not depend on the mass of the particle, and the probability of charged particles passage with an energy more than the critical energy through the trap is estimated [1].


The present state of motion picture sound technology in the USSR is considered. Briefly described are the technical parameters and the designing peculiarities of the sound‐equipment basic elements, and the main features of the modern technology of sound recording‐reproduction in cinematography. It is shown that the available characteristics of modern equipment approach their physically possible limits, and that further considerable improvement of quality and widening of the creative possibilities in sound technology can be achieved only by transition from the analog method to the digital one. The general principles of sound recording‐reproduction technology in cinematography are formulated, the main quantitative correlations are determined and the advantages and the shortcomings of the digital method, as well as the technical and economic difficulties encountered upon its introduction are considered. In conclusion, it is suggested that the digital method should be developed jointly by Canadian, American, ...


Political discourse is one of the most interesting data to study power relations in the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. With the increase in the modes of textual and spoken forms of communication, politicians use language and linguistic mechanisms that contribute significantly in building their relationship with people, especially in a multilingual country like India with many political parties with different ideologies. This paper analyses code-mixing and code-switching in Telugu political speeches to determine the factors responsible for their usage levels in various social settings and communicative contexts. We also compile a detailed set of rules capturing dialectal variations between Standard and Telangana dialects of Telugu.


The growth response of radiation resistant Moraxella-Acinetobacter (M-A) was monitored relative to the a, of meat and various experimental media. Representative isolates, although obtained from beef, did not grow in ground beef, ground chicken meat, OR fresh beef exudate unless the aw was raised through water addition. Data from a psychrometric thermocouple of the Spanner-Peltier design showed that aw levels approaching and lower than 0.99 were inhibitory to the growth of M-A. No growth occurred in standard laboratory media when the aw was lowered to that approximating meat. Comparable lowering of aw in experimental media systems by additions of sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium chloride, yeast extract, or dehydrated m-Plate Count Broth (PCB) gave similar results. Growth of M-A occurred without added water in chicken exudate, on the surface of chicken wings, and on exudate saturated paper removed from commercially packaged chicken trays. M-A growth in PCB with added ground beef was further indication that the M-A's inability to grow was not due to an inhibitor in the meat.


ABSTRACT Melon weevil, Acytopeus curvirostris persicus Thompson (Col.: Curculionidae), is an important pest of cucurbits. Understanding the chemical ecology of this species could provide information for the development of nonchemical control measures. Field trapping experiments indicated adult insects respond to conspecific (a member of the same species) insects and host fruit. To determine attractiveness rate, two-way static experiments were carried out under laboratory conditions using conspecific insects, and to evaluate the role of the host plants melon (Cucumis melo L.), watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb)], cucumber (C. sativus L.), and colocynth [C. colocynthis (L.)]. Cucumber fruit had the most, and colocynth fruit, the least attraction. Adult insects were more attracted to a mated, or unmated, conspecific insect indicating existence of an aggregation pheromone. Results of the study provided the necessary background for the identification of host plant kairomone and aggregation pheromone of melon weevil.


Aiming at structure characteristics of flexible disk spring type safe valve,analyze and discuss on the main factors of on-line set pressure veractity affected.Propose on-line set pressure methods of open action pressure to the spring type safety valve under the condition of unknown flexible disk sealing area.


Explanation is a topic in its own right in philosophy, and a topic of newfound interest in AI research given the need in some domains for explainable AI (XAI). This paper traces some of the progress in the philosophical discourse and applies to a realistic application of AI where explanation is required. The aim is to show that philosophy may be of use in the search for the X in XAI.


This paper presents an experimental validation of an Energy Management System (EMS) for a household with photovolatic (PV) system and a battery energy storage system. The EMS controls charging/discharging power set points of the battery bank. A receding horizon optimization problem with the objective of maximizing the cost savings for the customer is solved to find these set points. The laboratory set-up consists of a PV system, battery bank, and a load. The PV system and the battery bank were connected to the AC bus via DC-AC converters. The EMS algorithm was implemented in LabView. Modbus/TCP over Ethernet connection was established between the LabView controller and the power electronic converters to get measurements and to send the set points. Measurements taken include voltage, current, and power from the DC-AC converters, and the set points include the charging/discharging power of the battery bank. Experiment was run over 48 hour period continuously. According to the experimental results, the EMS is able to control the charging and discharging of the battery bank as expected. When there are fast variations in either the load or PV production, the fluctuations were compensated by the grid for a short time, this is because the battery bank takes several seconds to respond. This delay is mainly caused by the delays in the communication between the converters and the controller.


Digital watermarking is the process of embedding information into a digital signal. In this paper to improve the robustness, the hybrid DWT- SVD based algorithm is proposed for embedding and extracting process. The suggested method is performed by modification on singular value decomposition of images in Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain. Modification of the appropriate sub-bands leads to a watermarking scheme which favorably preserves the quality. The experimental result shows good robustness by using hybrid DWT-SVD method in comparison with DWT based watermarking algorithm using Haar wavelet.


The main aim of this paper is to assess the potential of the EU and its citizens to face the Coronavirus pandemic as a chance to reaffirm the European identity. This paper consists of three complementary parts. In the first part conceptualization of the European identity is presented according to the views of the EU institutions and relevant authors with purpose to signify its importance for further development of the EU project. In the second part the extent to which the EU citizens are currently affiliated with the European Union is assessed, especially with regard to the response of the EU to confront the pandemic (i.e. by relying on recent Eurobarometer surveys). Third and the central part of this paper is focused on providing the review and analysis of relevant solidarity actions directed to confront Coronavirus crisis by the EU institutions and representative CSOs active specifically at the EU level in the field of promoting European citizenship. The key findings of this inquiry indicate that analysed initiatives contain solidarity dimension, and therefore, have potential to reaffirm the European identity, that is, to enhance cohesion and unity among the EU citizens.


Several circulation indices in different spatial scales and at different levels are calculated for the area: 20W−30E, 50N−70N. The relationship between the zonal circulation index and the spatial variability of the regional indices at different levels (925, 700, 500 hPa) is then established for the chosen period of sequential changes of the zonal circulation index with the usage of the correlation and time series analysis. Afterwards, their role in the reaction of the temperature field (at 925 hPa) over the Baltic Sea Basin was investigated.