Abstract : This project is conceived to study the happenings in Afghanistan in the last few years. The aim is to study the historical instability in Afghanistan in terms of ethnicity and to also study what effect the rise of fundamentalism would have on this. Some of the issues that would be explored are: would fundamentalism lead to greater militancy and would it get exported; Is the narco trade facilitating this and where in the region would the effects be felt; Are we in a position to extrapolate the effects in the Central Asian Republics and what kind of role would Russia play in such a situation. What would be the role of China since Xinjiang is primarily an Islamic region? Would China be prompted to check the spread covertly and overtly or by proxy through Pakistan? What would be the effect in Pakistan since tribal identities spread across the borders and large number of fundamentalist groups have their own madrassas and camps in Pakistan. As these groups are getting their finances through narco money, would they be controllable by Pakistan and to what extent. The role Osama bin Laden has in fueling fundamentalist congregation and militancy in Afghanistan. The overall global implications of this phenomenon of Talibanisation will be discussed along with the fallouts for the U.S. Possible options available to the U.S. would be analyzed to determine how the spread of radical fundamentalism could be checked. The examination of the above aspects will be used to draw out conclusions in terms of security implications on the region around Afghanistan and in global terms. The project would briefly explore the history of Afghanistan and the implications of Jihad and fundamentalism. This would lead to an understanding of the causatives so that the rise of Taliban can be understood in better perspective. The regional implications would then be analyzed by discussing various countries of the region and effects on them.


One man who have the right to inspect should be a shareholder of a limited liability company,a man who didn't make in full the amount of the capital contribution subscribed for under the articles of association of the company should continue to make his capital contributions,so he should still have the right to inspect.A man who has assigned his share to others isn't a shareholder of the company.One man act his right to inspect can make him know the commercial secret.Lastly,the price of share needn't equal to the price of company,so it isn't necessary to give the man who has assigned his share to others the right to inspect.


The hollow cathode (HC) is currently used in Kaufmann type ion thrusters as both a discharge current source and as an ion beam neutralizer. Trends toward building small spacecraft necessitate the development of small hollow cathodes for operation both in the traditional manner (spot mode) and as stand-alone thrusters (plume mode). While some analysis of the plasma discharge based on limited experimental data exists, comparatively little is currently understood about the plasma discharge that occurs within the HC. Many physical processes occur within the discharge and during its initialization. A parallel numerical code capable of modeling the neutral gas dynamics within the hollow cathode has been developed. Further analysis of micro hollow cathode fluid behavior is presented here. The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is used because our previous research has shown that the gas dynamic regime of the propellant is often rarefied — the DSMC makes no continuum assumptions. This is particularly important for the microfluidic regime encountered in the case of the micro hollow cathode; while it has been found that the flow is rarefied for the downstream section of a full-scale hollow cathode, the flow in proposed smaller hollow cathodes is non-continuum throughout. Results characterizing the microfluidic gas environments encountered are analyzed and discussed. Comparison to thrust measurement experiments is made. The numerical code is demonstrated as a tool for examining the effects of changes in the hollow cathode geometry, and how the alterations relate to the micro gas dynamics.


We compute the group element of SO(2,2) associated with the spinning black hole found by Ba\~nados, Teitelboim, and Zanelli in (2+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We show that their metric is built with SO(2,2) gauge invariant quantities and satisfies Einstein's equations with a negative cosmological constant. Moreover, although the metric is singular on the horizons, the group element is continuous and possesses a kink there. We also consider the extremal configurations and the Poincar\'e limit as special cases.


Self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature.Biological systems utilize nonocovalent forces to control the self-assembly process precisely,resulting in the formation of complicated structures with multiple functions.Inspired by the structure of biological macromolecules,chemists are engaged in developing highly-ordered artificial supramolecular assemblies such as supramolecular polymers,which exhibit great significance in the formation of various supramolecular architectures,and more importantly,the potential applications of dynamic supramolecular materials.In recent years more and more attentions have been paid to crown ethers,one of the most commonly used hosts in supramolecular chemistry,which serve as the building blocks to construct functional supramolecular assemblies due to their facilitated syntheses,convenient structure modification and unique complexation properties with a variety of guest molecules.This review focuses on supramolecular polymers based on crown ether derivatives.


To solve the parallel platform attitude measurement problems of low accuracy and low efficiency, the existing measurement methods will be summarized in this paper. The existing methods are mainly divided into the drive rod method, the optical sensor method and the accelerometer measurement method. In this paper, three optical sensor methods are introduced, namely the CCD camera method, the PSD sensor method and the laser interferometry technique method. Moreover, the parallel platform attitude measuring steps based on accelerometers are proposed. Finally, on account of comparison, prospect of the development of measuring methods is given.


CITATION: Van Dyk, L. et al. 2015. Familial-Environmental Risk Factors in South African Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Case-Control Study. Journal of Child Neurology, 30(10):1327–1332, doi:10.1177/0883073814560630.


A video flame detection method analyze the temporal and spatial characteristics of the regions which have the flame-like color and moving objects in the input video. The video flame detector should be able to reduce a false alarm rate without the degradation of flame detection capability. The conventional methods can reject the false alarm caused by the car lights and some electric lights. However they make the false alarm caused by the warning lights, neon sign, and some periodic flickering lights which have the flame-like color and temporal features. This paper propose the video flame detection method with periodicity analysis based false alarm rejection. The proposed method can detect the periodicity of the flickering electric lights and can reject the false alarm caused by the periodic electric lights. The computer simulation showed that the proposed method did not make the false alarm in the test video with the periodic electric lights. But the conventional methods made a false alarm in the same test video.


Efficient photonic characterization is imperative for efficient harvesting and storing of photon energy. In that regard, two architectures of perovskite photodiodes, where distinct heterojunction l...


Reservoir Geophysics, or the application of 3D seismic technology in reservoir characterization and monitoring, is a diverse subject covering a wide number of discrete applications. In this paper the authors describe the application in three specific examples including: (1) identification of an oil/water interface in a Gulf of Mexico major field, with the obvious extension to monitoring a waterflood, (2) the use of seismic amplitudes as a lithology indicator to constrain kriging of a reservoir from well data in Nigeria, and (3) the use of repeat 3D seismic surveys (4D) to monitor a steamflood in Indonesia.


Over fertilization-low N fertilizer use efficiency are prominent agricultural problem in China.How to improve nitrogen use ef- ficiency(nue)and eliminate its excessive use's impact on environment has been a hot issues being studying of domestic and internation- al.Pot and water culture experiments were carried out to test several home-made coated fertilizer nutrient release characteristics and the effect of tomato leaf photosynthesis and chlorophyll content.The results show that:polymer-coated of compound fertilizer can eliminate the short-coming of"burst releasing"pattern evidently,which results in the nutrient of polymer-coated of compound fertilizer to be re- leased more smoothly;the content of the polymer coating of polymer-coated of compound fertilizer play a key role in its nutrient release duration,the initial releasing rate decreases and the nutrient releasing duration is prolonged as its content increasing:increase inhibitors can significantly reduce the rate of nitrogen release of coated fertilizer.Comparison of pot experiment with increasing the thickness of the coated fertilizer,tomato leaf net photosynthesis,transpiration and chlorophyll content increased significantly.Add inhibitors to coated fertilizer can also increase the net photosynthesis of tomato leaves,transpiration and chlorophyll content.The differences of the treat- ments were significantly describing that coated fertilizer can reduce the release rate of nitrogen and improve the tomato leaves the light energy utilization efficiency.


The proposed change would make the practice expense methodology more transparent and easier to understand, would make it consistent across procedures, and would utilize data that has been collected by specialty societies.


: Competition among universities requires managers to always improve the speed of information services to all stakeholders. The speed of information services takes the biggest role in technology. The role of strategy and promotion for college at this time cannot be ignored its existence to inform the public, and maintain the continuity of the lecture. The application of enterprise architecture aims to create alignment between business and information technology for the needs of the organization. The TOGAF framework is one of the company's detailed, complete and easy-to-use corporate frameworks. This research produces a proposal to improve the application architecture and propose improvements in technology architecture in universities and by using TOGAF framework then an organization can plan an enterprise architecture that can be implemented by universities to achieve its organizational goals. This architectural model can be a basic model for higher education institutions in the development of enterprise architecture.


Abstract This research introduces organization and personal dimensions to the study of ethics amid the adverse reactions of the users of the financial statements to a business fiasco. Using survey research design, a sample of one hundred and thirty-eight audit firms was taken while Probit analysis was used in testing the propositions made. Findings indicate that knowledge of the client industry and government policy are vital in shaping ethical decision making. It was concluded that environmental uncertainties and personal orientation of the auditor offers explanations to the dilemma and decision making of the auditor. Thus, it is suggested that a critical review of audit personnel characteristics and the technological environment would be a step in the right direction if the ethical dilemma is to be minimized.


While most transport measurements on multilayered structures have been done for currents in the plane of the layers, there is an emerging interest in the geometry where the currents are perpendicular to the plane of the layers. We discuss the field and current patterns in these two cases. For the latter, the elastic mean free path is not a relevant length scale; rather, it is the spin-flip mean free path that is important. In the case of currents perpendicular to the plane of the layers, one must distinguish between models which allow spin mixing of the currents and those in which the currents from the spin-up and spin-down electrons do not mix


Along Wadi Al Showat, fractured/weathered basement rocks serve as the local aquifer and store significant quantities of water to fulfil the domestic and agricultural demands of the local population. Twenty seven groundwater samples were collected from shallow dug wells and hydrochemically analysed. Although the average TDS value (792.67 mg/l) is not very high, the ionic relationship plots point towards anthropogenic sources of pollution. The water in the area belongs to the SO -Cl type of facies. Despite the 4 fractured nature of the aquifer, therefore and the occurrence of water table at shallow depths, the water appears to be relatively unpolluted.


Introduction We present the preliminary results for quantification of the uncertainty related to contaminant transport calculations in the framework of the surface disposal of lowand intermediate-level radioactive waste in Mol/Dessel (ONDRAF/NIRAS, 2010). To assess the uncertainty, we use the local groundwater flow model update by Rogiers et al. (2013, in prep.) to obtain ensembles of flow solutions for input to the transport model. This model update accounts for subsurface heterogeneity in hydraulic conductivity by conditioning on several different direct-push and borehole datasets. The obtained model ensembles are compared to an ensemble of flow solutions obtained from the reference model by Gedeon et al. (2011), that uses homogeneous hydrogeological layers. The sampling of flow solutions from such models is not straightforward with Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (McMC), given the large number of model parameters, e.g. when spatially distributed hydraulic conductivity fields are considered. In this work we try to combine the adaptive Metropolis (AM) algorithm (Haario et al. 2001), with adaptive spatial resampling (ASR; Mariethoz et al. 2010; Jeong et al. 2012) by block sampling, for characterizing the flow uncertainty. A fast simulation method is used for the transport simulation, but these preliminary results are affected heavily by numerical dispersion.


We present a new optical networking paradigm in which statistical sharing is natively supported at the spectrum level. The proposed capacity approximation model enables well-balanced capacity requirement estimation and fine-tuning of statistical network capacity gain.


This paper interprets the 2011 edition of "Curriculum Standard of Physical Education and Health"with the study methods of literature and mathematical statistics, and analyzes the relationship and the contradiction between the curriculum standard and the physical entrance exam. In this essay, it is put forwards that, as the top priority, the physical education teaching should be to improve the students' physical health level, that physical teaching should pay attention to the sports skill learning, that the physical education teaching should digs into the multiple functions of evaluation, and that physical education teaching should combine with tests.


An investigation of the Tomocerinae was concducted in a selected series of old field successional .stands in the Piedmont of North Carolina to determine the variability in size and trivial composition of populations in different seral stages of old field communities. An analysis of seasonal fluctuations in density and frequency of the several species was computed to decide what microclimatic factors affected each member of the .subfamily; stratal sampling was employed to establish the possibility of vertical migrations in the litter-humus layer and underlying soil strata. The Piedmont region of North Carolina presents an orderly secondary succession of vegetation following the abandonment of upland fields (Oosting 1942). Five types of old field communities were chosen for study with paired stations established for each successional stage with most stations located in the Duke University Forest (Figure 1). The author is grateful to Dr. I. E. Gray of the Department of Zoology, -Duke University, for guidance and helpful criticisms, anid to Dr. David Wray of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture for confirming the -identifications of the Tomocerinae.


Missile shooting area visualization is very important to achieve shooting simulation training and prepare refence map.In order to construct the scene with the true data of flight parameters,terrain and surface features,discuss the transformation between WGS-84 coordinates and Gaussian plane coordinate,introduce the three-dimensional graphics transform of Cyber Graphics and its OpenGL functions.At last,present the key code of OpenGL and the scene image.This paper is useful to study interactive visual simulation with OpenGL.


On April 20 2013,a magnitude M_S7.0 earthquake struck the Lushan County,Sichuan Provinces.At present studies showed that the earthquake occurred on the southern segment of the Longmen Shan fault zone,where no obvious surface rupture was found.In this research,we obtained the co-seismic deformation along line of sight of this earthquake using SAR interferometry technique and Radarsat-2 data.The result indicated that about 7 cm uplift was measured near the fault zone,and the uplift may be induced by the action of squeeze stress when Longmenshan nappe structural zone thrusts from southwest to northeast,and is blocked by the Sichuan basin.Then the coseismic displacements were inverted to build uniform dislocation model.We determined the primary fault model.Based on the InSAR measurements and the steepest descent method,we used Okada homogeneous elastic half space model to calculate further distributed slip model.The inverted geodetic moment is approximately M_w = 6.45,with a maximum slip of 0.91 m mainly occurred at depth of 13 km,and a rake of 71°,which is dominated by thrust movement.From the fault parameter strike 213°and dip 39° — 43°,we deduce that there is an blind fault extending 12 km east of the Shuangshi-Dachuan Fault,which is the seismogenic structure of this event.


In this paper, we target at the problem of learning a generalizable dynamic radiance field from monocular videos. Different from most existing NeRF methods that are based on multiple views, monocular videos only contain one view at each timestamp, thereby suffering from ambiguity along the view direction in estimating point features and scene flows. Previous studies such as DynNeRF disambiguate point features by positional encoding, which is not transferable and severely limits the generalization ability. As a result, these methods have to train one independent model for each scene and suffer from heavy computational costs when applying to increasing monocular videos in real-world applications. To address this, We propose MonoNeRF to simultaneously learn point features and scene flows with point trajectory and feature correspondence constraints across frames. More specifically, we learn an implicit velocity field to estimate point trajectory from temporal features with Neural ODE, which is followed by a flow-based feature aggregation module to obtain spatial features along the point trajectory. We jointly optimize temporal and spatial features in an end-to-end manner. Experiments show that our MonoNeRF is able to learn from multiple scenes and support new applications such as scene editing, unseen frame synthesis, and fast novel scene adaptation. Codes are available at https://github.com/tianfr/MonoNeRF.


The dehydration of dimethylvinylcarbinol (DMVC) to isoprene on phosphoric acid catalyst at 60-90/sup 0/C and in the concentrations range of 40-60 wt. % of the acid was studied by the microreactioning gas-chromatographic method. The overall consumption constants of DMVC with time were determined, as well as consumption constants of DMVC k/sub 1q/, taking into account the absorption of the reagent on the catalysts. It was shown that the dehydration reaction is irreversible, is first order with respect to DMVC, and the equation log k/sub 1q/ + H/sub 0/ = const, where H/sub 0/ is the acidity function holds.


Through the prevalence of sustainable ideas, automobiles are increasingly pursuing environmental protection strategies for green design, the non-traditional hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are promoted continuously. If the company can add emotional value to the modeling of HEV, it will be helpful to its sustainable design and sales promotion of it. Therefore, an innovative model combining fuzzy linguistic preference relations (FLPR) and fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) is proposed here to explore the connection between customer sentiment and the front view of the HEV. Compared with the previous methods, FLPR has the advantages of fewer comparison times and high consistency. First, find out the customer's emotional expectations and attribute weight ranking for HEV through FLPR, and import customer requirements (CRs) on the left side of fuzzy QFD. Second, the grey prediction model was used to screen out the key engineering features (ECs) and the initial weight of HEV. Finally, based on human subjective imprecise natural semantics, fuzzy QFD established a matrix association between CRs and key ECs, then finally obtained the optimal combination of ECs' final weight and morphological design. The results can assist designers to shorten product development cycles and improve customers' emotional satisfaction, which provides a theoretical reference for the sustainable design and marketing of environmentally friendly cars in the future.


The work presents the possibilities of applying modern measuring techniques, classic and coordinate measuring techniques in the forging industry (various stages of technological sequence), with the use of various measuring tools, instruments and machines applied in workshop metrology. The work points to different aspects of measuring techniques used mainly for two groups of objects, emphasizing their important role in the context of safety (achieved forgings—products) and the significant measurement problems due to the extreme conditions in industrial hot forging processes. The first group comprises various measurements of forgings (control during and after forging and mechanical treatment). The second group includes measurements of the forging equipment involving a broadly understood quality control (geometrical characteristics, surface quality etc.), often combined with comprehensive control and durability analysis of forging tools. The work analyzes the possibility and validity of applying scanning techniques for direct control of the quality and change of the geometry of the tools in industrial forging processes, without the necessity of their disassembly, and also measurement systems of temperature, forces and displacement in forging processes.


Abstract The quality of the excretion urograms in 100 patients given sodium diatrizoate 1 ml./kg (270 mg I/kg) has been compared with that in 100 patients given an equivalent dose of the methylglucamine salt. The mean scores were higher in patients given the sodium salt resulting in fewer unsatisfactory examinations than in those having the methylglucamine salt. The importance of variations in the state of hydration of the patient is emphasized.


Introduction : Influenza is an important public health problem; it is a major cause of morbidity and leads to considerable socio-economic consequences. The aim of this study was to assess influenza activity for the 2014-2015 season in Tunisia. Methods : Influenza surveillance data was used for data analysis. It was obtained from National Program for Surveillance and Control of influenza which involves the National Influenza Centre (NIC) as well as a network of 268 sentinel sites for reporting influenza-like illness (ILI). The NIC receives biological specimen from the ILI sentinel sites as well as from university hospitals. The case definition of ILI was that recommended by WHO "acute respiratory illness, and measured fever ≥ 38°C, and cough, and onset in previous 10 days". Results : Influenza activity was relatively moderate at the national level during the 2014-15 season. It differed significantly according to age (p Conclusion : The 2014-2015 influenza season was marked by a moderate disease burden of influenza-associated ILI and a co-circulation of three influenza viruses. Reliable surveillance data is needed to provide decision-makers with the evidence necessary for public health policies on influenza prevention and control. Determining influenza viruses in circulation ensures the adequacythe vaccine and eventually detection of new influenza viruses with pandemic potential.


In 1764, Immanuel Kant made an attempt to record his description of mental states in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, following the Burkean distinction between the beautiful (which "charms" and arouses joy) and the sublime (which "moves" and arouses awe and admiration).1 He sees the sublime as great and simple, while the beautiful can be small, ornamented and ephemeral. Dealing with human feelings and conduct, the study discusses three kinds of the sublime: the noble, the splendid, and the terrifying. In Kant's concept of the noble, the sublime "emerges as an important moral component of the person,"2 being linked, in fact, to the idea of categorical imperative. "True virtue" is "sublime" as it is based on general, universal principles: "Only when one subordinates his one inclination to one so expended can our charitable impulses be used proportionately and bring about the noble bearing that is the beauty of virtue."3 As John T. Goldthwait points out, in asserting the correspondence between beauty and virtue, and in connecting the sublime with the dignity of human nature, Kant "joins together aesthetics and ethics" (29). In contrast to Shaftsbury, who, in assigning sublimity (and the highest virtue) to the deity (the Creator), describes sublimity as "unattainable for man," Kant suggests that it is "man himself " who "exhibits the sublime" (Goldthwait 25). In this respect, the "dignity of human nature unifies all mankind," representing the "unity beneath the great diversity," and becomes the ground of the idea that "man himself is sublime" (Goldthwait 25). In Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790), the concern with the moral and aesthetic aspects of the sublime is grounded less on the principles of conduct than on the nature of reason. Moreover, attention is given to the feelings of fear and pain as important components of the sublime experience. In contrast to Burke's emphasis on powerlessness, the Kantian fear is "outweighed by pleasure that the soul takes in the discovery of the extent of its own powers" (Goldthwait 34). As


The high reactivity of lithium with gas molecules under ambient conditions plays a key role, negative or positive, depending on the purpose, in its wide applications. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear. A facilitated dissociation of water in the presence of lithium (Li) under ambient conditions is revealed using molecular simulations. The subsequent reactions with other gases are investigated to elucidate the role of water in enabling lithium–gas reactions. The in-depth understanding of controlled lithium reactively opens up a new avenue of designing highly selective gas separation processes. A controlled exclusive reaction of lithium with nitrogen in the nitrogen/methane mixture would provide infinite selectivity of nitrogen over methane, revolutionizing the natural gas purification industry.


Corn is employed in animal feed as an energy source, but as a protein source it is deficient in lysine and triptophan. Thus, the present study evaluated open pollinated populations of quality protein maize (QPM) and their crosses for total grain protein. The heterosis and its components were quantified as useful parameters for breeding these populations. The analyses were carried out on 96 hybrids, derived from eight populations of dent grains (group 1) and thirteen of flint grains (group 2), including their parents in a partial diallel intergroup design. Kjeldahl's method was used to analyse total protein content. Variance analysis results were significant for all effects, revealing heterogeneity among and within the groups, as well as the presence of heterosis. The total protein content means of group 1 and group 2 were 9.67 g/100g and 10.51 g/100g, respectively, and the mean of hybrid combinations was 11.86 g/100g. The general mean involving all parents and crosses was 11.61 g/100g. The average heterosis was 17.58%, revealing the superiority of the hybrids over the parents. As far as general combining ability and yield mean are concerned, the best parents were CMS 454, CMS 474 and ZQP 103 (group 1) and CMS 453, BR 473, CMS 463, CMS 458 and ZQP 102 (group 2). These populations are recommended for QPM composites with high protein content. KEY-WORDS: Zea mays ; protein; nutrition quality; QPM; diallel.


In 1972, Nomizu and Rodriguez [5] found the following characterization of the complete umbilic submanifolds of Euclidean space. Theorem A. Let Mn, n ≥ 2, be a connected, complete Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed in a Euclidean space Em. Every Morse function of the form Lp has index 0 or n at all of its critical points if and only if Mnis embedded as a Euclidean n-subspace or a Euclidean n-sphere in Em .


The properties of ring-spun yarns made from cotton and regenerated bamboo cellulosic fibres and their blends have been studied. Three blend proportions (100% cotton, 50:50 cotton-bamboo and 100% bamboo) have been used to produce yarns of three different counts (20s, 25s and 30s) and these yarns are then tested for their diameter, tensile, evenness and hairiness related properties. It is found that the yarn diameter reduces as the proportion of bamboo fibre increases. The yarn tenacity first reduces and then increases but the elongation increases continuously as the proportion of bamboo fibre increases. The yarn unevenness is found to be maximum for 50:50 cotton-bamboo yarns. The 100% cotton and 100% bamboo yarns are having comparable unevenness except for 30s count. Hairiness of yarn in different length classes and mean hair length reduce continuously as the percentage of bamboo fibre increases. However, for the same blend proportion, mean hair length is found to be independent on the yarn count.


It is analyzed that the criterion of current differential protection using steady currents is not able to operate at internal faults under the condition of high fault resistance and heavy-loads due to through currents.An improved steady current differential protection criterion is proposed.The sensitivities of these two criteria are analytically compared.The improved criterion possesses higher sensitivity at an internal ground fault with fault resistance and is especially superior on the conventional one under the condition of high fault resistance and heavy-loads.Simulation of faults and the two protection criteria on a 750 kV line proves that the proposed criterion has achieved a great improvement on the abilities of detecting high resistance internal faults in the heavy-load condition with guarantee of security at external faults.It is a proper current differential protection criterion for EHV\UHV transmission lines.


Abstract An effective and trustworthy traceability system contributes to improving food quality and safety and responds to consumers' demand for food provenance information. Safe meat and its products are crucial to consumers and society. Livestock feeding regime and geographical origin are closely related to the properties and the safety of animal origin food, but the information is often invisible to consumers, which makes is easier to use fraudulent practices throughout the whole supply chain. Technologies and their proper use in traceability systems are important for the safety of animal origin foods. An essential component in an integrated traceability chain includes individual animal identification and trace back of related meat products. In this review, we examine the technologies for individual animal identification, including the radio frequency identification system and DNA fingerprinting. For meat products, traceability technologies focus on the chemical components fingerprinting, including measurement of stable isotope ratios, mineral element tracing and organic component fingerprinting. Also, future trends in food traceability systems need to be improved to promote the establishment of more efficient and trustworthy traceability systems to ensure food safety and quality up to standard.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to broaden the understanding of family business succession as organizational knowledge creation process. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is built on organizational knowledge creation theory and reviews literature on family business succession. Four modes of knowledge conversion are followed to identify knowledge creation activities contributing to family business's knowledge base and to develop propositions. Findings – Successful realization of succession depends not only on "traditional" knowledge creation activities of socialization and internalization, but as well as on active involvement of successor(s) in many aspects of business functioning. This contributes not only to widening successor(s) knowledge base but as well as to the firm's tacit and explicit knowledge triggering a new spiral of knowledge. Research limitations/implications – The paper limits the research on leadership succession as one of the most challenging tasks in family business's life c...


Objective
To understand the differences between infiltration of mononuclear-macrophages and neutrophils during Leptospira interrogans (L.interrogans) infection and the underlying mechanisms.

Methods
Histological changes in mouse lung, liver and kidney tissues were detected using hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining following infection of C3H/HeJ mice with L.interrogans serovar Lai strain 56601. Infiltration of peripheral blood-derived CD11b+ mononuclear-macrophages and Ly6G+ neutrophils in lung, liver and kidney tissues collected form L.interrogans-infected C3H/HeJ mice was detected with immunohistochemistry. Levels of mononuclear-macrophage chemokines and neutrophil chemokines in serum samples of L.interrogans-infected mice were detected with chemokine detection microarray.

Results
Lung, liver and kidney tissue samples collected from L.interrogans-infected C3H/HeJ mice presented typical histopathological changes of leptospirosis, such as inflammatory cell infiltration in these tissues, pulmonary hemorrhage, extensive hepatocyte necrosis and serious nephrohemia. Results of immunohistochemical staining showed that a large number of peripheral blood-derived CD11b+ mononuclear-macrophages were presented in lung, liver and kidney tissues of L.interrogans-infected mice, but few neutrophils could be found in these tissues. The mouse chemokine detection microarray confirmed that the levels of mononuclear-macrophage chemokines (I-309, MCP-1, MCP-5, MIP-1α and RANTES) in serum samples of L.interrogans-infected C3H/HeJ mice were significantly increased during infection (P 0.05).

Conclusion
Mononuclear-macrophages rather than neutrophils are the major infiltrating phagocytes during L.interrogans infection and play a crucial role in the elimination of Leptospira invasion.

Key words:
Leptospira interrogans; Mononuclear-macrophage; Neutrophil; Infiltration; Chemokine


IT WAS NOT until the Soviet Union was nearly thirty years old that the United States made a serious effort to study this communist society in action. Even today the number of trained men and women, either in the government or in the academic world, who are spending most of their professional effort on the study of Soviet society and foreign policy is very limited. It would be possible to mobilize much more expert knowledge from the academic world for an evaluation of our main European allies than for our main adversary.


Process for forming a metal film on the surface of the silicon part by CVD using the metal silicide film forming method of the metal compound to the step of preparing a substrate having a silicon portion on the surface (step 1) and containing nitrogen as a film formation raw material (step 2 ) and, then, a step (step 3) of forming a metal silicide by annealing the substrate in a hydrogen gas atmosphere in the reaction with the metal film and the silicon part.


Background

The intensive physical exercise in which athletes take part in competitive sports can negatively affect the pro-oxidative–antioxidant balance. The use of compounds with high antioxidant potential, which certainly should include chokeberry, can prevent these adverse changes.
Methods

The study was conducted on a group of football players aged 16–17 years, who underwent 7 weeks of supplementation with 200 ml chokeberry juice per day. Before and after supplementation, the participants performed an intensive physical exercise test (beep test). At rest, immediately after exercise and after 3 and 24 h of rest, venous blood was taken from the subjects, in which levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive products (TBARS), hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), iron (Fe), hepcidin, ferritin, myoglobin, albumin and morphological parameters were examined.
Results

There was a significant impact of the intervention in response to the physical exercise test in the studied groups on parameter dynamics: 8-OHdG (t = 3.56, p = 0.0005), albumin (t = 1.98, p = 0.049), TBARS (t = 4.33, p = 0.00003), hepcidin (t = 2.21, p = 0.03), and Mono level (t = 2.14, p = 0.04) and percentage (t = 2.27, p = 0.03). The post-hoc test showed no effect of chokeberry juice supply on any of the morphological, biochemical or performance parameters analysed.
Conclusions

The supplementation applied to footballers showed no effects under the influence of the applied exercise stress test. Such results may be the result of both the players' adaptation to the applied exercise loads and the insufficient antioxidant capacity of the supplement used.


The ore property of a copper-sulfide ore in Jiangxi is complicated with high degree copper oxida tion.The flotation sheet of "Cu-S bulk flotation + mixed concentrate regrinding + Cu-S separation flotation " is determined based on mineralogical analysis.WH-1# agent is used to activate copper while the combination agents white1 and white2(1∶1) to inhibit sulfur.The copper and sulfur are flotated under low alkalinity condition.The grade of copper concentrate reaches 20.23 % with recovery rate of 85.76 %.The grade of sulfur concentrate attains 39.19 % with recovery rate of 65.68 %.


The invention provides a graphite die used for an up-leading-method crystallizer, which can solve the problem of the existing graphite dies that when the graphite die is filled witha copper alloy melt, the quality of a copper alloy rod is affected because slag and oxide on the surface of the copper alloy melt are liableto enter a middle inner hole of a graphite die main body. The graphite die comprises a cylindrical graphite die main body, a graphite cover and an asbestos cover, wherein a vertically through middle inner hole is formed in the graphite die main body, the bottom of a copper inner cover of the crystallizer is arranged in the graphite cover, the asbestos cover is embedded between the copper inner cover and the graphite cover, the upper end of the graphite die main body sequentially penetrates through the graphite cover and the asbestos cover from bottom to top and then is in threaded connection with the copper inner cover, and the middle inner hole of the copper inner cover communicates with the middle inner hole of the graphite die main body. The graphite die is characterized by further comprising a copper protective cover, and the copper protective cover integrally wraps the parts, stretching out of the graphite cover, of the lower ends of the graphite cover and the graphite die main body.


Socio-legal research contributes to scholarship, policy formation and critical understanding across the spectrum of legal disciplines at both micro and macro levels; 1 so much so that it is now difficult to think of areas of law that have not benefited, or could not benefit, in some way from socio-legal study. 2 The value of empirical work is nowhere greater than in the broad field of public law and especially in relation to the fundamental challenge of understanding the ways in which litigation and judicial decisions matter to, and influence, government and the quality of public services. In this country at least, this area of work is still relatively young 3 and it is, therefore, unsurprising that many of us who are engaged in this interesting and important field of inquiry continue to grapple with basic conceptual and methodological problems. During these early days, no one in the UK has done more than Simon Halliday to move this area of work along; to provide an understanding of what is involved in researching judicial review's impact on government; to identify the obstacles to exploring effectively the causal links between judicial decisions and administrative behaviour; 4 to strengthen the platform on which future work can be based; and to identify an agenda for future work. 5 It is in relation to these latter goals that Halliday's Judicial Review and Compliance with Administrative Law 6 will exert its greatest influence. In this review, I do not need to restate the justifications for undertaking socio-legal research on the impacts of court decisions. For present purposes, it is sufficient to accept that this research 'finds its most comfortable home within an instrumentalist approach to law', 7 even though this work has more than a narrowly instrumental value.


SILVA, J. L. (2011). Analysis of circular reinforced concrete pipes for the diametrical compression test based on the theory of reliability. Thesis (Ph.D.) – School of Engineering of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos. This work evaluates the reliability of circular reinforced concrete pipes subjected to diametrical compression considering the quality control of the production. The study includes experimental and theoretical parts. In the experimental part, 32 pipes divided in two series of 16 pipes according to the nominal diameter of 800 mm and 1200 mm were tested. Each series was composed by 12 spigot and pocket pipes (PB) and 4 ogee joint pipes (PSB). In the theoretical part, the pipes were analyzed using a computational program based on finite element method developed for frame structures considering physical and geometrical nonlinearities. In reliability analysis, the limit state functions were determined according to the Method of Response Surface. Numerical and experimental results of the loading versus displacement curves were well agreed and they indicated that the pipe behaves as a circular ring, once the PSB pipes presented maximum loads 4% and 12% higher than those obtained for PB pipes, respectively for nominal diameters of 800 mm and 1200 mm. However, the presence of pocket influenced the cracking loading, with 6.4% and 33% higher for PB pipes in relation to PSB pipes for the nominal diameters of 800 mm and 1200 mm, respectively. The reliability theory showed that the probability of failure of concrete pipes to meet the diametrical compression test was strongly influenced by the quality control of materials used in manufacturing the pipes. Also, it was observed that analyzed pipes presented reliability index greater than 3.8, to meet the diametrical compression test. Among the most influential variabilities in evaluating of reliability index, the concrete compressive strength, the pipe thickness and the position of the reinforcement in the pipe can be highlighted. Key-words: concrete pipes, diametrical compression, quality control, reliability index, probability of failure.


The common practice of using general concepts as tools in legal reasoning is bound to raise questions concerning the relative importance of the general and the specific for the understanding of international law. To illustrate, this article uses two judgments handed down by the ICTY Trial Chamber. While for both judgments, the Chamber inferred from human rights instruments an alleged general concept of torture, which it then brought to bear on its understanding of the prohibition of torture contained in the laws and customs of war, it used the concept differently. The question that this article asks is whether this difference of approach can possibly be explained so as to reconcile the two judgments. Two mutually exclusive explanations are suggested. As argued, choosing between them presents a dilemma. The first explanation prompts us to accept the occurrence of irreconcilable conflicts between different jus cogens rules. The second explanation commits us to an unacceptably broad understanding of the jus cogens prohibition of torture.


This article explores some ways in which philosophical theories of causation and empirical investigations into causal learning and judgment can mutually inform one another.


The article deals with organizational and methodological measures for enhancement of a university's activity on foreign markets. In particular, the need of centralization of marketing functions within special organization unit is justified. Recommendations on market analysis, foreign students interviewing, positioning strategy formulation, online communications system construction, pricing policy, and network of partners are formulated.


It is an error to base higher education enrollment projections solely on birth statistics of twenty years earlier. Nationwide enrollment may show substantial increases during the present decade, and ultimately very great gains are probable. Federal support will. in the long run come to exceed the contribution of the states. The view of higher education as a private purchase of a consumers1 good, for private gratification and aggrandizement, is slowly changing to the salutary view that higher education is a public service whose benefits accrue chiefly to the whole society. An interlude of emphasis of federal tax-cuting need not necessarily mean that the fifty states will abandon themselves to fiscal austerity for higher education.


The present work describes the use of a recently established multiparametric methodology to study nanomaterial toxicity. Using optimized methods, including proliferation-restricted cell types and endosomal buffer systems, the effect of different types of nanomaterials on cultured cells were studied, focusing in particular on intracellular particle degradation. Gold particles were quite resistant, whereas iron oxide degraded, with loss of magnetic resonance contrast, but little toxicity associated. Quantum dots degraded more slowly, decreasing both fluorescence quantum yield and cell viability over long-time periods. The multiparametric methodology is shown to be an efficient screening strategy, allowing easy comparison of results obtained for different nanomaterials and hereby helping to optimize nanoparticle design with improved safety.


The Operations Research/Education Laboratory (OR/Ed. lab) at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University, has a long history of providing school systems with data-driven solutions for school population forecasting, school attendance studies, and determination of new school locations. These planning processes, known as Integrated Planning for School and Community (IPSAC), provide school districts with mathematically optimal solutions that minimize transportation distance. The OR/Ed. lab works closely with school districts in politically and emotionally charged environments involving school locations and attendance district changes. The success of IPSAC lies in its approach to enumerate school planning needs and school population growth impression through the use of data. Furthermore, through the operations research optimization techniques, favorable solutions are achieved to satisfy the constraints, needs, and policies of the school district. Recent national studies in active school travel have reported that distance to school and built environment have a significant influence on how children travel to school. These research findings prompted the OR/Ed. lab to investigate ways to enhance IPSAC so that school districts may obtain solutions to include multimode school transportation as one of their considerations. This paper describes the IPSAC process, challenges faced by school districts, and areas in which the integration between school planning and transportation planning deserve explorations.


This paper describes research into the application of micro-electronic technologies to help the elderly and disabled (E&D) drivers. For example, such technologies can be applied to assist drivers in avoiding the two most common types of errors: disregard of traffic signals and signs, and right-of-way violation. In general, these technologies can: improve mobility, increase personal safety and security, make travelling more enjoyable, increase road safety for all travellers. This paper outlines functions that would help in meeting the above objectives. Fourteen specific application incorporating one or more of these functions are mentioned. As an examplem the features of one of these applications, an accessible-entrance locator, are outlined. The paper also outlines a concept for a more comprehensive Advanced Mobile Support System (AMSS) - consisting of in-vehicle information, management, control, and communication modules - designed to assist E&D travellers. In addition, R&D activities that would accelerate the implementation of this and similar systems are recommended. For the covering abstract of this conference, see IRRD number 854079. (A)


The problem of deriving statistical mechanics from the stationary Schrödinger equation is discussed. The interaction Hamiltonian, which dynamically induces entanglement of the specific type, is constructed in a unified way based on the gauge principle. It is shown how microcanonical ensembles in both Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics emerge in the vanishing-interaction limit.


The use of input and output negation in reducing the size of ROBDDs has been well investigated. Here we consider duality, a fundamental property of Boolean functions, and how it can be used to further reduce ROBDD size. We show how to introduce dual edge markers into a ROBDD package with effectively no storage overhead and a very small increase in per node processing cost. Our experimental results show that dual markers can reduce the size of the ROBDD, sometimes quite substantially, and even in cases where they offer little reduction, can still lead to increased overall processing speed. We consider the variable reordering problem and sifting in particular. We show that dual markers can not be used directly in sifting, but show that there is substantial advantage in applying sifting to an ROBDD with output negations, followed by a second phase where dual markers are used to reduce the size of the ROBDD.


The goal of hyperspectral unmixing is to decompose an electromagnetic spectral dataset measured over M spectral bands and T pixels into N constituent material spectra (or "end-members") with corresponding spatial abundances. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to hyperspectral unmixing based on loopy belief propagation (BP) that enables the exploitation of spectral coherence in the end-members and spatial coherence in the abundances. In particular, we partition the factor graph into spectral coherence, spatial coherence, and bilinear subgraphs, and pass messages between them using a "turbo" approach. To perform message passing within the bilinear subgraph, we employ the bilinear generalized approximate message passing algorithm (BiG-AMP), a recently proposed belief-propagation-based approach to matrix factorization. Furthermore, we propose an expectation-maximization (EM) strategy to tune the prior parameters and a model-order selection strategy to select the number of materials N. Numerical experiments conducted with both synthetic and real-world data show favorable unmixing performance relative to existing methods.


Abstract In this work, the electrochemical production with low current densities of iron and aluminium reagents for electro-coagulation processes has been studied. It has been found that pH is a very important parameter, being strongly related to the speciation of iron in terms of iron (II) or iron (III) species, and also to the efficiency of the electrochemical reagent-dosing process. Iron (II) species are only significant under acidic conditions because in neutral and alkaline conditions iron (II) is rapidly transformed into iron (III). Efficiencies in the dissolution of the metals are very high and, in some cases, over the value expected for a 100% – efficiency (super-faradaic efficiencies), due to the non-electrolytic dissolution of the electrodes, which is very important for iron under acidic conditions, and even more important for aluminium at alkaline pHs. This significant non-electrolytic contribution explains the different trends observed in the efficiency changes with current density.


This article explores the intersections between satellite television and mobile phone culture in the Arab world. The option of interactive television, offered by lotteries, quizzes and chat channels which demand that viewers call in or send messages to participate, effectively transforms the medium into a coin operated interface which bears resemblance with peep shows and live wrestling. Programs such as the 2009 three-dimensional (3-D) animated Al-Mofatish Korombo (Detective Korombo), female hosted quiz channels as well as television chat channels in which text dominates the screen, are marked by anxieties about the place of the body within the context of these new technologies and the prosthetic nature of the medium. By drawing on a tradition of puppetry and the video arcade, these convergences have reconceptualized the media body, switched television into an interface, and have dramatically altered the configuration of audience interaction with the screen. The resulting television aesthetic is one which copes with these anxieties by reverting to text as the primary medium through which viewers communicate within (and perhaps across) the parameters of profit driven channels.


In this paper, we propose an adaptive perturbation-aided opportunistic hybrid beamforming (AP-OHBF) scheme for temporally correlated millimeter wave (mmWave) channels. The basic idea is that the proposed scheme perturbs the channel parameters to track the channels of the scheduled mobile stations (MSs), whose channels are in favorable conditions, based on only the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) information of MSs. Specifically, in each time slot, the proposed scheme makes random perturbations to the "best" known channel parameters in the memory, which corresponds to the maximum sum scheduling metric. Then the base station (BS) constructs the channel estimates from these parameters, which are subsequently used to generate the precoders. For data transmission, the BS adopts the successful perturbation, which achieves performance improvements. By contrast, if a perturbation results in performance degradation, it is discarded, whereas the precoders corresponding to the best-known parameters in the memory are instead used for transmission. Simulation results show that in mmWave channels, the proposed AP-OHBF scheme significantly improves the system throughput with respect to the conventional opportunistic beamforming schemes for the same amount of feedback information.


Objective To investigate the role of Hepatocyte growth factor(HGF) in chronic liver allograft dysfunction in rats after orthotopic liver transplantation.Methods DA(RT1a)rats and Lewis(RT1l)rats were used as donors and receptors,respectively.All rats were injected tacrolimus at dose of 0.1mg/kg.day for 5 days post-transplantation.Treated group received injections of HGF(1 mg/kg,b.i.w) from 10 days to 90 days post-transplantation.Control group received the same dose of phosphate-buffer saline,the injected time was the same with treated group.The change of TNF-α in blood serum was measured with enzyme linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).Results The mean survival rate of treated group was much higher than that of control group(P0.001).The grade of liver injures in treated group after transplantation was less than that of control group.The content of total bilirubin(TB) and alanine aminotransferase(ALT) in treated group was both significantly lower than that of control group(P0.01).The concentration of TNF-α in the serum of treated group decreased obviously compared with the control group(P0.01). Conclusion HGF contributes to the prevention of chronic liver-allograft dysfunction through its potent anti-inflammatory action,and it may become a novel treatment for chronic liver-allograft dysfunction.


Insect cells are useful for the high‐yield production of recombinant proteins including chemokines and membrane proteins. In this study, we developed an insect cell‐based system for incorporating non‐natural amino acids into proteins at specific sites. Three types of promoter systems were constructed, and their efficiencies were compared for the expression of the prokaryotic amber suppressor tRNATyr in Drosophila melanogaster Schneider 2 cells. When paired with a variant of Escherichia coli tyrosyl‐tRNA synthetase specific for 3‐iodo‐L‐tyrosine, the suppressor tRNA transcribed from the U6 promoter most efficiently incorporated the amino acid into proteins in the cells. The transient and stable introductions of these prokaryotic molecules into the insect cells were then compared in terms of the yield of proteins containing non‐natural amino acids, and the "transient" method generated a sevenfold higher yield. By this method, 4‐azido‐L‐phenylalanine was incorporated into human interleukin‐8 at a specific site. The yield of the azido‐containing IL‐8 was 1 μg/1 mL cell culture, and the recombinant protein was successfully labeled with a fluorescent probe by the Staudinger–Bertozzi reaction.


: The hypothesis in this study was tested by conducting EMG experiments comparing the variability in muscle activity during repetitive reaching movements in hemiplegic patients and healthy subjects. The present study investi gated the characteristics of reaching movements in hemiplegic patients using the variability in average electromyogram (EMG) value. We studied 21 right-handed stroke patients with left-sided hemiparesis and 14 right-handed healthy control subjects. Post-stroke patients (hemiplegic group) and normal subjects (control group) repeated a reaching move ment 10 times. The variability in average EMG value of each muscle was defined as the average standard deviation of the average rectified values (nARV-SDave). During the reaching movements, the nARV-SDave values was significantly higher in the hemiparesis group than in the control group for the biceps and triceps brachii ( P < 0.05). In the hemipare sis group, significant negative correlations between the variability in nARV-SDave values and the Fugl-Meyer assess ment scores were observed in all muscle types (rs = −0.46 to −0.76; P < 0.05, P < 0.01). This study identified a direct relationship between the variability in muscle activity and the severity of motor function deficit in post-stroke patients. The selective impact on the biceps and triceps were related to the nature of the reaching task.


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An RF system using PR-ASK with orthogonal offset is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a PR-ASK signal generator and an orthogonal offset generator. The PR-ASK signal generator can produce a signal representing a sequence of symbols, for example, RFID symbols. The orthogonal offset generator can shift the PR-ASK signal trajectory away from the origin while maintaining the time domain requirements for an RFID signal, such as waveform edge rise and fall times. In some embodiments stored waveforms incorporating the controlled orthogonal offset are used to synthesize a sequence of symbols. The stored waveforms may also include nonlinear and/or linear predistortion to reduce computational complexity. The waveforms can be represented in Cartesian coordinates for use in a direct conversion transmitter or polar coordinates for use in a polar modulation transmitter. An RFID system can also include a receiver to receive incoming RFID signals.


1 Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with an incidence of 14 million new cases per year, with about 1 million diagnosed in India. The prevalence of cancer has increased over the past decade and is expected to rise by 8% in the next 5 years. Regular screening, early detection, and improved therapies have increased the 10‐year survival from 61% to 77% in the past decade. However, advancements in cancer treatment have not changed mortality rates.


The present invention discloses a method of detecting ground by rotating infrared detector distant moving targets. Firstly, an infrared detector using the image information calculation parameters and motion compensation by updating the background detection result of the first acquisition target; then, after extracting scene information, using the target sparse optical flow detection result of the first extraction and the target in the scene background information on the motion, ultimately detected by calculating the final motion information between the background and objectives of goals. The present invention is solved by a small rotation of the infrared detector due to low resolution of the infrared detector of the detection area caused the problem, and using the correlation between motion information and the target to resolve the current context object occlusion detection and tracking system, a target overlap and parallax problems, and reduce the calculation amount detector false alarm rate.


Objective To analyze high-resolution CT(HRCT) findings of chronic suppurative otitis media(CSOM) and to evaluate clinical effect of HRCT diagnosing.Methods HRCT finding of 20 cases of CSOM were refrospectively analyzed.The finding were compared with pathologic results.20 patients(12 males and 8 fales with a men age of 38 years) were scanned with HRCT.Results In 20 case of CSOM,there were 11 case of chronic granulorma tympanitis,8 cases of cholesteatoma of tympanitis,one case of chronic simple tympanitis.The HRCT manifestations of CSOM appeared as follows:The soft tissue shadows in middle ear cavity;bone destrction in middle ear;complication performance.Conclusion HRCT is very good examination in the CSOM,and it proved very helpful treatment for surgical operation and medical therapy.


We present the results of a multifrequency, multiscale radio polarimetric study with the Very Large Array (VLA) of the Seyfert 1 galaxy and BALQSO, Mrk 231. We detect complex total and polarized intensity features in the source. Overall, the images indicate the presence of a broad, one-sided, curved outflow towards the south which consists of a weakly collimated jet with poloidal inferred magnetic fields, inside a broader magnetized 'wind' or 'sheath' component with toroidal inferred magnetic fields. The model of a kpc-scale weakly collimated jet/lobe in Mrk 231 is strengthened by its C-shaped morphology, steep spectral index throughout, complexities in the magnetic field structures, and the presence of self-similar structures observed on the 10-parsec-scale in the literature. The 'wind' may comprise both nuclear starburst (close to the core) and active galactic nuclei winds, where the latter maybe the primary contributor. Moving away from the core, the 'wind' component may also comprise the outer layers (or 'sheath') of a broadened jet. The inferred value of the (weakly collimated) jet production efficiency, ηjet ∼ 0.01, is consistent with the estimates in the literature. The composite jet and wind outflow in Mrk 231 appears to be low-power and matter-dominated, and oriented at a small angle to our line of sight.


The Ghizer River Basin (GRB) is one of the sub-basins of the Indus River hosting rich mineralization and agrogenic activities. The GRB was sampled for 55 water samples and investigated for potentially harmful element (PHE) concentrations using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. PHE concentrations in the water samples of the GRB were used to calculate the potential of non-cancer risks such as chronic daily intake (CDI) hazard quotient (HQ) and cancer risk (CR). The highest average concentrations of chromium (37.1 ± 17.1 μg/L) copper (27.4 ± 12.5 μg/L) arsenic (4.8 ± 0.9 μg/L) cobalt (9.2 ± 3.3 μg/L) and nickel (62.7 ± 27.6 μg/L) were noted for the Ishkomen River segment of the GRB. Similarly manganese (417 ± 144 μg/L) cadmium (1.95 ± 0.02 μg/L) lead (7.7 ± 1.4 μg/L) and zinc (28.4 ± 5.5 μg/L) concentrations were maximum at downstream of the GRB. Geospatial and statistical analyses showed that lithogenic sources contributed higher to PHE contamination in the water of the GRB than the agrogenic sources. PHE concentrations were noted under the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water thresholds#except for nickel. Results showed the uppermost CDI value of 13.6 μg/kg-day for manganese and HQ value of 0.52 for arsenic via water intake of children. Non-cancer and CR values through water intake were under the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) thresholds and noted as suitable for drinking and other domestic purposes.


The land allocated for newly opened lowland rice can be from ultisols, oxisols, inceptisols, and potential acid sulfate soils. The study was aimed to evaluate nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and potassium (K) inputs – outputs of newly developed lowland rice under different treatments and to validate the N, P, and K recommended applications rate according to N, P, and K balances. The study was conducted in Kleseleon village, Malaka District. Five treatments were tested namely T0: farmers practices, T1: NPK at recommendation rate + Rice straw compost, T2: NPK at recommendation rate + Smart + Rice straw compost, T3: ¾ NPK at recommendation rate + Smart + Rice straw compost, and T4: NPK at recommendation rate + Smart + Rice straw compost. The treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The nutrient balances were constructed according to the difference between nutrient inputs and losses. The results indicated that there were surplus N, P, and K across the treatments and more than adequate to replace N, P, and K removed by harvest products. The suggested N, P, and K application rates were 100 kg urea, 100 kg SP-36, and 100 kg KCl with the addition of compost 3 Mg ha -1 season -1 .


Two new types of fuzzy vector quantizationbased/hidden Markov models (FVQ/HMM)—multiplication-type and addition-type—are formulated to remove a mathematical inconsistency in conventional FVQ/HMMs proposed by Tseng et al. Experiments show the MTFVQ/HMM gives the best recognition rate among VQ-type HMMs. Letting yt be an observation vector at time t, C1, …, CM be clusters to which yt is classified and si be the i-the state of HMM, we show that MT-FVQ/HMM is derivable by defining the occurrence degree of yt at si to be the negative of the Kullback-Leibler divergence of a posteriori probability distribution {P(C1 | yt), … P(CM | yt)} from a priori probability distribution {P(C1 | si), …, P(CM | Si)}.


Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy) Donald W. Black. Oxford University Press USA. 2013. £14.99 (pb). 336 pp. ISBN: 9780199862030

There is a widespread sentiment that society has lost its moral compass and that there needs to be reclamation of traditional


This paper makes an in-depth analysis towards the current situation of high skilled talents of Chang-Ji-Tu Development and Opening-up Pioneering District from the aspects of high-skilled talents ' quantity,structure,distribution,training,puts forward some countermeasures for high-skilled talents' training of Chang-Ji-Tu Development and Opening up Pioneering District,and provides the reference for the formulation of related policy to promote the cultivation of high-skilled personnel.


The present article review the work developed from the conceptual parameters of the Community Psychology to strengthen the group of Local Consultants of Youth of the town 19; ciudad Bolivar in Bogota city. By means of the work it was sought to promote the defense of the spaces of youthful participation, supporting the proposals, interests and the decisions that arise of the local dynamics regarding the problems that affect the young ACTA COLOMBIANA D PSICOLOGIA 14, 33-52, 05 * Con la participacion de Camacho Hernandez Sevigne del Pilar. firstname.lastname@example.com. Correspondencia: Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Catolica de Colombia. Calle 47 No. 13-32 Piso 1. Bogota. firstname.lastname@example.com


To trigger positive consumer responses, retailers spend large sums of money on arousing and entertaining store environment designs that do not always produce the desired positive consumer reactions. The current research provides a theoretical framework that offers an alternate explanation for shopper preferences regarding retail environments. Drawing on consumers' need for an environment that promotes understanding, this study indicates the importance of communicating a coherent store environment to effect store satisfaction and re-patronage intention. Harmonious store environments facilitate understanding and comprehension; they enhance information processing and pleasure judgment. One laboratory experiment and one field experiment tested the proposed research framework. Insights from evolutionary and aesthetic psychology, consumer behavior research, and the Asian practice of Feng Shui all guided the manipulation of music and aesthetic design variables to create atmospheric harmony. The findings of both studies suggest that harmonious store environments increase pleasure and positively impact shopping satisfaction and re-patronage intent, as mediated by shopping value. These findings offer a new perspective for creating pleasant store environments. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Use of an inhibitor of poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of cancer cells defective in homologous recombination (HR); in which cancer cells have a defect in a gene selected from the group consisting of XRCC1, CTPS, RPA, RPA1, RPA2, RPA3, XPD, ERCC1, XPF, MMS19, RAD51, RAD51B, RAD51C, RAD51D, DMC1, XRCC2, XRCC3, BRCA1, BRCA2, RAD52, RAD54, RAD50, MRE11, NBS1, WRN, BLM, Ku70, Ku80, ATM, ATR, chk1, Chk2, FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCD1, FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, RAD1, RAD9, FEN-1, Mus81, Emel, DDS1 and BARD.


In this paper I review three key topics in CFD that have kept researchers busy for half a century. First, the concept of upwind differencing, evident for 1-D linear advection. Second, its implementation for nonlinear systems in the form of high- resolution schemes, now regarded as classical. Third, its genuinely multidimensional implementation in the form of residual-distribution schemes, the most recent addition. This lecture focuses on historical developments; it is not intended as a technical review of methods, hence the lack of formulas and absence of figures.


This article outlines a project to improve the effective application of root cause analysis to reduce rates of Clostridium difficile infection. Using a learning intervention and redefining infection-control practices produced better compliance with the root cause analysis tool on six medical elderly wards.


The Fall 1973 issue of the journal of Teacher Education included a listing of Clearinghouse publications from March 1972 to June 1973. Since then, an additional 13 titles have either been published or are being edited for publication as this article goes to press. Included are both bibliographies and monographs, two of the bibliographies-on recreation and physical education-being the first publications to reflect the Clearinghouse's new scope area, which covers the entire field of health, physical education, and recreation. More titles relating to this expanded interest will appear during the coming


Quantum Dot Cellular Automata is an emerging field in the domain of nanotechnology where circuits are designed in the nano level which are compatible to the circuits designed in traditional CMOS technology. Quantum Dot Cellular Automata gives a new dimension of ideas of designing basic gates in digital electronics with minimum hardware complexity. Transistor based CMOS designing faces many challenges due to the device dimension and leakage current but in QCA, quantum cells are in nano scale that contains quantum dots which help to transfer the information without any leakage current. This paper has demonstrated the design of 2' Complement of 4-bit binary numbers using layered and majority gate based Quantum Dot Cellular Automata. The calculation of kink energy has determined the stability of the circuit. The simulation results have been generated and verified using the QCA Designer tool.


A 70-year-old man was admitted with fever and urinary retention. Suprapubic catheter (SPC) was placed following failed attempts to catheterise due to a urethral stricture. The patient subsequently improved and a micturating cystourethrogram (MCUG) was arranged to assess his stricture. Upon injection of contrast via his SPC at the time of MCUG, it was noted the catheter had been inadvertently placed and the balloon dilated in the proximal third of the patient's right ureter. The balloon was deflated and the catheter repositioned. An intravenous urogram done 4 weeks following repositioning of his catheter showed no adverse sequelae with a patent ureter and no hydronephrosis on the affected side.


Cancers associated with the oncogenic gammaherpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus, are notable for their constitutive activation of the transcription factor STAT3. To better understand the role of STAT3 during gammaherpesvirus latency and immune control, we utilized murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) infection. Genetic deletion of STAT3 in B cells of CD19cre/+Stat3f/fmice reduced peak latency approximately 7-fold. However, infected CD19cre/+Stat3f/f mice exhibited disordered germinal centers and heightened virus-specific CD8 T cell responses compared to WT littermates. To circumvent the systemic immune alterations observed in the B cell-STAT3 knockout mice and more directly evaluate intrinsic roles for STAT3, we generated mixed bone marrow chimeras consisting of WT and STAT3-knockout B cells. Using a competitive model of infection, we discovered a dramatic reduction in latency in STAT3-knockout B cells compared to their WT B cell counterparts in the same lymphoid organ. RNA sequencing of sorted germinal center B cells revealed that STAT3 promotes proliferation and B cell processes of the germinal center but does not directly regulate viral gene expression. Last, this analysis uncovered a STAT3-dependent role for dampening type I IFN responses in newly infected B cells. Together, our data provide mechanistic insight into the role of STAT3 as a latency determinant in B cells for oncogenic gammaherpesviruses. IMPORTANCE There are no directed therapies to the latency program of the gammaherpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus. Activated host factor STAT3 is a hallmark of cancers caused by these viruses. We applied the murine gammaherpesvirus pathogen system to explore STAT3 function upon primary B cell infection in the host. Since STAT3 deletion in all CD19+ B cells of infected mice led to altered B and T cell responses, we generated chimeric mice with both normal and STAT3-deleted B cells. B cells lacking STAT3 failed to support virus latency compared to normal B cells from the same infected animal. Loss of STAT3 impaired B cell proliferation and differentiation and led to a striking upregulation of interferon-stimulated genes. These findings expand our understanding of STAT3-dependent processes key to its function as a pro-viral latency determinant for oncogenic gammaherpesviruses in B cells and may provide novel therapeutic targets.


A real-time pattern recognition system is being developed for use in the adaptive control of welding process. The weld-pool (composed of molten material) is a good indicator of welding quality. Fourier-optical processing is proposed that compares the weld-pool image against templates of various weld-pools shapes of which only one is optimum. If the weld-pool shape most closely matches a particular non-optimal shape, then the weld parameters that cause that aberration can be corrected; e.g., current too high, weld beam off of seam, etc. Correlation of edge-enhanced and windowed images with the template were evaluated. The ratio of matched to mismatched correlations can be improved from 2:1 to 30:1 by removing the electrode from the template and by measuring correlation where the electrode correlation peaks occur. Weld- pool position can be determined from location of correlation peaks. Computer simulations of optical edge detection show that phase-only filter is inappropriate, but magnitude-only filtering yields two edges for each real edge.


A series repairable computer system with hardware and software is studied in this paper.By the positive c0-semigroup which is generated by system operator,we proved the existence and uniqueness of the non-negative weak solution depended on time of the system.


Introduction: The Brain Extraction Tool (BET), part of the FMRIB Software Library (FSL) is commonly used to produced brain masks for human data. BET makes several assumptions about the brain's shape, curvature and location within the image that are correct in clinical data, but are unfortunately inappropriate for pre-clinical data such as rodent images. This causes BET to fail when used with such data. We have modified BET to use more appropriate initial estimates for the shape and location of the rodent brain, and also to use more appropriate smoothness constraints. This modified rodent Brain Extraction Tool (rBET) was tested with example data and successfully produced appropriate brain masks.


There exist numerous sources of data on the World Wide Web that contain useful information but are not structured or grammatical enough to support traditional information extraction. Furthermore, even if the information extraction could be done, the extracted values would need to be standardized to ensure the queries over the source are accurate. This paper presents an automatic, scalable approach to semantically annotating such unstructured, ungrammatical sources with standardized values, allowing for accurate, structured queries of the source. Our technique recasts the information extraction problem as an information retrieval problem, treating each entry of unstructured, ungrammatical text as a query and comparing it to a set of known records called a "reference set." Furthermore, given a library of reference sets, the system automatically chooses the correct one, making the technique fully unsupervised. We compare our automatic technique to a previous approach that exploits supervised learning and show that we get comparable results. In the previous approach, beyond providing labeled training data, a user also must supply the "reference set" which is exploited for the extraction and standardization of the values.


The authors describe the first 1300 nm VCSELs which are compatible with commercial datacom performance requirements. These devices operate at CW up to 80°C. The threshold current varies by only ± 0.5 mA (± 10%) from 0 to 70°C. The devices show > 0.38 mW singlemode output and < 2.8 V operating from 0 to 70°C. The same devices also demonstrate a 1.25 Gbit/s modulation speed.


The research model used to predict the spreading path can be interpreted with differential equation(s) and can be applied to various fields. In the field of medical science, studies have covered prediction of the propagation path of diseases (recently including Middle East respiratory syndrome), and estimating extinction probability. Others have utilized the application fields of transportation network in urban engineering, diffusion model of computer virus in such field. Business-wise, the SEIR model can be explained as a feedback effect (recovery) after exposure to a certain event (disease). In this study, we extend the SIR model to financial investment market, specifically in brokerage business, and propose strategic approach. The effectiveness of this model is suggested with theoretical research model and the setting of the variable level for each section. The study demonstrates that the right information at the right time affects the rate of being invested by clients, and re-invested.


The BrightSPOT™ device is a highly sensitive, multiplexed rapid diagnostic micrroarray platform that can be used in a POL or other resource-limited setting to perform virtually any diagnostic test currently performed by microtiter plate. At the heart of the technology is an inexpensive, ultra-sensitive CMOS detector array and extremely-bright Gaussia luciferase-based diagnostic assays. Because light generation occurs via a chemical reaction, all the power needed to perform analysis can be supplied by a USB port. The extraordinary sensitivity allows small samples (5-10 μl) to be applied to the surface of the array and can therefore be used with a fingerstick sample. The small sample volume also allows rapid annealing and detection of nucleic acid capture probes with target DNA or RNA. The sensitivity of the BrightSPOT platform combined with our luciferase assays eliminates the need for active mixing or amplification of the DNA or RNA target. Antigen-down: We previously showed an antigen-down test that detected HIV antibodies against the multiplexed HIV antigens p24 and p51 in a 13 minute test (Oak Ridge poster, 2009) that is more sensitive than a validated commercially available ELISA (BioRad) that takes three hours. In a collaboration with the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes Research (Aurora, CO), the BrightSPOT platform was able to detect GAD65 auto-antibodies, a T1DM marker in 1.5 hr and outperformed a traditional liquid phase RIA requiring 2 days with 16X better sensitivity. We later performed the test in whole blood, as HIV above, in 11 minutes and then successfully demonstrated the test on saliva. (data on file) Antibody Sandwich: The BrightSPOT platform differentiated between phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated kinases with an anti-phospho- capture and protein-specific secondary antibody. (data on file)


Scientific explorations can lead to life changing discoveries or light the path for new discoveries as scientists continue to carry or pass on the torch of knowledge to current and future generations. This torch of knowledge radiates in many directions, as the path of discovery often demands a multidimensional perspective. This research explored the many aspects of metallic flavor in drinking water through applications of sensory science, medicine, health, and the environment. Humans interact with their environment through the five senses and are often exposed to contaminants through multiple routes; oral intake of trace metal contaminants through drinking water is a likely source. The biochemical mechanism by which humans are able to detect the flavor of strongly metallic agents such as iron has been previously elucidated, but little is known about population variability in the ability to sense metallic flavors. This research evaluated sensory thresholds and biochemical indicators of metallic flavor perception in healthy adults for ferrous iron in drinking water; 61 subjects aged 19 – 84 years, participated. The findings demonstrated an age-dependent sensitivity to iron indicating as people age they are less sensitive to metallic perception; impairment of olfactory functions is a contributing factor. Unlike in healthy adults, where human senses are often protective of overexposure to contaminants, and supportive of sensations of everyday life's pleasures, cancer patients often suffer from chemosensory dysfunctions. Metallic phantom taste is a commonly experienced sensation, yet very little studied aspect of this debilitating disorder. Impact of cancer therapy on chemosensory functions of patients with malignant brain tumors undergoing combined modality treatment (CMT) was explored. The results indicated that chemosensory dysfunctions of the patients can range from minimal to moderate


Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease is an effective treatment however challenges remain in accurate targeting of the deep brain structures. Existing indirect DBS targeting relies on registration of 2D histological atlases [1] since many deep brain structures are not clearly visible in traditional images. Gradient echo images obtained with ultra-high-field 7 Tesla MRI can reveal superior contrast of deep-brain structures, with a degree of detail rivaling histology [2]. Although pre-surgical imaging of patients at 7T for direct targeting has been demonstrated [3], cost and availability limit its feasibility, thus, registration of high-resolution 3D atlases depicting structural targets could provide cost-effective and improved indirect targeting in DBS planning.


Abstract Ni(bpy)2Cl2 has been found to be an efficient catalyst for the oxidation of various alkylbenzenes with hypochlorite. Substituted toluenes having electron withdrawing group at 4-position were oxidized to the corresponding substituted benzoic acids in excellent yields.


AbstractThe following sections are included:Forces for Organizational DevelopmentEnvironmental DeterminismPurposeful ActionsPowerRationales for Organizational DevelopmentRationales for GrowthTechnical-Efficiency ForcesIdeological ForcesPolitical ForcesRationales for ConsolidationTechnical-Efficiency ForcesIdeological ForcesPolitical ForcesRationales for DeclineTechnical-Efficiency ForcesIdeological ForcesPolitical ForcesRelations with Stakeholders over Time


The retail space, as a crucial factor influencing the customer's feelings, continues to be under great pressure of adopting and embedding digital processes, while supporting the food education, the fight against waste, and the respect for the environment. Today's shoppers are turning to their mobile devices throughout the shopping experience, their smartphones becoming more integral in their daily lives, while businesses are choosing among many different ways to make the instore experience mobile-friendly, taking advantage of this significant touch point. The evolution of the modern retail trade in Romania continues to be spectacular in what concerns competing in offering customers consistent experiences whether they interact with a brand in-store, online or via mobile. by delivering them content fast and seamlessly across all these channels, while also not forgetting that the foundation of retailing is understanding what customers want and need, and consequently developing a deep understanding of the decision journey that the new shoppers undertake. The evolution of the mobile phones in Romania is also spectacular, consumers becoming step by step more preoccupied with the features and technological qualities of their smartphones, and this is offering opportunities for stores to experiment and innovate.


The Saudi Arabian government has recognised the need for an alternative path to national development in the form of a knowledge-based economy (KBE). One of the key drivers of a knowledge-based economy KBE is innovation. Therefore, to achieve this aim, it is important to understand the various factors affecting organisational innovation capability and sustainability. This empirical research study was conducted to provide a better understanding of the interrelationships among the key constructs, socio-technical factors, diffusion of innovation, and knowledge-sharing process towards Saudi organisational innovation capability. The results offer a number of implications, which are beneficial towards the adoption of the knowledge-based economy seeking to enhance the Saudi organisations towards enriching the organisational innovation capability and sustainability.


1,2Under Graduate Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, Kerala, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The number of petrol and diesel vehicles on roads increase day-by-day. It causes a lot of environmental problems. So, there has been focus on green energy vehicles, especially electric vehicles, over the last few decades. In this paper, a twowheeler electric vehicle is designed and also focus is given to make it lightweight, so as to reduce its cost. Also, various components used in the scooter are studied like BLDC motor, Lithium-ion battery etc. The modelling and analysis of the twowheeler electric vehicle were done using Solidworks software. The results indicated that the Von-mises stress and total deformation were less and the fatigue life was more for the designed vehicle. So, it was concluded that, the proposed design of the lightweight two-wheeler electric vehicle offers sufficient strength and is safe for use.


More than 50 per cent of the Indian population lives in villages that are located more than five kilometres from the nearest town. This half of India is more likely to experience illnesses of different kinds and simultaneously less likely to get qualified medical treatment. The incidence of premature deaths, infant and child mortality and malnutrition are all significantly higher within villages located further from towns. In consequence, such villagers are more susceptible than others to being overcome by the medical poverty trap. Poverty has increased within villages located more than five kilometres from towns, even as the national economy was surging ahead. Globalization privileges cities, disadvantaging locations at greater distances from towns. Public policy is required to compensate. Efforts to limit spatial inequalities must take precedence in future health policies.


Objective
To explore the effect of laparoscopic operation combined with detail care on prognosis of children with inguinal hernia.

Methods
68 children with inguinal hernia who underwent laparoscopic surgery in Xianyang Hospital of Yan'an University from December 2015 to June 2017 were randomly divided into two groups, with 34 cases in each group. Experimental group was given detailed care during the perioperative period of laparoscopic surgery, while control group was given routine care. The postoperative recovery of two groups were compared, including postoperative exhaust time, defecation time, ambulation time, length of time and hospital cost. The occurrence of postoperative complications of two groups were recorded, and the satisfaction of the children's families to the nursing service of two groups was statistically analyzed.

Results
The postoperative exhaust time, defecation time, ambulation time and length of time of experimental group were significantly shorter than those of control group, and the total hospital cost was lower than that of control group (P<0.05). Postoperative complication and recurrence rate of experimental group were significantly lower than those of control group (P<0.05). The satisfaction of the children's families to the nursing service of experimental group was significantly higher than that of control group (P<0.05).

Conclusion
Laparoscopy surgery combined with detail care can significantly improve the prognosis of children with inguinal hernia, reduce the incidence of postoperative complications, reduce the risk of recurrence, improve the satisfaction of the children's family to nurses, so it is worth popularizing.

Key words:
Hernia, inguinal; Herniorrhaphy; Laparoscope; Detail Care; Prognosis


The pathogenicity and prevalence of AcMNPV to Spodoptera exigua was studied in the paper.The results showed that the AcMNPV-AaIT had high virulence to Spodoptera exigua.The influence of temperature on toxicity of AcMNPV-AaIT was significant.At 17℃ and 23℃,the LC50 of AcMNPV-AaIT to Spodoptera exigua larvae was 104.56 and 105.92 PIB/mL,respectively.The dead insects infected by the AcMNPV-AaIT were decayed and suppurated easily and the pus contained a mass of virus.The toxicity of AcMNPV-AaIT stored at 4 ℃ was not obviously changed.This suggested that the AcMNPV-AaIT has fairly good propagation and is a hopeful virus for biological control.


Sorghum occupies a significant place in world agriculture and is of particular value in intensive feed production. The selection of agricultural practices for increase of seed productivity is relevant and current, since the availability of own seeds is of decisive importance in reduction of feed production cost. The studies were carried out in Omsk region in 2013, 2015–2017 in a stationary field experiment in eight-field crop rotation. The aim of the work is to study the influence of mineral nutrition conditions on yield of sweet sorghum seeds, water and nutritional regimes of meadow-black soil in the conditions of the south of Western Siberia. The experiment included a three-factor scheme: the supply of soil with mobile phosphorus according to Chirikov (factor A) - average, 50-100 mg/kg (background 0); increased, 100-120 mg/kg (I) and 140-150 mg/kg (II); high, 150-200 mg/kg (III); phosphorus fertilizer (factor B) - P0, P60; nitrogen fertilizer (factor C) - N0, N30, N60. The field experiment was implemented by mutual method of pre-sowing application of mineral fertilizers and different levels of phosphorus in the soil. The soil is meadow-black soil, medium-thick, medium-humus, heavy loamy. The reaction of the soil environment in the arable layer is neutral, the depth of groundwater in spring is 2.86, in autumn - 3.09 m. The climate of the southern forest-steppe of Omsk region is suitable for sweet sorghum cultivation with insufficient moisture in some years and uneven distribution of precipitation during the growing season. The yield of sweet sorghum seeds ranged from 2.93 to 3.46 t/ha on average for 3 years, depending on the background, the largest yield increase was noted on 0 background (N60P60) with a natural level of mobile phosphorus and pre-sowing application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. It is possible to obtain seeds of sweet sorghum in the southern forest-steppe of Omsk region. To achieve high yields on soils with an average content of mobile phosphorus, it is necessary to use nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. It is also indispensable to select an early ripening variety capable of forming high quality seeds in the specific conditions of Siberia.


Proposes a self-stabilizing synchronization technique, called the Neighborhood Synchronizer (/spl Nscr//spl Sscr/), that synchronizes nodes with their neighbors in a tree network. The /spl Nscr//spl Sscr/ scheme has an extremely small memory requirement-only one bit per processor. Algorithm /spl Nscr//spl Sscr/ is inherently self-stabilizing. We apply our synchronizer to design a broadcasting algorithm /spl Bscr//spl Ascr/ in a tree network. Algorithm /spl Bscr//spl Ascr/ is also inherently self-stabilizing and needs only 2h+2m-1 rounds to broadcast m messages, where h is the height of the tree.


This case describes Maple Hills Elementary, a K-8 school in a rural farming community of the Midwest. As a community, Maple Hills has historically experienced a narrow range of diversity across race, ethnicity, language, and religion. Residents have predominantly been White, with German and English heritage, speak English as a mother tongue, and identify as Protestant Christian. In the last decade, Maple Hills has experienced an influx of immigrants from several nations leading to a confluence of issues in Maple Hills Elementary involving culture, language, and special education. In this case, one immigrant mother begins asking hard questions that force the teachers and principals to begin to question their assumptions and practices regarding how student support services are delivered.


Dynamical deformation and collapse process and stress wave mechanism of aluminum honeycombs subjected to the in-plane impact of a rigid impactor were investigated experimentally. Deformation process was visualized using a high-speed video camera and reaction forces were measured using force-gauges at the contact surface between the honeycomb and fixed wall. Also, numerical simulation was made using a shock code. AUTODYN-2D. Since an aluminum honey-comb has an anisotropic nature owing to its cell shape and cell arrangement, the direction of impact greatly affects the deformation characteristics. The present results were compared with our previous results for different impact direction.


Djoeke van Netten examines the interplay between privacy and secrecy in the ships of the Dutch East India Companies (1595-1799). Space aboard a ship was scarce and privacy a rare privilege. Netten starts with a discussion of the sources available as well as those lost to history. She then continues by examining what can be known about the protection of and access to (secret) information and (private) belongings aboard ships. Cases where privacy was violated and secrets revealed emerge as some of the most informative historical events to be examined in this context. As she confronts her historical examples with relevant theoretical and historiographical concepts, she concludes by raising important questions for further research on privacy and secrecy aboard ships.