One of the implicit assumptions made in research related to inventory control is to keep products indefinitely in inventory to meet future demand. However, such an assumption is not true for a large wide of products characterized by a limited lifetime. The economic impact of managing such products led to substantial work in perishable inventory control literature. Investigations developed so far underline the complexity of modeling perishable inventory. Moreover, the dependency of the lifetime to temperature conditions in which products are handled adds more complexity since the lifetime of products stemming from the same order may vary from product to another. In this context, the ability of Time Temperature Integrators to capture the effects of temperature variations on products' lifetime, offers an opportunity to reduce spoilage and therefore ensure product's freshness and safety. The general aim of this thesis is to model perishable inventory systems. Particularly, three different problem areas are considered. The first one concerns perishable inventory with fixed lifetime, often referred as Fixed Life Perishability Problem, where an approximate (r;Q) inventory policy is developed. This model relaxes some assumptions made in previous related works. The second problem considered is a (T; S) perishable inventory system with random lifetime. Results of this model contribute to the development of a theoretical background for perishable inventory systems which are based on Markov renewal process approach. The third area incorporates the impact of temperature variations on products' lifetime throughout inventory systems that use TTIs technology. More general settings regarding the demand and the lifetime distributions are considered throughout simulation analysis. The economic relevance stemming from the deployment of this technology is therefore quantified.


Carbon dioxide evolution was used to determine the storage life at 20° C of 22% moisture, wet basis, shelled corn treated with 0, 15, and 20 ppm of the fungicide iprodione, with and without a nonionic surfactant. Corn lots included three levels of mechanical kernel damage – 3, 14, and 25%. The fungicide increased storage life, compared to the control, at all treatment levels and was more effective on corn that had greater mechanical damage. For corn having 25% mechanical damage, fungicide treatments increased storage life 11.2 to 20.0%. There was no significant difference in amount of mold damage among fungicide treatments. However, most samples molded enough to deteriorate from U.S. grade no. 1 to U.S. grade nos. 4 or 5 by the time they reached 0.5% dry matter loss.


Nitridation of commercial ferrochrome in the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis mode was studied. The influence of the key parameters of the process (nitrogen pressure, sample diameter, particle size distribution of the initial powder) on synthesis and phase composition of the combustion products was elucidated. The microstructural features of nitrided ferrochrome and chromium nitride were examined by electron microscopy. Acid enrichment of the synthesis products in a hydrochloric acid solution was studied in relation to the composition of nitrided ferrochrome. Chromium nitride with the residual iron content of 0.3 wt% was obtained, and its thermal stability and corrosion resistance were examined. DOI: 10.1134/S1070427209050012 Chromium nitride is superior to other metal-like nitrides in corrosion resistance, is characterized by high refl ection coeffi cient, and exhibits enhanced wear resistance. Chromium nitride serves as alloying addition in smelting of high-chromium stainless steels [1]. Sintered chromium nitride is of interest for manufacture of fuel rods and deposition of oxidation-resistant coatings. However, its extensive application is limited by the lack of effi cient commercial production technologies. At the present time, chromium nitride is prepared by furnace (Tula) and plasmochemical procedures (Riga), both of which are highly energy intensive and utilize expensive equipment. An attractive method for preparing chromium mononitride can be found in self-propagating hightemperature synthesis (SHS) distinguished by the use of the heat of the chemical reaction between the components and an autowave mode of the reaction propagation. Braverman et al. [2] showed that combustion of a chromium powder in gaseous nitrogen is suitable for preparing chromium nitride, the maximal degree of chromium nitridation being 0.94. Also, it was demonstrated [3] that combustion of ferrochrome in nitrogen yields chromium nitrides (Cr2N + CrN), but this requires preheating of the initial alloy to 300°C. Published data suggest that, in low-energy systems, SHS does not require additional preheating. This procedure implies preliminary mechanical activation of the reactants, which provides for an energy store enabling SHS [4, 5]. Rabinovich et al. [6] carried out furnace nitridation of ferrochrome and found that it is expedient to crush the initial alloy, and the degree of crushing should increase with decrease in the nitridation temperature. Taking into account the above-said, we studied here synthesis of chromium mononitride by nitridation of ferrochrome in the SHS mode with a view to developing a new method for preparing technical-grade CrN and Cr. Using commercial ferrochrome аs the raw material it will be possible to prepare inexpensive high-quality material.


Different scientific groups are working with either South American camelids or other fibre animal species. This round table offered a platform to identify common management denominators between these species.


ABSTRACT A series of nickel(II) β-ketoimine complexes, {Ni[CH3-C(O)CHC(CH3)NR]2, R=CH3, C4H9}, and ketoiminates, {Ni[CH3C(O)CH(CH3)C(-N(CH2)nN-)C(CH3)CHC(O)CH3], n=2, 6, 8, 9}, and their adducts with 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy) and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) have been synthesized and characterized using elemental analyses, magnetic susceptibility, conductivity, infrared and electronic spectral measurements. The ketoimine ligands coordinate to the nickel atom in a bidentate fashion using the N2O2 chromophore. A range of stereochemistries was observed for the nickel(II) ketoiminates from four-coordinate tetrahedral and square-planar geometry to six-coordinate octahedral geometry. Conductivity measurements indicate that the compounds are non-electrolytes. The influence of bridging chain lengthening on the adopted geometry is discussed and possible structures for the compounds are suggested.


The idea that intellectuals are the social agents who will constitute the ruling class in a post-capitalist society has a long pedigree in the social sciences. In this book, King and Szelényi examine a heterogeneous set of theories that share this basic assumption, highlighting their empirical and analytical limitations and explaining their basic features in the light of historical contexts of emergence. According to King and Szelényi, although these theories of the 'New Class' are characterized by a 'lack of specificity and lucidity' (p. xiv) and false predictions, there is evidence that sectors of the 'highly educated' have indeed pursued their own – failed or incomplete – collective mobility projects. King and Szelényi distinguish three historical waves of theoretical reflection about the 'New Class', each pointing to different collective actors as real or potential challengers to bourgeois domination. The first corresponds to Anarchist theories, which suggest that intellectuals, and not workers, would exercise political power after the proletariat's revolution (e.g., Bakunin). The second wave refers to theories of bureaucracy and technocracy, which claim that managers and planners have gained, or were near to achieving, effective control of the means of production under communism (Djilas), advanced capitalism (Galbraith) or both (Burnham). Finally, King and Szelenyi term the third wave the 'teleocratic project' of the humanist intelligentsia, whose bid for power is based on their monopoly of the 'culture of critical discourse' (e.g., Gouldner). King and Szelényi's discussion of the evolution of ideas about intellectuals and power begins with the Saint-Simonian meritocracy and ends with the contemporary 'knowledge-class' theories. One of the most interesting parts of this historical


the black eyebrow coloring jade buries the flower is"A Dream of Red Mansions"in a beautiful picture, contains a profound artistic conception.The United States and is the author of this mood through atmosphere rendering, the main character of the activities, as well as poetic poetic expression to create the emotion.


Observations of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 are reported and compared with theoretical models. Strong spiral structure is seen in the H I gas distribution. These neutral hydrogen arms correspond very well with the optical arms and with H II regions. The central region of the galaxy is gas-poor. This region is approximately the one occupied by the bar, suggesting a dynamical origin for the lack of gas. Analysis of the velocity field yields a systematic velocity of 1575.0 km/s, a position angle for the line of nodes of - 85.5 deg, and an inclination of 50.2 deg. The rotation curve derived from this velocity field rises to a maximum of 185 km/s and then drops slowly out to a distance of 3.2 arcmin. No evidence is seen for a truncation signature in the rotation curve. Simple mass models yielded a mass of 4.9 x 10 to the 10th solar mass for the total galaxy mass. 31 references.


The invention provides a device and method for generating a screen shot image in a terminal. The device comprises a screen shot mode starting unit used for controlling the terminal to enter the screen shot mode, a target content determining unit used for determining the expected intercepted target content in the content displayed in a rolling mode under the screen shot mode, a content data extraction unit used for extracting and determining content data corresponding to the target content, and an image generation unit used for generating the screen shot image including the extracted content data. By means of the device and method for generating the screen shot image in the terminal, the expected intercepted target content is determined in the content displayed in the rolling mode, and one-time screen shot taking can be conducted on the target content out of the display range of a screen.


Later embryonic development of Sebastes trivittatus passes in 20 days under water temperature 10 оС (in June-July). During this period, the embryos of S. trivittatus increase in diameter from 0.1 mm to 1.3 mm and change their shape from spherical to elliptical. Within gonads of pre-hatching females, the embryos have different stages: from prelarvae on late stages of development in the internal layers to pre-hatching larvae in the external layer. The pre-hatching larva has TL 4.1 mm, 5–6 melanophores on the top of head, 20 melanophores in ventral row, some melanophores on peritoneum, and oil globule in the frontal part of intestine; its notochord is not flexed, yolk sac is absent, body myotomes are poor visible, number of tail myotomes is 24.


Abstract : This report describes a quick approach to query for existing assets in a custom multimedia database based on an area of interest. It also describes the augmentation of an Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) to allow for selection and specification of an area of interest.


Cytoskeletal cords connecting cells at the back of cell groups enable directional migration Constructing multicellular bodies, starting from a single-cell zygote, often requires the movement of cells across considerable distances, which is achieved through cell migration. During embryonic development, as well as in healing and regeneration, cells travel across diverse terrains, which dictates the character of navigation (1). Cancer cells metastasize and migrate into healthy organs, and knowledge of their migration strategies could be important to identify targets to treat advanced disease (2). Some migratory cells cover large distances individually (3), whereas others migrate in groups, with leaders and followers being directed by chemical signals (chemotaxis) (4, 5). The exchange of information and resulting motility of such groups has been enigmatic. Moreover, the driving force of collective cell migration has been considered a sum of migratory and signaling activities of individually participating cells. However, according to a study on page 339 of this issue by Shellard et al. (6), collective cell migration requires formation of cytoskeletal structures that span through adjoining cells at the rear of a cell group to coordinate, orient, and propel the entire group. This mechanism of collective cell migration could be applicable to cancer metastasis and wound healing and might change our understanding of developmental migration.


Positron-impact total scattering cross-sections for Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and Fr atoms are calculated in the energy range from 5–5000 eV employing modified spherical complex optical potential formalism. The main aim of this work is to apply this formalism to the less studied positron-target collision systems. The results are compared with previous theoretical and experimental data, wherever available. In general, the present data show overall agreement and consistency with other results. Furthermore, we have done a comparative study of the results to investigate the effect of atomic size on the cross-sections as we descend through the group in the periodic table. We have also plotted a correlation graph of the present total cross-sections with polarizability and number of target electrons. The two correlation plots confirm the credibility and consistency of the present results. Besides, this is the first theoretical attempt to report positron-impact total cross-sections of alkali atoms over such a wide energy range.


Major computational challenges have historically prevented molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecular systems from reaching the timescales on which biologically interesting events, such as conformational dynamics associated to protein function, are experimentally observed. Recent advances in the development of hardware, software, and algorithms for parallel computing have greatly contributed in diminishing this gap. This review outlines the theoretical backgrounds of the parallel computing methods used in molecular simulation and protein modeling and summarizes the state-of-the art in available tools and techniques.


ABSTRACT Collaborative school cultures have been associated with the achievement of a number of school reform objectives for both teachers and students. Little is known, however, about how such cultures develop and whether or how school administrators can facilitate that process. This study examined the practices of administrators in each of 12 schools which had developed highly collaborative professional relationships over a three year period in the context of school improvement initiatives. Results suggest the feasibility of developing more collaborative school cultures in a relatively brief period of time and clarify the role played by the larger context of school improvement for fostering collaboration. Specific strategies used by the administrators are described. These strategies are associated with a concept of leadership termed "transformational".


Construction of textile materials is very complex and wide ranging that the structure and material composition are the main factors, which determine the permeability and comfort properties. Comfort is a fundamental quality of fabrics and the performance of the fabric with perception produces a physiological impulse to the wearer. To achieve this complex phenomenon on the fabric, many researchers have carried out wide work on thermal comfort, moisture management and fabric handle properties. Fabric handle is the feel on the textile material and it is associated with the tactile comfort of fabric connected to low stress mechanical properties and the body movement. This fabric low stress mechanical properties of fabric can be estimated through Kawabata Evaluation System. An attempt has been made to find out the low stress mechanical properties of spacer fabrics because the fabric has high potential compared to other textiles due to its 3D structure.


In 1990, John Berge described several families of knots in the three-dimensional sphere which have non-trivial Dehn surgeries yielding lens spaces. We study a subfamily of them from the view point of resolution of singularity of complex curves and surfaces, Kirby calculus in topology of four-dimensional manifolds and A'Campo's divide knot theory.


We present DeepMVI, a deep learning method for missing value imputation in multidimensional time-series datasets. Missing values are commonplace in decision support platforms that aggregate data over long time stretches from disparate sources, whereas reliable data analytics calls for careful handling of missing data. One strategy is imputing the missing values, and a wide variety of algorithms exist spanning simple interpolation, matrix factorization methods like SVD, statistical models like Kalman filters, and recent deep learning methods. We show that often these provide worse results on aggregate analytics compared to just excluding the missing data.
 DeepMVI expresses the distribution of each missing value conditioned on coarse and fine-grained signals along a time series, and signals from correlated series at the same time. Instead of resorting to linearity assumptions of conventional matrix factorization methods, DeepMVI harnesses a flexible deep network to extract and combine these signals in an end-to-end manner. To prevent over-fitting with high-capacity neural networks, we design a robust parameter training with labeled data created using synthetic missing blocks around available indices. Our neural network uses a modular design with a novel temporal transformer with convolutional features, and kernel regression with learned embeddings.
 Experiments across ten real datasets, five different missing scenarios, comparing seven conventional and three deep learning methods show that DeepMVI is significantly more accurate, reducing error by more than 50% in more than half the cases, compared to the best existing method. Although slower than simpler matrix factorization methods, we justify the increased time overheads by showing that DeepMVI provides significantly more accurate imputation that finally impacts quality of downstream analytics.


To investigate the significance of gastric xanthelasma, a retrospective review of 109 cases with an endoscopic diagnosis of this lesion was undertaken. A predominance in older patients was noted, with a similar distribution in antrum and fornix. In 15 cases (16.6%) they were multiple. They were occasionally associated with gastric erosions. In particular they were associated with chronic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia (48.9%). It is therefore concluded that gastric xanthelasma is not a rare lesion and that it is frequently associated with senile degenerative changes in the gastric mucosa.


Theoretical studies on liquid crystal porphyrin molecules with chiral side chair and luminescent characterization were carried out using the density functional theory at B3LYP/6-31G level to obtain optimized equilibrium structure. On this basis, the first excited state electronic transition energy was calculated using time-dependent density function theory, and λmax was obtained. The computed results indicate that substituting group with chiral side chair and luminescent characterization has little effect on λmax, but the introduction of Zn atom leads to blue shift of maximal absorption wavelength.


DESCRIBES CONSTRUCTION OF INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN SEATTLE AND BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON, INCLUDING COVERED FREEWAY SECTIONS, A TUNNEL, AND A FLOATING BRIDGE


A culture of migration and return is now part of everyday life in the Kingdom of Tonga, and transnational exchange relationships are crucial to the country's economy. Despite research on the impacts of remittances and other transnational exchange activities on livelihoods in Tonga and in migrant host countries, there has been little research on the interwoven dependencies and relationships amongst home, host, local, and diasporan nodes or the impact of short-term visits in both directions. This paper explores dynamic processes within the agency of family-linked economic and social practices of migrants and their descendants in host countries as well as their homelands. These activities are theorised within transnational contexts 'from below' (micro), 'above' (macro), 'middling' (meso), and 'from above' (macro) levels. The methodology, grounded in Pacific and Western ontologies, co-creatively analyses the exchange and enterprise activities of families on a remote island of Tonga with high out-migration, compared with their relatives in Auckland, New Zealand. Key findings are that short-term visiting ensures the survival of a range of economic, social, and cultural activities that are critically important for 'being Tongan' in the different diasporan contexts. The originality of the research lies in retheorising enterprise alternatives for transnational Tongans, development of a Pacific-framed view of transnational enterprise, and method that captures exchange complexities. The analysis fills a gap in knowledge regarding the impact of short visits on diasporan livelihoods, with implications for labour policy in home and diasporan locations to encourage youth to stay longer and older people to return sooner. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The purpose of this study was to determine young maize stover flour production resulted from biodegradation Pleurotus ostreatus fungi with fiber digesting enzyme on broiler feed implications. Materials used in this research were young maize stover (60-70 days), Pleurotus ostreatus fungi, urea (CO-(NH 2 ) 2 ), readily available carbohydrate, aquadest and alcohol. The method used ANOVA test with five treatments and four replication: R0 = control (without fermentation), R1 = 10g Pleurotus ostreatus /kg TTJM; R2 = 20g Pleurotus ostreatus /kg TTJM; R3 = 20g Pleurotus ostreatus /kg TTJM and R4 = 40g Pleurotus ostreatus /kg TTJM. The result showed best effect of crude protein R2= 32.33, best effect of crude fat R4= 18.59, best effect of crude fiber RO= 119.70, and best effect of energy (kkal) R4= 20682.59. The study concluded that the increasing crude protein and crude fat also decreased crude fiber content as a result of fermentation using Pleurotus ostreatus . The energy content of maize stover had no significant effect due to fermentation. Key words : fermentation , enzyme, maize stover, broiler


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We examine banking competition when deposit or loan contracts contingent on macroeconomic shocks become feasible. We show that the risk allocation is efficient, provided that banks are not bailed out. In this case, banks may shift part of the risk to depositors. The private sector insures the banking sector and banking crises are avoided. In contrast, when banks are bailed out, depositors receive non-contingent contracts with high interest rates, while entrepreneurs obtain loan contracts that demand high repayment in good times and low repayment in bad times. As a result, the present generation overinvests, and banks create large macroeconomic risks for future generations, even if the underlying risk is small or zero.


The invention discloses a cam speed reducer with small teeth difference. The cam speed reducer is characterized in that two groups of cam speed reducing mechanisms with small teeth difference and the same shapes and sizes are arranged between an input shaft and an output shaft in parallel; in the cam speed reducing mechanism with small teeth difference, a rolling bearing is arranged on an eccentric bushing, a shock wave wheel is arranged on the rolling bearing, the periphery of the shock wave wheel is uniformly distributed with a group of shaft pins with rolling bushings, the outer ring of the shock wave wheel is provided with an inner cam ring, the number of the shaft pins is less one than the number of the cams in the inner cam ring; and in the two parallel groups of cam speed reducing mechanisms with small teeth difference, the eccentric bushings which are intersected with each other with a phase angle of 180 DEG are of an integral structure, and the eccentric bushings with the integral structure are fixedly connected with the input shaft. The cam speed reducer with small teeth difference, provided by the invention, can be set as one stage or multi-stage, and is compact in structure, large in reduction ratio, great in contact ratio, high in reliability and stability, good in process, small in volume, and particularly strong in shock resistance and vibration resistance.


Oxidative rearrangement of 2-/4-monoacctyl- and 2,4-diacctyldeuteroporphyrin IX dimethyl esters by methanolic !hallie ni trate trihydrate in presence of cone. nitric acid furnished the corresponding mono- and dimethoxycarbunylmcthylpo•·phyrins, respectively.


The humoral and cellular immune responses in the genital mucosa likely play an important role in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Here we show that vaginal infection of progesterone-treated BALB/c mice with a recombinant influenza virus bearing the immunodominant P18IIIB cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) epitope of the gp160 envelope protein from an HIV-1 IIIB isolate (P18IIIB; RIQRGPGRAFVTIGK) can induce a specific immune response in regional mucosal lymph nodes, as well as in a systemic site (the spleen). A single inoculation of mice with the recombinant influenza virus induced long-lasting (at least 5 months) antigen-specific CTL memory detectable as a rapid recall of effector CTLs upon vaginal infection with recombinant vaccinia virus expressing HIV-1 IIIB envelope gene products. Long-term


We present a framework for the theoretical analysis of ensembles of low-complexity empirical risk minimisers trained on independent random compressions of high-dimensional data. First we introduce a general distribution-dependent upper-bound on the excess risk, framed in terms of a natural notion of compressibility. This bound is independent of the dimension of the original data representation, and explains the in-built regularisation effect of the compressive approach. We then instantiate this general bound to classification and regression tasks, considering Johnson-Lindenstrauss mappings as the compression scheme. For each of these tasks, our strategy is to develop a tight upper bound on the compressibility function, and by doing so we discover distributional conditions of geometric nature under which the compressive algorithm attains minimax-optimal rates up to at most poly-logarithmic factors. In the case of compressive classification, this is achieved with a mild geometric margin condition along with a flexible moment condition that is significantly more general than the assumption of bounded domain. In the case of regression with strongly convex smooth loss functions we find that compressive regression is capable of exploiting spectral decay with near-optimal guarantees. In addition, a key ingredient for our central upper bound is a high probability uniform upper bound on the integrated deviation of dependent empirical processes, which may be of independent interest.


Janice W. Edwards, Ganesh M. Kishore and David M. Stark (Monsanto Company)

Several discoveries in the 1980s and 1990s permitted the transition of plant molecular biology from a fledgling science to commercial reality. These discoveries ranged from the identification of biologically important genes to the development of methods to introduce new genes into plants transformation and regulate gene expression. Nearly five dozen plant species have been transformed and the list of plant species subject to transformation include principal field crops such as corn, cotton, rape, rice, soybean, and wheat. In addition, several horticultural species such as tomato, potato, etc, have been subject to transformation. More than 500 field tests have been conducted and transgenic plants such as transgenic tomato, soybean, corn, rape, etc, are in the advanced stages of commercial development and regulatory process.

Four methods have been extensively investigated for the introduction of transferred deoxyribonucleic acid (T-DNA) into plants. Most common direct uptake of DNA by protoplasts, particle acceleration techniques such as electrostatic discharge or biolistics gun technology, and DNA uptake into partially digested immature embryos.

Expression of genes that have been introduced into plants is regulated by promoters, although the extent of regulation of gene activity by the promoter is influenced at least to some extent by the insertion site of the gene within the chromosome. The choice of promoters is dictated by the tissue and developmental specificity required for gene expression. Two specific applications of plant biotechnology include engineering tolerance to the widely used herbicide glyphosate, C3H8NO5P, and increasing starch biosynthesis in plants. Both tomato fruit ripening and fruit firmness are among the advanced quality traits that are being investigated.

Keywords:

Bioengineering;
Glyphosate tolerance;
Engineering roundup tolerance;
Starch content;
Enzymes;
Insect control


The South African government initiated land redistribution in 1995, offering cash grants to historically disadvantaged households who wished to purchase commercial farms from white owners on a willing buyer, willing seller basis. Together, land restitution and redistribution transferred one million hectares, or less than 1.2 per cent of the available area, to beneficiaries during 1995-2000. Most of these transfers were directed to resettlement schemes on low quality land with communal tenure arrangements in order to reach many beneficiaries quickly and at modest cost. This paper presents the results of five annual census surveys of farmland transactions recorded in the province of KwaZulu-Natal from 1997 to 2001. The object was to learn more about private land transfers to historically disadvantaged people. During this time, historically disadvantaged people acquired a total of 121,484 hectares, or just 2.3 per cent of the 5.31 million hectares available for redistribution in the province. Government-assisted purchases accounted for 45,121 hectares, private land purchases (cash and mortgage loans) for 60,266 hectares, and private non-market transfers (mainly bequests) for 16,097 hectares. Private purchases not only redistributed more land than did government-assisted purchases, they also redistributed farmland of much better quality.


To assess the possible efficacy of fluoxetine hydrochloride in severe PMS (premenstrual syndrome, luteal phase dysphoric disorder), an open trial of this medication was undertaken on women with severe PMS. Of 38 patients seeking evaluation of PMS, 35 met the criteria for diagnosis, and 21 had mild symptoms and were treated symptomatically. Fourteen had more severe symptoms persisting for more than 5 to 6 days of the month, and 11 elected to participate in an open trial of low-dose (20 mg) fluoxetine, an antidepressant. Ten continued treatment for 3 to 20 months, with moderate to marked relief of symptoms during treatment and without problematic side effects (one patient was given 40 mg daily; the remainder received 20 mg daily). On discontinuing therapy, seven have had persisting remissions, and two have returned for another cycle of fluoxetine therapy, with relief. It is unclear whether such a strong positive response to fluoxetine, an antidepressant with particularly good effects in "atypical depression," indicates that the women affected by severe PMS have a cyclic, hormonally induced change in brain chemistry causing a depressive type of condition, or whether they have a true (atypical) mild depression with brief remission due to "perifollicular euphoria" in the estrogenic follicular phase.


varying degrees of data uncertainty. The results are very interesting, as the proposed method does identify relevant population subsets, but only very few clusters manage to be identified even when the method's parameters are tuned. This suggests the structure of the problem is very continuous, and tends to generate models which are mutually very close one to another when considering the adjacencies of geological units.


Color features are important to pictures and they are easy to calculate. Therefore, the features are widely used in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). A color histogram describes the frequency of colors in images. It won't change with the variations of pictures' geometry, so it is a widely used feature for image indexing although it has some shortcomings. In this paper, we propose a new color space quantization arithmetic and a new histogram similarity function with respect to the shortcoming and make a prototype system for image indexing. The experiments show that the new color image retrieval algorithm is effective and robust


Power electronics system integration is a hybrid and complex work which involves several subjects such as material,mechanics,chemistry,informatics and so on.It can realize high power density,high efficiency, high reliability,harmony with environment and low cost for power electronics system.The modeling of power electronics integrated system is analyzed from three layers: switching and component cell layer,standardized power electronics module layer and system layer.The module-layer modeling includes establishing electrical,switching,thermal,thermodynamics and integrated model.The goal of the system-layer modeling is to study the steady,dynamic and transient functions and give the structure optimization strategies of the power electronics integrated system.The research orientation in the future is also discussed.


High resolution field desorption mass spectrometry (FD-MS) of the disodium salts of D-glucose 6-phosphate and the corresponding 2-, 3-, and 4-deoxyfluoro-derivatives gives quasimolecular ions inclusive of cations.


There are more women in politics in Uganda and South Africa today than in many more developed democracies. This significant achievement owes to explicit affirmative action interventions in political institutions and processes to favour women's participation. This article analyses these measures for their effectiveness in bringing more women into government, and for their impact on the perceived legitimacy of women in power. It goes on to stress that there is a difference between a numerical increase in women representatives, and the representation of women's interests in government decision‐making. The one does not automatically lead to the other, not just because individual women politicians cannot all be assumed to be concerned with gender equity, but because of institutionalised resistance to gender equity within the apparatus of governance. This problem is exacerbated in the context of structural adjustment, which rules out social welfare measures to subsidise women's reproductive contributions to the...


Innovation has always spanned countries and continents. At the turn of the 20th century, the Wright brothers in the United States of America (U.S.) and Alberto Santos-Dumont in Brazil invented the first airplanes to fly successfully. Yet, the development of the modern airplane owes much to scientific advances in Europe that explained why heavier-than-air machines could fly.1 The development and dissemination of the agricultural technologies that unleashed the green revolution after the Second World War relied on partnerships between the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations in the U.S. and a large number of agricultural research institutes in developing economies.2 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – a research consortium on the Franco–Swiss border sponsored by 23 (mostly) European countries.3 As documented in this report, innovation today is both highly localized and international at the same time. Different agglomeration forces have favored the formation of innovation hotspots that typically fall within large metropolitan regions. A limited set of hotspots lead the way and are at the center of global innovation networks. Various formal and informal links connect the nodes of these networks, with multinational companies playing a key role within them. Evidence from patent and scientific publication records suggests that the crossborder dimension of these links has increased over the past decades.


The paper proposes an algorithm based on the Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter (MSCKF) algorithm to construct the map for robots special in the poor GPS signal environment. We can calculate the position of the robots with the data collected by inertial measurement unit and the features extracted by the camera with MSCKF algorithm in a tight couple way. The paper focuses on the way of optimizing the position because we adopt it to compute Kalman gain for updating the state of robots. In order to reduce the processing time, we design a novel fast Gauss–Newton MSCKF algorithm to complete the nonlinear optimization. Compared with the performance of conventional MSCKF algorithm, the novel fast-location algorithm can reduce the processing time with the kitti datasets.


This paper investigates the cost and revenue efficiency of Turkish commercial banks in the deregulated period 1989-1999 using a three input-three output Fourier-flexible functional form. The results suggest that the Turkish banking system has a serious inefficiency problem. A ranking of banks under each model shows that there is a statistically significant negative correlation between the estimates of cost and revenue efficiency. Although the annual cost inefficiency average decreased over the period between 1995 and 1998, commercial banks in the sector operated more inefficiently than their U.S. and European counterparts during the sample period. The results also indicete the existence of technological progress between 1996 and 1999.


Over the past decade, power plant control systems have evolved from DCS-centered platforms with proprietary software, to open systems using industry standard hardware and software, and then to totally integrated plant automation systems with almost unlimited connectivity and the ability to interrogate field instruments from many different manufacturers. What's next?


The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) organized a panel discussion on ''The Role of the Hindu Kush–Himalayan (HKH) Mountain System in the Context of a Changing Climate'' on 5 December 2008. The 7 invited panelists were Prof. Bruno Messerli, former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Foundation of Science (IFS); Prof. Sun Honglie, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Prof. A. N. Purohit, former vice chancellor of H. N. B. Garhwal University, India; Dr. Pema Gyamtsho, minister for Agriculture, Royal Government of Bhutan; Mr. Dipak Gyawali, former minister for Water Resources, Government of Nepal; Dr. Amir Muhammed, former federal minister of Agriculture, Government of Pakistan; and Dr. Christoph Beier, director for Asia and Latin America, GTZ. The discussion was chaired by Dr. Pitamber Sharma, vice chairman, National Planning Commission, Nepal, and was facilitated by Mr. Surendra Shrestha, director for the United Nations Environment Programme. Dr. Andreas Schild, director general of ICIMOD, introduced the topic and explained the background of the discussion. The discussion was part of the series of events organized on the occasion of ICIMOD's 25th anniversary with a view to understanding the major challenges in the region and the role of a regional institution such as ICIMOD, with a focus on the mountain agenda in the context of climate change. The discussion revolved around 2 broad themes: (1) the key issues and challenges posed to the HKH region by climate change and (2) determining how to deal with these issues and challenges and identifying the possible role of ICIMOD. The main themes of the deliberation and discussion are presented below.


In their evocative thought experiment, Woolf et al. demonstrate that reducing racial disparities might result in greater gains in life expectancy than would investments in medical technology.1 In calculating reductions in mortality attributable to medical technology, the authors conservatively assumed that medical technology was responsible for 100% of the observed reduction in mortality over the study period. Unfortunately, there is a catch to this assumption that renders it less conservative. Over the 1991–2000 study frame the authors used, increases in the Gini coefficient occurred.2 This suggests that socioeconomic disparities for the overall population (not just African Americans) worsened. If disparities are causing declines in health, they will hide a portion of the observed gains in life expectancy owing to medical technology.

For instance, suppose that increasing disparities resulted in a loss of 1 year of life expectancy for the overall US population over the 1991–2000 study frame. The actual improvement in life expectancy was 1.5 years.3 Therefore, if improvements in medical technology were responsible for all gains in life expectancy, the actual gains from medical technology would have been 2.5 years rather than the observed 1.5 years. Nonetheless, the study points to a critical issue that requires further examination by policymakers. Most educational interventions produce dollar returns.4 Therefore, shifting societal resources toward improving the educational attainment of African Americans makes sense from a public policy standpoint, regardless of the relative gains in health.


Eleven experimental high alumina cement clinkers were prepared in which iron was partially reduced to mixtures of FeO and Fe 2 O 3 . Crystallization products of the melts were determined as a function of composition and cooling rate. The most significant discovery was the occurrence of mixed layer intergrowths of gehlenite and pleochroite, nominally Ca 20 Al 32-x Fe x 2+ Si x O 68 (x∼2.5-3.5). These intergrowths are indistinguishable from ordinary pleochroite by optical microscopy and powder X-ray diffraction but are revealed by high resolution electron microscopy. Intergrowth formation is assisted by similarities between the two structures. In some composition and crystallization regimes, mixed intergrowth formation removes much of the calcium, aluminium, and silicon which would otherwise yield monocalcium aluminate and dicalcium silicate


We introduce a modular and reconfigurable software framework for protocol stacks implemented in platform independent manner. Simulation tools useful for software validations are introduced and a new distributed, three-staged procedure for validation of protocol stack software is proposed. Assertion-based virtual prototyping (based on nonresident assertions), utilising simulation of hardware software co-systems as well as software probes containing code-resident assertions are used in the proposed validation process.


Results of a prospective, single-surgeon study comparing three different liposuction methods indicate an ultrasound-assisted technique offers superior efficacy relative to both suction-assisted liposuction (SAL) and waterjet-assisted liposuction (WAL). Ultrasound-assisted liposuction (UAL) was also associated with minimal intra- and postoperative morbidity, but is accompanied by some trade-offs that include longer procedure time and increased expense of the ultrasound equipment, says Robert J. Troell, M.D.


Background: It has been reported that Porphyromonas gingivalis is closely associated with chronic periodontitis and its detection has been recommended as a routine marker for periodontal diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a DNA probe to detect P. gingivalis in adult Chinese periodontitis patients as well as to find a rapid and convenient method to detect P. gingivalis in clinical practice. Methods: A total of 26 bacterial strains (20 reference strains and 6 clinical isolates) were collected, of which 5 were P. gingivalis and 21 were heterologous species. A DNA fragment of 542 bp, which encodes the fimbriae subunit protein (fimA) of P. gingivalis, was obtained by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and molecular cloning techniques and used to construct the DNA probe, labeled with 32P or with digoxigenin. The constructed DNA probe was used to detect P. gingivalis in specimens collected from the periodontal pockets of 100 patients clinically confirmed with chr...


The vertical and horizontal mixing of waters within the ocean affects the Earth's climate because it controls the poleward transport of heat and carbon within the ocean, the structure of the large-scale currents, and the character of water that upwells and interacts with the atmosphere. Particularly in the Southern Ocean, ocean general circulation models can show different behavior depending on the exact representation of mixing. To date, however, measurements of this mixing have not been available because of the remoteness and difficult working conditions in the Southern Ocean.

The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES) seeks to understand the regional importance of the Southern Ocean to global circulation by measuring large- and small-scale mixing processes. In the ocean, water moves primarily along surfaces of constant potential density (isopycnals), but it can also mix and change density between these surfaces in what is known as diapycnal mixing. This experiment, a joint effort between U.S. and U.K. scientists, will begin fieldwork in early 2009.


In Neighbour Rosicky,Willa Cather not merely shatters the time chain and manipulates the spatial shift but integrates her philosophical consideration of binary opposition and its synthesis into the net woven with time and spaces.As a result,the novel,not limiting itself in significance of land for an immigrant,develops multiple themes.It seems that Cather tries to set a few parameters of blissful life.In addition,in light of the fact there exist several audiences of Rosicky's tales right in the novel,it can be also interpreted as instructive tales of growing up.


The assembly of different levels of structure from the nano‐ to the macroscale has produced materials with outstanding performance. Here, using graphene as a model building block, the fabrication of multiscale structures is reported, with tailorable features spanning seven orders of magnitude in size by a 3D printed template‐directed assembly method which combines the ability to customize structures from the meso‐ to macroscale using digital light processing and from the nano‐ to microscale using self‐assembly. It is shown that by a careful design of the structures, a number of extraordinary properties can be produced including ultralow density (≥0.08 mg cm–3), and ultrahigh stiffness, and compressibility (full recovery from 95% strain). The approach not only provides diversified structure control over wide length scales for nanomaterial assembly but also shows the possibility of changing the properties of the structure for different applications.


Presents a learning scheme for judging whether there are any naked people in an image. First, learning vector quantization is used to build several classifiers based on the low-level features, such as color histogram, region shape, texture and etc., which are extracted from the images. The best classifier performs a recognition ratio of 81.3%, so the Adaboost learning method is applied to combine these classifiers to form a stronger one, and the final classification achieves a result of 86.0% on the test set. Adaboost's ability in multi-feature analysis is emphasized, and the proposed algorithm is important both for the blue-picture-filter in the WWW and for semantic image indexing in content-based image retrieval. In experiments, the groundtruth is made of 1,200 images and the test set is independent from the training set.


1. Caterino JM, Leininger R, Kline DM et al. Accuracy of current diagnostic criteria for acute bacterial infection in older adults in the emergency department. J Am Geriatr Soc 2017; DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14912 2. Kataoka Y, Yamamoto S. Some concerns about diagnostic test accuracy for infections. J Am Geriatr Soc 2017; DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15005 3. Usage Note 24170: Estimating Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive and Negative Predictive Values, and Other Statistics [on-line]. Available at http://support. sas.com/kb/24/170.html Accessed June 28, 2017.


In response to this special issue's focus on new directions in auditing research, specifically its call for more analysis on the 'real' impact of inclusion discourses within the accounting profession, this paper critically interprets representations of gender and ethnic diversity in accounting firms' recruitment photographs using a critical visual methodology. We analyze photographs from the recruitment websites of public accounting firms for depictions of gender and ethnic inclusiveness using a Barthesian approach. We analyze and interpret the denotative and connotative content of 1493 photographs and connotatively interpret the text and photographs in two particularly salient recruitment documents using critical semiotics. We find women (non-white individuals) make up approximately half (one quarter) of the people depicted, roughly matching trends in the population. However, women and non-white individuals are frequently depicted in subordinate roles. While they are denotatively 'present' in recruitment photographs, they are constructed connotatively as 'other' in public accounting, consistent with hegemony. Women and non-white individuals are generally constructed as outsiders, despite their numerical presence in the photographs. Accounting firms should be aware of various possible connotative interpretations of their photographs, as these interpretations may conflict with the accounts with respect to diversity and inclusion conveyed in photographs' denotative content.


Graphene is a wonder material, and it has remarkable mechanical property not only limited to few kind of mechanical properties. This included electrical, optical, thermal capability and resistivity. It is hypothetically an excellent method to approach with Reinforcement in metal matrix composites. This paper totally depends on review of Aluminum – super extended graphite material, super extended graphite is commonly known as a 'Graphene'. This paper focuses on the review about fabrication methodology and problems faced in fabrication of Al-Graphene based composite, and we analyzed flexible and high possible path to economic consideration. This article covers a step-by-step process for enhancing a composite material for a commercial application. In this study analysis, the mechanical behavior of aluminum-graphene composite is made by potentially reinforced metal matrix method with particulate stir casting method. The main objective of this study is to provide the functional process of graphene based composite effectively. The aluminum (Al-7075 Alloy) is a metal matrix and has 1% of graphene. In recent decades, a hype of graphene material and carbon nano tubes have come due to technological advancement as it leads to commercial establishment. Composite material played the important role in the recent years to replace the traditional material in the easiest manner. Graphene based composite has wide variety of uses and enormous applications to drive for a better future.


Tocopherols (vitamin E) are substances with high biological activity and antioxidant properties. They can be found in sunflower oil, soybean oil, almonds, margarine, walnuts, peanuts, butter, full grain flour, eggs, and milk. The most biologically active form of tocopherols is D-α-tocopherol, 100% of which is absorbed by the human organism. Although β, γ, and δ-tocopherols are less important antioxidants than other forms, they all have antioxidant activity. α-Tocopherol at high concentrations stabilizes biological membranes [1, 2] and reduces platelet aggregation [3, 4], but its main physiological function, in addition to its antioxidant activity, is the elimination of free radicals (peroxide radicals). All the tocopherols have an oily consistency.


Diabetes remains the major public health challenge to the 21st century. It is strongly related
to lifestyle changes. Most chronic complications of diabetes are macrovascular and microvascular
diseases resulting from the existing hyperglycemic status. After the failure of first-line therapy,
which is based on diet modifications and exercise, conventional treatment using antihyperglycemic
agents with different mechanisms of action will be implemented for type II diabetes in modern medicine.
Higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms are highly praised for their nutritional value and pharmacological
properties. They have long been used traditionally for the maintenance of health, prevention
and treatment of various human ailments. Reports indicate the beneficial effects of medicinal
mushrooms in diabetes treatments. However, scientific evidence are insufficient to make definitive
conclusions on the efficacy of individual medicinal mushrooms. Mushrooms belong to the genera
Phellinus such as Phellinus linteus, Phellinus ribis, Phellinus rimosus and Phellinus igniarius. They
possess a significant hypoglycemic effect in experimental diabetic models. However, well-designed
controlled clinical trials are needed to establish their safety and bioactivity.


From the present situation of MCC Meili PulpPaper Co.,Ltd.,the analysis research of implementing process and result of refinement management was carried on by combining the refinement management theory.Some predictable problems were explored and discussed in the process of implementation.It was hoped that one approach with the company's characteristics of refinement management could be found.


Tillage is the most energy-intensive process and should be aimed at the accumulation of humus and the formation of a fertile soil layer. Therefore, the development of resource-saving technological processes and technical means to stop the progressive degradation of soil from wind, water erosion and reduce operating costs is relevant. The most gentle cultivation of the soil with less energy costs allows you to perform disk implements. The cultivator working process is examined from the point of view of the power characteristics of the disk-soil. Soil cultivation is systemic in nature and is based on zonal conditions, as it should be soil-protective, energy-saving, economically viable and environmentally friendly. Fulfilment of these requirements is connected with the right choice and optimal combination of used machines. Analytical expressions are obtained that establish the dependence of the horizontal and vertical components of the drag force of a disk tillage implement as a function of the volume of the cut soil layer. The use of the research results will help industrial enterprises of agricultural machinery in the design of new tillage machines for agriculture, which will reduce the cost of manufacturing prototypes and testing them for traction resistance and quality of soil cultivation.


Assessing the supply and demand of urban green space (UGS) ecosystem services (ESs) can provide relevant insights for urban planning. This study presents an analysis method for the spatial distribution of UGS ES supply and demand at administrative unit and 1-m grid scales and directly compares the matches of ES supply and demand in spatially explicit maps at two scales. Based on the analysis results at administrative unit scale, administrative units with an unbalanced UGS ES supply and demand were divided into three types: (Ⅰ) lack of green space; (Ⅱ) unreasonable green space structure; (Ⅲ) comprehensive, and different optimization schemes were put forward. According to the analysis results at 1-m scale, the regions with an unbalanced ES supply and demand of an administrative unit were divided into the following: (1) severe ES shortage area; (2) moderate ES shortage area; (3) mild ES shortage area, and the severe ES shortage area was taken as the UGS optimization area. We take the UGS within the 5th Ring Road of Beijing as an example and propose suggestions for optimizing the UGS pattern based on the evaluation of the supply and demand of UGS carbon sequestration services and purification services for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter <2.5 µm (PM2.5). This study provides an easy-to-use evaluation method for the spatial distribution of UGS ES supply and demand and proposes different optimization suggestions for the unbalanced area, thus playing a role in UGS construction activities and green space structure optimization.


Monodisperse hydrogel microspheres were prepared by precipitation polymerization from acrylamide (AAm), methylenebisacrylamide (MBAAm) and methacrylic acid (MAc) in ethanol, and examined their stimuli response by changing pH or temperature. The microsphere was found to contract continuously by heating. The microsphere with a lower-content MBAAm exhibit more pronounced heat-contraction. Also at low pH the microsphere contracted due to the protonation of the carboxyl group in MAc. The internal structure was observed by small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and the stimuli-response mechanism was discussed from the view of network chain conformation.


In this paper, the electronic structure, chemical bonding, and optical properties of rhombohedral LaAlO3 are investigated by using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method with the generalized gradient approximation. The analysis of the electronic density profile, Mulliken charge, and bond population shows a combination of the covalent and ionic natures in the chemical bonding. The calculated complex dielectric function is consistent with the experimental data from the ultraviolet spectroscopic ellipsometry measurement. The optical spectra are assigned to the interband transition from O valence to La conduction bands in the low energy region. Furthermore, absorption spectrum, electron energy-loss spectrum, optical conductivity, reflectivity, and refractive index are derived from the complex dielectric function, and the absorption spectrum exhibits an optical band gap of 6.1 eV, which is consistent with several other experimental measurements.


Foamed concrete exhibits excellent characteristics including light weight, high strength, energy saving, waste utilizing, heat preservation, noise insulation as well as the good absorbability of impacting energy, which can be used in infrastructure facilities such as high-grade highway and subway. Backfilling load at the construction of high embankment, subway tunnel, and underground continual channel and so on can be reduced by the application of this new material. At the same time, the foundation stress can be reduced; foundation uneven settlement can be decreased. Then the problem of bumping at bridge-head of soft base embankment and road widening can be solved effectively, and the stability and security coefficient of road engineering is increased. Meanwhile, project and maintenance costs are reduced, and the social efficiency is improved. In this paper, physical mechanics performance, material composition and production process of foamed concrete are introduced, and the development of foamed concrete is reviewed. Through analyzing the application examples, domestic and foreign, the application status of foamed concrete in road engineering is summarized. Based on the problems existing in foamed concrete application, the future of this new material is projected.


Object tracking is a technique that is being used from past centuries. In the surveillance system, several vision based methods are utilized for various objects. In the first part, a fast method is presented for background subtraction to handle various scene changes. The maximum likelihood estimation algorithm found within the above paragraph try to modify the objective functions. These approaches are still sensitive to initialization and other parameters like predicted position of the tracked object, occlusion time etc. The proposed method combines the background modeling and particle filter to track multiple objects. In the object tracking process the object is considered to be in motion if its location is changing with respect to its background. By using background subtraction method the change of frame is detected, in case if there is no difference between the two frames then the object is considered to be in a static position. The proposed work is to use human opinion dynamic algorithm for particle filter tuning in order to make the prediction more effective. As the proposed algorithm involved solving the minimization problem for each drawn sample with the proposed model, the proposed system has been planned for real-time applications. The results will be presented to verify the same. Keyword: GSA, HOD, CODO, MLE


Under high mobility, the orthogonality between sub-carriers in an OFDM symbol is destroyed resulting in severe inter-carrier interference (ICI). We present a novel algorithm to estimate the channel and ICI coefficients by exploiting the channel's time and frequency correlations and the (approximately) banded structure of the frequency-domain channel matrix. In addition, we invoke the asymptotic equivalence of Toeplitz and circulant matrices to reduce the dimensionality of the channel estimation problem by retaining the dominant terms only in an offline eigen-decomposition. Furthermore, we show that the asymptotically MMSE-optimum pilot design consists of identical equally-spaced frequency-domain clusters whose size is determined by the channel Doppler spread. Comparisons of our proposed algorithm with a widely-cited recent algorithm demonstrate a significant performance advantage at a comparable real-time complexity.


Moving‐base gravity gradiometers are currently under development at Bell Aerospace Co., Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and Hughes Aircraft Co. In principle, these instruments can be mounted on stable platforms in aircraft or marine survey ships. Unlike a conventional gravimeter, the gradiometer is insensitive to vertical (heave) accelerations of the vehicle and does not require an Eotvos correction. Gradiometers thereby offer an overwhelming improvement in the speed and accuracy of gravity surveys. In addition, a gradiometer provides more information than a gravimeter because a tensor quantity is measured, rather than a scalar. How should the gradient data be used? The simplest approach is to convert the gradients into gravity anomalies by integrating along the vehicle path, and then apply conventional interpretation models. This approach is sound if the survey tracks are closely spaced because continuous two‐dimensional gravity anomalies completely define the gravity field outside the earth, according ...


In allusion to the problems such as complex formation,abnormal high pressure in fluid,high plaster-slime rocks and difficult treatment of drilling fluid maintenance,the related data from the area were analyzed.The key factors of the drilling fluid were summed up,which included the improvement of water inhibition capacity,the anti-collapse ability of the drilling fluid and raising its solid limitation.Based on the study,a polyamine drilling fluid system is chosen and it is successfully used in the key Exploration Well DuH4,good result is obtained.


Based on the analysis of the new teaching method in accounting experiment, this paper holds that the new method should combine the teaching of "Basic Accounting","Financial Accounting" with simulated test of specialized accounting, computer experiments, and enterprise post practice.


The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least two pharmacologically active ingredients. The composition comprises a proton donating pharmacologically active ingredient and a proton-accepting pharmacologically active ingredient in the form of neutral salts. The salt can be dissolved in a solvent. The pharmacologically active ingredient an animal in need of administration and pharmacologically active ingredient, comprising administering to, a method of treating a disorder in an animal is also provided.


The first international workshop on High-level programming for heterogeneous and hierarchical parallel systems (HLPGPU-2012) was organized as part of the 7th HiPEAC Conference Paris (France) on 23rd January 2012. HLPGPU aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to present new results and ongoing work on those aspects of high-level programming that are relevant to, or specific to, heterogeneous or hierarchical parallel computer architectures, including General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), many-integratedcores (MICs), and other new parallel computer architectures. It formed the first project workshop for EU FP7 project number 288570 ParaPhrase: Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Heterogeneous Multicore Systems. The target technical content is new research on programming language abstractions, tools and models, implementation techniques for heterogeneous architectures, patterns of parallelism and algorithmic skeletons; performance-driven programming and software refactoring techniques. Eight papers were submitted and reviewed by the international programme committee: Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy; Sergei Gorlatch, University of Münster, Germany; Horacio González-Vélez, Robert Gordon University, UK; Frédéric Gava, Université Paris-Est, France; Andy Gill, University of Kansas, USA; Kevin Hammond, University of St Andrews, UK; Gaétan Hains, Université Paris-Est, France; Zhenjiang Hu, NII Tokyo, Japan. Four papers were selected from the eight submitted, and these were presented at the workshop, which was attended by approximately 30 HiPEAC participants. The four papers in this volume are extended and enhanced versions of these papers. Research on high-level parallel programming has mostly produced results on algorithmic skeletons and heuristics for their optimised implementation on novel architectures. GPGPUs are interesting targets since they are central to the future of high-performance computing. GPGPUs are conceptually data-parallel and it is


In the fog and haze weather, outdoor image is easily affected by optical noise which result in the degradation of image quality and it is difficult for target detection and analysis. Researching and analyzing some characteristics of smog images, we put forward a fast smog free algorithm which can be applied for single image. The algorithm is based on fog attenuation model, estimating ambient light and airlight by using mean filter. Because the defogged images look very dim, we adopt reconcile color algorithm to restore the final brightness uniformity image. Experimental result shows that compared with other algorithms, the algorithm is simple and effective, and it can effectively reduce the running time and handle both color image and gray scale image. The experiment shows that it can be used for real-time calculation and the result has the very good visibility.


Fixing flange of the pipe (5) for, in particular, for each of the threaded bolts (15) to form a sealing screw connection for connecting the pipe 5 to the air outlet (3) for the fluid medium to charge a heat load to the device connecting the exhaust manifold (5) into the hole (13) and said flange (7) and the air outlet the air outlet (3) of an internal combustion engine having a sealed configuration located between the 3 provided on 7 an apparatus for, the enclosure unit 19 by the outlet (3) at least one connecting passage (23) a screw bolt 15 to leave for the distant other side surrounding the flange 7 on the side the other hand, the medium from characterized by forming at least a partial opening of the other edge region of the through-flange (7). The enclosure portion (19), at least one through-hole has a diameter that is matched to the through ball and associated threaded bolts, the through holes located on the flange (7) is a pipe (5 in the displacement direction with a certain angle to the screw bolt ) it is configured as an elongated hole that facilitates movement of the sealing element of the sealing configuration is located on either side of the part 21 of the enclosure unit 19 which faces the exhaust port (3). An internal combustion engine, an exhaust manifold, a flange enclosure portion


Summary form only given. To analyze the mechanism of phase conjugation (PC) by SBS in multimode optical fibers it is necessary to take into consideration hypersound diffraction effects which can give rise to specific features of SBS amplification in cylindrical fibers. This report describes for the first time the PC-SBS theory for cylindrical fibers.


The goal of the thesis is to propose measures to improve consumer position in the food mar-ket. In the theoretical part of the thesis, the current consumer protection legislation valid in the Czech Republic and in the area of the European Union is described. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the description of state and non-governmental organizations for consumer protection. Based on a questionnaire survey, the most common consumer problems are identified. Ana-lyzing the results of the questionnaire survey, the main problems of the food market and its impacts were assessed and a proposal for measures to improve the position of consumers in the food market was developed.


In the current ecological and ornithological environment in the continental United States, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is one of the most common exotic bird species. After being introduced on the East Coast of the United States, the species spread rapidly across regions and ecosystems, significantly affecting the greater ecology of the nation and often disturbing local species populations. To better understand the behavior and preferences of this species, a study was devised to test the field responses of a population of European starlings in Lyon County, Kansas over a total period of 144 hours (during 48 individual observation periods) to assess and yield knowledge pertaining to their behavior and feeding patterns within a suburban environment. For this experiment, four feed alternatives (i.e., one control and three experimental) were prepared to test the impact of the utilization of carbohydrate-rich feed supplements on the degree to which the starlings would frequent a feeding location. The different feed offered to the local starlings would consist of either 300g of conventional bird feed, 200g of conventional bird feed and 100g of the supplement, 100g of conventional bird feed and 200g of the supplement, or 300g of the supplement, with the conventional bird seed acting as the control. The data suggest that the differences observed with relation to the feed alternatives were negligible, as demonstrated by the starlings' preference for the different supplement concentrations (according to their feeding frequency for the four alternatives).


An effective yellow fever vaccine has been available since 1937. However, some issues regarding its use remain open, such as the minimum dose that can provide immunity against the disease. Mathematical-computational tools can be useful to assist the search for answers to some of these open issues. In this context, this study presents a simplified mathematical-computational model of the human immune response to the vaccination against yellow fever that takes into account important cells of the immune system. The model was able to qualitatively reproduce some experimental results reported in the literature, such as the amount of antibodies and viremia along time, as well as to reproduce distinct behaviors of the immune response reported in the literature. This is the first step towards an ideal scenario where it will be possible to simulate distinct situations related to the use of the yellow fever vaccine, such as its application in immunodeficient individuals, different vaccination strategies, duration of immunity and the need for a booster dose.


The legal regulation of administrative discretion,in this paper,is divided into the following three models:hard law regulation,soft law regulation,and mixed law regulation with both soft and hard law.The former pursued hard law regulation model has broken down for the lack of regulatory ability.In the company of the widespread appearance of soft law norms such as administrative discretion standard,and under the background of public governance,a mixed law regulation model(mixed with hard law as the initial regulation and soft law as the second regulation)is quietly rising,and becoming the late bloomer.


Current conveyors are an important component implementing non-Foster circuits such as negative capacitors negative resistors. However, different topologies exist for implementing negative capacitance using a current conveyor, and the performance of such topologies can vary greatly. Therefore, this paper considers two competing realizations of negative capacitance using a current conveyor, where both circuits are designed for -5 pF in a 0.5 micron CMOS process. Simulation results are presented that show significant bandwidth differences for the two -5 pF designs, where one approach has more than twice the bandwidth of the second approach.


Cortico-cortical connectivity has been shown to be hierarchically organized such that bottom-up and top-down information are conveyed through the well-defined feedforward and feedback counter-streams, respectively. It remains however unclear what mechanisms the cortex might use to functionally segregate these different paths of information flow. In line with recent studies, showing that Gamma rhythms are predominantly found in the supragranular layers whereas Beta rhythms are strongest in the deep layers (Buffalo et al., 2011), we analyzed causal interactions in the Gamma and Beta frequency bands between seven visual areas of macaque monkeys performing a visuospatial attention task. LFP signals were recorded through electrocorticography and analyzed through spectrally resolved Granger causality. We show here that Gamma-band influences were predominant in the bottom-up direction, whereas Beta-band influences were predominant in the top-down direction. The functional asymmetry we identified was significantly correlated with anatomical data and was used to build a hierarchy model from functional data alone, which was highly similar to anatomical models of the primate visual system. These results open the possibility for the in vivo investigation of functional hierarchies in the healthy and diseased human brain. JV, AMB and CB contributed equally. JV was funded by the LOEWE-NeFF.


JASSA JUNE 1992 D ecision-making in the capital markets has never been more diffi cult. There are growing pressures from compet1tlon, market complexity, trading volatility and the need for vigilance over security. Additionally, there is a heightened focus on management accountability. In short, managers are under increasing pressure to get things right: to "optimise" their investment deciswns. Australia has been in the forefront in introducing optimisation to the capital markets through personal computers. The mathematical techniques of optimisation grew out of the field of operations research which was developed in Second World War defence strategies. Operations research has had many applications, such as in manufacturing, inventory control and airline schedules and, in more recent years, the capital markets. While optimisation for the capital markets was originally restricted to mainframes, its current use on PCs is a significant breakthrough. Some limited forms of optimisation are now becoming available on spreadsheet software. There are currently two main categories of financial applications for optimisation: bond and debt portfolio optimisation, and optimisation in asset allocation for institutional fund managers. More applications are being developed, especially in securitisation and annuities management. However, the intention of this article is to introduce the topic of optimisation and explain how it is currently being applied in the capital markets.


The aim of the article is to highlight effective gamification mechanics in the Internet marketing of the information and library industry for stimulating the creation of modern custom content forms, or User Generated Content (UGC), which can improve the position and organic coverage of the official library account in Web 2.0.
Research methods were based on general scientific principles of theory and practice unity, systematicity, complexity, cognition comprehensiveness. The achievement of this set goal was facilitated by the use of general scientific (description, analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization), and special (bibliographic, selective observation, grouping, content analysis) methods at the empirical and theoretical research levels.
Scientific novelty of the study consists in the following: identified gamification mechanics for UGC stimulation that contribute to the Internet marketer's activity effectiveness in the information and library sphere; suggestions for the use of gamification types approved in other industries, and characteristic features of the game in attracting users to interaction with library institutions in Web 2.0.
Main conclusions. Among the priority tasks of library Internet marketers is to support the interaction with the existing custom base, and attract new users to information and library institutions. The usage of the latest content formats, as well as the involvement of Web 2.0 customers in its creation and distribution, contribute to these tasks. Regardless of whether the audience is involved in the UGC creation through the gamification activation, other mechanics or its own initiative, the custom content increases the trust in libraries of those people who are tired of direct advertising and do not respond to it. Gamification mechanics are just one of the possible ways to attract an audience to UGC, but the experience of international and Ukrainian companies proves their effectiveness, and the necessity of their usage by Internet marketers of any field, including the information and library industry.


Through heavy ion nuclear reaction and in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy technique, the high spin states of neutron-deficient~(122)Cs and~(134)Ce nuclei in A=130 region have been studied. The~(107)Ag(~(19)F, 1p3n) and~(122)Sn(~(16)O, 4n) reactions were used. The previous level schemes of~(122)Cs and~(134)Ce have been extended. Possible chiral doublet bands in~(122)Cs have been observed and a shape coexistence with different γ values in~(134)Ce are suggested.


Summary A comparison of the actions of Thyrotropin-releasing hor mone (TRH) and of an analog, in wh ich L-histidine is re placed by the isosteric amino acid L-ß (pyrazolyl-3) alanine, in rats shows that the TSH-releasing effect of this analog is of shorter duratiOll. Initially, however, there do not seem to exist .major differences. The analog also induces a very rapid depression of free corticosterone (1 and 5 minutes after the intracarotid injection of 10 pg of the substance) as has been shown with TRH. The second corticosterone depression phase around 15 minutes after the injection is present with TRH only, but not with the analog. -This work has been done when Dr. Steiner was on leave from the F. Hoffmann-La Roche &


Innovation performance is not a singular dimension;it should include abundant content and measuring index.But extant studies of innovation performance evaluation focus only on the financial perspective,such as Return On Sales(ROS) of new products,quantity of patents,and so on.This kind of innovation performance evaluation does not sufficient to measure the comprehensive gains that enterprises get form open innovation.On the basis of systematic literal analysis,the article raises the concept of open innovation performance,discussed its dimension composing from two viewpoints – financial and strategic.Based on this two-dimensional categorization,sub-dimension of financial open innovation and strategic open innovation performance are also detailed analyzed.Theoretical analysis result indicates that the strategic open innovation performance contains five sub-dimensions,which are innovation potential,innovation management capacity,innovation culture atmosphere,management innovation,competition position.The outcome of theoretical analysis is a scale which can be used for questionnaire setting.After that,through collecting practical surveying data,the selection of dimension items and dimension re-definition are conducted via Exploratory Factor Analysis(EFA).Then construct a theoretical structural model for the assessment of latent variable setting.This step is carried out through Confirmatory Factor Analysis(CFA).The final conclusion shows,the evaluation of open innovation performance should be consider financial and strategic simultaneously.This research extends the appraisal of total gains enterprises get from open innovation from simple financial viewpoint to a more comprehensive degree;thereby provide a basic foundation for more dedicated exploration of relations between open innovation and its benefits.


The blades of rotating compressor or turbine disks are subjected to fluctuating fluid forces that cause blade vibrations. To avoid high resonance stresses, in many applications additional damping is introduced into the bladed disk assembly by means of friction damping devices such as underplatform dampers. These are mounted between adjacent turbine blades and pressed onto the platforms due to centrifugal forces to dissipate energy by the generated friction forces due to relative motions between the damper and the neighboring blades. In real turbomachinery applications, the rotating blades are subjected to spatial vibrations caused by a complex blade geometry and distributed excitation forces acting on the airfoil. Therefore, a spatial model is presented including an appropriate spatial contact model to predict the generalized contact forces acting between the damper and the blades accurately. Six degrees of freedom are considered for each contact between the damper and the respective neighboring blades. Roughness effects are considered that determine the real contact area with respect to the nominal contact area. Different spatial blade vibration modes are investigated with regard to the friction damping that is provided by the underplatform damper. To gain the maximum damping effect, the damper mass is optimized at different working conditions of the assembly like the excitation amplitudes and the engine order. Furthermore, the influence of the contact geometry upon the damping potential is investigated in detail including the damper as well as the blade platform geometry. In practice, different damper geometries are in operation. Studies will be presented that prove the capability of the developed model to compare the effectiveness of different damper and blade platform geometries. Asymmetric platform angles leading to different contact conditions at the left and right damper contact, respectively, are studied in detail to improve the damping effect.Copyright © 2002 by ASME


DNA isolated from gonadal tissue of five intersex pigs was analyzed for the presence of the Y chromosomal markers ZFY and DYZ1. Four cases showed no detectable male-specific DNA-sequences. The fifth case exhibited a weak male-specific band at Southern blot analysis with the human ZFY probe and showed a male-specific PCR-product with DYZ1 primers, indicating an XX/XY gonadal chimera.


Top quark physics are an appropriate laboratory to study phenomena of the Standard Model and to test the limits of this theory. To obtain a higher precision for top quark predictions, the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the pertubative expansion of the top quark production cross-section has to be calculated. The next-to-leading order (NLO) results are already available and provide a rather good accuracy. But this precision might be accidental, because at NLO not all the possible colour exchanges which occur at the one-loop level are considered and they could have significant impact on the cross-section and its differential distributions. In order to have precise predictions of the single top quark production the complete NNLO calculation is necessary. In this thesis the contributions of the one-loop amplitudes squared in NNLO are calculated for one production channel ($\textit{t}$-channel). The other possible production channels of the single top quark are also investigated. With the presented setup well known results in literature are reproduced. Intermediate results are calculated with different independent methods and, if possible, compared with results from literature. The occurring ultraviolet divergencies are dealt with in conventional dimensional regularisation (CDR) in the $\bar{\text{MS}}$ scheme ("Modified Minimal Substraction Scheme"). The final result still has infrared divergencies. An anti-commuting scheme for the calculation with the $\gamma_5$ matrix in CDR is used. An alternative scheme for the treatment of $\gamma_5$ is the Larin scheme, which will be introduced and discussed.


1‐Methylcyclopropene (1‐MCP) has been shown to be a suitable inhibitor of ethylene production in fruit and vegetables during preservation and distribution. In this study, a 1‐MCP controlled‐release system on coated paper was produced using shellac as the coating material. The effect of humidity and temperature on the release of 1‐MCP from the coated paper was investigated using a dynamic sorption system (DVS) with stepwise humidity changes (initial 20% relative humidity (RH) for 2 h, then increased to 40%, 50%, 60%, and 80% RH for 2 h, respectively). The release rate kinetic data were simulated using an Avrami equation with a mechanism release number n of 1.26. The results showed that the dynamic release of 1‐MCP from the coated paper was mainly affected by humidity, for which the release rate constant could be correlated with moisture concentration in humid air. The highest humidity condition (80% RH) resulted in the highest apparent activation energy of 46.8 kJ/mol. The effect of 1‐MCP coated paper on apple storage was evaluated by measuring the ethylene production rate, flesh firmness, and titratable acidity (TA) of apple. Ethylene production rates of apple were significantly affected with 1‐MCP coated paper. The values were 0.22 nL/g FW/h at 50 mg of 1‐MCP powder and 44.7 nL/g FW/h at 0 mg of 1‐MCP powder after 15 days at 4°C and 15 days at 20°C. The other properties of apple such as flesh firmness and TA also indicated that 1‐MCP coated paper could delay fruit softening during storage time. Based on these results, the release of 1‐MCP could be controlled by coating paper with shellac solution and promising to produce functional packaging for fruit.


We experimentally demonstrate four-channel multiplexing of 64-bit (8 x 8) two-dimensional (2-D) parallel data links on the basis of optical space-code-division multiple access (CDMA) by using new modules of optical spatial encoders and a decoder with a new high-contrast 9-m-long image fiber with 3 x 10(4) cores. Each 8 x 8 bit plane (64-bit parallel data) is optically encoded with an 8 x 8, 2-D optical orthogonal signature pattern. The encoded bit planes are spatially multiplexed and transmitted through an image fiber. A receiver can recover the intended input bit plane by means of an optical decoding process. This result should encourage the application of optical space-CDMA to future high-throughput 2-D parallel data links connecting massively parallel processors.


The basic premise of the host‐defense theory is that genomic imprinting, the parent‐of‐origin expression of a subset of mammalian genes, derives from mechanisms originally dedicated to silencing repeated and retroviral‐like sequences that deeply colonized mammalian genomes. We propose that large clusters of tandemly‐repeated C/D‐box small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) or microRNAs represent a novel category of sequences recognized as "genomic parasites", contributing to the emergence of genomic imprinting in a subset of chromosomal regions that contain them. Such a view is supported by evidence derived from studies of the imprinted snoRNA‐ and/or miRNA‐encoding Dlk1‐Dio3, Snurf‐Snrpn, Sfbmt2, and C19MC domains. While adding a new piece to the challenging puzzle of mammalian genome history, this hypothesis also reinforces the notion that dissecting the features and molecular mechanisms that discriminate between "foreign" and "endogenous" sequences is of crucial importance in the field of mammalian epigenetics.


Abstract : The investigation presents the results of experimental investigations on mechanical property and optimization of stir casting process parameters of aluminium 6061 nickel coated graphite metal matrix composite using Taguchi based Response surface methodology (RSM). The investigation has been made the effect of casting parameters such as percentage of reinforcement, stirring time, stirring speed and casting temperature of Al6061-NCG metal matrix composite manufactured by pellet method. The responses considered for the analysis are Hardness and tensile strength. An empirical model has been developed for predicting the Hardness and tensile strength of aluminium 6061 nickel coated graphite metal matrix composite. Response surface model and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used in order to study the effects of casting parameters. Optimum result in maximizing the Hardness and tensile strength are determined using desirability function approach. The influences of different casting parameters of Al6061-NCGparticulate composite have been analyzed in detail.


Data were obtainedfrom a nonclinical sample of 1,121 Mexican American and White non-Hispanic adolescent females. Three hundred and three female participants who reported being sexually assaulted were compared to 793females who reported no history of sexual assault on a number of psychosocial characteristics. Male participants were excluded due to small N. White non-Hispanic adolescent females were twice as likely to report sexual assault as Mexican American adolescentfemales. Although rates of sexual assault differed across ethnicity, ethnicity did not influence the relationship between sexual assault and psychosocial characteristics of victims. Results did indicate, however; that sexual assault victims reported more emotional distress, more social isolation and more deviant behavior than nonvictims. Likewise, sexual assault victims reported poorer school adjustment, were more likely to affiliate with deviant peers, and were more likely to come from homes in which there was parental substance use and family conflict.


The development of carbon credit markets for geologic sequestration will require a framework for accounting injected CO2 that is based on detailed characterization data, sound engineering design, and an equitable legal and regulatory process. The monetization of CO2 credits associated with geologic sequestration will require a streamlined process that addresses the technical aspects of a project and also considers the interests of the public and the rights of individuals who may own subsurface mineral and water rights. Such a system has already been established in the oil field unitization process under which the United States petroleum industry currently operates. Oil and gas regulatory agencies in the United States use a process commonly referred to as unitization to organize oil fields into units for the purpose of secondary and tertiary recovery operations. The process by which petroleum fields become unitized may provide a useful model for the selection of appropriate injection target formations and the governing of geologic sequestration projects. Although petroleum reservoirs, saline aquifers, and coal seams generally use different mechanisms for sequestration (for example, dissolution into oil versus dissolution into saline water versus adsorption onto coal), the unitization process may be adapted and applied to all types of geologic formations. Application of the unitization process to CO2 sequestration may result in the establishment of geologic sequestration units.


Within the study, the authors of the present article analyzed the acts of both Russian and foreign legislation in the field of legal regulation of geological survey, exploration and mining in terms of construction. Specific legal regulation regarding mineral resources is standing apart due to growing demand of the world economy in such strategic types of mineral raw materials as rare and rare-earth metals or hydrocarbon reserves that are difficult to recover. The article describes the characteristics of certain provisions of the legislation of foreign countries that regulate relations in geological study, exploration and mining, including those within the construction process. The authors classified the forms of conferring rights for geological survey, exploration and mining of minerals, as well as the types of project documentation in the field of mining for the extraction of minerals during construction. Two models of legal regulation of geological survey and exploration (that are defined as eastern and western models) are studied. The authors revealed that minerals appear as the main object of legal relations or as belonging to a certain land plot (subsoil plot) in mining and urban planning legislation of different countries.


In this letter, we propose a multi-task compressive sensing algorithm for the reconstruction of clustered sparse entries based on hierarchical Bayesian framework. By extending a paired spike-and-slab prior to a general multi-task model, the proposed algorithm has the capability of modeling both inter-task and intra-task dependencies of the observation data. The latter is achieved by imposing a clustered prior on non-zero entries and finds applications in radar where targets exhibit spatial extent. Simulation results verify that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art group sparse Bayesian learning algorithms.


The Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation history is reviewed with the existing problems pointed out,the resources advantages of Russia and China,and the scope of cooperation are discussed,and the development trend of Sino-Russian cooperation is forecast.


Structural fatigue plays a very important role in plating structural design. There are a lot of efforts in finding effective ways to improve the fatigue life of the plating structure. One of the means is to use welding profile. Welding profile is widely used in fatigue sensitive areas to improve the fatigue life of offshore platforms. How to evaluate the impact of welding profile to fatigue life calculation has always been the topic of engineering design. This paper will study the impact of different shapes of welding profiles to the fatigue life of structure through a real project example, and discuss its application in platform design. Different welding profiles have large impact on fatigue life; and an achievable good welding profile can improve the fatigue life dramatically. With the help of welding profiles, offshore engineers can achieve a more efficient design of the structure.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


A ground wire connector capable of detecting ground wire state in real time is composed of the following components: a wire nose (1), a grounding connecting board (2), a waterproof and dustproof insulating housing, an electronic label detecting module (7), a wireless transceiver module (8), a reed switch (5), a card reading switch (4) and a battery (10). One end of the ground wire connector is provided with the wire nose which is made of brass, and the other end is provided with a connecting hole (9), wherein the housing is provided at the central part. The grounding connecting board (2) is inlaid into one side of a housing base (3). The card reading coil is connected with the electronic label detecting module. The card reading coil is equipped on the housing base. The electronic label detecting module is connected with the wireless transceiver module. The reed switch as a switch is connected with the electronic label detecting module and the wireless transceiver module. The ground wire connector can perform real-time acquisition and detection on the state of the ground wire and furthermore has the following advantages: high signal detection accuracy, compact structure, high convenience in replacement, small volume, low price and high convenience in mounting.


Abstract : The report provides a wide cross section of observations including atmospheric turbulence, wave motions, rain, and simultaneous radar and radiosonde soundings. The radar reveals with unprecedented detail the microstructural dynamical processes knowledge of which is necessary for the interpretation of radio propagation phenomena. Simultaneous radar and radiosonde soundings show excellent correlation between radar-detected scattering layers and directly measured gradients in the refractive index profile. (Author)


The collocation and application of a 700m 3/h ( standard ) nitrogen Gas Generation set were presented.The operation of the plant realized the design requirements: nitrogen productivity ≥700m 3/h, nitrogen purity ≥99.9%, pressure of nitrogen gas was 0.6MPa.


In 1993 and 1994, the Shelf and Slope Experimental Taphonomy Initiative (SSETI) deployed thirty-five samples of sea urchins along the continental shelf/slope of the Bahamas in an effort to explore the paleoecology and taphonomic potentials of shallow water carbonate environments. Samples were retrieved at 1-, 2-, and 6-year intervals for examination and comparison of epibiont accumulation. Tests and spines of the sea urchin Eucidaris were examined for encrusting cheilostome Bryozoa. Specimens were identified to the genus level. Assessment of abundance and distribution patterns with water depth shows that cheilostomes are prevalent in photic waters, and lacking at depth. Burial of substrates limits bryozoan settlement patterns in shallow waters but not below the photic zone. Preliminary results indicate that cheilostomes may be useful biomarkers, at least in modern environments.


There is an ongoing debate in the research literature on whether the neoliberal economic rationalities permeating public administration, policy, and governance across much of the world provide the ...