Every company certainly always wants to achieve maximum profitability in carrying out its business activities. This study aims to determine the effect of treasury turnover, accounts receivable turnover, working capital turnover and current ratio on profitability of food and beverage companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2013-2018. This research method uses quantitative research methods. This type of research used in this research is quantitative descriptive research. The nature of the research is explanatory research, namely research carried out by explaining or describing the influence exerted on a variable against other variables so that it can know the magnitude of the influence exerted. The population in this study were 22 companies consisting of 6 years. The selection of sampling in this study uses purposive sampling technique that is sampling with certain criteria so that the number of samples taken is 42 samples. The data analysis method used is multiple regression analysis. The results of the hypothesis show that partial treasury turnover and accounts receivable turnover do not affect profitability, but working capital turnover and current ratio affect profitability. Simultaneous testing of treasury turnover, accounts receivable turnover, working capital turnover and current ratio significantly influence profitability. The coefficient of determination is 55.5%, which means that 55.5% of the variation of the dependent variable (profitability) can be explained by the variation of the independent variables in this study.


An algorithm to compute the Ramsey number R(G1,G2,G3)is given in this note,by which the values of the following six generalized Ramsey numbers are obtained:R(P4,C4,C4)=9,R(P4,C4,C6)=9,R(P4,C6,C6)=9,R(P5,C4,C4)=11,R(P5,C4,C6)=9,R(P5,C6,C6)=11.


A person who sees that she morally ought to do something might wonder whether it would make sense for her to do it. Perhaps Aurelia is on a crowded bus, standing next to an old man whose wallet is almost falling out of his pocket. She says, "I see that the morally right thing would be to warn this man to take care of his wallet. But why should I do the right thing? In fact, why shouldn't I steal his wallet? It would be wrong of me to do this, but so what? No one is looking. I won't get caught. What's to fear?"2 We can imagine different scenarios of this kind. In one scenario, Aurelia is on the verge of deciding to steal the old man's wallet. She believes it would be wrong to do this, and she is asking whether there is any (further) reason not to go ahead. In principle, the reason she is looking for could be a reason of any kind, perhaps even a moral reason. Perhaps, for example, the old man is very poor and needs the money in his wallet to buy his dinner. This is a morally relevant consideration, and if Aurelia learned of it at the appropriate time, she might take it to give her the reason she is looking for. In a second scenario, Aurelia is unclear whether it makes sense to give any weight at all to moral considerations in deciding what to do. Her question is about moral considerations in general rather than merely about her decision on the bus. Perhaps she has decided to warn the man to pay attention to his wallet. But she wants to be reassured that in doing the right thing she will be doing something that makes sense.


In this study,the effect of trace ventilation on flavoring substances and free amino acids in Chinese rice wine during storage was explored.Chinese rice wine produced in 2009 was sealed in containers with trace ventilation at the amount of 0,25 mL/L and 50 mL/L and ventilation interval of 30 days.The flavoring substances and free amino acids in the rice wine samples were detected every 60 days during the total storage period of 8 months.The results showed that trace ventilation could reduce the species and contents of higher alcohols and phenols,and significantly increase the species and contents of flavoring substances(P0.05).Among these flavoring substances,the number of aldehydes and ketones revealed an initial increase and a final decrease,suggesting that trance ventilation can promote the reactions from alcohols to aldehydes,from alcohols and aldehydes to acetals,from alcohols and acids to esters,and from aldehydes to acids in the aging process of rice wine.In addition,the trace ventilation could an obvious decrease in the contents of histidine,threonine,tyrosine,cysteine and methionine in rice.Based the investigation of three methods,trace ventilation at the amount of 50 mL/L is better for the aging of rice wine.


OBJECTIVE:To investigate the protective mechanism of YOL on ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) myocardium.METHODS:48 male SD rats,weighting (260±30)g,were divided into 6 groups.They were normal control,I/R,classical ischemic precondition (C-IPC),sham-operated,Isosorbide dinitrate and YOL.The intracellular calcium concentration of the cardiomyocyte and hemodynamic changes were measured in all groups.RESULTS: LVSP、±dp/dt in C-IPC and YOL tread with ischemia 30 min and followed by reperfusion 60 min were obviously higher in I/R( P 0.05) while LVSP、±dp/dt of C-IPC was alsodefinitely high compared with YOL( P 0.05).The intracellular calcium concentration in C-IPC and YOL were lower in I/R( P 0.05), while [Ca 2+ ]I of YOL was increased in C-IPC ( P 0.05).CONCLUSIONS:Yixin oral Liquid(YOL) preconditioning can protect the myocardium from I/R. The possible protective mechanism may be due to decrease calcium overload in cardiomyocyte.


PURPOSE: To provide an organopolysiloxane-urea derivative suitable for removing a molten metal from an aqueous phase of organic phase by polycondensing a specified silicon-containing (thio)urea derivative monomer. CONSTITUTION: The objective compound is produced by dissolving (A) a (thio) urea monomer of formula I [R 6 is a group of formula II (R 5 is a 1-10C alkylene, 5-8C cycloalkylene or the like; R 10 is a 1-5C alkyl); R 7 is R 6 or H; R 8 , R 9 are each R 6 , H or a 1-5C alkyl] into a solvent, as occasion demands, after (B) a crosslinking agent of formula III or formula IV (M is Si, Ti, Zr or Al; R 1 is a 1-5C alkyl or the like; R is a 1-5C alkyl or the like), polycondensing it at a temperature ranging from room temperature to 200°C after adding water, and subjecting the resulting polycondensate to a prescribed treatment. COPYRIGHT: (C)1990,JPO


PurposeThis study aims to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to determine the intellectual structure of cross-listing studies and suggests a road map for future research in this field.Design/methodology/approachA step-by-step procedure was carried out. With the help of a defined search string, 580 articles from reputed journals have been retrieved from the Scopus database. Bibliographic coupling and keyword analysis were executed to understand the current research scenario and future research directions in this research field. In addition, R Studio combined with VOSviewer was employed to analyse and visualise the data.FindingsThe results provide a deeper insight into publication trends, most prolific countries, institutions and journals in the area of cross-listing. The highest collaboration was observed between the authors in the USA and Canada. Moreover, the results contradict Bradford's and Lotka's laws. A thorough review of the literature identifies five clusters in this domain. Finally, keyword analysis offers a future road map in cross-listing research.Originality/valueResearchers have shown greater interest in cross-listing topics over the past decades. Even though the research volume on this subject is increasing, the current retrospective is still insufficient. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to provide valuable insights to practitioners, academicians, and prospective researchers about the intellectual structure of cross-listing and also offers future avenues in this research field through bibliometric analysis.


Defined as the situation individuals undergo in the face of stress, burnout syndrome appears to be a handicap not only conveying the feeling of isolation towards a specific job or profession but diminishing the productivity of individual in profession-related settings as well. This study sets out to develop and design an attitude scale in order to explore the differentiation of burnout of individuals in terms of job and profession concepts. In order to measure professional and job burnout, a trial scale was formed covering 106 statements obtained from 80 students with a job or profession at an MBA program and this scale was administered. Reliability and validity analyses of the Data obtained were performed and as the results of the analyses performed a 14-item professional burnout scale and a 12-item job burnout scale were developed.


This Virginia mineral locality index is intended to list the best known and most significant mineral occurrences in the State. In line with a project begun by the Colorado Friends of Mineralogy in 1976, the list is intended to assist amateur mineral collectors as well as professional mineralogists and economic geologists. The eventual goal of this project is to develop a mineral locality index for each state followed by a world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals. Additional information, such as fee localities and areas which are known to be closed to collecting, is shown by identification letters at the beginning of the report. Unlike a field guide, the index is not intended to give exact directions to the locality. For convenience, the name of the nearest town or prominent geographic feature is given. I t should be stressed that almost all localities listed in the index are located on private property, and permission from the landowner must be granted before entering the property. The major source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although many sources were used, only those references used repeatedly are in the list of references at the end of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such


Wood contains a small proportion of mineral, or inorganic matter. When wood is burned, mineral matter is left behind as a white-gray ash. Hardwoods, or deciduous trees, when burned, produce a greater percent of ash than softwoods, or conifers. Within a given tree, different parts produce varying amounts of ash. Generally the percent of ash in the bark exceeds that of the branches with the branches containing more ash than the stem wood. The ash content not only varies with tree species or the part of a tree, but also with the age of the tree, season of felling and method of burning. For woods in temperate regions, the ash content usually ranges from 0.2% to 1.0%, occasionally approaching 3% to 4%.


In part I of this paper a program was developed using the ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL) to generate 1, 3, and 5 tooth segment finite element models of a large low addendum spur gear. The finite element models are constrained on radial sides in the rim portion and the inside rim surface is left unconstrained. An appropriate load is applied at the highest point of single tooth contact (HPSTC) for the 2-D finite element models and the entire load is applied on a line of nodes located along the face width in the 3-D finite element models. The two and three dimensional models of 1, 3 and 5 tooth segments are analyzed by varying β, which is the ratio of rim thickness to total tooth height. The effect of web on bending and equivalent stresses is also studied in the 3-D models. The maximum equivalent stresses and maximum bending stresses obtained for different values of β in two dimensional and three dimensional models are compared. Three dimensional models with and without constraints at rim-web interface are also compared in 1, 3 and 5 tooth segments. Based on these results and comparisons an appropriate rim thickness is suggested and importance of web is discussed.


Low-pass filter is an important part of the DDS signal generator,whose performance directly affects the technical indicators of the whole signal generator. This paper introduces a 7thorder low-pass elliptic filter with the cut-off frequency of 120 MHz for the DDS signal generator with a new normalization method. Multisim10 simulation shows that it has a good phase frequency characteristic and it can achieve the desired targets.


Early growth response factor-1 (Egr-1) is a zinc finger transcription factor,which can be induced by a variety of stimulus and can also regulate the expression of multiple downstream genes.Egr-1 involves in cell growth,differentiation,proliferation and apoptosis.Studies have found that hyperglycemia can lead to an increase of Egr-1 expression which contributes to mesangial cells proliferation,endothelial dysfunction,extracellular matrix accumulating,overexpression of transformation growth factor-β and renal fibrosis.Therefore Egr-1 is closely related to the development and progression of diabetic nephropathy.

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Early growth response factor-1 ; Diabetic nephropathy ;  Renal fibrosis


Monoamine oxidase (MAO) was shown previously to undergo time-dependent inhibition by 5-(aminomethyl)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-oxazolidinone (3, X=N, Y=O, R=Me, R'=H), cis- and trans-5-(aminomethyl)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)dihydrofuran-2(3H)-one (5, R=Me), and 4-(aminomethyl)-1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-pyrrolidinone (6, R=Me). Two approaches are taken in this article to test the hypothesis that the cause for this inhibition is electron-withdrawing stabilization of an enzyme adduct by the heterocycles. First, the rates of reactivation of the inhibited enzyme were measured, and they correlated qualitatively with the strengths of the electron-withdrawing abilities of the heterocycles


Propagating a short, relativistically intense laser pulse in a plasma channel makes it possible to generate clean comb-like electron beams – sequences of synchronized, low phase-space volume bunches with controllable energy spacing [S. Y. Kalmykov et al., "Accordion Effect Revisited: Generation of Comb-Like Electron Beams in Plasma Channels," in Advanced Accelerator Concepts: 16th Workshop, AIP Conference Proceedings; this volume]. All-optical control of the electron beam phase space structure via manipulation of the drive pulse phase (negative chirp) and parameters of the channel enables the design of a tunable, all-optical source of polychromatic pulsed γ-rays using the mechanism of inverse Compton scattering.


Abstract A number of studies are available concerning consumer preferences for eggs. Some studies have dealt with characteristics that consumers identify in eggs (for example, Liston, 1937; Cron et al., 1939; Erdman et al., 1941; Waite and Carroll, 1948; and Tupper and Harris, 1959). Other studies have ordered these characteristics with regard to preferences (for example, Baker and Goldman, 1951; Jasper and Cray, 1953; Kohls and Oppenheimer, 1953; Slocum and Swanson, 1954; Taylor et al., 1954, 1955; Bender et al., 1959; and Baker and Thacker, 1959). Still other studies have been concerned with the pricing of eggs under given market circumstances (for example, Lindsey and Yount, 1932; Gans, 1934; Darrah et al., 1953; and Waananen et al., 1958). In most of these studies the characteristics of eggs as identified in the U. S. Standards have been used as a standard in evaluating the results. These studies indicate that consumers distinguish certain …


THE RESEARCH WAS BASED UPON ACCEPTED PRINCIPLES OF EXCESSIVE WATER ACCUMMULATION IN MATERIALS THROUGH FROST ACTION. THE PRINCIPLE HERE INVOLVED IS THAT THE CAPILLARY PORES MUST BE SMALL ENOUGH TO HOLD FREE WATER AGAINST THE FORCE OF GRAVITY AND THE EXPULSIVE ACTION OF TRAFFIC. IT IS REASONED THAT THE ABOVE PROPERTY CAN BE DETERMINED BY SIMPLY COMPACTING THE MATERIAL AT A MOISTURE CONTENT IN EXCESS OF OPTIMUM AND OBSERVING WHETHER IT IS FIRM, OR SOFT BY REASON OF EXCESSIVE PORE PRESSURE. THE TEST PROCEDURE ADOPTED WAS BASED UPON THE STANDARD AASHO DENSITY TEST, T99, WITH CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS INVOLVING FREE DRAINAGE AT THE BASE OF THE MOLD AND COMPACTION AT MOISTURE CONTENTS ABOVE THE OPTIMUM. OBSERVATIONS AND TESTS WERE MADE ON THE STABILITY OF THE MATERIAL, IN ITS COMPLETE GRADING RANGE, WHEN COMPACTED AT RELATIVELY HIGH MOISTURE CONTENTS. THE CORRELATION WITH FIELD PERFORMANCE WAS MADE BY TAKING SAMPLES FROM EIGHT PROJECTS THAT HAD A HISTORY OF FROST DISTRESS IN THE BASE, ONE PROJECT WHICH HAD SUFFERED NO APPRECIABLE DAMAGE BUT ON WHICH THERE IS EVIDENCE OF BORDERLINE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DAMAGE BY FROST AND SIX PROJECTS WHICH WERE UNQUESTIONABLY FREE OF FROST TROUBLES. THESE SAMPLES WERE SUBJECTED TO THE TESTS AND OBSERVATIONS OUTLINED ABOVE AND THE RESULTS WERE THEN COMPARED WITH FIELD PERFORMANCE. /AUTHOR/


The thermal degradation of several polyimidazopyrrolone (pyrrone) films was studied in air and in vacuum over the range of 100–1000°C. by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), with the use of both isothermal heating and programmed heating rates of 2, 3, 5, and 7.5°C./min. At pressures of 10−6 torr or less, maximum weight losses average 30% at 800°C. Rates of volatilization and activation energies were derived to provide comparison between these ladder-type polymers. Mass spectrometric analysis of the pyrolysis gases evolved under vacuum conditions showed that CO, CO2, and H2O were the primary volatile products and that they were formed throughout the period of weight loss. Approximate correlation between changes in weight and changes in the total pressure for the vacuum tests indicates that mass spectrometric results could provide quantitative as well as qualitative data. The importance of sample history prior to heating and of sample geometry in developing meaningful and reproducible TGA results is aptly demonstrated. The ability of these materials to absorb readily 5–7 wt.-% of water under ambient conditions and the effect of this property upon weight loss measurements are shown.


Several months before the outbreak of the First World War, a new piece of popular musical theatre opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End. After the Girl told the story of Doris Pitt, the daughter of a Cincinnati millionaire sent to Brussels to complete her education. When her father arrives on a visit in Paris, he finds her 'corrupted' and determines to send her back home. Doris, however, has other ideas. Pursued by an anxious father, she runs away – first to a school friend in Amsterdam, then to Budapest and then on to Berlin, where Mr Pitt finally catches up with her. She is performing as a singer in a variety hall. Father and daughter are eventually reconciled, and the show ends with them celebrating the New Year at the Carlton Hotel in New York. After the Girl reads like a comment on popular theatre before the First World War. Although it appears to be a musical comedy in most respects, its title and subtitle signify distance from that genre. The show takes on the dimensions of a hybrid commodity, becoming a 'Revusical Comedy'. Its writers acknowledge the form, which had been dominant across Europe and America since the 1890s, but at the same time emphatically identify the new show with revue, the rising genre popular on the Continent and in New York since the early 1900s, but which did not start to gain real momentum in London until shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. After the Girl marked the moment when the West End's hitherto most popular genre, musical comedy, faced a challenge that was to prove decisive. The ambiguities of the show's title positions After the Girl very specifically in a post-girl world, beyond the 'girl shows' which had been so much part and parcel of musical comedy culture up to that time, albeit simultaneously making a not quite final contribution in this respect. The further interest lies in the roaming disposition of the show's central character. Doris Pitt, the American who travels all over Europe, can be read as


This work concerns the manipulation of a twisted curved-pipe flow for mixing enhancement. Previous works have shown that geometrical perturbations to a curved-pipe flow can increase mixing and heat transfer by chaotic advection. In this work the flow entering the twisted pipe undergoes a pulsatile motion. The flow is studied experimentally and numerically. The numerical study is carried out by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code (FLUENT 6) in which a pulsatile velocity field is imposed as an inlet condition. The experimental setup involves principally a "Scotch-yoke" pulsatile generator and a twisted curved pipe. Laser Doppler velocimetry measurements have shown that the Scotch-yoke generator produces pure sinusoidal instantaneous mean velocities with a mean deviation of 3%. Visualizations by laser-induced fluorescence and velocity measurements, coupled with the numerical results, have permitted analysis of the evolution of the swirling secondary flow structures that develop along the bends during the pulsation phase. These measurements were made for a range of steady Reynolds number (300 < Re st < 1200), frequency parameter (1< α = r 0 . (w/v) 1/2 <20) , and two velocity component ratios (β=U max,osc /U st ). We observe satisfactory agreement between the numerical and experimental results. For high β, the secondary flow structure is modified by a Lyne instability and a siphon effect during the deceleration phase. The intensity of the secondary flow decreases as the parameter a increases during the acceleration phase. During the deceleration phase, under the effect of reverse flow, the secondary flow intensity increases with the appearance of Lyne flow. Experimental results also show that pulsating flow through a twisted curved pipe increases mixing over the steady twisted curved pipe. This mixing enhancement increases with β.


This paper uses longitudinal micro data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to document the turnover behavior in the housing market. Fact 1: moves are procyclical. Fact 2: the gross flows into and out of the owner-occupied segment of the housing market are four times larger than the corresponding net flows. Fact 3: net flows and gross flows into and out of the owner-occupied segment of the housing market are procyclical. Fact 4: rent-to-rent flows lead the cycle, but then become countercyclical. Fact 5: rent-to-own flows tend to lead the cycle. Fact 6: own-to-own flows tend to lag the cycle. Fact 7: own-to-rent flows are acyclical. Fact 8: geographically close moves within the same zip code are procyclical for all households, but acyclical for households with a displaced household head. Fact 9: moves across state lines are procyclical independently of the labor market fate of the household. Fact 10: there is little evidence that labor market flows, in particular flows from employment into unemployment, drive housing flows.


In real-world applications, images and videos used in computer vision algorithms are often distorted due, e.g., to compression and transmission. As a result, they may lose relevant information content, or they may deviate significantly from the original data distribution used to train the machine task, rendering the visual content practically useless with respect to its initial purpose. Evaluating the utility of an image for machine tasks has received little attention so far in the literature. This concept of utility is substantially different from the visual quality typically used in image/video compression, as the latter is related to the perception of the human visual system. In this paper, we propose a definition of utility as the degree of confidence by which a machine task is able to take a decision. In this context, we propose a full-reference utility loss measure: we assume that the decision on the pristine image is correct (reference), and we measure the utility loss as the confidence reduction in the decision due to a noisy input with respect to this reference. We apply this general definition on two specific tasks, classification and object detection, and we study practical solutions to predict utility, as well as the ability of our utility measure to generalize across tasks.


Peculiarities of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) in patients with cerebellar disturbances were studied by a method which examines the relationship between optokinetic nystagmus and target movement.An Ohm-type rotating cylinder was rotated electrically with an angular acceleration of 2°/sec2 for 90sec. OKN, induced by optokinetic stimulation, and signals. of stripes rotating in front of the subject were sampled at 100Hz for 90sec by a PDP-12 computer through an analog-to-digital converter. The stripe movements were calculated from stripe signals using Lagrange's square interpolation formula. The nystagmus waves and stripe movement were superimposed on a cathode ray tube.The test was given to 7 patients with late cerebellar cortical atrophy (LCCA), 1 with Holmes type atrophy, 11 with olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy (OPCA), 1 with Menzel's atrophy, 6 with cerebellar hemisphere tumors and 8 with vermis tumors.OKN of patients with LCCA showed a square wave jerk, saccadic pursuit and delay of eye movements in stripe pursuit and ocular dysmetria in target catching. OKN of patients diagnosed as having OPCA showed a deficit of smooth pursuit and delay of eye movements in stripe pursuit and delayed initiation and reduced saccadic velocity in target catching. When the stripe speed was increased, pursuit of stripe movement became virtually impossible, and the number of nystagmus beats decreased markedly. Patients with cerebellar hemisphere tumors showed no abnormality of OKN. Those with vermis tumors showed abnormalities similar to those in patients with LCCA or OPCA.The difference between OKN abnormalities in LCCA and OPCA is presumably due to the fact that in LCCA degeneration of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar vermis is predominant, whereas in OPCA there is also degeneration of the pontine nuclei.


The paper proposes an approach to the management of the university on the basis of a strategic center, forming a strategy continuously. The mechanism of building and tree sampling purposes, evaluation of projects implementation problems. Shows a model of management targets. Possibilities of logistics management intrahigh flows.


Part One Demographics and health policy: Demographic and economic trends in Europe and the need of coronary bypass surgery M. Schneider. Do growing proportions of elderly mean more cardiovascular diseases? H. Hofmeister, L. Muecke. Part Two Favourable clinical results of CABG in the elderly: Isolated CABG in the elderly: operative results and risk factors over the past three decades W.J. Keon. Combined valve and coronary bypass surgery in the elderly J. Szecsi, P. Herijgers, I. Scheys, W. Flameng. Cardiac surgery in the octogenarians: perioperative results and clinical follow-up F. Fontan, A. Becat, G. Fernandez, N. Sourdille, P. Reynaud, P. Montserrat. Coronary artery bypass grafting including use of the LIMA in octogenarians G. Sahar, E. Raanani, I. Hertz, R. Brauner, B.A. Vidne. Part Three Health care costs of elderly CABG patients: Age-specific costs of heart surgery and follow-up treatment in Germany D. Chruscz, W. Konig. Part Four Clinical, economic and ethical controversies: Opportunities to improve the cost-effectiveness of CABG surgery W.B. Stason. Who gets bypass surgery - should the doctor, patient or computer decide? J. Kellett. The economics of treatment choice. Making choices in coronary bypass surgery in the elderly A. Maynard. The role of age and life expectancy in prioritising health care J. Harris. When does the cost of living exceed the return on our investment? The social and economic consequences of coronary bypass surgery in the elderly R.W. Evans. Part Five The heart of the matter: Health-related quality of life after CABG in the elderly. Coronary artery bypass surgery and health-related quality of life: Data from the national health and nutrition examination survey P. Erickson. The selection of health-related quality of life measures for older adults with cardiovascular disease S.A. Shumaker, R. Anderson. Survival and health-related quality of life of elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery N. Caine, S. Tait, J. Wallwork. Health-related quality of life after coronary revascularization in older patients P.D. Cleary, E. Guadagnoli, J.Z. Ayanian. Longitudinal health-related quality of life assessment in 5 years after coronary artery bypass surgery - does benefit continue with advancing age? R. Mohan, P.J. Walter, E. Van Hove. Health-related quality of life 5 years after coronary bypass surgery at age 75 or above: a research approach to item selection P.J. Walter, R. Mohan, C. Cornelissen. Part Six Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery at elderly age N.K. Wenger.


Extreme events and rogue waves (RW) are commonly know as events with very high amplitude whose frequent occurrence is not explainable through the statistics assumed for the set of data under study. Born in oceanography, the concept of extreme events has been extended to many different optical systems in recent years, such as optical fibers [1], laser systems and linear optical systems [2, 3].


This study was an attempt to determine the e f f e c t of the use of models i n learning the volume and t o t a l surface area of various polyhedra. I t was hypothesized that the classes who were allowed, to construct models of various space figures would achieve s i g n i f i c a n t l y better r e s u l t s on a test of the work covered than would those classes who were taught the same mat e r i a l by sketches and notes on the chalkboard. I t was further hypothesized that the classes which had u t i l i z e d the models would score s i g n i f i c a n t l y higher on a ret e s t which was held approximately two weeks a f t e r the i n i t i a l t e s t . Five teachers and eight classes were involved i n the study. Two teachers taught a control group and an experimental group of grade seven students while a t h i r d teacher had a cont r o l group and an experimental group of grade s i x students. The fourth teacher taught one control group of grade seven students and the f i f t h teacher taught one experimental group of grade seven students. Mental age, previous mathematical achievement (teachers' Easter grades) and scores on the geometry unit test and r e t e s t were recorded f o r ninety-four control group students and ninety-seven experimental group students. Any student who had not attended eighty percent of the teaching periods or f o r whom no mental age or previous mathematical achievement was available were not included f o r purposes of t h i s study. The geometry unit, which was;, of two weeks duration, was followed by a multiple-choice test of twenty-five items and a retest two weeks l a t e r . The usual correction f a c t o r was app l i e d to o f f s e t the e f f e c t of guessing by the examinees. i l l A covariate analysis was then done i n which the two independent variables, previous mathematical achievement and mental age were p a r t i a l l e d out and the adjusted means f o r the test and retest were recorded. : il The r e s u l t s Indicated that there was no s i g n i f i c a n t difference i n the mean scores obtained by the two groups on the i n i t i a l t est 14.647 f o r the control group and 14.6822 f o r the experimental but that there was a s i g n i f i c a n t difference i n the mean scores obtained by the two groups on the retest held two weeks l a t e r . The mean score of the experimental group was 14.4124 as compared to 1 3 * 9 2 5 5 f o r the control group. Although t h i s difference was s i g n i f i c a n t at the . 0 0 5 l e v e l i t was i r e cognized that, f o r a l l p r a c t i c a l purposes, a difference of h a l f a point i n a t o t a l of twenty-five items must be considered unimportant f o r the p r a c t i s i n g teacher. A s u p e r f i c i a l examination of the data indicated two questions that might be answered by further related study: (1) Would a longer period between the test and the retest show a greater difference i n the mean scores, of the two groups? and (2) Would the use of models be of greater benefit to a p a r t i c u l a r age group or i to a homogeneous group of high or low achievers? The r e s u l t s obtained by t h i s and other r e l a t e d studies seems to m i l i t a t e against any d e f i n i t i v e conclusions as to the merit of using models i n the teaching of mathematics as a whole. I t j • appears that i f any s i g n i f i c a n t ,beneflt i s to be derived from t h e i r use i t w i l l be i n p a r t i c u l a r subject areas that w i l l be determined only through c a r e f u l l y designed research. i v TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE i i i • • . . I. THE PROBLEM 1 Introduction The Background The Questions I I . REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE . 8 Related Studies I I I . DESIGN OF THE STUDY . . . . 1 6 Purpose and variables,to be considered Content of unit to be taught Design of measuring instrument Procedure f o r t e s t i n g and tabulating Limitations IV. ' ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE DATA . .•>. .22 Procedure f o r Analysis Differences i n scores obtained on Unit Test i ' " Differences i n scores obtained on Retest V. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY . . . 24 BIBLIOGRAPHY . : 2 ? APPENDIX A. Scale Drawings of Models and Information f o r •' Construction 29 APPENDIX B. .< Geometry Unit Outline and Guide f o r Teachers 33 APPENDIX C. !i Geometry Unit Test land Answer Sheet . . . . 39 APPENDIX D.: Scores obtained by:Experimental Group . . . 46 APPENDIX E., Scores obtained by Control Group . . . . . . 4 9 LIST OF TABLES TABLE PAGE I. Differences between Scores on Test 1 held at the conclusion of the Geometry Unit . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 I I . Differences between Scores on Geometry Retest held approximately Two Weeks a f t e r Test 1 . 2 3 I I I . A Comparison of the High and Low Achievers on the Geometry Test . 2 5 IV. A Comparison of the High and Low Achievers on the Geometry Retest 2 6 vi:. LIST OP FIGURES FIGURE PAGE 1. Scale Drawings of a Right Triangular Prism and a Rectangular Prism . . 30 2. Scale Drawings of a Cube and a Regular Tetrahedron 31 3 . Scale Drawing of a Right C i r c u l a r Cylinder 32 k. Sketches of a Right Triangular Prism and a Rectangular Prism J6 5. Sketch of a Plane Figure made up of a Semi c i r c l e , a Rectangle and a Right Triangle 3 7 6. Sketch of a Space Figure made up of a Right Triangular Prism and one h a l f of a Right C i r c u l a r Cylinder . 38 7. Sketch of a Perspective of a Rectangular Prism , . 38


Recently, SRTC recommended two process changes: (1) a final wash of the tetraphenylborate precipitate feed slurry and (2) the use of nitric acid to neutralize the sludge in the SRAT. The first change produced an aqueous hydrolysis product (PHA) with higher formic acid/formate and copper concentration, and reduced the nitrate content in the PHA by an order of magnitude. The second change is to substitute part of formic acid added to the SRAT with nitric acid, and therefore may reduce the hydrogen generated in the SRAT as well as provide nitrate as an oxidant to balance the redox state of the melter feed. The purpose of this report is to determine the pertinent variables that could affect the hydrogen generation rate with these process changes.


s and Selections. Japan's Powerful Ally. If statistics count for anything, in a war between Japan and the United States, Japan could count on an ally about thirteen times as powerful as herself. The name of this ally is Disease, which in the Spanish-American war struck down thirteen of our men to every one that fell from the enemy's bullets, whereas in the Russo-Japanese war the Japanese lost only 21,559 bv disease, to 55,679 in battle. The co-operation of disease with our enemy would of course be dependent on ourselves. If our army officers tackle the problem as they did the fever scourge in Panama, we have nothing to fear—and yet our army included Colonel Gorgas and others as skilled when our men were dying off by thousands at the Chickamauga camp. In time of war, science often abdi cates, and another leader, known as politics, takes the reins. If we are ever going to fight Japan, or any other nation, we must alter this probability. There has been some effort of late to be little Japan's achievements in sanitation during her war with Russia. Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman, who first brought the re ports of Japanese army sanitation to this country, and is still the best authority on the subject, writes in the New York Times (June 22) that, these efforts are beside the mark. The final medical statistics of the war, just issued, show that the Russian sanitary work was also noteworthy, their army losing 12,128 from dis ease, and 31,458 from wounds, showing atotal loss of only 43,586 against Japan's 77,238. Our own record in our next war may be equally good, but we have no past performances to show for it. Says Dr. Seaman: "The astonishing fact revealed in the figures for the Japanese is that out of 77,238 dead, 55,679 met death from battle casualties, leaving 21,559 who died from all other causes together. * * * While the ratio for the Russians is about the same, it still must be borne in mind that the Japanese were the aggressive foe. fight ing in the open against an enemy intrenched in his mountain and other strongholds, and, further, that the severity of the wounds sustained by the Japanese was, accentuated by the difference in caliber of the rifles used by the Russians. "Compare this wonderful achievement of the Japanese with Longmore's Tables, based on the records of battles for the last two hundred years, which are accepted as the most reliable sta tistics of war, and which show that rareiv has there been a con flict of any great duration in which at least four men have not perished from disease to every one from .bullets. Yet the Jap anese lost nearly three men from battle casualties for every one man from disease. "In the Russo-Turkish War 80,000 men died from disease and 20,000 from wounds. It is asserted by eminent authority that in six months of the Crimean campaign the allied forces lost 50,000 from disease and but 20,000 from bullets. A gentleman who remembers that campaign, an ex-President of the New York Academy of Music, told me that he had seen whole regiments die from disease without ever reaching the firing line. "Tn our war with Mexico the proportion of losses was about three from disease to one from bullets, and in our great Civil War nearly the same, proportion obtained. In round numbers, of the hundreds of thousands of fatalities in that conflict, nearly three-quarters resulted from disease. Almost as many men per ished from fevers and intestinal diseases as were slaughtered in the terrible battles that ended our great conflict. "No lessons seem to have been learned from these frightful ex periences, for later statistics show no improvement. In the French campaign in Madagascar, in 1894, 14,000 men were sent to the front, of whom 29 were killed in action and 7000 perished from preventable diseases. In the Boer War in South Africa the English losses from disease were simply frightful, greater even than our Civil War. "But the crowning piece of imbecility was reserved'for our war with Spain, when in 1898 more than thirteen men were needlessly sacrified to ignorance and incompetency for every one who died on the firing line or from battle casualties, and that, too, in a war the chief campaign of which lasted only six weeks. "Without for a moment minimizing the splendor of her vic tories on land and sea—Mukden, Port Arthur, Liaoyang, and the Korean Straits, of which two are among the bloodiest battles of history—I still assert unhesitatingly that the greatest conquests of Japan have been in the humanities of war, in the stopping of needless sacrifice of life by the prevention of disease." Long before the opening of hostilities, Dr. Seaman tells us, thorough preparations had been made in the hospital sendee, it being recognized that every soldier saved was a double gain. Japan made the medical department of her army of equal im portance with that of the fighting branch, and ranked its officers accordingly. The Japanese were the first to recognize the true value of the medical officer in time of war. He goes on: "In her record-breaking campaign he was given an auxiliary force of more than .44,000 men, known as 'sanitary soldiers'—an absolutely unknown factor in our army. These sanitary soldiers were subservient to the medical officers—to carry out sanitary regulations—serve as hospital stewards, litter carriers, or in any other capacity to which he might detail them. And throughout the way they proved a most powerful factor in the fight against preventable disease. "The medical officer or one of his sanitary soldiers was omni present in the Russo-Japanese War, just as he would be today should another conflict arise. He was to be found in countless places where in an American or a British Army he has no place. He was as much at the front as at the rear. He was with the first screen of scouts, testing and labeling wells or procuring sam ples of water, so that the army to follow should not drink con taminated water. When the scouts reached a town he immedi ately started a thorough examination of its sanitary condition, and if contagion or infection was found, he quarantined and placed a guard around the dangerous district. "Microscopic blood tests were made in all fever cases, and bac teriological experts, fully equipped, formed part of the staff of every divisional headquarters. Japan recognized that microscopes were as important as eleven-inch guns, and she sent these experts to the front, where they found their way into every place where an extended stay was made and where bacteria were likely to be found. The medical officer, or sanitary soldier, also accompanied the foraging parties, and, with the commissariat officers, sampled food, fruit and vegetables sold by the natives along the line of march long before the arrival of the army. If the food was found tainted or overripe, of the water required boiling, notice was posted to that effect; and such was the discipline of every soldier, from commanding officer to, the rank and file, that obedience to that order was absolute. "The medical officer was also found in the camp, lecturing the men on sanitation and the hundred and one details of personal hygiene—how to cook and eat, when not to drink or bathe—even to the paring of the finger nails to prevent danger from bacteria. In their surgical work the Japanese were extremely conservative. The scalpel was rarely in evidence, and amputations were com paratively few, both in the arm vand navy. * * * "The splendidly systematized equipment of the pharmaceutical department was an instructive example from which Occidental nations might well profit. Shortage of ammunition in the emer gencies of battle sometimes occurred, but never was there any deficiency of medical supplies, as I personally observed, and as did everv other writer and surgeon T met. "Even during the battle of Mukden, which lasted sixteen days, and in that at Liaoyang, every hospital in operation was well sup plied with medical and surgical necessities. Every soldier had his first-aid package and knew how to use it. No operations were permitted on the field, except in cases of emergency where death was imminent from hemorrhage,* reliance being placed on the effi ciency of the aseptic first-aid dressing." Supplementing this magnificent work in the field, Japan or ganized at home the most splendid system of hospitals that had ever been devised, and put into execution the most elaborate and effective system of sanitation that had ever been practiced in war. On the declaration of war. she was prepared to house, treat, and care for 25,000 sick and wounded in Japan alone. These accom modations were rapidly increased, until a year and a half later, the great military hospitals possessed a normal capacity of 58.263 available beds. That this was necessary was demonstrated after the battle of Mukden, when the total hospital capacitv of 80,000 beds was taxed to its limits by the shattered men who poured in bv the thousands from every transport. Dr. Seaman then brings the lesson home as follows: "Such are some of the lessons taught by the Japanese in the art of preparation, and, thank heaven, they have not been wasted on the American army. Another instance may be cited here of the perfection of preparation and detail exercised by the medical department of the Japanese. When two armies faced eaeh other for mortal combat in Mongolia—with one hundred miles of firing line, awaiting the outcome of the battle, which, it was predicted, would throw the bloody record of Mukden in the shade—62,000 clean, empty beds stood awaiting with plenty of attendants, ready to receive the wounded, who never came. "Compare with this those' infected pest holes, Camp Black, Chickamauga, Camp Alger, in sight of the Capitol's dome, or Montauk Point, which awaited the sick and wounded of our army four months after the battle of San Juan, and then let critics assert we have nothing to learn from the Japanese—and that their sanitation was a 'myth? 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Jiangsu,as a big agricultural province,requires accelerating innovations in the reform of agricultural management and mechanism,building new agricultural management system,and advancing transformation ways of agricultural development in agriculture modernization.The paper selects a set of evaluation indexes and uses the factor analysis to build an evaluation model for regional new agricultural management system development in Jiangsu.By applying this model to the development level of new agricultural management system of 13 cities of Jiangsu Province,this paper offers measurement,comprehensive evaluation and corresponding countermeasures.


ABSTRACT The Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) in the central North Island of New Zealand lies across the boundary formed in the late Mesozoic between two major basement regions: the Waipapa and Torlesse composite terranes. However, the precise location of this terrane contact within the TVZ is not well constrained because it is buried beneath Pleistocene volcanic and volcaniclastic sequences locally >3 km thick. Here we report new U-Pb zircon detrital age spectra from basement sandstones and younger Waikora Formation greywacke gravel from five geothermal well core samples and one surface sample. We combine these new data with existing TVZ zircon xenocryst and xenolith age spectra from volcanic host rocks, to correlate these materials with each basement terrane and constrain the likely spatial location and uncertainty of the terrane boundary under the TVZ. Its position with respect to surficial geothermal systems suggests that, at depth, the terrane boundary may have been reactivated by Quaternary extension in the evolving Taupo Rift. Put another way, the past and current position of the Taupo Rift fundamentally may have been controlled by the terrane boundary, which may ultimately be partly responsible for providing enhanced fracture permeability for deep-seated geothermal fluids.


. In this article, a sequel to [13], we provide a combinatorial sufficient (and conjecturally, necessary) condition (called the limb condition) for the mating of two postcritically finite polynomials in S 1 to be obstructed. To do this, we study the rotation sets associated to the parameter limbs in the connectedness locus of S 1 , which allows us to determine when there exist ray classes in the formal mating which contain a closed loop. We give a proof of the necessity of the limb condition for a particular subset of postcritically finite maps in S 1 . Many examples are given to illustrate the results of the paper.


The oviduct plays a key role promoting a favourable microenvironment to gametes transport, fertilization and early embryo development. Numerous differences in reproductive physiology are known among animals of Zebu and European breeds. Reports indicate that female Zebu cattle have a higher number of follicles per wave than female European cattle and individual distinctions in the number of follicles recruited are present in both breeds, namely animals with high follicular count (HFC) and low follicular count (LFC). Furthermore, the follicular count is related to animal fertility and is greatly influenced by the activity of FSH, oestradiol, and androgens. However, little is known about the effects of follicular count differences between Zebu and European cattle, and between breeds in the oviduct molecular profile. Based in these information, we hypothesised that differences in bovine breed (Nelore and Aberdeen Angus), differences in the follicular count (FC), and differences in the antimere related to ovulation (ipsilateral and contralateral) alter the molecular profile of genes involved in oviducal functions during the initial period after ovulation. To do so, oviducts from Nelore heifers (HFC, n = 4; LFC, n = 4) and oviducts from Aberdeen Angus heifers (HFC, n = 4; LFC, n = 4) were isolated and oviducal segments were divided (infundibulum, ampulla, isthmus) from ipsilateral and contralateral antimere. Total RNA was extracted using Illustra TriplePrep Kit (GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA) and then reverse transcription was performed using a high-capacity cDNA kit (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA), according to the manufacturer's protocols. Relative RT-qPCR analysis was performed with TaqMan® Low Density Array (TLDA, Life Technologies). The mRNA abundance of the target was tested by ANOVA analysis, using PROC GLM procedure of SAS (SAS, 9.2, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Individual differences were analysed through pair-wise comparisons (SAS). All the comparisons were performed in each segment (ampulla, infundibulum, and isthmus); no comparisons were performed between segments. The differences were considered significant when P < 0.05. In the ampulla, the mRNA abundance of COX2, OVGP1, GPR78, FUCA1, and ANXA4 showed higher levels in ipsilateral antimere compared to contralateral. Similarly, in the infundibulum the mRNA abundance of GRP78, PGTER4, FUCA2, and FUCA1 was higher in ipsilateral antimere. No difference was found in the isthmus. In conclusion, the breed and the follicular count have no effect on the molecular profile of bovine oviduct, suggesting the site of ovulation has the main effect in gene expression related to gametes transport, fertilization, and early embryo development. Research supported by FAPESP 2012/09498-9 and 2012/50514-8.


In this paper, the learnability of haptic icons was tested as a way of conveying turn-by-turn directions to users involved in navigation interactions with commercial smartphones. To do this, six most distinctive haptic icons were identified from those having different duration of each pulse, interval between pulses, and rhythm. Associations between the selected haptic icons and 3 pairs of navigation directions were analyzed using data gathered from 30 subjects by 7 point Likert scale. The haptic icons were then assigned to proper directions based on the results from that stereotype analysis. The results showed that the commercial smartphone with one linear motor at a fixed location is not capable of making hapticons to have clear directional stereotypes. The hapticons with poor stereotypes has no advantage in learnability compared to those of random assignment.


This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network CNN Models to classify Arabic sentences into three topics. These sentences are derived from Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) corpus, tokenized to words and transformed to sequences of word indices. All sequences are padded to be in the same length. The models of Convolution Neural Network are built on top of word embedding layer. The word embedding layer is either pre-trained or jointed into the model. Dropout and l2 weight regularization are used to overcome the overfitting during training. The CNN models achieve high performance in accuracy for Arabic sentences classification.


Photonics activities at Sandia National Laboratories are founded on an extensive materials research program. In 1988, the Compound Semiconductor Research Laboratory was established at Sandia to bring together device and materials research and development, in support of Sandia's role in weapons technologies. Recently, industrial competitiveness has been added as a major mission for the national laboratories. As a result, present photonics programs are not only directed towards internal applications-driven projects, but are increasingly tied to the Department of Energy's Technology Transfer Initiatives, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, and participation in partnerships and consortia. This evolution yields a full range of photonics programs, ranging from materials synthesis and device fabrication to packaging, test, and subsystem development. This paper presents an overview of Sandia's photonics-program directions, using three applications as examples.


The Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX) has been built to study the confinement of supersonically-rotating plasmas and velocity shear stabilization of MHD instabilities. Theory predicts improved stability and confinement when a strong radial electric field is introduced into a magnetic-mirror geometry. The resulting radial currents establish a stable highly sheared plasma rotating at supersonic velocities in the azimuthal direction under the influence of J × B forces. This arrangement leads to increased confinement because the supersonic rotation creates an artificial radial gravity which draws the plasma away from the mirrors, closing the mirror loss cone. The large v φ shear stabilizes the plasma and enforces laminar flow. Based on these concepts, we have designed and constructed a machine to produce supersonically rotating highly-ionized plasmas. It typically does this by introducing a radial voltage of 7 kV in a magnetic-mirror geometry, 2 kG at the midplane and 19 kG at each mirror. MCX has completed its main construction phase and is acquiring data, here analyzed primarily in terms of a circuit model which infers plasma characteristics from the radial voltage across the plasma and the total radial current. The theory and simulations supporting the MCX centrifugal confinement scheme are presented here with the data and analysis from its first nine months of operation, including a description of basic plasma characteristics and evidence for both stability and confinement. Theory, simulation, and initial experimental data all indicate that this centrifugal confinement scheme provides good stability and confinement at the temperatures and densities under study, as well as at the larger temperatures, fields, and dimensions expected for a fusion reactor. In particular, spectroscopic and circuit-model data indicate rotational velocities in MCX of up to 100 km/s, ion temperatures of approximately 30 eV, and ion densities upwards of 10 20 m −3. These parameters give rotational Mach numbers between 1 and 2 and imply ∂ r v φ ∼ 10 6 s −1. Measurements of the loss times found via our circuit model indicate the neutral density is typically a few times 10 17 m −3. Calculations based on a zero-dimensional MHD model indicate that the plasma is collisional and highly ionized. In this paper, we outline the direct and indirect evidence for supersonic flow, high (10 20 m −3) ion density, scarce neutrals (∼ 1 neutral per 1000 ions), and a plasma state which is at least quasi-stable. Some notes are given on improvements to …


"Peak Current Mode Control" (CPM) is usually implemented in analogue and brings the advantage of cycle by cycle protection, higher bandwidth rejection of input voltage disturbance or equivalently increases a converter's input impedance. "Average Current Mode Control" (ACM) allows inductor current control to a "true average" and will facilitate an accurate current limit loop or Power Factor Correction with low Total Harmonic Distortion. ACM is however slower to react to line disturbance or over current (OC) faults and presents reduced converter input impedance burden on an input filter stage. In this work, analogue CPM is combined with a new digital average current mode control to provide the benefits of both control modes in a "Hybrid Current Controller" (HCM). The averaging and compensation functions traditionally implemented within an ACM compensated amplifier are separated out and implemented digitally. The digital control is designed to operate on the basis of one analog to digital conversion per PWM switching cycle and this combined with the low bias power required for a CPM comparator allows high performance PFC to be implemented in cost effective, low power and low pin count controller IC. Results in a 250W Boost Power Factor Correction Stage, capable of 250achieving less than 10mW in no load, employing this new HCM are presented.


Study on the effective effect on psychological health level of college students majored in physical education from group tutorship for interpersonal skills.Method: The 28 college students majored in physical education are picked out and tutored 8 times in group for interpersonal skills by UPI questionnaire and interview.There are two table groups for comparison about tutor.One is before it,including self-commented symptom table,blench-agony table during interpersonal communication and the degree of affliction.The other is after,in which self-commented table of members(made by themselves),besides the same to before,is included.Result: Comparing with the table group before tutor,the latter have showed great progress made by the members in many respects such as SCL-90,body phenomenon,obsessive compulsive symptom,sensitivity,dumps and hostility during interpersonal communication;there are also obvious differences in blench-agony and affliction tables.The comments in self-commented table of members are inclined to active direction.All the 10 items make great progress.Conclusion: Group tutorship for interpersonal skills will improve the psychological health level of college students majored in physical education obviously.It is available to try to spread it further.


Let g denote a Lie algebra, and letdenote the tensor product of g with a ring of truncated polynomials. The Lie algebrais called a truncated current Lie algebra. The highest-weight theory ofis investigated, and a reducibility criterion for the Verma modules is described. Let g be a Lie algebra over a field k of characteristic zero, and fix a positive integer N. The Lie algebra ˆ = g ⊗k k(t)/t N +1 k(t),


Objective : Cardiovascular disease is amenable to mortality and morbidity in India and worldwide. The asymptomatic nature of hypertension made it a silent killer. Evidence suggests the role of oxidative stress and anxiety in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Lifestyle modification can control hypertension and, thus, can prevent complications. Music therapy is a non-invasive, non-pharmacological, and economic practice used for the management of hypertension, anxiety, and oxidative stress. The present study aims to evaluate the therapeutic effect of Raga Ananda Bhairavi on oxidative stress and anxiety in hypertensive patients.
Materials and Methods: This randomized control study comprises of a total of 120 participants of age between 30-60years. All the study participants were divided into an experimental and control group. The instrumental music of Raga Ananda Bhairavi was provided to the experimental group for three months. The anthropometric measurements, blood pressure assessment, and estimation of oxidative stress parameters were done in all subjects before and after three months of intervention.
Results: The systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, anxiety levels, and oxidative stress marker malondialdehyde significantly reduced after music therapy, and the superoxide dismutase level significantly improved after the intervention.
Conclusion: Music can be used as an adjunct therapy for the management of hypertension.


................................................................................................................................................................................5 Introduction...........................................................................................................................................................................7 Aims....................................................................................................................................................................................13 Conclusions.........................................................................................................................................................................14 References for Introduction................................................................................................................................................16 Peer reviewed publication: "A truncated form of the Carbon catabolite repressor 1 increases cellulase production in Trichoderma reesei". Published in "Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014, 7, 129"................................................................22 Peer reviewed publication: "The impact of chromatin remodelling on cellulase expression in Trichoderma reesei. ". Published in "BMC Genomics, 2015, 16, 588"..................................................................................................................35 Peer reviewed publication: "The Relation between Promoter Chromatin Status, Xyr1 and Cellulase Expression in Trichoderma reesei ". Published in "Current Genomics, 2016, 17, 1-1"...........................................................................47 Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................................................................56 Curriculum Vitae.................................................................................................................................................................57


We developed an approach to two-way classification based on the χ2 distance and Correspondence Analysis. We present, in particular, two classification algorithms: the first one operates a dimension reduction before applying clustering techniques to rows and columns. The second one, successively partitions the data matrix to extract several classification schemes rather than one. Applications to gene expression and web data are presented. The results are compared with an optimal partition algorithm.


A review of population trends in Montenegro Yugoslavia since World War II is first presented. The focus of the study is on regional differences in rates of population growth in the period 1971-1981. Four main regions are identified and their respective rates of growth are linked to the progress of regional socioeconomic development. The influence of internal migration on these regional differences is noted. (summary in FRE) (ANNOTATION)


The experiment was carried out in the Research Base of the Institute of Crop Sciences,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.We selected 4 wheat varieties and adapted two factor randomized block design to study the effects of the variety and nitrogen application on grain yield and quality.The result indicated that,under the same base fertilization,increases topdressing nitrogen to certain extent could significantly increase grain yield.Increasing application of nitrogen fertilizer also increased the grain protein content significantly.All quality index increased with the increasing of topdressing nitrogen except the water-absorptivity.The stretch area,the bread volume and bread score under B2 and B3(increase topdressing nitrogen)was significant higher that that in B1(no topdressing nitrogen).Grain protein content and other 14 quality index was positive correlation.A significant correlation was found between the water-absorptivity,sedimentation value,development time,stable time,stretch resistance,stretch ratio,the maxinum stretch resistance,the maximum stretch ratio,the stretch area,bread volume,bread score.Our results also indicated that not all the quality index in the strong gluten wheat variety was highly that in the middle gluten wheat variety.


Campbell situates Laird's staged photographs of apocalyptic "sci-fi" landscapes as the artist's reflections on the impact of science and technology on humanity and the environment. Artist's statement. Brief biographical notes.


The current state of accident distribution system home and abroad is analyzed.The optimized design of accident distribution system on new domestic surface naval ships is introduced.


In 1750, Parliament created the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa to facilitate Britain's African trade by maintaining a series of beneficial coastal structures and relations. Along the Gold Coast, the company officers found that traditional and new indigenous structures dictated their relationship with their main trading partners the Fante. Palavers, taking fetish, the status of messengers, pawnship and redemption, and the flying of flags defined the nature of coastal relations and ensured that both sides obtained from the other what they desired. They did this by integrating the company into coastal affairs and in doing so made the company into a tenant-patron. By defining the company in this manner, and by using these structures to acquire goods and services from the company, which coastally was known as eating, the Fante effectively controlled the company to their advantage.


According to the national unified schedule,the standardized training for residents will be comprehensively launched over China in 2015.Military hospitals,due to discrepancies in terms of policies,understanding and conditions,have lagged behind civilian hospitals.in this article,the author analyzed the significances and existing problems,and put forwarded countermeasures and suggestions on what military hospitals should do to enhance the overall construction of Standardized Resident Training Base.


The seagrass Halophila ovalis normally produces one mature root, covered with a permanent mat of root hairs, per node. In this study, the development of the root hairs increased the effective root surface absorptive area by 215%. Of the root surface examined, 39% was devoted to root-hair production. Epidermal cells that produced root hairs contained more cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi bodies than did adjacent hairless cells. In addition to appearing to be more metabolically active, root-hair-producing cells had a greater number of plasmodesmatal connections with the underlying outer cortical cells than did adjacent cells that did not produce root hairs. This would suggest that cells that produce root hairs play a more active role in nutrient uptake and exchange than do other cortical cells.


A scientist who is really exploring the unknown has no idea where the research is going. That makes it difficult to predict. . .But, on the other hand scientists who are actually exploring the unknown are very rare. Most prefer to take whatever mission the NIH proposes and write their grants accordingly.
 Dr. Ponzy Lu, Biochemist. Quoted in: Kolata G. Scientists fluff the answer to a billion-dollar question. The New York Times. November 1, 1992.


The present study was carried out for analysis of n-hexane extract of Nitraria schoberi fruits and also for evaluation of the total phenolics and antioxidant activity of the fruit extracts. The n-hexane extract was obtained by Soxhlet apparatus and analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Total phenolic content (TPC) was determined using the Folin-Ciocalteau reagent and the antioxidant capacity of the n-hexane and methanolic extracts as well as essential oils, was evaluated with the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) test. Seventeen constituents, representing 88.89% of the oil, were identified, belonging to different groups of chemical compounds namely fatty acids, sterols, esters and hydrocarbons. Linoleic, palmitic, oleic and myristic acids were identified as the dominant fatty acid components, and gamma sitosterol and campestrol were the major elucidated sterols. The results indicated that methanolic extract had higher antioxidant activity than n-hexane extract and essential oils. TPC was relatively high and determined as 5.72 µg gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/mg of dry weight (DW). This study revealed that N. schoberi is an attractive source of fatty acid components, especially the essential ones, as well as that of effective natural antioxidants.

 Key words: Antioxidant activity, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), Nitraria schoberi L., total phenolic content.


Objective To study of protective effect of schisandrae chinenesis oil on the islet B cells of type 2 diabetic rats and explore its hypoglycemic effect and mechanism.Methods The high-fat diet combined with the twice injection of low-dose STZ at the ideal interval was used to establish the experimental rat model of type 2 diabetes.The Wistar model rats were randomly divided into diabetic model group and schisandrae chinenesis oil treatment group,meanwhile control group and normal schisandrae chinenesis oil group were set up.After 6 weeks abdominal injection of rats with schisandrae chinenesis oil,the fasting blood glucose(FBG) and fasting plasma insulin level(FINS) in serum of the rats in various groups were examined;the malondialdehyde(MDA) content,superoxide dismutase(SOD) and catalase(CAT) activities in serum were measured;RT-PCR assay was used to examine the expressions of Bcl-2,Bax and Caspase 3 mRNA.Results Compared with diabetic model group,the level of FBG in schisandrae chinenesis oil gourp was significantly decreased(P0.05),the FINS level was markedly increased(P0.05);the serum MDA content,and the SOD and CAT activities were increased(P0.05);the expression of Bcl-2 mRNA was increased(P0.05),the expression level of Caspase 3 mRNA was decreased(P0.05),and the Bax mRNA expression had no change.However there were no differences in these indexes between control group and normal schisandrae chinenesis oil group.Conclusion Schisandrae chinenesis oil can significantly reduce blood glucose by decreasing lipid peroxidation,increasing the antioxidant capacity of the diabetic rats,regulating apoptosis-related genes,and improving insulin secretion.


This article aims to analyse the policy shifts in higher education (HE) in Egypt since World War II in terms of the key policies, ideologies, competing policies and consequences of these policies over four policy eras: (1944-1952), (1952- 1970), (1970-1981) and (1981-present). The analytical policy framework used in this article is adapted from the work of Hodgson and Spours (2006). The policy documents referred to in the analysis, where appropriate, are Acts of parliament, influential reports and strategic decisions driven by political and international agendas. Despite the policy shifts in these policy eras, i.e. from 'education of the elite', 'education for all' to 'privatisation of education', the analysis seems to suggest that none of these shifts has been a complete success. This might be the result of the underlying challenges for HE, which the article attempts to unpack. It concludes with a number of suggestions to develop HE in Egypt.


The invention relates to a method for producing alkali methylates from an aqueous alkaline lye that is optionally mixed with methanol and methanol in a reaction column, said column comprising at least 5, preferably 15 to 30 theoretical trays between the inlet of the alkaline lye and the site of addition of the methanol. According to the inventive method, the vapor methanol-water mixture formed during the reaction is separated in a reaction column. According to an embodiment of the invention, the reaction column that is configured as a bubble-tray, valve-tray or sieve-plate column is provided with trays, each letting through maximally 5 %, preferably </= 1 % of the liquid. In another embodiment of the invention, the reaction column that is provided with a double jacket is configured as a column that is filled with fillers or oriented packings at a temperature in the double jacket that is 3 to 10 DEG C higher than the temperature in the inner of the column. In all sections of the column diameter that correspond to more than 2 % of the total column diameter, the average ratio of the liquid flow to the vapor flow with respect to the liquid is not exceeded by more than 15 %, preferably by not more than 3 %.


With the increasing need for new and clean energy, it is highly important to lean towards technologies based on renewable resources for hydrogen production as they are less harmful to environment and sustainable systems. Within the scope of this study, the aim was to convert glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, to hydrogen using electrochemical reforming and thus paving the way to convert glycerol to value-added chemicals and alternative fuels. Producing hydrogen from glycerol contributes also to the overall economy of biodiesel technology. By utilizing the functionality of 3 -OH groups present in the molecular structure of glycerol, hydrogen can be produced from glycerol. By this way, hydrogen production was achieved with an innovative method at high purity, without the need for further purification operation. Within the context of the study, a parametric study was carried out. The experimental system was run under different operating conditions in order to determine the optimal conditions. Glycerol concentration, electrode material, distance between the electrodes, electrolyte, temperature, mixing effect and the effect of additives to electrolyte were investigated and their contributions to hydrogen production were investigated. When H2SO4 was used as the electrolyte, 0,4 M glycerol solution was determined as optimum solution. The highest current density value was achieved by using Zn/Zn electrode pair. The values were 8.5, 17.7 and 25.1 mA/cm for 0.5, 1 and 1.5 V, respectively. Araştırma makalesi Başvuru: 09/01/2020 Düzeltme: 06/05/2020 Kabul: 15/05/2020


ABSTRACT Why does Indonesia, whose regional leadership would seem to flow so obviously from its material and normative footprint, and whose role as primus inter pares is readily, if sometimes grudgingly, acknowledged by its peers, struggle to translate that position into an unambiguous, consistent, and effective regional presence? While there are many possible answers to this question, this article focuses on societal interpretations, arguing that such a role is exercised not in a vacuum, susceptible to measurement against a set of fixed criteria, but in the context of its respective region's unique and constantly evolving profile. Drawing on the English School's concept of institutions, and focusing on three areas within the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (migration, disaster preparedness, and the environment), the article argues that the paradox of Indonesia's powerful-but-not-powerful position reflects the kind of 'great-power management' that is to be expected in the restrictive context of regional international society, and is profoundly influenced by the uneven interplay of institutions embedded at different levels in the regional experience.


There are increasingly efforts to control the yellow disease in black pepper through application of biological agents endophytic along with the dangers of pesticide uses and awareness of environmentally friendly agriculture. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of endophytic biological agents (bacteria and fungi) on the disease caused by nematodes of M. incognita and R. smilis. The study was conducted on the farmer garden located at Petaling, Bangka. A randomized complete block design with 7 treatments and 5 replications was used in this study. The black peppers were treated with endophytic isolates (MER7, AA2, ANIC, TT2, TRI) and carbofuran, chemical nematicide, as control (not treated). The endophytic agents used in this study were isolated from roots of black pepper and some selected endophytic collections. The results showed that some endophytic agents were able to suppress the incidence of yellow disease and nematode populations in the roots, and increase in the number of flowers and fresh weight of black pepper berry. The promising isolates being able to control the disease are ANIC and TRI (Trichoderma) on which their effectiveness are similar to the carbofuran.


Transitioning from medical writing into medical translation and vice versa is one of the many opportunities professional writers and translators may encounter in their career path. In this article, we present two personal experiences in doing so. We also present some data retrieved from a short survey conducted among professionals working in both fields. It is not rare to find medical writers who also do translations, and, likewise, medical translators who are also skilled writers. That is the case with the two of us: Laura C. Collada Ali is a medical translator as well as a writer, while Monica Milani is a medical writer who is branching into translations. We realised that we would be perfect real-life examples of this sort of career mingling and decided to share our experiences in the form of interviews with each other. What is your background, and how did you become interested in medical writing? I've always loved languages. I love how each language is strictly linked to a particular culture, and I appreciate the beauty of their nuances. However, I don't have a favourite language. Therefore, I've ended up studying several! I graduated in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Alicante (Spain); being a Spanish native speaker, I learned English, French, Arabic, Italian, and Catalan. Translators use languages as their main working tool, yet they need to get familiar with the field they want to work in. For me, it was medicine. In the years following graduation, I have attended many different workshops and seminars – on translation, writing, and medicine in general. My first professional assignment was at the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), in Brussels. I was in charge of liaising with international experts involved in the revision process of clinical research protocols. I loved that role and learned so much; the languages I had studied were a great toolkit. After a couple of years, I ended up being the administrator of the Protocol Review Committee and of the New Drugs Development Committee and contributing to the collaborative protocol writing process. This is how "writing" started for me... How did you get your first project in medical writing? My first medical writing project consisted of preparing the reports of the EORTC Protocol Review Committee meetings. These meetings took place every 3 months and were aimed at reviewing and approving the development plans for new clinical trials in oncology. At the beginning, it was a rather challenging task as I needed to get acquainted with the oncology An interview with Laura C. Collada Ali I also like very much working as a freelancer, as it allows me to be flexible with my schedule. I may go skiing for a couple of hours when the sun shines and then work late at night. My job gives me the opportunity to learn new things every day. Laura C. Collada Ali


S- adenosyl -L- methionine ( "SAMe" or "SAMe") and compositions comprising one or more gallic acid ester and a formulation provided herein. Further, it provided herein a method for improving the delivery of SAMe. The compositions and formulations provided herein increases the SAMe plasma concentration and area under the curve (AUC) values. Furthermore, by administering a composition or formulation comprising an exogenous SAMe and one or more gallic acid ester, it provides a method of treating a disease or disorder in a subject herein.


Three analytic and two emperic methods are described to calculate the surface resistance rs of crops transpiring at a measured rate. The profile method is applicable when detailed temperature, humidity, and wind profiles are measured; for the residual method, measurements of surface temperature, wind, and humidity are enough; for the heat balance method, the calculation is based on the ratio of potential to actual evaporation. For rough estimates, an empiric equation of Monteith or a relation between leaf area and surface resistance can be used. In southern England and in California all three analytic methods agree closely. Hourly values of rs in California demonstrate the effect of water stress on an irrigated grass canopy by midday, whereas in England the rs of a barley crop is maintained constant for almost the whole day. From Aslyng's measurements of evaporation, the relation of rs to soil-water potential is calculated and used to show how relative rates of transpiration and photosynthesis may change in response to water stress. For an equatorial rain forest in Kenya, mean monthly rs varied systematically with soil moisture deficit, ranging between 0.3 and 1.1, sec cm−1.


In a non-inertial reference frame, of which the motion is given,the differential equations describing the rotation of a planet around its center of mass can be derived either under the form of Euler type equa tions, or from certain relations between angular velocity vectors or even angles. Unfortunately these equations are not well adapted to an analytical integration. Nevertheless, with some simplifications, Ward (1973), and Christensen (1977), by considering the motion of the spin axis in a non-inertial reference frame attached to the moving orbital plane, have found very large periodic variations in the obliquity of the Mars planet over a period of the order 1.2 10+5 years, which would be of great importance to the climatic history of the planet. These oscillations cannot be attributed to the relative motion with res pect to the orbit, but actually they follow geometrically from a reso nance-type phenomenon which occurs basically in an inertial space.


Abstract: Syi'ah Itsna 'Asyariyah: Some Principal Teachings. The debate of ideological understanding of the rightful leadership is an important issue within the Shiates mainstream of Islam. The Shiates put 'Ali—the fourth of al-khulafâ' al-râsyidun—in a special position, because they consider him as the rightful successor of the Prophet Muhammad. On the contrary, however, they consider the other three caliphs as unlawful claimers to the caliphate. However, differences of understanding in the Shiates also occur at doctrinal level that gives rise to the emergence of the Twelvers and Seveners of Shiates, the former of which holds that there are twelve lawful number of imâm whereas the latter believes that there are only seven respectively. This article traces the historical roots of divergent doctrine within the Shiites mainstream, analyses how it develop through times, and argues that the different doctrine hold by respective sects whether at a lesser or greater extent lead to different factions. Kata Kunci: syi'ah itsna 'Asyariyah, imâmah


Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) is used to understand the holistic flow of energy and materials throughout a product's life. As part of a comprehensive approach to design next-generation dialysers, we performed a LCA of an Optiflux F180NR dialyser. Combining LCA insights with a functional analysis of each product component, we analysed which components could be improved most effectively. Determining that the polycarbonate housing was the optimal area of focus, we used SolidWorks and COSMOSWorks to test, in-silico, the strength of various reduced-weight housing designs. The final design weighed 17% less than the original without a significant loss in strength.


The samples steel plates disqualified by ultrasonic were observed with the aim of scanning electron microscope and energy spectrum,checked by chopping,dissection in Z direction.The results indicated that the main causes of disqualification of steel plate were high central segregation,high inclusion content and tiny crack in slab.Measures of cleaning molten steel, controlling casting velocity and cast temperature were taken,and the percent of pass in ultrasonic inspection of plate was enhanced.


Optimal management of regional lymph nodes for thin cutaneous melanoma is uncertain. We evaluated regional lymph node involvement and 5‐year melanoma‐specific survival (MSS) in patients with thin (≤1 mm) primary melanoma.


Today information is managed within increasingly complicated Web applications which often rely on similar information models. Finding a reusable and sufficiently generic information model for managing resources and their metadata would greatly simplify development of Web applications. This article presents such an information model, namely the Resource and Metadata Management Model ReM3. The information model builds upon Web architecture and standards, more specifically the Linked Data principles when managing resources together with their metadata. It allows to express relations between metadata and to keep track of provenance and access control. In addition to this information model, the architecture of the reference implementation is described along with a Web application that builds upon it. To show the taken approach in practice, several real-world examples are presented as showcases. The information model and its reference implementation have been evaluated from several perspectives, such as the suitability for resource annotation, a preliminary scalability analysis and the adoption in a number of projects. This evaluation in various complementary dimensions shows that ReM3 has been successfully applied in practice and can be considered a serious alternative when developing Web applications where resources are managed along with their metadata.


The International Badminton Federation Forcible try to carry out the new badminton rules of 21. Does it have advantages or not? May it carry on? All the people who like badminton are concerned about it. We maiht find out the answers To survey by having analysed the new badminton 21 rules through Yi yang World Cup and Chengdu International Great Masters Badminton Tournament.


The short story Barn Burning is one of William Faulkner classic works.In this novel,Faulkner created two typical characters of two generations,one being the "father" image shaped by the character Snopes,and the other being the "son" image shaped by Sartoris.


A sediment trap expenment was carried out in the Bay of Calvi (Corsica, France) over a Posidonja oceanica seagrass bed, at a depth of 36 m. The traps collected 44 samples over a complete annual cycle and allowed a rough partition between 'sinking' and 'resuspended' matter. The measured annual flux of particulate matter amounted to 1.3 kg m-2, of which about 70% arose from sediment resuspension, this process being particularly enhanced dur~ng northerly gales. Resuspended material consisted mainly of seagrass-derived detritus, as evidenced by SEM photomicrographs. Chemical analyses of trapped mater~al showed seasonal variations in Inorganic carbon content, organic C/N ratio and 6I3C. Benthic signature (C,,,,,-, C,,,and 13C-enriched Posidonia-derived matter) was emphasized when resuspension occurred, while planktonic features (Nand 12C-enriched matter) prevailed during bloom conditions.


Securing data in cloud has major issues such as processing, compression and speedup computation. To address this issue, there are many approaches applied by various researchers worldwide to strengthen security of the stored data on cloud computing. This paper is one of such cryptographic technique to overcome the security problem. The proposed technique considers dynamic sequence table to assign ASCII characters initially and then, a finite number of iterations are applied and Later On One-Time-Pad (OTP) is applied on the modified binary value. Obtained OTP Cipher text is again processed through genomic conversion. And finally, it is converted into compressed cipher text using amino acid table which consists of protein sequences that increases the confusion of the cipher text. The cipher text obtained at the last will contain the information that will provide enhanced security against the intruder's attack. Keywords— Cloud computing, DNA cryptography, dynamic DNA sequence table, Iteration process, Amino acid table;


Asked (or challenged) to define poetry, one is likely to reply with a sigh, a shrug, a look of exasperation or even one of contempt, indicating not only that the question is oppressive but that anyone who asks it must be something of a fool, a pest, or a vulgarian. Though these uncongenial reactions may be interpreted as the signs of intellectual embarrassment, they are, I think, quite justified. For the nature of definition and the particular historical fortunes of the term poetry conjoin to this effect: that a definition of the term will either be a total chronicle of those fortunes or will constitute merely one more episode in them. In other words, a definition of poetry is bound to be either inadequate to the job or, if adequate, then both unmanageable and uninteresting for any other


In photodynamic therapy (PDT), high polydispersity of polymeric carriers and random distribution of loaded photosensitizers (PSs) result in batch-to-batch variabilities. Alternatively, we designed cyclopeptidic photosensitizer prodrugs (cPPPs). These conjugates are perfectly defined, non-toxic and optically extinct in their initial state, reducing the side effects of premature exposure to radiation. Thanks to copper-free click chemistry, we coupled various loading of PSs, quenchers and chemotherapeutic drugs onto constrained scaffolds through protease-sensitive peptidic linkers. In the context of PDT use, relevant cPPPs are activated in vitro by enzymes (e.g., urokinase, cathepsin B) overexpressed by cancer cells (e.g., PC-3, A549), thus favoring a precise targeting of the area to be treated in order to reduce collateral damage. Once irradiated, fragments of interest indicate not only the presence of tumors, but are also toxic to cancer cells. Modulation of PEGylation has been explored to evaluate pharmacokinetics and biodistribution profile in vivo with fertilized hen eggs.


Latent heat storage (LHS) has been widely used for energy storage. Compare to sensible heat storage, LHS has several benefits because of its high energy density, small unit sized and operating at low temperature. This paper is aimed to investigate the melting characteristic of phase change material (PCM) implemented in concentric double pipe heat exchanger. The investigation is carried out by both simulation as well as validation. The simulation is conducted using ANSYS FLUENT with double pipe shape of heat storage. The geometrical shape of the storage is double pipe heat exchanger, the PCM is stored in the inner tube meanwhile hot water is circulated in the outer tube. The dimension of the inner tube are 5 cm of diameter and 50 cm length. The diameter of outer tube is 10 cm and 60 cm length. The hot liquid is circulated from the inlet port and withdrawing from the outer port. The inlet and outlet ports are located away at the distance of 5 cm from the edge of the outer tube. The inlet and outlet ports are constructed at the bottom and upper part of the outer tube. The simulation is carried out at temperature 60°C of the hot liquid and flow rate at 4 liters per minute. The validation is also conducted at the same configuration with that on the simulation. The tweaked parameters are number of mesh and mushy-zone value. Results revealed that validation is numerically accepted at deviation less than 5% for melting time deviation. The validation is obtained at number of mesh is 144,000 and mushy-zone value is 1.4 × 107. On the evaluation of temperature distribution similarity, all of coefficient correlation are obtained greater than 0.8 between simulation and experiment. Being a valid simulation model, it is enabled to be enhanced for predicting melting of phase change materials on the heat energy storage system.Latent heat storage (LHS) has been widely used for energy storage. Compare to sensible heat storage, LHS has several benefits because of its high energy density, small unit sized and operating at low temperature. This paper is aimed to investigate the melting characteristic of phase change material (PCM) implemented in concentric double pipe heat exchanger. The investigation is carried out by both simulation as well as validation. The simulation is conducted using ANSYS FLUENT with double pipe shape of heat storage. The geometrical shape of the storage is double pipe heat exchanger, the PCM is stored in the inner tube meanwhile hot water is circulated in the outer tube. The dimension of the inner tube are 5 cm of diameter and 50 cm length. The diameter of outer tube is 10 cm and 60 cm length. The hot liquid is circulated from the inlet port and withdrawing from the outer port. The inlet and outlet ports are located away at the distance of 5 cm from the edge of the outer tube. The inlet and outlet ports ar...


The PDE exit nozzle maintains operating pressure and also controls operating frequency. Two parametric studies were performed for two flight Mach number (Minf) conditions of 0.8 and 3.0 and an altitude of 30 kft, in which the exit nozzle contraction ratio Rnc, was systematically varied from 1.6 to 6.4. For the supersonic flight Mach number of 3.0, fuel-specific impulse, Ispf, increases with increasing values of Rnc and attains a constant value of 1950 s for Rnc > 5.0. For the subsonic flight conditions of Minf = 0.8, Ispf increases with increasing values of the exit nozzle contraction ratio and attains a constant value of 1600 for an exit nozzle contraction ratio of 3.0. These parametric studies also quantified PDE operation parameters such as mass flowrates of air and fuel, frequency, and fill velocity. Two additional parametric studies were performed in which purge fraction and fill fraction were systematically varied and they show opposite effect on Ispf and thrust generated. The estimated Ispf was found to have a maximum of 1980 s at a flight Mach number of 3.0, and a minimum value of 1580 s, at a flight Mach number of 0.8 and an altitude of 30 kft.


The present invention is a terminal MAC of a related to a wireless communication system and a terminal providing a wireless communication service, UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The E-UMTS (Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) or a LTE system (Long Term Evolution System) evolved from (Medium Access Control) layer is from about uplink HARQ operation method of a terminal that time alignment is correct. A wireless communication terminal, HARQ, 3GPP


The research done by the present work sought to analyze the conflitc of rights to privacy/be gorgotten and information, notably from the study of fundamental rights and in order to suggest possible parameters for the resolution of theis conflicts.


Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Fisheries — Franco-Brazilian "lobster war" — Claim by French nationals for losses resulting from unsuccessful fishing season — Whether French State liable to pay compensation — The Law of France. International law in general — Relation to municipal law — Claim by French nationals for compensation from French State — Losses during 1963 fishing season as result of Franco-Brazilian "lobster war" — Whether French State liable as authorizing fishing off Brazil — Whether position taken by French Government in negotiations and protection accorded fishing vessels justiciable by administrative tribunals — Whether losses due to action by French Government or to unilateral action by Brazil — The law of France.


There is hardly any study in the existing literature regarding the foreign banks' exit decision in India. This study tries to identify the CAMEL (i.e., C=Capital adequacy, A=Asset quality, M=Management decision, E=Earning ability and L=liquidity) variables that could qualify as the determinant of foreign banks closing their business operations in India which entered after the financial sector reforms. Logistic Regression Model was used to identify the risk factors associated with the closure of business-operation of foreign banks in India. It seems that foreign banks with higher non-performing assets (NPAs), lower return on equity and lesser profit per employee were more likely to close their business in India than otherwise.


Field trials were conducted during 2011 and 2012 cropping seasons at the Teaching and Research Farm of the University of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State located in Southern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria. The objective of the study was to evaluate the response of some improved sweet potato varieties planted at three densities to intercropping with soybean. The experiment was a 2x3x3 split-split plot laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The main plot consisted of two cropping systems [sole cropping (sweet potato, soybean) and intercropping (sweet potato + soybean). The sub-plot consisted of three sweet potato varieties (CIP440037, NRSP/05/007C and CIP440141). The sub-sub-plot treatment comprised of three sweet potato planting densities (25,000 plants/ha, 33,000 plants/ha and 50,000 plants/ha). Intercropping severely depressed the yields of both sweet potato varieties and the soybean component, such that intercrop yields were rarely above 50% of sole crop yields, irrespective of the sweet potato variety used. The number and weight of the sweet potato component was not significantly affected at the planting density of 50,000 plants/ha. Indices used to measure intercrop advantage showed that intercropping these sweet potato varieties with soybean was biologically efficient and percentage land saved varied from 23.08 and 32.43. Soybean was more competitive than sweet potato at all densities tested.