Aquaculture is about to revolutionize the way we consume fish and other marine food products. However, emergent diseases continue to be a serious challenge to the aquaculture industry and set constraints to its expansion. Most models which describing the spread of disease are based on the assumption that populations are homogeneous and focus on the population as a whole. In this paper, we present an agent-based model that simulates the spread of an infectious in an aquaculture facility. We simulate both fishes and pathogens as individual agents that interact with each-other and their environment. This gives the model the capability to overcome the limitations of classical population-based models, permitting to study specific spatial aspects of the spread of infectious and addressing naturally stochastic nature of the infectious process. The model enables us to study the sensitivity to factors such as fish density, infectious radius, shedding rate, etc., in which the infectious disease takes place. The model experiment is designed to explore the impact of fish density and infectious radius factors on the fish disease dynamics. Exploring the sensitivity of fish disease dynamics to these factors helps in combatting these diseases. The model and its results are presented in this paper.


OBJECTIVE:To optimize the ratio of glycerol in Chloramphenicol and Ephedrine Nasal Drops included in China's Hospitals Agents Norms.METHODS:By formula optimization and observation on clinical trials,the ratio of glycerol in Chloramphenicol and Ephedrine Nasal Drops was reduced from 300mL to 50mL.RESULTS CONCLUSION:The Chloramphenicol and Ephedrine Nose Drops prepared in an optimized ratio of glycerol is of much less irritability,good transparency,good compliance in patients,more reliable efficacy,thus deserving to be popularized.


ABSTRACT There is a large gap between the specialized knowledge of scientists and laypeople's understanding of the sciences. The novice-expert problem arises when non-experts are confronted with (real or apparent) scientific disagreement, and when they don't know whom to trust. Because they are not able to gauge the content of expert testimony, they rely on imperfect heuristics to evaluate the trustworthiness of scientists. This paper investigates why some bodies of scientific knowledge become polarized along political fault lines. Laypeople navigate conflicting epistemic and social demands in their acceptance of scientific testimony; this might explain their deference to scientific fringe theories, which often goes together with denying established scientific theories. I evaluate three approaches to mitigate denialism: improving the message, improving the messenger, and improving the environment in which the message is conveyed.


This memo proposes two mechanisms that work in concert to address the
LURK problem statement, allowing a third party (e.g., a content
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Patient death is an unavoidable element in the work of nurses. It is associated with experiencing various emotions which affects their value system and personal life. The aim. To examine the attitudes of nurses towards dying patients, to present their emotions, anxiety and experiences related to patients' deaths and to assess the impact on the personal life of the respondents. Methods and research material. The results of own research based on the questionnaire as well as the standardized Mini-COPE tool. Results. Gender, marital status and education do not differentiate the attitudes of nurses towards the dying and death of the patient. On the other hand, age and seniority turned out to be a factor that significantly differentiated the change in the hierarchy of values after the patient's death and had a positive effect on the level of stress. Conclusions. Summing up this work, it should be noted that the contact of nurses with dying patients exposes them to stress, negative emotions and high psychological burden. Their hierarchy of values changed after the patient's death. The ability to sympathize and proper preparation of nurses has a great impact on ensuring the reduction of suffering and the patient's dying.


Some factors affecting the situation of the elderly in pre-industrial Finland are analyzed. "The strategies for survival in a traditional agrarian society differed from those of the parts of Europe already integrated into capitalism and a monetary economy. Over time the efforts of the landholders to keep their land and provide for their children came to grief with the increase in population and the impossibility of continuous expansion within the agrarian sector. With the proletarianisation insecurity in old age became a prospect for an increasing part of the population and the societal responses of countries that had experienced industrialisation at an earlier date had to be sought." (EXCERPT)


Article title: A Hybrid Bacterial Foraging-Particle Swarm Optimization Technique for Optimal Tuning of Proportional-IntegralDerivative Controller of a Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Authors: Amged Saeed El-Wakeel, Abou El-Eyoun Kamel Mohamed Ellissy, and Alaa Mohamed Abdel-hamed Journal: Electric Power Components and Systems Bibliometrics: Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 309–319 DOI: 10.1080/15325008.2014.981320 On page 317, the second paragraph under the heading "4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS," should read: The optimum PID controller tuned using IATE fitness function is applied to closed-loop control of BLDC motor and its drive circuit. The IATE fitness function is used as it gives the minimum overshoot and settling time as shown in Table 5.


A review of the most common computer programs for processing data ornithological monitoring. The possibilities and limitations of programs, examples of their use. The technique of field data processing with the help of environmental applications of computer programs.


The construction and optical performance of Fabry-Perot eta- lons for spaceflight are considered. Optical mounts with sufficient me- chanical firmness to handle intense vibration loads cause significant dis- tortion of etalon plates, degrading the etalon resolving power and peak transmittance. A mount is described that combines mechanical robust- ness with very low plate distortion. An etalon mounted in this manner survived spaceflight-level vibration testing, in two axes, without damage or degradation. The defect finesse of this etalon, measured after the vibration tests, was 46, at a wavelength of 532 nm, about three times the values achieved with previous Fabry-Perot etalons for spaceflight. © 2000 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. (S0091-3286(00)03201-3)


Providing a three dimensional variable information distribution server comprising: attribute information of the main storage device attribute information storing three-dimensional variable; backbone main storage means (backbone) is a variable storing a fixed portion; parameter master storage device for storing parameters; login attribute information and management the attribute information management means; a logged variable backbone backbone registration device; variable parameter registration device registration parameter; generating a main storage device and the reference parameter skeleton master storage device and provide a means to provide variable three variables. Thus, according to the present invention can be easily changed to provide information distribution system of the three-dimensional data variables.


Recent work learns contextual representations of source code by reconstructing tokens from their context. For downstream semantic understanding tasks like code clone detection, these representations should ideally capture program functionality. However, we show that the popular reconstruction-based RoBERTa model is sensitive to source code edits, even when the edits preserve semantics. We propose ContraCode: a contrastive pre-training task that learns code functionality, not form. ContraCode pre-trains a neural network to identify functionally similar variants of a program among many non-equivalent distractors. We scalably generate these variants using an automated source-to-source compiler as a form of data augmentation. Contrastive pre-training outperforms RoBERTa on an adversarial code clone detection benchmark by 39% AUROC. Surprisingly, improved adversarial robustness translates to better accuracy over natural code; ContraCode improves summarization and TypeScript type inference accuracy by 2 to 13 percentage points over competitive baselines. All source is available at https://github.com/parasj/contracode.


Evolution of Forebrain and Spatial Cognition in Vertebrates - Conservation across Diversity, Salas, C. Broglio, C., Rodr guez, F. Comparative Psychology of Surprising Nonreward, Papini, M.R. The Importance of Hippocampus-Dependent Non-Spatial Tasks in Analyses of Homology and Homoplasy, Day, L.B. Memory and Hippocampal Specialization in Food-Storing Birds - Challenges for Research on Comparative Cognition, Shettleworth, S.J. The Homing Pigeon Hippocampus and Space - In Search of Adaptive Specialization, Bingman, V.P., Hough, G.E., I, Kahn, M.C., Siegel, J.J. The Evolution of the Cognitive Map, Jacobs, L.F.


No needing energy to dry raw material,hydrogen production from wet biomass gasification in supercritical water is considered to be one of the most promising technologies.In recent years,domestic and foreign scholars have done a lot for this technology,especially for the transition metal catalysts.The influence of different metals,different supported materials and metals loading on the results of gasification is reviewed.The activity and stability of promoters modified transition metals for hydrogen generation by supercritical water gasification of biomass has been discussed.Performance of catalysts would be poisoned by a small amount of sulfur,chloride anions and nitrogen in the feeds.It is necessary to strengthen the research on the stability of supported materials.In addition,should give significant attention to the novel preparation methods of catalysts,such as supercritical fluid deposition technique.


Automatic character recognition is one of the most discovered and crucial application areas of pattern recognition field. Due to the increasing demand of machine processing of handwritten characters, this area of pattern recognition is gaining a lot of attention of researchers. Despite of a great deal of efforts done so far in this direction, still a lot is required to get done. In this work, we are focusing our attention on handwritten Hindi characters. Automatic recognition of Handwritten Hindi characters is complex due to the cursive nature and high level of similarity (such as presence of header line, vertical bar, etc.) in the structure of characters. Hybrid feature extraction approach is followed to extract meaningful features from the collected handwritten characters data. A comparative study of performance analysis of selected neural networks models is performed. Results indicate that the Radial basis function network model perform with 99.09% recognition accuracy.


Hearing in Children has been a major resource for knowledge and practice in clinical paediatric audiology over four decades. Over this time paediatric audiology has changed from reliance on astute observation of behaviours with individualised communication and education needs, into a discipline driven by advances in technology, in which the majority of deaf infants in the developed world are anticipated to be educated alongside their normal hearing peers. Is it possible for a book that has underpinned knowledge and practice to encapsulate the depth and breadth of current best practice, while maintaining the wisdom accrued in a lifetime of experience by the authors? The book is made up of 10 chapters over 500 pages, ranging from embryology and genetics, through assessment and education, to fitting of hearing aid technology and cochlear implants. There are two appendices on: A. Syndromes and conditions associated with hearing loss in children and: B. published guidelines for management of Auditory Neuropathy spectrum disorder (2008). It includes the 12 goals of early intervention, defined in 2013 and traces the evolution of management of impaired hearing from "disease centred" diagnostics, through patient-focus and to the present rationale for family-centred practice. The style of the writing is very different to typical text books now, which are characterised by synopsis sections for swift review and fast access to concise reference information. This book is not aiming to provide a synopsis of current knowledge, but offers a tutorial into basic concepts of good paediatric audiology. There are very few lists or figures to illustrate algorithms, but instead it offers discursive exploration of insightful practice in children's audiology, much of which is just as valid today as when it was first published, including rudiments of wisdom, like: Don't ask a child a yes/no question in testing, how to use the clinic assistant, reinforcement theory and avoiding bias in behavioural testing. The task of cutting obsolete and superceded reference material is a challenge for the authors who personally contributed to the evolution of clinical audiology to date, and there is a historic richness to the content. However the updated material includes the salient themes for effective practice, including sensitive periods for intervention, open hearing aid fittings, enhanced frequency bandwidth, probe microphone measures, and all set within the context of child-focussed practice. The pictures look a bit dated though the photos reflect the reality of paediatric practice, with as much relevance to the i-pad generation as to previous generations of families. The expectation is for paediatric audiologists to be thoroughly familiar with developmental milestones, speech acoustics and family dynamics. Current training programmes for paediatric audiology focus on new technology and advanced methods of hearing assessment and intervention, while fundamental information on early vocalisations, speech and developmental profiles are pushed off the curriculum. As educational attainment for children with hearing loss improves, there is a tendency to overlook more subtle insidious effects of hearing loss on, for example, pragmatics of social interaction, increased cognitive effort, degraded self-image and loss of confidence. These themes are given appropriate space and status, alongside medical aspects of hearing loss. Hearing in Children isn't the tome one reaches to for specific test criteria, which is largely available (and updated) on websites. This book works by being perused in the debrief process after an awkward clinical appointment, to review what could have been done differently, as part of the culture of self-evaluation and continuous professional development. As such it maintains its status as a unique and relevant resource in this area, taking the longer view. With current challenges in paediatric audiology provision (eg NDCS, Listen Up! October 2014), and constraints in NHSP quality assurance and training opportunities, this book offers evident experience and relevance to the needs of children's hearing services around the world.


Full functioning of wells in oil and gas fields is impossible without the use of tubing. Main function of tubing is transportation of gases and liquids produced in productive zone to well surface. In addition, tubing acts as a kind of insulator that protects the gas and liquid transported through them from the walls of the well, and also prevents the occurrence and development of corrosion, deposits of paraffin and asphaltene on casing pipes. The tubing pipe placed in the well is also necessary in order to ensure the carrying out of downhill and repair work, which is regularly necessary. Standard tubin g (tubing) as a result of technological difficulties does not undergo a strengthening operation. When manufacturing tubing and locks to them from alloyed steels, the main attention is paid to improving mechanical properties, which is achieved by thermal and chemical-thermal treatment. However, the practice of operating tubing shows that the introduction of these measures does not solve the issue of reliability, since threaded connections for the coupling and nipple remain vulnerable sections of tubing. Tubing (tubing) during its operation experiences significant loads and is in constant contact with aggressive media, which leads to serious requirements for their quality. The possibility of replacing its production from alloyed steels with aluminum alloys, for example, AlCuMg2 will facilitate the design by 2.5 times, prevent the tendency to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in a hydrogen sulfide-containing medium and eliminate inhibitory protection. The main disadvantage of aluminum alloys is the tendency to pitting corrosion. It is possible to improve the protective properties of the passive film on aluminum alloys by anodizing.


In the crowded conditions typical of biological cells, nonspecific interactions can affect macromolecules' behavior. In theoretical studies of crowding, macromolecules are often treated as sterically repulsive hard spheres, with no consideration of the actual shape of the molecules. Researchers have long hypothesized that the effects of this type of repulsion depend on a protein's shape, but they haven't been able to test that hypothesis. Now, Gary J. Pielak and coworkers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have used dimers of a protein domain called GB1 to show that molecular shape does indeed matter in crowding effects (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2018, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810054115). Mutations within GB1 lead to dimers that have similar surfaces but different shapes. A single mutation in the natural protein results in a side-by-side dimer, with a shape that Pielak describes as two "kissing spheres." Three additional mutations result in the so-called domain-swapped dimer,


This article discusses several components of a training module for teaching neural computing to junior and senior high school students. The module is envisioned as one of a number of modules to be developed in the area of soft computing. Specifically the article discusses those components of the module which deal with defining an ANN, the biological basis, who is concerned with ANN, how an ANN operates and an example of perceptron learning using MS EXCEL spreadsheet calculations.


The introduction of the teaching of physical Human-Robot Interaction in a Bachelor curriculum of Computer Science is necessary to increase the students's awareness in novel challenging applications, ranging from industrial manipulators to medical robots. Computer Science students are usually taught theoretical disciplines with very few laboratory experiences, especially including real systems. In this paper we want to present a course for Bachelor students in Computer Science which is based on laboratory experiences and aims at making the students familiar with physical systems modeling and control, haptics and human-robot interaction. The course has been recently introduced at the University of Verona as a pilot experiment, with positive reactions from the students. We will describe the proposed method and its integration with the current curriculum in our University. The goals of the course are: the application of theoretical concepts from different disciplines to a real system (haptic paddle); the introduction of the human factor in such real system and its analysis; the improvement of the students ability to solve problems when facing real systems; the improvement of transversal knowledge, such as autonomously finding a solution using previous knowledge, performing scientific experiments, team work, collecting and reporting scientific results.


Astaxanthin (AXT) is a natural carotenoid which provides colorations to numerous living species such as salmon. Owing to its chelate function deprotonated astaxanthin (axt−) should be easily attached to metal ions. The complex RhIII(phpy)2(axt) with phpy− = deprotonated 2-phenylpyridine was prepared, and its electronic spectra and photochemistry were examined and compared to that of free AXT. Although different in detail, the spectra and photochemistry of AXT and Rh(phpy)2(axt) show common features such as fluorescence and photoisomerization of the axt− ligand in ethanol as solvent. In CH2Cl2 free AXT as well as the complex undergo photooxidation owing to the reducing property of astaxanthin as an antioxidant. Graphical Abstract Electronic Spectra and Photochemistry of Coordinated Astaxanthin


In Acalypha, 2 new hybrids are described, a new combination is made, a description is amplified, a species long ago subsumed is reinstated as specific rank, 6 names are subsumed into synonymy, and 6 new records are reported-3 for Zambia, 2 for Mozambique and one for Malawi. In Adenocline, a new record is reported for Zimbabwe. In Andrachne, a new variety is described, and a subsumption into synonymy is made. In Caperonia, new records are reported for Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Cavacoa, a description is amplified. In Croton, a description is amended and a new combination is made. In Dalechampia, a new variety is described. In Erythrococca, a new record for South Africa is reported. Injatropha, a seedling from Ethiopia is shown to upset recently-established subsectional distinctions based on the representation of the genus in Somalia, and a recent gathering from Somalia upsets a key-character used in the same paper. The genus Leidesia is newly reported from Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In Micrococca, a description is amplified, and a new record is reported from Mozambique. In Omphalea, a correction is made to the note in F.T.E.A. Euphorbiaceae (Part I, 1987) on the relationships of 0. mansfeldiana. In Phyllanthus, new records are reported from Chad and the Central Africa Republic. In Ricinodendron, a new record is reported for Mozambique. In Suregada, a description is amplified. Many of these changes are necessitated by information which has come to light during the course of preparation of the account of the family for 'Flora Zambesiaca', whilst others have been occasioned by the ongoing work of routine naming in the family for other parts of Africa.


Comprising a cathode comprising electrochemically active metal oxide coating on a first current collector, an electrolyte, an anode comprising electrochemically active alloy coating on the second current collector, a lithium-ion electrochemical to provide a cell. Both the anode and cathode has a reversible capacity in excess of the coating surface per 4.5 mAh / cm Metal oxide coating typically comprises cobalt, manganese, nickel, or combinations thereof. The cathode of the reversible capacity is within 15% of the anode reversible capacity. .FIELD 1


The function relating detectability (d′) to signal duration for sinusoidal signals in Gaussian noise has been well documented. In general, it has been shown that d′ is at a maximum when the signal duration is between 100 and 300 msec, and decreases for both longer and shorter durations. The present experiment replicated these results for both wide‐band (2900 Hz) and narrow‐band (70 Hz), continuous maskers. However, for pulsed signal and masker, the decrease in d′ at short signal durations was obtained only when the noise masker employed was wide band. If a narrow‐band noise was used as the masker, detectability continued to increase as signal duration was decreased.


Abstract Worsley has criticized Morner's and Dreimanis' till wedge concepts in two discussion papers. His last paper which also reports the impressions from a short visit to the actual pit at a time when the till wedge section was quarried away, does not reveal any understanding of the area.


Two serial cardiac catheterizations before the age of four months and another at six years confirmed spontaneous closure of a large atrial septal defect which caused congestive heart failure in infancy.


Two modifications of the intervening opportunities model, accounting for the 'long lines effect' are proposed. The first modification deals with the instant reaction of customers at long queues and incorporates the statistical dependence of their behaviour. In the second model customer behaviour is determined by past data, which make their behaviour statistically independent. The concept of self-consistent distribution is introduced, its existence is investigated, and properties of self-consistent distributions are described.


The article is sanctified to the initial stage of scientific work of N.M. Druzhinin' s that is indissolubly related to his activity in Society of political to repression. Research of insufficiently known facts in biography of historian allows to trace the process of registration of decembrist subjects as his priority scientific interests in 1920 1930 are е years.


The concept of heterogeneity in relation to axial mixing in continuous mixers is investigated. The state of the mixture along the axial direction can be described by an axial heterogeneity function. It is shown that this function can be decomposed into two independent components. The first component describes the fluctuations caused by the feeding system. The second component is the fluctuations due to the particulate nature of the material. In addition, the second component, or the random component, can be modeled as a band-limited Gaussian white noise. Moreover, the variogram function is shown to be a useful tool in determining the variance of the random component. A linear time-invariant (LTI) model is proposed for continuous mixers. This model also implies that the Danckwerts-Weinekötter formula is applicable for the variance reduction ratio (VRR). However, it is shown that the Danckwerts formula for VRR is more appropriate for determination of mixer efficiency.


The composition dependence of the Yb valence and of the thermal expansion have been studied in the YbGa x Ge 2−x system. X-ray diffraction reveals that single-phased samples isostructural to YbGaGe are obtained in the range of 0.9 ≤ x ≤ 1.5. The magnetic susceptibility shows that the systems are almost nonmagnetic below room temperature, indicating a stable Yb 2+ state for the x range 0.9 ≤ x ≤ 1.5. The lattice constants as well as the lattice volume of these systems are found to decrease monotonically with decreasing temperature, suggesting the absence of zero thermal-expansion previously reported for YbGaGe.


This work focuses on the lipid yield of algae dried using an enhanced solar chimney dryer with the aim towards high quality biodiesel production and low energy consumption. Jaworski's medium was chosen for the cultivation in this research project as it can provide enough nutrients to green algae of type Chlorella. Sp. Centrifugation is an effective method to harvest the algae from its medium prior to a drying process. In this project, the methods used for drying were oven drying, open-sun drying and an enhanced solar chimney drying. The moisture content was determined where the average moisture content were 82.5% for oven drying method, 81.6% for open sun drying and 82.2% for solar chimney drying. Methods were found to affect differently the algae properties in terms of the lipid yield and mineral content. The lipid yields were 23.7%, for oven drying, 20.6% for open sun drying and 24.4% for enhanced solar chimney drying. While the oven drying was found to be the fastest way to dry the algae, the solar chimney drying proved best in energy saving while producing the same amount or more algae lipid within reasonable drying times.


Those conducting hail suppression operations should be vigilant and always prepared to react when potential hailstorms begin to develop. In this chapter, some guidance is provided for project infrastructure and operational decision making. In addition, guidance is offered regarding the operations manual; personnel requirements; operational decision making; communications; safety considerations; and public relations, information, and involvement.


We study the effect of adding disorder to the Kitaev model on the hyperhoneycomb lattice, which hosts both gapped and gapless spin liquid phases with an emergent ${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$ gauge field. The latter has an unusual gapless spectrum of Majorana fermion excitations, with a co-dimension-two Fermi ring. We thus address the question of the interplay of topological physics and disorder by considering the properties of isolated single and pairs of vacancies. We show that near the vacancies, the local magnetic response to a field ${h}_{z}$ is parametrically enhanced in comparison to the pristine bulk. Unlike the previously studied case of the 2D honeycomb Kitaev model, the vacancies do not bind a flux of the ${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$ gauge field. In the gapped phase, an isolated vacancy gives rise to effectively free spin-half moments with a nonuniversal coupling to an external field. In the gapless phase, the low-field magnetization is suppressed parametrically to ${(\ensuremath{-}ln{h}_{z})}^{\ensuremath{-}1/2}$ because of interactions with the surrounding spin liquid. We also show that a pair of vacancies is subject to a sublattice-dependent interaction on account of coupling through the bulk spin liquid, which is spatially anisotropic even when all Kitaev couplings have equal strength. This coupling is thus exponentially suppressed with distance in the gapped phase. In the gapless phase, two vacancies on the same (opposite) sublattice exhibit an enhanced (suppressed) low-field response, amounting to an effectively (anti-)ferromagnetic interaction.


The cold spray process is a modern coating process using high velocity and low process temperature particles for surface modification to improve the surface properties of the substrate, such as adhesion, wettability, corrosion resistance, or wear resistance. Coating may be applied as liquid, gases, or solid. In this process spray particles are accelerated the high velocity by a supersonic gas flow that is generated through only by convergent-divergent (CD) nozzle. Convergent-divergent nozzle could achieve the super-sonic velocity through the divergent section, but there is also some problem if the velocity is greater than the Mach number at the throat then the nozzle would be chocked and no flow of air and particles through the nozzle. In this study, simulation and optimization of the cold spray nozzle and spray process has been done with the help of Modelling software. Cold spray nozzle geometry of (CD) nozzle drawn in GAMBIT and solved by the FLUENT solver. To solve the cold spray nozzle, pressure based solver is used because it is more relevant for the problem, for turbulence model Realizable k-ε flow model has used in this problem because this model is relatively new and differ from the standard k-ε model by two ways firstly it contain a new formulation for turbulence viscosity and secondly it has new transport equation for the dissipation rate. After that providing the operating and boundary condition at the inlet and outlet section of the (CD) nozzle, the discrete phase model is activated. Optimizations of CD nozzle is done at the group injection for the length 10mm, 20mm and 30mm after giving the all parameters and then validate the respective work.


Abstract:This poem offers a meditation on the days following a suicide by firearm, with reflections on a past love relationship and the speaker's own suicidal ideation.


The electric power carrier communication is the special communicated way of electrical power system , one kind of double CPU, the low power loss, the low cost digital multiplexer has been designed in conducted the full research to this communicated way, which is satisfied the need of the electric power correspondence transmission system . This article is elaborated the digital multiplex- er's hardware and the software principle of design in detail, carries on the simulation using the monolithic integrated circuit simula- tor, has achieved the satisfactory effect through the debug .


Polymeric copper(II), zinc(II) and cadmium(II) complexes of polydentate ligand 1,5-bis(2- pyrimidineaminoethylidene)-2,4-dihydroxy benzene (H2bispdb) and 1,5-bis(p-tolylaminoethylidene)-2,4- dihydroxy benzene (H2bistdb) of compositions (CuL(H2O)2)n and (ML)n, (M= Zn II or Cd II and H2L= H2bispdb or H2bistdb) were synthesised and characterised by analytical results, magnetic susceptibility, 1 HNMR, IR and electronic absorption studies. The thermal stability of zinc(II) and copper(II) complexes were studied and discussed.


Dimeric inhibin A was measured in maternal serum samples from 45 pregnancies affected by trisomy 21 and 493 samples from unaffected pregnancies at 10–14 weeks of gestation. Inhibin A levels in affected pregnancies were compared with levels of free β‐hCG and PAPP‐A in the same series. In the trisomy 21 group, the median multiple of the median (MoM) inhibin A was not significantly elevated (1.28 vs 1.00) with only 15.5% being above the 95th centile. In contrast, the median MoM free β‐hCG was significantly increased (2.05 vs 1.00) with 36% above the 95th centile and PAPP‐A was significantly reduced (0.49 vs 1.00) with 42% below the 5th centile. Inhibin A levels in the trisomy 21 group were significantly correlated with gestational age such that median levels rose from 1.04 at 11 weeks to 1.30 at 12 weeks and 1.67 at 13 weeks. These findings suggest that first trimester biochemical screening for trisomy 21, which is currently optimised using maternal serum free β‐hCG and PAPP‐A and fetal nuchal translucency, will not benefit from the inclusion of inhibin A. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Regional Disparity and Economic Development of Pakistan I: The Facts Arjun Sengupta In the years after Independence, the Western wing of Pakistan developed much more rapidly than East Pakistan in almost all the major areas of economic activity. But if one looks into the details of the initial conditions of Pakistan's development


This paper presents a comparative assessment of fast active power regulation (FAPR) control strategies implemented on megawatt-scale controllable electrolysers, with the goal of achieving enhanced frequency support during large active power imbalances that lead to major under-frequency deviations. The FAPR control strategies consist of three different types of controllers, namely, droop, derivative and Virtual Synchronous Power (VSP). Each of these controllers has been implemented on a 300 MW electrolyser plant with proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers. The compared FAPR controllers are individually set to perform a fast adjustment of the active power consumption of the plant-based on the dynamic grid conditions. The modelling and comparative assessment is done in a platform for computationally efficient simulations of Electromagnetic Transients (EMT) in real-time. A synthetic model of the Northern Netherlands Network (N3 Network) is prototyped as a test bench to simulate and evaluate the performance of the implemented FAPR controllers. The EMT simulations show the superiority of the VSP based FAPR developed for controlling and exploiting the boundaries for active power adjustment of the Voltage Source Converter (VSC) that interfaces the PEM electrolyser plant with the N3 Network.


The almond moth, Ephestia cautella Walker is a serious pest of stored cereals and cereal products in India and both tropical and temperate regions of the world. The larvicidal and pupicidal effects of chlorpyrifos-methyl were studied on the third-instar larvae of E. cautella. Chlorpyrifos-methyl, a safe alternative to conventional insecticides, affects the life-cycle stages of E. cautella efficiently. Larvae of E. cautella were exposed to different concentrations of chlorpyrifos-methyl i.e. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 ppm. At 1 ppm concentration of chlorpyrifos-methyl, larval mortality was 15.28 % that increased to 100% at its 12 ppm concentration. Such knowledge may be regarded as one of the objective criteria permitting an assessment of effectiveness of insecticidal control measures against E. cautella.


The design of brushless DC motor controller based on TMS320LF240x is introduced in this paper,it is made up of three aspects,the main parts of hardware,the strategy of motor controlling and the structure of software.


The author gives an overview of an innovative multidisciplinary course, Design for Society, that has been offered since the spring of 1996 at Penn State Harrisburg. This course serves to introduce engineering technology and science students to the larger context of engineering and design. It attempts to broaden their perspectives on the potential for technology to serve human ends and to be seen as a useful set of tools to help society get to where it wants to be. At the same time, it shows the limitations to the viability of modern consumerist society and the need to rethink common beliefs and values. It provides some practical examples of how designers can take responsible actions for the betterment of society, both now and in the future.


Abstract This study was conducted to determine why ethnic minority prisoners are proportionately less likely to participate in the Prison Service's Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP). Twenty-four convicted sex offenders on SOTP were asked whether the treatment needs of their own culture were met and, if not, what changes needed to be implemented. The majority felt that SOTP did meet their treatment needs and that race and culture were not issues in this respect. However, a significant proportion criticised specific aspects of the programme: they felt that learning materials contained insufficient ethnic minority images or scenarios and that tutors could have been more responsive to their needs. These negative experiences were generally less marked when the respondent had at least one other ethnic minority offender on his SOTP group. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed and various suggestions for making treatment more relevant to ethnic minority sex offenders are proposed.


Summary Single broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) regimens are currently being evaluated in randomized trials for prevention efficacy against HIV-1 infection. Subsequent trials will evaluate combination bnAb regimens (e.g., cocktails, multi-specific antibodies), which demonstrate higher potency and breadth in vitro compared to single bnAbs. Given the large number of potential regimens in the research pipeline, methods for down-selecting these regimens into efficacy trials are of great interest. To aid the down-selection process, we developed Super LeArner Prediction of NAb Panels (SLAPNAP), a software tool for training and evaluating machine learning models that predict in vitro neutralization resistance of HIV Envelope pseudoviruses to a given single or combination bnAb regimen, based on Envelope amino acid sequence features. SLAPNAP also provides measures of variable importance of sequence features. These results can rank bnAb regimens by their potential prevention efficacy and aid assessments of how prevention efficacy depends on sequence features. Availability and Implementation SLAPNAP is a freely available docker image that can be downloaded from DockerHub (https://hub.docker.com/r/slapnap/slapnap). Source code and documentation are available at GitHub (respectively, https://github.com/benkeser/slapnap and https://benkeser.github.io/slapnap/). Contact David Benkeser, email@example.com


Background: Diving related illness has become a public health concern, as there is an increasing number of divers worldwide. However, in general, the incidence of Decompression Illness (DCI), a medical disorder as a result of sudden reduction of ambient pressure, remains low. This paper describes the pattern of decompression illness treated in a military hospital-based recompression chamber facility in Peninsular Malaysia from year 2000 until 2010.
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the pattern of decompression illness patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) in a military hospital-based recompression chamber facility in Peninsular Malaysia.
Methodology: A retrospective descriptive study was carried out to utilize secondary data from Hospital Angkatan Tentera Lumut, Perak from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2010. A total of 96 cases were included in this study with an average of 10 cases per year.
Results: Most of the divers were male (94.8%), recreational divers (43.0%), non-smokers (56.3%), with no previous medical illness (85.4%), dived with compressed air (78.0%), had less than 5 years diving experience (56.3%), non-instructor (75.0%), and had body mass index between 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 (59.4%). Interestingly, 25% of the divers dived to less than 10 meters depth, 35.4% went for a single dive and 71.9% performed safety stops. The majority of the patients had symptoms started within 12 hours after surfacing (85.4%) and had neurological manifestation (61.5%). Only 16.7% of the patients had HBOT commenced within 6 hours from the onset of symptoms with 93.8% from this group had complete recovery. Overall, 76.0% of patients had full recovery after HBOT.
Conclusion: Diving activities must be closely monitored. Medical surveillance as well as legislations related to diving activities in Malaysia are essential to improve SCUBA discipline and to reduce mortality and morbidity of DCI in the future.


Prosthetic treatment involves various stages in construction. This may result in cross-contamination between the dental clinic and laboratory. According to results obtained from the study, recommendations were made so as to reduce as much as possible cross-contamination, making a safer environment for the dental team and patient.


The rising casualty rates during the first world war caused a major problem for the British government. As the numbers of soldiers affected grew, the War Office began requisitioning large public psychiatric asylums to be used as war hospitals to treat soldiers. One after another the institutions were emptied, often rapidly. The patients were dispersed to other public asylums across the country. This article investigates the impact of this policy on inpatients and nursing staff in asylums.


. The substantiation of the generalized criterion of a belt conveyor control optimization during its start has been carried out in the paper. The criterion was presented as the sum of the integral and terminal convolutions of single dynamic and energy indicators of the conveyor. In the research, a mathematical model of the electromechanical system of the belt conveyor has been used. It was represented as a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The mathematical model has mechanical and electrical components. The first was represented by the equations which describe the motion of the reduced masses of the belt, bulk material, the elements of the conveyor drive; the second was presented by equations which describe the electrodynamical processes of the asynchronous frequency controlled electric drive of the conveyor. In order to the research, the mathematical model of the system has been presented in the form of a MISO-system. It allowed for using the modified metaheuristic particle swarm optimization method for the purpose of criterion minimization. The arguments of the function to minimize were the duration of the system's start, the initial voltage of the conveyor drive and the curve profile of the drive frequency during start. Thus, in the work the optimal values of settings of the frequency-controlled belt conveyor drive were obtained. The developed approach is universal and can also be used for minimization of other undesirable criteria.


Objective: The objective of this study was to develop an antibacterial flowable composite containing silver nanoparticle (AgNP) for the prevention ofperiodontal disease in fixed retainers.Methods: About 1% AgNP was incorporated into a commercial composite (tetric flow). The experimental and control products were used to bondfixed retainers to 28 extracted mandibular first premolars. The samples were randomly divided into four groups (n=7): Premolar bonded withfiber-reinforced composites and tetric flow (F1); premolar bonded with fiber-reinforced composites and AgNP-enhanced tetric flow (F2); premolarbonded with multistranded wires (MW) and tetric flow (M1); and premolar bonded with MW and AgNP-enhanced tetric flow (M2). Each sample wassubmerged in a test tube containing bacterial Treponema denticola solution and was incubated for 24 h and 37°temperature. The bacterial colony ineach group was counted and analyzed.Results: This study showed that there was significant difference of T. denticola colony count between groups with and without AgNP-enhancedcomposites in both types of retainers.Conclusion: AgNP-enhanced flowable composites reduce the bacteria T. denticola colony count and possibly inhibit periodontal disease.


Background: There is an overall complication rate of 6.3%–10% after bariatric surgery. After ruling out anatomic/physical causes, there is a substantial group of patients who develop unexplained postsurgical abdominal pain. Objectives: To inventory the prevalence of unexplained abdominal pain after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and to determine predictive factors for unexplained abdominal pain. Setting: Obesity Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Methods: A retrospective study in a prospective database was performed. Baseline characteristics and postoperative course were evaluated. Results: A total of 1788 patients underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy between November 2007 and April 2015. The average follow-up consisted of 33.5 months, without loss to follow-up. Abdominal pain was presented in 387 patients (21.6%). The study population consisted of 337 women (87.1%) and 50 men (12.9%); the mean age was 43.3 years (standard deviation 10.1) and the median preoperative body mass index was 43.7 kg/m2. An explanation for abdominal pain was found in 246 of 387 patients (63.6%), whereas no explanation was found in 133 patients (34.4%). Revisional surgery was a significant predictor for unexplained pain (odds ratio 1.7; confidence interval 1.0–2.8; p = 0.037). Conclusion: A total of 133 patients (7.4%) experienced unexplained abdominal pain after laparoscopic bariatric surgery. Revisional surgery was found to be a significant predictive factor for this outcome. Present study results suggest that postoperative unexplained abdominal pain is a significant morbidity and should be part of the informed consent. More research is needed regarding further diagnosis and management and treatment. 214 Abdominal pain after RYGB


Objective By reproducing mouse to rat heart xenograft,to determine the effect of leflunomide on NF-κB P65 in the transplanted heart.Methods The recipient rats were randomly divided into 4 groups:group A(n=6)receiving no immunosuppressant as control;group B(n=6)cyclosporine(CsA);group C(n=6)leflunomide(Lef),group D(n=6)Lef plus CsA.The expressions of NF-κB P65 protein and NF-κB P65 DNA binding activity in transplanted heart tissues were determined by immunohistochemistry,Western blot and electrophoretic mobility shift assay(EMSA).Results Administration of CsA alone had no appreciable effect on the survival time of xenografts [(2.50±1.05)d] and could not suppress the protein expression of NF-κB P65 [(263.09±28.81),IOD] and NF-κB P65 DNA binding activity [(227.49±14.83),IOD] in the tissues of xenografts.Administration of Lef alone could significantly prolong the survival time of xenografts [(4.17±1.33)d] and could suppress the protein expression of NF-κB P65 [(173.48±5.85),IOD] and NF-κB P65 DNA binding activity [(109.96±12.46),IOD](P0.05,vs group A and group B respectively).Lef plus CsA could significantly prolong the survival time of xenografts to(6.50±2.56)d and suppress the protein expression of NF-κB P65 [(67.79±3.79),IOD] and NF-κB P65 DNA binding activity [(43.61±7.42),IOD](P0.05,vs group A,B and group C respectively).Conclusion Combination of Lef and CsA can significantly prolong the survival time of xenograft through suppressing the protein expression of NF-κB P65 and NF-κB P65 DNA binding activity in the tissues of transplanted hearts and exerts synergistic immunosuppressive effect in mouse to rat cardiac xenograft.


AbstractAs a promising feedstock for biodiesel production, the oleaginous microalgae have attracted the attention worldwide. The effects of temperature on the growth, lipid accumulation and nutrient removal characteristics of a freshwater microalga Chlorella sp. HQ were evaluated. The results show that it could grow in a wide range of temperature between 12 and 25°C, but hardly grow at extremely high temperature of 38°C. After 15 d of batch cultivation, the algal biomass was in the range of 68.8 ± 15.9–176.7 ± 13.8 mg L−1 and the peak was obtained at 18°C. The lipid content per algal biomass decreased linearly from 41.8 to 6.9% as the temperature rose from 12 to 25°C. The lipid yields at 12 and 18°C were almost the same (around 23.8 mg L−1), and at 25°C, the lipid yield was remarkably lower (8.8 ± 1.8 mg L−1). The highest TAGs content (10.2 ± 1.1%) was obtained at 25°C, and the TAGs yields were ranging from 0.53 ± 0.15 to 0.89 ± 0.13 mg L−1. In the range of 18–25°C, water nitrogen (N) (up to 94.9 ± 0.3%) ...


Heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) are a group of regulators essential for signal transmission into cells. AtRGS1 (Regulator of G protein Signaling 1) with intrinsic GTPase-accelerating protein (GAP) activity could suppress G protein and glucose signal transduction in Arabidopsis. However, how AtRGS1 activity is regulated is currently poor understood. Here we identified a knockout mutant orp2a-1 (oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP)-related protein 2A) which shows phenotypes similar to agb1-2 (arabidopsis g-protein beta 1). With overexpression of ORP2A, transgenic lines display short hypocotyl, hypersensitivity to sugar and lower intracellular AtRGS1 level than control. Consistently, ORP2A shows interaction with AtRGS1 in vitro and vivo. Tissue specificity of ORP2A with two alternative protein forms imply its functions in organ size and shape controlling. Bioinformatic data and phenotypes of orp2a-1, agb1-2 and double mutant reveal genetic interactions in the regulation of G protein signaling and sugar response between ORP2A and Gβ. Both alternative splicing forms of ORP2A locate in the ER, PM (Plasma Membrane) and EPCS (ER-PM Contact Sites), and interact with VAP27-1 mediated by a FFAT-like motif in vivo and vitro. ORP2A also displays differential phosphatidyl phosphoinositide binding activity mediated by its PH domain in vitro. Taken together, it is suggested that Arabidopsis membrane protein ORP2A interacts with AtRGS1 and VAP27-1 to positively regulate G protein and sugar signaling by facilitating AtRGS1 degradation.


ABSTRACT The paper asks what role the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plays in coordinating policy reform in post-crisis Eastern Central Europe (ECE). How did the EBRD attempt to mitigate the effects of the crisis and what role did the institution play in the configuration of a post-crisis European political economy? The paper analyses the content of the annual EBRD Transition Reports (TR) as representation of thinking in the EBRD Chief Economist's Office on the salient concerns relevant to its region of operations. The paper analyses TRs from 2007 to 2013 assessing the discursive shifts inside the EBRD establishing (1) how the TRs frame whether the region is in crisis, (2) apportioning censure for causing crisis and (3) how the EBRD TRs delineate the development of appropriate policy responses to the crisis. In conclusion the paper situates these processes as evidence of a further iteration of 'fail forwards' neoliberalization.


the answer to the question of how a smart home should be controled has not yet been given, but the know-how, what a smart home control software platform should be, is an actual topic . Purpose  . The paper analyzes main problems and approaches in the field of "smart home" . Researchers provide overview of the existing SaaS platforms such asCloudMQTT, Miotta, Google Smart Home, and Muzzley . The article presented the comparison analyze of strengths and weaknesses of each system . Results and сonclusion. The key features of the "smart home" support system are determined . The SaaS platform for "smart house" should provide the following features . It should combine the elements of SaaS and PaaS services . It should have a focus on the profit from subscriptions to different functional units for managing the home, as well as the profit from collaboration with device manufacturers as PaaS . It should be targeted to such audience as developers and end users . It should support integration "cloud-device" . It should implement an API to configure http integration and for further management of devices through the protocol MQTT . The interface for house management should be web application (REST-API) . There should be support for several homes per user . There should be "if anything" rules support . The system should collect and present to developers statistical and analytical information . It must use ready-made devices or their emulation .


Left postpneumonectomy syndrome was managed by injection of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) into the pleural space. This measure permitted irradiation of a contralateral, second primary lung cancer without resulting pulmonary fibrosis. Such use of SF6 may be an option for prophylaxis against postpneumonectomy syndrome.


Folates (and other chromonics molecules) have been shown to self-assemble into ordered structures even at low concentrations. In this study, simulations are used to first replicate the self-assembly of folates and understand why folic acid does not assemble while folate ions do. Subsequently, these simulations replicate the change in structure and behaviour of the assembly with increasing concentration of folates, comparing them to experimental observations in earlier studies. The study then uses fictitious molecules and ions to understand which components of the folate ions drive, or otherwise affect, assembly of the folates and to abstract some guiding principles about structure of chromonics molecules and the impact on assembly. This study shows that while the aromatic rings drive stacking, the hydrophilic groups help solvate and hence control the order of the aromatic stacks, and the 1-ring-diacid moiety controls the orientation of the ions in their plane.


Abstract In the wake of the current quicksilver advances in technology, generally speaking, intellectual property has had its share of the benefits, and losses, of the exploitation of online works. In copyright law, as in other aspects of intellectual property (Matheson and Bonny 2007, 20), the landscape in sound recording has changed. This article investigates four issues arising from these changes: first, the ease with which ringtones can be created using user-generated content (UGC) devices in contrast with analogue recording of ringtones; second, when copyright arises in ringtones; third, the composition of right holders in ringtones; and fourth, if there are any rights in ringtones, whether the Copyright Act of South Africa (hereafter the Act) adequately protects those rights from infringement, particularly in view of the economic benefits that can be derived from the exploitation of such rights in favour of ordinary users and historically disadvantaged individuals in South Africa.


The film coating technology with ferrous sulfate and its process requirement were introduced in this paper based on the detailed film coating way for the copper tubes in the condenser of ~#2 power unit (300MW) in the plant which can be applied to other power plants for reference.


The persistence of isopropalin (2,6-dinitro-N,N-dipropylcumidine), nitralin [4-(methylsulfonyl)-2,6-dinitro-N,N-dipropylaniline] and trifluralin (a,a,a-trifluoro-2,6-dinitro-N,N-dipropyl-p-toluidine) applied at recommended (1X) and high (2X) rates was studies in the field on two soils. A sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench 'RS 610'] root bioassay showed that the recommended rates of the herbicides caused 20% or less root inhibition at the end of the growing season in 1972. Both nitralin and trifluralin were more persistent in 1974 than in 1972 as shown by the root bioassay and growth of fall-sown rye (Secale cereale L.). The yield of sweet corn (Zea mays L. var. rugosa Bonaf. 'Gold Cup') was not significantly reduced when grown 1 yr after the initial application of the herbicides.


FIRE RESISTANT THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITION, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE POLYMER ETOU ETHYLENE COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS MINERAL LOAD MAY RELEASE IONS oxhydryle, ALKOXYSILANE PLAYING A ROLE BETWEEN COUPLING AGENT POLYMER OR cOPOLYMER AND mINERAL CHARGE, AND PLASTICISER. The aLKOXYSILANE IS aMINOALKYL-ALCOXYSINALE, AND POLYMER OR cOPOLYMER IS NOT CURED. APPLICATION TO ELECTRICAL CABLES.


Ship structural design is done today resorting to powerful numerical tools. Ship structures come out to be optimal regarding load and failure mechanisms; in spite of this they come to lose that residual capability which in past gave a valuable benefit to overcome certain undesirable side effects. Such effects are not acceptable when ship's structures are prone to develop high levels of vibrations excited by propulsion plant or other sources. In this frame, the paper investigates a river ship case, where preliminary calculations of structural dynamic response to vibrations induced by on board sources gain a relevant role in defining the minimum thickness of plates and supporting structures' topology. River ship hulls have indeed light structures due to low demanding environments, which lead to an increase of vibration effects on accommodation decks. The approach here discussed is based on direct calculations of the hull's structures dynamic response, performed in the frequency range where first harmonic frequencies of main excitation sources play a relevant role in inducing local and global vibration effects. The critical aspect of interaction between structure and fluid will be dealt with by an implicit modeling of the surrounding water around the hull. The aim of the study is to give the reader basic tools to implement, in the ship's hull preliminary design stage, free and forced vibration analyses in order to support decision making about the hull scantling when vibration effects are not negligible.


The article substantiates the main directions of development of information and advisory services agricultural producers. Particular attention is given to subjects advisory services, as the market these activities can and should be dealt with in addition to specialized organizations specialized universities, research institutes, small innovative companies. The article also provides practical recommendations for the development of information and advisory activities for the promotion and implementation of innovations in agricultural production.


An experimental setup is presented, developed for comprehensive evaluation of high performance inertial sensors for translational motion, accelerometers and geophones. It employs a precision, robust air bearing stage driven by integral brushless DC motor. Experimental results illustrate the performance and capabilities of the setup.


Using the vertex renormalized form of the technique developed by Englert,1 high‐temperature series expansions for the spin‐spin correlation function of the classical anisotropic Heisenberg model are calculated for various lattices and anisotropies through order T−8 (close‐packed lattices) and T−9 (loose‐packed lattices). These series are combined and then extrapolated to give the high‐temperature critical indices γ (zero‐field susceptibility), ν (correlation range), and α (specific heat) as functions of anisotropy. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the critical indices only change when there is a change in the symmetry of the system, e.g., in interpolating between the Ising and isotropic Heisenberg models, indices remain Ising‐like until the system becomes isotropic, at which point they appear to change discontinuously. Previous results for the limiting cases are confirmed and extended. Series for the limiting cases (spin‐infinity Ising, XY and isotropic Heisenberg models) as well as for...


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The present research takes into account the current and widespread need for rational valuation methodologies, able to correctly interpret the available market data. An innovative automated valuation model has been simultaneously implemented to three Italian study samples, each one constituted by two-hundred residential units sold in the years 2016–2017. The ability to generate a "unique" functional form for the three different territorial contexts considered, in which the relationships between the influencing factors and the selling prices are specified by different multiplicative coefficients that appropriately represent the market phenomena of each case study analyzed, is the main contribution of the proposed methodology. The method can provide support for private operators in the assessment of the territorial investment conveniences and for the public entities in the decisional phases regarding future tax and urban planning policies.


Increasing total factor carbon productivity (TFCP) is crucial to mitigate global climate change and achieve carbon neutrality target. The Yellow River Basin is a critical energy area in China, but its TFCP is relatively low, which results in particularly prominent environmental problems. This paper investigates TFCP using MCPI, Global Moran's I and kernel density estimation based on panel data of the 9 provinces along this vast basin in 2007–2017. The results demonstrate that: the average value of TFCP fluctuates around 1 and overall TFCP evolution exhibits significant spatial aggregation effect, and technological progress is the dominant impetus for TFCP growth. At regional level, regional heterogeneities of TFCP change and its dynamics exactly exist, with Qinghai the lowest performance and Shandong the highest performance. Moreover, global Moran's I index reflects there is a significant positive spatial correlation between provincial TFCP, and cumulative TFCP takes on a certain degree of club convergence features. Furthermore, specific and targeted recommendations have drawn from this paper, in particular for the Yellow River Basin, to increase TFCP and achieve sustainable development in the long run.


The article deals with the problem of administrative borders and divisions of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is a synthetic chapter of the unpublished textbook on the Historical geography of Poland to the end of the 18 th century , adapted to the requirements of a scientific journal. The author discusses the definition of the border, types of borders, divisions of state administration, the issue of drawing borders on historical maps, administrative divisions of the Catholic Church, and Eastern Churches as well as the issue of property borders.


Radio frequency (RF) subsystems for emerging millimeter-wave applications require monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) attenuators with constant phase over the attenuation range. In this work, we present the results for a 44 GHz stepped attenuator implemented in high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) MMIC technology. Use of a switched-path topology provides a high attenuation range (>30 dB) with good phase flatness ( 14.5 dB) over the attenuation range. The same design topology should be well suited for other frequencies throughout the upper microwave and lower millimeter-wave range.


Zinc chrome bimetal layered materials(ZnxCr-LDHs, x=2, 3, 4) were successfully synthesized by the coprecipitation method and different factors on the adsorption of AR14 were also investigated. The characterization of XRD, ICP, FTIR and BET revealed that the crystal structures of ZnxCr-LDHs(x=2, 3, 4) were very good and stable, it had the mesoporous structure. Experimental results indicated that the optimum sorbent was Zn3Cr-LDHs with a specific surface area of 101 m2·g-1, the maximum adsorption capacity for AR14 was484.63 mg·g-1. Moreover, lower p H value and higher temperature were favorable to the removal of AR14.Adsorption isotherms and kinetics showed that the adsorption process could be well fitted with the pseudosecond-order kinetic and Freundlich equation. Based on the analysis of Materials Studio 5.5 simulation, the adsorption menchanism was that AR14 were adsorbed on the surface of Zn3Cr-LDHs, the-SO3-group was the reaction point.


Successful teaching experience and outcome is often dependent upon the teacher's personal charisma which includes the qualities of a sense of humor, friendliness, forgiving, understanding, caring, patience, and so on. A critical link to all these positive characteristics is that the teacher feels a deep sense of gratitude on a daily basis. This article reports on studies from the field of positive psychology that focus on grateful affect and grateful expression. As far as teaching is concerned, it reveals that gratitude is one of the most obvious positive emotions to flourish a teacher's life and career. In practice, some tools of cultivating gratitude for a teacher are introduced such as staying away from mass media, keeping a gratitude journal and keeping a gratitude reminder. It is hoped that through practice, teachers in their daily teaching experience can tune their feelings to the grateful channel and arrive at the level where teaching becomes a calling in their life.


The cell sap of six brown marine algae collected near La Parguera, Puerto Rico, agglutinated human erythrocytes of blood groups O and A, as did the sap of one blue‐green alga. One red alga agglutinated A cells only, while one green species and two brown were nonspecific. Others were negative.


The economical cost and the other means of jointing,such as process of pressure welding with electrical scraps and project quality control were analysed ,which reflects the wide application prospect in the construction industry.


Abstract Crops belonging to the Brassica genus are widely grown in Turkey. Cabbages are one of the most important Brassica vegetable crops in Turkey. the aim of this study was to determine similarities and differences regarding morphological variation of white head cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata subvar. alba) genetic resources collected from different eco‐geographical regions of Turkey. Data from field experiments conducted between 1999 and 2001 were analysed by multiple variance analysis. Cluster analysis based on 12 quantitative and 10 qualitative variables identified 10 groups. The dendogram was prepared to evaluate morphological similarity between the white head cabbage genotypes. Morphological variability is high among the white head cabbage genotypes of Turkey. As a conclusion, the genotypes evaluated in this study display a wide diversity of characters for selection and combination of interesting genotypes for important characters to obtain improved varieties.


Numerous vertebrates use tree cavities as nest resources. Mammals such as Carnivora (Zalewski 1997; Wilson and Nielsen 2007), rodents (Taulman 1999; Shibata et al. 2004; Holloway and Malcolm 2007), bats (Sedgeley and O'Donnell 1999; Boonman 2000; Willis and Brigham 2007), and marsupials (Lindenmayer et al. 1991; Smith et al. 2007; Crane et al. 2010), as well as birds (Aitken et al. 2002; Martin et al. 2004; Adamik and Kral 2008), use tree cavities for daily rest, reproduction, and/or overwintering. Sympatric cavity-users often partition their nest cavities to avoid interspecific competition (van Balen et al. 1982; Martin et al. 2004; Shafique et al. 2009). In Hokkaido, northern Japan, there are two cavitynesting rodents, the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) (Nakama and Yanagawa 2009; Suzuki et al. 2011) and the small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus) (Nakata et al. 2009). There may be competition between these two rodents for tree cavities, but their favored nest sites have not yet been compared. Do they select tree cavities of different types, and, if so, what characteristics are their selections based on? These rodents have different physical and ecological characteristics. Pteromys volans (weight, 110 to 142 g; head and body length, 130 to 167 mm; Hanski et al. 2000; Asari et al. 2007; Oshida 2009) is 5 to 14 times heavier than A. argenteus (weight, 10 to 20 g; head and body length, 65 to 100 mm; Nakata et al. 2009). In addition, P. volans, which is an aerial and arboreal user, spends most of its time in the canopy and almost never walks on the ground, even when crossing wide fields (Selonen and Hanski 2003, 2004). Apodemus argenteus also uses arboreal space (Imaizumi 1978; Abe et al. 1989; Sekijima 2004), and it is able to climb to a height of 18 m (Ida et al. 2004). However, it more frequently uses foods on and under the ground than above the ground (Abe 1986). These differences in size and habit between the two species may result in different choices of tree cavities. Larger species of cavity-nesting mammals and birds tend to nest in larger cavities with larger entrances (Martin et al. 2004). Larger flying squirrels use larger trees with larger entrances than do smaller flying squirrel species (Shafique et al. 2009). Larger bird species also nest in larger entrance cavities than do smaller species (van Balen et al. 1982). Thus, we hypothesized that P. volans, with a larger body than that of A. argenteus, would nest in trees with greater diameters at breast height and in larger cavities with larger entrances. In addition, we hypothesized that P. volans, which is usually active in the upper layer of trees, would nest in higher cavities than A. argenteus, which commonly lives on and under the ground. We examined these hypotheses by surveys of tree cavities and nest boxes.


Polarization and radiation measurements and microwave studies show that the planets and the great majority of asteroids in the solar system are covered by soils similar to regolith on the moon surface.The soils repesent the composition of the asteroids and the geological elements of the planets. The spectral reflectance shows a tendency of decreasing from near ultraviolet,visible to near-infrared in order of LL→L→H→H with increasing Fe^0/Fet rato and toward to absorption for Jilin,Xinyang and Zanoyang ordinary chondrites and Qinzhen enstatite chondrite recently fallen in China,The same chemical group of meteorites feature deeper absorption valleys with increasing metamorphic grade.The spectal reflectance of igneous rocks varies from strong to what is like that of H-group chondrites in order of acid→basic→ultrabasic rocks.


A light field sensor can provide useful information in terms of multiple depth (or focus) images, holding additional information that is quite useful for biometric applications. In this paper, we examine the applicability of a light field camera for biometric applications by considering two prominently used biometric characteristics: 1) face and 2) iris. To this extent, we employed a Lytro light field camera to construct two new and relatively large scale databases, for both face and iris biometrics. We then explore the additional information available from different depth images, which are rendered by light field camera, in two different manners: 1) by selecting the best focus image from the set of depth images and 2) combining all the depth images using super-resolution schemes to exploit the supplementary information available within the set elements. Extensive evaluations are carried out on our newly constructed database, demonstrating the significance of using additional information rendered by a light field camera to improve the overall performance of the biometric system.


Gas sensors play an important role in our life, providing control and security of technical processes, environment, transportation and healthcare. Consequently, the development of high performance gas sensor devices is the subject of intense research. TiO2, with its excellent physical and chemical properties, is a very attractive material for the fabrication of chemical sensors. Meanwhile, the emerging technologies are focused on the fabrication of more flexible and smart systems for precise monitoring and diagnosis in real-time. The proposed cyber chemical systems in this paper are based on the integration of cyber elements with the chemical sensor devices. These systems may have a crucial effect on the environmental and industrial safety, control of carriage of dangerous goods and medicine. This review highlights the recent developments on fabrication of porous TiO2-based chemical gas sensors for their application in cyber chemical system showing the convenience and feasibility of such a model to provide the security and to perform the diagnostics. The most of reports have demonstrated that the fabrication of doped, mixed and composite structures based on porous TiO2 may drastically improve its sensing performance. In addition, each component has its unique effect on the sensing properties of material.


This is the second revised edition of the report as updated in April 2010. The original report was published in September 2009.


Integration of single-molecule detection with rolling circle amplification-driven encoding of different fluorescent molecules enables simultaneous detection of multiple DNA repair enzymes.


Issues of conducting test trials of logical control systems of technological equipment in general and software of systems in particular are considered. Methodology of loading testing of the logical control system core is proposed and number of testing trials, including consumption of CPU resources, consumption of RAM and estimated time of logical control program cycle carried out. Methodologies of calculation of mean time between failures of logical control system are given.


The bispectral index (BIS) in dogs anesthetized with increasing or decreasing doses of continuous infusion of propofol associated or not with nitrous oxide (N2O) was evaluated. Thirty two adult healthy crossbreed dogs were randomly assigned to four groups: GPDO (group propofol decreasing + N2O), GPD (group propofol decreasing), GPCO (group propofol increasing + N2O), and GPC (group propofol increasing). General anesthesia was induced by intravenous administration of propofol (10 mg/kg), and after tracheal intubation, GPDO's dogs received 70% N2O and 30% O2. The infusion of propofol (0.8 mg/kg/min) was initiated. After 50 minutes the rate was reduced to 0.6mg/kg/min, and, after 50 minutes, to 0.4 mg/kg/ min. The GPD was submitted to the same protocol, however, the diluent flow was substituted by 100% O2. To GPCO and GPC infusion rate was initiated with 0.4mg/kg/min, using an inverse protocol when compared to the previous groups. The diluent flow of GPCO was 70% N2O and 30% O2, and GPC animals received 100% O2. BIS, electromyography (EMG), signal quality (SQ), heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), oxyhemoglobin saturation (SpO2), cardiac index (CI), and body temperature (BT) were evaluated. The data were submitted to One way Anova following Tukey test (p<0.05) to detect differences between groups. For comparisons between moments, one way RM Anova followed by Tukey test (p<0.05) was used. We concluded that propofol administration either in increasing or decreasing rates, associated or not with nitrous oxide, promoted dose-dependent bispectral index and cardiovascular depression


This study examines the effect of three different computer integration models on pre-service mathematics teachers' beliefs about using computers in mathematics education. Participants included 104 pre-service mathematics teachers (36 second-year students in the Computer Oriented Model group, 35 fourth-year students in the Integrated Model (IM) group and 33 fifth-year students in the Exploring Mathematical Relationships with Mathematical Software (EMReMaS) group. The results indicated a remarkable change in beliefs within the EMReMaS and IM groups concerning computer use in teaching and learning mathematics. The present study offers empirical evidence that the pre-service mathematics teachers' experiences in computer-based mathematics courses played a significant role in this change. Teacher education programmes should consider this learning method for pre-service teachers.


The effect of cyclic damage on the structure evolution and the change in the micro stresses of the crystal cell in characteristic zones of dissimilar welded joints of steels strength classes X60 and X70 is estimated. It is shown, that with increase in the number of loading cycles in less strong metal of the welded joint, relaxation of internal stresses, realized by splitting individual ambits of ferrite grain or by the initiation of micro cracks, is observed. The results of fractographic analysis of a less reliable weld zone at different levels of samples fractures of accumulated damage are presented.


literary translation focuses on reproducing the original beauty and artistic manner. This paper tries to explore aesthetics spirit by means of appreciation of famous translations from Guo Moruo and Zheng Zhenduo. Literary translation should transform the beauty of source language into the beauty of target language and keep its original artistic manner and atmosphere. Beauty is the highest level in the arts translation. And some helpful suggestions for translation teaching are suggested in this paper.


The components of annual seasonal influenza vaccines are determined by best guesses based on viruses circulating earlier in other parts of the world. Although these guesses frequently are accurate, occasionally — as in this influenza season — they are not.

For the 2014–2015 influenza season, the recommended vaccines include two strains of influenza …


In populations of Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma (EAC) cells rhythms of near-hourly periods have been demonstrated for several cell parameters - nucleus and cell size, permeability and strength of plasma membranes. These oscillations are characterized by a high degree of synchrony and autonomy.


Information quality education is the base of college students' creativity and the needs of time and society development.Computer basic courses are required courses for fresh students in colleges and a good platform to popularize the computer and network education.The article,based on the analysis of quality education questionnaires among the students of two colleges of Mudanjiang and put forward the cooperation between computer basic education and information quality education,the connection between computer knowledge and information quality education to achieve the goal of developing students' information skills in different ways of teaching.


The utility model discloses a solar energy charger for charging batteries of mobile equipment, belonging to the solar energy battery technology filed. The solar energy charger is a general photovoltaic charging controller developed for batteries matched with portable communication equipment. The solar energy charger is characterized in that an integrated circuit module within a box body comprises MPPT solar energy maximum power output charging controlled by MCu,DC/DC control, current-voltage detection and display and alarm; plug type PV input interfaces plug a multi-dimensional foldable flexible solar energy battery pack or the other transmitting DC power supply. The rear part of the solar energy charger can control batteries with various types, voltage and capacity, and the front part of the solar energy charger employs photovoltaic input and realize maximum photovoltaic input according to various voltage and batteries. The solar energy charger is applicable to the field environment, and has good waterproof performance, clear display and easy operation and is easy for carrying.


The film Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a creative and social force in itself. Indeed, while there are many ways to read the major themes in a film such as Modern Times, this article, following Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, engages Charlie Chaplin's film as a vehicle for exploring a certain kind of becoming-youth as a question of force. The kind of force that is explored here is the production of youth as a specific kind of radical social subjectivity; that is to say, as a subjectivity comprising multiple collisions, contestations and struggles between sets of proscribed social roles. The article investigates how the film engages the question of youth-adult identity as a social binary that can be collapsed into a relation that flees the social containment of both youth and adult.


PURPOSE: To produce a high-melting, sulfur-containing polymer by reacting an aromatic halide with an alkali or alkaline earth sulfide in the presence of a solvent and a specific catalyst. COPYRIGHT: (C)1978,JPO&Japio


The study found that administration of Sucrosomial, a magnesium oxide ingredient protected by a liposomal-like structure, resulted in faster magnesium absorption at higher rates compared with standard magnesium oxide.


The objective of this article is to present connections between organisational culture and human resource management (HRM), taking into account differences resulting from the existence of numerous typologies of such cultures. The article focuses on a wide range of organisational culture's impact on diversified organisational variables remaining under the influence of adopted HRM solutions. Within the area of strategic HRM, the article deals with relationships between a type of organisational culture and a type of a personnel strategy effective in a given organisation. Examples of types of cultures supporting particular HRM strategies are provided. On the other hand, within the area of operational HRM, the authors pay attention to relationships between a type of organisational culture and practices adopted by an organisation within the scope of particular personnel functions. They show that the perspectives of both the strategic and operational approaches to human resource management can constitute a basis for analysing their connections with organisational culture. The article includes examples of the discussed relationships with respect to the motivational function carried out in organisations. The adopted objective has been achieved by means of an analysis and critical review of the literature on the subject as well as a logical analysis and structure.


Objective Muscle unloading leads to its atrophy development. The MuRF-1 and MAFbx E3-ligases expression is increasing under this condition. FOXO3 was considered to be the only transcription factor that triggers E3-ligases expression. Beharry A.W. et al pinpoints HDAC1 as a primary regulator of FoxO in skeletal muscle that is both sufficient and required for skeletal muscle atrophy. We aimed to determine the role of histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) proteins in activation of MuRF-1 and MAFbx E3-ligases expression at the early stage of muscle unloading.
Methods We investigate it by CI-994 (inhibitor of HDAC1) administration in male Wistar rats (180-200 g) upon 3-day hindlimb suspension. The method of hindlimb suspension was described in Morey-Holton E & Globus R (2002). 24 animals were divided into 3 groups (n=8 in each): C-control, CI - hindlimb suspension with CI-994 (i.p. 1 mg/kg/day), or placebo (HS group) administration. The animals were anaesthetized with an i.p. injection of tribromoethanol (240 mg/kg), soleus muscles were surgically excised, frozen in liquid nitrogen. The Western blot and RT-PCR analyzes were done. The statistical analysis was performed using REST 2009 v.2.0.12 and Bio-Rad CFX Manager programs at the significance level set at 0.05. The significant differences between groups were statistically analyzed using Mann-Whitney test.
Results The evaluation of the levels of mRNA expression of MuRF-1 and MAFbx showed that CI-994 treatment inhibited unloading induced up-regulation of MAFbx in CI group but had no effect on mRNA expression of MuRF-1. After unloading, mRNA expression of MAFbx increased 2.12-fold (p < 0.05) in HS group. There were statistically significant differences in MAFbx mRNA expression between HS and CI groups. When compared with the control, unloading increased MuRF-1 mRNA expression  1.67- and 1.56-fold in HS and CI groups, respectively. CI-994 treatment also inhibited unloading-induced upregulation of mRNA expression of ubiquitin. The levels of ubiquitin mRNA expression when compared with the control were 4.21- and 2.32-fold in HS and CI groups, respectively. We did not find any differences in the content of phosphorylated anabolic signaling system components (Akt/mTOR/S6k) between both suspended groups (CI and HS).
Conclusions Therefore, HDAC1 inhibiting prevented hindlimb suspension-induced up-regulation of MAFbx and ubiquitin, but did not any effect MuRF-1expression.
This work was supported by Russian Science Foundation (grant № 18-15-00062).


The antimicrobial activity of lactobacilli (Lactobacillus brevis, L. fermentum and L. plantarum) isolated and characterised from spontaneously fermented maize meal (fermentation time 72 h; pH 3.98) was examined using three pathogenic organisms. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, toxigenic Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus were inhibited by antimicrobial constituents produced by the lactobacilli to varying degrees ranging from 0.06 cm to 1.70 cm zones of inhibition. Mixed culture fermented maize meal produced more antimicrobial constituents as observed by the wider zones of inhibition compared with the maize meal fermented by single cultures. On the basis of the findings, the use of mixed cultures of lactic acid bacteria, especially lactobacilli, to produce a variety of antimicrobial substances capable of inhibiting a wide range of food spoilage and pathogenic organisms is recommended. INTRODUCTION The lactobacilli are important in foods due to their ability to ferment sugars with the production of considerable amounts of lactic acid by homo-fermenters; lactic and acetic acids by the hetero-fermenters. This fermentative ability makes it possible to use the lactobacilli in the production and preservation of a wide variety of fermented plant and dairy products (Ravaei et al, 2013). The lactobacilli can also produce carbon dioxide and other metabolites such as acetaldehyde, diacetyl and hydrogen peroxide (Gilliand, 1990). Some of their metabolites are antimicrobial in nature with ability to inhibit the growth and survival of food-borne pathogens (Bilkova et al, 2011). Bacteriocins are another class of antimicrobial substances produced by members of the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) group. Bacteriocins are known to exert strong antagonistic activity against many microorganisms including food spoilage organisms and pathogens (Klaehammer, 1988). Nisin produced by Lactococcus lactis (Hurst, 1966), pediocin A by Pediococcus pentosacens (Daeschel, 1989), Lactacin F by Lactobacillus acidophilus (Muriana and Klaenhammer, 1987) and reuterin by L. reuten (Axelsson, et al., 1989) are some of the bacteriocins that have been found among LAB. Hundreds of foodborne infection cases occur around the world, and up to a third of the population even in industrialized nations suffer from foodborne illness each year. Acid fermented foods with pH less than 4.0 are however known to suppress the growth of food-borne pathogens (Nout, et al., 1989 a, b; Mensah, et al., 1988, 1990, 1991; Svanberg, et al., 1992). Cereal fermentations are acidic in nature and have been shown to have inhibitory effects on pathogenic organisms. The aim of this study therefore was to investigate the inhibition of toxigenic fungi and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli by lactobacilli from fermented maize meal. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sample collection and preparation Shelled white maize grains of the small, round variety commonly used for maize flour was obtained from a retail market in Southwestern Nigeria. The grains were milled using a knife mill (Fritsch, Industriestr. 8D-55743, Idar-Oberstern, Germany) and then sieved with a 0.25 mm wire mesh to obtain maize meal with particle size > 0.2 mm (Okoruwa, 1995). Spontaneous fermentation of maize meal The maize meal was mixed with tap water (ratio 1:1 weight/volume) and allowed to ferment naturally at room temperature (28±2oC) for 72 h during which pH fell to a stabilized level of 3.98. Microbiological analyses of fermented maize meal at the end of the fermentation, 10g of the spontaneously fermented maize meal were homogenized in 90ml sterile 0.1% peptone water for 30 seconds (normal speed). The mixture was serially diluted in sterile peptone water by the method of Meynell and Meynell (1970) and from the ten-fold dilutions, colony-forming units (cfu) were determined using the pour plate method on MRS Medium (Oxoid, U.K.) incubated at 37oC for 48 h anaerobically in anaerobic jars using Oxoid gas generating kit. Isolation and Characterization of Lactobacilli 6 © A publication of the School of Agriculture Technology, The Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. Applied Tropical Agriculture


The purpose of this study was to develop a STEAM program utilizing new media design and to examine its influence on the learning attitude of middle school students toward scientific technology. A STEAM program that was developed in association with the middle school curriculum was provided for 60 seventh-grade students in a middle school located in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, in 10 sessions by applying quasi-experimental design to test the effectiveness of the program, and whether there were any changes in the following three areas of learning attitude to scientific technology was analyzed: value, interest and self-concept. The instrument used to test effectiveness was a modified version of TIMSS 2011 Science Learning Attitude Test. The pretest and posttest data were analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the program, and paired-samples t-test was conducted to look for any possible changes. As a result, the STEAM program that utilized new media design was found to have a positive impact on the awareness of the students about the value of scientific technology and their self- concept about it among the sub factors of learning attitude to scientific technology. Therefore it"s ascertained that the STEAM program developed in this study by utilizing new media design was effective at boosting convergence thinking into which new technology, integrated science and social inquiry process are all incorporated, and that it was possible to offer practical methodology through new media design in that course. The findings of the study are expected to raise awareness of the meaning and value of design education.


This article explores Russian state-aligned television's approaches to representing ethnicity and nationhood in its news broadcasts, considering the medium's effectiveness as a tool for forging a sense of belonging among the citizens of the largest transition state. The material on which it is based largely precedes the 2014 political crisis around Ukraine. But that material, and our reading of it, is framed by the crisis and by Russian federal television's role in fanning the flames that continue to engulf the actors at its heart. The pertinence and purpose of the points we make are not restricted to the Ukraine context. Their significance relates also to our understanding both of Russian nation-building and of the responsibilities of the media in complex multicultural societies more generally. However, central to our argument is the conviction that neither the conflict with the West that Russia's actions in Ukraine precipitated, nor the rationale for those actions promoted in news broadcasts on state-aligned channels, can be understood without reference to tensions within the Putin regime's nation-building project that had long been evident in television news broadcasts, and which we focus on below. Whilst our analysis is primarily historical with respect to the Ukraine crisis, it identifies several factors with a direct bearing on those later events. These have to do with contradictions between different versions of Russian nationalism; concerns regarding a disconnection between official policy on national cohesion and popular sentiment; and ambiguities surrounding the Kremlin's relationship with broadcasters. We summarise their bearing on the Ukraine crisis in our conclusion.


The aim of the present study is to analyze the magneto-thermoviscoelastic interaction in the half-space. The formalism deals with the state space approach developed by Bahar and Hetnarski with the purpose of counteracting the difficulties of handling with the displacement potential function. Here the medium is considered to be permeated by a uniform magnetic field acting parallel to the bounding surface, subject to a temperature pulse. The solution is based on the model of Lord and Shulman, where Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics and Voigt model for the behaviour of viscoelastic material have been effectively introduced. The inversion of Laplace transform with short time approximation have also been adopted while carrying out the computational work that has been performed for applying the analytical work for a specific situation. The numerical results for different field parameters, such as displacement, temperature, stress distribution, and perturbed magnetic field are presented graphically.


AbstractEconomic production is fundamental to the operation of any economic system, serving to transform economic 'inputs' such as raw materials and labour hours into other more highly valued goods or services. Production is also a dimension of economic life in which most individuals participate directly in the form of paid or unpaid work, with significant and immediate consequences for their quality of life. It is perhaps not surprising then that the social organisation of production is one of the most controversial subjects within the field of international political economy…


ABSTRACTThis paper explores the relationship between religious denomination and individual attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the context of a large sample of over 17,000 individuals drawn from 20 countries. We address two general questions: do members of religious denominations have different attitudes concerning CSR than people of no denomination? And: do members of different religions have different attitudes to CSR that conform to general priors about the teachings of different religions? Our evidence suggests that, broadly, religious individuals do not prioritise the responsibilities of the firm differently, but do tend to hold broader conceptions of the social responsibilities of businesses than non-religious individuals. However, we show that this neither true for all religious groups, nor for all areas of CSR.


Abstract Looking at Dickinson and Hölderlin, this essay begins by exploring the idea of the poetic dimension of existence and its relation to the image, or more precisely, to the capability to disclose into images. For Dickinson the relentless "poverty" of a non-poetic existence indicates that what is missing from such existence are not just images but the capacity for their "disclosing" - the poetic gift or aptitude. With the help of Heidegger's essays on poetry and poverty, I invert this relation between image and poverty to show that, even though the inceptive character of the poetic word and the element of poetic dwelling it allows to emerge appear poor in comparison to images or concepts, it is the poetic word that for the very first time lets humans dwell. Although it can neither boast the richness of "pictures" nor the strength and precision of conceptual comprehension, the poetic is what opens up the world for humans and simultaneously opens their being to its characteristic manner of inhabiting this world.


The study evaluates the effectiveness of the suggested osteosynthesis method for capittellum humeri fractures and their consequences in adults (malunions, ununited fractures, false joints of capittellum humeri). A histomorphologic research of capittellum humeri fragments was made in united fractures from two months to one years after the injury. Revascularisation of distal fragment of capitellum humeri follows replantation by offered method at long term after trauma. Surgical treatment of patients with the suggested method of osteosynthesis of capittellum humeri fractures and their consequences, its advantages being substantiated by a mathematical model method, provides stability of bone fragments relation in early functional treatment and produces positive clinical and functional results in the postoperative period.


This thesis analyze a conversion formula to convert convertional band pass filter into dual-bandpass filter. Second, analyze the coupled resonance circuit theory and arrange the coupled resonance circuit theory to the type we want, last combine the to theory to calculate the coupling coefficient, As we know the coupling coefficient, we can use the conventional cross-coupling filters theory to reach FR4 realized. This successfully match the design theory and FR4 realized. Finally design a dual-bandpass filter. The passbands of the dual-passband filter are chosen to be 3.90–3.95 and 4.05–4.10 GHz using and using IE3D simulation to achieve to micorstrip structure.


»Quellenorientierte Datenverarbeitung und Quantifizierung: misstrauische Brüder«. Historians using computers to apply quantitative methods and historians using computers for other things have strained relationships. This is not the result of mutual bad will, but results from genuine differences between information as provided by contemporary phenomena and that derived from historical documents. Only after these differences are taken care of quantitative and other formal methods are methodologically safe. A tentative model for a possible solution of part of these problems by fuzzy logic is presented. More generally we discuss which developments are needed in the application of information technology to historical research to ease the strained relationship mentioned at the