ABSTRACT In this paper, three new species of eriophyoid mites from Guangxi, China, are described and illustrated. They are as follows: Paraphytoptus niveae sp. nov. infesting Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich. (Urticaceae), Boczekiana broussonetiae sp. nov. infesting Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Hér. ex Vent. (Moraceae), and Trimeroptes kaempferi sp. nov. infesting Broussonetia kaempferi Siebold (Moraceae). All three new species are vagrants on the lower leaf surface and cause no apparent symptom to their host plants.


A recently new proposed control structure for improvement for Power Quality in power-systems has introduced an extension for FACTS, known as Distributed Power Flow Controller. This device controls the system behavior under defective conditions by controlling series and parallel convertors associated with it. The DPFC is the modified version of Unified power Flow Controller (UPFC) by terminating its interconnection using dc-link capacitor. It applies the D-FACTS concepts in series control convertor and STATCOM like control in parallel convertor. The power transferring is bi-directional between two convertors with the help of X-mission line. The controlling capacity of DPFC is as same for UPFC and additionally it is much convenient and cheaper than UPFC. In this presented paper DPFC is used for mitigating power fluctuations during unbalance fault. The simulation model and its results are evaluated using MATLAB/SIMULINK and validates its ability for PQ improvement.


Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was born in 1890 in Edinburgh. His father, a journalist with Bristol antecedents, was at that time working on the staff of a newspaper there; he was, as his son was to recall in his autobiography (1)* a graduate of Edinburgh University, where he had been grounded in the stern discipline of the classics under Masson and Blackie, and retained an enthusiasm which he communicated to his son. Appointment as assistant editor in Yorkshire took him and his family to Bradford, where his son entered the Grammar School in 1899, leaving aged 14 in 1904. Here again Wheeler has recorded how 'by and large my school was of no great moment to me' except for confirming his dislike of ball-games (which he seems to have been more successful in escaping at school than many like-minded sufferers), grounding him in Latin, and above all giving him an opportunity to draw and paint. Scholarships and Oxford seemed to lie ahead, when his father was asked to take over the London office of his newspaper, and the family moved again.


Combining with the production practice,this paper discussed of the influence of accuracy of IMU/ DGPS-supported aerial triangulation using ground control point.


The present study analyzed the population characteristics of Tor putitora in their breeding and nursery grounds in the Nayar river basin. The growth parameters such as asymptotic length, growth rate and growth performance index were estimated as 80.01 cm, 0.810 per year and 3.71 per year while the potential longevity was estimated as 4.6 years. The mortality parameters such as total, natural and fishing mortality were estimated as 2.88 /year, 1.05/ year and 1.83 / year respectively. The length at 25 %, 50% and 75% susceptibility to capture was estimated as 40.87 cm, 38.11 cm and 35.34 cm respectively. The fishing mortality and exploitation beyond optimum level and maximum sustainable exploitation ratio (Emax) indicate the overly exploitation of Mahseer resources in their breeding and nursery grounds. Currently, the breeding grounds are facing intense growth and recruitment overfishing which may result in stock collapse in the forthcoming years.


The invention relates to a device (28) damping and elastic return in drag for blade and a rotor head having the. The device (28) comprises a connecting rod (30) connected to the blade and transmits its drag movements to a rotating member for elastic return with incorporated damping (29), which has rotated an outer armature (32) around an inner armature (31) coaxial to shear at least one thin ring (33) of a visco-elastic elastomer around its axis (B). The connecting rod (30) is connected by ball joints (43, 44) to a sleeve (15) fastening the blade to the hub (1) and a lever (34) of the outer armature (32). The member (29) is supported at the periphery of the hub (1) between two adjacent blades, or in the sleeve attachment of a neighboring blade so that the corresponding connecting rod is mounted by pulling interblade. On the rotor head, each blade is hinged to the hub (1) via a laminated spherical stop (5). Application rotorcraft rotors.


Three  drying methods were used for drying mint leaves, oven drying (40, 50, 60 and 70 oC), microwave drying (180, 360, 540, 720 and 900 Watt) and direct solar drying with three levels of load (0.5, 1.25 and 5kg/m2).The drying characteristics and the quality aspects of the dried mint leaves were studied. From  initial moisture content (7.65 g.w/g.d.m.)  to achieve the equilibrium moisture content the drying time was 5 minutes by microwave drier at use powers 900 and 720 Watt with loading level 0.5 kg/m2, while the highest time took for drying mint was 20 hours to achieve equilibrium moisture content when use oven drier at 40 oC. Meanwhile, the solar drier required 8 hr. to achieve the final moisture content of mint leaves (0.11 g. w./g. d .m) at both 1.25 and 0.5 kg/m2 loading levels. The results showed that drying of the mint leaves at temperature 50 oC with loading rate 1.25 kg/m2  was the best treatment from all treatments were studied in this work to getting the highest amount of essential oil. Midili - kucuk, model adequately described the oven and solar drying behaviors and logarithmic model adequately described the microwave drying behaviors.


[Objective]To understand the effect of exposure to benzene and its homologens on health of workers in chemical industry of Jintan City.[Methods]According to laws, regulations and technical specifications, content of benzene and benzene homologens had been monitored in workplace of a chemical enterprise in Jintan City. Occupational health examination, including WBC, PLT and other regular checks, was performed on 46 cases exposed to benzene and benzene homologens more than 1 year. The results of the examinations were also analyzed.[Results]Of 46 workers, 4 (8.70%) were detected leucocyte count less than 4.0×109/L; 5 (10.87%) were detected platelet count less than 100×109/L.[Conclusion]The abnormal rates of WBC and PLT count of workers exposed to benzene and benzene homologens are high in this enterprise. The occupational hazard situation of this chemical enterprise still has certain disparity with relevant standards according to " Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases", Further efforts need to be strengthened on propaganda and implementation of occupational disease prevention and control.


Food irradiation is a new technology of food preservation with many advantages,such as safety and non-pollution. In this paper, the principle and characterisation of irradiation technology were introduced. The utilizations of the irradiation technology in sterilization,sprout inhibition and degradation of poisonous and harmful substance were also introduced.The problem of the food irradiation in research and application was pointed out.The future of its application was analyzed.


Family function was assessed in 102 families (342 members) of palliative care patients and grouped into classes by a computer‐based taxonomic program. Five classes were defined through the dimensions of cohesiveness, conflict and expressiveness of the Family Environment Scale (FES). One third of families we named supportive for their high cohesiveness; a further 21% resolved conflict effectively; both of these classes contained low psychological morbidity. Two classes (15%) were clearly dysfunctional: hostile families (6%) were distinguished by high conflict while sullen families (9%) displayed moderate conflict, poor cohesion and limited expressiveness. These two classes had significantly higher levels of psychological morbidity and poorer social functioning. The remaining class (31%) had intermediate levels of cohesion, expressiveness and conflict (termed ordinary) yet more moderate psychosocial morbidity. Screening of families with the FES would facilitate a more family‐centred approach to treatment, with relatively early identification of families at‐risk; preventive interventions would also then be feasible.


Biological motion point-light displays and stick-figures are ambiguous with respect to their depth and afford two different interpretations -both of them being consistent with the familiar shape of a human body. However this consistency requires the reversal in perceived depth to be accompanied by switches in other properties: • Handedness: left side right side • Vertical viewpoint: view from above view from below • Horizontal viewpoint: ccw spin cw spin


Using a newly available personal journal, Zhang Gang Diary (1888–1942), this study explores an understudied area of Chinese legal history: the everyday practice of community mediators in the late Qing and Republican eras. The records of the Zhang Gang Diary reveal how social, political, and judicial transformations impacted the practice of local mediation during a period of significant political and cultural change. The community mediator of this generation had increasingly limited room for mediation. However, as the diary reveals, community mediators also swiftly adapted to the new changes. Through a close reading of the life history of one village mediator, this paper examines a relatively low-status gentleman's strategy for survival and how he responded to the grand societal and political transformations of late Qing and Republican China.


1002 Background: We compared a randomly assigned standard genetic counseling (GC) intervention by genetic counselors versus an enhanced informed consent (EC) [modeled on routine chemotherapy informed consent] administered by oncology nurses for women enrolled into a BRCA1/2 testing program for several outcomes: satisfaction, risk perception, genetics knowledge, psychological state and health behaviors.

METHODS
A cohort of 236 of 310 high-risk women enrolled in a BRCA1/2 randomized control trial of semi-structured counseling interventions completed all questionnaires at enrollment, test result disclosure, 4 months and 1-year post disclosure. Women were asked about their satisfaction with the testing program at results disclosure only using the Shiloh scale; breast cancer risk perception, knowledge of cancer genetics and the Impact of Events scale at all time points. For the repeated measures, comparison was made for differences in trends over time and between the intervention arms. Exploring separately for cancer status and genetic test result, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) for repeated measures was used to assess the statistical significance of the within subjects change over time and the main effects of the intervention/gene test result. Regarding satisfaction with the testing program, the Fisher's exact test was used to assess differences between intervention.

RESULTS
The overall cohort, cancer survivors, and women receiving a negative or variant BRCA1/2 result were significantly more satisfied with the GC intervention than with the EC intervention on several sub-scales. No differences were found between intervention on breast cancer risk perception or psychological state, where mutation status was significant. Contrary to expectation, knowledge of cancer genetics was not superior in the GC arm.

CONCLUSIONS
Genetic counseling by genetic counselors does not prepare women better for the results of BRCA1/2 genetic testing, though women generally prefer it to a more informed consent approach to testing administered by oncology nurses within a structured program. Additional data on health behaviors will be presented. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


The paper reviews the classifi cation level,chemical compounds and pharmacological effects and so on by the accessing literature of Wabubeimu to provide the reference for further study.


State-of-the-art pre-trained models have been shown to memorise facts and perform well with limited amounts of training data. To gain a better understanding of how these models learn, we study their generalisation and memorisation capabilities in noisy and low-resource scenarios. We find that the training of these models is almost unaffected by label noise and that it is possible to reach near-optimal performances even on extremely noisy datasets. Conversely, we also find that they completely fail when tested on low-resource tasks such as fewshot learning and rare entity recognition. To mitigate such limitations, we propose a novel architecture based on BERT and prototypical networks that improves performance in lowresource named entity recognition tasks.


Objective To explore ultrasound-guided percutaneous radiofrequency catheter ablation the curative effect of HCC and security.Methods Retrospective analysis of RF treatment 37 cases of liver cancer patients of material,the application of mianyang,sichuan LDRF-120S multipole radiofrequency ablation instrument,the maximum power for 90 watts,electrode open as umbrella,for rotary cluster muti-warhead electrode,the treatment of power and electrode open by computer the size real-time monitoring,tumor ablation after completely,impedance to achieve maximum,power reduction is zero,and treatment to be automatic stop.For more than 5cm in diameter of liver cancer patients with hepatic artery catheter first by embolization chemotherapy(TACE) joint radiofrequency catheter ablation.Diameter less than 5cm of liver cancer,direct application radiofrequency ablation therapy,patients were followed up 3 years,1 month,3 months,6 months,1 year,2 year,3 year,and CT or MRI enhancement and AFP follow-up.Results(1) color dopplar ultrasound,CT scan and MRI review,1,2,3 years survival rates were 83.7%,56.8% and 51%.(2) a tire protein(AFP) : 13 cases before and after treatment were not rise,24 cases before treatment AFP in(641 + 61.24 u g/L) after one month dropped 136.41 + /-52.23 u g/L),including 16 cases fell to the normal range.(3) complications: after 3 d have different levels of heat,temperature of 37.4 ℃ to 39.Nausea and vomiting in 1,abdominal pain,right shoulder pain 3 cases.Conclusion Radiofrequency catheter ablation liver tumor is a therapeutic effect,safety high reliable minimally invasive treatment technology,is worth further application.


There has been much speculation about how the terrorists attacks on September 11th affected everyone, including students on our campuses. At Michigan State University, the assistant director of residence life assessment, research, and technology decided to investigate. Here are the results of her department's survey.


With advancements in hardware and software technologies, governmental agencies and utilities have an increasing number of tools that can used to support more effective asset management, capital planning, and project execution. Key amongst these tools are GIS-based mobile, web, and cloud solutions. These tools utilities to more effectively develop accurate asset inventories, assess condition of assets, and provide key data to staff in any location, at any time, using any device. Through the implementation of these tools, agencies gain the benefit of maximizing their investment in technology by providing critical information to staff using hardware tools (iPhones, iPads, Android, etc.) that fit their specific needs and work environment. While there are many technologies that support mobile access to data on the market today, there is no "one size fits all solution". This is due to the fact that each organization has differing needs, goals, and user requirements. Therefore, proper implementation of technology to support mobile data access requires up-front planning to determine if hardware and software solutions match desired goals. During this presentation, case studies detailing the use of GIS-based web, mobile, and cloud computing environments will be presented. Specifically, tools that support GIS-based mobile data collection, data collaboration, and visualization of real-time system conditions on devices such as the iPad, iPhone, Panasonic Toughbook Tablet, and Android tablet will be demonstrated. Software environments, such as Esri's ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online, and iPad-based mapping and data collection applications will also


This is a welcome and provocative addition to the growing literature on the politics of the Internet. In addition to its rich intellectual texture and mother-lode of information about computer hard- and software, it is a quick read because the author has a sharp tongue and makes excellent points. It is a unique blend of political philosophy, political economic theory, and computer network technology in support of a political F-5 tornado warning.


Images have been widely used in the medical field for various diagnostic purposes. In the field of healthcare IoT, secure communication of a medical image concerned with an individual is a crucial task. Embedding patients' personal information as an invisible watermark in their medical images helps to authenticate the ownership identification process. Reliable communication of medical image can be thereby ensured concerning authentication and integrity. Images in DICOM format with a pixel resolution of 8-bit depth are used for medical diagnostics. This chapter deals about the development of a lightweight algorithm to insert patients' identities as an invisible watermark in random edge pixels of DICOM images. This chapter describes the implementation of the proposed lightweight watermarking algorithm on a RISC microcontroller suitable for healthcare IoT applications. Imperceptibility level of the watermarked medical image was analyzed besides its lightweight performance validation on the constrained IoT platform.


The infectious salmon anemia virus is a notifiable disease for the OIE member countries, including Chile. This disease primarily affects farmed Atlantic salmon causing important socioeconomic impact in regions where this species is intensively raised. However, the role, if any, of the coho salmon in the epidemiology of this disease has not been elucidated yet. Using a scenario tree modeling approach this study assessed the sensitivity of the surveillance program carried out between September 2007 and December 2014 and the probability of freedom from ISAV infection in the Chilean population of farmed coho salmon. Over this period a total of 4,059 surveys were conducted, for a total of 86,382 pools that were tested from 164 fresh water (FW) and 299 salt water (SW) farms. All the samples were negative for ISAV by real-time reversetranscription-polymerase chain reaction, the test recommended by the OIE. The overall sensitivity of the surveillance varied in FW and SW, with a median estimate by quarter of 0.83 (min = 0.61, max = 0.99) and 0.94 (min = 0.61, max = 1), respectively. Combining both components the probability of freedom from disease estimated per quarter was within a range between 0.91-1. The overall probability of being free of resulted in a median estimate of 0.95. Results support the hypothesis that the Chilean farmed coho salmon population is free from ISAV infection despite this agent being prevalent in the farmed Atlantic salmon population in Chile.


【Objective】 This study was designed to determine Th1,Th2 cell numbers and investigate T-bet mRNA,GATA-3 mRNA expression of spleen MNC in a murine asthmatic model which intended to understand effect of airway T-bet plasmid gene transfer on Th differentiation.【Methods】 A mouse asthmatic model was established by sensitization with ovalbumin (OVA).Thirty-two C57BL / 6 mice were divided into four groups (8 mice in each group): the normal control group (group A),the asthmatic model group (group B),the pcDNA3 plasmid group (group C),the pcDNA3-T-bet group (group D).All animals were sensitized and challenged with OVA,except group A normal saline was applied.The group C was intranasally administered 50 μg pcDNA3 plasmid at 24 h before intranasal challenges,and the 50 μg pcDNA3-T-bet plasmid for the mice of group D.We investigated Th1 and Th2 cell numbers by FACS and T-bet,GATA-3mRNA expression of spleen mononuclear cells (MNC) by semi-quantitative PCR in the four groups.【Result】 Th1 percent in spleen MNC of pcDNA3-T-bet treated mice was significantly increased ([2.29 ± 1.55]% vs.[1.93 ± 1.14]%,P﹤0.05),while Th2 percent was significantly decreased ([0.93 ± 0.64]% vs.[1.63 ± 0.59]%),compared with that of the asthmatic control group mice by FACS.Spleen MNC was detected a high level of T- bet mRNA expression (0.53 ± 0.027 vs.0.28 ± 0.035,P﹤0.05) and a low level of GATA-3 mRNA expression (0.24 ± 0.022 vs.0.58 ± 0.038,P﹤0.05) after pcDNA3-T-bet treatment by RT-PCR.There was no significant change between the pcDNA3 plasmid group and the asthmatic model group.【Conclusion】 The intranasal transfer of pcDNA3-T-bet plasmid was effective in modulating the imbalance of Th1 / Th2 in mice asthma model,which provides a novel therapeutic strategy for transferring transcriptional factor in allergic asthma.


Language resources are the main factor in speech-emotion-recognition (SER)-based deep learning models. Thai is a low-resource language that has a smaller data size than high-resource languages such as German. This paper describes the framework of using a pretrained-model-based front-end and back-end network to adapt feature spaces from the speech recognition domain to the speech emotion classification domain. It consists of two parts: a speech recognition front-end network and a speech emotion recognition back-end network. For speech recognition, Wav2Vec2 is the state-of-the-art for high-resource languages, while XLSR is used for low-resource languages. Wav2Vec2 and XLSR have proposed generalized end-to-end learning for speech understanding based on the speech recognition domain as feature space representations from feature encoding. This is one reason why our front-end network was selected as Wav2Vec2 and XLSR for the pretrained model. The pre-trained Wav2Vec2 and XLSR are used for front-end networks and fine-tuned for specific languages using the Common Voice 7.0 dataset. Then, feature vectors of the front-end network are input for back-end networks; this includes convolution time reduction (CTR) and linear mean encoding transformation (LMET). Experiments using two different datasets show that our proposed framework can outperform the baselines in terms of unweighted and weighted accuracies.


By applying analysis techniques and constructing suitable Lyapunov functional with Lebesgue-Stieljes integration,some sufficient conditions on global exponential stability are obtained,which are easily verifiable.Finally,an example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the main results derived.


Abstract Citrus decline, a common problem in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck) growing areas of Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India, was investigated from the standpoint of soil fertility and plant nutritional constraints during 1999–2002. To diagnose the nutritional constraints, optimum soil-available nutrients, and leaf nutrient concentration in relation to fruit yield were determined through multivariate quadratic regression analysis. Soil factors (viz., exchangeable Ca2+ and Na+) and suboptimum levels of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), and boron (B) both in soil and leaf proved to be important contributory factors toward citrus decline. The soil and plant factors that were important are (in the order of their increasing importance): leaf Mn < soil pH < leaf Zn < leaf Fe < available P < soil CaCO3 < available Mn < available Cu < available K < leaf P < soil EC < available Zn < leaf Cu < leaf K < available Fe < leaf K < available N. These observations suggest a definite role of different soil fertility and plant nutritional factors causing citrus decline.


Providing wireless electronic device and associated antenna system having a plurality of bent antennas. The wireless electronic device may include: a back plate, and the end of the first antenna and the second bending the bent antenna, a first antenna and a second bend along the curved back plate antenna spaced from each other. A first antenna and a second curved bend each of the antennas may include a radiating element and the parasitic element is electrically coupled to the radiating element. Also described are related systems.


IT has been widely observed that ict in school education is an essential tool for leadership positions.We all realise that the current leadership positions are totally affecting by ict knowledge.With using of ict leader remove many academic problemsand give direction to techer and student for doing best and innovative wayTthe present study is an attempt to investigate  the effect of ict on school leadership. The researcher used observation and interview schedulein model senior sec. school of haryana in form of case study.


Residual attenuation equalisation of broadband coaxial-cable systems has been achieved elsewhere by a set of harmonic cosine characteristics based on an almost linear frequency scale. This method is, however, not efficient for systems which exhibit high distortion near the bandedges. A simple analysis of measured characteristics yields the requirements for suitably transforming, or `warping?, the frequency scale. Generalisations of the transversal-equaliser principle offer the realisation of cosine characteristics with frequency scales which match particular problems. The investigation on which the paper is based was concerned with the coaxial-cable network of the British Post Office, and led to novel designs, of which the `twin cosine equaliser? has been accepted for service use. This device enables residual distortion of up to 6dB to be reduced to rather less than 1dB, with a minimum of auxiliary instrumentation.


Ni/MgO and Ni/O-D(oxidized diamond) catalysts were prepared by wetness impregnation method.The effects of reaction temperature and space velocity of methane on the methane conversion were investigated in a fixed-bed.The surface area,structure and morphology were characterized with BET,XPS,SEM,EDS techniques.The results show that the conversion of methane was above 8% within 150 min(t=500 ℃) in the presence of 33Ni/O-D catalyst and higher than 25% within 120 min(t=650 ℃) in the presence of 41Ni/MgO catalyst.The initial conversion increases with the increasing temperature of the decomposition reaction,but their catalytic activities decrease rapidly if the temperature is too high.Decreasing the space velocity of methane is propitious to improving the methane conversion,but not favorable for the hydrogen yield.The appearance of carbon resulted from the methane decomposition lies on the support type and the condition of catalytic reaction.It showed fiber shape on the surface of Ni/O-D at the relatively lower temperature such as 500 ℃ and 550 ℃,but grain shape stacked on and overlaid on the surface of the metal nickel at 650 ℃.The carbon fiber can form on the Ni/MgO surface at 650 ℃ and the diameter of the carbon fiber increases with the decreasing space velocity.


In view of the realization of the expected motion for the coordinated control of the underwater remote operated vehicle-manipulator system which consists of underwater cable robot and manipulator,the traditional sliding mode algorithm is improved.The fuzzy logic is used to adjust the reaching law parameters of the sliding mode controller to decrease the chatter and realize better tracking of the trajectory of the system.It realizes the coordinated control of underwater robot and manipulator.The results show that the proposed method can improve the controlling performance of the system,and the jointly movement of robot and manipulator can overcome error and external disturbance to achieve better control effect.


Abstract— 1 The standardization of a radiochemical assay of choline acetyltransferase (acetyl‐CoA: choline‐O‐acetyltransferase EC 184.108.40.206. [ChAc]) is described. The method depends upon the use of [l‐C14]acetyl‐CoA as substrate and has been modified from the procedure originally published by MCCAMAN and HUNT (1965). 2 The modified method gave results which were comparable with two methods depending on bioassay as the end step, which had previously given the highest recorded values for rabbit brain ChAc. 3 Methods of extraction and activation of the enzyme were also investigated. The results showed that ether‐treated sucrose homogenates and cysteine‐saline extracts of acetone‐dried brain have comparable enzyme activities; both procedures give higher values than are obtained with untreated water homogenates, or sucrose homogenates treated with Nonex 501 or Triton X‐100.


The article deals with the assertion, characteristic of modern culturological and political Russian discourse, according to which the main source of prosperity for Western European civilization (Western countries) is the exploitation of non-European countries conquered in the colonial era. Weaknesses of this statement are revealed. World scientific leadership, especially in the field of methodology and establishing a connection between theory and practice, was achieved by the West even before the start of colonial expansion. Non-European and peripheral European empires (Spanish, Portuguese, Ottoman, Chinese) did not independently switch to the scientific and technological development of the modern type. In a number of countries of Western Europe in the Middle Ages, a historically stable system for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge was formed: universities and previous structures – monastic schools, libraries, scriptoriums, which had no analogues in other regions of the world. The possibility of colonial expansion required certain preconditions; the position is substantiated, according to which such prerequisites were in the military-technological sphere and military thought, but not in the field of psychology. It is noted that the lessons of the history of the systemic success of the West are especially relevant in the current political and economic conditions and lie in the need to emphasize education, science, and a technological economy as factors in the development of society.


The task of detecting and generating hyponyms is at the core of semantic understanding of language, and has numerous practical applications. We investigate how neural network embeddings perform on this task, compared to dependency-based vector space models, and evaluate a range of similarity measures on hyponym generation. A new asymmetric similarity measure and a combination approach are described, both of which significantly improve precision. We release three new datasets of lexical vector representations trained on the BNC and our evaluation dataset for hyponym generation.


Age-standardised scores are a widely-used method of reporting assessment results in a way that largely removes the effect of age on performance, and that presents scores on a fixed scale which can be easily understood and interpreted. Recent criticisms of age-standardised scores are examined in this article, and found to consist either of points which are already well-known and appreciated by test developers or which are invalid. Although there are issues which need to be explored carefully in this area, it seems clear that the use of age-standardised scores is worthwhile, and that no other form of presentation is likely to replace them.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to measure the image of surf tourism destination, Praia do Rosa, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in order to examine the complex relationship between destination image components and surfers' behavior in relation to surfing itself and to the trips made to take part in surfing activities, in a surf spot.

Design/methodology/approach
From the tourist population in Praia do Rosa surf spot, in Brazil, a sample of 200 surfers was taken. Data analysis included the following multivariate techniques: exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling as a procedure for the development and reliability of the measurement models of destination image of surf tourism in Brazil. Data analysis was performed using PASW-SPSS 24 and Mplus 7.

Findings
Through EFA and CFA, it was possible to identify the attributes that make up the image of a surf destination and their relationship with the behavior profile of surfers. The results highlight the role of the different factors that make up the overall image of the destination, through the analysis of cognitive, affective and conative components.

Research limitations/implications
The results confirm and provide theoretical and empirical support for the research, showing that the set of observable variables and the specified latent dimensions are reliable. However, it is necessary to expand the sample studied so that the measurement model has better fit indices and show convergent and discriminant validity.

Practical implications
This study is relevant as it provides information that can be used by destination managers, especially regarding surf tourism. In the face of strong growth, the sector could benefit from the identification of destination image attributes which can be used in marketing campaigns put forward by both the public and private sector.

Social implications
The results of the current study provide both public and private tourism managers with insights into surf tourism demand useful in developing effective marketing and positioning strategies.

Originality/value
This study explored and tested the image perception in a surf destination. The results contribute theoretically and empirically to discussions about the components of destination image. Also, the findings add to the understanding of surfing behavior, one of the most popular sports in the world, with surfers willing to travel long distances in search of ideal surf conditions.


To critically analyse outcomes for robot‐assisted pyeloplasty (RAP) vs conventional laparoscopic pyeloplasty (LP) or open pyeloplasty (OP) by systematic review and meta‐analysis of published data.


The Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) is the first prototype of the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a new radio telescope that is pioneering the use of Phased Array Feed (PAF) technology in radio astronomy to provide instantaneous wide field-of-view imaging. BETA consists of six 12 meter parabolic antennas, each equipped with a 188-element PAF at the focus and a signal processing system capable of imaging an instantaneous 7 square degree field-of-view with a bandwidth of 300MHz at a resolution of 18kHz. In this paper we describe the architecture of the digital signal processing chain and its implementation on reconfigurable hardware based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. We present early engineering results taken by the instrument during commissioning trials at the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) in remote Western Australia. In particular, we present the first multi-beam image of an astronomical source captured with a PAF-based interferometer.


This paper proposes a model of learning-oriented assessment to inform assessment theory and practice in speaking class. It focuses on two interrelated processes: the students' assessment tasks and student engagement with feedback. The research method involves classroom observations of in English speaking class in university level and semi-structured interviews with the lecturer and some sample of the students' feedback. Findings highlight assessment tasks promoting thinking and practicing in the speaking activities and direct feedback to promote timely dialogues with students. The coherence of the model is discussed and some areas for further exploration are suggested. Based on the data analysis, the model shows significantly positive outcome. In the student side, it provides clearly path for them to reach the standard goal since they always get negative evidence from the teacher in each time they are out of the track. In the teacher side, it also provides positive effect. As they give negative evidence or correct the student's mistake, they auomatically need to monitor the student's development on every stages. It gives a crystal clear sight of student's improvement. Finally it supports significantly on the assessment reliability  of their speaking skill.


This paper uses the finite displacement theory to analyze the seismic response characteristics of the long span continuous rigid frame bridge, considering the restrained torsion and the interaction of the foundation and earth. At the same time, the influence of longitudina1 elastic restraint of side-bearings on seismic response of the bridge structures is discussed. Some useful conclusions are obtained by analyzing the results of the calculation.


It's a general consensus to creative education which is to cultivate the students' creativity in the era of knowledge-based economy.Creative education,which is based on cultivating students' creative thinking ability has become an inevitable choice to replace exam-oriented education.However,there are many great obstacles which make the reform difficult at the present stage.The main causes are as follows: the great inertia,the overstaffed class,inefficient creative teaching staff and insufficient social environment.The above obstacles must be swept away if we want to make creative education a reality.


A software startup is an emerging company focused on the creation and development of an innovative software-intensive product or service as the basis for creating business value. Given the limited resources that startups have, the Lean Startup model advocates the creation of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to validate the assumptions about the product or service, and the target market. This study presents the results of a series of interviews with founders of software ventures in relation to the type of MVP they implement, the choice of potential clients, validation mechanisms and difficulties they face in the process of developing and validating the MVP. The main results indicate that the preferred MVP types are landing pages and mock-ups with some functionalities, validation with selected early adopters, obtaining feedback based on interviews and comments, and that the main difficulties encountered are due to lack of experience in software development and in choosing the right technology.


In this paper, we describe a method of detecting emergency situation using images from surveillance cameras and propose a mobile robot tracking system for detailed examination of that situation. We are able to track a few persons and recognize their actions by an analyzing image sequences acquired from a fixed camera on all sides of buildings. When emergency situation is detected, a mobile robot moves and closely examines the place where the emergency is occurred. In order to recognize actions of a few persons using a sequence of images from surveillance cameras images, we need to track and manage a list of the regions which are regarded as human appearances. Interest regions are segmented from the background using MOG(Mixture of Gaussian) model and continuously tracked using appearance model in a single image. Then we construct a MHI(Motion History Image) for a tracked person using silhouette information of region blobs and model actions. Emergency situation is finally detected by applying these information to neural network. And we also implement mobile robot tracking technology using the distance between the person and a mobile robot.


In Sri Lanka there is no specific study done on stress among nurses. Researching on the causes and extent of stress in any healthcare is essential for successful management in the hospital settings (Kane, 2010). Stress can challenge a healthcare workers' ability to provide services and maintain personal and professional relationships with each other and with their clients (Collins and Long, 2003; Edéll-Gustafsson, 2002).


Although cloud computing application is rising, some unanswered problems still exist because of its inner issues like untrustworthy inactivity, the absence of movement backing, and place awareness. Therefore, fog computing has appeared as a hopeful infrastructure to supply flexible resources at the edge of the network. Fog supplies processing, data, storing, and application amenities to ultimate operators. The management strategies have a great impact on fog computing, such as monitoring and optimizing, the correlated components for improving the performance, availability, security, and any fundamental operational requirement. However, as far as we know, no organized study exists about analyzing their importance in fog environments. This paper provides a detailed survey for covering the current state‐of‐the‐art in fog management. This paper classifies the management strategies into three main categories: data management, energy, and resource. We also presented a few prospects and problems like the suggestions for the upcoming studies in the associated methods requiring to be investigated in fog computing. Moreover, a new paradigm has been ensured by increasing fog functionality and resource consumption. In general, fog management strategies in computing environments still need improvements in the variety of its setting to convert to an on‐request method, decrease the associated overhead, and improve the performance. Therefore, proper management can maintain the least resource consumption, which will finish the extra decrease in energy usage. Therefore, we contribute to provide strong suggestions for future fog computing studies. This paper can handle the pace of publications and propose the outcomes of study and practice as an upcoming route for decision makers in healthcare. In principle, the increase of researchers, scientists and managers' awareness level would increase the managers' good and knowingly behavioral conduct on managing fog environments.


In Riemann geometry, the relations of two transversal submanifolds and global manifold are discussed without any concrete models. By replacing the normal vector of a submanifold with the tangent vector of another submanifold, the metric tensors, Christoffel symbols and curvature tensors of the three manifolds are connected at the intersection points of the two submanifolds. When the inner product of the two tangent vectors of submanifolds vanishes, some corollaries of these relations give the most important second fundamental form and Gauss–Codazzi equation in the conventional submanifold theory. As a special case, the global manifold which is Euclidean is considered. It is pointed out that, in order to obtain the nonzero energy–momentum tensor of matter field in a submanifold, there must be the contributions of the above inner product and the other submanifold. Generally speaking, a submanifold is closely related to the matter fields of the other submanifold and the two submanifolds affect each other through the above inner product.


Objective:
 Dried bonito is a processed marine product unique to Japan, and the hot water extracted product is widely used as soup stock. It has been reported that the dried bonito extract (DBE) has antioxidants. 2-kidney, 1-clip hypertensive (2K1C) rats is an experimental model of renovascular hypertension which is known to enhance the production of oxidative stress. Plasma thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) level, a indicator for oxidative stress, was reported to increase in 2K1C rats when compared with sham operation (SHAM) rats. Moreover, previous studies have reported that intake of a few antioxidants ameliorate hypertension in 2K1C rats. Therefore, the intake of DBE may alleviate hypertension through antioxidant effect in 2K1C rats. To test the hypothesis, in the present study, we examined the effects of dietary intake of DBE intake on blood pressure (BP) of 2K1C rats. Additionally, to investigate the mechanism, we evaluated TBARS level in plasma in those rats.

 Methods:
 Male Sprague-Dawley rats (6 wks) were treated with SHAM or clipping the left renal artery (2K1C). After surgery, the rats started receiving a control diet (CTL), a diet with 5.0% (5 of 100, w/w) DBE for 6 consecutive weeks. Systolic BP (SBP) was measured by a tail-cuff method every week. At the end of the protocol, mean arterial pressure (MAP) was measured in each rat under anesthesia. Plasma lipid peroxide levels were determined by measuring TBARS using a colorimetric method. The TBARS level was determined by the absorbance at 532 nm.

 Results:
 Analysis of variance shows that SBP was significantly higher in 2K1C-CTL (152±4 mmHg) than SHAM-CTL (131±3 mmHg) through the experiment period (P<0.001), that SBP was lower in 2K1C-DBE (147±4 mmHg) than in 2K1C-CTL (P<0.05). At the end of the protocol, MAP showed the similar trend to SBP. TBARS level in 2K1C-CTL (1.06±0.03) was significantly higher than SHAM-CTL (1.00±0.03, P<0.05). Compared with 2K1C-CTL, a significant reduction in TBARS level was observed in 2K1C-DBE (0.96±0.11, P<0.05).

 Conclusion:
 The reduction of TBARS level may contribute to a mechanism by which DBE intake decreases BP in 2K1C rats.


We report a simple method for supercontinuum generation. The set-up consists of an Er-doped mode-locked fibre laser, used as seed, and a highly nonlinear fibre with zero dispersion at 1550 nm. Thus, all the components are easily attainable. With this novel system the requirements in terms of control of dispersion are reduced. In addition, the spectral width is optimized using fibres with positive and negative dispersion. The supercontinuum emission is characterized by means of an optical spectrum analyser and a PbS photodetector, showing an octave-spanning spectral width, with a flat profile from 1100 nm up to 2100 nm. Compared to other supercontinuum sources, this new proposal results in a very competitive and attainable system, particularly in the 1500–2100 nm region.


The reduction of water consumption has become an important issue in the pulp and paper industry due to the price of water, stringent environmental legislation or simply due to the lack of water resources. In this study some practical aspects are discussed of how fresh water consumption of a printing paper mill can be reduced. The printing paper mill concerned includes an integrated mechanical pulp line and a paper machine. By following the counter-current principle and by applying internal purification at optimally suited locations in the process, a significant reduction in fresh water consumption may be achieved together with an imoroved runnability of the process.


In the current study, a novel green nano-catalyst from Tragacanth gum (TG) was synthesized and used for sustainable biodiesel production from Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. seed oil. Brassica juncea (L.) Czern contains 30% oil on dry basis and free fatty acid content of 0.43 mg KOH/g. Physiochemical characterization of a newly synthesized nano-catalyst was performed by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) analysis. The XRD results showed an average crystalline size of 39.29 nm. TEM analysis showed the cluster form of NiSO4 nanoparticles with a size range from 30–50.5 nm. SEM analysis of the catalyst showed semispherical and ovoid shapes with surface agglomeration. The synthesized catalyst was recovered and re-used in four repeated transesterification cycles. Maximum biodiesel yield (93%) was accomplished at 6:1 methanol to oil molar ratio, catalyst concentration of 0.3 wt%, at 90 °C for 120 min at 600 rpm using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) coupled with central composite design (CCD). Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. biodiesel was characterized by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), FT-IR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) (1H, 13C), and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (GCMS) analytical techniques. The major fatty acid methyl esters were 16-Octadecenoic acid and 9-Octadecenoic acid methyl ester. The fuel properties, i.e., flash point (97 °C), density (825 kg/m3 at 40 °C), kinematic viscosity (4.66 mm2/s), pour point (–10 °C), cloud point (–14 °C), sulfur content (66 wt.%), and total acid number (182 mg KOH/g) were according to the International biodiesel standards. The reaction kinetic parameters were determined, and all the reactions followed Pseudo first-order kinetics. It was concluded that non-edible Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. seed oil is one of the sustainable candidates for the future biofuel industry using a cleaner, reusable, and highly active Ni-modified TG nano-catalyst.


A comparison of the seismic response and environmental impact potential of two building systems is presented. Both buildings have 24 floors and a total height of 114 meters, and are in the Lake Zone of Mexico City. The first building, denominated traditional, uses composite (steel and reinforced concrete) moment-resisting frames and concentric diagonals. The second one, denominated innovative, is structured with steel perimetral diagonal grids and steel frames. Despite its lower weight, and smaller lateral strength and stiffness, the innovative system exhibits a superior seismic performance characterized by light damage on approximately 8% of its seismic-resistant elements for the design seismic excitation. Also, the construction of the innovative system reduces in two thirds the emissions of Artículo recibido el 2 de marzo de 2017 y aprobado para su publicación el 13 de diciembre de 2017. Se aceptarán comentarios y/o discusiones hasta cinco meses después de su publicación. (1) Profesor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Avenida San Pablo #180, Colonia Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Ciudad de México, México, C.P. 02200. firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com (2) Profesor Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, Gral. Francisco J. Mugica s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Morelia, Michoacán, C.P. 58030. email@example.com Arturo Quiroz Ramírez, Amador Terán Gilmore y Montserrat Serrano Medrano 65 greenhouse effect gases with respect to its traditional counterpart. The example presented herein provides an idea of the benefits that the use of innovative systems can bring to the Mexican design and building practices.


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Simple Summary Apis mellifera Linnaeus (1758), a honey bee, is a eusocial insect widely known for its role in pollination, an essential ecosystem service for plant biodiversity, and quality of vegetables and fruit products. In addition, honey bees and bee products are valuable bioindicators of pollutants, such as airborne particulate matter, heavy metals, and pesticides. In this review, we explore the provisioning, regulating, and cultural services provided by the honey bee, an insect at the interface between human and ecosystem health. Abstract The concept of ecosystem services is widely understood as the services and benefits thatecosystems provide to humans, and they have been categorised into provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services. This article aims to provide an updated overview of the benefits that the honey bee Apis mellifera provides to humans as well as ecosystems. We revised the role of honey bees as pollinators in natural ecosystems to preserve and restore the local biodiversity of wild plants; in agro-ecosystems, this species is widely used to enhance crop yield and quality, meeting the increasing food demand. Beekeeping activity provides humans not only with high-quality food but also with substances used as raw materials and in pharmaceuticals, and in polluted areas, bees convey valuable information on the environmental presence of pollutants and their impact on human and ecosystem health. Finally, the role of the honey bee in symbolic tradition, mysticism, and the cultural values of the bee habitats are also presented. Overall, we suggest that the symbolic value of the honey bee is the most important role played by this insect species, as it may help revitalise and strengthen the intimate and reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world, avoiding the inaccuracy of considering the ecosystems as mere providers of services to humans.


Objective
To investigate the clinical significance and regulation of retinoic acid-induced protein I (RIG-I) in human gastric cancer.

Methods
Immunohistochemistry was used to study RIG-I expression in gastric cancer and normal tissues. We used Wilcoxon test to analyze the difference of RIG-I expression levels in cancer and normal tissues. Chi-square and Log-rank tests were used to analyze the RIG-I expression in cancer tissues in relation to patients' clinical parameters and prognoses respectively. The gastric cancer cell lines SGC-7901 and AGS were used to construct the stable knockdown expression of RIG-I using RNA interference (RNAi) method. The cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8), wound healing, and Transwell assays were used to examine the cellular function after RIG-I knockdown of these cells.

Results
RIG-I expression level in human gastric cancer tissues was significantly lower than that in adjacent normal tissues (U=1 490, P=0.001). The ratio of higher RIG-I expression in cancer patients with pathological stage (Ⅲ-Ⅳ) was significantly lower than that in normal tissues (χ2=4.668, P=0.031). The overall survival of the patients with higher RIG-I expression was significantly longer than that with lower RIG-I expression (P=0.023). The COX model showed that the age (P=0.047), TNM stage (P=0.039) and the RIG-I expression (P=0.007) could be used as independent prognostic predictors for cancer patients. CCK-8 assay showed that at the time points of 48 h and 72 h after culture, the A450 value in LV-RIG-I-short hairpin RNA (shRNA) group was significantly higher than that in LV-NC group (for SGC7901: P=0.000 and P=0.000 respectively; for AGS: P=0.002 and P=0.016 respectively). The wound healing assay showed that the cell migration abilities in LV-RIG-I-shRNA group was significantly stronger than LV-NC group (for SGC7901: P=0.001; for AGS: P=0.004). The Transwell assay showed that the cell invasion abilities in LV-RIG-I-shRNA group was significantly stronger than that in LV-NC group (for SGC7901: P=0.032; for AGS: P=0.016).

Conclusion
RIG-I plays important roles in gastric cancer progression, its knockdown could promote proliferation, migration and invasion of cancer cells, and thus could be used as potential therapeutic target for gastric cancer.

Key words:
Retinoic acid-induced protein I; Gastric cancer; RNA interference; Immunohistochemistry


In this paper, we present a design for moving Sample Adaptive Offset filter (SAO) inside the Coding Tree Unit (CTU) decoding loop for High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) decoder. According HEVC standard & its Test Model (HM) implementation by Joint Collaborative Team - Video Coding (JCT-VC), SAO filtering operation is performed only at frame level. But majority of the applications in which low latency is a requirement, it is necessary to execute SAO filtering at CTU level along with other decoding modules. Executing SAO operation at same granularity as in other decode modules, results in better memory-bandwidth efficiency and cache performance. One other important case where in which CTU level execution of all decode modules, including SAO operation, is a strong requirement is for hardware accelerator based codecs. Suppose if any Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) to be developed for HEVC, all decode modules are very much expected to execute at same granularity. Most likely the chosen granularity would be CTU/Coding Unit (CU) level due to optimal pipeline performance. In the case of real time applications such as live streaming or video conferencing, keeping SAO filtering module at frame level is not suitable as it will drastically increase the latency and affect overall performance of the codec. In order to alleviate the problems caused by frame level SAO execution and to fulfill all above mentioned requirements, we propose a low-complexity approach to accomplish SAO operation at CTU level/loop. Our proposed method will be very efficient for pipelined architecture in multi-core scenarios. Here SAO filtering in CTU loop has been implemented for HEVC decoder and compared with SAO execution in frame level with and without a frame level pipeline for SAO in a multi-core scenario. The results lead to the conclusion that proposed method is a better alternative to executing SAO in frame level with or without frame level pipeline.


This work presents a distributed event-based awareness approach for P2P groupware systems. The authors present two fuzzy-based systems for improving peer awareness and group synchronization according to four parameters: activity awareness (AA), sustained communication time (SCT), group synchronization (GS), and peer communication cost (PCC). Then, this research uses fuzzy-based model to decide peer coordination quality (PCQ). The authors call the proposed systems: fuzzy-based peer coordination quality (FBPCQ) systems (FBPCQS1 and FBPCQS2). The authors make a comparison study between FBPCQS1 and FBPCQS2. The simulations results conclude that when AA, GS, and SCT are high, the PCQ is high, but with increasing of the PCC, the PCQ is decreased. The proposed systems can choose reliable peers with good peer coordination quality in mobilePeerDroid mobile system. Comparing the complexity, the FBPCQ2 is more complex than FBPCQS1. However, FBPCQS2 considers also the PCC, which makes the system more reliable.


For theorem 2.1 of Wei Han-bai's paper The component of the university Teichmuller space T1,qccording to =2vz1-z2∈L,we give the concise proof.For theorem 2.2 of Wang zhe's paper The distance between different component of the universal Teichmuller space,by means of one holomorphic function fλ(z) which satisfies :when λ0,then ∈L0,when λ0,then ∈Lθ,one concise proof is obtained.


Based on spectator violence accidence in our basketball match and combining with related law and regulation, this paper made deeply analysis on reason and discussed the security measurement taken in sports competition. The main purpose was to provide the reference for domestic sports competition organizer and manger and effectively control the developing trend of spectator violence in our basketball match.


The Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception conducted a national vasectomy survey, with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control, to estimate the total number of vasectomies performed in the United States in 1991, the number of physician practices that performed vasectomies, the average number of physicians per practice, the average number of vasectomies performed per physician (by specialty), occlusion method, and type of anesthesia used. The survey was restricted to urologists, general surgeons, and family practitioners because these specialists include almost all the practitioners believed to perform vasectomies. The survey included only nonfederal physicians and medical residents involved in patient care (i.e., office-based and hospital-based practices). Previous surveys of vasectomy incidence considered individual physicians as sample units (Kendrick et al., 1987; Orr et al., 1985). However, managers of medical practices told us that it is easier to report the number of vasectomies performed per practice than per physician within a practice. By sampling physician practices, data can be captured for one or more physicians, for the cost of a single respondent contact. Furthermore, practices are less likely than individual physicians to have frequent changes of address and telephone numbers. Therefore, the sample units for this survey were practices, which are defined as individual and group private practices, medical school departments, and divisions of health maintenance organizations. A sample of practices was drawn by way of a sample of physicians listed in the American Medical Association's (AMA) Physician Master File, the most comprehensive and current list available of physicians and medical residents nationwide. The file contains name, address, historical data, medical specialty, and other details of current professional activities. It is periodically updated through mai 1 in questionnaires, and information from hospitals, medical societies, state licensing agencies, and other sources. This article deals with the sample design and theory for estimating the total number of vasectomies performed in 1991. We conclude by computing sample sizes using data from a pilot survey. The survey is ongoing, and results should be available by fall of 1992.


The Stockpile Runoff Project addressed environmental concerns regarding the quality of runoff water from salvaged pavement stockpiles. Three experimental stockpiles were studied. One pile consisted of coarse concrete, a second consisted of fine concrete material, and the third consisted of salvaged bituminous material (recycled asphalt product) obtained from a pavement milling project. The leachate water from the piles flowed through a sampling and flow monitoring system with data loggers and automated sequence samplers. Composite water samples were analyzed using EPA approved methods and quality control protocols. Comparing the observed median values for the stockpile runoff with Minnesota standards for surface waters, the pH exceeded and chromium may have exceeded the standards. Although there are sediment and leachates emanating from stockpiles, the long-term concern reduces to suspended and dissolved solids, and pH. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) concentrations from the bituminous millings pile were near or below detectable limits. Planning for stockpile storage sites should include management practices of controlling runoff similar to those that are used for construction sites. Berms, straw bales, grass or other filter channels, and locating stockpile sites some distance from surface waters may be appropriate practices. Possible impacts on the groundwater system should be considered.


In terms of extension and damages, the most dangerous avalanches are the ones who mobilize the fresh and dry snow. These avalanches occur in cold weather and succeed great storms. Modeling suggested here, for this type of avalanches, treats the flow from its release to its run-out zone. The avalanche is seen to be a two layers. The lowest layer, most concentrated, is considered as a dense flow. According to the shear rate and the Froude number, the flow is described either by the Mohr-Coulomb frictional model, or by an inertial model resulting from the kinetic theory applied to granular material. The dense model was validated using experimental measurements in scale model carried out in the Col du Lac Blanc (Isere France). The second layer, of weak concentration, accounts for the development of the aerosol; the flow is turbulent diphasic there and the energy dissipation is dominated by the turbulence of the interstitial fluid. The initiation and the development of the aerosol result from the erosion at the top of the dense layer. The interface between the two layers is treated by a model resulting from the saltation theory. The mass flux exchanged is proportional to the difference between the constraints exerted by the aerosol and the threshold strength of the partides in the dense flow. The model of erosion is completed by a deposit model, which operates when the turbulence decreases. These two models (erosion and deposit) were validated by wind tunnel tests. Finally the two-layers model was used to reproduce real events.


An overview is presented of the promise and limitations of working on computer to improve pronunciation in a second language. It is maintained that the considerable promise of the computer as an instructional tool for developing language learners' pronunciation has yet to be realized in practice, primarily because of lack of attention to pedagogical design rather than because of inherent limitations of the technology. On the basis of this overview, suggestions are made in the way of ten design principles.


To establish a management of cloning neural stem cells and to identify it, neural stem cells acquired from brain tissue of embryo rat were cultivated with no-serum technique and the participating of growth factors. Moreover, it was identified with measure of immunofluorescence. And the results showed cultivated cells proliferated into sphere of neural stem cells and it was nestin positive cells. So the conclusion is neural stem cells could proliferate in vitro steadily with the help of growth factors and no-serum technique.


Kok-Ryung covers the collar of underwear and protects the neck. It is between outer garment and underwear and its form is bent. According to literature, Cheom-Yu, Keup, and Pang-Ryung belong to Kok-Ryung. KokRyung was used in Yemaek and also it was used as a part of the uniform of government officer in Song Dynasty. The results of the study were as follows: 1) With the changes of the times, Cheom-Yu was used in Ju Dynasty, Pang-Ryung was used in Han Dynasty, and Kok-Ryung was used from Nam-Jo through Soo, Tang, Song Dynasity. 2) Cheom-yu, Pang-Ryung, and Kok-Ryung were all made of long rectangular cloth. However, Chemo-Yu and Pang-Ryung were adjusted in front of the neck, Kok-Ryung was adjusted on the back. 3) The purpose of Kok-Ryung was practial one of sweat clothes at first. But it became for decoration and dignity gradually. Therefore, the users of it were changed from the common people to high government officers. 4) Cheom-Yu, Po-Ryung, Keup, and Pang-Ryung were all a kind of scarf and they are the same with Kok-Ryung in the respect. They were put on between outer garment and underwear or attached under the collar of outer garment. 5) Kok-Ryung of Song-Sa seems to be the round collar the uniform of government officers and it is different from Kok-Ryung of Suk-Myung.


The simulation model for the structure of agriculture makes up one part of the Finnish food model. The structure of agriculture is described in the model by the agricultural population as well as by the number, the average size and distribution of all the farms, dairy farms, pig farms, poultry farms and non-animal farms. The agricultural population is calculated by forecasting its share from the total population as a function of GDP. The number of farms is derived from the agricultural population by assuming that the size ofa farm family is constant. The average size of the farm is derived by dividing the total acreage by the number of farms. The distribution of farms is forecasted by applying a logarithmic normal distribution function. The starting points for the structure of animal production are the consumption forecasts and self-sufficiency targets. The development of the average yield per animal is forecasted by applying a trend line. Also the average size of animal farms is forecasted by a trend. The number of animal farms is obtained simply by dividing the number of animals by the average farm size.


The pandemic induced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, named COVID-19, produced in addition to the severity of the symptoms in some of the patients also a series of challenges regarding their treatment. The pathogenesis of the virus is mediated mainly by the structural proteins of the envelope, membrane and nucleocapsid, as well as by the spike glycoprotein that facilitates the entry into cells. It was pointed out, that there is a disorder caused by the inflammatory syndrome that influences the severity of COVID-19 and its unfavourable prognosis. The inflammatory process is responsible for the transient phenoconversion, characterized by the deviation between the function encoded in the genotype and the expression of the phenotype. Systemic inflammation and the immune response are an important element in many acute and chronic diseases, being strongly involved in changing the pharmacokinetics of the drug. Existing medical comorbidities in elderly patients requires multiple drug therapies, making them the most vulnerable group for both drug-drug interactions and disease-drug interactions. In the following, a series of data will be provided on the interactions that occur in the main classes of drugs used so far in COVID-19 therapy. Copyright © 2022, Romanian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences. All rights reserved.


The invention relates to a microstructure component comprising a mechanically rigid, electrically non-conductive carrier element 100 and a semiconductor material-based, thin and flexible micro-cantilever 101. Excitation of the micro-cantilever 101 with an optical pulsed laser beam 102 generates in the volume 108 below the excitation region 104 pulsed signals in the terahertz frequency range , The pulsed laser beam 102 generates an increased concentration of free-moving charge carriers during the duration of an excitation pulse in the volume 108 of the cantilever microstructure 101, which lies immediately below the excitation optical region 104. Due to the photo-Dember effect and a surface field effect-induced acceleration of these charge carriers, a field pulse is generated in the THz frequency range. The polarization of this THz field pulse, which is sketched by the field lines 109, is oriented predominantly perpendicular to the surface of the excitation region 104. The cantilever microstructure 101 is in a first outlined application at a small vertical distance to the surface of a waveguide 106 of a test structure 107. The waveguide 106 responds by electromagnetic coupling to the field 109 of the generated THz pulse with a THz counterfield pulse 110, starting with field lines from the waveguide 106. The THz counterfield pulse propagates along the optical waveguide 106 after decay of the optical excitation, starting from the sketched position of the electromagnetic coupling.


Objective To investigate the clinical efficacies of brain-activating and orifice-opening acupuncture versus batroxobin in treating cerebral infarction and the results of inflammatory cytokine determination.Method Eighty patients with cerebral infarction were randomly allocated to a medication(batroxobin) group of 40 cases and an acupuncture plus medication(brain-activating and orifice-opening acupuncture plus batroxobin) group of 40 cases.At the same time,30 age-matched persons with normal physical examination findings were enrolled as a control group.The National Institute of Health Stroke Scale(NIHSS) scores,the Modified Rankin Scale(MRS) scores,tumor necrosis factor-(TNF-),C-reaction protein(CRP) and interleukin-6(IL-6) levels were compared between the medication and acupuncture plus medication groups of patients before treatment and at 15 and 30 days after.Post-treatment changes in MRI were observed.Result Before treatment,TNF-,CRP and IL-6 levels were significantly higher in the medication and acupuncture plus medication groups than in the control group(P0.01).The NIHSS and MRS scores decreased significantly in the acupuncture plus medication group after treatment compared with the medication group(P 0.05).TNF-,CRP and IL-6 levels decreased somewhat in the two groups of patients after treatment.The levels of two kinds of cytokines were lower in the acupuncture plus medication group than in the medication group(P0.05,P0.01) and close to those in the control group at 15 and 30 days after treatment.Compared with the medication group,the number of patients with the enlargement of ischemia area was small in the acupuncture plus medication group(P0.05) and the average ischemia area was also small in the acupuncture plus medication group(P0.05) after treatment.Conclusion Brain-activating and orifice-opening acupuncture plus batroxobin can reduce TNF-,CRP and IL-6 levels,effectively prevent the enlargement of ischemia area and improve neurological deficits in acute cerebral infarction.


The homogeneity of the lattice spacing of silicon single crystals was investigated by a self-referenced lattice comparator. Strain measurements were performed on single crystals from an 28Si ingot (Avo28), which was used to determine the Avogadro constant. A swirl pattern was observed for sample 9.R1 cut from the tail side of the Avo28 ingot. The lattice spacing distribution of seed-side sample 4.R1 was smooth and homogeneous. The lattice spacing distribution was larger for the sample with higher impurities of carbon and oxygen.


: Coconut oil, a lauric acid-based oil, holds significant importance in industries such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics due to its desirable properties. Emulsifying coconut oil presents challenges due to the varying chain lengths and degrees of saturation in the fatty acids. Non-ionic surfactants, including sorbitan esters (Span), polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters (Tween), and polyoxyethylene ethers are used in this study, as these surfactants are commonly used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications due to their low toxicity and irritational potential. Co-surfactants such as short-to medium-chain alcohols or propylene glycol are added to lower interfacial tension. This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive study of coconut oil emulsions, focusing on the role of surfactants and various factors influencing emulsion systems. The data collected and analyzed in this study involved the emulsion formation, the selection and characteristics of surfactants, and the parameters affecting emulsion stability.


NOTTIDGE H.O, AJADI R.A, CADMUS S.I.B, SHONIBARE O, TAIWO V.0; EMIKPE B, ADEDOKUN R.A.M, ODUYE Departments of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Surgery/Reproduction, Health/Preventive Medicine, 5 Veterinary Pathology and Veterinary Teaching Hos Ibadan, Nigeria . A ten month old Alsatian bitch presented with complaint of recurring ascites over and had 'been refractory to diuretic therapy. The condition was diagnosed as chemistry, exploratory laparotorny and histopathology of the liver. Result of the s progressively decreasing serum albumin and liver, enzymes. Similarly the Albumin progressively decreasing. Haematological findings were that of anaemia o normocytic, normochromic, non responsive). The PCV, HB and RBC also Exploratory laparotomy findings were that of a slightly enlarged liver with diffuse the parietal and visceral surfaces. Few larger nodules 'were also present. consistency and two separate masses of fibrinous tissue measuring about 5 thickness were seen floating in the abdominal transudate. The transudate which was colourless and slightly cloudy. The bitch was euthanised following laparo request due to the non-responsiveness of the animal to diuretic and other supporti


The article introduced that reforming the material carrying system of synthetic ammine,it could reduce the energy and rise economic benefit.


The concept of social capital has received much attention in recent social-science research, and responds mainly to the pathbreaking research by Robert Putnam on Italy. In this article, the author discusses the stage of social capital research to date and develops a research agenda that results from the logic of social capital theory and includes research on the sources and consequences of social capital and the relationship between its cultural and structural aspects. The author argues that the research about the sources and origins of social capital remains most underdeveloped, but the empirical and theoretical literature about the influence of families, networks, economic conditions and institutions on the formation of social capital constitutes a beginning. It is also argued that the different conceptualisations we encounter in the work of James Coleman and Robert Putnam are not irreconcilable, but find their origin in the different focus on empirical research questions, The attitudinal and the network approach to social capital research can be linked in that we more clearly identify the causal relationship between membership in various networks and attitudinal indicators of social capital such as generalised trust and norms of reciprocity.


..pi..-/sup 4/He inelastic cross sections have been measured at T/sub ..pi../ = 180 MeV. In the region of the J/sup ..pi../ = 1/sup -/ states (E/sub x/approx. =23 to 30 MeV) the ..pi../sup +//..pi../sup -/ cross-section ratio R/sub ..pi../ was found to be 1.05 +- 0.08 at theta/sub lab/ = 30/sup 0/. Such a small deviation from 1.0 implies that isospin mixing between the T = 0 and T = 1 states in /sup 4/He is quite weak, in striking contrast to the strong isospin mixing deduced from the large ratio of photonucleon cross sections, R/sub ..gamma../ = sigma(..gamma..,p)/sigma(..gamma..,n)approx. =1.7. Thus the conclusion drawn from the photonucleon work, that there is a large charge-symmetry-breaking nuclear force in /sup 4/He, needs to be reexamined.


Introduction Despite the widespread clinical usage of hypothermia, information relative to nervous system activity during hypothermia has been slow to accumulate. This lack of data is somewhat surprising, in that one most important effect of lowering the body temperature is to reduce the metabolic rate of neural tissue.1-4This reduction serves as a protective influence against the consequences of hypoxia following the extended occlusion of the blood supply to the brain and/or spinal cord during surgical procedures on the heart, brain, great vessels, etc.5-7The few studies which have been reported have been confined to the investigation of the electrical activity of peripheral nerves or differentially cooled segments of the nervous system, or they have been done under conditions not consistent with the methods employed currently in the clinical management of hypothermia.8-12Therefore, this investigation was undertaken to evaluate the effect of temperature upon evoked electrical activity


In this paper, major photonic microwave generation and modulation methods are described. Their advantages and limitations are identified and compared through the analysis of the key characteristics relevant to practical photonic microwave applications. The focus of this paper is on the photonic microwave based on the nonlinear dynamics of optically injected semiconductor lasers. Both single-beam optically injected semiconductor lasers and dual-beam optically injected semiconductor lasers are considered. In particular, the three dynamic states of stable injection locking, period-one oscillation, and period-two oscillation are considered and demonstrated for photonic microwave generation, modulation, and conversion applications. Several prospects for future research and development in this area are discussed.


Background: Progestogen-only injectable contraceptives are affordable, long acting, and reversible. It can be administered by a trained nonmedical staff and does not require storage, making it specifically suitable for use in developing countries where contraceptive prevalence rates are low. Aim: This study aims to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of clients at the family planning clinic who accepted progestogen-only injectable contraceptives, their side effects, and discontinuation rates. Materials and Methods: In the retrospective study, clients who accepted and used progestogen-only injectable contraceptives at the Family Planning Clinic for over 10 years between August 1, 2008, and July 31, 2018, had their data collected using a structured pro forma. Results: Of the 197 clients who used progestogen-only injectable contraceptives during the study period, medical records of 181 (91.8%) of them were available and retrieved, while medical records of 16 were missing. The total number of contraceptive users during the same period was 1690, giving an acceptance rate of 11.7% for progestogen-only injectable contraceptives. The mean age of clients was 32.8 ± 6.2 years. Most (34.8%) of the participants were in the age group of 30–34 years. Most (95.6%) of the participants were married and 92.2% had at least a secondary school education. The majority (55.8%) of the participants used it for child spacing, while 44.2% used it to limit their families. The discontinuation rate at 1 year was 72.4%. Of the 181 participants, 65 (35.9%) reported side effects. The most common side effect was menstrual disorders (30.9%). No pregnancy was reported during use. Conclusion: Progestogen-only injectable contraceptives are effective and safe. Sociodemographic characteristics of users, side effects, and efficacy are similar to other local studies. However, the acceptance rate is low and the discontinuation rate at 1 year is higher than in other centers.


For over 100 years, researchers have attempted to predict transition to turbulence in fluid flows by analyzing the spectrum of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. However, for many simple flows this approach fails to match experimental results. Recently, new scenarios for transition have been proposed that are based on the interaction of the linearized equations of motion with small disturbances to the flow system. These new "mostly linear" theories have increased our understanding of the transition process, but the role of nonlinearity has not been explored in detail. This paper is the first of a two part work in which sensitivity analysis is used to study the effects of small disturbances on transition to turbulence. In this part, we study a highly sensitive one dimensional Burgers' equation as a motivating problem. Sensitivity analysis is used to predict the large changes in solutions in the presence of a small disturbance. Also, sensitivity analysis is shown to provide more information about the disturbed nonlinear problem than a purely linear analysis of the problem. In the second part of this work, this analysis will be extended to the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations to show that small disturbances have great potential to trigger transition to turbulence.


The linear coefficients alpha(T) of N-2-C-60 solutions with 9.9% and 100% of the C-60 lattice thermal expansion interstitials filled with N-2 are investigated in the interval 2.2-24 K. The dependen ...


UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) technologies, also known as UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), drones, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) and GIS (Geographic Information System) are recognised for the value of the results that can be achieved by their combined use. However, their use and the results achieved are rarely framed within the context of Digital Era Governance (DEG), an undertaking that would significantly reduce the capabilities of knowledge transfer from the academic and/or private environment to the public domain. The purpose of this study was to highlight, by a bibliometric analysis, the areas of proposed use of this team of tools and the extent to which these can enter the sphere of interest of public administrations, especially local ones. From a methodological point of view, based on the 439 articles filtered from the Web of Science database where UAS/UAV and GIS technologies were used, several bibliometric analyses have emerged. VOSviewer and R (Bibliometrix tool) were used to conduct the bibliometric analyses. Most scientific publications that used UAV technology as a working tool have predominant applicability in photogrammetry, while GIS applications are found in publications dedicated to image processing, landslides, and cultural and archaeological heritage. We point out that from the point of view of international cooperation, at the level of institutions or countries, certain international organisations from the USA, China, and the central and northern European states have a high interest in this topic, and a low cooperation between academia and public administration is exhibited. The conclusion is represented by the apparent lack of framing of the results of UAS–GIS technologies usage into wider and more topical contexts, such as digital era governance, and also a reduced applicability of the research results.


A relativistic low-energy electron-diffraction theory has been modified to allow computations for energies up to 200 eV. Its application to W(001) yields intensity profiles in reasonable correspondence with experiment, and pronounced polarization profiles which show encouraging agreement with novel and as yet limited experimental data. A high sensitivity of the polarization profiles to displacement of the topmost layer suggests that spin polarization measurements could be valuable for structure determination of surfaces involving heavy atoms. (AIP)


having conductors with a stranded wire, the one or more first element wires (12) made of pure copper and one or more second element wires (14) made of a copper alloy, wherein the copper alloy consists of: a Ni content of 1.5 to 4.0% by mass; a Si content of 0.4 to 0.5% by mass; and a balance of substantially Cu and unavoidable impurities.


M. Szega, W. Stanek Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland L. Blacha Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland The reduction of energy consumption in the blast furnace is still the subject of investigations using mathematical modelling of a blast furnace plant. Theoretical-empirical hybrid models of a blast furnace and its equipment have been presented. This model is built based on the mass and energy balances of furnace zones and empirical data from the measurement of a blast furnace. The results of a numerical simulation of the injection of auxiliary fuels and the top-gas recirculation after the removal of CO2 to the blast furnace have been presented.


4 Section I: Selected Design 5 Section II: Building Process and Changes 22 Section III: Testing and Results 26 Section IV: Evaluation and Recommendation 29 Conclusion 31 Appendix 33


Prediction of the modal characteristics of acoustic cavities with irregular shapes is an important issue. In many respects, modal pressure (or mode shape) is one of the most essential parameters to be known. First, the mode shape of acoustic cavities is usually used in vibro-acoustic analyses of vibrating structures coupled to an acoustic enclosure [1]. In these cases, the acoustic pressure inside cavities can be decomposed into a series using mode shapes as base functions. Second, problems related to the acoustic intensity inside cavities require an accurate prediction of the velocity of the particles, which is directly related to the sound pressure distribution [2]. Third, accurate information on the mode shape gives rise to many direct applications. For instance, Succi [3] noticed that the position of a minimum resonant pressure in an automobile cabin can be changed, so as to improve the driver's and the passengers' comfort. All these applications are based on an accurate prediction of the modal sound distribution. In our previous work [4], an integro-modal approach (IMA) was suggested to compute the acoustic modal properties of irregular cavities, where the separation of variable technique cannot be applied. This previous work mainly focused on predicting the natural frequencies. No study in terms of the corresponding modal pressures was performed. It consisted of handling the irregular-shaped enclosure as a multi-connected cavity system. For each sub-cavity, rigid-wall modes were used as base functions for a modal expansion of the sound "eld. The integral formulation ensured global continuity of the pressure between adjacent sub-cavities. In di!erent studies, Pan [5}7] pointed out that using a rigid-wall mode expansion for the sound "eld does not always describe correctly the particle velocity or pressure gradient where absorptive or #exible part of the cavity boundary is assumed. The convergence of the acoustic pressure may also be a!ected in the whole cavity. This problem is likely to occur when the IMA is applied. This issue is discussed in the present paper. Using a simple semi-circular cavity, the performance of the original IMA in terms of prediction of the sound pressure distribution is "rst discussed. Based on the problem observed, an improved IMA based on the use of overlapped cavities is proposed. It can be shown that this technique can greatly improve the accuracy of the prediction for the modal pressure and velocity distribution.


Passive control devices based on casing treatments have already shown their capability to improve the flow stability in axial compressors. However, their optimization remains complex due to a partial understanding of the related physical mechanisms. In order to quantitatively assess the interaction between slots and the blade tip flow, the present paper develops a novel analysis methodology based on a control-volume approach located in the rotor tip region. This methodology may be used for analyzing the casing treatment based on both axi- and non-axisymmetric slots design. The second issue of the paper focuses on the application of the current approach to better understand the effects of axi- and non-axisymmetric grooves in three different axial compressors which differ by the flow regime (subsonic/transonic) and the smooth casing shape (cylindrical/concave). Numerical simulations are performed, and results of the current approach with and without casing treatments are compared.


Multibeam sounding system can provide a swath bathymetric survey,the ray will bend because of the inhomogeneity of the sea water. In this paper,some methods of ray-tracking based on equivalent sound velocity profile are described. Through comparing and analyzing,some advantages and disadvantags of different methods are given,and the accuracy of different models is estimated. Also,in the aspect of application,the equivalent sound velocity profile method and the invariable grad method have some advantages.


Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) provides high horizontal and vertical resolution of spatial data located in point cloud images, and is increasingly being used in a number of applications and disciplines, which have concentrated on the exploit and manipulation of the data using mainly its three dimensional nature. Bathymetric LIDAR systems and data are mainly focused to map depths in shallow and clear waters with a high degree of accuracy. Additionally, the backscattering produced by the different materials distributed over the bottom surface causes that the returned intensity signal contains important information about the reflection properties of these materials. Processing conveniently these values using a Simplified Radiative Transfer Model, allows the identification of different sea bottom types. This paper presents an original method for the classification of sea bottom by means of information processing extracted from the images generated through LIDAR data. The results are validated using a vector database containing benthic information derived by marine surveys.


X-ray-pump/x-ray-probe spectroscopy allows investigation of ultrafast x-ray induced molecular dynamics. X-ray absorption and Auger decay leave molecules in manifolds of transient intermediate states in the femtosecond time scale. By using an x-ray probe pulse, we can image nuclear wavepackets as a function of time using ion-ion coincidence spectroscopy to record ion momentum distributions and kinetic energy releases (KERs). Numerical simulations, a timedependent approach that includes both K-shell photoionization and Auger decay, show how the transient intermediate states are projected onto the KERs. At short time delays, the measurements are sensitive to interatomic interactions, whereas at longer delays the contribution from separated ions due to dissociative intermediate states becomes observable. We present simulations for the nitrogen molecule. These simulations have the potential to be extended to more complex molecules.


Carbon nanotube (CNT) paste, consisting of multiwalled CNT and nujul, was mechanically attached to the surface of a basal plane pyrolitic graphite electrode (BPPGE) and this used as a working electrode. The CNT/BPPGE electrode was found to be able to mediate the oxidation process of ascorbic acid (AA) during cyclic voltammetry, especially in the presence of Li/sup +/. The oxidation current of AA was found to increase about 3-6 fold compared to the bare BPPGE. The oxidative current of AA was found to be irreversible and diffusion controlled. Current magnitude was largely influenced by concentration, electrolyte, scan rate and rotation speed. Based on the surface charge determined by chronocoulometry, CNT/BPPGE appears more conductive in the presence of Li/sup +/ dopant. Diffusion coefficient of 1.22/spl times/10/sup -7/ cm/sup 2//s and kinetic rate constant of 4.07/spl times/10/sup -3/ s/sup -1/ for the oxidation of ascorbic acid were determined using hydrodynamic voltammetry.


Chromoblastomycosis is a rare, chronic, fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues caused by dematiaceous (black) fungi living as saprophytes on plants or vegetable debris in the soil. The lesions are located mainly at the extremities. To the best of our knowledge, wehere in report a first case of chromoblastomycos is from Morocco with an atypical localization.


Although several critics since the nineteenth century have written about the variety of interpretations of the native Indian in EnglishCanadian literature, no one has yet devoted a full-length study to the way the Indian is depicted in fiction alone . This dissertation thus examines a large cross-section of adult long fiction and investigates the degree to which the modes of romance and realism and the genres of romance and novel have informed these depictions . The dissertation is organized according to four major topics : love, religion, fighting, and community life . Each of these is divided into appropriate sub-topics, organized along roughly chronological lines . The chapter about love is the longest and focuses on fiction in which a white person and an Indian marry or have a love relationship, either potential or consummated . The chapter about religion focuses on fiction about the various kinds of relationships between native religions and Christianity . The chapter about fighting analyzes fiction about inter-tribal fighting, fighting along the frontier, and fighting between modern Indians and white authority . The chapter on community life focuses on fiction describing daily Indian life, from the pre-contact community to the contemporary reserve . Several conclusions emerge, First, the basic attitude to Indians reflects prevailing social attitudes . Second, the choice and use of genre are influenced to a significant degree by literary fashion . But more specific conclusions also emerge Most importantly, romance is the


Based on the engineering characteristics of transformer substation, the compounding, construction control methods and waterproofing enhancing ways on some detailed locations of waterproofing concrete and flexible cement-base waterproofing coating (infiltration-crystallization) are introduced. The practices proofs that the basement waterproofing does well, and the methods are suitable for reference and being extended.


Our work is a fundamental study of the notion of approximation in Q-categories and in (U,Q)-categories. Our exposition is categorical but kept as close to language of domain theory as possible. Consequently, we introduce auxiliary, approximating and Scott-continuous distributors, the way-below distributor, and continuity of Qand (U,Q)-categories. We fully characterize J-continuous Q-categories (resp. (U,Q)-categories) among all complete Q-categories (resp. (U,Q)-categories) in the same ways as continuous domains are characterized among all dcpos. By varying the choice of the quantale Q and the class J of ideals, and by further allowing the ultrafilter monad to act on the quantale, we obtain a flexible theory of continuity that applies to partial orders, metric spaces and to general topological spaces. We demonstrate on examples that our theory unifies some major approaches to quantitative domain theory.


The phenomenon of using cutting fluid in no re-grinding Ti-coated carbide tools turning Medium carbon steel workpiece that is regarded publicly as right by company has been challenged.Since this kind of processing machinery industry accounted for 50% of all machining work piece,it showed way to solve this problem economically.And saved a large number of the costs of production for many business owners without reducing production efficiency,meanwhile,for the business managers for reference.


The even more large diffusion of self-pitching propellers leads to a more accurate analysis of their behaviour in running conditions, to avoid the onset of system instabilities under small deviations around the equilibrium working points. Unfortunately, the real time measurement of physical quantities in propellers' tests is a great challenge because of several intrinsic setups' complications due to submersed and rotating parts, restricted space for sensors and acquisition systems as well as data storage and transmission. In this paper the experimental setup developed to accomplish the WP's for the 7th FP project HYMAR is described. This setup is addressed to measure the torque acting on the blade as a function of pitch angle in particular around the equilibrium points at different speeds. The solution adopted is based on a wireless custom acquisition board placed inside the rotating shaft. The torque is measured using a miniaturized set of strain gages mounted on customized blades' joints. Data storage and transmission tasks have been achieved using an integrated on board memory and a 2.4 GHz transmitter module. This solution, that could appear a little bit strange for an underwater system, has the great advantage that it is possible to send and receive data using a probe containing a common USB Bluetooth adapter. Communication throughout water has been theoretically estimated and experimentally proved to be possible in water only for small distances (10-15 cm), but enough for this setup.