The isotopic constitution of iridium was for the first
time determined by Venkatesachar and Sibaiya from a
study of the hyperfine structure of its arc line )3513.67A.
It was shown that iridium consists of two odd isotopes of
mass numbers 191 and 193, the isotope 193 being twice
as abundant as the isotope 191.This result was afterwards
corroborated by Dempster's mass-spectrograph analysis.
With the view of determining the ratio of the nuclear magnetic moments of the two isotopes, the hyperfiine
structure, arising from the nuclear spin moments of
(-',)(h/2~) and (-',)(h/2~) of the isotopes 191 and 193,
respectively, has been investigated for a few more iridium
lines using an aluminized Fabry-Perot etalon. From the
results obtained for the hyperfine level separations of the
isotopes, it is concluded that the ratio of the nuclear
magnetic moments of Er (191) and (193) is -0.92.


Mo-Mn metallization of alumina ceramics of different purity has been performed at 1400 °C for 10 min in moist hydrogen and nitrogen atmosphere. Nickel coating has been applied onto the metallized alumina ceramics at 1000 °C for 1 h in a reducing hydrogen atmosphere. Finally, metallized and nickel coated alumina ceramics has been brazed with another metallized and nickel coated alumina ceramics using CuAg filler alloy at 900 °C for 10 min in a vacuum furnace at 1×10 -6 Torr pressure. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis has been carried out for phase analysis, microstructural investigation and elemental composition analysis. The adhesive strength of the metallizing layer and brazing strength of the joint have been measured by pull down breaking strength method. SEM study has shown that the width of the interfacial reaction region between the metallizing layer and substrate enhances with increasing the impurity content in the alumina ceramics. It has been observed that the adhesive strength of the metallizing layer depends on the interfacial reaction layer thickness. The adhesive strength of the metallizing layer has been increased with increasing the thickness of interfacial reaction layer. High adhesive strength of the metallizing layer as well as brazing strength has beenachieved for alumina ceramics with high impurity content.


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The embodiment of the invention provides a method, a system, a device and a storage medium. The method, the system, the device and the storage medium are used for performing the following steps of: receiving selection of one or more gateway service data types from a user which can be connected with a network via communication; receiving selection of an operating platform, which can be used for operating mobile equipment which can be connected with the network via communication, from the user; generating a configuration file, wherein the configuration file comprises selection of gateway service data associated with one or more gateway service data types and selection of the operating platform; generating a data storage file and a development library, which are associated with the selection of the operating platform; transmitting the configuration file, the data storage file and the development library to a storage library which can be connected with the network via communication; and generating an application template including the configuration file, the data storage file and the development library, wherein the mobile application is developed on the mobile equipment according to the application template when the mobile equipment is disconnected from the network in communication.


Aims Micro-CT is an established tool to evaluate the bone architecture in small animals. Especially in-vivo micro-CT is very popular, as it allows longitudinal (i.e. over time) follow-up of the evolution in the same animal. This way, changes in the bone structure over time can be assessed. Usually, bone parameters are measured separately in the different images. To be comparable, a similar location is selected in each image using an anatomical descripition (e.g. '150 μm proximal to the distal growth plate of the femur'). Several authors have proposed to use automated image registration to improve longitudinal analysis of the micro-CT data. Waarsing etal [1] use rigid registration to detect and visualize changes in the local bone architecture and individual trabeculae over time. More recently, Nishiyama etal [2] have shown that the reproducibility of bone measurements is improved when image registration is used to ensure exactly the same region of interest is chosen in all images.


Use of an aminopolyalcohol-based MnII complex in solvothermal CuII chemistry leads to a rare example of a high nuclearity heterometallic {MnCu} system, in which four CuII(H1Edte) units trap an inner {MnCuII} oxide core.


Experimentally observed anisotropic ion heating in helicon plasma sources may result from the interaction of ions with ion-sound turbulence. The ion-sound turbulence develops due to excitation of the short scale, kinetic, parametric ion-sound instability. From the quasilinear equation for the ion distribution function, which includes the induced scattering of ion-sound waves by ions, the turbulent heating rate is determined. This anomalous ion heating is predominantly across the magnetic field and can lead to strong turbulence effects, such as the collective statistical effect of ion-sound turbulence on individual ion orbits (resonance broadening). Resonance broadening is a strong turbulence saturation mechanism for ion-sound turbulence. The energy density of the ion-sound turbulence in the saturated state, the ion and electron heating rates, as well as the effective collision frequency arising from the anomalous absorption of the helicon wave, are estimated and compared to experimental data.


This work is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Increase of bearing capacity for geotechnical constructions through shear zone enhancement" (GR 1024/23–1).


Uniform crystallographic orientation of silicon films, 500 nm thick, has been achieved on amorphous fused silica substrates by laser crystallization of amorphous silicon deposited over surface‐relief gratings etched into the substrates by reactive ion etching. The gratings had a square‐wave cross section with a 3.8 μm spatial period, a 100–nm depth and corner radii of about 5 nm. The 〈100〉 directions in the silicon were parallel to the grating to within ±18°, and perpendicular to the substrate plane to within ±2.5°. A simple model for the graphoepitaxy process is presented. Sheet resistivity of phosphorous doped graphoepitaxial silicon was 2.5 times larger than that of bulk silicon of the same doping. Graphoepitaxy is a new application of microstructure fabrication that may lead to new combinations of substrates and overlayer films, and perhaps to three‐dimensionally integrated electronic devices and other novel configurations.


Number 1 of the second volume of the most obvious group are those in need of scientiŽc merits, in particular people Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention conworking on their doctor's degree where peer-reviewed articles often may be used tinues along the lines proŽled in the Žrst (2000) volume. The Journal purports to as parts of the dissertation. Also colleagues with recently completed degrees represent new Nordic work in criminology and crime prevention – the pubwould seem to welcome the kind of forum oVered here for a more extensive lishing agencies being the Scandinavian research council for criminology and the dissemination of their work. More established scientists would often seem to be national crime prevention councils. In the tradition of Scandinavian criminomore diYcult to get interested in contributing. Why should this be is at least in logy, experts engaged in the Želd have also been involved in decision-making, part a function of language and the extra eVort involved. Most of the relevant whether invited to do so or not. The two previous issues, together with work in this Želd is written in one of the local languages. Also, only few Nordic the present one, contain some 20 articles. These originate in all Žve Nordic criminologists represent the high productivity level (in terms of scientiŽc articles, countries, albeit only one is from Iceland. The six Swedish articles reect at least) expected from colleagues surviving in highly competitive 'publish or adequately the relatively strong position of that country, with several independent perish' cultures – indeed, the competitiveness of the Nordic criminologist (and centres of research including the rather powerful National Council for Crime other scientiŽc) milieux would seem to continue to be rather moderate in this Prevention. In contrast to this, that the number of Finnish papers now amount comparison. However, this becomes more understandable when realising that to seven is not an unbiased reection of the volume and scope of relevant the entire volume of professional criminologists is rather small in the Nordic criminological research in that country. Rather, this points to a situation similar region. This circumstance also means that they are very often involved in a to the one familiar from some other disciplines: the country of the editor multitude of diVerent tasks that do severely compete with publishing in a tends to become over-represented. No academic chairs in general criminology scientiŽc Journal. The contributions in the present issue have been established in Finland. The country distribution is of course emanate from Sweden, Finland, and Norway. This time, Denmark and also a function of the contributions oVered – and accepted. What kinds of Iceland have not contributed. Space restrictions, together with a fair treatcontributions are oVered in part depends on what kind of authors need this type ment of contributions of waiting time, prohibit attempts of having a fully of peer-reviewed forum. The Žrst and


With the power grid construction needs and solve dam three upload dispatching data of single points of failure of the security issues,dam at stage three has been configured based on the first plane,with the second planar dispatching data network,forming a double planar dispatching data network in Ningxia Province,and are respectively connected with harmonic Northwest network debugging.


: This work presents analysis of Rolle's theorem, generalized Rolle's theorem and mean value theorem. These theorems are used to calculate the values and their accuracy is observed. Accuracy is analyzed by comparing the actual value with the values obtained by the theorems.


This work describes different models, developed by the Thermochemical Power Group at the University of Genoa (Italy), for the simulation of solid oxide fuel cell and gas turbine hybrid systems. The paper focuses on both "cores" of the system: the fuel cell stack on the one hand and the turbomachinery and the auxiliaries on the other hand. Therefore, in the first part of the paper the models developed for the analysis of the Rolls‐Royce Integrated Planar SOFC cells are presented; the results are compared to experimental data, and carefully analysed and discussed. In the second part of the paper, design and off design models of IP‐SOFC pressurised hybrid systems in the range 250 kW–20 MW are presented; the hybrid performance results are presented and discussed, also taking ambient condition effects and a possible control strategy into account. Finally, using an in‐house general purpose transient system analysis code (TRANSEO code), where chemical composition, heat transfer, and fluid dynamic influences vs. time are considered in detail, a preliminary time dependent investigation of a pressurised hybrid system behaviour is presented.


During investigations of basic mechanisms for tactile speech transmission, an order effect was revealed in the discriminability of electrocutaneous pulse train sequences. Experiment 1 uses a 2IAX‐one‐step discrimination test to show that tactile sequences of nine pulses with a duration of 24 ms each and an interpulse interval of 15, 35, and 55 ms, respectively, are discriminated better if the sequence with the greater IPI is presented first. In an all‐step discrimination test with a constant target (IPI = 35 ms), the extent of the effect could be determined (experiment 2): Of two sequences presented as a pair, the second is judged to have the same IPI as the first if it exceeds IPI of the first by 13.9%. Experiment 3 shows that the effect can be reproduced in the auditory mode with analogously constructed sinusoidal pulse trains. On the other hand, the effect breaks down when pulse train sequences of long and constant durations (2.5 s) are used (experiment 4). As an explanation an analog to the "final len...


Most of organizations including busines enterprise or non-commercial (public-sector or private-sector) in competi ve environment trend to take place the corporate social responsibility as a strategy for achieving their goals. But there are several definitions of CSR (Dahlsrud, 2006) that every definition cover some dimensions of corporate social responsibility. Thus, organizations should determine their purpose and dimensions of CSR that efect on performance of organization.


Objective: Fixed drug combinations are increasingly used in antihypertensive therapy, so it is necessary to find the best combinations to achieve the best therapeutic effects not only in the control of arterial blood pressure (BP), but in other relevant aspects such as arterial stiffness (AS) of these patients (P). To evaluate the efficacy in reducing left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and arterial stiffness between two fixed combinations of antihypertensive drugs: olmesartan plus amlodipine (olm + aml) and valsartan plus amlodipine (val + aml) in patients with mild to moderate hypertension. Design and method: We studied 126 P (53 ± 9 years) with mild-moderate hypertension with LVH who received two fixed combinations of antihypertensive drugs to maintain BP below 140/90 Hgmm in the office: olm + aml group: 66 P and val + aml group: 60 P to whom an echocardiographic study to detect LVH was performed by measuring the walls of the left ventricle and central systolic and diastolic pressures (CSBP, CDBP) were measured, the augmentation index (AI) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) at baseline and 32 weeks of treatment. Results: Data from both groups were compared and are shown in the following table: Figure. No caption available. Conclusions: Our data suggest that the combination of OLM + AML is significantly higher than VAL + AML in reducing LVH and in reducing arterial stiffness indices indicating that not only provide a benefit in the control of blood pressure but also in the significant reduction in cardiovascular risk and mortality, being the HVI an independent marker of mortality in hypertensive patients, which should influence the selection of a fixed combination antihypertensive comprehensive control of our patients.


Time‐resolved four wave mixing (4WM) signals of conjugated polymers are calculated using a density matrix approach and the Hartree–Fock approximation. The influence of the Coulomb interaction as well as size effects on the nonlinear optical response are examined. For the Huckel model (no Coulomb interaction), quantum beats due to the coherent excitation of several band states are found for small sizes, and photon echo‐like behavior is obtained for infinite size. The Coulomb interaction changes the nature of the response and gives rise to a broad delayed signal whose temporal profile is determined by the dephasing time.


We consider the problem of estimating a rank-one matrix in Gaussian noise under a probabilistic model for the left and right factors of the matrix. The probabilistic model can impose constraints on the factors including sparsity and positivity that arise commonly in learning problems. We propose a simple iterative procedure that reduces the problem to a sequence of scalar estimation computations. The method is similar to approximate message passing techniques based on Gaussian approximations of loopy belief propagation that have been used recently in compressed sensing. Leveraging analysis methods by Bayati and Montanari, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the estimates from the proposed iterative procedure is described by a simple scalar equivalent model, where the distribution of the estimates is identical to certain scalar estimates of the variables in Gaussian noise. Moreover, the effective Gaussian noise level is described by a set of state evolution equations. The proposed method thus provides a computationally simple and general method for rank-one estimation problems with a precise analysis in certain high-dimensional settings.


offered to the Government and accepted under a formal agreement on a without compensation basis for use in the operation of a health care facility or in the provision of health care. Health care means services to patients in Department facilities, beneficiaries of the Federal Government, or individuals or groups for whom health services are authorized under the programs of the Department. Health care facility means a hospital, clinic, health center, or other facility established for the purpose of providing health care.


A simplified model to calculate uneven settlements and internal forces in RC frame filled with brick wall is proposed in this paper,considering superstructure-foundation-soil interaction.The interaction between columns and filled masonry is taken into account by simplifying the brick wall as compression diagonals,and the interaction between foundation and soil is taken into account by simplifying the soil below foundation as elastic-modulus-varied axial compression bars.The calculation results for a mill building located in Shanghai have good match with that observed in the site.


"chivalry" or "manliness" (p. 64); maghliib as "senseless" instead of "one who is enraptured [by the vision of, or proximity to, God]" (p. 79); jam' — as "concentration" instead of "union [with the Divine]" (pp. 84-5); the Jahmite statement al-Qur'an ghayr mawjtid is misleadingly rendered as "the Qur'an cannot be found no-where," (p. 39) etc.; solecisms, e.g., Shaykh al-islam is rendered as "The Senior of Islam" (p. 5) et passim; ad'tb as "well-read scholar" (p. 6), etc. In addition, the text literally bristles with printing errors, which are sometimes rather subtle and may confuse the non-specialist reader, e.g., munajat is translated as "intimate and confidential conversion", read "conversation", (p. 115); see also (pp. 55, 81, 110) etc. for erroneous transliteration of Arabic terms. Furthermore all these ubiquitous blunders are not offset by any significant analytical insights or factual discoveries. The author's presentation of Anjari's life and work is thoroughly secondary and, to my taste, pedestrian. Whenever he ventures a generalization about Islam's intellectual history, he becomes hopelessly entangled and flounders. A typical example is the author's discussion of the complex relationships between Hanbalism and Sufism (pp. 11-13), which scandalously ignores the vast scholarship on the subject produced by H. Laoust, G. Makdisi, Th. Michel, Th. E. Homerin, and J. Bell. No wonder that his conclusions are extremely naive and muddled, making even an average postgraduate paper look like an intellectual tour deforce. In sum, I have found little merit in the book under review. It is, to quote the objectives of the Curzon Sufi Series at the beginning of the book, neither "a synthesis of existing knowledge" nor "a distinct contribution to" the topic at hand. Clearly, the complex figure and legacy of Ansari deserves a better introduction.


The aim of the study was to investigate the physicochemical properties and the kinetics of degradation of Moringa oleifera seed oil during heating. The seed is a good source of oil (40%). The physical properties of the oil extracts showed the state to be liquid at room temperature and indicated that the oil had refractive index, 1.4680; the peroxide value, 1.67 (meq O 2/kg oil); free fatty acid, 2.10%; iodine value, 66.2%; saponification value, 167; unsaponifiable matter content, 0.87% and viscosity, 47.24 (mPa.s at 25°C). Gas liquid chromatography technique has been developed for identification and quantitative determination of total unsaturated and saturated fatty acids shows that the crude oil had 79.57 and 20.42% respectively. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) indicates the presence of three components in oil extracted. The first peak at low melting point appears at -31.10°C (∆Hf = -5.36 J/g), the second peak appears to -7.03°C (∆H f = +49.56 J/g) and the last peak appears to +6.30°C (∆H f = +0.55 J/g). The degradation kinetic of the oil was also investigated. The thermal oxidation of the double bonds of the oil showed a first-order thermal oxidation kinetic and the Arrhenius plot yielded a straight line with a slope equivalent to activation energy of 1.593 KJ/mol. There is the possibility of considering the seed as feed supplement and its oil for industrial application.


Elizabeth R. Miller's The Language of Adult Immigrants: Agency in the Making is a book in the valuable series New Perspectives on Language and Education edited by Viv Edwards. This innovative work ...


The comcept of creating harmonious enterprises is a stritegic project of carrying out the scientific development out look and constituting the sotialist harmonious society.Hamonious enterprise opevation mechanism is the key point of creating harmonious enterprises.The text narrates the signficance of creating harmonious enterprises,puts forward the str- tegic choice of creating harmonious enterprises,the connotion,feature,function and creating principle of creating harmo- nious enterprises operation mechanism,and establishes the basic framework for estabishing the harmonious enterprise oper- ation mechanism.


karyotype of 47,XXY following FISH analysis using only probe for chromosome X is unsubstantiated. The cells with two signals for chromosome X may have represented tetraploid cells (92,XXYY), maternal contamination, or simply nuclei with two signals at or below the 'cut-off value'. Without analysis using another probe applied simultaneously, i.e., probe for Y, the diagnosis of 47,XXY in the cells with two X chromosome signals cannot be made. With the information available, it is impossible to establish whether this pregnancy exhibited (i) generalized mosaicism with a 47,XXY cell line present in both the fetus and the placenta; (ii) confined placental mosaicism with a non-mosaic aneuploid fetus and a mosaic placenta; (iii) a vanishing twin pregnancy where both the fetus and the placenta seen at termination represented the normal 46,XY twin, whereas the vanishing twin with 47,XXY was detected by amniocentesis; or (iv) a laboratory labelling error. In hindsight, FISH analysis with two probes (X and Y) of multiple samples of fresh uncultured fetal and placental tissues should have been performed to establish conclusively the karyotypes of both the fetus and the placenta from this pregnancy. D. K. K, I. J. B  V. S. L Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


This article examines the relative order of auxiliary (A) and past participle/ infinitive (V) in dependent clauses in Luthers Bible translation and the linguistic factors which influence that order. The later standard order VA occurs more frequently in the Bible than in Luthers printed writings, but the linguistic factors are very similar. In the Bible, in Luther's printed works, and in religious writings by East Central German authors VA is used more frequently in constructions with past participle than in infinitive constructions, while in chancery usage this order occurs very frequently in all constructions.


Laparoscopic management of the ectopic pregnancy pelvis mass - preoperative and intraoperative decision-making laparoscopic treatment of the adnexal mass office hysteroscopy - the basics operative hysteroscopy - myomas, septums and synechiae operative hysteroscopy - endometrial ablation laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy laparoscopic sterilization teaching laparoscopy - a model for learning principles of electrosurgery during endoscopy laparoscopic suturing techniques complications of laparoscopy chronic pelvis pain - assessment and treatment guidelines for the laparoscopic surgeon laparoscopic pelvic denervation procedures.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift-by-wire type vehicle shift control device accurately determining a shift range irrespective of a voltage state of a vehicle. SOLUTION: A first shift range determination means 100 determines a shift range up to a lower voltage than a second shift range determination means 102. The shift range determination is carried out by selectively using the first shift range determination means 100 and the second shift range determination means 102 depending on the voltage state of the vehicle. Thus, the first shift range determination means 100 and the second shift range determination means 102 are suitably used depending on the voltage state, thereby obtaining highly reliable shift range information irrespective of the voltage state of the vehicle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT


Abstract Polymer flooding has its superiority in heavy oil recovery due to the improvement of the mobility ratio of oil to the injected fluids. In this work, the multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding is proposed for heavy oil recovery. Firstly, the inaccessible pore volume and resistance coefficient are measured for the multi-molecular mixed polymer. The low-field nuclear magnetic (LFNMR) resonance technique is then applied to compare the performance of conventional polymer flooding and multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding for heavy oil extraction from the pore-scale perspective. Results show that the inaccessible pore of multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding is about 5.0% lower than the single molecular polymer flooding, of which the resistance coefficient is about 6.2 higher than the single molecular polymer flooding, indicating the potential of the multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding for enhancing heavy oil recovery. Moreover, the multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding shows excellent performance for heavy oil production compared to the conventional polymer flooding. Specifically, the total oil recovery for the multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding is measured about 4.2% higher than that of the conventional polymer flooding. In addition, based on the LFNMR scanning, the multi-molecular mixed polymer flooding is more efficient in extracting oil from the smaller pores. This study is expected to inspire new strategies for heavy oil recovery; more importantly, it may provide insights into the mechanism of polymer flooding for heavy oil extraction. Graphical Abstract


Abstract Seismic-reflection surveys of the Isle Royale sub-basin, central Lake Superior, reveal two large end moraines and associated glacial sediments deposited during the last cycle of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the basin. The Isle Royale moraines directly overlie bedrock and are cored with dense, acoustically massive till intercalated down-ice with acoustically stratified outwash. Till and outwash are overlain by glacial varves, a lower red unit and an upper gray unit. The maximum extent of late Younger Dryas-age readvance into the western Lake Superior basin is uncertain, but it was probably controlled by both ice dynamics and climate. Our data indicate that during retreat from the maximum, the ice paused just long enough to construct the outer of the two moraines, >100 m high, and then retreated to the inner moraine, during which time most of the lower glacial-lacustrine sequence (red varves) was deposited. Retreat from the inner moraine coincided with a marked flux of icebergs at the calving margin and a change to gray varves. Rapid retreat may be related to both an influx of meltwater from Glacial Lake Agassiz about 10,500 cal yr BP and retreat of the calving margin down an adverse slope into the Isle Royale sub-basin.


. The classification of Hyperspectral Image (HSI) plays an important role in various fields. To achieve more precise multi-target classification in a short time, a method for combining discrete non-local theory with traditional variable fraction Potts models is presented in this paper. The nonlocal operator makes better use of the information in a certain region centered on that pixel. Meanwhile, adding the constraint in the model can ensure that every pixel in HSI has only one class. The proposed model has the characteristics of non-convex, nonlinear, and non-smooth so that it is difficult to achieve global optimization results. By introducing a series of auxiliary variables and using the alternating direction method of multipliers, the proposed classifica- tion model is transformed into a series of convex subproblems. Finally, we conducted comparison experiments with support vector machine (SVM), K- nearest neighbor (KNN), and convolutional neural network (CNN) on five dif-ferent dimensional HSI data sets. The numerical results further illustrate that the proposed method is stable and efficient and our algorithm can get more accurate predictions in a shorter time, especially when classifying data sets with more spectral layers.


ABSTRACT With analysis occurring during a heightened concern with the Black Lives Matter movement and knife crime in the U.K., this paper aims to delineate the characteristics of a street code, constituting a specific dominant and often hegemonic form of 'street masculinity' found on an inner-city housing estate in London called Maxwell. The fieldwork ran over nine months in 2019, involving 48 Black, Asian, and minority ethnic men aged 18–22. Using an ethnographic methodology, the principal methods of data generation were observations, interviews and informal conversations. The main theories this study draws on to understand 'street masculinity' were Connell's and Messerschmidt's dominant, hegemonic, subordinate and complicit masculinity forms. Findings centre on data from two young men who exemplify different patterns of masculinity performing the street code. Findings are presented under a series of characteristics that make up the game of the 'on-road' street masculinity and include (1) authenticity, 'swagger' and not being 'pussy'; (2) a preparedness for violence; (3) knife-carrying; (4) a presence on the digital street. Although this way of living drove a desire for respect and group status, there was also an underlying and pervasive sense of vulnerability derived from risk-taking and anticipation of danger.


Objective Using lateral X ray to determine unilaterallocked facet of cervical spine in cervical injury in order to improve diagnosis level of unilateral locked facet. Methods Taking lateral X ray of damaged segments at least including two vertebral bodies. Results In the cases of mono aricular process locking in cervical injury, because the locked vertebral bodies are in conbolution state, we can see intervertebral foramen of damdaged segments in lateral X ray. Conclusion Lateral X ray can be use as a kind of original screening method in determine unilaterallocked facet of cervical spine in cervical injury.


14 Shrimp Farming in Thailand 15 Local Socioeconomic Impacts of Shrimp Farming 24 Production Practices and Techniques 26 Impacts of the Environment on Shrimp Farming 33 Impacts of Shrimp Farming on the Environment 36 Research Organisations, Education and Training, and Export of Shrimp Farming Knowledge 41 Thai Government Policy and Shrimp Farming 44 Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Sustainable Shrimp Farming 48 Some Key Researchable Constraints 50 In Search of Variables Contributing to Production of Shrimp and Identifying Shrimp Farming Provinces in Thailand 69 Than Pe and Paul T. Smith Abstract 69 Introduction 69 Results of the Analysis 70 Application of GIS to Logistic Regression Analysis 74 Variables Contributing to Shrimp Production 78 Application of GIS to Modelling Shrimp Production 79 Conclusions 82 Bibliography 83 Appendix 8469 Introduction 69 Results of the Analysis 70 Application of GIS to Logistic Regression Analysis 74 Variables Contributing to Shrimp Production 78 Application of GIS to Modelling Shrimp Production 79 Conclusions 82 Bibliography 83 Appendix 84


The evaluation of the genetic diversity of indigenous chickens and the tracing of their matrilineal origin need to be facilitated to protect and utilize the germplasm bank of quality poultry. Twelve indigenous chicken breeds from Guangdong Province and its adjacent regions were used for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D-loop sequencing, and analyses of genetic distance and genetic relationship between breeds were conducted. We constructed a phylogenetic tree and median-joining network based on haplotypes. Sixty mutation sites were detected in 360 samples, and all of these were found to be in transition. Eighty-five haplotypes, belonging to haplogroups A, B, C, and E, were defined. B was the predominant haplogroup (187, 51.94%), followed by E (76, 21.11%). Haplogroups A, B, C, and E were distributed in all the 12 breeds. B02 and C01 were the predominant haplotypes (85, 23.61%; 48, 13.33%), which were shared by all twelve •研究报告• © 生 物多 样性 Bio dive rsity Sci enc e 第 3 期 黄勋和等: 广东省地方鸡线粒体遗传多样性与母系起源 239 研 究 报 告 breeds; and E03 ranked third (35, 9.72%), and was absent in the Xinghua, Huanglang and Ningdu yellow chicken. Xinghua chickens occurred mainly in haplogroup B, while Huiyang bearded and Zhongshan shalan chickens were distributed mainly in E. The number of haplotypes of Huaixiang chicken was the largest, while the Zhongshan shalan chicken had the fewest. The genetic distance between Guangdong chicken breeds ranged from 0.012 to 0.015, with haplotype diversity and nucleotide diversity ranging from 0.805 ± 0.047 to 0.949 ± 0.026, and from 0.0102 ± 0.0017 to 0.0138 ± 0.0009, respectively. Eighty-five haplotypes were divided into clades A, B, C, and E in the phylogenetic tree and median-joining network. Similar patterns of geographical distribution of mtDNA haplotypes was found in the chicken from Guangdong Province and its adjacent regions. A neutral test indicated that Guangdong indigenous chickens have not sustained obvious population expansion. Our results suggested that Guangdong chickens have a desirable conservation status, as they carry high levels of genetic diversity, and demographic histories were influenced to some extent, by the gene flow of domestic chickens from adjacent provinces and northern China. The red junglefowls from Southeast Asia have an important genetic contribution to the indigenous chickens of Guangdong Province.


Aircraft classification via remote sensing images has many commercial and military applications. The Swin-Transformer has shown great promise, recently dominating general-purpose image classification benchmarks such as ImageNet. In this paper, we test whether the performance of the Swin-Transformer on general-purpose image classification translates to domain-specific aircraft classification using the Multi-Type Aircraft from the Remote Sensing Images dataset. We also investigate the effect of training procedure vs. model selection on the validation score. Our carefully trained Swin-Transformer model achieved an impressive 99.4 % validation set accuracy without super-resolution, and 99.5 % with super-resolution. Moreover, the generalization of models trained on the MTARSI dataset to real-world and synthetic aircraft classification is evaluated with some out-of-distribution samples. Our results demonstrate that the lack of complexity and heterogeneity of the MTARSI dataset, and the labeling errors resulted in models which struggle to achieve high accuracy on the adopted test samples despite near perfect validation scores.


Reffay, Betbeder and Chanier (2012) define a LEarning and TEaching Corpus (LETEC) "as a structured entity containing all the elements resulting from an online learning situation, whose context is described by an educational scenario and a research protocol" (p. 15). It thus includes the interactions that took place in a learning environment, as well as any other data that will help describe the context of these interactions. In a CALL context, multimodal learning and teaching corpora provide valuable resources not only for second language development and teacher education research, but also for teacher training (Guichon, 2009). However, creating such a corpus, with a view to sharing it with the wider CALL research community, presents a number of challenges, including ethical, legal, and institutional ones, which have direct implications on epistemological and methodological choices.

In October 2013, Dublin City University (DCU) joined Le francais en premiere ligne (F1L) project, in partnership with the Universite Lyon 2 Lumiere. As part of their regular class activities, eighteen business students from DCU were paired with Masters students from Lyon 2 (Teaching French as a Foreign Language), who acted as online French tutors. In the course of six videoconferencing sessions via the Visu platform, tutors guided one or two students through a variety of tasks. Sessions were automatically recorded and used by tutors to provide formative feedback to students. Drawing on the LETEC methodology (Chanier & Ciekanski, 2010; Wigham & Chanier, 2013), this paper explores the ethical, legal, and institutional challenges that had to be addressed prior to the creation and sharing of the F1L Learning and Teaching Corpus that includes recordings of the multimodal interactions, and more particularly video recordings of the participants. The methodological implications of ethical and institutional constraints, which may differ between countries and institutions, on the creation and sharing of our corpus for research and teacher training purposes are presented and discussed.


cyte-rich pleural liposarcoma, which mimicked a pericardial cyst on computed tomographic (CT) scan. Histopathologic examination revealed a recently described lymphocytic-rich variant, which might be mistaken for lymphoma.3 Clinical summary. A 78-year-old white man with a 40 pack-year history of smoking was seen for an asymptomatic opacity detected on a routine chest x-ray film. A chest radiograph 4 months earlier had shown no abnormalities. His medical history was significant for controlled atrial fibrillation, adult-onset diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and benign prostatic enlargement. He specifically denied cough, chest pain, and all constitutional symptoms. He reported dyspnea on moderate exertion, which had been stable for many months. His medications included lisinopril, metformin, digoxin, doxazosin mesylate, aspirin, and felodipine. On physical examination, vital signs were within normal limits and no adenopathy or jugular venous distention was detected. Examination of the chest was unremarkable, as was the rest of the physical examination. The chest radiograph revealed an opacity abutting the lower right border of the heart (Fig 1, A). A CT scan of the chest revealed a cystic opacity in the major fissure, apparently attached to the pericardium. The location and CT appearance were suggestive of a pericardial Liposarcomas are the second most common histologic type of soft tissue sarcomas.1 Common sites of involvement include the lower extremities and retroperitoneum. Primary intrathoracic liposarcomas are rare with a preference for the mediastinum.1 Very few cases of primary involvement of lung and pericardium have been reported, including only 9 cases of pleural liposarcomas.2 We review a unique case of lymphoLYMPHOCYTE-RICH PLEURAL LIPOSARCOMA MIMICKING PERICARDIAL CYST


Background and purpose: Lead is a toxic compound which causes variety of health problems in water environments. This study investigated the efficiency of Tio2/Sio2 hybrid nanoparticles in removal of lead from paint industry effluents. Materials and methods: This experimental study was done in samples of synthetic and real wastewater from Binalood paint factory within six months. The chemical quality of crude sample and its lead was determined and then the influence of PH, absorbent amount and time on the removal of lead was evaluated. Then, the optimal conditions for each of these parameters were determined. The same experiments were done for samples of real wastewater. In order to understand the process of adsorption, kinetics of absorption isotherms equilibrium was also studied. SPSS ver.16 was used to analyze the data. Results: The highest percentage of lead absorption was observed at pH=9, Retention time of 120 minutes, absorbent amount of 0.5g for synthetic solution with removal efficiency of 99.99% and for synthetic solution with the efficiency of 95.56%.The findings revealed that the removal of lead followed the freundlich isotherm (R=9822%) and the second order synthetic model (R=9994%). Conclusion: Hybrid nanoparticles had a remarkable effect on the removal of lead (99.99%), so it could be used as an efficient method in removal of lead from industrial effluents.


In the shipping domain, many innovative technical systems have been designed and developed in the past decades, aiming to enable the maritime users to achieve the goal of safety, efficiency and effectiveness. The introduction of advanced technologies into workplaces have also created unprecedented challenges. Human users frequently find themselves in a supporting role to serve technology, being responsible for automation issues and blamed for "human errors" that sometimes result in tragic results. These challenges are closely associated with the design and use of technologies. Human-technology interactions has become an important multidisciplinary research topic for shipping. This article reviews theoretical concepts relative to the dimensions of psychology, sociology and ecology in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in order to form a deeper understanding of human-technology interactions. This paper also discusses the theoretical constructs' practical relevance by showing how a few cases exemplifying ongoing development sectors in shipping, such as energy efficiency optimisation, supervisory control of autonomous unmanned ships, and eco-systems in engine control rooms, are understood with these theoretical perspectives. By presenting multidisciplinary understandings of human-technology interaction, this paper aims to derive knowledge pertinent to methodological approaches and philosophical stances of future maritime human factors and HCI research.


Abstract In 2001, the Quality Initiative from the Department of Health and Human Services resulted in the development of a set of core measures focused on five patient populations. Although not part of the original list of providers able to document core measures involving medications, pharmacists were added to the list in November 2007. Within the set of core measures, there are 22 of 44 (50%) that are medication related. The authors' purpose is to describe the role of a pharmacist in meeting core measurements and provide an example of how a pharmacist is utilized at our institution.


Space tethers have been used for many space applications for decades. However, how to deploy a tethered system in a non-overshooting and stable way is still an unsolved issue up to now. Especially for passive deployment devices where positive deploy velocity is an essential requirement. In addition, in-plane angular amplitude is another issue that we should restrict to prevent tether become slack when it transgress 45°. This paper proposes a new control method to satisfy the two main constraints. First, we use a modified barrier Lyapunov Function method to design a deploy trajectory, which could ensure the in-plane angular stable and restrict into a small range as well as a positive deploy velocity. Second, we employ a feedback linearisation to realise a non-overshooting tracking. Simulations demonstrate that the scenario is successful in keeping a small in-plane angular within 0.25 radian, and positive deploy velocity and tension, meanwhile guaranteeing the non-overshooting tether length state.


In this study with estimating the econometric pattern of wheat, the affecting element in supply, product, import and consumption can be recognized. Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) and seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) have been used for getting the following results: Price elasticity of demand for wheat is 2/29 and the cross price elasticity of demand between wheat and barley is 1/49. Production function showed that with increasing the area under harvested with 1 percent, the amount of production will increase 0/68 percent. Fertilizer has direct effect in the amount of production in next year. Results of consumption model show that consumption income element in demand model is a small number with positive sign but it is not meaningful. The results of demand elasticity of bread showed that this factor is 0/156. It means that the demand for bread is not very responsive to changes in price. Although results showed increasing the consumption per capita of rice with 1 percent will decrease the consumption per capita of wheat with 0/23 percent. Import model shows that increasing the amount of gross domestic production with 1 percent will increase the amount of demand with 1/1 percent. In this estimation, the coefficient of the price ratios is positive and is opposite the ordinary cases. It is because of the responsibility of government in importing wheat and this activity doesn't relate to domestic price and is related to domestic needs.


The utility model discloses a die which relief texture patterns, which includes an upper die base and a lower die base, wherein a convex die is mounted on the upper die base; a wooden forming die is arranged between the upper die base and the lower die base; a die cavity is formed in the forming die; and the relief texture patterns are carved on the lower surface of the die cavity. When the die is in use, mud pie is appropriately arranged in the die cavity of the forming die, the forming die is arranged on the lower die base, the upper die base is pressed, the convex die mounted on the upper die base can press the mud pie in the die cavity and the relief mud briquette is pressed out and shown in the figure, wherein the upper surface of the briquette is a plane and the lower surface of the briquette adopts relief texture patterns; and during assembly, all that is needed is to stick one side of the plane of the briquette to the wall and to form a relief.


Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1999, Vol 44(5), 427–428. This article reviews the book "Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research" by Jana L. Jasinski and Linda M. Williams (Eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.314pp. ISBN 0-7619-1317-3 (hardcover); 0-7619-1318-1 (paperback). $59.95 hardcover; $25.95 paperback. See record 1998-07426-000). The reviewer examines specific chapters of the text and concludes with an analysis of the book's strengths and weaknesses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)


We introduce a taxonomy for partially coherent optical fields spanning multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) based on the rank of the associated coherence matrix (the number of non-zero eigenvalues). When DoFs comprise two spatial modes and polarization, a fourfold classification emerges, with rank-1 fields corresponding to fully coherent fields. We demonstrate theoretically and confirm experimentally that these classes have heretofore unrecognized different properties. Specifically, whereas rank-2 fields can always be rendered separable with respect to its DoFs via a unitary transformation, rank-3 fields are always non-separable. Consequently, the entropy for a rank-2 field can always be concentrated into a single DoF (thus ridding the other DoF of statistical fluctuations), whereas some entropy is always 'locked' in one DoF of a rank-3 field.


A motion control module used to track the sunlight in the Space Station Freedom electric power system has been analyzed and simulated. The motion control module includes the three phase brushless motor and the associated power processing block. A novel technique to analyze the motor and the power processing block made the interaction between the motor and the power processing block possible. As a result, the performance of the motion control module can be predicted.<<ETX>>


Dinajpur is one of the northernmost districts of Bangladesh. The predominantly rural population of this district is served by traditional medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes), who utilize medicinal plants for treatment of various ailments. Since the medicinal plants used by the Kavirajes can vary from region to region depending on the availability of plant species and the background training of the Kavirajes, it was the objective of the present study to conduct an ethnomedicinal survey among the Kavirajes of Dinajpur district, Bangladesh to gather information on the medicinal plants used by the Kavirajes of this district. A secondary objective of the present survey was to determine which medicinal plants can also serve as functional foods and can be taken on a regular basis for general well-being as well as treatment for ailments. A number of plants were found that could serve this dual purpose. The plants included Amomum subulatum , Bixa orellana, Cajanus cajan, Carissa carandas, Cinnamomum tamala, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Coccinia grandis, Dillenia indica, Ferula asafoetida, Manilkara zapota, Mentha arvensis, Moringa oleifera, Nymphaea nouchali, Phyllanthus emblica, Spilanthes acmella, Syzygium aromaticum, Terminalia belerica, and Terminalia chebula. Functional foods can be important sources of macroand micro-nutrients and at the same time used for prevention or cure of diseases. As such, the above plants can play important roles in the maintenance of body health, particularly of the poorer sections of the population.


This paper describes modifications to a hyperspectral imaging microscope that extend its capabilities into the near‐infrared (950–1300 nm). The major changes include installing a grating, charge‐coupled device camera, and lenses and filters appropriate for infrared wavelengths. Calibration of the system and validation with lead sulfide quantum dots of known emission wavelength is reported. Cells from the breast carcinoma cell line SkBr3 were scanned with lead sulfide quantum dots that emit at 1100 nm as the background and an image which contains the integrated spectral data is presented. We also demonstrate that this instrument is capable of detecting the photoluminescence spectra of single‐walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in aqueous solution.


As it is impossible to directly use commercial liquid flow meters in space, a study was done for the European Space Agency to adapt commercial flow meter assemblies for spacecraft applications. The activities led to the selection of two commercial units, which were re-designed and adapted for use in spacecraft single-phase (water) and two-phase (ammonia) thermal control loops. These flow meter assemblies were tested according to an agreed test programme, that included performance and calibration tests in a test bench (developed during the study), vibration and EMC/EMI testing. The results are discussed to assess to what extent the study objectives were met. Recommendations for future work are given.


Historians have documented the rise of English nationalism in the eighteenth century. Two eighteenth-century authors, Sophia Lee and Samuel Jackson Pratt, turn to the Gothic as a specific way in which to explore what gets left out and left behind during the rise of nationalism. Lee's Gothic novel The Recess tells the counterfactual story of the two secret daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a way that imagines alternatives to the aggressive nationalism that her fictional Elizabeth comes to represent. Lee's lingering on the extreme suffering of her heroines aligns her novel aesthetically with other artists and writers who challenged imperial expansion through an emphasis on the anguish obscured by other aesthetic choices. A fan of Gothic fiction and a Gothic novelist himself, Pratt offers a farcical version of similar dynamics through the juxtaposition of Gothic tropes with colonial slavery. In his play The New Cosmetic, an ointment holds the promise of changing skin colour, but only after excruciating pain.


This paper researches on the development and position of humanized design in product innovation,that the personalized design is beginning from the humanized design,and on the feasibility of personalized designs and the ways to achieve it.All of them illustrate the innovative design is not only the process of in which designers develop imaginations and techniques,but also the process of communication between designers and customers,which is to express the demand of consumers.Designers should give full consideration of the consumer's aesthetic demand and psychological factors,to satisfy the user's material and spiritual needs as much as possible,and under this premise,the personality and style must be integrated into the product design,playing a guiding role in product innovation,improving the product attractiveness and the core competitiveness of enterprises.


Due to advances in technology, particularly wireless technology, the "Home of the Future" is now not only a possibility but a reality. Smart home technology is a collective term for information- and communication technology (ICT) as used in houses, where the various Multi-Agent Systems are communicating via a local network. The technology can be used to monitor, warn and carry out functions according to selected criteria by the disabled people. Smart home technology also makes the automatic communication with the surroundings possible, via the Internet, ordinary fixed telephones or mobile phones. Persons with disabilities may have impairments that prevent them from using common household items. A light switch, for example, may be a convenient way for most individuals to control lighting within their home. However, some persons with disabilities may have mobility constraints or limited use of their hands, have difficulty to control light switches. In these situations, it would be ideal that other alternatives be available to these persons with disabilities so that they would be able to enjoy the same comfort of controlling the lights in their home. In the daily living of people with disabilities, they have to use lots of home appliances by them limited motor function. There are Environmental Control Systems which are operated by voice for people with disabilities. To overcome this problem a multi-modal interface system is suggested that allows use of voice and gesture commands for controlling distributed home appliances used by people with disabilities. The main objective of this study is combined with Non-verbal and verbal interface for intuitive and efficient control that uses hands-free operation. The pointing gesture by facing as Non-verbal interface represents selecting one of the home appliances. The voice commands as verbal interface represent button operation of the remote controller such as the power on/off, the channel select and the volume up/down. The prototype system can provide a hands-free remote controller for people with quadriplegia who do not have to send verbal commands for selecting home appliances.


Director and Professor, Gautam Institute of Behavioral Sciences and Alternative Medicine, Jaipur. 1Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. email@example.com In last one decade, several developments have occurred in the area of management of various psychiatric disorders among elderly. Hence, it was decided to update the existing Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for various psychiatric disorders. These new set of CPGs is an attempt to update the previous guidelines by emphasizing what is new in the field. It is suggested that these guidelines should be read in conjunction with the earlier version of the CPGs as developed and published by the Indian Psychiatric Society in the year 2007.


It is shown that the four most intense bursts localized to date have a spatial distribution not inconsistent with the locations of the five weakest bursts. Both distributions are consistent with isotropy. As the burst intensities differ by a factor of about 5000 or more, one possible interpretation is that the sources are at distances which differ by a factor of about 70, yet no evidence of a disk distribution has appeared. The possible consequences for determining the burster distance scale are discussed.


The diurnal variation characteristics of photosynthesis of 4 Viola tricolor L.cultivars(229-18,EP1,ZMY2-1 and 08-H2),which were introduced from Jiuquan,Shanghai,Zhengzhou and Dutch respectively,were investigated by LI-6400 portable photosynthesis tester in north China region in May.The main results were as following:the curves of diurnal variation of net photosynthesis rate of leaves from 4 Viola tricolor L.cultivars had two peaks and the higher peaks occured at 10:00,and the vale values of net photosynthesis rate(Pn) of EP1 and 08-H2 appeared at 12:00,but ZMY2-1 and 229-18 at 13:00 and 14:00 respectively;the Pn of Viola tricolor L.was affected by many factors including the photosynthetically active radiation(PAR),temperature(Ta) and relative humidity(RH) which could affect Pn through the stomata conductance(Cond) and transpiration rate(Tr);the Pn,Tr and sunlight use efficiency(SUE) of 08-H2 were significantly higher than those of other cultivars,and 08-H2 showed higher photosynthetic capability and water demand characteristics.


The determination of caffeine and pyridoxine HCl in medicinal tablets has been successfully carried out. The mixture of caffeine and pyridoxine solution produces UV-Vis with full overlapping spectra. The full overlapping spectra can not be analyzed using conventional multicomponent analysis, as they do not have a distinct maximum wavelength. This research proposed a full overlapping spectra analysis using Robust regression. The regression models used in this research were based on Huber, RANSAC, and Theil-Sen Regression. Robust regression is a regression method that was not sensitive to the presence of outliers from the input or output data. Robust Regression models were trained using 25 standard solutions of caffeine and pyridoxine HCl at varied ratios. The models were validated using test solutions with known concentration ratios. The validated models were applied to determine the concentration of medicinal tablets. From this study, the recovery values of medicinal tablets obtained using Huber, RANSAC, and Theil-Sen Regression methods for caffeine were 96.94%, 97.19%, and 96.16% respectively, while the recoveries of pyridoxine HCl were 122.65%, 104.89%, and 107.48%.


We describe several improvements to algorithms for the rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of the Jacobian of a curve defined over a number field.


A straight, oblique incision needs more retraction at the mastoid tip area, so authors modified the straight incision to the smoothly curved 'V'-shaped incision. The children's soft tissue is apt to be retracted because of their elasticity. The skin discoloration was selfresolved, so it is important to prevent dryness of the wound edges during the retraction. The small incision requires the surgeon to change position to the opposite side of the operating table to have good vision to make the well for the implant package. This can increase the chance of contamination and the surgeon's discomfort. The rotation of the patient towards the surgeon and head-down position enable good vision with the Senn retractor. Very tight suture of the periosteal pocket prevents the movement of the implant package, but long-term follow-up is needed. This method does not make a flap, so blood supply is good and there is no dead space. It is possible to perform minimal incision surgery for paediatric cochlear implant with an operating microscope and without major complication.


Abdominal wall endometriosis(AWE) is defined as endometrial tissue superficial to the peritoneum.Many cases of AWE are associated with cesarean section scars.Thus,AWE is often misdiagnosed as a hernia or hematoma.The most common presentation of AWE is the development of a painful mass after uterine surgery.Many patients with AWE are associated with a previous surgical incision.Careful history and physical examination is essential to make correct diagnosis.Studies such as ultrasound,CT,MRI,and FNA are helpful.Medical treatment of AWEs is usually unsuccessful.Therefore,surgical treatment should be offered to every patient and the results usually are excellent.We performed a review of published literatures to demonstrate the pathogenesis,symptoms,diagnosis,treatment and outcomes of patients having AWE.


Based on the engineering practice introduce is made on the construction performance of filling subgrade in silt soil and points for attention.


Douglas Walton University of Windsor Kienpointner (1997) showed how the ancient status theory and the Aristotelian theory of topics are parts of an art of argument invention that selects premises to be used in a chain of argumentation from a database of premises accepted by the audience a speaker is trying to persuade. He showed how pursuit of this art of finding arguments, although discredited in the Enlightenment, has recently has been taken up again by argumentation theorists. In this paper it is shown that with the recent advent of computational argumentation systems in artificial intelligence, a technology is now available to help an arguer to find arguments that support her claim, and to refute counter-arguments opposing her claim. The origins of attempts to build a systematic method of finding arguments to persuade an audience to come to accept some proposition they were doubtful about or even disagreed with can be found in ancient Greek philosophy and rhetoric. The tradition persisted through the Middle Ages, but was severely criticized by Antoine Arnauld in the 17th century. He claimed that only good knowledge of the subject is needed for finding arguments, and that no special technique of the kind employed by Aristotle and the ancient rhetoricians is required (Kienpointner, 1997, 228). This approach was called by Kienpointner (1997, 230) "encyclopedic". Nowadays people who accept this view might think that the best way of finding arguments is on the Internet by using resources like Google, Wikipedia and Debatepedia. 1 On this view, all that matters are "the facts". At the opposite extreme of the encyclopedic approach, creativity techniques such as "brainstorming" impose hardly any restrictions on the finding process: all ideas are welcome and no criticism is allowed (Kienpointner, 1997, 231). This paper shows the way toward finding a middle way to go forward between these two extremes. In this paper it is shown that we are entering a new era in which technologies for helping a user to find arguments to persuade an audience will be made possible by new computational argumentation systems currently being built in artificial intelligence. Sections 1 and 2 present the historical background of the art of finding arguments, based on the survey of (Kienpointner, 1997). In section 3 it is shown how the general framework on which such systems are being built is basically that of knowledge-based systems, such as the early expert systems developed in artificial intelligence. It is shown how such artificial intelligence systems provide a framework in which propositions accepted by an audience can be used as a knowledge base to move a chain of argumentation forward towards the ultimate conclusion to be proved by an arguer. In section 4 a simple example about the issue of whether Wikipedia is reliable is used to illustrate the fundamentals of how such a system of argument invention works to find new argument to strengthen a line of argumentation to support an arguer's claim. Section 5 provides a slightly more complex example in which it is shown how a given argument put forward by a proponent can be attacked successfully by an opponent who casts around for new argument used for this purpose. Then it is shown how the proponent can use the same technique of argument invention to find new argument to attack the argumentation of his opponent. Section 6 briefly outlines three recent computational argumentation systems that have the capabilities required to build an argument invention system of the kind described in the previous sections. Section 7 presents conclusions suggested by these findings. 1 Debatepedia has a database (http://idebate.org/debatabase) of written debates with facts and examples both for and against on hundreds of issues.


Climate change is the defining issue of our time (United Nations, 2018). Renewable energy, combinedwith energy efficiency, can potentially be the most effective solution to address energy-relatedGr ...


Flux distributions are determined numerically for quasistatic conditions within the Bean model. The field penetration ranges from 0 to 100%. The moving boundary of this distribution is calculated using an optimization technique to force the field component on the boundary to vanish, the variables being the parameters describing the boundary curve. The hysteresis loss is found using the flux distribution for a variable field superposed on a constant bias; the two fields are parallel to each other and transverse to the wire axis.


It has long been known that syphilis is one of the more serious sexually transmitted infections (STI), especially during pregnancy when, if untreated, at least 60 percent of infected women will experience an adverse pregnancy outcome. There has been renewed interest in its control and prevention because of its proven link with HIV transmission. In 1992, the Nairobi City Council (NCC) pilot-tested a decentralized approach to syphilis screening and management in a sample of their antenatal clinics. A case study was carried out to assess the effectiveness, readiness, and cost effectiveness of the NCC's antenatal care program, with a focus on the decentralized syphilis screening and treatment service. This report concludes that decentralization of maternal syphilis screening and management is feasible in a public-sector urban program, and, when implemented properly, leads to more antenatal clients and their partners being screened and treated. However, the NCC clinics are insufficiently prepared to offer good quality antenatal services and to ensure that syphilis screening and treatment are available for all antenatal clients.


A selective spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of copper after extraction of its 1-phenyl-4,4,6-trimethyl-(1H,4H)-pyrimidine-2-thiol (PTPT) complex into molten naphthalene. The optimum pH range for the extraction is 7.4–11.7. The solid naphthalene containing the copper - PTPT complex is separated by filtration and dissolved in chloroform. The absorbance is measured at 400 nm against a reagent blank. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 5.0–60.7 µg of copper in 10 ml of chloroform solution. The molar absorptivity and sensitivity are 1.23 × 104 1 mol–1 cm–1 and 0.008 11 µg cm–2, respectively. The interference of various ions has been studied in detail. Conditions have been established for the determination of copper in goat liver, human hair and certain alloys.


Bridging, also known as associative anaphora or indirect anaphora, is a fascinating and complicated usage of the definite article. A bridging-NP does not refer to an entity which is familiar in the current discourse, but to a new entity which stands in a particular relationship with a familiar one. In the literature bridging is often regarded as a frame-based usage of the definite article (Hawkins, 1978; Sanford & Garrod, 1981; Löbner, 1998). In Chinese there are two ways to formulate a simple definite description: to use a bare noun in some particular syntactical position, on the one hand; or to use the unstressed distal demonstrative na to build a determinate NP, on the other hand. It is often claimed in the literature that the first way is the most common way and the second way is marked and optional (Chen, 2004). I call the first way the unmarked definite expression and the second way the marked definite expression. In many cases of bridging both definite expressions are acceptable, as shown in (1). The acceptability of the unstressed distal demonstrative na in such context allows us to regard it as an article-like determiner but not as a real demonstrative:


Abstract The recent development of light-based 3D printing technologies has marked a turning point in additive manufacturing. Through photopolymerization, liquid resins can be solidified into complex objects. Usually, the polymerization is triggered by exciting a photoinitiator with ultraviolet (UV) or blue light. In two-photon printing (TPP), the excitation is done through the non-linear absorption of two photons; it enables printing 100-nm voxels but requires expensive femtosecond lasers which strongly limit their broad dissemination. Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have recently been proposed as an alternative to TPP for photopolymerization but using continuous-wave lasers. UCNPs convert near-infrared (NIR) into visible/UV light to initiate the polymerization locally as in TPP. Here we provide a study of this multi-photon mechanism and demonstrate how the non-linearity impacts the printing process. In particular, we report on the possibility of fine-tuning the size of the printed voxel by adjusting the NIR excitation intensity. Using gelatin-based hydrogel, we are able to vary the transverse voxel size from 1.3 to 2.8 μm and the axial size from 7.7 to 59 μm by adjusting the NIR power without changing the degree of polymerization. This work opens up new opportunities to construct 3D structures with micrometer feature size by direct laser writing with continuous wave inexpensive light sources.


A series of tunable iminium ions, generated in situ by the condensation of 4-trifluoromethyl-p-quinols with cyclic amines, can lead to the divergent synthesis of trifluoromethylated arylamines in a single step via redox-neutral isomerization. The direct α- and β-functionalization of saturated amines can be achieved regioselectively under mild conditions.


In the present study, Cr3C2-NiCr and WC-Co coatings have been deposited using high velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) spray technology from five available powders with various bonding phase content or manufacturing process. The microstructure of coatings was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Microhardness and erosion performance of the coatings were studied. The influence of powder characteristics on the microstructure and erosion performance of coatings was also investigated. The results indicated that an independent bonding phase distributed in the feedstock powder can effectively improve the erosion resistance of Cr3C2-NiCr coatings although the microhardness of the coatings may be lower. Deformation of the free NiCr binder layer in the coating is probably to prevent nucleation and propagation of cracks, which may result in improving the erosion resistance of the coating. Nano WC-Co coatings reached lower erosion resistance than micro WC-Co coatings due to the higher porosity and lower microhardness of nano WC-Co coatings.


Copyright © 2017 by Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between oral health behaviors of workers by examining the oral health awareness and the need for oral health education. Methods: After the institutional review board approval, we surveyed industrial workers in Seoul, Gwangju, Changwon, and Goksung, in Korea, from July 19 to August 29, 2016. The final questionnaires (287 in total) were assessed using the SPSS 24.0 software for Windows (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA). The data were analyzed using frequency analysis, average, standard deviation, t-test, and the Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results: Through the response of "yes" for the question, "oral health education experience," we can see the respondents have high level of interest (P<0.001). And through the response of "yes" for the question, "Periodic oral Examination" and "regular scaling" and "oral care product use" we can see the respondents have high level of interest (P<0.001) and high importance (P<0.001), there was a statistically significant difference. On analyzing the correlations between workers, there was positive correlation oral health 'Interest' and 'Importance' (r=0.598, P<0.001). Of the 287 participants, 80.1% indicated that they did not receive any previous oral health education, while 85.4% indicated a willingness to attend oral health education programs in the future. Of the 80.1% of participants with no prior oral health education, 60.0% indicated lack of oral health education because of few opportunities to participate in such programs. They most prefer "Oral Hygiene Management" 64.8% for education contents and choose "Direct-education by inviting Expert" as the best education method 75.6%. Conclusions: It is necessary to develop oral health education programs suitable for the industrial field characteristics for people in workplace, and to enhance and expand oral health education services in the workplace in order to maintain interest in oral health.


This paper analyzed the effect of the experimental teaching of Food Microbiology based on the employment situation of graduate.A piece of advice was proposed to establish scientific research groups in food disciplines.The purpose was to promote experimental teaching quality.


The phoretic relationships of four species of mites [Caloglyphus boharti Cross, Glyphanoetus nomiensis Cross, Imparipes americanus (Banks), and Trochometrid ium tribulatum Cross] to both immature and adult stages of the alkali bee, Nomia melanderi Cockerell, were investigated during the summers of 1955-1956 and 1965? 1966. Degree and incidence of infestation of these mites were analyzed in time, space, and by host sex. Each species occurred in specific location(s) on adult Nomia. Two species, C. boharti and G. nomiensis, located differentially according to bee sex. The same mite species attached in different locations on different bee species. At least two, and probably all, of the species studied were distributed on adult hosts in approximately bilaterally symmetrical fashion. All four of the species used the adult host only for transportation. There was no evidence that phoresy, per se, was responsible for bee mortality. The phoretic population of each species followed a unique pattern in time which was at least partly dependent upon bee sex. In /. americana, both bee sexes appeared to be infested equally at emergence, but new males apparently lost mites much more rapidly than new females. Hypopi of C. boharti infested a higher percentage of, and occurred in greater numbers on, male bees.


Within the past few years there has been a change in the conception of the proper treatment of bilateral retinal glioma. As recently as 1929, Foster Moore stated that in a case of bilateral retinal glioma in which the tumor in the second eye was only slightly greater in size than the optic disk, on advice of colleagues at Moorfields, both eyes were enucleated. His comment on this procedure later was that, "in the light of our present experience, we should not again entertain the immediate removal of such eyes, nor consider it the proper procedure." In the report in which this comment was made Moore, Stallard and Milner detail the treatment with radon needles implanted within the tumor in five cases of retinal glioma. These same cases were later reviewed by Stallard in an extensive report concerning the use of radiant energy in ophthalmic disorders. Barkan, in 1934,


The authors investigate the feasibility of unstructured direct elicitation (UDE) of decision rules consumers use to form consideration sets. They incorporate incentives into the tested formats that prompt respondents to state noncompensatory, compensatory, or mixed rules for agents who will select a product for the respondents. In a mobile phone study, two validation tasks prompt respondents to indicate which of 32 mobile phones they would consider from a fractional design of features and levels. The authors find that UDE predicts consideration sets better, across both profiles and respondents, than a structured direct-elicitation method. It predicts comparably to established incentive-aligned compensatory, noncompensatory, and mixed decompositional methods. In a more complex automotive study, noncompensatory decomposition is not feasible and additive-utility decomposition is strained, but UDE scales well. The authors align incentives for all methods using prize indemnity insurance to award a chance at $40,000 for an automobile plus cash. They conclude that UDE predicts consideration sets better than either an additive decomposition or an established structured direct-elicitation method (CASEMAP).


Installation for marking at the outlet of a forming machine (3), transparent or translucent objects traveling in translation in succession past a labeling station (7) comprising: - an apparatus (9) for producing a laser beam (11 ) for marking objects, - means (13) for determining the position of each object in at least one direction transverse to the running direction (D) of the objects, these means (13) being placed upstream of the marking station relative to the running direction, - means for displacing the focusing plane of the laser beam with respect to the displacement direction (D), - means (21) for controlling the moving means, connected to the means of determining (13), and for adapting, as a function of the position of each object to be marked, the focusing plane of the laser beam to optimize their marking.


the discourse in this Paper focuses on the underlisted: • The reasons for the targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe • The economic consequences of those sanctions and the • State mantra to explain the economic consequences of those sanctions in Zimbabwe by its political leadership After a grueling discussion of the above topics the Author, in complying with his tradition will proffer a Summary, Conclusion and some Recommendations designed for some risk treatment.


The necessity of signal smooth linking in the vibration signal pre-processing of road simulation is analyzed, and OLA(overlap-add) method is proposed to solve the problem. Then the type of window function is determined by analyzing the OLA processing procedure. The test results show the validity of the processing method.


Bioartificial skin prepared with living cells and biocompatible materials, is the first commercial product of tissue engineering that was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It has wonderful prospect for clinics to radically settle the problem of restoration of skin defects. The present paper reviewed the recent development of artificial skin, the related existed questions and future directions in skin substitutes research were also speculated on.


Supplemental digital content is available in the text. Objective Different methods of neuromuscular electrical stimulation may be used for poststroke upper limb rehabilitation. This study evaluated the effects of contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation of the triceps and finger extensors. Design This is a randomized controlled trial of 67 participants who were less than 2 yrs poststroke and assigned to the following: (a) arm + hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation, (b) hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation, or (c) arm + hand cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Participants were prescribed 10 sessions/week of assigned electrical stimulation at home plus 24 sessions of functional task practice in the laboratory for 12 wks. The primary outcome measure was the Box and Blocks Test. Secondary measures included reachable workspace, Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer, Stroke Upper Limb Capacity Scale, Arm Motor Abilities Test, and Motor Activity Log. Results There were no significant between-group differences on the Box and Blocks Test. At 6 mos after treatment, arm + hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation improved reachable workspace more than hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation, between-group difference of 264 (95% confidence interval = 28–500) cm2 and more than arm + hand cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation, between-group difference of 281 (95% confidence interval = 22–540) cm2. Arm + hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation improved Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer score more than hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation, between-group difference of 6.7 (95% confidence interval = 0.6–12.7). The between-group differences on the Stroke Upper Limb Capacity Scale and Arm Motor Abilities Test were not significant. Conclusions Adding contralaterally controlled elbow extension to hand contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation does not improve on gains in hand dexterity, but it further reduces upper limb impairment and improves reachable workspace measured in the laboratory. However, these additional benefits may not be large enough to be perceived by stroke survivors when they are performing activities of daily living at home.


Temporal and extratemporal white matter abnormalities have been identified frequently in patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (rMTLE). However, the identification of potential water diffusion abnormalities in patients with drug‐responsive, benign MTLE (bMTLE) is still missing. The aim of this study was to identify markers of refractoriness in MTLE.


Because typological and iconographic data are insufficient to distinguish Aghlabid and Fatimid production centres of green-and-brown-decorated glazed ceramics from Raqqada (IXth-Xth c.) and Sabra Mansouriya (Xth-XIth c.) in Ifriqiya (Tunisia), we tried to differentiate these productions by physical properties. Both centres arc geographically close : Raqqada is located 9 km south-west and Sabra Mansouriya 1.5 km south-east from Kairouan. The comparative study of samples from Raqqada (n=25) and from Sabra Mansouriya (n=20) revealed great similarities concerning the petrographical characteristics, the chemical and mineralogical compositions of the calcareous ceramic bodies as well as the chemical compositions of the lead glazes. The same traditional colouring agents were used : iron (Fe3+), copper (Cu2*) and manganese (Mn3+) respectively for the yellow glaze and the green and brown decorations. The study, by scanning electron microscopy, of the interface glaze/body texture of a random sample of 9 specimens allowed to distinguish the two productions : the interface zones of the samples from Sabra Mansouriya (more than 100 µm) is definitely thicker than those from Raqqada (less than 20 µm). These variations are thought to reflect the application of the glazing mixture on the unfired body (single firing) for the Sabra Mansouriya samples and on the already-fired body for those from Raqqada (double firing). As a conclusion, the techniques and materials used for the manufacture of green-and-brown-decorated glazed ceramics from Raqqada and Sabra Mansouriya appear to be quite similar and the only outstanding difference would be the number of firings.


The characteristic properties of the nanostructured polyaniline (PAni) films synthesized via chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline on glass substrates using amorphous cristobalite silica (SiO2) as structural growth director are presented in this study. The change in the resistance of the sample was monitored upon exposure to ammonia gas using two-probe method for two cycles, 40 min each. The structural and morphological property of the PAni/SiO2 samples were studied and compared to PAni samples alone using FTIR spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. It was found out that PAni/SiO2 films have higher and uniform response to ammonia with good repeatability during the two cycles and recovery upon removal of ammonia source. (© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


We summarize the status of the theory of resummed quantum gravity. In the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, we review the use of our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity to estimate the value of the cosmological constant as ρΛ = (0.0024 eV)4. Constraints on susy GUT models that follow from the closeness of the estimate to experiment are noted. Various consistency checks on the calculation are discussed. In particular, we use the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to remove a large part of the remaining uncertainty in our estimate of ρΛ.


SIGNIFICANCE
Mitochondria are currently believed to play an important role in the neurodysfunction and neurodegeneration that underlie Parkinson's disease (PD).

RECENT ADVANCES
While it increasingly appears that mitochondrial dysfunction in PD can have different causes, it has been proposed that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) may account for or drive mitochondrial dysfunction in the majority of the cases. If correct, the responsible mtDNA signatures could represent acquired mutations, inherited mutations, or population-distributed polymorphisms.

CRITICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
This review discusses the case for mtDNA as a key mediator of PD, and especially focuses on data from studies of PD cytoplasmic hybrid (cybrid) cell lines.


Avian influenza is an infectious disease of poultry caused by influenza A viruses.In this article,the epidemic characteristics of H5N1 HPAI,overview of infection of H5N1 in wild birds were reviewed,meanwhile the suggestion of prevention and control of avian influenza in Tibet was given.


The article is dedicated to the study of stylistic functions of anthroponyms as an important means of traditional and innovative text creation in the novel "Solo for Solomiya" by Volodymyr Lys. A group of anthroponyms are represented by "names of historical figures", "culturological names" used for the purpose of temporal marking is singled out. It is proved that literary and artistic anthroponymic units are a coherent system, thanks to which the ideological and artistic idea of a prose writer is realized. In the course of the research it was found out that the following model structures predominate among anthroponyms: one-token ones – "names", "surnames-fictonies", "andronyms"; two-lexemes – "name + surname", "name + surname," name + patronymic "," name + andronym "," surname + surname "," qualitative expression and surname "," Qualitative expression + name "; three tokens – "name + name + surname", "name + patronymic + surname", "qualitative expression + name + andronym". It is determined that anthroponyms have a certain purpose of realization of the author's idea and perform various stylistic functions, in particular nominative, characterizing, concretizing, evaluative, emotionally expressive. It is proved that the main function of naming, which can be enhanced by characterization and identification. This is observed, for example, in such a structural variation as "anthroponym + appendix (common or uncommon)", which is motivated by humorous characterization of the hero, the introduction of additional information (position, indication of family relationships, social status), contemptuous and ironic characterization. Emphasis is placed on the fact that in the introduction of literary and artistic anthroponyms the author uses stylistic figures, including amplification and parcelling. In addition, it is determined that diminutive suffixes are one of the means of creating literary and artistic anthroponyms in the novel "Solo for Solomiya" by Volodymyr Lys and create certain emotional nuances – affection, smallness, kindness, if necessary to give the portrayal a trusting character.


The English mumming play (formerly "Saint George play"), though of uncertain age, has many analogues in European countries, some dating before 1500. The doctor with his cure recurs in these analogues and in some plays of the Tudor era. Plays by Dekker, Chapman, and Middleton-Rowley are added to the list, as well as plays by Shakespeare with doctor and cure. The cure perhaps evokes a ritual of social healing linked to a folk doctor of English oral tradition.


How to provide definite QoS services is the hot and difficult point in multi-hop mobile wireless network research domain.Based on TDMA/FDMA mechanism,we propose a MAC protocol RA/SRN,which supports voiceclass QoS service in multi-hop mobile wireless network.This protocol,which takes example by the principle of RBRP,is designed aiming at decrease of channel utilization and the packets' collision caused by hidden terminal and exposed terminal problems of wireless channel.It decreases the collision probability and access delay,and increases the utilization of the channel.Thus,it offers a good support for the QoS routing protocol of upper layer.


Crystals of K 3 Fe(CN) 6 undergo a second-order phase transition accompanied by a soft mode at about 130 K. The crystal structures of the room- and low-temperature phases have been determined by X-ray diffraction. Crystals of the room-temperature phase are monoclinic with space group P 2 1 / c , a =7.058(1), b =10.426(1), c =8.401(1) A, β=107.31(1)° and Z =2 at 293 K. Those of the low-temperature phase are monoclinic with space group P 2 1 / n , a =14.021(2), b =10.401(1), c =8.339(2) A, β=107.21(1)° and Z =4 at 100 K. Final R values were 0.029 for 1591 observed reflections and 0.027 for 2642 observed reflections for the room- and low-temperature phases respectively. With a transition from room- to low-temperature phase, [Fe(CN) 6 ] 3- anions displace by about 0.1 A along the b axis. A soft mode is considered to be a translational lattice mode of [Fe(CN) 6 ] 3- anions which has a wave vector a * /2 in the room-temperature phase.


The frequency response of molecularly thin alternating-current polymeric light-emitting diodes has been studied. Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) films of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (PHT) were used as the active emitting material and the device was formed by sandwiching PHT films between LB films of emeraldine base polyaniline. As a step towards molecular electronic devices, we have shown that even two molecular layers of PHT (≈6 nm) are sufficient for light emission. The high frequency operation limit of the device has been discussed in terms of a charge accumulation process at the polymer–polymer interface. The electroluminescence (EL) spectra of different structures have been compared with corresponding photoluminescence spectra. A significant blueshift in EL has been observed in thinner structures and its origin has been discussed.


WO3-incorporated C–TiO2 nanotubes were successfully fabricated using radio frequency sputtering technique. The effects of sputtering powers on the nanotube morphology, crystal structure, optical properties and visible photoresponse were investigated. Lattice substitution of WO3 species within the lattice of C–TiO2 nanotubes has an important function in maximizing the photocurrent generation. WO3-incorporated C–TiO2 nanotubes exhibit good visible photoresponse compared with C–TiO2 nanotubes. The interpretation of interband states has an important function in improving photoinduced electron transport.


Professor John Stanley of McGill University recently asked the National Research Council for assistance in specifying the colors of flour beetles (Tribolium). These insem are small (3 or 4 mm. long), rounded, dark, and shiny, and therefore present a somewhat unusual colorimetric problem. It is felt that the solution of this problem may be of some general interest. The small size of the specimens seemed to preclude physical methods of colorimetry. It was felt that the most likely visual method would be direct comparison with Munsell papers or other standard colored surfaces. The difficulty with this was the very different appearance of the smooth, flat paper and the shiny. rounded beetle.


Information-intensive service (IIS) is a type of service in which information interactions have the most effect on service value creation. Recent innovations of information and communication technology have created various types of IISs, and the literature argues that IIS should be a research priority in this information economy. This research proposes a new service blueprinting framework specialized to IISs, called the Information Service Blueprint. The framework user can succinctly capture the big-picture and key points of the complex IIS process in question by blueprinting an IIS. The Information Service Blueprint has served as a basis for blueprinting IISs in IIS design projects with industry and government. An experiment to compare the Information Service Blueprint with the conventional service blueprint also confirms its utility for blueprinting IISs. This research would serve as a basis for analyzing and designing IISs.


The texture and microstructure evolution during uniaxial compression of Zircaloy-4 at 500C has been studied. X-ray diffraction was used to measure the bulk texture compressive after strains of 20% and 50%. Early stages of texture evolution involve the strengthening of the fibre through the action of prismatic slip. With further deformation, the basal poles move toward the rolling direction from the normal direction as a result of a non-prismatic slip system. A detailed EBSD study in a small region showed that the grains of the fibre are more stable than those of the fibre. The latter rotates further during deformation and shows a greater spread of grain average misorientation (GAM). This could be due to a greater accommodation of plastic strain in these grains and/or a difference in recovery rates between the two fibres.


The anterior division passed downward through the upper part of the septum, between the pulmonary artery and aorta, to reach the interventricular groove: here it divided into upper and lower branches corresponding to circumflex and anterior descending branches. No occlusions were visible on the radiographs and dissection of the vessels revealed only moderate atheroma. The abnormal anastomosis was attributed to ventricular hypertrophy. Histological examination of the myocardium revealed that the enlargement was due to extensive amyloid deposits. These were also present in the peripheral nerves, tongue, and spleen. Primary amyloidosis affecting the peripheral nerves and myocardium and severe enough to cause congestive failure is very un-common and will be the subject of a separate report.


The optical functional glass with gradient refractive index distributed at large scales can be defined as gradient refractive index(GRIN) glass.GRIN glass has vast prospect in application to optics and photoelectricity fields.The forming principles and classification of GRIN glass are reviewed.The fabrication techniques and the present research status of GRIN glass are summarized.The problems related to their fabrication and applications are also discussed.In addition,the developing tendencies of those preparation methods in the future are also introduced.


nary insurance transactions contain, by virtue of this incidental fact, a foreign element sufficient to bring choice-of-law questions into play. When controversies arise, therefore, the same concept may meet with many different interpretations, depending on the jurisdiction whose law is held to govern. An illustration: One of the most generally accepted rules seems to be that, absent a statutory rule to the contrary, a contract of insurance is governed with respect to matters of its execution, essential validity, construction, and effect by the law of the place where it was made2-the place where occurred the last event necessary to form a binding agreement.3 The determination of what constitutes this event, however, varies among the several jurisdictions, and this entails conflicts. Fidelity Mutual Life Association v. Harris4 is sufficiently exemplary. There, the life insurance policy, which had been issued at the main office of the insurer in Pennsylvania, was delivered to the applicant in Texas. It contained the usual clause: "The policy shall not be binding until delivery during the lifetime and good health of the


The polyacrylonitrile/sulfur (PAN/S)composite was prepared by heating the mixture of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and sulfur under sealed conditions. The effects of the ratio of raw materials, reaction temperature, reaction time and reaction container volume on the properties of the composite product were studied to optimize the preparation conditions of the PAN/S composite. The results showed that the PAN/S composite with the mass ratio of 1:1.5 had the best properties, which was prepared in a large container in a high temperature reaction kettle at 300°C-400°C for 12 hours. Based on the total mass of the composite, the initial discharge capacity of the composite is 856 mAh g and the reversible specific capacity is 678 mAh g. After 100 cycles, the specific capacity of the composite is stable at 584 mAh g , and the capacity retention rate is 86.1 %, showing a good application prospect.