The utility model discloses a measuring device for front wheel rotation angle of automobile, and the structure comprises two parts, a sensor mechanical connection device and a signal output circuit. The utility model is characterized in that the sensor mechanical connection device comprises a shaft sleeve which is arranged on and linked with the bolt and the nut of the fore wheel master pin, a sector tooth gear fixed on the shaft sleeve, a bearing shell which is movably fixed to the lower part of the shaft sleeve by a bearing, a bed plate fixed and connected with the bearing shell, two location blocks of the fixed bed plate, a fore wheel rotation angle sensor fixed on the bed plate and a pinion gear fixed at the measuring end of the fore wheel rotary angle sensor, and the pinion gear is engaged and connected with the sector tooth gear. The utility model has the advantages that the connecting device has simple structure, reliable performance and lower cost, the measuring device for front wheel rotation angle of automobile completely satisfies the dynamic measurement request of the automatic steering of vehicles in the range of the fore wheel rotation angle, and the circuit design of the measuring device for front wheel rotation angle of the automobile is reliable, stable and has a good data repeatability.


Tenderized saccharification process is a mass of the cores in the production of ethanol from starch-containing raw materials. Saccharification of starchy raw materials needed because main production races alcohol yeast do not synthesize and amylolytic enzymes are not able to use in their metabolism Nepo-starch, facility and internalize only mono – and disaccharides. The main aim is to obtain a mash saccharification with a high content of fermentable carbohydrates. The main objective is to obtain a saccharification wort with a high con-zhaniem fermentable carbohydrates. From the course of the saccharification process, the quality of the alcohol depends on the completeness of the fermentation of starch raw materials and product yield. On saccharification sodden mass affected by temperature, pH, glucoamylase dosage and duration of the process. From these factors depend technical-economic production figures. Saccharification boiled barley weight carried glucoamylase enzyme preparation bios 800 A at the rate of 6.0 units per g starch SFS. Control is tenderized weight obtained using one enzyme preparation Alfaferm 3500 A at a dose of 1.0 units per g starch AS. Saccharification takes place at a temperature of 50–65 0 C and pH 4.0–5.5 for 120 minutes. pH was adjusted weight tenderized by making it in sulfuric acid. The saccharification process dynamics studied glucose accumulation in the barley wort in function of temperature, pH, and the dosage of glucoamylase. Samples for glucose determination were taken every 30 minutes. At a temperature of 65 0 C in the first 30 minutes of the accumulation of glucose goes fast, then suddenly slows down, it is possible due to the inactivation of glucoamylase due to changes in the structure of the enzyme molecule. The maximum amount of glucose stored at a temperature of 60 0 C and 11.1 g / cm3, which corresponds to the optimum action of glucoamylase enzyme preparation used. The concentration of hydrogen ions (pH) has a multifaceted effect on the process of saccharification. On the one hand alter H + ionization of the active site of glucoamylase conformational state and, on the other hand influence the stability of the tertiary structure of glucoamylase. Maximum glucose accumulation is observed at pH 4.5 and 11.9 g / cm3. With increasing the glucoamylase dosage increases the effective formation of enzyme-substrate complexes, and hence the rate of hydrolysis of starch. When applying multienzyme complex observed increase in the amount of glucose by 34.7%, compared with the control. The degree of starch hydrolysis increases as it becomes more accessible to the action of saccharifying enzymes by the hydrolysis of proteins and membranes barley containing hemicellulose. Application of multienzyme composition allows to reduce the consumption of glucoamylase to 4.0 units per g starch SFS, SFS instead of 6.0 units per gram of starch in control.


The invention relates to a carbon dioxide welding gun with a top-end filtering support device. The carbon dioxide welding gun comprises a left connecting rod, the left end of which is fixedly connected with a rubber connecting gas transmission pipe. The right side end of the rubber connecting gas transmission pipe is fixedly connected with a tail end connecting device used for connecting with an externally-connected gas transmission pipe. The carbon dioxide welding gun with the top-end filtering support device has following beneficial effects: due to the fact that multiple ceramic connecting supports are fixedly connected between the inner side wall of a spray pipe and an outer side wall of a conducting mouth and a metal filtration screen is fixedly connected between every two connecting supports, gap uniformity is kept and welding effect is improved; and dust and impurities are prevented from entering interiors of a spray pipe and an insulation pipe so that safety is improved and service lifetime is prolonged.


This paper presents a new variable coefficients adaptive IIR notch filter for bass enchantment. The coefficients of the notch filter are controlled by an onset detector in order to obtain both fast convergence rate and low misadjustment. A single side-band (SSB) modulation is used to enhance the system robustness when the fundamental frequency is close to 0 Hz. We also propose a novel harmonic generation algorithm to generate correct harmonics in the fundamental frequency rapidly changing situation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by both computer simulations and subjective listening test.


The production method of functional silk by feeding the various nanoparticles is simple, it has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, many researchers have studied the concentrate of nanoparticles (NPs), there are few studies on the particle size. This study is aimed to confirm the effects in silkworm growth, cocoon quality, and mechanical properties of silk with feeding TiO2 NPs of the various particle size. TiO2 10nm, 50nm, 100nm powers individually are fed to silkworm, investigated the mortality and proliferation rate, cocoon mass and cocoon shell mass, mechanical characteristic of silk fiber. The experiments demonstrated that the larger the particle size of TiO2 NPs, the greater the adverse impact on the growth and livability of silkworms. The stress of 523.35±42 MPa and strain of 19.73±1.8% of the TiO2-10nm added silk were increased 35.9% and 19.5% on average, respectively. By the analysis of the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra, it was confirmed that this resulted in a more random coil/?-helix structure. The nanoparticles are acted as knots, forming the cross-linked network, resulting in lower crystallinity and higher strain, but the larger the particle, the fewer the number of knots, at the same time, it has a great impact on protein synthesis, and then the strength may be decreased. The effect in the silkworm body of TiO2 NPs particle size has to be deeply studied, but this study has important significance to study in the production of the functional silk by feed additives.


Over the past years a number of IP micro-mobility protocols have been proposed as an extension or complement of Mobile IP. Although the development of these protocols has generated considerable interest in industry and academia, none of them have been widely deployed. The main reason of this lack of real-life usage of micro-mobility proposals is that the RFCs or drafts of these protocols do not address the problems regarding the realization of the micro-mobility structures in detail during the network design. This shortage is true in case of Hierarchical Mobile IP as well (RFC 4140), which is one of the most significant micro-mobility solutions aiming to reduce the signaling delay and the number of signaling messages of Mobile IP. In order to provide guidelines for network designers we propose a new a hierarchical network design algorithm (HIENDA) based on the structure given by a Location Area planning algorithm, aligned with a MAP allocation algorithm in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 to optimize the mobility management in the Mobil IP networks. HIENDA considers the topology constraints, and takes the available mobility pattern and Access Router handover rate information as input, and finds a near optimal hierarchical structure for which the total signaling cost will be minimum.


PEER-REVIEW REPORT 2 Name of journal: Neural Regeneration Research Manuscript NO: NRR-D-18-00498 Title: Neuroprotective modulation of the unfolded protein response in Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome: protein kinase RNA-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase signaling inhibition and beyond Reviewer's Name: Marija Cvetanovic Reviewer's country: USA Date sent for review: 2018-07-20 Date reviewed: 2018-08-03 Review time: 14 Days


Current research on telepresence tends to engage a celebratory, taken-for-granted view of technology as a vehicle for improved communication and a mere backdrop against which communication unfolds. However, a growing body of literature interrogates the neutrality of technological environments in education. This paper considers the practice of lectures within distributed (multi-campus) medical education. Applying a sociomaterial theoretical lens, we analyze ethnographic data from a three-year study focused on the use of telepresence technology in the undergraduate medical program at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our research question was: How are material telepresence tools, processes and spaces enmeshed with student learning in the distributed lecture? We identified three sociomaterial complexities related to the practice of asking questions in this context: 1. Material presence and process of the button and screen in asking questions; 2. The ways in-class questions disrupt the flow of the distributed lecture; and 3. Tensions between ways in which questions are managed across sites. Attending to the seam between the social and material in the distributed lecture illuminates the challenges, barriers, and opportunities for student participation while unearthing innovative learning strategies.


On the basis of analyzing the existing progressive mesh (PM) methods, this paper proposes a new structure of a mesh to simplify information record and a new progressive mesh generating algorithm based on edge-collapsed mesh simplification method. In this algorithm, the ambiguous problem in PM technology is solved, and the speed of generating progressive meshes is improved largely.


On the basis of systematical description of fault distribution characteristics in the arch bend of northern Putaohua Oilfield, the key factors influencing the fault sealing, which included lithologic juxtaposition, shale smear factors and shale content within the fault were used as parameters for evaluation. In combination with geologic structural evolution, the fault-sealing evolutional history on the boundary of arch bend was comprehensively analyzed and the effects on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation were also analyzed. It provides a basis for studying the mechanism of hydrocarbon accumulation and evaluating the fault traps in Putaohua Oilfield.


With the further development of the Internet, more and more information is obtained from mobile phones, and sports apps are designed to meet the needs of mass sports activities, with the help of advanced science and technology to develop a service platform exclusively for sports enthusiasts. In this paper, through the literature method, questionnaire survey method, mathematical statistics method and logic analysis method, the effect of sports APP on the physical exercise of college students in Yunnan Province in Yunnan Province was studied. The study found that the use of sports apps by college students has become a relatively common phenomenon. Sports apps have significantly increased college students' sports consumption and provided college students with a more active physical exercise goal and attitude. It is recommended that APP developers further improve the existing sports APPs, and college students should use sports APPs reasonably, and appropriately introduce sports APPs into college physical education.


Average fiber diameter, its variability, and fiber contour are important factors in the grading of wool fiber and fleeces, inasmuch as the present wool-grading system is based on fiber diameter. While average diameter may indicate, in general, the grade of wool, the calculation of the deviation from the average is required to evince uniformity of fleece or sample. The third factor mentioned, fiber contour, has been pointed out by Barker {3, pp. 169-179) ^ as influencing the spinning qualities of wool fiber. As part of a study of fabrics manufactured from wool from five breeds of sheep raised at the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, fiber studies have been conducted on samples from three locations on each fleece. The results of these studies are reported herein. The details of sampling are given in the section on methods and materials.


There are still many Class I TPI Bengkulu Immigration Office employees who have not been able to operate e-filing, which results in employees being late in reporting their annual SPT by e-filing. The purpose of this Community Service activity (PKM) is to provide training and assistance to assist individual taxpayers, especially employees of the Class I Immigration Office TPI Bengkulu, in filling out and reporting the 1770s and 1770ss annual individual tax returns using e-filing. Community service is carried out using the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) method. The settlement techniques offered are through training approaches, discussions and/or questions and answers as well as practice. This training uses lecture and discussion techniques. The training that has been held has had an impact on increasing the knowledge and skills of the trainees in terms of tax reporting using e-filing from before who did not know the tax reporting mechanism. Through increasing the knowledge and skills of online tax reporting, TPI Class I Immigration Office employees report tax payable to the state. In the future, the implementation of community service can expand the target partners


Abstract: This paper approaches Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya as a "warscape" and explores the role that multiple understandings and experiences with violence play in the everyday organization of the camp. The dynamics of war-related imageries and various forms of past, present and symbolic violence translate into power processes and forms of spatial and social ordering that are explored as processes of place making. Rather than seeing violence as something exceptional, this paper explores how over the years of its existence since 1992 the camp was shaped by the narratives, experiences and understandings of violence and rebel histories, and the associations between refugees and armed movements.


ment of communications technology in relationship to the evolution of human consciousncss and culture. Despite disavowals, there is a tendency to treat culture as epiphcnomenal and technology as given. This is not an argument for a phenomenology of the mass media but something of a phenomenological inflection will be necessary in order to grasp the profoundest consequences of the mass media: the ways in which these technologies constitute and re-constitute the basic data of experience, including,


Information systems (IS) play a vital role in our daily life. They collect, store, organize and distribute data in structured and organized ways to improve people's daily activities in the most efficient and effective manner. To achieve that, functions and structures are mixed together in a dynamic way to construct an information system with sophisticated capabilities beyond sending emails and publishing data online. Consequently, enterprises and government departments allocate huge financial and human resources for the development of interconnected information systems. However, failures in information systems projects have been growing in the last few years despite their massive allocated resources. That means any IS projects that do not meet their objectives and goal have gone beyond budget or not completed within the agreed time. While there are several factors triggering these failures, this research aims to investigate and address the key factors that are responsible for failure within information systems in various regions, The work conducted includes identifying different role of information systems components, comparing two important information systems success/failure models namely DeLone and Mclean model and ITPOSMO model, and summarising critical success/factors for information systems from various regions. The research findings can be used for developing an framework for effectively managing Information System.


I congratulate Dr Liekens and colleagues for achieving the initiation of repair of iatrogenic puncture defects within rabbit chorioamniotic membranes by using collagen plugs enriched with platelets and amniotic fluid cells (Liekens et al., 2008). Yet, on the basis of my personal experience with operative fetoscopy in fetuses with spina bifida (Kohl et al., 2006a,b), I would like to turn the attention of the authors to some observations that question the efficacy of simple collagen plugging after more complex fetoscopic surgical procedures in human fetuses. The procedures during which the observations were made are outlined in this communication; these were approved by the local committee of human research and are compatible with the guidelines established by the declaration of Helsinki. Fetoscopic closure of fetal spina bifida requires intraamniotic insertion of three trocars. In contrast to singletrocar procedures, this particular surgical setup allows for direct fetoscopic inspection of each trocar insertion site at the end of the operation. Following the trocar manipulations required to perform this procedure, the typical damage to the membranes lay within an area that entailed about two to three times the trocar shaft diameter (Figure 1a). It seems unlikely to sufficiently seal these defects in their entirety with self distending collagen material that is not only limited in size by the internal diameter of the trocar shaft but is also not supported. I observed an even larger degree of chorioamniotic membrane damage from trocar insertion in two cases where oligohydramnios was present at the onset of a fetoscopic procedure and amniotic distension was required to provide sufficient intra-amniotic work space. In these cases, the membrane damage did not remain confined to an area close to the trocar shaft but—resembling the surface of broken ice—extended several centimeters into the periphery (Figure 1b); a lesion that seems even less amenable to be simply sealed with plugs. In conclusion, chorioamniotic membrane damage, at least after complex and time-consuming fetoscopic surgical procedures in human fetuses may extend several centimeters into the periphery of the trocar and, hence, may not be amenable to simple closure by collagen plugs. This observation suggests that alternative and more effective closure strategies be pursued.


The present invention relates to an assay method specific for D-dimer venous thromboembolism resulting from the degradation of intravascular fibrin in a blood sample, comprising the usual dosage of D-dimer in the sample on the one hand, and that the dynamic measurement of the fibrin formation of this second sample, to determine the likelihood of pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and / or guide on an activation state of coagulation in said patient sample, said method comprising specific steps.


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This week on the Science podcast, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie discuss strategies for causal thinking and describe its implications for artificial intelligence.


Global and local absolute instabilities of 2D wakes are known to be stabilized by spanwise periodic modulations of the wake velocity [4, 3, 1, 2] but the nature of this stabilizing mechanism is not yet completely understood. Assuming that the leading effect of the spanwise modulations of the wake streamwise velocity profile is associated to the spanwise modulation of the advection velocity of unstable waves, we investigate the effect of spanwise periodic modulations of the wave advection velocity in a generalization of the linear complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, which approximates the spatio-temporal evolution of unstable waves. We show that the enforced spanwise modulations of the wave advection velocity have a stabilizing effect on the global instability of the non-parallel complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. The growth rate of the unstable global mode is shown to decrease quadratically with the amplitude of the modulations and the global instability is suppressed for large enough modulation amplitudes. It is then shown that a second order structural sensitivity analysis provides accurate predictions of the variation of the growth rate of the unstable global mode with respect to the amplitude of the advection velocity modulations. This second order analysis is then applied to compute the influence of these modulations on the absolute instability growth rate in the parallel case. It is shown that the leading order effect of the advection velocity modulations is to alter the wave diffusivity in the local dispersion relation. This altered diffusivity is associated to a decrease of the absolute growth rate. A straightforward local stability analysis of the global mode stabilization obtained in the non-parallel case shows that at criticality the spanwise advection velocity modulations have reduced the pocket of local absolute instability to the same level that it would have had by reducing the global bifurcation parameter µ max to its critical value µ c. This confirms that the suppression of the global instability is induced by the reduction of the local absolute instability. These results, which are in complete agreement with what is found in non-parallel wakes [1, 2], show that the simple spanwise modulation of the advection velocity plays the key role in the stabilization mechanism. As no vorticity is defined in the Ginzburg-Landau equation, this key stabilizing mechanism is simpler and of more general nature than explanations based on the vortex dynamics of wake vortices in the presence of 3D modulations. This stabilizing effect is also more general in the sense that it can probably be applied to other physical systems described by the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Spanwise modulations of the advection velocity may e.g. play a role in the analysis of the solar dynamo mechanism [6] or of the cyclogenesis in the atmosphere [5], where the absolute and global instabilities play an important role.


In this thesis, we study the staffing optimization problem in multiskill call centers, in which we aim at minimizing the operating cost while delivering a high quality of service (QoS) to customers. We also introduce the use of chance constraints which require that the QoSs are met with a given probability. These constraints are adequate in the case when the performance is measured over a short time interval as QoS measures are random variables in a given time period. The proposed staffing problems are challenging in the sense that the stochastic constraints have no-closed forms and need to be approximated by simulation. In addition, the QoS functions are typically non-linear and non-convex. We consider staffing optimization problems in different settings and study the proposed models in both theoretical and practical aspects. The methodologies developed are general, in the sense that they can be adapted and applied to other staffing/scheduling problems in queuing-based systems. The thesis consists of three articles dealing with different challenges in modeling and solving staffing optimization problems in multiskill call centers. The first and second articles concern a two-stage staffing optimization problem under uncertainty. While in the first one, we study a general two-stage discrete stochastic programming model to provide a theoretical guarantee for the consistency of the sample average approximation (SAA) when the sample sizes go to infinity, the second one applies the SAA approach to solve the two-stage staffing optimization problem under arrival rate uncertainty. Both papers indicate the viability of the SAA approach in our context, in both theoretical and practical aspects. To be more precise, in the first article, we consider a general two-stage discrete stochastic problem with expected value constraints. We formulate its SAA with nested sampling. We show that under some assumptions that hold in call center examples, one can obtain the optimal solutions of the original problem by solving its SAA with large enough sample sizes. Moreover, we show that the probability that the optimal solution of the sample problem is an optimal solution of the original problem, approaches one exponentially fast as we increase the sample sizes. These theoretical findings are important, not only for call center applications, but also for other decision-making problems with discrete decision variables. The second article concerns solution methods to solve a two-stage staffing problem under arrival rate uncertainty. It is motivated by the fact that the SAA version of the two-stage staffing problem becomes expensive to solve with a large number of scenarios, as for each scenario, one needs to use simulation to approximate the QoS constraints. We develop an algorithm that combines simulation, cut generation, cut strengthening and Benders decomposition to solve the SAA problem. We show the efficiency of the approach, especially when the number of scenarios is large.


In 1975 the editors of the journal Sovetskaia etnografiia courteously extended to us the opportunity to express certain critical comments with respect to the hypothesis on the origin of representational art put forth by a Leningrad scholar, A. D. Stoliar. (1) A number of articles were published in response (2), in which authors expressed their views on the notion considered and also offered comments regarding my article. It seems necessary to me to respond to a number of criticisms and to refine certain statements in my article.


UPDATE: After 19 days of hunger strike, Pavlovic interrupted the protest after meeting with the President of Serbia, who promised to contact the ...


A police officer has to have cause before he can arrest or search. As explained by Hallam in The Constitutional History ofEngland (Garland Pub. Co., Inc., NY, 5th ed., vol. 1. (1978)) at p.234: ". " no power of arbitrary detention has ever been known to our Constitution since the charter obtained at Runnymede." It is said that in the 18th century a Frenchman wrote that "in England people are not arrested on vague suspicions and mere probabilities." Quoting this, Patrick Pringle says in Hue and Cry (Museum Press Ltd, London, (1955)) at p.50, "In no other country in the world were there so many safeguards against wrongful arrest or detention ..." Pringle contrasts the severity of English criminal law, which shocked foreign visitors, with the liberality of English criminal procedure, which astounded them. How did this come about? Today it is commonplace for us, in England and America and in the other English-speaking nations, to enjoy these benefits, but we rarely turn our eyes back into history to trace the development of these fundamental principles of the law of arrest. Since the time of Edward I complaints of false arrest have been a major problem. It was said then that the sheriffs procured false indictments. One remedy, dating to 1351 and later used for the Justices of the Peace, was to make the sheriff a man of substance. Another remedy in 1327 was to make records of the complaints of false arrests. There were so many that it is said to have resulted in all the sheriffs being dismissed. See Gladwin, The Sherif] (Victor Gollancz, Ltd, London, (1974)) at pp.187-89~ Some examples of these early false arrest suits have come down to. us. From the year 1366 there is unveiled for our eyes a major SUIt for false arrest, Ughtred v Musgrave. A knight sued a sheriff


rd edition) of the WHO classification of myeloid neoplasms included, for the first time in any widely used classification scheme, genetic information as diagnostic criteria not only for CML but also for some subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In the nearly 8 years that elapsed between the 3 rd and 4 th edition of the classification a number of genetic abnormalities were found to be associated with subgroups of myeloid neoplasms or with specific disease entities, and thus they were incorporated into the updated classification scheme. In some instances, such as the JAK2 V617F mutation which is often associated with the BCR-ABL1-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), the mutated JAK2 not only provides clues as to the pathogenesis of the disorder but is also used in diagnostic algorithms to provide evidence of the neoplastic nature of the myeloproliferation. In other instances, such as the category of neoplasms associated with rearrangements of PDGFRA or PDGFRB, the genetic defect provides an objective criterion for malignancy and also allows for selection of specific targeted therapy, and thus is a major criterion for naming the disease. However, we are at an early stage in understanding pathways of neoplastic transformation of myeloid cells. As newer techniques such as gene expression profiling and whole genome DNA sequencing become more readily accessible for studying myeloid neoplasms, they will likely reveal that the latest WHO revisions are a step forward, but that they remain imperfect and incomplete, and important genetic factors in the pathogenesis of the myeloid neoplasms remain to be discovered. What these discoveries may be and how they will affect the "next WHO" is impossible to predict, but an understanding of the basic principles of the WHO classification, the rationale for some of the changes in the 4 th edition, and the recognition of controversial and unsettled issues may provide some clues.


To the memoir which I had the honour to present to the Royal Society on this subject in 1882* I appended a note from Dr. Scudder, of Cambridge, U. S., so well known for his researches in fossil Insects and Arachnidans, in which he gave a preliminary account of the remains of Arthropods in my collections which I had submitted to him.


No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading augustus h strong and the dilemma of historical consciousness is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The advantages are not only for you, but for the other peoples with those meaningful benefits.


This report presents a summary of the blast damage investigation carried out by SveBeFo (Swedish Rock Engineering Research) during the period 1991 to 2003 at various hard rock sites in Sweden. The ...


We present an efficient tool for the numerical simulation of high speed flows in two and threedimensional domains. The space discretization is carried out with the finite volume method on unstructured triangular and tetrahedral meshes. In order to achieve sufficiently accurate capturing of shock waves, we have applied the anisotropic mesh adaptation technique which seems to be very suitable for problems with complicated geometries. The anisotropic mesh adaptation is a universal adaptive method which can be used without any modification for the numerical solution of arbitrary boundary value problem. Numerical examples of supersonic and transonic flows are presented.


Abstract: Personal Digital Assistants are becoming fundamental in our lives. Android is perhaps the most well-known working framework. Android OS is far-reaching in the portable business today due to its easy and comprehensive engineering. Application clients will generally trust the Android Operating System to get information; however, it is being demonstrated that Android is more defenseless and eccentric. of concern. As a result of its open-source design, the Android OS is endless in the versatile business today. It is a wide assortment of uses and essential highlights. Application clients generally prefer Android OS to get information


Objective: Nursing practices in Chile during the colonial era are described in this research, with special attention to Spain's influence on the process. Method: It is a qualitative study with a social-historical approach. The primary sources are historical texts retrieved from the so-called Chilean Memory in the National Virtual Library of Chile and 34 documents collected from the archives of the Saint John of God Museum, Pisa House, in Granada, Spain, entitled "List of the Brothers of Saint John of God who lived in Chile (207 years) and an Index of Para citar este artículo / To reference this article / Para citar este artigo Huaiquián Silva, J. C., Siles González, J., Velandia Mora, A. L. (2013). La enfermería de la Orden de San Juan de Dios en el Chile colonial. Aquichan. Vol. 13, No. 2, 290-300.


This is a study for the improvement of the defected elevator spar in operating aircraft. The elevator spar web holes were analyzed to find out the cause of the cracks. The fatigue striations were observed and the cracks occurred by the repetitive stresses during the elevator works. Also the outboard connection structure of the elevator and horizontal stabilizer was more weak shape than the inboard. The design changes were recommended and the analyses were performed to verify the improvement of the changed shapes.


In a heterogeneous multi-communities organisation, several communities or groups of users exist with their own viewpoints. Multi-viewpoint ontologies are becoming a crucial aspect in overcoming the limitations of sharing knowledge and keeping the viewpoint of each member of the community. Various ontology alignment approaches have been proposed; however, no system has explored the problem of ontology alignment in the specific context of multi-viewpoints. Moreover, the proposed alignment formats are not sufficient to cover the representation needs of the multi-viewpoints ontology alignments. The key insight into this work is that multi-viewpoints alignment is a set of semantic correspondences between multi-viewpoints ontology elements. Thus, this work focuses on the proposition of a new format allowing the presentation of semantic mapping between multi-viewpoints ontology elements. The extended multi-viewpoints alignment format has the possibility to take into account the different viewpoints' aspects in formal way.


Disks from a number of igneous rock specimens have been cooled from temperatures above the Curie points of their magnetic minerals under directed stresses of 500 and 1000 kg/cm2. In all cases the thermoremanent magnetizations (TRM) measured after unloading coincided with the direction of the earth's field (0.6 oersted) to which they were exposed during cooling, and which was either at 66° or 46° to the axis of compression. A duplicate set of control specimens was given the same heat treatment but without the application of stress and found to be magnetized in the same direction. The scatter of measured directions of magnetization was the same for both sets of specimens, showing that any magnetostrictive deflections of magnetization must have been less than the experimental error, about 3°.

Another set of specimens was given isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM) by exposure to a field of 140 oersteds at an angle of 49° to the axis of directed stress. These specimens as well as a duplicate set of unstressed control specimens were also found to be magnetized in the direction of the inducing field.

The experiments show that the application of directed stresses up to 1000 kg/cm2 during the magnetization of igneous rocks containing a variety of magnetic mineral aggregates does not deflect their magnetic moments. The same result was obtained with a rock in which the magnetic mineral was changed by heating in air while under directed stress.

It is concluded that the natural magnetic moments of isotropic igneous rocks are not normally deflected by magnetostrictive effects.


Using four coherent laser beams we make two different 2D optical lattices with polarization-dependent periodicity. The lattices are coincident, and by shifting one with respect to the other, we create an array of double well potentials. We have designed a 2D optical lattice for /sup 87/Rb atoms consisting of an array of double well potentials. This lattice should allow us to test two-qubit gates and in general permit atomic control in support of nearest neighbor interaction physics such as the Ising model and quantum cellular automata.


By comparing the High School Curriculum Standards of Information Technology in China with Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Information and Technology Literacy of the United States of America,the study shows that,the Chinese standards,though with prompting the improvement of students' information literacy competency as its objective,overemphasizes on information technology while lacks a comprehensive and adequate analysis on information literacy.This paper further recommends three measures to change this situation: strengthening cooperation and establishing curriculum standards and evaluation criteria based on a comprehensive information literacy concept;implementing a universal information literacy education for university students,especially for normal school students;researching and developing a national online information literacy education and evaluation system.


Proteins of B. pseudomallei and B. cepacia involved in virulence and survival were demonstrated using proteomic analysis of stationary phase bacterial culture supernatants. Host response to live B. pseudomallei and B. cepacia and their secretory proteins have provided further insights into bacterial virulence.


In the present work,the energy levels of molecular orbit, harmonic frequency, dissociation energies of C-H bond, transition matrix elements ,excitation energies, Einstein A and B coefficients of C_6H_6 excited states have been calculated using B3P86 methods under external electric field. It is rather instructive for the further researches for the interaction of radiation with polymeric compounds, especially for the research of the ring benzene.


3D pose estimation is a challenging problem in computer vision. Most of the existing neural-network-based approaches address color or depth images through convolution networks (CNNs). In this paper, we study the task of 3D human pose estimation from depth images. Different from the existing CNN-based human pose estimation method, we propose a deep human pose network for 3D pose estimation by taking the point cloud data as input data to model the surface of complex human structures. We first cast the 3D human pose estimation from 2D depth images to 3D point clouds and directly predict the 3D joint position. Our experiments on two public datasets show that our approach achieves higher accuracy than previous state-of-art methods. The reported results on both ITOP and EVAL datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on the targeted tasks.


Purpose: The region-of-interest micro-angiographic fluoroscope (MAF) enables both high-resolution rapid-sequence micro-angiography and fluoroscopy. The critical component is the micro-channel plate (MCP)-based light image intensifier (LII). The effect on maximum detector entrance exposure rate caused by LII nominal working-range limitations will be investigated. Method and Materials: The prototype MAF we built consists of a 350 micron thick columnar CsI(Tl) scintillator coupled by a 2:1 fiber-optical taper to an 18mm diameter variable gain LII with two-stage MCP optically viewed by a 12-bit, 1024×1024, 30fps CCD camera. Pixel value versus exposure (0–870μR) was measured with a LII gain of 492(W/m2)out/(W/m2)in at two different exposure times: 6ms and 30ms. A calculation was made of the maximum entrance MAF exposure rate that results in the maximum LII phosphor screen luminance. The linearity of the MAF was also measured with a higher LII gain of 7,728(W/m2)out/(W/m2)in and a lower lens collection efficiency at an exposure time of 30ms to show the effect of limitations in the LII nominal working range. Results: The MAF with a LII gain of 492(W/m2)out/(W/m2)in demonstrated linear behavior with 30ms exposure times when the maximum exposure rate was 29μR/ms; however, large fluctuations of mean pixel values occurred for 6ms when the exposure rate exceeded 30μR/ms. The calculation at maximum luminance predicted a maximum entrance detector exposure rate of 32.6μR/ms. The MAF used at a higher LII gain of 7728(W/m2)out/(W/m2)in demonstrated a non-linear behavior and average pixel value fluctuations in the exposure range 81–870μR. Conclusion: LII working range limits must be considered in the design of the MAF. The measured instability occurred for exposure rates above the value calculated to result in maximum LII luminance. Higher lens collection efficiency can enable the use of a lower LII gain and increased entrance MAF exposure rate. (Partial support: NIH grants R01NS43924 and R01EB002873)


Iinvestigates effectiveness the using multi-criteria self-configurable evolutionary algorithm SelfCGP + ENN in the problem of forecasting power consumption for "day-ahead" using ensembles of neural network models. Introduced the effectiveness analysis of the proposed method with different initial installation and various volume database.


Angle class III malocclusion are very hard to treat only by orthodontic method for most adults. So in this study we have measured The mesio-distal tooth size and arch length on the dental casts of total 39 pairs (17 Chinese, 22 Nepalese) of Angle class III malocclusion, Upper lateral incisor, upper canine and upper second premolar shows significant difference between Nepalese and Chinese (P=0.02, P=.01, P=.003). Lower teeth show no significant difference between Nepalese and Chinese. Among Nepalese male and female lower lateral incisors, second premolar molar show significant difference (P=0.035, P=0.032, P=0.049), second premolar shows significant difference between Nepalese male and female (P=0.020). Among Chinese male and female shows no significant difference between upper teeth while lower first molar shows significant difference (P=0.041, P=0.00). For Nepalese OR 90.42 and AR 78.76 while for Chinese OR 89.58 and AR 78.16. No significant difference between Chinese and Nepalese OR and AR. Upper arch length for Nepalese male and female having angle class III malocclusion are 79.5 and 77 respectively. Lower arch length for Nepalese male and female with Angle class III malocclusion are 73.8 and 69.25. Among Nepalese upper arch length between male and female (P 0.05). For Nepalese male the space lack for upper jaw is 3.7mm and for lower jaw 6.6mm.


The generic names Euptychia, Cissia and Argyreuplychia are reviewed in relation to the Cissia confusa species-group in Costa Rica and Trinidad, for which the generic name Cissia Doubleday is formally resurrected. Three new species of Cissia are described, C. confusa itself is resurrected from synonymy, three neotypes and three lectotypes are designated, and six new combinations established. On the basis of early instar morphology three subgroups are recognized and the general biology of the confusa species-group is summarized. A key to species in Costa Rica is provided and the ecology of the adults is reviewed.


Background
Personality is a major predictor of many mental and physical disorders, but its contributions to illness course are understudied.

Purpose
The current study aimed to explore whether personality is associated with a course of psychiatric and medical illness over 10 years following trauma.

Methods
World Trade Center (WTC) responders (N = 532) completed the personality inventory for DSM-5, which measures both broad domains and narrow facets. Responders' mental and physical health was assessed in the decade following the WTC disaster during annual monitoring visits at a WTC Health Program clinic. Multilevel modeling was used in an exploratory manner to chart the course of health and functioning, and examine associations of maladaptive personality domains and facets with intercepts (initial illness) and slopes (course) of illness trajectories.

Results
Three maladaptive personality domains-negative affectivity, detachment and psychoticism-were uniquely associated with initial posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); detachment and psychoticism were also associated with initial functional impairment. Five facets-emotional lability, anhedonia, callousness, distractibility and perceptual dysregulation-were uniquely associated with initial mental and physical health and functional impairment. Anxiousness and depressivity facets were associated with worse initial levels of psychiatric outcomes only. With regard to illness trajectory, callousness and perceptual dysregulation were associated with the increase in PTSD symptoms. Anxiousness was associated with greater persistence of respiratory symptoms.

Conclusions
Several personality domains and facets were associated with initial levels and long-term course of illness and functional impairment in a traumatized population. Results inform the role of maladaptive personality in the development and maintenance of chronic mental-physical comorbidity. Personality might constitute a transdiagnostic prognostic and treatment target.


The article introduces a series of steps and processes of automobile product development and production,from product planning,marketing research,concept design,engineering development to quantity production.It also gives a brief account on the main contents of every phase.


Two species of forest birds, the least flycatcher and the red-eyed vireo, when breeding in the same season in the same habitat, adjust their temporal pattern of singing to avoid the overlapping of songs. The avoidance of acoustic interference is more marked in the flycatcher, which has a briefer song than the vireo.


The type and act theory of Loop reactor were intraduced in this paper, and the investigation and application situation of Loop reactor were discussed.The effect factors of particular qualityparameter gas holdup?liquid circulation rate and liquid volumetric mass transfer coefficientwere were analysed.What's more,the hydrodynamics were summed up.


The use of Recycled Asphalt Shingle (RAS) materials as an additive in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) has been a topic of discussion at numerous meetings, conferences and workshops, and the focus of research in Canada and the United States over the past two decades. In 2003, the City of Edmonton (City) contracted with Wells Construction Ltd. (Wells) for the construction of the 184 Street Grade Separation project. It was requested during the project that the City allow Wells to replace a portion of the specified Asphaltic Concrete Base (ACB) material with ACB containing Manufactured Shingle Modifier (MSM) commonly known as RAS. As a result of the request, the City undertook a laboratory and field study of the proposed material blends in combination with the standard ACB mixes. This resulted in Wells placing three blends of HMA; two with a combination of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and RAS and one with RAP only in the fall of 2003. This paper details the 2003 study completed by the City, through to the development of a Recycled Asphalt Paving specification incorporating RAS, and observed performance of several MSM/RAP mixes placed on City Capital Construction projects over the past ten years.


Whether the policy trained with Eq. 1 actually learns to approximate the MI depends on the learning dynamics. We calculate the intrinsic social influence reward using Eq. 1, because unlike Eq. 2, which gives an estimate of the symmetric bandwidth between k and j, Eq. 1 gives the directed causal effect of the specific action taken by agent k, at . We Anonymous Institution, Anonymous City, Anonymous Region, Anonymous Country. Correspondence to: Anonymous Author .


Flush-wall, single-port and twin-port injections into supersonic flow were investigated experimentally to detail the formation process of a streamwise vortex. A suction-type, supersonic wind tunnel was used. Unheated atmospheric air was ingested into a vacuum tank through a two-dimensional contoured nozzle and a test section. The jet injection angle was 15 degrees. The mainstream Mach number was 2.4. Velocity distributions were measured with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The Mie scattering method was also used. The results revealed that the incoming mainstream flow from behind the jet formed a streamwise vortex near the injection port. This vorticity pair was caused by the difference between jet and mainstream velocity. Its high elliptical vorticity regions rotated to the downstream; then, these regions existed parallel with the mainstream. When the distance between the centers of the twin-port injection holes was 2.6 times the diameter of the injection hole, twin-port injection reduced these vortex widths to the downstream because of the interaction of the inside vortex.


A 40-year-old farmer had been complaining for 3 weeks of a tender, red, itchy, scaling plaque with papulopustules on one knee. A potassium hydroxide examination of the scale revealed fungal hyphae.


A center is called an isochronous center if those periodic orbits in some neighbourhood have the same period.The isochronous center problem for polynomial systems is an open problem.In order to solve it in constructive way,a class of time-reversible analytic dynamical systems is considered,for which recurrence formulae are proposed for deducing corresponding transversal commuting systems,which is helpful for constructing isochronous center conditions.For a class of time-reversible cubic systems,the necessary and sufficent conditions for having transversal commuting systems are obtained by Wu Characteristic-Sets method and formulae.


Robson narrates how modern dream research is finally waking up to the nocturnal exploits of an eccentric French nobleman named Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys. Some experiments have even tried to boost subjects' recollection by priming their sleeping brains with smells and sounds associated with certain memories, in studies remarkably reminiscent of the marquis's investigations. More recently, researchers have been revisiting lucid dreaming to understand what happens when, within a dream, someone becomes aware of the fact they are dreaming. What they have found so far suggests lucid awareness is linked to high-frequency activity in the brain's frontal and parietal lobes.


PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS by James Edward Sayer Sherman Oaks, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1980 Textbooks in all areas of speech communication abound. The process of choosing among them frequently follows the old adage: You pay your money and you take your choice. All such books have strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, a strength to one reader can be a weakness to another. All of these observations are true for James Edward Sayer's Argumentation and Debate: Principles and Applications. For some teachers and some courses, Sayer has written an outstanding, excellent text. For other teachers with different, but equally sound, objectives, this text would be considered inappropriate. Sayer's objectives are clearly stated in his preface:


This paper attempts to synthesize the agroforestry systems involving high value trees based on the information gathered under the framework of the FP7 research project "AGFORWARD". Although ecological and socioeconomical contexts vary among sites, these systems share some common challenges.  The systems described involve apple, orange, chestnut, walnut and olive trees that are combined with agricultural crops such as chickpeas, barley and others or are grazed by sheep. In England, the grazing of apple orchards has long been a common practice and it is still practised on a considerable proportion of traditional orchards. The introduction of sheep to the orchard can minimise the need for mowing and at the same time it can positively contribute to providing animal feed for sheep production enterprises. In North-western France, pollarding is still a living practice very linked to the management of a typical landscape, where "bocage" ("traditional" hedgerows network on field boundaries) constitute the main component. In the South, pollards are generally found as remnants of a formerly much more widespread practice. In this wood-pasture, the land with trees is systematically grazed by domestic animals. In Spain, hardwood species are commonly harvested after long rotations of up to 50 or 60 years. Silvopastoral management and implementation of legume pastures could allow reducing the economic costs of these plantations and optimize their environmental functions.  Agroforestry with chestnut ( Castanaea sativa Miller) is a traditional land use system in North West Spain. Although chestnut groves are rarely intercropped (due to the low understorey production) or grazed (due to the fear of tree damage), the groves create a fine-grained mosaic of land uses including cropland and forests. Chestnut woodlands are also one of the best habitats for the commercial production of edible mushrooms. Another valuable system involves orange trees intercropped with chickpeas. Greece is the 17 th of the 121 orange producing countries contributing 805500 tonnes to the world total of 71305973 tonnes. Finally, olive trees alone or in orchards are found in all parts of the country that have a mild Mediterranean climate. Olive trees are the only tree component in the typical olive culture. Quite often, however, other trees are found as well, including carobs (mainly in Crete), almonds, walnuts, apricots, fig, poplars, plums etc. (almost everywhere), either together with the olive trees or along the boundaries of the olive orchards. Animals may graze spontaneous vegetation or planted crops (ex. wheat or barley).


Clothing has always served as a major ethnic marker by uniting people of the same community. Written and archaeological sources tell us a lot about the Xiongnu culture, but the appearance of these formidable rulers of the steppe remains a mystery, and we are still on our way to deciphering it.
Archaeological finds for reconstructing the Xiongnu costume come from the Noin-Ula burial mounds (Mongolia), the only site attributed to this people where objects from organic materials have survived. Many items of clothing were discovered as early as in the 1920s by Pyotr Kozlov's expedition. New data were obtained from three large Noin-Ula mounds as a result of studies organized and directed by the author of this article at the beginning of this century.
The main conclusions that we have arrived at today are as follows:
The costume worn by the Xiongnu nobility was eclectic and consisted of items of different origin. Those were mainly robes made of expensive silk, which were manufactured at Chinese (Han) workshops and presented by the emperor as gifts to the chanyu, who then passed them, as was the custom, to his confidants.
Clothes for people of high rank were sewn from an imported woolen textile of the topmost quality. The clothes from this textile — caftans, trousers, leggings-were created directly in the Steppe, possibly by craftswomen at the chanyu's base camp.
We do not know the design of the woolen caftans, but the small fragments that were found in Noin-Ula mounds 20 and 22 give us a clue of how bright and decorative they were: these caftans must have been completely covered with embroidery and trimmed with sable fur. A variety of silk textiles were also used in creating these clothing items. It is known that the Xiongnu received from the imperial court as gifts (disguised tribute) plenty of silks from the best workshops of China. These unique textiles were then passed to local craftswomen, who skillfully combined them with woolen textiles and fur. They created truly magnificent garments, as is evident from the surviving fragments of a caftan from Noin-Ula mound 20. In our opinion, it was these caftans that represented the costume of the Xiongnu nobility; i. e., the eclecticism of this costume manifested itself not only in a combination of items of different origin and culture but also in the fact that the clothing items that were created directly in the Steppe were made not only from local materials-felts, coarse textiles, birch bark — but also from imported woolen and silk textiles and embroideries. A good example of these clothes is the leggings from Noin-Ula mound 22. They were sewn by a local craftswoman from a magnificent woolen textile produced in the Mediterranean workshops and embroidered with silk by a Chinese craftswoman, of whom there were many at the chanyu's base camp. Felt shoes sewn to the leggings were covered with Chinese silk, and their soles were carved from birch bark. This one item brings together three civilizations: Mediterranean, China, and Eurasian Steppe.
Even if we possessed actual clothing items from the burials, we would not be able to confidently reconstruct the Xiongnu costume because we could not be sure that the available items represented the entire wardrobe. Furthermore, we would not know exactly how these clothes were worn. The experience of studying the undisturbed Pazyryk mounds showed that only in those cases where we see all the details of clothes directly on human body, we get a correct idea of how related to one another and how they were worn.
The recent finds from the Noin-Ula mounds added a lot of new details to the description of the costume of the Xiongnu nobility. However, the costume itself, by which we mean not only a set of clothes from the headdress to the shoes but also the color scheme, hairstyle, jewelry, cosmetics, accessories, and manner of wearing, still cannot be reconstructed in its entirety. As of now, we can describe in detail only individual components of this costume. However, I believe that over time we will «assemble» the entire wardrobe and reconstruct the appearance of the splendid riders of the Mongolian steppes.


Decameron is regarded as one of the most important fictions ,people have studied it for nearly 7 centuries .Many theorists are interested in trying and testing their theories in the fiction. This paper is based on detailed documents from 1370,pointing that the history of studying Decameron is the history of the literature's study, witch miniatured the development of western critical theories. It is possible for us to find a road to the present literature study through analysing the history.


The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is based on three key assumptions: (1) the completeness of the physical description by means of the wave function, (2) the linearity of the dynamics for the wave function, and (3) multiplicity. In this paper, I argue that the combination of these assumptions may lead to a contradiction. In order to avoid the contradiction, we must drop one of these key assumptions.


The combustion heater is a key part of the ground testing facility for the research on scram jet.The main test gases ingredients include hydrogen,oxygen,air and nitrogen.The pressure and flow of these test gases ingredients need to be regulated during testing,and the pressure is controlled directly by the air-driven valve.A control system with a industrial control computer as it's central part is designed,and a good balance between the reliability and the practicality of the system can be achieved.According to the characteristics of the air-controlled valve,a kind of adaptive Fuzzy-PI controller is designed to realize the fine pressure control during test.It is realized by connecting the conventional PI controller with a parameter regulator which adjust the integrator and proportion parameter of the PI controller through fuzzy inference during test.It has improved the pressure control precision with some good qualities such as quick response,less over-regulating and less stabilizing time.


ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest school communities accept the goods and services of external providers uncritically. Considering the pivotal role played by teachers in curriculum and policy enactment, this paper explores how and why teachers in Ireland advocate for, and engage with, the services and resources of one particular external provider, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). This paper draws upon data generated from a purposive sample of teachers and external coaches who were involved in the provision of Gaelic games in primary schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers and coaches, and policy documents were examined in order to gain a better understanding of the external provision provided by the GAA. The data were subsequently analysed thematically. Our findings suggest that teachers who promote Gaelic games within the core and extracurricular PE and sport programmes consider these games crucial to the development of children's sporting and cultural identity.


Basing on the subjects' achievement of measures of pseudo-word reading, letter filling, word filling and the subjects' self reports, we compare and analyze the phonological differences between the two groups of subjects, the poor readers and the good readers.And from it we have verified that there is a dependence between phonological skill and reading comprehension,which represents a given causal-effect relationship. The research also shows that for the bilinguals, the mental operation of reading comprehension of Chinese as a native language often restricts English semantic access.


The behavior of inverted T-shape flexible retaining walls under seismic loadings was experimentally investigated. Two centrifuge tests were carried out on reduced-scale models of flexible retaining walls with different heights in dry sand. The experimental data showed that acceleration amplification is not affected by the wall height. The acceleration of the backfill was not uniform and a phase difference was measured between the wall and backfill soil. During the maximum bending moments of the wall, dynamic earth pressures were only measured at the bottom area of the wall. The inertial force of the wall induced deflection of the wall to result in gapping between the wall and backfill soil. cantilever walls. The current AASHTO LRFD bridge design specifications suggest that a seismic coefficient equal to half the peak ground acceleration be used in the design and ignore the inertial forces of the wall. Most recently, Nakamura (2006) and Atik & Sitar (2010) performed dynamic centrifuge experiments on gravityand cantilever-type retaining walls, respectively. They concluded that the MO method does not reflect either the actual seismic behavior of the wall–backfill interaction or the inertial effect of the wall itself. Even though the MO method provides a simple and powerful tool for evaluating the dynamic earth pressure, the assumptions of the MO method show an apparent discrepancy between the analysis and real behavior. Furthermore, MO theory does not consider the inertial force and effect of wall height. In the present study, two dynamic centrifuge experiments were performed to simulate inverted T-shape retaining walls and reexamine the previous research. The obtained results were compared to the hypothetical conditions of MO theory. To investigate the effects of the wall height and inertial force, two different retaining wall heights were selected; the heights were represented as 5.4 and 10.8 m at the prototype scale. 2 EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE Two dynamic centrifuge tests were performed with inverted T-shape retaining wall models. The experiments were conducted using the dynamic centrifuge at the KOCED Geo-Centrifuge Test Center at KAIST (Fig. 1). The maximum capacity of the KAIST centrifuge with a 5 m radius is 2400 kg for


Three populations of Engraulis mordax are differentiated in west Baja California coasts, on me basis of length frequency distributions and age-length relationsrups. Polymodal curve analyses according to Peternen,Cassie and Bhattacbarya determined foor age groops. Otelith analyses established eight age groops for caen populatioo in 1986 and 1987.Data obteined by Bhattacharya's memod were most similar te data determined by otolim anaIyses. The age-length relation snowed ibat individuals of me same age are larger in the northem thant in the soothem arcas


The amounts of boat (A) and planar (B) forms for the equilibrium state in D2O and CD3OD/d6-DMSO (1:1) were calculated for seven proline-containing cyclic dipeptides from their 13C n.m.r. spectra. For c-Pro-Val the thermodynamic functions for the conversion between the boat and planar forms have been obtained from measurements of equilibrium constants at different temperatures.


PURPOSE: to identify the clinical applicability of neonatal hearing screening in the routine of neonatologist pediatrician doctors in the city of Maceio-AL. METHODS: an cross-section analytical study was carried out with 36 neonatologist pediatricians through the application of a questionnaire with six objective questions. RESULTS: it was observed that 88.9% of neonatologist pediatricians know on neonatal hearing screening; however, 11.1% do not know./ In the private health service, 66.1% refer all the newborn babies to the screening in their routine. In the public service, only 7.4% refer all the newborn babies and 42.8% do not. In relation to the Municipal Law number 5.555/06, which makes the neonatal hearing screening compulsory in the maternities and similar establishments in the city of Maceio, 41.7% of the doctors have declared not knowing. Just 36.1% have stated knowing the speech pathology related work in the prevention of deafness. CONCLUSION: in this study, it can be concluded that the neonatal hearing screening is inserted in the clinical routine of the majority of the neonatologist pediatrician doctors that work in the particular health service. However, there is a lack of resources for implementing and continuing the program in the public service and there is very little knowledge on the role of the speech pathologist in preventing deafness.


ABSTRACT The development of liquid–liquid separation processes for the effective removal of minor actinide Am(III) from used nuclear fuel (UNF) using ligand-based strategies continues to be an area of significant research focus. The current investigation demonstrates the efficacy of a nitrogen-based bis-triazinyl pyridine (BTP) derivative to selectively extract Am(III) from nitric acid solutions containing light lanthanides. The performance of 3,3ʹ-dimethoxy-phenyl-bis-1,2,4-triazinyl-2,6-pyridine (MOB-BTP) was compared to that of a camphor-substituted BTP (CA-BTP). The results of this investigation demonstrate the novel 3,3ʹ-methoxy-BTP extractant dissolved in a polar diluent was a more efficient extractant for Am(III) at a lower concentration than CA-BTP under comparable conditions.


The prose by Jinjing has got the taste of the one written by Chinese traditional intellectuals.It is the spontaneous overflow of feelings and it moves the readers by emotion and arouses their sympathy at the same time.Jinjing has got a strong edification by the traditional culture and meanwhile has the pursuit of modern civilization,which makes his prose possess the flavor of New-Confucianism.His prose filled with humane care and meanwhile manifests the existence and inner beauty of the intellectuals in a real sense by creative writing and concrete actions.


Mobile IPv6 allows the mobile node (MN) and the corresponding node (CN) communicate directly without the HA's transmission. This procedure is called route optimization. During this procedure, CN builds a binding between MN's Home Address (HoA) and Care-of Address (CoA). Authentication methods are used to protect the route optimization but each of them has several problems, such as forged address and heavy computational burden on MN and so on. This paper proposes an improved route optimization method based on Return Routability (RR) procedure and D-H key exchange to solve above problems.


Meta‐analyses showed that non‐dipping of nocturnal blood pressure on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) was associated with adverse cardiovascular prognosis. However, these prognostic studies were mainly conducted in Caucasian and Japanese populations. Whether this association applies to Chinese patients remained uninvestigated. A total of 1199 Chinese patients with hypertension undergoing ABPM between January 2012 and December 2014 were recruited retrospectively from five public hypertension referral clinics in Hong Kong. Patients were followed up for a mean 6.42 years for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and all‐cause mortality. Time to event of different dipping patterns was compared by Kaplan‐Meier curves. Hazard ratios (HR) were obtained by Cox proportional hazard models with patient demographics and confounding factors adjusted in multivariate regression. A total of 163 end point events occurred in the period. Normal dipping was observed in 446 patients (37.2%), non‐dipping in 490 (40.9%), reverse dipping in 161 (13.4%), and extreme dipping in 102 (8.5%). Kaplan‐Meier analyses showed inferior survival in non‐dippers and reverse dippers for total cardiovascular events and coronary events but not cerebrovascular events. After adjusting for confounding factors, Cox regressions showed HRs 1.166 (CI 0.770‐1.764) and 1.173 (CI 0.681‐2.021) in non‐dippers and reverse dippers for total cardiovascular events, and HRs 1.320 (CI 0.814‐2.141) and 1.476 (CI 0.783‐2.784) for coronary events. Nocturnal blood pressure non‐dipping, and to a greater extent reverse dipping, demonstrated adverse cardiovascular prognosis in a cohort of Chinese patients with hypertension in Hong Kong. Further focused studies on cerebrovascular events and reverse dippers were warranted to refine risk stratification.


An analytical model is formulated for a three-dimensional nonlinear stability problem in a rocket motor combustion chamber. The chamber is modeled as a right circular cylinder with a short (multi-orifice) nozzle, and an acoustic linear covering an arbitrary portion of the cylindrical periphery. The combustion is concentrated at the injector and the gas flow field is characterized by a mean Mach number. The unsteady combustion processes are formulated using the Crocco time lag model. The resulting equations are solved using a Green's function method combined with numerical evaluation techniques. The influence of acoustic liners on the nonlinear waveforms is predicted. Nonlinear stability limits and regions where triggering is possible are also predicted for both lined and unlined combustors in terms of the combustion parameters.


Introduction: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is an aggressive life-threatening disease associated with high mortality rates. Several genes related to stress response have been studied extensively to reveal their possible association with HNSCC. Members of the HSPA (heat shock protein family A) family are exclusively expressed under stress conditions suggesting that these are specialised to function in the stress response.
Aim: The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the genetic alterations in the HSPA gene family and their putative association with HNSCC.
Materials and Methods: The source of the patient's data was procured from the cBioportal database. The TCGA Firehose Legacy comprised 528 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cases. Oncoprint data analysis can be used to derive a putative association between the disease phenotype and genotype, to identify the variations and to identify any novel variations which can be associated with the disease phenotype. The gnomAD data analysis was used to compare between the observed variants documented in the present study with that of reported variants deposited in the gnomAD repository.
Results and Discussion: The HSPA1A&HSPA1B genes harboured high frequency of amplification and deep deletions. The expression of two genes HSPA8 and HSPA13 was found to be up-regulated in the primary tumor sample in comparison to normal tissues. In Kaplan Meier analysis, HSPA8 gene expression was compared with gender, here, high expression in females shows low survival rate. Similarly, HSPA13 gene expression was compared with race, here low expression in africanamerican population shows low survival rate.
Conclusion: The present study provides preliminary data on the involvement of the HSPA family of genes with HNSCC, which has to be validated using experimental evidence in other populations.


ABSTRACT Introduction: Systematic reviews of economic evaluations are useful for synthesizing economic evidence about health interventions and for informing evidence-based decisions. Areas covered: As there is no detailed description of the methods for performing a systematic review of economic evidence, this paper aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art methodology. This is laid out in a 5-step approach, as follows: step 1) initiating a systematic review; step 2) identifying (full) economic evaluations; step 3) data extraction, risk of bias and transferability assessment; step 4) reporting results; step 5) discussion and interpretation of findings. Expert commentary: The paper aims to help inexperienced reviewers and clinical practice guideline developers, but also to be a resource for experts in the field who want to check on current methodological developments.


A mononuclear copper(II) complex CuL with a Schiff-base L (H2L = N,N(- cyclohexanebis(3-formyl-5-tert-butyl-salicylaldimine)) has been synthesized and characterized. X-ray diffraction analysis at room temperature indicates that the complex (Cu C30H36N2O4, Mr = 552.15) crystallizes in tetrahedral system, space group P41 with a = 13.4685(6), c = 31.326(2) ?, V = 5682.5(5) ?3, Z = 8, Dc = 1.291 g/cm3, F(000) = 4656, μ(MoK() = 0.805 mm-1. The final R and Rw factors are 0.0421 and 0.0815, respectively with 4435 observed reflections. The title complex is a neutral molecule in which the ligand is doubly deprotonated, forming a four-coordinated Cu(II) complex by nitrogen and oxygen donors of the ligand and the coordination geometry of Cu(II) could be considered as an approximately planar configuration. There are two independent molecules, having a transoid arrangement in this structure.


THz range gyrotrons operating in continuous mode are of great interest for many applications, such as spectroscopy, plasma diagnostics, biomedical research, etc. These applications require high frequency stability. In addition to the existing methods of spectrum generation control, the use of various types of synchronization has recently attracted interest. In particular, mutual synchronization of two coupled gyrotrons, which is presented in this article. The mechanism of transition to synchronization at the desired frequency is considered.


Temporal instabilities in stimulated Brillouin scattering of two counter-propagating mutually detuned laser beams depend on the intensity of the beams, the length of the interaction region and the frequency detuning. The detuning increases the threshold of stability and shifts the oscillation frequency of the unstable perturbations at the threshold.


ON WEDNESDAY, 20 December 1989, the United States launched a military invasion of Panama, the outcome of which ended a 2-year crisis with that country's dictatorial regime headed by General Manuel Antonio Noriega, commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF). Codenamed Operation Just Cause, the U.S. invasion that began shortly before 0100 on the 20th included numerous combat engagements between U.S. and PDF units. Later that morning, as several battles were still in progress, the ranking U.S. commander on the scene ordered a related undertaking--Operation Promote Liberty--and forwarded his operations order (OPORD) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) for approval after the fact. Designed to deal with disruptions caused by fighting and by the fall of Noriega's regime, the plan authorized two actions: civil-military operations (CMO) to stabilize the situation in Panama by restoring order and basic services, and civil affairs (CA) activities to support the new "democratic" Panamanian Government U.S. authorities had put into place at the onset of the invasion. (1) Operation Just Cause continued until 11 January 1990 and Operation Promote Liberty continued, as anticipated, until the end of the year. For several weeks, however, the two operations overlapped, which meant that, in many cases, U.S. troops who were or had been engaged in combat and combat-related operations performed stability operations as well. The Crisis The crisis that culminated with Operations Just Cause and Promote Liberty began in June 1987 with the outbreak of public demonstrations in Panama against Noriega's regime. By early 1988, this internal affair escalated into a U.S.-Panamanian confrontation. Noriega resorted to anti-American rhetoric and actions in hopes of deflecting domestic criticism. The United States expressed increasing concern over Noriega's alleged illegal activities, which ranged from corruption and election fraud to drug trafficking and murder. As the crisis worsened so, too, did the formerly cordial relations between PDF and U.S. military personnel stationed in areas that, under Canal treaties signed in the late 1970s, had yet to pass from American to Panamanian control. In early February, after Federal grand juries in Florida handed down indictments against Noriega and some of his associates for their alleged violations of U.S. antiracketeering and antidrug laws, the two countries found themselves on a collision course from which neither could easily veer without losing face or conceding perceived national interests. Given the deteriorating situation and the fact Noriega had everything to lose, U.S. policymakers could not rule out some kind of military action by him against U.S. citizens and interests in Panama. In fact, U.S. military personnel and their dependents were already targets of PDF intimidation. Thus, it was only prudent for Washington to contemplate the worst-case scenario of actual hostilities between the two countries. Should those fears be realized, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), a joint headquarters overseeing U.S. military activities in Central and South America, would be responsible for conducting operations against Panamanian forces. At the beginning of 1988, however, SOUTHCOM had no plan for treating the erstwhile, friendly PDF as a hostile entity. To remedy this, SOUTHCOM Commander General Frederick F. Woerner, Jr., directed his staff to begin contingency planning for the crisis while he sought JCS authorization to draw on other commands for required forces. The JCS granted him that authority on 28 February 1988. The first iteration of a SOUTHCOM OPORD based on the JCS directive was dated 4 March 1988 and code-named Elaborate Maze. The plan consisted of four phases--three calling for defensive operations and one for offensive military action--that could be executed in response to a variety of possible PDF provocations. The phases did not have to be executed independently or in sequence and, once executed, different phases could overlap. …


Dislocated Quaternary marine and glacilacustrine sediments are demonstrated at two localities in East Greenland. The deformations comprise thrust floes, overturned folds and tension fractures formed by glacier overriding in the Holocene. At one locality there is evidence of ponded drainage and pro- and subglacial deformation of unfrozen sediments. Glacitectonic deformations have not earlier been recorded from Greenland.


The throughput of successive cancellation decoding of polar codes can be improved through simplified decoders that identify specific constituent codes in the decoding tree. The identified codes include rate-0, rate-1, repetition, and single parity-check codes. In this work, constituent codes that belong to the family of first-order Reed-Muller codes, and their sub-codes, are also identified in the decoding tree. Alternative decoding schemes that utilize the structure of Reed-Muller codes are incorporated into successive cancellation decoding. Simulation results show that such an approach can improve both the block error rate performance as well as the decoding latency of polar codes.


The purpose of this study is to discover the possibility to expand the aesthetic interpretation of dance works. For this purpose, this study analyzes Maguy Marin's <May B>(1981) because it shows Sigmund Freud's concept of uncanny and grotesque images well. The theoretical framework of this study was centered on previous academic studies, and Hoffman's Der Sandmann(1816) was presented as an example to help the conceptual understanding of uncanny and grotesque. The analysis of <May B> of Magi Marin was divided into stage space, dancer's movements, costumes, and voice. As a result of this study, it was discovered that <May B> is a work with an experimental spirit that deviated from the stereotypes of traditional stage aesthetics. And it was implemented as uncanny and grotesque images in the choreography structure. In addition, as the changes of the times have a great influence on the creation of dance works, it is thought that the discourse of various aesthetic interpretation methods in dance works can provide various directions for dance creation in the future. Therefore, this study will be helpful in raising the aesthetic value and status of dance art.


Animal breeds with specific qualities like adaptability to local climatic conditions, farming situations , resistance to diseases and those meet the requirements of local needs and perform under available feeds and fodder are valuable and present requirement for the world. Main farm animals cattle, sheep, goat and pigs were domesticated 9,000–11,000 years ago, whereas the dog was domesticated earlier, ~14,000 years ago, and the chicken ~4,500 years ago. Most domestic animals have a much broader genetic basis. Molecular studies have shown that the two main forms of domestic cattle, European–African (Bos Taurus taurus) and Asian (Bos taurus indicus), originate from two different subspecies of the wild ancestor (Loftus et al., 1994). There are thirty well recognized cattle breeds in India which are highly adoptive to local conditions and each breed has distinctive characters. The world population of buffalo is about 158M in comparison with around 1.3B cattle, 1B sheep and 500-600M goats. There are two types of domestic water buffalo, the River Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) which are more widely spread globally, and are the predominant type found in the west from India to Europe. The second type, the Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus carabanesis), is found more frequently in the east from India to the Philippines. The two major types of buffalo can be distinguished by their different karyotypes, the Swamp Buffalo has 48 chromosomes, whereas the River buffalo has 50. However, the two types crossbreed to produce fertile hybrid progeny and so cannot be considered as truly different species.


Foreign objects suspended on transmission and distribution lines like nests, kites, balloons, and trash, etc. may lead discharge faults and greatly affect the safety of power grid. How to perform accurate and timely detection of these foreign objects is an urgent problem. This paper proposes a lightweight YOLOv4 model with embedded dual attention mechanism (YOLOv4-EDAM) to detect foreign objects from visible images, using MobileNetV2 embedded with the squeeze and excitation networks (SENet) to replace the CSPDarkNet53 feature extraction network, the depthwise separable convolutions (DSC) to replace the standard convolutions in SPP and PANet module, and embedding the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) into SPP and PANet module to improve the detection accuracy. Firstly, an image dataset was constructed using inspection images and public datasets, and expanded by Poisson blending and some data augmentation methods. The denoising convolutional neural network (DnCNN) was applied for image preprocessing. Next, the lightweight YOLOv4-EDAM model was trained combining Mosaic data enhancement, cosine annealing and label smoothing skills. Several detection cases were carried out and the experimental results show that the proposed model has a high accuracy with the mean average precision (mAP) of 96.71%, and a fast detection speed with the frames per second (FPS) of 45, whose overall performance is better than other object detection models. This study offers a reference for power line inspection and provides a possible way to deploy edge computing devices on unmanned aerial vehicles.


Studies investigating psychological interventions for the promotion of well‐being in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are lacking. The purpose of the current study was to examine the use of an ALS‐specific mindfulness‐based intervention for improving quality of life in this population.


The public opinion literature examining the role of proximity and not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitudes in people's judgments about energy projects has come to inconclusive findings. We argue that these mixed results are due to vast differences and significant limitations in research designs, which we mitigate through a large study (n = 16,200) of Americans' attitudes toward energy projects. Our approach examines a diverse set of energy projects in development, explicitly compares the attitudes of individuals living in the vicinity of projects with those farther away, and includes the careful measurement of the NIMBY concept. The analyses show little evidence that proximity in general or NIMBY objections in particular are important determinants of project support. Instead, other factors are more important, including perceptions of local environmental quality, risk orientation, concern about climate change, and trust in energy companies.


This work presents an innovative approach on aerobic activated sludge (AS) wastewater treatment plants' (WWTP) design and operation towards more efficient wastewater treatment, minimization of sludge accumulation and significant reduction of excess sludge, with relatively low specific energy consumption. This approach, which is called complete solids retention activated sludge (CRAS) process, was applied on a slaughterhouse's WWTP and on a fruit processing industry's WWTP, characterized by high organic and volumetric load respectively, as well as on a municipal WWTP located in Paralimni, Cyprus. The results showed without using sophisticated technologies and processes a more sustainable WWTP operation can be achieved.


If forced to accept Medicaid patients without increased reimbursements, most private practices will be dealt a fatal blow to operations.


Rough set is a valid mathematical theory developed in recent years. It has the ability to deal with imprecise, uncertain, and vague information. It has been applied in such fields as machine learning, data mining, intelligent data analyzing and control algorithm acquiring successfully. In this paper, we will make a comparative study of the algebra view and information view of rough set theory. Some inequivalent relationships between these two views of rough set theory in inconsistent decision table systems are discovered. It corrects an error of many researchers, that is, the algebra view and information view of rough set theory are equivalent. It is helpful for developing heuristic knowledge reduction algorithms for inconsistent decision table systems.


Socio-economic Status is a condition or position that is socially regulated in a particular position in the community structure. The provision of this position is accompanied by a set of rights and obligations that are only fulfilled by the carrier of its status, so that land ownership is one of the factors that can determine the high or low socio-economic condition of a person in society. Agricultural land is a contributing factor to the life needs of the community, especially rural communities. Rural communities in general are people who use natural resources in the field of agriculture, where the community has hereditary activities in the agriculture sector, so that people in rural areas and The margins of earning or relying on businesses engaged in agriculture. Farmers are synonymous with marginalized people in the bustle of development. The unbiased situation on the farmer, then it affects the performance of farmers in their field. In North Minahasa regency, especially in the village of Patokaan Coconut is considered as one of the main livelihood for farmers to support the familyeconomy. Coconut plants are an efficient plant that is very beneficial to meet the needs of human day, because all parts of coconut tree can be used for human needs. By looking at the price of coconut in the market still fluctuating sometimes rises sometimes down but the farmers are still able to survive in cultivating coconut plants. The reason farmers are trying in coconut farming because coconut in its productivity in one year is able to get results as many as 4 (four) harvest. Keywords: agricultural, farmer, coconut


Severe infection with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an important cause of respiratory failure in infants and young children. Pulmonary surfactant is a surface-active complex of phospholipids and proteins which lines the alveolar surface of the lung. Clinical similarities of severe RSV infection to Respiratory Distress Syndrome of the newborn (RDS) and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) suggest that surfactant abnormalities may be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. The hypothesis tested in this study is that the pulmonary surfactant system is dysfunctional in severe RSV infection, due to deficiency, abnormal composition, damage or inhibition. Non-bronchoscopic bronchoalveolar lavage was performed on 18 children ventilated for severe RSV infection and 16 children ventilated for surgical procedures and post operative care. It was concluded that in children with severe RSV infection, surfactant was dysfunctional. There was evidence that two mechanisms contributed to this: 1. Pulmonary surfactant proteins and phospholipids were deficient. 2. Surfactant surface activity was inhibited. Surfactant phospholipid and fatty acid composition was abnormal, and surfactant damage was present. However, the surface active properties of an organic extract of BAL fluid were intact. This indicated that damage to surfactant and change in composition did not reduce surface activity. There was minimal damage to lipids by peroxidation. In conclusion, the pulmonary surfactant system is abnormal in children with severe RSV infection. Surfactant abnormality may be an important factor leading to respiratory failure in these children. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).


Based on the previous earthquake prediction methods,we put forward a synthetical method of earthquake prediction.First,the dynamic image(including seismogenic gap and seismogenic belt) is used to confirm potential seismic dangerous zone approximately.Then a certain seismogenic zone is determined using coulomb stress infered from moderately strong earthquakes.Finally,ARM model and growing correlation length model are applied to judge whether the seismogenic zone is changed into critical state or not.In forecasting seismic three facts,the particular advantages of typical seismographic forecasting methods is exploited;in order to gain more credible forecasting result,the small correlated method has been intercompared and verified.This article studied Heze 5.9 earthquake,happened in 1983,using this synthetical method.The result shows that the forecasting result observed synthetical method is basically consistent to Heze earthquake.


Global parts are curved surface parts.When drew,curved surface parts bring wrinkle easily at flange.This paper analyses it in-depth and finally designs two plus and inverted drawing dies of the global part,which are fit for different occasions.It provides reference for the same kind of parts in die design.


Although eutrophication induced by anthropogenic nutrient enrichment is a driver of shifts in community composition and eventually a threat to marine biodiversity, the causes and consequences on ecosystem functioning remain greatly unknown. In this study, by applying a trait-based approach and measuring niche breadth of diatoms and copepods, the drivers and underlying mechanisms of the seasonal species succession of these ecological communities in a coastal system dominated in spring by Phaeocystis blooms were explored. It is suggested that the seasonal succession of diatoms and copepods is the result of several trade-offs among functional traits that are controlled by the seasonal abiotic and biotic pressure encountered by the plankton communities. The results of this study highlight that a trade-off between competition and predator, i.e., weak competitors are better protected against predation, plays an important role in promoting plankton species richness and triggers the Phaeocystis bloom. As often observed in eutrophicated ecosystems, only the biotic homogenization of the copepod community and the shift in the diet of copepods toward Phaeocystis detrital materials have been detected during the Phaeocystis bloom. The diatom and copepod communities respond synchronously to fluctuating resources and biotic conditions by successively selecting species with specific traits. This study confirms the key role of competition and predation in controlling annual plankton succession.


This paper presents a new robotic system for automated image-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). TMS is a non-invasive technique that is currently being developed for the treatment of important pathologies such as depression. This stimulation technique requires an accurate positioning of a magnetic coil in order to induce a specific cortical excitation. The doctor currently positions the coil manually by means of a navigation system, which does not allow a precise clinical evaluation of the TMS procedure. In this paper, a novel robotic design is therefore proposed which aims at replacing the neurologist during a TMS session. The proposed robot architecture satisfies simultaneously the safety and accuracy requirements associated to the gesture, which allows the development of autonomous procedures.


This paper examines mating behaviour and copulatory mechanics (including insemination) in Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758) and presents a revised description of its copulatory apparatus. The taxonomic position of the genus Planorbarius within the Basommatophora is discussed. The study shows that although P. corneus is similar to Planorbella (Seminolina) duryi (Wetherby, 1879) in the structure of the shell, copulatory apparatus, mating behaviour and even mating positions, they have different mechanisms of intromission. The analysis of morphology and mating behaviour does not support a close phylogenetic affinity of Planorbarius to the family Bulinidae P. Fischer et Crosse, 1880 and Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815.


Recently, natural fibers have become attractive materials to engineers, scientists, and researchers as an alternative reinforcement for biocomposites. In this study, polylactic acid/abutilon natural straw biocomposites with various abutilon straw weight fractions were prepared by melt blending. The differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) results showed a significant influence of the abutilon straw on the melting behavior of PLA, even at the low abutilon straw contents. The dynamic mechanical analysis demonstrated that the storage modulus, as well as tan delta of the biocomposites, increased when the abutilon straw content increases, which indicates better interaction between abutilon natural straw and PLA. The incorporation of abutilon straw into biocomposites provided favorable changes in rheology related to the matrix. SEM observation revealed good dispersion of the abutilon straw in PLA.


*Foundations *Introduction xxx The Development of Consumer Behaviour in Europe *Theories and Models of Consumer Behaviour *Individual Processes *The Consumer: Identification and Measurement *Attitudes and Decision Processes *SociETAL Influences *Social Interactions *Socio-Cultural Perspectives *Alternative Approaches *Economic Psychology *Semiotics of Consumption *Emerging Perspectives


Background: Recognising effects of static magnetic field (SMF) of varying flux density on flora and fauna is attempted. For this purpose, the influence of static magnetic field is studied for molecules of five complex lipids i.e. such as β-carotene, sphingosine, ceramide, cholesterol and phosphatidylcholine.
 Methods: Computations of the effect of real SMF 0.0, 0.1, 1, 10 and 100 AMFU (Arbitrary Magnetic Field Unit; here 1AMFU > 1000 T) flux density were performed in silico (computer vacuum), involving advanced computational methods.
 Results: SMF polarises molecules depending on applied flux density. Only β-carotene survives exposure to SMF of 10 and 100 AMFU without radical splitting of some valence bonds. Molecules of remaining lipids suffered radical cleavage of some bonds on exposure to SMF of 10 and 100 AMFU. Manipulation with applied flux density provides either inhibition or stimulation of biological functions of the lipids under study.
 Conclusions: SMF destabilises complex lipids to the extent depending applied flux density. Biological functions of β-carotene are fairly sensitive to SMF, whereas only slight response to the effect of SMF is observed in case of sphingosine, ceramide and cholesterol. Enzymatic hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine is stimulated by SMF regardless of the catalysed enzyme employed.