The invention relates to a device and a method for protecting the ecology in a water source area on a rural land surface. The device is formed by integrating multi-level functional filtration walls and comprises a water distribution channel, an aerobic segment filtration wall, an anoxic segment filtration wall, a biological reinforcement purification filtration wall, a water collection sedimentation tank and an excessive water overflow groove, wherein the aerobic segment filtration wall, the anoxic segment filtration wall and the biological reinforcement purification filtration wall are connected in series with one another. The invention has the advantages that: the method has a good treatment effect, is low in investment and operation cost, is simple in maintenance, makes the functional characteristics of all levels of filtration walls distinctive, is definite in labor division, is used for treating rural domestic sewage and farmland initial-stage runoff drained water, is suitable for biological protection on the water source area of the rural land surface, a lake reservoir and the like, can be used for treating small-scale domestic sewage and is an economic and effective method for biological protection and small-scale domestic sewage treatment.


We have performed neutron-scattering measurements on a single crystal of CeCu/sub 6/ in applied magnetic fields from 0 to 6.4 T. The observed momentum-dependent magnetic scattering implies the existence of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations. While it induces no resonances, the field broadens the spectra considerably at T-italic = 0.4 K. An effective Hamiltonian which incorporates both single-impurity Kondo properties and antiferromagnetic Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interactions describes our data.


This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) framework, which was established to regulate it. Further liberalization of services trade in developing countries, as currently envisaged in the context of the WTO Doha Development Agenda, holds a number of potential benefits, such as underpinning the liberalization of goods trade, but it is also being resisted due to its potential adjustment costs. Two implications for IMF activities are examined: coherence among the three principal international economic institutions and sequencing with macroeconomic stabilization and regulatory reforms.


Little is known about how religion and spirituality (R/S) operate as protective factors for Muslim women's mental health. In this study, 20 Muslim women, including community members and mental health clinicians, participated in focus groups and individual interviews, respectively, to explore how R/S improve Muslim women's social support, self- esteem, and emotional well- being in the San Francisco Bay Area. Utilizing qualitative methods, the present study provides con-sistent results that being Muslim has a direct positive effect on self- esteem, emotional health, life satisfaction, meaning, and purpose. Women who participated had a more mixed view of the social support that R/S give them, including mixed feelings about the local community and social pressures. Knowledge of protective factors for mental health among Muslim women may contribute to improving treatment strategies and decreasing culturally based stigma.


Using palm empty fruit bunches as the fiber pulping material is an original technology in the world.Through laboratory and large scale industrial tests,the paper presented a serial of unique machines and process technology used in fiber pulping with palm empty fruit bunches.The paper systematically introduced the processing of fiber pulping with palm empty fruit bunches and its equipment′s characteristics demands and technological conditions.


Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a precious national asset. Natural water always contains dissolved and suspended substances of organic and mineral origin. Water is polluted with metabolites of aquatic plants and animals and the products of their decay. All these cause so many water borne diseases. The excessive amount of fluoride in water and environment is harmful. The quality and availability of water depend on the way, We use and misuse this precious resource, which is the most important life supporting substance. The present study has been undertaken for the determination of fluoride in drinking water collected at rondom from Koshi region. The fluoride concentration values vary from 0.6 mg/L to 1.6 mg/L. In the affected areas, it was found that citizens are suffering with different types of fluorosis. Authors have suggested the people to use generally alum and lime to avoid all types of fluorosis.


The lubricating oil pressure is an extremely important control parameter in cooling system operation of the centrifugal blower.The actual working condition of the centrifugal blower is objectively reflected by this parameter.In this paper,the GM65L-6 type centrifugal blower is taken as a sample for analyzing the cause of lubricating oil pressure deviated to low value.The corresponding treatment based on that analysis is also provided.


Proper reviewing of the manuscripts and timely submission of the outcome of the review process determines the success/quality of any conference—big or small. However, the challenge assumes a higher dimension when a reputed publisher like IEEE agrees to shoulder the responsibility of publishing the proceedings of the event. Because the hallmark of IEEE is quality rather than quantity and due to this benchmark, even some good manuscripts could not be accommodated in the conference program. This made our job a difficult one, no doubt but this taught us the art of taking difficult decision which would help us in the future in our profession too.


In this article on the nature and functioning of hope, we see, in a brief glimpse of some leading medieval ideas, hope as an element in a structure of intellectual or theological understanding and in the perennially current metaphor of the quest. In considering a small number of speculative novels, we see hope as a necessary dimension of fictional projections that represent utopian visions and the challenges to their implementation.


We use a high-statistic quantum Monte Carlo and Maximum Entropy regularization method to compute the dynamical energy correlation function (DECF) of the one-dimensional (1D) $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model at finite temperatures. We also present a finite temperature analytical ansatz for the DECF which is in very good agreement with the numerical data in all the considered temperature range. From these results, and from a finite temperature generalisation of the mechanism proposed by Lorenzana and Sawatsky [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 74}, 1867 (1995)], we compute the line shape for the optical absorption spectra of multimagnon excitations assisted by phonons for quasi 1D compounds. The line shape has two contributions analogous to the Stokes and anti-Stokes process of Raman scattering. Our low temperature data is in good agreement with optical absorption experiments of CuO$_3$ chains in Sr$_2$CuO$_3$. Our finite temperature results provide a non trivial prediction on the dynamics of the Heisenberg model at finite temperatures that is easy to verify experimentally.


To cite this article: Joerink M, Oortveld MAW, Stenius F, Rindsjö E, Alm J, Scheynius A. Lifestyle and parental allergen sensitization are reflected in the intrauterine environment at gene expression level. Allergy 2010; 65: 1282–1289.


This thesis describes results obtained using high resolution electron microscopy, acoustic microscopy and chemical analysis to study the structure and properties of the superionic β-aluminas. The acoustic microscopy and chemical analysis results relate solely to sodium β- and β" -alumina, which are used as the solid state electrolyte in the sodium/sulphur cell. The high resolution electron microscopy results cover sodium β- and β"-alumina as well as a number of ion-exchanged β"-aluminas. The β-alumina structure consists of spinel-like blocks separated by the so-called conduction planes. The conduction planes have a low density, and contain all the mobile cations. Lattice images of sodium β- and β"-alumina, silver β-alumina, ammonium/hydronium β"-alumina, gadolinium β" -alumina and divalent and trivalent europium β" -alumina are presented and discussed. A hitherto unreported long-period structure in sodium β-alumina is shown, as is superlattice ordering in the divalent and trivalent β"-aluminas. Defects in these materials are also discussed. The most common damage mode in the β" -aluminas, due to electron beam irradiation, is the loss of the mobile-ion containing planes, and the subsequent collapse and shear of the structure to form broad defect spinel blocks. It is shown that collapse vectors determined for sodium β"-alumina can also be applied to ammonium/hydronium β"-alumina. Two further damage modes observed in this β"-alumina are also discussed. A damage mode has been observed in sodium B-alumina and silver β-alumina which involves the extrusion of material to the crystal surface. Electron diffraction patterns from the extruded material have been indexed. The acoustic microscope has been used to examine bulk sodium β/β"-alumina electrolyte tube specimens. Images of rectangular features present in the tubes (approximately 40um in length) are presented and the possible nature of the features is discussed.


Scheduling algorithms used in compilers traditionally focus on goals such as reducing schedule length and register pressure or producing compact code. In the context of a hardware synthesis system where the schedule is used to determine various components of the hardware, including datapath, storage, and interconnect, the goals of a scheduler change drastically. In addition to achieving the traditional goals, the scheduler must proactively make decisions to ensure efficient hardware is produced. This paper proposes two exact solutions for cost sensitive modulo scheduling, one based on an integer linear programming formulation and another based on branch-and-bound search. To achieve reasonable compilation times, decomposition techniques to break down the complex scheduling problem into phase ordered sub-problems are proposed. The decomposition techniques work either by partitioning the dataflow graph into smaller subgraphs and optimally scheduling the subgraphs, or by splitting the scheduling problem into two phases, time slot and resource assignment. The effectiveness of cost sensitive modulo scheduling in minimizing the costs of function units, register structures, and interconnection wires are evaluated within a fully automatic synthesis system for loop accelerators. The cost sensitive modulo scheduler increases the efficiency of the resulting hardware significantly compared to both traditional cost unaware and greedy cost aware modulo schedulers


Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect of octreotide on severe acute pancreatitis(SAP) and bacterial translocation(BT).Methods 80 rats which were colonized a strain of E.coli bearing the recombinant plasmid were randomized into 4 groups with 20 rats in each group. In pretreatment group and control, octreotide was given at a rate of 6 μg·kg -1 ·hr -1 for 1 hour following intravenous injection at a dose of 4 μg/kg before induction of SAP; In treatment group and control, octreotide was administered subcutaneously at rate of 6 μg·kg -1 every the other 8 hours for 24 hours following intravenous injection at a dose of 4 μg/kg half an hour after induction of SAP. The rats were sacrificed 24 hours after the induction of pancreatitis.Mesenteric lymph node (MLN) and peritoneal fluid were collected for culture.Bacteria were identified by antibiogram and plasmid DNA analysis. Results The incidence rates in BT of MLN and peritoneal fluid in pretreatment group were 55%(11/20) and 20%(4/20),and those in treatment group were 47 4%(9/19) and 15 8%(3/19),compared with the control( P 0 05). The mortality of rats in pretreatment group and treatment group was 0%(0/20) and 5%(1/20),compared with their control( P 0 05) . Conclusions Octreotide has a therapeutic effect on BT in rats with SAP.


Applying the self-construal (SC) temporal match effect to a cause marketing context, this study investigated the conditions under which cause-related marketing campaigns generate stronger altruistic attributions of sponsor motives and subsequently purchase intention. As major factors, temporal duration (long-term vs. short-term), SC (independent vs. interdependent), and product involvement (high vs. low) were incorporated in the integrative model and the three-way interaction effect on altruistic attributions was assessed. With the use of online experimental data from 323 college students, the matching effect of temporal duration and SC was found, such that independent individuals were influenced by the message that was framed with the distant, long-term duration. Our findings further found that this matching effect was more pronounced for the high-involvement product, but not for the low-involvement product. In addition, this study discovered that altruistic attributions mediated the effect of temporal duration on purchase intention in the low-involvement product condition, but not in the high-involvement condition. Theoretical and managerial implications were discussed for researchers and practitioners.


This research aims to analyze 3 of 7 Steps Internet marketing and to produce market penetration strategy by developing an e-marketing-based website that is expected to help in decision making. E-marketing is a marketing strategy that can be carried out by the company with the utilization of Internet. Aie Badarun is a business entity engaged in the restaurant business that provides various menus. This research used Porter's industry analysis, framework of seven stages of Internet marketing, conjoint analysis, and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD). The outcome of the analysis is known that a feasible strategy for the company is leveraging the Internet as marketing media. E-marketing strategy through Restaurant Aie Badarun website is expected to be able to give customers the information needed about the product or menu of food and drink, customer testimonials, online reservation, and finding solutions to their queries about products and services of Restaurant Aie Badarun using 7C Framework which is a combination of attributes and website design. E -marketing strategy could support the overall restaurant marketing.


The changes in bacterial numbers, relative growth rates, and glucose uptake kinetics were studied in the surface layer of a reservoir during several 24-h observation periods at intervals of 3 or 6 h, and once a day at intervals of 4 or 6 weeks from April through October. Microscopic and plate counts did not show any diel periodicity. All the other measures had regular diel patterns and the range of diel variation increased with increasing algal production. The diurnal average relative growth rates, Kt + Sn values, and turnover times were distinctly higher than the nocturnal ones and there were also characteristic diel changes in glucose uptake kinetics during the periods of algal activity. The diel changes in bacterial net uptake rate of algal extracellular products in autumn samples were twice as high as the maximum glucose uptake rate. Only for microscopic counts and maximum glucose net uptake rates were the diel variations significantly lower than the seasonal variation. For other parameters, the diel and seasonal variations were similar.


Aim: To evaluate the serum magnesium levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Material and method: The present prospective observational study was conducted in the department of Medicine among 50 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Patients who presented to the hospital within 24 hours of onset of symptoms and diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction were included in the study. Blood samples collection were taken within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. All patients were evaluated for their ECG and cardiac enzymes and serum magnesium level by taking 5 cc venous blood sample in a disposable syringe and sent to biochemistry laboratory for analysis in fluoride bulb and plain bulb respectively. Results: Smoking was reported in 82% of the subjects whereas hypertension and diabetes mellitus in 64% and 46% of the subjects respectively. Sixteen percent, 24% and 60% of the subject's time of presentation was 3-6 hours, 6-12 hours and 12-18 hours respectively. On day 5, only six percent (3) of the subjects with arrhythmia were having serum magnesium level (mg/dL) <1.6 while 14% of the subjects with arrhythmia reported 1.7-2.4 serum magnesium level (mg/dL). ance in acute MI.


Intense shading under large piers is known to negatively affect benthic fishes. However, effects on pelagic fishes are poorly known. We employed the equivalent of acoustic video, dual frequency identification sonar (DIDSON), under a kayak to evaluate the response of pelagic fishes at a large (351 × 255 m) urban pier (Pier 40) in Hudson River. A repeated measures design (322 occupations) sampled 3 transects each across both the northern and southern open water — pier edge — under pier continuum during the day and night from June 2009 to Septem- ber 2010. Over 22 000 individual fish, ranging from small schooling forage species (e.g. Anchoa mitchilli, Menidia menidia) to large predators (Morone saxatilis, Pomatomus saltatrix) were detected with DIDSON and verified with conventional sampling nets. Small ( 250 mm) predatory fish responded somewhat differently from small schooling fish in that large predatory fish were slightly more abundant under the pier than in open water, but only from the edge extending to 5 m under the pier where there was still some light. Beyond that, abundance declined sharply. Together, these observations indicate that areas under large piers are suboptimal habitats for many of the abundant pelagic fishes, a pattern similar to that for benthic fishes.


shown considerable synthetic utility, and allows a highly efficient entry into oximes of alkyl (1,2,4-triazyn-5-yl) ketones.1 The latter may serve as common intermediates in the construction of pyrazolo[4,3-e][1,2,4]triazines,2 2-acylpyridines and 3-acyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroisoquinolines, valuable precursors for the synthesis of sempervirine, and its analogues,3 possessing interesting pharmacological activity. In view of the wide application of the 1,2,4-triazine oximes in organic synthesis, unequivocal assignments of their stereochemistry became indispensable. The configuration of alkyl-1,2,4-triazin-5-yl ketooximes was determined previously by means of 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and homonuclear NOE-difference spectroscopy.4 Oximes resulting from reaction of 1,2,4-triazines with nitronate anions were found to be either pure E-isomers or E/Z-mixture with the amount of E-isomer greatly predominating. Here, we have extended this study to a single-crystal X-ray diffraction structure of 1-(3-methylsulfanyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-yl)ethanone Oacryloyl oxime, simply obtained by the reaction of 3bromopropanoyl chloride with oxime of 5-acetyl-3methylsulfanyl-1,2,4-triazine in the presence of triethylamine. Attempts to obtain mono crystals of the oximes of alkyl (1,2,4triazyn-5-yl)ketones suitable for X-ray analysis, failed. 5-Acetyl-3-methylsulfanyl-1,2,4-triazine was prepared as a reference.4 (E)-1-(3-Methylsulfanyl)-1,2,4-triazin-5-yl)ethanone O-acryloyl oxime was synthesized according to the following procedure: to a solution of oxime of 5-acyl-3methylsulfanyl-1,2,4-triazine (1.5 mmol) and triethylamine (4.5 mmol) in dry CH2Cl2 (5 mL) at –40 ̊C was added the acid chloride (1.5 mmol) in CH2Cl2 (2 mL), dropwise. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred for 12 h. It was then washed with water (2 × 10 mL), saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate (3 × 10 mL), brine (1 × 10 mL) and dried over MgSO4. Removal of the solvent yielded a crude product, which was then purified by column chromatography on silica gel using CH2Cl2/hexane mixture (2:1) as an eluent. Yield, 81%; m.p., 99 – 100 ̊C. 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ: 2.48 (s, x205 ANALYTICAL SCIENCES 2007, VOL. 23


【 Abstract 】 Objective To explore the impact of continuous care on the compliance behavior of glaucoma patients. Method We selected 100 medical records from our hospital from May 2021 to May 2023


This action research study considers the challenges of organisational culture, leadership and management, staff development and collaboration in achieving quality of provision in educational and other services for people with profound and complex learning difficulties/disabilities. A holistic paradigm is formed from the study, in which the organisation is considered as an entity of which each learner and staff member is an element of the whole. Development of emotional intelligence competencies in addition to specialist skills and knowledge is explored, in relation to improving the responsiveness of staff to individual learner needs. The study casts a spotlight on the benefits of continuous creative dialogue within and between organisations that centres on the quality of experience of each person with profound and complex learning difficulties/disabilities as a potential partner in the development of the organisation.


We have developed new supported liquid membrane (SLM) technology for removal and recovery of chromium from waste waters. The technology not only removes the Cr(VI) to less than 0.05 ppm in the treated effluent allowable for discharge or recycle, but also recovers the product at a high concentration of about 20% (62.3% Na 2 CrO 4 ) suitable for resale or reuse. In other words, we have achieved the goals of zero discharge and no sludge. The chromium flux in its entire range from low Cr(VI) concentrations in the feed solution to high feed concentrations, at which the carrier saturation of the facilitated transport mechanism occurs, has been in good agreement with a film model. The stability of the SLM has been ensured by strip dispersion, where the aqueous strip solution is dispersed in the organic membrane solution in a mixer. The strip dispersion formed is circulated from the mixer to the membrane module providing a constant supply of the organic solution to the membrane pores.


swelling; core-shell microspheres; Janus; solubility parameter; polar fraction Abstract. Janus particles have particular properties and potential application for their asymmetry dual-faced structure. In this report, we study the effect of the solubility parameter and the polar fraction of solvent on the swelling assisted with protrusion of polystyrene @ titanium dioxide (PS@TiO2) core-shell microspheres. The resultant titanium dioxide/polystyrene (TiO2/PS) Janus particles were characterized by scanning electron microscope. Results indicated that solvent with the solubility parameter of about 9.3 (cal/cm3)1/2 and with low polarity such as dimethylbenzene, carbon disulfide and methyl methacrylate exhibited the preferable swelling efficiency. Janus particles have particular properties and potential application for their asymmetry dual-faced structure. In this report, we study the effect of the solubility parameter and the polar fraction of solvent on the swelling assisted with protrusion of polystyrene @ titanium dioxide (PS@TiO2) core-shell microspheres. The resultant titanium dioxide/polystyrene (TiO2/PS) Janus particles were characterized by scanning electron microscope. Results indicated that solvent with the solubility parameter of about 9.3 (cal/cm3)1/2 and with low polarity such as dimethylbenzene, carbon disulfide and methyl methacrylate exhibited the preferable swelling efficiency.


This book contains 76 chapters that are divided into six main parts: "Molecular Imaging Technologies," "Chemistry of Molecular Imaging," "Molecular Imaging in Cell and Molecular Biology," "Applications of Molecular Imaging," "Molecular Imaging in Drug Evaluation," and "Other Topics." The book is printed in color on glossy paper, and the chapters are written by experts in their fields.


The invention belongs to the field of animal husbandry, in particular relates to an antibiotic-free culture method of combined application of beneficial bacteria and biological isolation. The method is characterized by comprising the following five aspects of: (1) adding a strain for padding into the padding so as to manufacture a fermenting bed; (2) adding a strain for feed into the feed; (3) adding a bacterial suspension for drinking water into routine drinking water; (4) spraying a bacterial suspension for sterilizing in the feeding environment; and (5) planting greening trees and Chinese herbal medicines with sterilizing action to replace isolation strips between adjacent colony houses. The method provided by the invention obviously improves the feeding environment, improves the culture profit, lowers the feeding cost and culture risk, and provides a strong guarantee for obtaining high-quality antibiotic-free products.


Background: The fear of the corona virus and the psychological discomfort experienced by teachers after returning to the classroom were two psychological repercussions of the spread of the corona virus that were mentioned in much earlier research. The current study aims to ascertain the degree of psychological distress, fear of Corona, and the relationship between the two among teachers upon their return to face-to-face instruction. Materials and Methods: After taking their initial agreement, the questionnaire was distributed among the teachers in several schools after they showed their agreement to participate in filling out the questionnaire. They were informed of the aim of the study concerning all the ethical issues in preserving the confidentiality of the information and that the information will be used for scientific research only. Accordingly, the questionnaire was distributed to 300 teachers in the by the simple random sample method. Result: The study was female preponderance with 54% are female teachers and most common age group was 30-39 years comprising 45% participants followed by 40-49 years. There are no statistically significant differences in the level of fear of Corona among the teachers, which is due to the variable of gender. There are no statistically significant differences at the significance level of in the level of psychological distress among the teachers according to the variable of age. There is a positive relationship with statistical significance between fear of Corona and psychological distress among the teachers. Conclusion: According to the study, psychological distress and fear of Corona are positively correlated. To strengthen the teachers' non-knowledge abilities and safeguard them against the detrimental effects of the phenomena of fear and psychological distress, it is vital to develop their flexibility and emotional adaptability.


Inside COBRA 2011 RICS International Research Conference, the present paper is linked to analyze the liability of the construction professional in his practice as a expert witness in the Spanish legal framework. In a large number of legal procedures related to the building it is necessary the intervention of the expert witness to report on the subject of litigation, and to give an opinion about possible causes and solutions. This field is increasingly importantly for the practice of construction professional that requires an important specialization. The expert provides his knowledge to the judge in the matter he is dealing with (construction, planning, assessment, legal, ...), providing arguments or reasons as the base for his case and acting as part of the evidence. Although the importance of expert intervention in the judicial process, the responsibilities arising from their activity is a slightly studied field. Therefore, the study has as purpose to think about the regulation of professional activities raising different aims. The first is to define the action of the construction professional-expert witness and the need for expert evidence, establishing the legal implications of this professional activity. The different types of responsibilities (the civil, criminal and administrative) have been established as well as the economic, penal or disciplinary damages that can be derived from the expert report


A model of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA function is presented. The model is built to be simple, but providing a clear description of the inter-relations between the EDCA MAC parameters (AIFS, CWmin, CWmax and TXOP values) and the traffic flow characteristics (packet arrival rate and packet length). The model is intended to be used as an abstraction of the IEEE 802.11e MAC protocol in WLAN flow level simulations and/or analytical studies, such as Radio Resource Management and Call Admission Control. Moreover, as the model is able to capture the reciprocal effects of tuning the MAC parameters, it can be used for optimization purposes as is presented in this paper. Thus, using a multigoal optimization function, the optimal EDCA MAC parameters are computed and evaluated in presence of elastic (BE) and rigid (V O) flows. The optimization process has the goals of maximizing the elastic throughput while assuring the bandwidth-delay requirements of the rigid flows. Finally, the outcomes allow us to define a procedure to tune iteratively the MAC parameters, showing performances close to the optimal ones.


Tapping into the blossoming field of immunometabolism, Rheos Medicines has come out of stealth with $60 million in funding from Third Rock Ventures. The Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech firm will initially develop small molecules to treat autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, vitiligo, and lupus. While many areas of drug development are moving toward personalized medicine—most notably in cancer, where targeted therapy has proliferated—immunologists still rely on one-size-fits-all treatments for their patients. Rheos hopes to change that. Starting last summer, the company assembled a drug discovery platform based on findings from its academic founders, whose work focuses on how a cell's metabolic pathways can control its fate. Cells, like people, get their energy from different sources, explains Rheos's chief scientific officer, Laurence Turka. "You know how you feel different if you have two slices of pizza for lunch instead of a salad? You behave differently." Cells are no different, he


High-resolution ultrasound imaging of tissues provides a higher possibility for the early diagnosis of various diseases and plays an important role in high-precision targeted treatment. However, it unavoidably suffers from low penetration depth and short depth of field (DOF) due to its high operating frequency. A novel single-element dual-frequency ultrasound transducer (DFUT) has been designed and studied, which consists of three conductive metal layers, a large capacitive elastic layer used as the low-frequency capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT), and a small piezoelectric layer used as the high-frequency piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT). This capacitive-piezoelectric hybrid structure is able to operate at both CMUT and PMUT modes at two different frequencies. Both theoretical analysis and finite element method (FEM) simulations have been carried out towards the frequency performance and optimizing the dimensions of the DFUT. The results show that the novel structure could be in operation at both low frequency of 5.9MHz and high frequency of 26.6MHz, which can be adopted as imaging and/or therapy operations. With the combination of CMUT and PMUT modes, the single-element DFUT provides the advantages of high-resolution (<200μm for PMUT operation) and a wide detection distance (>3cm for CMUT operation), which may significantly inspire the imaging-guided precision medicine applications.


Although pedogenesis and landscape evolution have occurred on the eastern North Dakota till plain since the inception of the Holocene, soils with argillic horizon are recognized on a very limited basis. Argillic soils are not mapped in well-drained positions on the youngest drift prairie landscapes. Roughly half of 47 pedons examined at a precision farming research site in Barnes County, North Dakota show evidence of genetic argillic horizons based on soil structure, hand texturing, and cutan presence. This study applies physical and micro-morphological evidence to verify that diagnostic argillic horizons have formed in well-drained settings on this eastern North Dakota landscape. Total clay distributions and fineltotal clay ratios show marked increases in genetic argillic horizons compared with surface horizons and parent materials. The argillic horizons average about 28 cm in thickness; only two pedons were thinner than 7.5 cm. Consequently, the increase in total clay and fine clay distributions, and the thickness criteria required to meet diagnostic horizon status as established by Soil Taxonomy are satisfied. The upper argillic horizon boundary of seven profiles was 50 cm or more below the surface, possibly indicating relict argillic horizons. Micromorphologic evidence shows the presence of illuvial clay in the three soils sampled for microscopy. Porosity variations caused by the argillic horizons likely affect subsurface flow and may be responsible for variable N levels measured for these soils. These soils formed in well-drained landscape settings, where stratified drift may predispose the soils to illuviation.


Received August 14, 2021 Accepted September 9, 2021 Published November 30, 2021 Getting keywords suggestions and allintitle from Google search engine will not be effective, efficient, and economical If we do manually for relatively extensive keyword research. It will take a long time to decide whether a keyword is needed to be optimized or not. Based on these problems, this study was aimed to analyze the implementation of the web scraping technique to get relevant keyword suggestions from the Google search engine and the number of "allintitle" that are owned automatically. The data used as an experiment in this test consists of ten keywords and each keyword would generate a maximum of ten keywords suggestion. Therefore, from ten keywords, it will produce at most 100 keywords suggestions and the number of allintitles. Based on the evaluation result, we got an accuracy of 100%. It indicated that the technique could be applied to get keywords suggestions and allintitle from Google search engines with outstanding accuracy values. Kata Kunci:


Some heavy oil reservoirs under solution gas drive show abnormally high final recoveries. One of the mechanisms to explain these phenomena is the foamy oil flow effect which occurs under certain operating conditions. It has been studied extensively, yet remains poorly understood and difficult to model. The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of oil foaminess on the performance of solution gas drive in heavy oil reservoirs. In this research, the first step was to find a foaming agent that will have a measurable effect on foam stability of a viscous mineral oil. A simple experimental procedure was developed to quantify the oil foaminess in the presence of an added foaming agent. Several depletion tests were conducted with the added foaming agent at different depletion rates using a two metre long sand-pack. The experimental results showed that the increased foaminess of oil did not have a significant effect on the solution gas drive performance when the depletion rate was high. However, in a slow depletion test, the effect of oil foaminess was significant.


A posteriori error estimation for conforming, non-conforming and discontinuous finite element schemes are discussed within a single framework. By dealing with three ostensibly different schemes under the same umbrella, the same common underlying principles at work in each case are highlighted leading to a clearer understanding of the issues involved. The ideas are presented in the context of piecewise affine finite element approximation of a second-order elliptic problem. It is found that the framework leads to three different known a posteriori error estimators: the equilibrated residual method in the case of conforming Galerkin FEM; the estimator of Ainsworth [3] in the case of the Crouzeix-Raviart scheme, and a new estimator [1] recently derived in case of discontinuous Galerkin approximation. In all cases one has computable upper bounds on the error measured in the energy norm and corresponding local lower bounds showing the efficiency of the schemes.


This paper re-studies the simple transmission phase-shift method for dielectric measurement of low-loss material. This method is explicit and material position-invariant. However, the sensitivity of transmission phase-shift is dependent on the material thickness. In this study, the effect of material thickness to the predicted relative permittivity of the material has been analyzed quantitatively. The sensitivity measurement was tested using customized X-band rectangular waveguide and three well-known materials, which are acrylic, FR-4 and RT/duroid 5880 substrate. Finally, appropriate thickness of the material in order to provide accurate predicted values of permittivity was determined.


The Weimar Republic: a reconstruction of the events through historiographical debate. The Weimar Constitution: scope and implications in the development of authoritarianism. At the dawn of creation: investigating over the drafters intents.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the decision to choose entry mode to Thai market by Chinese consulting firms based on the application of Uppsala model. This research focused on the explainarion of the conceptual framework based on the Uppsala model to investigate Chinese counsulting services business internationalization process. Therefore, this study is a conceptual framework research. More, this study is to assess the process of internationalization of Chinese consulting firms in expanding overseas business and to recommend the implementation of this research to choose entry mode for internationalization consulting service business in Thailand. Though the analysis was done by the researcher, the most appropriate entry mode is joint ventures, and the rest is strategic alliance and wholly owned subsidiaries. The economic situation, the foreign business laws and regulations and the needs of foreign clients are the top three important factors affecting the decision to choose entry mode to Thai market by Chinese consulting firms. Chinese management consulting industry is still in a development and growth stage, whereas expansion and merger is the trend, and the prospect of Chinese consulting firm business in Thailand is optimistic.


PURPOSE: To use the tool of a magazine for a machine tool handling the tool with a tool conveying device in sequence by moving jaws to an opening position for inserting the tool and to a fastening position for lock-holding the tool with operating elements. CONSTITUTION: When an operation button 26 is moved in the vertical direction, moveable jaws 30, 30a are rotated from a fastening position to an opening position around shafts 14, 14 a. A tool 11 can be inserted into a hand section 13 from the right side at the opening position in contact with the semicircular reception section of the hand section 13. When the moveable jaws 30, 30a are moved to the fastening position, the tool 11 is fixed not to be rotated around its axis. The tool 11 can be conveyed into the spindle of a machine tool at a high speed in this state, and the tool 11 is prevented from causing an undesirable position change at this time. The tool 11 is rather fed to the spindle in a limited peripheral position, and a slide block in the spindle can be directly coupled with the groove of the accessory tool 11.


Porphysomes are efficient transducers of photothermal energy. A strategy to monitor the in vivo fate of porphysomes is presented. Incorporation of a FRET acceptor into porphysomes allows for determination of the optimal photothermal treatment time.


. By classifying S -maximal amenable subgroups of algebraic groups over a global field of characteristic zero, we obtain a complete classification of maximal amenable subgroups up to commensurability in the respective arithmetic groups. Futhermore, we prove that these commensurably maximal amenable subgroups are singular and therefore give rise to maximal amenable von Neumann subalgebras.


The goal – is to analyze modern development of meat industry in Abay district of Abay region, identify advantages and disadvantages, as well as develop a set of measures for the effective functioning of meat and meat products market. Methods – balance, monographic, statistical and economic, settlement and constructive. Results – main indicators of development of livestock sector and meat industry of the region are considered, in particular, the share of crop and livestock production in the gross output of agricultural products (services) is shown; the number of livestock and poultry in all categories of farms, including cattle, sheep and goats, horses; production in slaughter weight; dynamics of the volume of processing of meat products. A comprehensive study made it possible to identify the problems of meat sub-complex associated with technical and technological backwardness of agricultural enterprises, the presence of inefficient and inactive economic entities, low competitiveness of meat products in foreign market, and the lack of financial resources. Conclusions – to obtain a wide range of meat products in the Abay district and in the whole region, it is necessary to take effective measures by creating a strong raw mat erial base for meat processing enterprises, developing market infrastructure, intensifying the pr ocesses of using processing enterprises of their own production capacities, while enterprises that provide a high degree of depth of processing of livestock and slaughter products will prevail at the lowest cost. An important role is played by improvement of state and ma rket regulation. For these purposes, it is necessary to develop a mechanism for increasing meat procurement. The main directions for the development of relations between agricultural producers and processing enterprises are an effective system of pricing, contractual relations, expanding the network of market infrastructure that provides technical, technological and organizational management of continuous supply to the consumer.


This paper examines several of the questions surrounding state universities' relationships with local landlords who employ discriminatory practices. These questions include the privilege of state universities to enforce a policy of nondiscrimination and the prohibition against state universities placing students into segregated housing.


The purpose of this paper is to provide a kind of formalized specification method for the Role Autonomous Decentrzlized System and lay the foundation for the formalized validation.The dynamic role playing with the spatial and temporal changes is decided by the system autonomy and the environmental condition.On the basis of the comparison and analysis of metrices of the system autonomy,the role autonomy matrix is defined from the internal and extenal viewpoints,and by three layers of the action layer,coordination layer and norm layer respectively;the RN-C formal specification scheme is proposed for the Role Autonomous Decentralized System,including the basic elements of role,role space,norm,role change,action condition and so on.Applying the RN-C formal specification scheme,the self-motivation statement and external control statement of the role action status range are made;the action primitives in the Role Field and Data Field dual driven architecture are given,including the operational primitive,request primitive,status change primitive,role arbitration primitive and so on;the formal specification of the action of the Role Autonomous Decentralized System is realized.The role evolution model based on the hierarchical automaton and the dependency of the environment are the key problems for future study.


We consider likelihood-based inference from multivariate regression models with independent Student-t errors. Some very intruiging pitfalls of both Bayesian and classical methods on the basis of point observations are uncovered. Bayesian inference may be precluded as a consequence of the coarse nature of the data. Global maximization of the likelihood function is a vacuous exercise since the likelihood function is unbounded as we tend to the boundary of the parameter space. A Bayesian analysis on the basis of set observations is proposed and illustrated by several examples.


This report recounts the HPC Colony II Project which was a computer science effort funded by DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research office. The project included researchers from ORNL, IBM, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The topic of the effort was adaptive system software for extreme scale parallel machines. A description of findings is included.


The gamma irradiation effect on the state of water in Tetrahymena pyriformis was studied by1H-NMR. The spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) value was measured, in which the transient spectra after 180° pulse were observed varying pulse interval (PI) . This method revealed the appearance of another small peak of water together with the main peak of water in irradiated cells, whereas any small peak of water was not observed in unirradiated cells. The T1value of the small peak was short compared with that of the main peak, suggesting that the water corresponding to the small peak is different from that corresponding to the main peak.


A method and apparatus for preventing laser current saturation (18) in high-speed optical drives. Saturation in laser current in high-speed optical drives is prevented before limitations in laser power are observed allowing the system to maintain requests for increases in the laser power. The saturation in laser current problem that is apparent at high temperatures and at high writing powers especially when combined with low supply voltage is avoided by insured operation of the laser near but below saturation. The ability to increase laser power upon request is maintained providing for good writing quality resulting and usable. The potential onset of laser current saturation is detected (34) and avoided (36) by dropping to a lower write speed requiring less laser power and hence preventing laser current saturation.


A 27-year-old nulliparous woman presented with a 3-month history of irregular vaginal bleeding associated with bloody discharge. There was no abdominal or pelvic pain, and there were no bowel or urinary symptoms. Clinical examination revealed a large fungating mass arising from the cervix seemingly indicative of cervical cancer. An examination under anaesthesia con®rmed a 3±4-cm fungating mass on the cervix. There was no clinical evidence of parametrial extension or vaginal invasion and the uterus was normal in size. Cystoscopy and sigmoidoscopy to 20 cm were normal. Histology of cervical biopsies showed invasive poorly di€erentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. Therefore, this was staged clinically as IB cervical cancer using the FIGO classi®cation. [1]. A pre-operative MRI (Fig. 1) 2 weeks later was reported as showing a large 4-cm cervical tumour extending into both parametrial and adnexal regions. It also showed that the right ovary contained a 6 3-cm mass compatible with a dermoid cyst and on the left, a 3 cm endometrioma. There was a left external iliac node measuring 8 mm in its short axis. The MRI ®ndings were those of stage IV (FIGO classi®cation) cervical cancer for which surgery is not the optimal treatment modality. However, in view of the discordant ®nding between the clinical staging and MRI staging, surgical exploration was elected following careful counselling and discussions with the patient. The patient underwent a Rutledge type 3 radical hysterectomy, bilateral pelvic lymphadenopathy and right oophorectomy. At surgery, there was a 5-cm multi-ocular dermoid cyst on the right ovary and a 3cm left endometriotic cyst with chocolate-coloured uid content. There was also endometriotic tissue in the parametrium and in the pouch of Douglas, which tethered the rectum. There was ®brosis in the parametrium and there were enlarged left external iliac nodes. Frozen sections of the nodes showed reactive changes only while frozen section of tissue from the paracervical and parametrial tissues revealed only ®brosis. Pathological examination of the specimen con®rmed a 3.5-cm cervical primary tumour with good clearance. Histology showed as poorly di€erentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix with free margins. All the sampled pelvic nodes were negative. The mass in the right ovary was a dermoid cyst. The patient made an uneventful postoperative recovery.


This paper firstly introduces The Korean Orthography of Loanwords and its history. Recently with more cultural and economic exchanges between Korea and Slovenia, the Korean Orthography guidelines for Slovene words are needed to guide words of Slovene origin when settling in Korean. Although Serbo-Croatian is not an official language of Slovenia, some Slovene words are currently written in Korean according to the guidelines for Serbo-Croatian in KOL. Therefore, we exam the current Korean orthography examples of Slovene words and suggest amendments based on the origin pronunciation. In order to avoid further confusion and to provide the foundation of Korean Orthography of Slovene words, we firstly demonstrated a comparison table of Slovene alphabet (abeceda) and Korean alphabet (Hangeul) supported with examples of Slovene words, and then suggested detailed guidelines on how to write Slovene words in Hangeul.


We demonstrate an all-optical modulator based on self-modulation in a one-dimensional slab photonic crystal (PhC) by using optical Kerr nonlinearity of graphene and Fano resonance effect. It has been shown that the effect of Fano resonance in a one-dimensional slab PhC for intensity enhancement can provide low threshold (~1 MW/cm2), high frequency (>1 THz), and wide dynamic range (>3 THz) tunability for the all-optical self-modulator. Such a self-modulator can find applications in optical pulse generations, optical clocks, frequency shifting, and so forth.


The blocks of a balanced ternary design, BTD(V,B; ρ1, ρ2, R;K,Λ), can be partitioned into two sets: the b1 blocks that each contain no repeated elements, and the b2 = B − b1 blocks containing repeated elements. In this note, we address, and answer in some particular cases, the following question. For which partitions of the integer B as b1 + b2 does there exist a BTD(V,B; ρ1, ρ2, R;K,Λ)?


Amorphous, glassy alloys have attracted the attention of scientists and technologists all over the world for the past 20 years. It is generally agreed that the transition from metal liquid to glass occurs at a viscosity of 10(11)-10(12) Pasec [10(12)-10(13) poise], within a narrow temperature range known as the glass transition temperature; T-g. Unfortunately, theoretical calculations of T-g do not yet exist. A mathematical model for the calculation of the viscosity temperature dependence is proposed, based on the free-volume model and some commonly adopted criteria for glass forming ability of binary alloys.


Laparoscopic surgery has recently been gaining acceptance as an alternative approach for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Multiple studies have proven that the laparoscopic approach is a safe and successful alternative for selected patients. The potential benefits include faster recovery, shorter hospital stays and lower complication rates. However, the appropriate selection criteria are still under investigation.


Abstract — Progress in the social sciences is not as slow as its critics are apt to aver. Enormous amounts of data have been collected and many patterns described. What has been slow is the systematic use and application of such results, that is, intervention. Intervening to improve social systems meets with many difficulties, one of them the fact that this often seems to invalidate previous research results. It is argued that this may be due to the kind of "scientific object" defined, that separates observation and use. The argument is linked to some of the work of Gordon Pask, especially his Interaction of Actors Theory, and to his participation in the Centre for Innovation and Co-operative Technology. The argument is developed to include the case where observation and use are not separated. Some examples of such cases are described.


Zhang, Yi. M.S.M.E., Purdue University, August 2014. Atomistic and Finite Element Modeling of Zirconia for Thermal Barrier Coating Applications. Major Professor: Jing Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering. Zirconia (ZrO2) is an important ceramic material with a broad range of applications. Due to its high melting temperature, low thermal conductivity, and hightemperature stability, zirconia based ceramics have been widely used for thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). When TBC is exposed to thermal cycling during real applications, the TBC may fail due to several mechanisms: (1) phase transformation into yttrium-rich and yttrium-depleted regions, When the yttrium-rich region produces pure zirconia domains that transform between monoclinic and tetragonal phases upon thermal cycling; and (2) cracking of the coating due to stress induced by erosion. The mechanism of erosion involves gross plastic damage within the TBC, often leading to ceramic loss and/or cracks down to the bond coat. The damage mechanisms are related to service parameters, including TBC material properties, temperature, velocity, particle size, and impact angle. The goal of this thesis is to understand the structural and mechanical properties of the thermal barrier coating material, thus increasing the service lifetime of gas turbine engines. To this end, it is critical to study the fundamental properties and potential failure mechanisms of zirconia. This thesis is focused on investigating the structural and mechanical properties of zirconia. There are mainly two parts studied in this paper, (1) ab initio calculations of thermodynamic properties of both monoclinic and tetragonal phase zirconia, and monoclinic-to-tetragonal phase transformation, and (2) image-based finite element simulation of the indentation process of yttria-stabilized zirconia.


Today, many consumer finance companies, especially motorcycle financing, are experiencing rapid development and have sprung up with offers of various convenience. Finance company engaged in the financing of motorcycles, specifically for the brands of Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki through consumer financing agreements with the guaranteed surrender of ownership rights in a fiduciary manner. Based on the results of research and discussion obtained that the status of ownership of motor vehicles in the consumer agreement is on the debtor. However, because the motorized vehicle is used as a fiduciary guarantee, the ownership rights of the motor vehicle are transferred to the consumer finance company until the payment of all debtor loan installments is paid. The legal consequence of this fiduciary transfer of ownership rights is that the debtor no longer holds the ownership rights to the motorcycle and only has the borrower's right to use the motorcycle. Transfer of ownership from the debtor to the creditor results in the debtor not having the right to hand over the motorbike to another party as it is being transferred because the motorcycle is collateral for the debtor's debt to Perusahaan Pembiayaan.


Due to the limitation of the aperture of the array in array signal processing of satellite communication system,the number of the signals,which the existing decorrelate coherent sources algorithms could handle,as well as the spectral resolution,is not big,which leads to imprecise location of DOA,then,satellite communication cannot accurately transmit information.So a high resolution and stability algorithm which can decorrelate coherent sources is needed.In this paper,such a new algorithm(MSVD) is proposed,which expands the aperture of the array effectively when the signals are noncirularly symmetric.Then we can search spectral peak by SVD algorithm.The computer simulations show that,compared with SVD algorithm,MSVD algorithm has higher accuracy,better stability and higher resolution.Also,it can handle more signal sources than SVD algorithm.


Many applications would benefit of head orientation. Examples are improvements in the human-computer interaction, where the user would be capable of using the computer with head gestures, or automatic detection of driver drowsiness. Currently many head pose detection algorithm are implemented with the use of neural networks. However, these solutions are not preferable for devices that require a low computational cost, e.g. mobile devices. This thesis proposes a solution for head pose estimation by means of 3D to 2D landmark fitting, using an optimized and efficient non linear least squares approach.


Abstract : Real-world environmental contamination of native frog species has demonstrated how fragile aquatic ecosystems can be. The South African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, dwells in water its entire life span and is easily cultured in the laboratory, rendering it a suitable test species for aquatic toxins. Frog embryo growth malformations, and toxicity can easily be assessed with the 96-hour FETAX assay. Drinking water disinfction by-products of different disinfection processes have varying degrees of toxicity. At the request of the Study Sponsor, two bromination by-products and chlorinated surface water (5W) were tested in the FETAX assay with and without the exogenous metabolic activation system (MAS). To further assure reproducibility, the FETAX testing was carried out in two independent laboratories (USACEHR) in Maryland and Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma. The chlorinated surface water was selected by representatives of the American Water Works Association. Surface water was collected from Manatee County, Florida, and shipped to USACEHR. Bromine was added to the surface water prior to chlorination. Tests were performed on free chlorine water and two lots of the same water that had been chlorinated. The test results are contained in this report.


When the hot water flows in heating pipes, heat losses occur via conduction, convection and radiation. We usually adopt insulation material such as glass wool, polyethylene foam and polyurethane foam in order to reduce heat loss from the surface of metal pipes. The conductivity, thickness and emissivity of the insulation material can affect the heat loss amount for the same heating pipes. Rising oil price makes reducing heat loss of heating pipe more importance. With time, Insulation thickness should be complementary more and more. but it happens that material cost increases. This paper is to show the insulation performance of the packing with lots of air pockets. This packing can make material cost savings as well as having the similar insulation performance as compared with glass wool or polyethylene foam.


Pyrazoles with bio‐active substituents at different positions are prepared and cyclised to the corresponding pyrazolo[3,4‐d]pyrimidines in order to establish structure‐activity relationships. The structure of the compounds is established by micro‐analyses and spectroscopic studies.


A modified version of the Community Competence Scale was administered along with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised (WAIS—R) to 40 geriatric patients with suspected dementia. Scores on the Competence Scale, a measure of functional daily living skills, were correlated .72 with Full Scale IQs and .77 with Verbal IQs and moderately correlated (.55) with Performance IQs. A number of significant correlations were found between WAIS—R subtests and subscales of the competence instrument. Means and standard deviations for the 10 Competence subscale and total scores are presented.


Saul Bellow plays an important role in American literature.His works pay attention to the general human condition.In Herzog,Bellow demonstrates modern men's dilemma of existence.This paper will explore the psychic pattern of the hero.


Objective To ev aluate the localization value of three-dimensional time-of-flight spoiled gradient recalled acquisition in the steady-state (3D TOF-SPGR) in the treatment of primary trigeminal neuralgia (PTN) with Gamma Knife. Methods Sixty patients with PTN were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, with 30 in each. The patients in experimental group were examined with plain scanning 3D TOF-SPGR and the control group with enhanced scanning respectively before Gamma Knife treatment. The localization effects were evaluated. Results There was no significant difference in the localization effect for PTN treatment by Gamma Knife between the two groups (P 0.05). Conclusion The plain scanning 3D TOF-SPGR is cost-saving and effective in the treatment of PTN by Gamma Knife. There is no necessity to perform enhanced scanning further. 3D TOF-SPGR plays an important role in the preoperative assessment of Gamma Knife operation and guiding the treatment of PTN.


Compact 1times2 wavelength multiplexer modules employing thin-film filters integrated into polymer planar waveguide circuits are presented. The modules also feature on-chip deep-etched U-grooves for precise fibre-chip coupling. Insertion loss <1 dB, crosstalk <-30 dB, and return loss <-50 dB have been achieved by various technological optimisations.


It comprises two inkjet printing heads 1, 2 each with a row of nozzles in a limited number on a base of the head, a data source 75 of matrix definition of areas to be printed by the heads, means 3-21 X and Y displacement of the two heads on the article controlled over the duration of a cycle, for the simultaneous scanning of two zones assigned to the heads respectively, in successive lines and with the printing lines of these zones, and for the return without printing of the heads on the zones, and means 25 triggering the beginning of the cycle when the article is present under the heads and controlling the end of the cycle. The machine provides mainly the franking of articles, but also their addressing and the editing of account statements; it can also be used for the orderly development of fixed data for defining areas to be printed.


Oftanol 5G and 2 species of entomogenous nematodes were applied to a golf course rough at the Newark Country Club on 25 Aug for control of Japanese beetle grubs. The rough consisted of Kentucky bluegrass (25%), annual bluegrass (60%), and broadleaf weeds (15%). The experimental design was a randomized complete block with 4 replications. Individual plots were 10 × 10 ft. Granular material was applied with a precalibrated Gandy 2.5 spreader. The nematodes, a dessicated and undessicated formulation of Steinernema feltiae Filipjev (strain NC 25) and undessicated formulation of Heterrhabditis sp. (strain Hp 88), were applied at a rate of 5 billion/acre in 11.4 liters of water through a sprinkling can to the center 4 sq ft of each plot. At treatment time (20 Aug) the following environmental conditions existed: air temperature, 72°F; soil temperature, 81°F (1 inch), 76°F (3 inches); soil pH 7.0; water pH 6.8; organic matter, 5.3%; soil moisture, 7.0%; soil texture, coarse sand, 11.8%, medium sand 26.7%, fine sand, 38.5%, very fine sand, 17.2%, silt and clay, 5.8%; thatch was —0.25 inches deep. One-half inch of irrigation was applied after treatment. Posttreatment counts were taken on 2 Oct by cutting a 1- × 10-ft strip (2.25 inches deep) lengthwise through the middle of each plot with a mechanical sod cutter and examining the sod and underlying soil for grubs. A 3-sq-ft sample of sod was examined in each plot, and the surviving grubs were counted. Grub species identifications were made in the field.


AbstractThis paper deals with models based on the method of characteristics (MOC) to reproduce transient cavitating pipe flows and presents a procedure to enhance such models' performance. Proper n...


The present paper shows the development of a proposal for experimental practices or laboratories, in the context of a basic physics course. The specific discipline subject corresponds to the acoustic, related to the mechanical oscillations and waves study. Key objective is to support the proposal with Information and Communication Technologies that can be access freely through the Internet. Guides are developed for practical activities in line with a course in introductory physics, with a support site on the Internet. Three free tools are essential in the proposal: the Wordpress blog platform, the digital audio editing program Audacity, and the sound file repository Freesound.org. The proposal has proved versatile in different application contexts, found several items that are perceived as positive by application groups such as the inclusion of sounds and computer technologies within classes.


In frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) ladar, researchers usually linearize the output of the ladar's tunable laser by a reference interferometer for high-accuracy measurement, but the reference interferometer need to be precisely calibrated. The H13C14N cell is a universal tool to complete the calibration. Here, we use the optical frequency comb instead of the traditional HCN gas cell to calibrate the path-length difference of the reference interferometer for higher precision. In this article, we present a detailed introduction of the experiment for path-length difference measurement and data processing method. The finally experimental results show that this method can give a micron precision, the standard deviation is 2.560e-5.


As installed wind energy capacity increase, the low Frequency oscillation parameters may change. In order to accurately detect the low Frequency oscillation parameters, a algorithm based on the matrix pencil and stabilization diagram was proposed. It's difficult to get the order of oscillation signal, so it's necessary to find a proper method to determine the order. We calculate the order of oscillation signal stabilization diagram by using the stabilization diagram. After this, The matrix pencil algorithm is used to extract the frequency and damping of each component of system signal. In the end, the simulation results show when SNR is high, it still accurately identified the parameters in the different systems. Keywords-wind turbine; low frequency oscillation; order; matrix pencil algorithm; stabilization diagram.


This paper examines the determinants of the outcomes of the default recovery process. We find that a new variable that incorporates not only the percentage of debt more senior to the debt instrument, but also debt at the same rank, is the most important factor driving the recovery rate. It is responsible for more than half of the total variation in recovery rates that can be explained by a comprehensive list of recovery determinants in our study, outweighing the instrument and collateral types. This finding suggests that, instead of merely focusing on debt seniority and collateral types at issuance, investors, banks, and rating agencies need to incorporate firms' dynamic debt structure to obtain accurate recovery rate estimation. Furthermore, we find that firm's trailing 1-year stock return is the second most important determinants of recovery rates, accounting for about one-third of the variation in recovery rates that can be explained. After controlling for the firm-level variables, the industry-level and macro-level variables play relatively minor roles in explaining recovery. However, if trailing 1-year stock return is not available (for example, for private firms), industry conditions would then be crucial in explaining recovery rates.


The invention discloses an alcohol soluble polyacrylate resin and a preparation method and an application thereof; the preparation method comprises the following steps: taking 260-800 parts of alcohols solvent, adding the solvent in a reaction kettle with a mixer, a reflux condenser, a heating jacket and a nitrogen covering layer, then heating the system to 70-150 DEG C, mixing the mixture for 10-30min; adding acrylic ester used as hard monomers, acrylic ester used as soft monomers, polar functional group monomers, organosilane monomers and initiator to react for 4-7h and obtain alcohol soluble polyacrylate resin. The alcohol soluble polyacrylate resin prepared by the method of the invention has no excitant odour, the number-average molar mass is 10,000-200,000, the molecular weight distribution is 1.1-4 and the Brookfield viscosity of the resin system is 100-5000cp. The coating which is prepared by mixing the resin with other pigments, fillers and assistants can be applied in glass, aluminium coil and polypropylene plastic for surface decoration and protective function.


Microwave (MW) technology relies on volumetric heating. Thermal energy is transferred to the material that can absorb it at specific frequencies. In this paper, a coupled thermic and electromagnetic model is proposed in order to simulate the emerging process of microwave heating for composite materials. Solving the problem in a laminated composite material requires a high degree of discretization in the thickness direction which is made possible by introducing the in-plane-out-of-plane decomposition approach using the Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD).Microwave (MW) technology relies on volumetric heating. Thermal energy is transferred to the material that can absorb it at specific frequencies. In this paper, a coupled thermic and electromagnetic model is proposed in order to simulate the emerging process of microwave heating for composite materials. Solving the problem in a laminated composite material requires a high degree of discretization in the thickness direction which is made possible by introducing the in-plane-out-of-plane decomposition approach using the Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD).


Introduction:
 Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)-mediated transcriptional regulation is emerging as an important regulatory mechanism during development and diseases affecting all aspects of transcriptome programming. However, how systemic hypoxia alters lncRNA regulation in congenital heart defects (CHDs) remains poorly understood.

 Objectives:
 To examine the impact of systemic hypoxia on lncRNA-mediated regulatory networks in CHDs.

 Methods:
 Deep bulk RNA-seq datasets were derived from specimens of ventricular septum defects (VSD), tetralogy of fallot (TOF), and control hearts. TOF stratification (cyanotic vs noncyanotic) was based on average O2 saturation levels. Correlation statistics served to identify the lncRNA-mRNA pairs. The lncRNA-mRNA networks were generated using weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA).

 Results:
 Principal component analysis showed that lncRNAs from CHDs and control samples formed distinct clusters. Compared to control, 385 lncRNAs were differentially expressed in CHDs (adj
 P
 ≤ 0.05) with 15% exceeded two-fold change in TOF. Subgroup analysis of the TOF cohort, revealed 111 differentially expression lncRNAs in cyanotic compared to noncyanotic TOF, after normalization to control. Out of 850 lncRNAs located within 50 kb of a protein coding genes, 65% exhibited significant correlation with the expression of their partner genes at Pearson's correlation coefficient -0.7≤ and ≥0.7 and B-H corrected
 P
 value ≤0.05. The partner genes were enrichment with cardiac development, RNA processing, and chromatin remodeling. WGCNA identified nine lncRNA-mRNA modules specifically associated with clinical diagnosis or hypoxia status. Furthermore,
 NONHSAT05860
 and
 NONHSAT049671
 were identified as the top hypoxia-associated hub lncRNAs, potentially driving the molecular network of cyanotic TOF.

 Conclusions:
 The study revealed a high-resolution landscape of lncRNA contribution to transcriptome regulation in CHDs and uncovered hypoxia-associated lncRNA-mRNA regulatory circuits in cyanotic TOF.
 NONHSAT05860
 and
 NONHSAT049671
 were significantly influenced by systemic hypoxia providing conceptional basis for future investigations of their specific roles in transcriptome programming in cyanotic TOF.


Few stock market "truths" are known despite extensive research by academicians, investment advisors, and investors. This state is hypothesized to be a result of an emphasis on external or "black box" methods of inquiry. The use of internal methods or systems analysis is suggested as the way to bring about new insights into the stock market.

In this article, the stock market is described as a system. Methods to study this system, ranging on a continuum with external and internal poles, are presented. The danger of heavy reliance on external methodologies and the need for a more balanced methodology is illustrated with reference to the "random-walk hypothesis." Finally, the advantages of internal methodologies are detailed.


The dislocation configurations in SrTiO_3 thin films grown epitaxially on LaAlO_3 (100) substrates were studied by conventional and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Misfit dislocations had, in most cases, a Burgers vector a 〈100〉 and line directions of 〈100〉 These dislocations constitute orthogonal arrays of parallel dislocations at the interface, relieving the lattice mismatch between SrTiO_3 and LaAlO_3. Threading dislocations were found to be the major defects in the films. Two types of threading dislocations with the Burgers vectors a 〈100〉?and a 〈100〉?were identified. The relations of these threading dislocations with the misfit dislocations were investigated and are discussed in this paper.


The method of the present invention provides a wireless transmission, the access point and the station, the method comprising: providing a method for wireless transmission, comprising: a first access point sends a message to the first station, a first message comprising the access point of a first station using the allocated channel time, a first message indicating a first station for transmitting data to the service period of the first station the relay station in the channel; the access point receives from the relay station of the first station the data. Channel embodiments may be assigned by the AP embodiment of the present invention uses time to a STA, such that the STA sends data to another STA using the period of the channel by another STA transmits data to the AP, so that normally the AP by another STA, data transmission.


ABSTRACT This article applies models from the field of positive psychology in conceptualising and appraising visitor or tourist satisfaction. In particular, visitor engagement is explored using personal narrative essays as a means of assessing satisfaction. Twenty university study-abroad students participated in the study, writing reflective essays about their year-long overseas experience. The results suggest that aspects of flow, and other concepts from positive psychology, were part of the students' satisfaction. Exploring engagement in this way has thus uncovered a fresh layer of satisfaction that could not have been detected by a traditional tourist satisfaction approach.


Abstract Due to the axisymmetrical parts easy to occur fracture or wrinkle in stamping process, by using the professional press finite element software and the control variable method the simple finite element simulation analysis on the barrel member is performed. In order to explore the effect of blank holder force, coefficient of friction and other factors on the barrel shape of flow parts in the stamping process and the influence on the forming quality of stamping parts are determined.


Alcohol use has been reported to fluctuate over women's menstrual cycles (MCs), with increased intake occurring premenstrually/menstrually (phases characterized by heightened negative affect) and during the ovulatory phase (a phase characterized by positive affect). This suggests women may drink for particular emotion‐focused reasons at specific points in their cycles. However, no research had yet examined MC variability in drinking motives, or links between cycle‐related changes in drinking motives and alcohol consumption.


This research determines and updates industry's use of plant charters and their characteristics in terms of plant structure differences, competitive priorities, manufacturing improvement initiatives, and performance. Industry differences are identified and compared to a 1982 study. The most predominant plant charter strategy remains a product plant charter assignment. Responses to a survey indicated that plants are created differently, i.e. there are structural differences between the plant charter strategy types. However, in general, the competitive priorities, efforts to improve manufacturing effectiveness, and resulting performance are essentially the same. This suggests seemingly similar manufacturing strategies regardless of the plant structure being used.


In the article the attitude of the social and political elite to the existence of independent Ukraine. For this purpose analyzed the major geopolitical concepts and legal documents on foreign policy that defined the Russian policy on post-Soviet states during the 1990s. Common to all these works have analyzed the declaration of the Russian Federation Centre the former Soviet Union and former Soviet territory republics - the Russian zone of vital interests. Also, attention is focused on the plans of the Russian social and political elite to restore the former USSR new association with the dominant role of Russia in it. The emphasis is on the negative perception of independence of Ukraine in the Russian social and political thought. Also accented Russian politicians to substantiate the need to restore political unity of the Slavic peoples, to return the "natural" geopolitical status of Russia, provide a geopolitical control over the territories that were part of the USSR. Political, economic, military and informational relationship between Ukraine and Russia in terms of Russian politicians, the long-term national interests of Russia. On the contrary same integration of Ukraine to other international entities threat to the Russian Federation and the plan of building a "Great Russia". The influence of these concepts on the formation of foreign policy strategy, particularly in the current policy of Russia towards Ukraine. It is assumed that it is the political rhetoric of the Russian national patriots and left gave impetus to the efforts of great practical implementation of their geopolitical goals, including through the brutal interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.


This essay explores the causes of two translations of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind from the perspective of the theory of Reception (Jauss Iser). Under the influence of their respective poetic thoughts and theories of translation, the two receptors (translators) adopt different approaches to narrow the "marginality and gap" between the source language and the target language. Therefore, two modes of reading come into being. One mode embraces romanticism. The other conceives philosophical thoughts.


The BPM system of the ESRF Storage Ring, that was entirely replaced by 224 units of the Libera-Brilliance system in 2009 [1], is now also being used for precise and fast measurements of the Beam Lifetime and so-called Instant-Partial-BeamLosses. This is possible by the use of the Sum signal of the four BPM buttons on each of the 224 BPM stations in the Ring. This paper describes the strong advantages in terms of response time, but also the precautions and the limitations of this particular use. Results will show the ultimate attainable performances and a comparison with that of three independent DC current transformers also installed in the Ring. The same Sum signal is also usable for precise measurement of Accumulated Charge during the injection process and results of this are also presented.


In order to improve the adaptive range of airflow velocity, an airflow piezoelectric generator based on multi-harmonic excitation is proposed. The flow field characteristics are obtained by CFD method, the acoustic vibration characteristics and variation with velocity of the excitation frequency are studied. The result shows that periodic compression and expansion of air are presented and a standing wave is formed inside the resonator, which can provide stable excitation source. The excitation frequencies are distributed on the acoustic modes of the resonator and captured. With different velocity segment, the excitation frequencies are different, and frequency conversion is presented from the first-order to the third-order and from the third-order to the first-order. The conclusions verify the feasibility of the multi-harmonic excitation energy exchange scheme, which is helpful to improve the flow velocity adaptive range of the airflow-induced vibration piezoelectric generator.


This Paper studies the application of the Sequential Frequency–Dynamic Condensation Method developed by the authors for reducing the frequency equations obtained on the basis of the Finite Element Method (FEM) in the form of a Classical Mixed Method


Abstract A Marshall–Olkin variant of the Provost type gamma–Weibull probability distribution is being introduced in this paper. Some of its statistical functions and numerical characteristics among others characteristics function, moment generalizing function, central moments of real order are derived in the computational series expansion form and various illustrative special cases are discussed. This density function is utilized to model two real data sets. The new distribution provides a better fit than related distributions as measured by the Anderson–Darling and Cramér–von Mises statistics. The proposed distribution could find applications for instance in the physical and biological sciences, hydrology, medicine, meteorology, engineering, etc.


Since 1995, in company with introduction of local autonomy system, local festivals have been held in order to activate regional economy and to attract tourists. Government also chooses the representative local festivals to provide financial support. However, most of the local festivals operate only conventional programs failing to characterize the regional particularity. Cornelian Cherry Flower(Sansuyu) festivals which being held in 5 regions are facing the same issue. Similar subjects of festival and no difference in programs are holding the festivals from becoming successful festivals. This paper proposes introduction of storytelling in order to solve the presented problems in regional festivals. Problems are derived by analyzing the programs of 5 regional Sansuyu festivals including Yangpyeong, Icheon, Uiseong, Gurye, Namwon, and etc. programs operated by the festivals are classified by 5 events: performance, participation, experience, exhibition, sales. Many of the problems are irrelevant to regional particularity and festival subject of Sansuyu. In order to provide order, introduction of storytelling is needed urgently. Firstly, origin of the corresponding region to be the Sansuyu habitat is studied, then the story was drawn based on historical fact. From the drawn story, narrative was derived which lead to developing the several festival walking paths. With the created paths, Sansuyu related elements of the festivals were relocated along the divided space in the course. Therefore, the Sansuyu subject of festival is emphasized and the distinct regional narrative closely characterized the regional particularity of the festival. It is observed that the introduction of storytelling could transform the regional festivals to gain distinctive characteristics.


Abstract In this work, we apply Lie Group Theory (LGT) to aid in solving and understanding equations arising from the Forward Master Equation formulation for the neutron number distribution in a zero-dimensional setting. In particular, we focus our LGT study on a first-order hyperbolic partial differential equation satisfied by the probability generating function. We show the connection between solutions to the symmetry determining equations with established analytical solutions given by Bell and by Prinja and Souto. We derive global transformations for isolated neutron fission chains as well as neutron sources and provide a physical interpretation of the results throughout.


We consider stability under evolution as a criterion to select a physical boundary state for the spinfoam formalism. As an example, we apply it to the simplest spinfoam defined by a single quantum tetrahedron and solve the associated eigenvalue problem at leading order in the large spin limit. We show that this fixes uniquely the free parameters entering the boundary state. Remarkably, the state obtained this way gives a correlation between edges which runs at leading order with the inverse distance between the edges, in agreement with the linearized continuum theory. Finally, we give an argument why this correlator represents the propagation of a pure gauge, consistently with the absence of physical degrees of freedom in 3d general relativity.


The City of Greenville operated and evaluated 15 electric vehicles from July 1980 through June 1983. Four Battronic mini-vans and 11 EVA station wagons were operated by eight different departments, serving widely varying administrative needs. The project goals were: (1) to conserve petroleum fuel, (2) to learn electric vehicle technology, (3) to enhance public awareness of electric vehicles, (4) to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of electric vehicles, and (5) to achieve a net financial saving for the City. This report addresses these goals and discusses why these goals were or were not met in sections devoted to management, costs, operating data, maintenance, operator acceptance, and public awareness.


This work studied the optimization of low-temperature drying by using a laboratory scale and applied it on the pilot plant scale of fluidized bed dryer integrated with zeolite adsorption. The drying time was observed regarding the airflow rate, temperature and zeolite-tea leave ratio. The green tea leaves moisture content was specified gravimetrically until constant weight can be obtained. Applying 70°C as the drying temperature, the green tea leave is secure for a faster drying rate and can be avoided from the catechin epimerization and thermal degradation. Applying 0.40 m/s as airflow rate can remove the water surface faster than 0.50 m/s of airflow rate, although it needs a longer time to drag out the inner moisture content of the solid. The pilot-plant scale required longer time (40 minutes) on the first falling rate period than laboratory scale (30 minutes), although it gave faster second falling rate period at the same airflow rate (0.50 m/s), temperature (70° C) and zeolite-tea leave ratio (25:75).


N,O-Carboxymethyl chitosan(NOCC) composite nanofiltration membranes having a polysulfone(PSF) UF membrane as substrate were prepared through the method of coating and cross-linking,where glutaraldehyde was used as the cross-linker.The variance of the streaming potential with the pressure was measured and the result suggested that the surface of the NOCC/PSF composite NF membrane acquired a negative surface charge distribution by adsorption of the anions from the electrolyte solution.The structure and surface of the membrane are characterized.Effects of the low-molecular-weight organic additives into casting solution on the rejection performance of the obtained membranes were investigated.The rejections to the electrolyte solutions decreased in the order of Na2SO4,NaCl,MgSO4,and MgCl2,which is similar to negatively charged NF membranes.


ABSTRACT The impact of personality on leisure behaviour and experience has been ignored in psychological research. Where personality research on leisure has been reported it is usually highly simplistic using outmoded trait approaches. It is argued that personality constructs have a role in leisure theory if they are conceptualized as the person variable in the interactionism model, that is, used in conjunction with information about the social situation to predict and explain behaviour. As well as identifying several existing personality constructs that are relevant to understanding leisure behaviour, it is suggested that theorists and researchers could benefit from developing «leisure-specific» personality constructs that reflect significant individual differences in response to free time and leisure situations. As an illustration, the author's Self-As-Entertainment personality construct is outlined and data reported providing a preliminary assessment of its reliability and validity.


Wumishan carbonate reservoir of Renqiu buried hill is of complex fault system and strong vertical and horizontal reservoir anisotropy.The reservoir space is composed of pores,fractures and dissolved holes,and the reservoir development is mainly controlled by fractures.Because of these reservoir characteristics,the 3D geological model established using the traditional modeling method based on the physical parameters of log interpretation cannot reflect the geometric features of the complicated fracture-cave system of the reservoir,and therefore it cannot well reflect the distribution characteristics of the reservoir.The studies show that the ant attribute body based on seismic data can fully display the spatial distribution of reservoir fault system.Therefore,"the fracture development facies" model of the reservoir based on the ant attribute body and the imaging logging data is established,and the fracture facies-controlled geological modeling of the reservoir based on the ant body is carried out.The examination of reserves and reservoir parameters shows that compared with traditional modeling method,the geological models established using the modeling method are more consistent with the practice.The fracture facies-controlled geological modeling method is suitable to the 3D geological modeling of the fracture-cave carbonate reservoir.


During the autumn of 2017 the Swedish tax authorities presented a legislative proposal of exit taxation. The proposal aims to prevent tax avoidance and to preserve the allocation of the power to tax. The proposed exit tax implies that natural persons in Sweden who have made unrealised gains on shares can be subject to exit taxation when they move abroad. The proposal was met with great criticism among the consultation bodies and in media. Several critics meant that the proposal constitutes an obstacle to the right of movement in the EU. Furthermore, the proposal was criticized for the lack of a consequence
analysis. The ones who were positive to the proposal argued that exit taxation is nothing new in Swedish legislation.
The purpose of this thesis is to account for both exit taxation in Swedish legislation and for the Swedish proposal of an exit tax presented in 2017. The thesis also aims to determine EU legal aspects on exit taxation. The EU legal aspects will be used to analyze how Swedish rules on exit taxation and the Swedish proposal of an exit tax relate to the EU law provisions on free movement.
In order to fulfill the purposes of the thesis, the legal dogmatic, the legal analytical and the EU legal methods are used.
The first question I intend to answer is if Swedish tax legislation contains rules on exit taxation. In this part, the thesis accounts for the ten-year rule and the rules on exit taxation when Swedish companies choose to merge across borders and thus cease to be a Swedish company. This part also accounts for the regulation regarding deferral of taxation on capital gains realised on the sale of a residence when the owner acquires a new residence.
The second question I intend to answer is how Swedish rules on exit taxation and the Swedish proposal of an exit tax relate to the EU law provisions on free movement. In this part, the thesis accounts for the meaning and the applicability of free movement. Furthermore, several cases from the European Court of Justice regarding exit taxation are presented. Regarding exit taxation when Swedish companies choose to merge across borders, the thesis states that such taxation limits the right of free establishment. The limitation can be justified if the purpose of the regulation is to preserve the allocation of the
power to tax. To be proportionate, the regulation has to include a possibility to postpone the payment of the tax. However, it is not necessary that the regulation takes into account depreciation occurring after outmigration.
Just like exit tax when Swedish companies choose to merge across borders,
regulation regarding deferral of taxation on capital gains realised on the sale of a residence can limit the right of free establishment. Previously, deferral of taxation on home sales was only granted where both the residence sold and the newly-acquired residence were situated on Swedish territory. After a trial in the European Court of Justice, Swedish regulation was amended. According to the current legislation, deferral of taxation on home sales is granted when the residence sold and the newly-acquired residence are situated within the European Economic Area.
In the last part of the thesis I examine the proposal from the Swedish authorities and its compatibility with EU law. In my opinion, the proposed regulation broadly is conform with EU law, as it contains the possibility to postpone the tax payment. The proposal also takes into account depreciation occurring after outmigration. However, it may be questioned whether it is proportionate to require security when moving outside the European Economic Area. The proportionality may also be questioned as the proposal does not contain the possibility to postpone the tax payment in case of beneficial transactions.


Advances in microchip design, coupled with novel bioassays have led to advances in the field of genetic diagnostics. Microfluidic devices offer analytical advantages for samples of low concentration and small sample volume due to directed, efficient mass transport of analytes through microfluidic networks. Although significant advances have been made in genetic assays using micro-arrays, there exists a need for a high throughput, DNA detection system for use with microfluidic platforms. One such strategy is to incorporate a selective DNA screening element into a microfluidic device that takes advantage of the aforementioned attributes. We describe here a method for immobilizing single-strand DNA (ss-DNA) probe molecules in polyacrylamide hydrogels within plastic microfluidic channels. Fluorescenttagged ss-DNA targets are electrophoretically driven through the hydrogel plugs, and hybridize with complementary ss-DNA probes covalently bound in the hydrogel. Here we present results that establish: the reproducibility of the hybridization assay; the effect of base pair mismatches within the target-probe duplex on the amount of target ss-DNA retained by the probe modified hydrogel matrix; and the efficiency of hybridization of target ss-DNA with complementary immobilized probe ss-DNA within the hydrogel plug.


The aim of soil management is to improve the chemical, physical and biological attributes to allow for optimum crop development. The experiment was done in two classes of soil (Entisol and Oxisol), at the school of Veterinary Medicine and animal husbandry of Tocantins Federal University. The objective of the work was to evaluate the effect of legumegrass consortium on soil quality determined by quantifying the physical attributes. The soils were planted to either of the following four grass and two legume crops, either alone or in consortium: Brachiaria brizantha cv Marandu, or cv MG-5, Panicum maximum Jacq cv Tanzânia or Mombaca, Stylosanthes. capitata + S. macrocephala cv Campo Grande, and S. guianensis cv Mineirao. The experiment was laid in completely randomized design with 14 treatments in four replications, in two separate experimental areas. Soil moisture, density, porosity and soil resistance to penetration (RP) were determined. In Entisol soil RP increased with concurrent decrease in porosity, while in Oxisol no negative correlation with porosity was found. In Entisol the response of density relative to the initial values was positive to the treatments. The grass pasture crop Tanzânia or Mombaca, consorted with Stylosanthes capitata + S. macrocephala reduced compaction in Entisol. In Oxisol Marandu grass planted alone or consorted with S. guianensis had smallest RP values. The RP values in two soils are similar only to the depth of 0 to 10 cm and 50 to 60 cm, while at other depths Oxisol soil showed higher resistance to penetration.


The central element in the maintenance of signalling is the diagnosis of faults. After presenting a basic consideration of the subject, the author introduces and describes practical measures. Special consideration is given to the problems associated with the use of microelectronics.


Policy exchange have caused controversy with their report on urban regeneration. [I should declare an interest - one of the reports co-authors, Tim Leunig, is a SERC affiliate]