Baculoviruses constitute a large group of invertebrate DNA viruses, predominantly infecting larvae of the insect order Lepidoptera. During a baculovirus infection, the virus spreads throughout the insect body producing a systemic infection in multiple larval tissues. Some behavioral and physiological changes in lepidopteran larvae have been described following a baculovirus infection and those changes could be connected with alterations in the host's central nervous system (CNS). As a main component of the CNS, neuropeptides are small protein-like molecules functioning as neurohormones, neurotransmitters or neuromodulators. These peptides are involved in regulating animal physiology and behaviour and could also be targeted by baculoviruses in order to achieve host behavioural manipulations leading to increased viral fitness. In this study, we have investigated the effect of a Spodoptera exigua multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) infection on the neuropeptidome gene expression of Spodoptera exigua larval heads and brains. Expression of the gene encoding the neuropeptide proctolin was severely downregulated following infection and was chosen for further analysis. A recombinant Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) overexpressing the S. exigua proctolin gene was generated and used in bioassays using S. exigua larvae to study its influence on the viral infection. AcMNPV-proctolin infected larvae showed less locomotion activity and suffered a loss of weight compared to larvae infected with wild type AcMNPV or mock-infected larvae. These results provide additional information on the role of proctolin during a baculovirus infection, and offers a novel hypothesis for the molecular bases for the behavioral changes associated with a baculovirus infection.


Under consideration there is the modification of the Zubov's method of construction of special coordinate system along the smooth orbit for the piecewise-smooth case. This modification allows constructing the Lyapunov smooth function along the trajectory for the research into the periodical solution of the relay hysteresis system


The exceptionally diverse macropodiform's (kangaroos, rat-kangaroos and their fossil allies) currently have a fossil record that spans from the late Oligocene to the Holocene with an Australasian w ...


This paper describes the development and validation of a parallel version of our MHD code, that was developed for the simulation of propulsive plasma flo ws. The physical model, along with the initial and boundary conditions to be imposed on the numerical solver are described. A brief discussion of the code structure, with a description of how it works in a parallel computing environment, is included. The results of the simulation are compared with experimental measurements of a self-field magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPDT). With 11 processors, the parallel code obtained the converged solution 7.5 times faster than our old serial code.


This study is concerned with the accuracy with which subjects can interpolate the position of a pointer or index between two scale graduations. Each of 20 subjects estimated the position of a mark on each of 99 5-in, linear, ungraduated scales. Estimates were given in units over the range 0–100 units. The median error was only 1.5% of the distance between the two marked graduations. Accuracy was greatest at the ends and middle of the scale. The data indicate that interpolation of fifths and even tenths will provide accuracy satisfactory for most situations.


Doctors, who work at the care of general delivery, in Ostergotland have initiated a project where they want to create an interactive web service for their patients, the mothers to be. This website shall serve as a believable, official and good information source during pregnancy. The objective of this final thesis, is to create an appearance for this website, which can appeal to the target audience and make it easy to interact.To find inspiration for the website appearance, a genre analysis has been carried out. This method can be used to find inspiration while creating websites or user interfaces. The method's main objective is to analyze rivals and the scene within a specific genre. For this genre analysis different websites has been observed within the areas of pregnancy, family and children, but also within areas of health and welfare. The genre analysis is meant to inspire an appearance that will stand out in a crowd and also fit in within an appropriate genre.For this project the genre analysis has been divided into two parts. One where the over all appearance, content and purpose of websites with the genre has been analyzed and one where the flow of information has been observed for two specific elements. For both parts of the genre analysis there is an observation and an analysis. As a part of the observation, different elements on several websites has been observed from a perspective of content, purpose, form and position. Continuing in the analysis, these elements has been compared with each other from one website to another.In the end the genre analysis has provided guidelines for different design decisions. These decisions has been used in producing a style guide for the website. Thanks to the genre analysis and the design decisions obvious mistakes could be avoided in the design process. Genre analysis has proven to be a good method for inspiring good and functional web design.


In transient electromagnetic inversion by using parallel computing technology can reduce time and increase the efficiency of the inversion operation.MPI is the most important parallel programming tool,it has a good portable,powerful,high efficiency multiple advantages.This article introduce parallel algorithm TEM preparation and procedures based on Windows system using a combination of Fortran and MPICH2 development tools.The direct one-dimensional transient electromagnetic inversion results of the theoretical model calculation show that the correctness of the algorithm,efficiency and stability.


The existing problems of ecological environment of the Qiandao lake's branch watersheds are analyzed in detail.Based on natural and social situation of this area,controlling measures are put forward.


Electrodeposition is widely studied in the fabrication of semiconductors for solar application, because of the low cost and easy scalability of this technique. For instance, in the last decades large effort has been dedicated to the electrodeposition of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) through different approaches, including either direct co-electrodeposition of the sulfide, the deposition of metallic alloy precursors or by stacked elemental layer, depositing Cu, Zn and Sn in sequence, then converting it into kesterite with thermal treatment in sulfur atmosphere.1–4 While being a promising alternative to CIGS (CuInGaS2), thanks to the non-toxicity and higher abundance of its constituting elements, CZTS absorbers still encounter some difficulties to their integration of high-performance solar devices. In fact, the electronic and optical properties of the material are affected by the narrow stoichiometric window acceptable for kesterite formation, inducing the segregation of secondary phases, along with the formation of lattice defects that act as recombination sites.5 A reported strategy to suppress the latter limitation is to introduce doping elements such as Ag6 and Cd7,8, partially substituting metallic atoms in the semiconductor, Cu and Zn respectively. The larger atomic radii of these elements can prevent the formation of antisite defects such as CuZn, largely increasing the semiconductor performance7. Here we propose a synthesis route of CZCTS through the co-electrodeposition of a thin film Cu-Sn-Zn-Cd alloy followed by sulfurization treatment. The deposition on SLG/Mo substrate is achieved with a sulfate-based electrolyte with citrate complexing agents and performed in three-electrode potentiostatic conditions. Proper bath formulation is designed to obtain a desirable Zn-rich, Cu-poor composition, varying the degree of Zn substitution with Cd. An alternative 2-step deposition of CuZnSn/Cd stacked precursor is also investigated, as an attempt to compensate the effect of the low H+ adsorption energy of cadmium leading to the formation of blisters in the quaternary alloy. Sulfurized samples characterization shows the formation of good quality of kesterite CZCTS, in spite of the segregation of secondary phases on the surface. Cd doping of CZTS is observed through the characteristic shift of the main kesterite XRD peak (112) and an increase of the average size of grains. The photocurrent of finalized photocathodes with structure SLG/Mo/CZCTS/CdS/Pt is measured under 10 mW/cm2 AM 1.5 radiation reporting an improvement with respect to the undoped analogue, increasing the current density at 0 V vs RHE from -5.73 to -7.18 mA/cm2 in the best case.
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The sports film has gained increasing recognition as one of the most important and popular genres in contemporary cinema. Its beginnings lie in the very earliest years of film, when sport provided filmmakers, particularly in the United States, with a popular and dramatic subject for their productions. However, sports films are today arguably more popular than at any point in the history of the genre, evident in the past decade in the commercial and critical success of films such as Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Blind Side (2009) and The Fighter (2010). Bruce Babington's study, The Sports Film, Games People Play is therefore a timely intervention that contributes to the growing body of academic work dedicated to the genre.


The risk is the possible probability of losses following from those spetsifi or other natural phenomena and kinds of activity human about-shchestva. Risk in relation to the given work -first of all ekonomicheskaja a category which represents event which can occur or not occur.


Soft sensors made of silicone and liquid metal have been used in wearable systems because they do not interfere the natural motion of users due to the remarkable elasticity. The soft sensors are usually used as wearable systems by being attached to fabric with adhesive, but the attached sensor can be easily delaminated from the fabric upon repeated stretching, which leads the limited range of use. Also, it was not easy to make complicated wearable systems with the fabric-attached soft sensor due to the bad sewability. In this paper, a new method is proposed for fabricating fabric-embedded soft sensors with improved durability and sewability. In the proposed method, the fabric is embedded by blade coating, and liquid metal wires are formed by direct ink writing, which enables inexpensive and fast design modification and an automated manufacturing procedure. The fabric-embedded soft sensor is more resistant to delamination than the fabric-attached soft sensor, which was experimentally verified. The tear resistance of the soft sensor improved by the embedded fabric was also experimentally verified. Based on the improved tear resistance, the fabric-embedded soft sensor could be easily sewn, which was also confirmed by experiments. As an application, a wearable wrist angle measurement system was developed by directly sewing the fabric-embedded soft sensors.


We have measured the transfer rate of the surperfluid helium film at temperatures from 11 mK to 1 K. If the level difference, ∝h, is less than 50 µm the dissipation rises rapidly but more slowly than exp(-vB /vs). Below 20 mK, we observe that the dissipation has a term ∝ vs. At all temperatures there are very stable discrete rates if Ɗh is greater than 50 µm.


The author describes a very rare case of dicephalism in a Podarcis sicula found in Ragusa (Italy). This is the first account in the world of a malformation of this sort in Podarcis spp.


Tamarack trees from certain seed sources survived and gew well when planted on good upland sites in northern Wisconsin. Tamarack appears to have potential for short rotation pulpwood production in the Lake States.


Introduction. Under the concept of occlusion, we understand the harmony between the dental arches, TMJ and neuromuscular system (masticatory muscles). Occlusal contacts play an important role in ensuring physiological occlusion. Dental caries is one of the main reason of occlusal disorders. In economically developed countries, it affects 95-98% of the population. Carious process causes changes in location of occlusal contact points, which is the reason of atypical mandibular movements. As a consequence, tooth overload and occlusal trauma are observed. Aim. The purpose of our research is a prevention of occlusal disorders by the method of composite restoration of affected occlusal surfaces considering functional anatomy with father checking of occlusal relationships with the help of computerized system T-Scan Novus. Material and methods. For this we have chosen 90 first-/second-/third-year students of Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University at the age of 17-20, who were the citizens of the regions with low level of fluoride. Half of them had carious lesion of first molars, another 45 students had first molars, which were restored without principle of occlusion. Treatment was carried out by methods of direct and indirect restoration of occlusal surfaces taking into account the functional anatomy. Results. The article contains the results of redistribution of occlusal contact in first molar with carious lesion (decrease in the occlusal load on the affected tooth, occurrence of overload on the tooth with larger area of chewing (occlusal surface) and restoration of first molar without taking into account the principles of functional anatomy (occurrence of occlusal interferences directly on it). Further restorations of chewing surfaces of first molars considering the occlusal determinants led to an even distribution of the occlusal force on the molars. Conclusions. The obtained results of our study demonstrate the effectiveness of created treatment and prevention complex.


One of the main criticisms in the strategy field, in general, and the resource-based view (RBV) in particu- lar, is the poor attention paid to the question about customer value creation through organizational resources. This paper takes place in the new research line that points out the need to analyse the customer view, that is, how busi- ness resources are used to create value for the customer. Specifically, the role that market-sensing capability plays in superior customer value generation and its effects on superior performance are analysed. To reach this objective, first we develop a theoretical revision. Second, empirical research developed in the Spanish Insurance sector is put forward.


The amount of products sold online is increasing at record speed, which has meant a mixed blessing for e-commerce companies. Continuously increasing demand and a customer base that is discerning, d ...


One of causes of high maternal mortality in Indonesia and the developing world is long deliveries. Pregnancy exercise can reduce the risk of long deliveries. Based on preliminary studies in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital in Bantul, there were 139 mothers who gave birth in January to March 2009, by cesarean section as many as 47 people, 54 normal deliveries, and vacuum extraction of 38 people. There are 28 mothers maternity pregnancy exercise in which 21 (75%) normal childbirth with a long second stage of labor on average 2 hours in primigravida and 1 hour on multigravida, while 7 people (25%) with delivery action of Vacum Extraction and cesarean section. To determine the frequency relationship with old pregnant gymnastic second stage of labor. Analytical observational. The design of this study using cross-sectional. All mothers who do gymnastics normal pregnancy and childbirth in RSU PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul. Samples were taken in total sampling. Data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment. The majority of respondents did pregnancy exercise 14-27 times and the second stage of labor was not a majority t.for long. Based on this study there is a relationship means that the more often the frequency of pregnancy exercise more and no longer second stage labor. Conclusion: There is a relationship between the frequency of pregnancy exercise with a long second stage of labor


He stated that chloroform was essential when using diathermy about the mouth and throat. He demonstrated 'the anresthetizingspatulaof ProfessorSebileau,of Paris, and described that surgeon'smethod of using the instrument. Chloroform was used as a routine by Professor Sebileau and his methods had impressed Dr. Graham Brown very favourably. Concerning intra-tracheal anresthesiahe detailed his experiencesof such methods as he had recently seen in London with the use of the nitrous oxide-oxygen combination. He could only compliment the London aneesthetistswho were using this anrestheticand in his opinion it was the most suitable anresthetic. It was given either by the intra-pharyngealor intra-trachealmethods. Concerningthe use of local anrestheticshe gave details of his experiencesover some years of block analgesia and had to confess that he had not during the last five yearsperformedan antral operationexceptby this method. In this connexionhe wished to give the details of the case of a man who died during the administrationof cocaine somethree months previously. The patient; aged fifty-six years, had been a sufferer from chronic rheumatism. He had taken a considerableamount of alcohol during his life, but latterly only a very moderateamount. During February,1923, a left radical antrum operation had been performed by Dr. Graham Brown under block analgesia with satisfactory results. After Dr. Graham Brown's return from England in Septemberhe had found the right antrum to be affected and on October 2, using the same technique, the same solution and the same pre-narcosis, the patient after an injection in the infra-orbital region' had immediatelycomplainedof pain in the right eye. This had rapidly been followed by pain in the right side of the chest, he had become pale and there had been Jacksonianmovementsof the right arm, there had been a conjugate deviation of the eyes to the right, the speechhad become affected, the heart had stopped,but breathinghad continued for some seconds, the pupils had been small (morphinehad beengiven as a pre-narcosis). The patient had ceased breathing in about thirty seconds from the onsetof the symptoms. Artificial respirationand massage of the heart through an abdominal incision had' proved of no avail. A post mortem examination had been performed within three hours and had revealed a general sub-arachnoidhremorrhage(due he consideredto the convulsions). There had beenno sign of any heemorrhagein the brain. The heartwhich was fixed in systole had been slightly smaller than normal, the coronary 。 イ エ ・ セ ゥ ・ ウ about the thicknessof a goosequill had only had a calibre of a pin's thic1l:ness. They had snapped easily between the fingers.


This paper analyses the status quo of practical teaching of mechanical specialty and aiming at the existing problems,puts forward suggestions and countermeasures for establishing the multi-layer and multi-dimensional practical teaching system of mechanical specialty of the application-oriented graduate universities and institutes.The multi-dimensional practical teaching system attaches importance to fostering students' basic skills and operation ability,taps students' creative potentials and realizes their role position in the practical teaching.


An apparatus for setting a push element, in particular a drawer (4) on a rail (5) of a drawer slide (3) comprises a clamping mechanism with a receptacle (20) into which a web-shaped holding part (12) can be inserted, wherein at the receiving (20) a self-locking clamping lever (25) is provided by means of which the holding part (12) is clampingly secured against pulling out. Thereby can be realized in a particularly stable fixing of the drawer (4) on a pull-out guide (3).


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to inform the development of an evidence-based and effective rehabilitation programme to address substance use disorders in a population of patients with severe mental illness and mental disorders detained in a secure forensic psychiatric facility. A clinical review identified a high prevalence of substance use disorders in the patient population at a secure forensic facility in Sydney, Australia with only a limited number of patients being assessed and offered interventions for substance use problems.

Design/methodology/approach
A literature review was undertaken specifically looking at articles between 2009 and 2017 that considered models of care or approaches to substance use rehabilitation in patients with co-morbid psychiatric disorders. Articles were considered based on their relevance to the purpose and the environment of a secure forensic facility.

Findings
The literature review emphasised the need for a cohesive model of care integrating substance use rehabilitation with mental health care. Comprehensive assessment and individualised approaches that incorporated patient choice and stages of change were considered essential components to any dual diagnosis rehabilitation programme.

Practical implications
The literature regarding rehabilitation approaches for those with severe mental illness and co-morbid substance use disorders was reasonably consistent with the models of care used in relation to criminal offenders and mental illness generally. Integrated and individualised rehabilitation approaches for dual diagnosis patients could play a significant role in forensic settings.

Originality/value
Limited robust evidence for substance use rehabilitation has been published. The authors consider the existing evidence base and the underlying theory behind substance use rehabilitation to propose a model for rehabilitation in secure forensic settings. This is the first known review of substance use rehabilitation involving mentally ill offenders with dual diagnoses in secure forensic settings. This paper is the original work of the authors.


In this paper we study Riesz basis property and exponential stability of a composite thin wall beam with torsion coupled effect.Firstly we show that the operator determined by the system is of compact resolvent and generates a C_0 group.Second,by the asymptotic analysis of spectrum of the system operator,we shown that the spectrum of the operator are separated and simple except at most finite number of eigenvalues.As a special case,we obtain the asymptotic expression of frequencies of the free system,and hence applying Keldysh theorem,we prove that the generalized eigenfunctions of the operator is complete in the state Hilbert space.In addition,applying an obtained result,we get that there is a sequence of generalized eigenfunctions of the operator that forms a Riesz basis for state Hilbert space.Finally,from the Riesz basis property and the distribution of spectrum of the operator we assert the exponential stability of the system.


In this work, we investigate the quasi-two-body decays with using the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach. The description of final state interactions of the pair is achieved through the two-meson distribution amplitudes (DAs), which are normalized to the time-like form factor. The PQCD predictions on the branching ratios of the quasi-two-body decays show an obvious hierarchy: and . From the invariant mass -dependence of the decay spectrum for each channel, one can find that the branching fraction is concentrated in a narrow region around the pole mass. Thus, one can obtain the branching ratios for the corresponding two-body decays under the narrow-width approximation. We find that the branching ratios of the decays are consistent with the previous PQCD calculations within errors. These predictions will be tested in future experiments.


Annuitants and Old Age Pensioners in the Polish Social Insurance System 1944–1958. Material Situation and Survival Strategies (Summary) Annuitants and old age pensioners comprised a social group whose numbers steadily increased in post-war Poland (from almost 187,000 people in 1945 to more than 800,000 in 1954), although Polish society was one of the most recent in Europe. The vast majority of people of retirement age consisted of women (ca. 70%). The resurgence of the social insurance system in the post-war period, within its pre-war institutional forms, was gradually deprived of its autonomy, becoming centralised and subjected to the implementation of the Party and the State's changing objectives. Many types of insurance policies (i.e. health, family) were expanded and became more universal, as did bringing insurance for blue-collar workers into line with that for white-collar workers. The employer was now burdened with paying the obligatory insurance dues. The financial independence of the social insurance system was abolished. 1950 ushered in the dominating concept of social insurance in the Polish social security system, which remained in force until 1968, its point of departure being the Law on the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) passed on 20 July 1950. The law abolished the separate insurance fund by including the insurance budget within the state budget, with ZUS becoming its executor. Health care was excluded and was now entrusted to the Employees Health Care Fund Board. Social insurance offi ces were also closed down. The Law of 29 December 1951 also included in ZUS the National Pension Fund Office, which made payments predominantly to full-time state functionaries and the professional military. This system created new groups of privileged and the degraded, depending on the availability and quality of the services, and selected according to ideological and political criteria and current economic needs. Although the characteristic features of the benefits system binding in the Stalinist period encompassed an increasingly large number of the PRL's population, it did not guarantee the majority of old-age pensioners and annuitants funds which were necessary for maintaining at least a minimum subsistence. The high salary and wage increases in 1954 and 1958 were still not high enough to allow the majority of pensioners and annuitants to meet their basic needs. In this situation, the most frequently used survival strategies involved professional work and sharing accommodation with family members, as a rule combined with the performance of various household chores. This difficult material situation was the prevailing reason for the pessimistic vision of reality reflected in the letters and complaints addressed by old-age pensioners to the central Party and state institutions. Bitterness, a feeling of resentment and, at times, outright despair, was accompanied with criticism of the government which was often accused, in harsh terms, of being responsible for the misery of their daily existence.


The advancement of melamine and Pb2+ detection systems that are versatile, ultra-sensitive, and easy is in high demand and of high significance. Here, we report a new Nanoceria encapsulated metal...


Liebmann's method of tracing paraxial rays is critically reviewed, corrections being made to the higher terms of his formulae. A new and very accurate method of ray tracing is described, which is a development of that used by Burfoot; the predictor is one used by Goddard and the corrector is the double integration formula on which the method of Stormer is based. Like Goddard's, this method is applicable to marginal as well as to paraxial rays. The results of numerical tests of various methods are compared. The methods of Gautier and Laudet are discussed. The use of the constancy of the Wronskian determinant as a criterion of accuracy of paraxial ray tracing is considered, examples being given of instances in which it is and is not reliable.


The vast majority of the extant sociological literature concerned with specific life stages focuses on childhood, adolescence, youth and old age. Adulthood, on the other hand, remains as under-elaborated as it is taken for granted in the social sciences. At the same time, adulthood functions as a disciplinary boundary for those sociological sub-disciplines who have youth or 'old age' as their focus – leaving it little more than a default category wedged between two vigorously debated stages of life. For these reasons alone Arrested Adulthood deserves attention. Indeed, Côté remarks that adulthood 'now constitutes the longest, but the least understood, period of the life course' (p. 2). This is commensurate with the widely accepted prolongationof-adolescence-thesis and the concurrent notions that adults, just like adolescents, are said to increasingly exhibit 'a desire to experience as much pleasure as possible and to avoid responsibilities indefinitely' (p. 2). In Chapter 1, Côté contextualizes the transformation of an unproblematic, socially embedded adulthood to a 'psychological adulthood' in the ongoing dissolution of normative structures and the decline of socially recognized transitionary markers throughout modernity. The author then goes on to differentiate between passive 'default individualization' and active, deliberate 'developmental individualization' in order to analyse actors' action orientations towards their life trajectories. Consumer-corporate interests are said to have benefited from and perpetuated the default option; popular culture thrives on the illusory notion that individuality comes about 'by selecting the right wardrobe or developing slight affectations in speech, behavior, or appearance' (p. 34). Thus an increasing number of adults are seen as taking the 'paths of least resistance' rather than acquiring 'self-discipline, in order to develop advanced skills, aptitudes, and attitudes' (p. 34). Following a brief excursus on socialscientific and subjective views of adulthood, Côté turns to a 'civilizational' critique of the United States: increasing violence, an increase in the number of single-parent families, an escalation in time spent watching overtly violent and sexual television programmes and a decline of trust and political participation are key aspects singled out by Côté. Putnam's (1995a, 1995b, 1996) work is utilized as 'evidence for this decline in civic society and social capital' (p. 69) as a result of increasing atomization and 'the technological transformation of leisure' through TV (p. 72).


Path integration (cell-to-cell mapping) method is applied to evaluate the joint probability density function (jpdf) of the response of structural systems, with uncertain properties, subject to white noise excitation. A general methodology to deal with uncertainties is outlined and applied to the friction controlled slip of a structure on a foundation where the friction coefficient is modelled as a random variable. Exact results derived using the total probability theorem are compared to the ones obtained via path integration. INTRODUCTION Path integration is an approximate method to solve the Fokker-Planck equation of nonlinear dynamic systems driven by excitations with independent increments. Path integratibn methods have been applied to nonlinear dynamic systems subject to white noise by Sun and Hsu (1990), N aess and Johnsen (1991 ), Poisson driven train of impulses Koyliioglu et al. (1995.a). In all of these studies, very accurate results are reported and it is pointed out that the path integration methods can only be applied to problems of low dimensionaliy due to the large memory and cpu time requirements of the numerical calculations. In this paper, new equations are introduced to represent the random variables that model the uncertain properties. A deterministic system equation but with random initial conditions is then obtained for the integrated state vector made up of the displacement, velocity and random variables. Assuming that the random parameters are stochastically independent of the white noise excitation, the integrated state vector becomes Markovian, which further simplifies the problem. Then, the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation is discretized in space and time, and the Markov process is represented by a Markov chain. The proposed method has been applied to the friction controlled slip of a structure on a foundation where the friction coefficient is modelled as a random variable. The transitional probability matrix is calculated numerically using Gaussian closure applied for a small time step. 2. DEALING WITH UNCERTAIN PROPERTIES The equation of motion of a SDOF system with mass m and random stiffness and damping subject to Gaussian white noise W(t) with intensity 50 reads in state vector 1 Aalborg University, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark. 2 Ko<; University, TR-80860 istinye, istanbul, Turkey.


Based on the theory of stochastic process and principle of sequential decision, some studies were made about management policy of openend portfolio investment funds. From the point of view of fund managers, the influences of investment capability and assets liquidity on the performance of funds were analyzed, with a method proposed to ascertain the optimal policy for fund management. The results provide a basis on which the fund managers are available to make decisions. A numerical example is given to illustrate how to use the proposed method, of which the results show that although enhancing the investment capability can improve the operation of funds to a certain extent, it can not improve the net profit of funds effectively. However, more benefits were available if improving the liquidity management of the assets of openend funds. The conclusion shows the importance of the liquidity management of openend securities investment funds.


Early detection of a turning point in a business cycle is crucial, as information about the changing phases in business cycles enables policy makers, the business community, and investors to cope better with unexpected events brought about by economic and business situations. The Malaysian economy is fortunate to own a publicly accessible composite of leading indicator (CLI) that is presumed capable of tracing the business cycle movement and thus contributes to the creation of an early signaling tool for short-term economic forecasting. Certainly, the usefulness of this CLI in monitoring the contemporary economic and business condition in Malaysia will be empirically appealing to the nation. Even though the present study can display the ability of the Malaysian CLI to trace the business cycle and offers advanced detection of business cycle turning points, the evidence of diminishing lead times foreseen by the CLI significantly weaken the fundamental function of a leading index as an early tool to signal economic vulnerability.


This paper proposes two constructive heuristics for the well-known single-level uncapacitated dynamic lot-sizing problem. The proposed heuristics, called nLPC and nLPC(i), are developed by modifying the average period cost concept from Silver and Meal's heuristic, commonly known as Least Period Cost (LPC). An improved tie-breaking stopping rule is also proposed in this paper. The computational results from twenty benchmarking test problems show that both proposed heuristics outperform seven existing heuristics.


A workshop will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels, on 6 November 2002, on the need and possible function of a European Centre for Communicable Disease. The workshop is organised by Professor Antonios Trakatellis, rapporteur for the European Parliament on the programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-08), in cooperation with the European Vaccine Manufacturers (EVM), a specialised group within the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA).


This paper introduces the basic principles and concrete steps of the optimization on catastrophe theory of the retrofitted mine ventilation system.Three transformation programs are screened and analyzed with the catastrophe theory with the network calculation results and appropriate evaluation index.An optimum one is determined.Practices proves that the ventilation system based on catastrophe theory is simple calculated,objective and functional.It has certain references for the ventilation system management during tungsten mining design.


Economic growth and its related factors, both theoretical and experimental aspects have been considered economists and policy makers of countries. Also, more than two decades the relationship between exports and economic growth has been had special importance. Hence in this article, we want to do Feder model and econometrics conventional methods to survey effect of exports on economic growth (industry & mining sector, services and agriculture). The data were collected from 1961-2006 and were analyzed using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model. The theoretical framework was designed based on this assumption that the total product in the economy was divided into two parts, production for inside (N) and production for exports (X) and each two section production is a function of factors allocated capital and labor. The results of this study show that each section export growth has a positive effect on the growth of value added in the same section. But the effect of export growth on the value added in industry and mining sector is more than other sectors.


Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment significantly impact energy consumption in both residential and commercial buildings. In most modern building management systems (BMS), HVAC historical data logs in large quantity and high resolution are recorded and available for further online or offline analysis, including automated FDD. In this paper, a model-based fault diagnosis method is developed by applying support vector machine (SVM) techniques to model parameters recursively calculated by an online estimator. The estimator presumes an autoregressive time series model with exogenous variables (ARX). A real-world air handling unit (AHU) dataset containing process variables measured at regular intervals is pre-processed by the online estimation algorithm. Each data vector in the original dataset (measured), together with a small number of achine learning techniques arameter estimation ecursive least squares appropriately selected lags, is converted to a parameter vector representing the state at the same instant. The set of parameter vectors is sub-divided into classes by SVM, enabling fault classification. Validation via experimental data demonstrates that the proposed hybrid approach produce superior performance measured by F-measure scores compared to alternative methods. Robustness to model uncertainty is also established. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


This work presents a review on the concept of harmonic or secondary radar, where a tag or transponder is used to respond at a harmonic multiple of the incoming interrogation signal. In harmonic radar, the tag is called a harmonic transponder and the necessary frequency multiplication is implemented using a nonlinear element, such as a Schottky diode. Different applications and operating frequencies of harmonic transponders are presented, along with various tag design aspects. The designer may have to deal with certain tradeoffs during the design with respect to a number of transponder properties, and the role of these tradeoffs is also considered. Additionally, techniques usable for characterization of harmonic transponders are discussed.


According to structure of the large-scale underground chamber group of Suofengying Hydropower Station,the writers has researched relationship between strength code and mechanical parameter of complex soft rock body,and some key technology problems such as reinforcement mechanism of adjoining and etc.in order to solve various problems of design,construction and operation of large-scale underground chamber group structure,accelerate construction speed of large-scale underground chamber group,simplify construction process,cut down engineering invest,ensure safety of engineering.


This article reexamines Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook's (1865–1935) approach to Zionism, by proposing a reading of Kook's Zionism through the lens of the Lebensphilosophie (The Philosophy of Life) of the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941). I show that we can clarify Kook's view of freedom, the self and creativity and its essential connection to Zionism, therefore, proposing a new understanding of the meaning that Jewish nationalism assumes in Kook's thought, thanks to the application of the model of freedom and creativity developed by Bergson to Kook's writings. Especially for Kook, I show that Jewish nationalism is seen as a means for the Jewish People to return to their true self and through this connection attain true freedom. Only when a nation realizes its freedom by a return to its own original self, it can be creative. This is how I explain the connection that Kook draws between a return to the Land of Israel and the ability of Israel as a people to finally be able to be creative. Finally, I argue that this understanding of nationalism adds a new layer to the essential place that the territory assumes in Kook's thought. A State of Israel outside its original land can attain the goal of autonomous self-governance but lacks the ability to inspire the reconnection of the nation to its own original self. The Jewish People as a collective cannot connect to their authentic self away from the Land of Israel, consequently, the Land of Israel is the only place in which they can be truly free.


The moderate hydrocracking process has the inferior diesel oil fraction, VGO or other heavy fraction oil as the material oil hydrocracked under moderate condition to result in high quality products, especially high quality hydrocracked tail oil. The catalyst in the hydrocracking reaction region includes at least one kind of bulk phase catalyst comprising complex oxide NixWyOz and oxide MoO3 in the weight ratio 0.1-10 and accounting for 40-100 wt% of total catalyst. The present invention facilitates the hydrocracking operation, increases the treating capacity of the apparatus, increases the service life of the catalyst and raises the quality of the product.


Various embodiments provide a method for producing a semiconductor component provided, the method includes providing a layer stack comprising a carrier and a thinned wafer, comprising a metallization layer on one side, the thinned wafer is placed on a first side of the carrier; forming an enclosure that encapsulates the layer stack at least partially; and subsequently thinning the substrate from a second side of the support, wherein the second side of the first side of the support opposite.


Abstract The world of opera is well known as a professional community in which egos often clash, yet the complexity of the operatic artwork is often heavily dependent on collaborative practice. This article discusses the co-creative dynamics that gave rise to the premiere production of the comic opera Je suis narcissiste, by composer Raquel García-Tomás, librettist Helena Tornero and stage director Marta Pazos. Through a series of interviews with this artistic team, and a scrutiny of the libretto, score and documentary video recording of its premiere, three significant features of this collaboration are flagged, particularly in Act VIII. These are: a quest for balance in the convergence of the disciplines involved; a mitigation of undesired redundancies in the representation of some elements in the action of the opera; a consideration of the capacity of the human and material resources available for the premiere. The article will also discuss how these anticipatory strategies helped to optimise time during rehearsals.


We have studied the use of amino acid histidine as a precursor for N -heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands. This natural amino acid possesses an imidazole substituent, which makes it an interesting NHC precursor that contains both an acid and an amino functionality. These functionalities may be used for further tuning of NHC complexes. We have developed routes for the synthesis of symmetric and dissymmetric alkyl, benzyl, and aryl-substituted histidinium salts.


The Use Of prosthetic cardiac valves in the therapy of valvular heart disease is currently on the increase (1, 3). Over 34,000 such valves have been distributed by one manufacturer (4). The radiologist is routinely called upon to examine postoperative prosthetic valve patients, a procedure which becomes of immediate importance if the clinical course is unfavorable. Variations in the cage position which indicate partial interruption of valve fixation are readily detectable by image-amplification fluorography. During follow-up examinations, it was noted that the "radiolucent" silastic ball currently in use could be detected on standard image-intensification fluoroscopy, and that ball motion could be recorded by standard 16-mm cinefluorography. The purpose of this communication is to describe the characteristic ball motion of currently employed prosthetic valves seen fluoroscopically, without the injection of contrast material or other nonphysiologic agents. Materials and Methods Twenty-two patients were exa...


A novel, efficient, stereoselective synthetic route for N-(4-{4-[ethyl(6-fluoro-6-methylheptyl)amino]-1-(S)-hydroxybutyl}phenyl)methanesulfonamide hemi-fumaric acid salt (trecetilide hemi-fumarate, Figure 1) has been developed. The process features a convergent approach, which assembles two key intermediates in the last step to form the final molecule, which is then isolated by pH-controlled extraction. The new route offers significant yield and purity advantages over the previous route. However, the solvent volume and cycle time were not fully optimized due to the termination of the project.


In this paper, it demonstrates the necessity and significance of the base for cartographic symbols topographic maps application to GIS on the base of MapInfo, to develop the base for visual cartographic symbols topographic maps on the base of MapInfo with tools of MapBasic which is a kind of program language to develop MapInfo.


We study the routing of quantum information in qubit chains. This task is achieved by suitably chosen time-dependent local fields acting on the qubits. Employing the physics of coherent destruction of tunneling, we demonstrate that a driving-induced renormalization of the coupling between neighboring qubits provides the key for controlling the transduction of quantum information between permanently coupled qubits. We employ this idea for building a quantum router. Moreover, we discuss the experimental implementation with Penning traps and study the robustness of our protocol under realistic experimental conditions, such as fabrication uncertainties and decoherence. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042303


Indian Transgenders are commonly known as the Hijras which are marginalized, abused, scorned and callously neglected community in India. But they are also a part of our society and they have equal right to everything that is available to all other persons. The various types of discrimination based on their class and gender disorder makes the community one of the most stigmatized and disempowered group in Indian Society. The study aims to showcase briefly the socio living status of Hijras, focusing on the prevalence of the problems faced by them with special reference to their health and socio economic harassment. An exploratory cum descriptive research design with a non-random purposive sampling including the snowball technique was adopted, to collect data from 51 Hijras in Kharagpur town from the state of West Bengal, India. Majority of Hijras stated that they faced several health problems and also problems related to harassment, unlawful penalties, sexual and mental abuse, violence and deprivation of human rights. This study is centered on the continued denial of equality, and the prolonged in difference and apathy of the society towards Hijras who have been marginalized because of their paradox gender identity. These persons are usually rejected from their families and other social organizations and face varied forms of social exclusion. Being denied of proper education, health care and means to employment, they are most commonly forced into forms of ritualized begging.


Integrated assessment model scenarios project rising deployment of biomass‐using energy systems in climate change mitigation scenarios. But there is concern that bioenergy deployment will increase competition for land and water resources and obstruct objectives such as nature protection, the preservation of carbon‐rich ecosystems, and food security. To study the relative importance of water and land availability as biophysical constraints to bioenergy deployment at a global scale, we use a process‐detailed, spatially explicit biosphere model to simulate rain‐fed and irrigated biomass plantation supply along with the corresponding water consumption for different scenarios concerning availability of land and water resources. We find that global plantation supplies are mainly limited by land availability and only secondarily by freshwater availability. As a theoretical upper limit, if all suitable lands on Earth, besides land currently used in agriculture, were available for bioenergy plantations ("Food first" scenario), total plantation supply would be in the range 2,010–2,300 EJ/year depending on water availability and use. Excluding all currently protected areas reduces the supply by 60%. Excluding also areas where conversion to biomass plantations causes carbon emissions that might be considered unacceptably high will reduce the total plantation supply further. For example, excluding all areas where soil and vegetation carbon stocks exceed 150 tC/ha ("Carbon threshold savanna" scenario) reduces the supply to 170–290 EJ/year. With decreasing land availability, the amount of water available for irrigation becomes vitally important. In the least restrictive land availability scenario ("Food first"), up to 77% of global plantation biomass supply is obtained without additional irrigation. This share is reduced to 31% for the most restrictive "Carbon threshold savanna" scenario. The results highlight the critical—and geographically varying—importance of co‐managing land and water resources if substantial contributions of bioenergy are to be reached in mitigation portfolios.


It is manifestly competent in its methodological precedures. It is lucid in its expositions and responsi'ble in its interpretations. I make these judgements after a careful reading and &dquo;marking&dquo; of the volume. On the other hand, it deals with an area of specialisation in which I have done no extensive work. The &dquo;stress (Selsys)&dquo; concept is seminal in its demand for further investigation into the relationships between psychological and physiological phenomena. It is a subject-area, however, in which I do not consider myself to be qualified to make the kind of evaluations which are called for in an authoritative review.


The airline industry in Ghana has experienced some significant growth largely driven by the influx of local and foreign airline operators. In this paper, six CRM practices namely: complaint handling, trust, commitment, communication, competences and social bonds were identified and proposed as drivers of customer loyalty through satisfaction. 341 passengers of small airline carriers in Ghana were sampled for this research. SEM was used to analyse the filed data. While the paper found a partial mediation, trust and compliant handling are the two significant drivers of customer loyalty of which the latter is the strongest predictor of customer loyalty. The paper recommends that managers of small airlines carriers should be honest, provide reliable and quality services to boost trust and confidence of passengers. They must create strong social relation with passengers as a strategy to build trust and instil confidence in them. This paper has presented industry specific evidence for small airline carriers which is non-existent in academic literature.


BenZimidazole derivatives and Salts and prodrugs thereof are disclosed, together with methods for the treatment of cancers or viral infections in warm blooded animals by administration of these compounds. Such compounds may be used in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent and/or a potentiator.


Background: Adequate postoperative analgesia can help in decreasing patient discomfort and in reducing hospital stay after cardiac surgery. This study was designed to compare the effect of tramadol and fentanyl infusion on post operative pain relief after cardiac surgery. Methods: Forty one patients undergoing open heart surgery were randomly assigned into two groups; Fentanyl group (21 patients) and Tramadol group (20 patients). Both groups received the same anaesthetic technique. Infusion of both drugs started directly after the end of cardiopulmonary bypass and continued for 48 hours after surgery. Fentanyl was given at a dose of 0.5-1μg.kg-1.h-1 by continuous infusion for 48 hours, while Tramadol was infused at a dose of 0.1-0.2 mg.kg1.h-1. In addition, both groups received 1 gm rectal paracetamol every six hours. Patients were assessed for the analgesic efficacy by 11point verbal rating scale (VRS), sedation by Ramsay sedation scale and patients' satisfaction with analgesia using a 100point verbal rating scale, with 1 = highly dissatisfied to 100 = highly satisfied [1] at the following time points; 6h, 12h, 24h, 36h and 48h after surgery. Results: Both groups were matched as regard age, sex, bypass and ischemic times as well as to the type of surgery and duration of mechanical ventilation and hospital stay. No significant differences were observed between groups as regard the analgesic efficacy, sedation scale and satisfaction with the type of analgesia. However, 11 patients in tramadol group experienced nausea and vomiting versus 7 patients in fentanyl group (p=0.215 by Fisher's exact test). Also, 13 patients requested boluses of tramadol as rescue analgesia 25-50 mg in tramadol group, while 8-patients required 25-50 μg fentanyl in fentanyl group, p=0.121 by Fisher's exact test. Conclusion: It appears from this study that tramadol infusion offers a comparable analgesic efficacy to fentanyl after cardiac surgery.


The linear vernier permanent-magnet (LVPM) motor incorporates the merits of high efficiency and low cost, which is very suitable for long stroke applications. This paper proposed a new direct thrust force control for dual inverter fed open-end winding LVPM motor to reduce force ripple. First, the topology and structural characteristics of the LVPM motor are briefly presented. Second, the mathematic model of the LVPM motor is derived. Then, a new direct thrust force control based on dual inverter fed open-end winding technique is proposed. The open-end winding drive is obtained by connecting six windings terminal of the LVPM motor to dual inverter respectively, which provides greater numbers of voltage vector and higher classes of output voltage to improve control performance. An improved space vector pulse width modulation based on dual inverter is configured to minimize force and flux ripples, which results constant switching frequency of operation. Finally, the simulation results are given to verify well steady-state and dynamic performances of the proposed control strategy.


Tuberose is grown commercially in many countries including India, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, France, Italy, Hawaii, South Africa, Taiwan, North Carolina, USA, Egypt, China and many other tropical and subtropical areas in the world. In India, commercial cultivation of Tuberose is popular in Bagnan, Kolaghat, Midnapur, Panskura, Ranaghat, Krishnanagar of West Bengal; Coimbatore and Madurai districts of Tamil Nadu; Pune, Nashik, Ahmednagar, Thane, Sangli of Maharashtra; East Godavari, Guntur, Chitoor, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh; Mysore, Tumkur, Kolar, Belgaum and Devanhalli taluka in Karnataka; Guwahati and Jorhat in Assam; Udaipur, Ajmer and Jaipur in Rajasthan; Navsari and Valsad of Gujarat and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. As per area and production statistics of the National Horticulture Board (http://nhb.gov.in/areapro/Indian%20Horticulture%202013.pdf), the total area under Tuberose cultivation in the country is about 7.95 lakh hectares. The production of loose and cut-flowers is estimated to be 27.71 "000 MT" and 1560.70 lakh (nos) respectively (http://vikaspedia.in/ agriculture/cropproduction/packageofpractices /flowers/tuberose#section-25, 2013). In India, Tuberose is a very popular flower and millions upon millions of spikes are sold every year. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 01 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


In 2010, Lindell and Waisbard proposed a private web search scheme for malicious adversaries. At the end of the scheme, each party obtains one search word and query the search engine with the word. We remark that a malicious party could query the search engine with a false word instead of the word obtained. The malicious party can link the true word to its provider if the party publicly complain for the false searching result. To fix this drawback, each party has to broadcast all shares so as to enable every party to recover all search words and query the search engine with all these words. We also remark that there is a very simple method to achieve the same purpose of private shuffle. When a user wants to privately query the search engine with a word, he can choose another n− 1 padding words to form a group of n words and permute these words randomly. Finally, he queries the search engine with these words.


Artificial iris wounds were sutured with 30 μm monofilament nylon sutures in 13 monkey eyes and studied histologically at different intervals up to 6 months.


Abstract. Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may foster collective action in such settings. An abundance of experimental evidence is inconsistent with predictions from game-theoretic models based strictly on self-regarding utilities. In recent years, scholars have turned to alternative representations of utility in an attempt to capture motivational heterogeneity across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and inequity-aversion, as complements to the standard model based on purely self-interested motivations. We examine these models in the context of two-person, social dilemma games. In addition, we examine data from experiments and surveys that provide evidence related to the empirical robustness of models based on different types of players characterized by heterogeneous utility functions. Key Words . collective action; social dilemma; game theory; motivation; heterogeneity; altruism; equity; cooperation


Amar Annus, The Overturned Boat: Intertextuality of the Adapa Myth and Exorcist Literature (Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2016). XII + 148 pp. $59.95 (pbk). ISBN-13 978-952-10-9491-0.


Tawa is a Minangkabau cultural discourse that is in the form of free poems and lyrical prose and has magical powers, or an ethnic prayer that utilizes the local language based on the faith already inherited from the ancestors. To make its magical strength utilized, memorizing it is not enough but it should be accompanied with mystical actions. It can contain challenges to or curses on a magical strength, and persuasion that such a magical strength will do no harm. This study is complicated enough, especially the process of obtaining the data needed. However, if it were not conducted, TPTM, as a local cultural wealth, would disappear. Therefore, this study needs conducting and is expected to be able to reveal the linguistic aspects of the texts in TPTM, especially those related to the thematic and schematic structures, linguistic forms, meanings, and the cultural values contained in them.


This paper reports on the effect of adding Jernang additives on the performance of PES membranes. The membrane was made by mixing PES 16.5%, Jernang 1%, and NMP 82.5%, using the Non-solvent Induced Phase Separation (NIPS) method. The chemical group of Jernang has been studied in this paper. The addition of Jernang additives has succeeded in improving the performance of PES membranes. Pure water flux increases to 18.77 LMH from the initial flux of 1.66 LMH. Humic acid removal showed reasonable results up to 77.52%. Moreover, this membrane has good antifouling properties, but less stable under strong acid and alkaline solution.


The phases of PLZT, (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O 3 , or L/Z/T for L<12 and T< 10 were detected via determination of capacitance at varying temperatures at 0 field and via polarization at varying fields at room temperature and at selected elevated temperatures. It was possible to determine two different orthorhombic phases, and three rhombohedral (hexagonal) phases, one of which only exists at elevated temperatures. Two sets of phase diagrams were constructed with the phases as a function of temperature, and electric field, respectively. Temperature/field phase diagrams for 0/100/0, 2.95/5, and 4/95/5 were also constructed. A comparison was made between room-temperature and 0 field PLZT phase diagrams determined via X-ray diffraction, capacitance, and polarization.


On the basis of a analysis of relationship between schema theory and English listening,this paper is concerned with the application of schema theory to the teaching of English listening,aiming to enhance the teaching of English listening in theory and practice.


The articles analyzes the basic aspects of bio-oriented economics, based on the platform of three main components: info, nano and biotechnology. Bio-economy which develops on the scientific basis is founded on the use of biotechnology using renewable biological resources for the production of food and energy. Key words: bio-oriented economics, nanotech-nology, information technology, biotechnology.


BACKGROUND: Recent attention to value frameworks has highlighted limitations of current conventional value and health technology assessment (V/HTA) methods (eg, cost-effectiveness). Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has potential as a supplemental tool to incorporate additional value criteria into conventional value assessment. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a pilot study to illustrate the impact of an MCDA approach on the value perceptions of hypothetical treatment profiles from a multistakeholder panel. METHODS: Participants voted on value perceptions of 2 hypothetical treatments with similar cost-effectiveness evidence: Treatment A for aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults and treatment B for episodic migraine in adults. Participants voted treatments A and B as low, intermediate, or high value before and after a weighting exercise on prespecified, additional value criteria. Weights from participants were used to calculate treatment-specific MCDA scores from 0 (least favorable) to 100 (most favorable) and were presented to participants for a second value-perception vote. Analyses compared changes in value perceptions within treatments A and B post-MCDA exercise. RESULTS: Before considering MCDA scores for treatment A, 0% of participants considered it to be low, 52% intermediate, and 48% high value. After considering MCDA scores for treatment A, 4% considered it low, 29% intermediate, and 67% high value. Both before and after considering MCDA scores for treatment B, 13%, considered it low, 57% intermediate, and 30% high value. Mean MCDA scores for treatments A and B were 67 and 63, respectively. Of all stakeholders, 41% altered their perception of value for treatment A (9% negatively and 32% positively) and, separately, 45% for treatment B (23% both negatively and positively) after considering MCDA scores. CONCLUSIONS: With nearly half of participants altering their perception of value after consideration of additional value criteria, findings support the need for a more inclusive and flexible value assessment process.


We propose a method to accelerate hand detection and 3D hand landmark estimation using the MediaPipe Hands. MediaPipe Hands performs in real time by switching neural networks. However, we focused on speeding up the neural network for smoother detection. We used Tensor Virtual Machine (TVM) and AutoScheduler to optimize the neural network model and maximize CPU and GPU execution performance. In our experiment, we compared the output of three metrics: total inference time, total joint coordinate error, and total program time, in which we constructed a hand pose estimation system. Experimental results showed that the palm detection model and the hand landmark estimation were 3.9-7.5 times faster on the Ryzen9 3950X and RTX3070. Based on the number of frames per second from the total program time, the hand pose estimation system ran 1.3-1.4 times faster on the CPU but 0.8 times slower on the GPU. Our proposed method effectively speeds up neural networks based on the experimental results. On the other hand, we conclude that further investigation is needed to determine how our proposed method can contribute to the original MediaPipe Hands system.


: This paper displays a novel way to deal with configuration jumbled circuits for DSP applications utilizing elevated level changes, a key-based FSM, and a reconfiguration. The intention is to design DSP circuits which are reutilized by the specific operational methods by the designer. The design aims at the HLT(high-level transformations) of repeated state graphs which have been utilized for speed, area and power compromises. Many meaningful modes are made used to reconfigurise the order of filter for various applications. Still, existing modes may be corresponding with non-meaningful modes. The configured data controls multiple modes of the circuit operation. Functional obfuscation is fulfilled by the right and unique key and configures data. Incorrect input key is unsuccessful to change the re-configurator and an incorrect configure data generates either a understandable however non-functional or non-understandable mode. Here we have a liability to perform some chance of activating the right mode, which ends up the reduced operations to an obfuscated DSP circuit. The efficiency of proposed implementation is verified with IMAGE SCALING WITH INTERPOLATION AND DECIMATION design; strong high-level obfuscation is proved and analyzed for various key sizes. The aim of the paper is to obfuscate the DSP circuits by using HLT transformations. By the obfuscation, we protect the hardware. The image scaling algorithms employed for confounding the circuits. The image scaling algorithms will change the size of the images. For the image scaling, I used only BILINEAR INSECURITISATION algorithm.


This paper aims to consider the Time-cognition of the main characters in Lee Chung-jun's novel of artist, and then, consider his philosophical Time-cognition and viewpoint on art. There is a questions of 'Time' in relation to the modern 'representation' in the very root of the main character's trouble. This is the very topic he purposed in his novel of artist which caused by his thorough reflection on the modern concept of time and representaionalism. Lee Chung-jun's works do not have simply modern-critique. Because between the pre-modern nostalgia and post-modern intention, there is the center of gravity which made by the essential and concrete skepticism to modern representation. As aforesaid, he stepped into the the post-modern speculation by reflecting on the modern term of 'Time' and the tradition of representation. In other words, 'memory' which stood on the deferred effect (Nachtrglichkeit) would recovered by the novelistic language, and reflecting on the clarity of 'language', and then, bring the essential question about the representative works of artistic subject. On this foundation, he criticized 'projection' and 'perspective', the central principle of modern epistemology, and pursuited 'unexchangeable' value of art and the shape of artistic 'mimesis'. These are authorities of the peculiar value on historical and philosophical value of Lee Chung-jun's novel of artist.


Engaging critically with insider accounts of inclusive schooling, the thesis provides an opportunity to understand the entangled, multiple, and often contradictory discourses that comprise day-to-day experiences of "inclusion" for young people with impairments. The work forming the majority of this thesis is a collection of journal papers.


A model for intelligent hydrocarbon flame detection using artificial neural networks (ANN) with a large number of inputs is presented. Joint time-frequency analysis in the form of short-time Fourier transform was used for extracting the relevant features from infrared sensor signals. After appropriate scaling, this information was provided as an input for the ANN training algorithm based on conjugate-gradient (CG) descent method. A classification scheme with trained ANN connection weights was implemented on a digital signal processor for an industrial hydrocarbon flame detector.


This work had the objective of performing the survey of the fruit trees in backyards in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso and, using the survey to answer the following questions: 1 – Which morphological structures of the fruit trees cultivated in the backyards are used by the informants; 2 – Is there a relation between the richness of species and the size (sm) of the backyard? 3 – Age of the backyard and time of occupation of the backyard can influence in the number of species? The techniques of structured and semistructured interview were used, for obtaining social economic data and survey of the fruit species. To check the size relation (sm), age of the backyards and time of occupation of the backyard with the richness of the fruit trees, we performed a simple regression analysis. Whe found 55 species and 94,5% were indicated for eating, either in natura or like sweets, juices. In the analysis of simple linear regression we observed that the area (m) of the, age of the backyard and time of residence of the interviewee in the backyard did not influence the richness of fruit species. The backyards, despite the size, age or of the time of occupation perform an important role to contribute in family sustenance, as the majority of the species are used in the alimentation of the members of the family.


The time constraints of cardiac transplantation -- namely, the need to implant the donor organ within four hours of its removal -- have prevented cardiac surgeons from considering prospective HLA matching of the donor and recipient, even if they thought it worthwhile. Several retrospective, single-center reports over the past six years suggest that there are fewer episodes of rejection and better graft survival among recipients of a well-matched heart1–10. In general, compatibility for the HLA-DR locus had the greatest influence on graft outcome, as first noted many years previously for kidney transplantation11 and confirmed in large cohorts of . . .


Abstract The BMO norm of f is equivalent to where Pt is the Poisson kernel. In this note, we show that Pt can be replaced by a nonnegative radial function h, which is positive in a neighbourhood of 0, with and , where h is the least decreasing radial majorant of h.


The paper discusses the realm of sacred in Confucius' Analects , on the basis of western sacred-profane dichotomy. It contains analysis of following concepts: heaven ( tian ), order of heaven ( tianming ), under heaven ( tianxia ), fate ( ming ), natural order ( dao ) and ritual ( li ). The author argues that some features of above-mentioned concepts could be described as sacred in spite of cultural differences and the general view that Confucius' thought was mainly perceived as agnostic at best and that they constitute symbolic space that is sacred in a specific Confucian way. The feeling of being associated with what is sacred emerges from taking part in rituals and maintaining a natural order dao according to heaven's instructions tianming .


Galactic Dynamics.- Ordered and Chaotic Orbits in Spiral Galaxies.- Order and Chaos in Spiral Galaxies Seen through their Morphology.- The flow through the arms of normal and barred-spiral galaxies.- Ansae in Barred Galaxies, Observations and Simulations.- Orbital Structure in Barred Galaxies and the Role of Chaos.- Chaos in Galaxies.- Boxy/peanut bulges : formation, evolution and properties.- Invariant manifolds as building blocks for the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies.- Secular instabilities of stellar systems: slow mode approach.- Stellar Velocity Distribution in Galactic Disks.- Dynamical study of 2D and 3D barred galaxy models.- Chaos in the Mergers of Galaxies.- Hamiltonian Normal Forms and Galactic Potentials.- Local Phase Space - Shaped by Chaos?.- Barred Galaxies: an Observer's Perspective.- Invariant manifolds and the spiral arms of barred galaxies.- Collisional N-body simulations and time-dependent orbital complexity.- Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks.- Regular and Chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies.- Orbital distributions and self-consistency in elliptical galaxies.- The Connection between Orbits and Isophotal Shape in Elliptical Galaxies.- Gas orbits in a spiral potential.- The structure of the phase space in galactic potentials of three degrees of freedom.- Regular and chaotic orbits in narrow 2D bar models.- The coalescence of invariant manifolds in barred-spiral galaxies.- Celestial Mechanics.- Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems.- Routes to Chaos in Resonant Extrasolar Planetary Systems.- Prometheus and Pandora, the champions of dynamical chaos.- Planets in Multiple Star Systems: A Symplectic Approach.- Stabilized Chaos in The Sitnikov Problem.- Fundamental concepts and methods.- Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - An Approach to Complexity.- Absolute versus Relative Motion in Mechanics.- Far fields, from electrodynamics to gravitation, and the dark matter problem.- Distribution functions for galaxies using quadratic programming.- Chaos Analysis Using the Patterns Method..- On the topology of regions of 3-d particle motions in annular configurations of n bodies with a central post-newtonian potential..- The Average Power-Law growth of deviation vector and Tsallis entropy.- Global dynamics of coupled standard maps.- Other Astronomical Systems.- The Chaotic Light Curves of Accreting Black Holes.- 3D Accretion Discs Dynamics: Numerical simulations.- Growth of Density Fluctuations at the Time of Leptogenesis.- Fully developed turbulence in accretion discs of binary stars: turbulent viscosity coefficient and power spectrum..- Solar and Stellar Active Regions.- Chaos and Self-Organization in Solar Flares - A Critical Analysis of the Present Approach.- Charged particles' acceleration through Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares.- The perturbed Photometric-Magnetic dynamical model for the sunspot evolution.- The dynamics of non-symmetrically collapsing stars.- Cosmic Order out of Primordial Chaos: a tribute to Nikos Voglis.- Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective.


When Martin West was awarded the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies by the British Academy in 2002 he was described in the dedication as "the most brilliant and productive Greek scholar of his generation, not just in the United Kingdom, but worldwide". Though by his own admission he is not a comparative philologist1 , he has taken an increasing interest in the place of Greek in the Indo-European stemma and as early as 1973 he wrote an article on metre in the parent language.2 In 19883 he published a seminal study of semantic and linguistic parallels between the earliest Greek and Sanskrit literature. While this was much indebted to recent work by Rüdiger Schmitt4 , Marcello Durante5 and Enrico Campanile6 among others, it showed great judgment in assessing the merits of the various parallels adduced by those scholars. It also shows that West was developing a good working


Evidence based medicine (EBM),the new model of scientific clinical medicine,is of great significance in its clinical application.It also finds great importance in medical education.It is necessary,however,to recognize EBM as a whole:to perceive it in combination with the principles of medical education,to look upon the skills and experience of the doctors as the central elements of EBM.In implementing EBME emphasis is to be laid on the development of medical students,professional skills and acquisition of clinical experience in a better and faster way.Thus,positive application of EBME (Evidence based medical education) rationale in all aspects of clinical education,and a series of reforming measures in curricula,teaching methods,and educational administration are all important.


This paper questions the contribution that socially responsible (SR) screening makes to mutual fund performance. We propose a new decomposition of the variability of SR mutual fund returns making it possible to isolate the contribution of SR screening and compare it with the other traditional sources of performance: market movements, asset allocation (country, industry and style) choices and active management. Our results, based on a sample of SR equity mutual funds investing either globally or solely in the U.S., show that SR screening does contribute to the variability of mutual fund performance, alongside other portfolio choices such as asset allocation decisions and active management. This contribution is rather modest on average (4% for U.S. and 10% for global funds), roughly two times lower than that made by active portfolio choices. There is a significant dispersion among funds: 25% of them have a negligible SR contribution (below 1%) while for 5% of them the contribution of SR screening is above 14%.


FIELD: polymers. SUBSTANCE: invention describes a composition for metathesis polymerization containing: a) one dicyclopentadiene or in mixture with complicated by cycloolefin and b) catalytical amount of cation-active ruthenium or osmium compound as a catalyst. Ruthenium or osmium compound corresponds to the compound of formulas: (VIII) (R 26 R 27 R 28 P)L 1 Me +2 (Z 1 1 )Z - 2 1 , (VIIIa) (R 26 R 27 R 28 P) 2 L 1 Me +2 (Z 1 1 )Z - 2 1 , (VIIIb) (R 26 R 27 R 28 P)L 1 L 2 Me +2 (Z 1 1 - )Z - 2 1 , (VIIIc) (R 26 R 27 R 28 P) 3 L 1 Me +2 (Z 1 1 - )Z - 2 1 and (VIIId) (R 26 R 27 R 28 P)(L 1 ) 2 Me +2 (Z 1 1 )Z - 2 1 where Me is Ru or Os; Z 1 and Z 2 mean independently each of other H - , cyclopentadienyl, Cl - ,Br - ,BF - 4 ,PF - 6 ,SbF - 6 ,AsF - 6 ,CF 3 SO - 3 ,C 6 H 5 -SO - 3 , 4-methyl-C 6 H 5 -SO - 3 , 3,5-dimethyl-C 6 H 5 -SO - 3 , 2,4,6-trimethyl-C 6 H 5 -SO - 3 or 4-CF 3 -C 6 H 5 -SO - 3 ; R 26 ,R 27 and R 28 mean independently each of other hydrogen atom, unsubstituted C 1 -C 6 -alkyl or that is substituted with 1-3 C 1 -C 4 -alkyls, cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl, or cyclopentyloxyl, or cyclohexyloxyl or unsubstituted phenyl or benzyl or thats substituted with 1-3 C 1 -C 4 -alkyls or phenyloxyl or benzyloxyl; L 1 means unsubstituted or substituted with 1-3 C 1 -C 4 -alkyls, C 1 -C 4 -alkoxyl, -OH, -F or Cl-C 6 -C 16 -arene or C 5 -C 16 -heteroarene or C 1 -C 6 -alkyl-CN, benzonitrile or benzylnitrile being L 1 in the formula (VIIId) has different value if necessary; and L 2 means H 2 O or C 1 -C 6 -alkanol. New composition is able to thermic polymerization (metathesis one) and useful for production of formed bodies and covers. EFFECT: improved properties of composition. 24 cl, 33 ex


The lung metastasis remains the major cause of cancer related mortality in patients with solid malignanttumor. In general, the treatment of the lung metastasis is the systemic chemotherapy or the targetedtherapy suitable for the primary lesion.However, the surgical resection of the lung metastases could enhance the survival for the chemotherapy-resistant lung metastasis only if, certain criteria are met.Recent advance of the thoracoscopic technology led to increase the number of the lung metastasectomy.Low-invasive video assisted thoracoscopic resection is beneficial for the lung metastasis as long asthe primary lesion confined to the lung before systemic disease. This treatment has low complicationrates and has a beneficial influence on the course of the disease.We reviewed our experience in evaluating the surgical outcomes in cancer patients who have undergonea lung metastasectomy by thoracoscopic resection.


The general physician is so intimately associated in his daily work with the subject of the discussion that no apology need be offered for the contribution which I propose to offer. I should like, in the first place, to make a few general remarks and then to summarise some of my own experiences. When we remember that it is in the direction of diseases of the alimentary tract that the chief advances are being made in radiological diagnosis, and that the greatest difficulties in interpretation also exist here, these general considerations will, perhaps, not be thought inappropriate. In saying this I have in mind that the alimentary tract is a much more complex affair from the radiologist's point of view than is the thorax, and still more complex than are several other regions of the body. Its component parts have great variations within the limits of health, both as regards their anatomical and physiological characters. Then, again, they are in more or less constant movement, and this dynamic feature introd...


Based on the investigation of developed countries' information construction, this paper analyzes thoroughly the current status and the standardization of our country's information construction, and proposes a strategical idea of "standard going ahead of the others" in the construction so as to lay the foundation for comprehensively improving our country's level in information application and management and for realizing the total development destinations worked out in the tenth "FIVE-YEAR" plan.


Objective To investigate the expression of SMO mRNA in human pancreatic carcinoma and explore its relationship with differentiation degree. size, invasion and metastasis of human pancreatic carcinoma. Methods In 28 samples of pancreatic carcinoma tissue and 28 samples of adjacent normal pancreatic tissue, SMO mRNA expression was detected by RT-PCR. Results Positive SMO mRNA expression was confirmed by RT-PCR in 20 of the 28 pancreatic carcinoma samples (71. 4%,20/28), while no positive SMO mRNA expression was detected in the 28 samples of adjacent normal pancreatic tissue. SMO mRNA expression was significantly correlated with the differentiation degree of pancreatic carcinoma (P 0. 05). but had no relationship with tumor size, invasion and metastasis (P 0. 05). Conclusions Detection of SMO mRNA expression has diagnostic implication, and strong SMO mRNA expression in pancreatic cancer might be used as a parameter for determining the degree of malignancy.


This rejoinder is a response by one of the authors of The Empire Strikes Back to the commentaries provided by Alexander, Meer, Bhattacharyya, Bojadzijev, Keith and Virdee. It responds to their key critiques as well as situating the impact of the book within the academy and the wider society. Drawing on key themes in the commentaries, it seeks to explore the relevance of the book both at the time of its publication as well as in the present environment.


Abstract This grounded theory investigated the influence of religious conversion on marital relationships by conducting 21 interviews. The central category was navigating relational-religious loyalties and described couples managing loyalty conflicts. Tension varied based on level of closeness and religious history pre-conversion. When conversion resulted in sharing the same faith, couples experienced alignment of relational–religious loyalties resulting in increased unity, shared view of God, and religious community. This unity helped deepen their marital relationship. Trustworthiness of data was increased through participant feedback, auditors, and integrating literature from religion, couples interaction, and attachment. Provisional hypotheses were developed and clinical implications were discussed.


Abstract Abstract 2253 Poster Board II-230 Background: Expansion of large granular lymphocytes (LGLs) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has been reported infrequently, and data from large scaled population is still lacking. Expansion of LGLs following HSCT has been suggested to be associated either with the development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) associated with graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect or with viral infection such as CMV or VZV reactivation. Methods: A total of 500 consecutive patients who received HSCTs from related or unrelated donors between January 2000 and October 2007 at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada were included in this retrospective study. LGL expansion has been defined as 1) increasing number of peripheral blood lymphocyte counts ≥ 3.0×109/L for at least 3 months, and 2) the predominance of LGLs in the peripheral blood smears. Cases with LGL expansion were investigated prospectively for immunophenotypic profiles and T-cell receptor RT-PCR for T-cell monoclonality. Results: Out of 500 recipients, 77 cases (15.4%) showed LGL expansion after HSCT. The median onset of LGL expansion was 312 days (95% C.I. 233-390 days). The 1-, 2- and 3-year(s) incidence of LGL expansion was 12.8±1.8%, 20.6±2.4%, and 25.7±2.9%, respectively. Compared to the patients without LGL expansion, improved transplant outcomes were observed in patients with LGL expansion: better overall survival (OS; 90% vs 46%, p Three risk factors were identified for the development of LGL expansion such as CMV serostatus of recipient, CMV reactivation, and occurrence of chronic GVHD. Higher incidence of LGL expansion was noted 1) in CMV seropositive recipients (CMV-R+) compared to CMV seronegative recipients (CMV-R-) regardless of CMV serostatus of the donor (p Of interest, when dividing patients according to the recipient's CMV serostatus and the occurrence of chronic GVHD, the group with CMV-R+ and cGVHD+ showed the highest incidence of LGL expansion up to 46%, while those with CMV-R- and cGVHD+ showed intermediate risk of LGL expansion with 25% incidence, and those with CMV-R+/cGVHD- or with CMV-R-/cGVHD- showed only 3-6% incidence of LGL expansion. Conclusion: Expansion of LGLs following allogeneic HSCT is not uncommon, and strongly associates with favorable transplant outcomes including a lower relapse rate suggesting that LGLs may be involved in the mediation of a GVL effect. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Abstract:In 1677 and 1681, four enslaved men of African descent held in a jail in Lima, Peru, sent a series of petitions requesting amparo, or royal protection for the vulnerable, to the highest jurisdictions in the Spanish Empire. Their final petition, written in collaboration with an unknown adviser with legal and theological knowledge and drawing upon the men's experience laboring in a hat manufactory (obraje) alongside Indigenous workers, argued for freedom for themselves and for all other enslaved men and women of mixed Spanish and African heritage. In that petition the men drew upon existing critiques of just war and the African slave trade, and they questioned why conversion to Christianity had not cleansed their souls of the supposed stain of Blackness. Their language suggests a world where racial theories were inverted and Black subjects understood themselves to deserve the legal status of Indians. Although the petitions were unsuccessful, the radical power of their ideas forced the monarch's Council of the Indies to respond. The documents reveal the circulation of complex antislavery arguments within an enslaved community and a shared intellectual world that included Indigenous, Black, and Spanish thinkers.


Introduction: School going children in the age group 11 to 15 years are seated for prolonged duration, which causes tightness of hip flexor muscles and lengthening of gluteal muscles. This progressed to weakness of adnominal muscles and tightness of back muscles which is known as lower crossed syndrome. Method: A total 369 subjects between age group 11 to 15 years were taken with parents consents. Each subject underwent for assessment of strength of abdominal muscles and gluteal muscles with the use of Manual Muscle Technique and measurement of tightness of hip flexor muscles with the use of Thomas test. Results: 21% of the total population have lower crossed syndrome i.e. 76 subjects out of 369 total subjects have lower crossed syndrome. Conclusion: Out of the total subjects 21% of subjects were found to be prevalent for lower crossed syndrome. 29% of the total subjects are at risk of developing lower crossed syndrome in future.22% of the total male subjects have lower crossed syndromes, 18% of the total female subjects have lower crossed syndrome.


ANNOTATION By using reactions of disproportionation in molten salts coherent titanium and niobium coatings on glassy ceramic shells have been obtained. The glassy ceramic shells with barrier coatings were used to obtain articles from a titanium alloy powder by the method of hot isostatic pressing. It was shown that compacting titanium alloys in a gasostate at a temperature of 1173 K, pressure 2000 atm and the time of pressing 4 hours allows to obtain articles easily removable from the glassy ceramic shells. The thickness of coatings after hot isostatic pressing was shown to decrease by 25-30% without the disruption of the coherence coating. In glassy ceramic shells with titanium and niobium coatings articles with a density close to the theoretical one, without any visible defects and pores were obtained and the character of the microstructure allows to refer them to the type 3-4 titanium a-alloys.


Design thinking has become a central issue in contemporary design discourse and rhetoric, and for good reason. With the design thinking practice of world leading design and innovation firm IDEO, and with the application of these principles to successful design education at prestigious d. school, the Institute of Design at Stanford University, and not least with the publication of Change by Design, in which IDEO chief executive Tim Brown elaborates on the firm's ideas about design thinking, ...


Computer implemented methods of compressing and decompressing image data are described. A discrete cosine (DCT) transformation is applied to each of a plurality of pixel blocks to generate a set of DCT coefficients for each pixel block comprising a DC DCT coefficient and a plurality of AC DCT coefficients. Each set of DCT coefficients is quantised. A DC array is formed from the set of quantised DC DCT coefficients and an AC matrix is formed from the set of quantised AC DCT coefficients. The AC matrix is compressed by eliminating blocks of data having only zero values and forming a reduced AC array from blocks including non-zero values. The reduced AC array is compressed using a key to form a coded AC array. The DC array and coded AC array are arithmetically coded to form arithmetically coded data which is included in a compressed image file. The decompression method is essentially the reverse process.


Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge of diarrhea, hand washing behavior, toilet use behavior and the incidence of diarrhea in children under five years old.
Study Design: A case control study.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in October 2022 at area of the Johan Pahlawan Community Health Center, Aceh Barat District, Aceh Province-Indonesia.
Methodology: The sample size was 92, with 46 cases and 46 controls. The subjects of the case and control groups are mothers with children under five years old. SPSS version 20 was utilized to conduct statistical analysis on both univariate and bivariate data, with the chi-square test being employed to address the hypothesis.
Results: The results showed that both the case and control groups had more children aged ≤2 years. Mothers in the case group were found to have a higher proportion with poor knowledge level (66.2%), poor hand washing behavior (54.3%), and poor toilet use behavior (67.4%) compared to the mothers in the control group. Statistical tests proved that there was a significant relationship between maternal knowledge (p=0.022), hand washing behavior (p=0.020), and toilet use behavior (p=0.001) with the incidence of diarrhea in children under five years old.
Conclusion: Efforts are needed to improve the knowledge and skills of mothers in preventing and managing diarrhea through education by health professionals.


Recently there has been a lot of interest in models in which gravity becomes strong at the TeV scale. The observed weakness of gravitational interactions is then explained by the existence of extra compact dimensions of space, which are accessible to gravity but not to standard model particles. We consider graviton emission into these extra dimensions from a hot supernova core. The phenomenology of SN 1987A places strong constraints on this energy loss mechanism, allowing us to derive a bound on the fundamental Planck scale. For the case of two extra dimensions we obtain a very strong bound of $M\ensuremath{\gtrsim}50\mathrm{TeV}$, which corresponds to a radius $R\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.3\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{m}$.


The first few years of teaching are a critical time in the development of expert teaching. However, many universities are missing valuable opportunities to foster diversity and critical thinking by participating in the professional development of new teachers. This literature review explores research into how universities have attempted to support school districts as they work to implement more intensive forms of new teacher induction. The review demonstrates that school-university partnerships have strong potential for connecting theory to practice in meaningful ways in the first years of teaching. The author offers suggestions for implementing successful partnerships for new teacher induction and introduces questions for future research in the field. NAPDS Essentials Addressed: #2/A school–university culture committed to the preparation of future educators that embraces their active engagement in the school community; #3/Ongoing and reciprocal professional development for all participants guided by need; #4/A shared commitment to innovative and reflective practice by all participants; #8/Work by college/university faculty and P–12 faculty in formal roles across institutional settings


The paper examines the possibility of sweet dishes creating with improved nutritional value on the basis of research data about the utility of dairy whey and non-starch polysaccharides belonging to the class of dietary fibers.


The method of determining the optimal thickness of thermal insulation from the condition of minimizing the unit annual costs is considered


The title compounds are synthesized in an one-pot, four component reaction of phthaloyl dichloride (I) , hydrazine hydrate, various aryl aldehydes (II) and malononitrile (III), ethyl cynoacetate (V) or dimedone (VII) in refluxing water.


and preservation of family life are of vital importance to the welfare of a nation at all times, the conservation of children becomes of signal importance in time of war. Then all aspects of the child's life are influenced by swiftly changing conditions and the hazards to every person's security that war inevitably brings. In the early days of our country's direct participation in total war, it was anticipated that the way of life of every person in the nation would be affected, and certain consequences were predicted as to war's effects on children and on family life. The child's sense of security, which is so essential for healthy growth and development, is inextricably bound up with that of the parent or other adult on whom he depends. Although the adult's sense of security is not entirely dependent on the social and economic situation of which he is a part, it is much affected by disturbance or danger of disturbance to his existing comfort and status. What greater threat could there be to these than total war?