The Beijing Research Institute of Coal Chemistry (BRICC) is developing the SMOVEN process for hot gas desulfurization. The SMOVEN process features sulfidation in an entrained bed, regeneration in a low velocity fluid bed or a moving bed with oxygen and sorbent circulation controlled by gas stream. A series of tests on the bench scale unit and the continuous process development unit were carried out. The regenerable metal oxide sorbents were adopted for the sulfurrelated components removing from coal gas at the temperature of 550~650℃. A fluidized bed gasifier of 100mm (id) generated coal gas for tests. The principle of SMOVEN process has been positively verified.


Despite the increasing popularity of the Ability, Motivation, Opportunity (AMO) framework in the Human Resource Management (HRM) field, AMO research is at a crossroads in theoretical and empirical development. This is due to (a) a lack of clarity about the conceptualisation and measurement of AMO variables, (b) the construction of AMO articles that do not distinguish between AMO differences and AMO-enhancing HRM practices and fail to integrate them, (c) a lack of understanding about how AMO variables at the individual and organizational levels interact to generate individual and organizational performance, and (d) a lack of consideration of the process (mediators and moderators) through which AMO generates performance gains. Based on the analysis of 104 quantitative HRM articles published between 1997 and 2022, this study helps to draw clearer distinctions among AMO variables and levels of analysis. The review of the empirical literature shows that there is excessive heterogeneity with regard to the conceptualization and utilisation of AMO variables, which in turn leads to scale proliferation. We find that research on AMO-enhancing HRM practices and AMO differences is rarely combined and tends to be tested at a single level rather than more logical cross-level effects between AMO-enhancing HRM practices, AMO differences and performance


SCTL Devices with Schottky Clamp diodes were realized using two different types of Schottky diodes on the same chip. Ring oscillators built with this technology have a reduced power-delay product.


This paper discusses a reliable wireless connection for factory through a distributed antenna system in 920MHz. In this paper, a base station that combines multiple destination nodes installed in a factory and mobile nodes are assumed. In a proposed system, multiple TXs and RXs for a base station are assumed to be fed through a single fiber with Wavelength Division Multiplexing(WDM) or Time Division Multiplexing(TDM) technique with a concept of radio over fiber(RoF). Diversity combining technique are investigated for multiple antenna reception through measurement campaigns in a laboratory room that mimics a factory environment.


A growing number of teachers with immigrant backgrounds are teaching in Icelandic schools, each of whom brings different resources to the educational setting. This article discusses the findings of a narrative study of teachers with an immigrant background who teach in compulsory and upper secondary schools in Iceland. The purpose of the study was to explore the teachers' stories in order to develop a better understanding of how they draw on their personal and cultural resources in their teaching and develop their professional identities. Six teachers were asked to reflect on opportunities and challenges they had faced in their teaching careers. Findings from the study draw attention to hurdles the teachers have met and successes they have experienced. The teachers confirmed the importance of being able to speak Icelandic in order to be accepted in society and in their profession. Learning the majority language had been challenging but they had all successfully crossed that barrier. Additionally, each of the teachers had found and used opportunities to expand their knowledge and develop professionally. The teachers believed that their diverse experiences and backgrounds had given them a broader knowledge base and helped them to become better teachers. They had also experienced freedom within the school context to shape their identities and teaching practices according to their beliefs, which contributed positively to their self-efficacy, professional identity and vision for teaching. The teachers were happy with their professional success and were very committed to the teaching profession. The study exemplifies the success of immigrant professionals in Iceland, demonstrating how support and encouragement from the close environment such as family and the workplace, and personal strengths contribute to the co-construction of professional identity.


Mr. Chairman, and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for inviting me to testify regarding S. 804-The Undercover Operations Act. I have been asked to provide relevant biographical information and have done so in a footnote.' My principal concern with S. 804 relates to undercover operations directed against corruption in the administration of justice. I do not mean that such investigations necessarily raise more serious problems than those directed against, say, political organizations, religious groups, or news agencies; indeed, some of my suggestions may be applicable to those areas as well. As one who has a particular interest in the professional responsibilities of lawyers and judges, however, I believe that I can be most useful to the Committee by focusing on that area.


Single breath pulmonary diffusing capacity, diffusing capacity per volume, total lung capacity, residual volume and ratio of residual volume to total lung capacity were measured in series of 251 non-smoking males and 247 non-smoking females, 13–65 years old. The measurements were performed using a Morgan Ltd. Mark 4 Resparameter. Equations were derived using age, height and weight as predictors.


The applied procedure and the achieved results in building a digital elevation model (DEM) corresponding to Marzal neighborhood, Luanda, Angola, according to the requirements of hydrological modeling for the study of hydrological processes in an urban environment are presented and discussed in this paper. The data used came from different sources and scales. Data from the Director Plan, detailed surveying, topographic maps with a scale of 1:25000, and satellite images were employed. The adequate DEM for hydrological simulation was created using spatial modeling tools from Geomatics domain.


We establish the characterisations of the classes of bounded linear operators from the generalised Hahn sequence space hd, where d is an unbounded monotone increasing sequence of positive real numbers, into the spaces [c0], [c] and [c1] of sequences that are strongly convergent to zero, strongly convergent and strongly bounded. Furthermore, we prove estimates for the Hausdor_ measure of noncompactness of bounded linear operators from hd into [c], and identities for the Hausdor_ measure of noncompactness of bounded linear operators from hd to [c0], and use these results to characterise the classes of compact operators from hd to [c] and [c0].


This article is about an issue in the history of the Icelandic language which is still partly unexplored: the passage from Old Icelandic to Modern Icelandic. The history of Icelandic has clearly to be considered as a continuum, but it is widely attested that between 1300 and 1650 a larger amount of changes deeply transformed the Icelandic language, especially from the phonetic and phonological point of view.
In order to contribute to the research in this field I chose as a concrete approach the study of two manuscripts containing the Kristni saga: AM 371 4to (ca. 1310) contained in the Hauksbok and a copy of the text contained in AM 105 fol (ca. 1650) and transcribed by the reverend Jon Erlendsson. The medieval original and the 16th c. copy of the saga were produced right before and right after this period of deep phonetic and phonological changes. This aspect is a fundamental basis in the comparative analysis of Kristni saga exemplar and copy.
Jon Erlendsson's peculiarity as a scribe resides in the fact that he is considered by contemporary philologists as the first one who tried to reproduce in a faithful way the Old Icelandic orthography. Jon aimed at an accurate reproduction of Old Icelandic orthography although he probably did not have any philological education and technique and his 17th c. pronounciation remarkably diverged from the pronounciation at the beginning of the 14th c.
Given this, the aim of my study is to to understand if Jon manages to faithfully copy AM 371 fol. I argue for a negative answer and this research aims at confirming it.


The article is devoted to analyse of texts, which was published in the magazine «Rukovodstvo dlya selskikh pasturey» («Guide to rural pastors»), the identification of their degree of informativeness and suitability as sources for the study of the history of everyday life of the rural parish clergy of the Ukrainian eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire of late XIX – early XX century.


Objective To explore B ultrasound in abdominal injury diagnosis in clinical application.Method Systematic review from 2000 July to 2011 July in our hospital through the B type ultrasonic diagnosis and operation by CT,such as the 157 confirmed cases of abdominal trauma ultrasound images show.Results B ultrasound in abdominal parenchymal organs and hollow viscus injury diagnosis coincidence rate is respectively 87.70% and 34.21%.Conclusion Ultrasound in injuries of abdominal parenchymal viscera higher diagnostic accuracy,can provide basis for clinical treatment of extremely valuable imaging information,abdominal injury is the preferred imaging methods,but for some hollow organ injury diagnostic accuracy is low.


In order to establish the influence of public accounting within the business strategy of organizations in Colombia, in this investigative article seeks to show the importance and role of Public Accounting in the planning, formulation and implementation of the business strategies, and that future CPAs, must break with the paradigm that has always been associated with the profession, the paradigm that the Accountant should be technical and analytical, the counter within the company, only the information prepared , but you can not interpret it, and the counter is mainly active in the decision making process, and it is therefore essential to understand the company as a whole, not just the area in which they operate.


A distributed version of the Improved Split-and-Merge Clustering algorithm for ground cover classification is presented, whereby the focus is on the implementation on two different parallel architectures. The analysis of the algorithm presents the obtained speedup factors by the parallelisation and investigates the proposed changes for the improvement of the classification accuracy.


Perennials and annuals apply different strategies to adapt to the adverse environment, based on 'tolerance' and 'avoidance', respectively. To understand lifespan evolution and its impact on plant adaptability, we carried out a comparative study of perennials and annuals in the genus Veronica from a phylogenetic perspective. The results showed that ancestors of the genus Veronicawere likely to be perennial plants. Annual life history of Veronica has evolved multiple times and subtrees with more annual species have a higher substitution rate. Annuals can adapt to more xeric habitats than perennials. This indicates that annuals are more drought-resistant than their perennial relatives. Due to adaptation to similar selective pressures, parallel evolution occurs in morphological characters among annual species of Veronica.


Initial release for DOI Updates are available through the GitHub repository - https://github.com/geojames/pyBathySfM A tutorial/walk-through is also available - https://geojames.github.io/pyBathySfM/ Please also cite the original paper that this software was used in: Dietrich JT. 2017. Bathymetric Structure-from-Motion: extracting shallow stream bathymetry from multi-view stereo photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 : 355–364. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4060


Studies are in progress to determine the frequency of annealing twins in copper alloys. The cold work specimens were recrystallized to the finest grain size at which it was possible to delineate both individual grains and twins without using oil immersion objectives. The twins in grains in different areas of the specimens were counted. Preliminary results indicated that the number of twins is affected by the solute elements and grain size. (M.C.G.)


The degradation of the wild oat herbicide flamprop-methyl [methyl DL-N-benzoyl-N-(3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)alaninate] in four soils has been studied under laboratory conditions using 14C-1abelled samples. The flamprop-methyl underwent degradation more rapidly than its analogue flamprop-isopropyl. However, similar degradation products were formed, namely the corresponding carboxylic acid and 3-chloro-4-fluoroaniline. The latter compound occurred mainly as 'bound' forms although evidence was obtained of limited ring-opening to give [14C]carbon dioxide. The time for depletion of 50% of the applied herbicide was approximately 1-2 weeks in sandy loam, clay and medium loam soils and 2-3 weeks in a peat soil.


Teaching quality occupies an important position in English teaching.It directly influences the learning attitude and learning effect of the learner.The most prominent problem that newly upgraded universities face is how to improve the teaching quality.And the improvement of teaching quality relies on the quality of the teachers.Therefore,strengthening the training of teachers,speeding up the transformation from teaching adults to teaching ordinary undergraduates,improving the quality of teachers have become the key to the perfection and improvement of college English teaching.


The papaya leaf juice has been long practised as a traditional remedy to cure ailments due
to its medicinal properties. The objective of this research is to study the effectiveness of
fermented papaya leaf to inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria and yeast:
Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Propionibacterium acnes and Candida
albicans. The efficacy of fermented papaya leaf against selected pathogenic microbes was
evaluated using agar well diffusion assay, broth microdilution assay and time-kill test.
Evidence from data collected confirmed that fermented papaya leaf supernatant showed
more pronounced antibacterial and antifungal effect than papaya leaf alone. Generally,
fermented papaya leaf supernatant demonstrated potent antimicrobial effect against all
bacterial pathogens tested particularly P. aeruginosa followed by P. acne and S. aureus.
However, it was found that fermented papaya leaf was less effective against Candida
albicans. It needs 4- to 7-folds higher concentration to inhibit 50% C. albicans growth
than the bacteria. The antibacterial compounds produced in the supernatant appeared to
have some bactericidal effect against P. aeruginosa, P. acne and S. aureus with the
minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC>99) of 16%, 50% and 60%, respectively.
Particularly, the fermented papaya leaf supernatant at 60% concentration showed 100%
inhibition rate within 30 mins against P. aeruginosa. However, it needs a longer time to
show the same inhibition effect against S. aureus and P. acne, which was about 2-6 h. The
potent killing effect of fermented papaya leaf showed a potential use in skincare
application to control pathogenic microbe infection


This study was done in Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP) Pulau Pinang. It is based on the five-phase methodology choosen to identify problems existed in the organisation. These problems are identified by looking at the business processes in each section of KWSP. Outsourcing was chosen as a solution for these problems and moreover help to improve the system applied in the organisation.
Methodology of this project is including 5 phase which are developing a process vision and determining process objectives, defining the process, identifying and understanding the existing process, process suitable
recommendation, and documentation.
Outsourcing acts as a mean to improve services in an organisation by using a third party who is an expert in the related field. Moreover, outsourcing provide several advantages, such as, savings of energy, time and cost while
increasing the productivity of an organisation.
Results from this project is expected that the organization can improve their services value besides achieving their target and also gain benefits from outsourcing process that had been suggested.


Conventional photographic materials typically make use of a gelatin binder in one or more coating layers. Although the final image may be formed by silver particles, organic dyes, or other inorganic components, gelatin has been the material of choice for more than a century to serve as the image binder. Additional gelatin layers are also frequently present. They function, for example, as anti-curl layers or overcoat layers which improve abrasion resistance andlor alter surface texture. The gelatin layers are adhered to a common support layer, and substrates made of acetate, polyester, glass, paper, or polyethylene resin coated paper have found widespread usage. The physical structure of the majority of twentieth century photographic films and prints can be understood by considering combinations of these basic material components. The environmental guidelines for safe use and storage of photographic materials presented in this paper are applicable to and inclusive of these common varieties of films and papers. Temperature and relative humidity recommendations for photographic materials should be cited with two purposes in mindsafe storage and safe use. Room temperature and moderate humidity ranges are more suited to the requirements of frequent access and comfortable use and display while low temperature storage is important, indeed necessary in most cases, to meet long-term preservation objectives. Only temperature and humidity levels that reasonably guarantee both chemical and physical safety can be allowed, and the materials must not be harmed by cyclical conditions which occur as they move between storage and use. Chemical stability is often determined by accelerated aging tests, and natural aging


The development and the present popular control strategies of active power filter are introduced.A method of designing active power filter based on DSP processor is offered.The paper analyzes the control system and A/D circuits,gives the total structure figure of the system.The system has less surrounding elements and simple control circuits,it is flexible and easy to implement.


Reference Standard Dosimeters are used to calibrate radiation environments and routine dosimeters. It can also be used in routine dosimetry applications for radiation processing where higher quality dosimetry measurements are required. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) is a well-established Reference Standard Dosimetry system in industrial applications of ionising radiation, and its use is also proposed in radiation therapy and accident dosimetry. In the present experimental work, PGA solid state dosimeter (SSD) has been investigated using ESR spectroscopy to study the gamma radiation response of this material and to evaluate its dosimetric characteristics: dose response, room temperature fading, heat treatment effect during post-irradiation storage. Results obtained up to now confirm that PGA seems to be suitable material for ESR dosimetry applications.


Advances in scientific knowledge and innovations in educational field that necessitates constant change in medical school curricula. At present in our Institution the existing system of undergraduate curriculum for MBBS I phase is non integrated, discipline based where in teaching involves only didactic lectures, fully teacher centered process, tutorials and to a lesser extent with group discussion. Each subject has its own block of time usually restricted to one part of the course. Therefore there are many flaws in present teaching system. Students are passive learners, no exposure to critical thinking, no active learning, difficulty in co relating all three preclinical subjects and apply this knowledge & transfer this information into clinical practice. To improve quality of the students and to have effective diagnosis, for better treatment of the patients. Integrated teaching is the need of the hour, and students learn better when engaged by different materials of learning. This alternative method of teaching would be beneficial to the student community at the institution and would be an ideal approach. Students will learn in context of medical problem integrating all three basic science subjects, understand and correlate basis of clinical problem and will enhance clinical learning.


A commercially available scanning-laser-acoustic-microscope {SLAM) has been developed which provides new and unique analytical capabilities for materials science and non-destructive testing. By employing 100 MHz acoustic waves to create images, the "elastic microstructure" of complex materials is visualized directly. The "acoustic micrographs" which contain 2 x 104 image points, are displayed on a real time TV monitor. The sample remains accessible to the investigator during the procedure and stressing fixtures can be employed. Dynamic activities can be recorded either on movie film or video tape. There are two acoustic imaging modes which appear to be essential for flaw and defect characterization. The first mode displays the acoustic transmission level through the sa.ple {normal mode) and the second mode displays fringes related to the acoustic phase {interference mode). The p~esence of a defect within a sample may be evidenced by a change in transmission level or a change in phase or both. The nature of the defect {e.g. high density inclusion or void) can be determined through the combined analysis of the interference and normal mode micrographs. The SLAM technique has been applied to a wide variety of materials including ceramics, metals, glasses, polymers, etc. Defect localization down to 25 ~m has been achieved. Samples can be systematically searched, area by area, by simply repositioning the part on the stage of the microscope and observing the acoustic image on the TV monitor.


of falconry met and gave presentations on their various specialities. Falconry from all regions of the world was represented and many exiting facts came up that were previously unknown to those of us restricted to learning from our own compatriots and from books written in our own language. Here is a short summary from a layman's point of view. My apologies to those countries whose names and histories do not appear, the number of experts that were able to attend the symposium was sadly limited.


Indian Gum Arabic (Acacia nilotica) is one of the indigenous tree which has many medicinal properties. The present study was conducted to assess the effect of Indian Gum Arabic pods powder on blood glucose and lipid levels of type 2 diabetic subjects. Forty five subjects with type 2 diabetes: age 45-65 years, male or female, not on insulin therapy, not taking medicine for other health conditions and fasting blood glucose levels between (110–300 mg/dl) were divided randomly in three groups. Group I, II and III consumed 2, 3 and 4 g of pods powder daily, respectively for four weeks. The adequacy of diet, body measurements, blood glucose, lipid profile and blood pressure were measured before and after intervention. Nutritional profile of the subjects of the groups was same before and after intervention (P 0.05). The intervention did not make any significant changes on the nutritional profile of the subjects. After 28 days the pods powder reduced the fasting blood glucose (10–19%), post prandial (7-35%), triglyceride (6-18%), LDL (7–10%), total cholesterol (5-11%), VLDL (7-15%), HDL cholesterol (5-10%) and blood pressure (8-13%) of the subjects. Changes were significant in the post prandial glucose level, triglyceride and VLDL cholesterol and blood pressure levels of the third group of subjects who were taking 4 g of pods powder daily. The results of this study suggest that the inclusion of pods powder in the diet of people with type 2 diabetes will reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases


ABSTRACT Aiming to investigate the coal metamorphic degree dependences of both the distribution characteristics of the content of CBM and the output characteristics of CBM, the thermal simulation experiments were adopted in this study. The results confirm that the content of CBM shows a unimodal relationship with the elevated coal metamorphic degree. The CBM in high-rank coal-bed mainly falls into the category of thermogenic CBM. The thermogenic CBM is generated after the thermal stability of coal metamorphism. The output characteristic of thermogenic CBM is the dominant factor determining the relationship between content of CBM and coal metamorphism degree. Both the amount of thermogenic CBM and the content of CBM increase with the coal metamorphism degree with Ro max ≤ 3.5%; however, the opposite trend is found for Ro max ≥ 3.5%.


Information Systems (IS) play an essential role in organizations, often going beyond their status of material artifact. In our case study of a large external advertising company, the role of the Information System in managing the media offer is crucial. The aim of this paper is to understand and to analyze the impact of changes in the material properties of a Sales Information System on the users' practices as part of the sales process through the application of the perspective of weak sociomateriality. For this research exercise we used a qualitative approach based on 42 semi-structured interviews conducted as part of a longitudinal study from 2011 to 2018, complemented by observation and documentary analysis. Our case study shows that as multiple ways of imbrication between material and human occur in organization, users' practices change and can become observable and analyzable. It also demonstrates the permanent and sometimes temporary changes in the material properties of an IS, thus affecting practices in the organization.


Based on hydraulic control theory and control system emulation software SIMULINK, the hydraulic braking system (HBS) with accumulator of model EIMCO922 is produced as a sample for calculation and emulation to the dynamic characteristic of HBS with accumulator in scrape.


The approaches systematization on economic analysis carrying out at the industrial enterprises in the planned administrative economy and under the market conditions has been made. The modern methodic of economic analysis at the expense of requirements set towards it, considering modern economic conditions and the broadening of analysis objects has been improved.


Domainlike temperature distributions (solitary structures) are studied, which may arise in the half space with the surface heated by the external heat flux depending in a nonlinear way on the local surface temperature. Solutions describing stationary axisymmetric structures for some model dependencies of the external heat flux density on the surface temperature are found analytically or numerically. The stability of stationary axisymmetric structures is analyzed. When applied to an analysis of spots on electrodes in arc discharges, for given characteristics of the near-electrode plasma layer such an approach results in the complete description of the stationary spots on smooth surfaces, including the spot radius and the integral current


This qualitative research study seeks to examine definitions of Singapore music, music by Singapore composers and musics of/in Singapore through the eyes of tertiary music educators in a local institute of teacher education, and to determine pedagogical implications of such definitions in the space of the music classroom. Extensive informal interviews with seven tertiary music educators (key informants) serve as the methodological base for this phenomenological study. Findings suggest that music educators should give focus to the historical, socio-cultural and musical characteristics of the lived and living musical practices that comprise Singapore while being cognizant of contradictions brought forth by recent migratory flows and the emergence of a global city identity.


s with Programs, v. 19, no. 2, p. 84. Gates, A.E., Simpson, C., and Glover, L., Ill, 1986, Appalachian Carboniferous dextral strike-slip faults; An example from Brookneal, Virginia: Tectonics, v. 5, no. 1, p. 119-133. Gibson, G.G., Teeter, SA., and Fedonkin, MA., 1984, Ediacarian fossils from the Carolina slate belt, Stanly County, North Carolina: Geology, v. 12, p. 387-390. Glover, L., Ill, Sinha, A.K., Higgins, M.W., and Kirk, W.S., 1971, U-Pb dating of Carolina slate belt and Charlotte belt rocks, Virgilina district, Virginia and North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 3, no. 5, p. 313. Glover, L., in, Mose, D.G., Poland, F.B., Bobyarchick, A.R., and Bourland, W.C., 1978, Grenville basement in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia; Implications for orogenic models: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 10, p. 169. Glover, L., Ill, Mose, D.G., Costain, J.K., Poland, F.B., and Reilly, J.M., 1982, Grenville basement in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia; A progress report: Geological Society of America Abstracts withs with Programs, v. 3, no. 5, p. 313. Glover, L., in, Mose, D.G., Poland, F.B., Bobyarchick, A.R., and Bourland, W.C., 1978, Grenville basement in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia; Implications for orogenic models: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 10, p. 169. Glover, L., Ill, Mose, D.G., Costain, J.K., Poland, F.B., and Reilly, J.M., 1982, Grenville basement in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia; A progress report: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, p. 20. Glover, L., Ill, Speer, J.A., Russell, G.S., Farrar, S.S., 1983, Ages of regional metamorphism and ductile deformation in the central and southern Appalachians: Lithos, v. 16, p. 223-245. Goldsmith, R., Milton, D.J., and Horton, J.W., Jr., 1988, Geologic map of the Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-1251-E, scale 1:250,000. Goldsmith, R., and Secor, D.T., Jr., 1993, Proterozoic rocks of accreted terranes in the eastern United States, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Jr., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R., eds., Precambrian: Conterminous United States: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. C-2, p. 422-439. Grauert, B., 1974, U-Pb systematics in heterogeneous zircon populations from the Precambrian basement of the Maryland Piedmont: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 23, p. 238-248. Grauert, B., and Wagner, M.E., 1975, Age of the granulite facies metamorphism of the Wilmington Complex, Delaware-Pennsylvania Piedmont: American Journal of Science, v. 275, p. 683-697. Grauert, B., Crawford, M.L., and Wagner, M.E., 1973, U-Pb isotopic analyses of zircons from granulite and amphibolite facies rocks of the West Chester Prong and the Avondale anticline, southeastern Pennsylvania: Carnegie Institute of Washington Year Book 72, p. 290-293. Hall, L.M. and Robinson, Peter, 1982, Stratigraphic-tectonic subdivisions of southern New England, in St-Julien, Pierre, and Beland, Jacques, eds., Major structural zones and faults of the northern Appalachians: Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 24, p. 15-41. Hanan, B.B., 1980, The petrology and geochemistry of the Baltimore Mafic Complex, Maryland [Ph.D. thesis]: Blacksburg, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 216 p. Hanley, T.B., 1986, Petrography and structural geology of Uchee Belt rocks in Columbus, Georgia, and Phenix City, Alabama, in Neathery, T.L., ed., Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide, v. 6, p. 297-300. Harper, S.B. and Fullagar, P.D., 1981, Rb-Sr ages of granitic gneisses of the Inner Piedmont of northwestern North Carolina and southwestern South Carolina: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 92, 864-872. Hatcher, R.D., Jr., 1978, The Alto Allochthon; A major tectonic feature of the Piedmont of northeast Georgia, in Short contributions to the geology of Georgia: Atlanta, Georgia Geologic Survey Bulletin 93, p. 83-86. __1979, The Coweeta Group and Coweeta syncline; Major features of the North Carolina-Georgia Blue Ridge: Southeastern Geology, v. 21, no. 1, p. 17-29. __1983, Basement massifs in the Appalachians; Their role in deformation during the Appalachian


There are two kinds of typical viewpoints about the rural development in China,that is,the land privatization plus marketization and " Be-organized Again".Therefore,we need to think about the theoretical foundation and route selection of " Be-organized Again" with historical experience and practical reasons by rejecting the logical correctness of Western theories.The theoretical basis and value orientation are verified through the study of the agricultural cooperation at the early stages,the household contract responsibility system,as well as farmers' collective consciousness.Furthermore,the future development of rural China has also directed through the systematic construction of land ownership and usage standard to improve the operational innovation of the basic agricultural management system.


A new Zn(II) metal–organic framework, formulated as {[Zn(L)]·2.7 DMF} (1), was synthesized using a multidentate ligand 1,4-bis(triazol-1-yl)terephthalic acid (H2L). The MOF 1 adopts 3D uninodal 4-c CdSO4 topology and behaves as a luminescent chemosensor for highly selective and sensitive detection of Fe3+ and nitro-aromatics, particularly 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP). In addition, the thermal stability, UV/Vis diffuse-reflection spectra and photocatalytic behaviors of 1 against organic dyes have also been investigated. The possible mechanism associated with the alleviation in the emission intensity of 1 in the presence of nitro-aromatic compounds were addressed by theoretical calculations. In addition, the photocatalytic activity of 1 against organic dyes was addressed using density of states (DOS) calculations.


Introgressive hybridization has received considerable attention following the initial delineation of the concept by Anderson and Hubricht (1938). Introgression was viewed as ". . . the introduction of a comparatively few genes from one species into the germplasm of another . . ." (Anderson, 1949, p. 18). As such, the process offers the recipient species the unique opportunity of testing the adaptive value of genes which have already survived the gauntlet of selection in a closely related donor species. However, no consensus has been reached as to the evolutionary importance of introgression. At one extreme the hybridization required for introgression is viewed as merely "evolutionary noise" (Wagner, 1970) with no biological significance while at the other extreme it is considered of importance in producing totally new genetic combinations, even capable of yielding new genes (cf. Watt, 1972). Further, there is no agreement on the frequency of introgression in natural populations. Certainly the number of strongly documented cases for introgression is very low (Heiser, 1973). It is not clear whether this deficiency is due to a rarity of introgression or rather due to the difficulty of recognizing this process in natural populations. The study reported here indicates the latter may be the case. Clarkia speciosa and C. nitens are outcrossing annuals of central C'alifornia. C. speciosa consists of several ecogeographic races in the Coast Ranges and one in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada, C. s. polyantha. C. s. polyantha is replaced northward in the sierra foothills by C. nitens, which was originally recognized as distinct from C. speciosa because of numerous floral and vegetative differences and the very low fertility of artificial hybrids (Lewis and Lewis, 1955). The low fertility was due to the fact that C. nitens and C. speciosa differ in chromosome arrangement. The former species has the "North" arrangement and the latter the "South" arrangement, and these differ by seven reciprocal translocations involving eight of the nine haploid chromosomes. However, additional work revealed one major exception to this simple correspondence between the morphological and chromosomal differentiation in the two species. The populations immediately south of C. nitens for a distance of about 100 miles appear to resemble C. s. polyantha most closely but have the North chromosome arrangement characteristic of C. nitens (Mosquin Lnd Lewis, 1959). The polyantha phenotype, therefore, in the southern half of its range is associated with the South chromosome arrangement (typical of C. speciosa) but the northern populations of C. s. polyantha have the North chromosome arrangement which is otherwise restricted to C. nitens. The North and South chromosome arrangements have been found to be separated by a 20 mile wide boundary (within the C. s. polyantha phenotype) in which populations have a minimum of ten different chromosome arrangements (Bloom and Lewis, 1972). Each of these boundary arrangements appears to be distributed quite locally; they differ from the North and South arrangements by as many as six translocations. Chromosomal studies of


Following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), testing for myocardial ischemia by noninvasive imaging is often hampered by false‐positive results. The aim of this study was to find test parameters with the best potential to identify myocardial ischemia in post‐CABG patients.


: Understanding how small mammals (SM) are associated with environmental characteristics in olive groves is important to identify potential threats to agriculture and assess the overall conservation value and functioning of agro-ecosystems. Here, we provide first insights on this topic applied to traditional olive groves in northeast (NE) Portugal by assessing the landscape attributes that determine SM occurrence, focusing on one species of conservation concern ( Microtus cabrerae Thomas 1906) and one species often perceived as a potential pest of olives ( Microtus lusitanicus Gerbe 1879). Based on SM genetic non-invasive sampling in 51 olive groves and surrounding habitats, we identified seven rodent species and one insectivore. Occupancy modelling indicated that SM were generally less detected within olive groves than in surrounding habitats. The vulnerable M. cabrerae reached a mean occupancy (95% CI) of 0.77 (0.61–0.87), while M. lusitanicus stood at 0.37 (0.24–0.52). M. cabrerae was more likely to occur in land mosaics with high density of agricultural field edges, while M. lusitanicus was more associated with high density of pastureland patches. Overall, our study suggests that the complex structure and spatial heterogeneity of traditionally managed olive grove agro-ecosystems may favor the occurrence of species-rich SM communities, possibly including well-established populations of species of conservation importance, while keeping potential pest species at relatively low occupancy rates.


In this paper, we present a new approach to the parallelization of algebraic multigrid (AMG), i.e. to the parallel coarse‐grid selection in AMG. Our approach involves (almost) no special treatment of processor subdomain boundaries and hence avoids a number of drawbacks of other AMG parallelization techniques. The key idea is to select an appropriate (local) coarse grid on each processor from a set of admissible grids such that the composed coarse grid forms a suitable coarse grid for the whole domain, i.e. there is no need for a special boundary treatment. To this end, we first construct multiple equivalent coarse grids on each processor subdomain. In a second step we then select exactly one grid per processor by a graph clustering technique. The results of our numerical experiments clearly indicate that this approach results in coarse grids of high quality which are very close to those obtained with sequential AMG. Furthermore, the operator and grid complexities of our parallel AMG are mostly smaller than those obtained by other parallel AMG methods, whereas the scale‐up behaviour of the proposed algorithm is similar to that of other parallel AMG techniques. However a significant improvement with respect to the speed‐up performance is achieved. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


According to the requirements of information society, multimedia teaching must be adopted in order to suit the modern teaching. Based on the construction and application of multimedia in East China Geological Institute, this paper, in several aspects of experimental teaching, course teaching of geology and mutual teaching, expounds the important role of multimedia in the auxiliary teaching.


The light-driven reactions of photosynthesis, as well as the mitochondrial power supply, are hosted within specialized membranes containing a high fraction of redoxactive lipids. Protein mobility and diffusion of redox lipids is believed to be the in plane charge transfer mechanism along such cell membranes. Using a membrane-on-a-chip setup, we show that redox-active model membranes can conduct and sustain surprisingly high (mA) currents with a specific resistivity typical for semiconductors. Our data suggest that charge transfer within cell walls hosting electron-transferchains is driven by self-assembling molecular redox-wires that effectively couple redox-proteins by a simultaneous electron and proton in plane hopping within a membrane. This completely alters our understanding of the role of lipid membranes with wide-range implications suggesting e.g. that conducting membranes may be the precursor for evolving complex redox-machineries of life, and electrochemical membrane deterioration may play an important role in mitochondrial aging. Further, these self-assembling organic 2D-conductors offer technologically exploitable features allowing for designing self-assembling and adaptive bio-electronics.


In the sensorless control system of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), the feedback accuracy of rotor position and speed affects the dynamic performance of the system. The sliding mode observer (SMO) can be used to observe the rotor position and speed effectively. To reduce the chattering and improve the observation accuracy, the fuzzy control and SMO are combined first in the paper, and the fuzzy sliding mode gain is designed to be adaptively changed according to the system state. Then a low-pass filter (LPF) whose cutoff frequency is variable with speed is used to filter the extended electromotive force (EEMF) observed by the SMO. In this way, the improved SMO is more suitable for different operating states of the motor. Besides, the paper analyzes the superiority of the method over the conventional SMO theoretically. Finally, it is verified through simulation that the proposed control strategy without position sensor can effectively weaken the system chattering and improve the observation accuracy of rotor position and speed.


This comprehensive treatment of communication principles is applied to letters, memos, reports, employment letters and resumes, and oral, nonverbal, and intercultural communication. The author presents theory, techniques, and applications to teach readers how to solve business and personal communication problems with an emphasis on effectiveness and ethics. The book is based on the premise that all elements of communication are interrelated and that the transmission and reception of meaning affect behavior.Easy-to-follow writing style along with a clear discussion of principles that includes many applications. The seventh edition of Successful Communication for Business and Management has been revised to include a reduction in the number of chapters from 21 to 18. The overall presentation has been updated where appropriate. And, the discussion of technology now reflects the latest changes in both technology that is available and the manner in which is it properly used.


This article focuses on the extent to which victim-offender mediation was utilized by restorative justice practitioners in response to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim harassment and other September 11–related hate crimes. Specific attention was given to the disparity between the advocacy for victim-offender mediation in these incidents and its actual use, and the lessons to be learned from restorative justice efforts after September 11.


Through in-depth surveys and market investigations within and outside Guizhou,the researcher advocates re-examining the cultural values of the folk handcrafts in Guizhou based on market economy and urban cultural development context in order to build a communication bridge between folk art resources and modern urban life in Guizhou.In this way,Guizhou folk art can be effectively guided to modern market and urban living systems.Its status and values can be therefore sensed in mainstream economic and cultural systems.


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This article has an accompanying continuing medical education activity on page e9. Learning Objective: Upon completion of reading this article, successful learners will be able to differentiate the effect of different patterns of iron overload on liver damage, understand the effect of mutations in the HFE gene of hereditary hemochromatosis in determining the predisposition to develop iron overload, and recognize the lack of utility of HFE mutations assessment in the absence of histological demonstration of hepatocellular iron accumulation in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.


This study aimed to carry out bioclimatic zoning based on the historical series of climatic variables such as air temperature, maximum, minimum and relative humidity collected in six conventional meteorological stations in the state of Paraíba, Brazil and from this to determine whether or not the animals are in thermal comfort by comparing with the results obtained in scientific research in each mesoregion in the rainy and dry periods. Then based on this the comfort conditions for small ruminants in the rainy and dry seasons of the mesoregions of Paraíba were observed using data from the literature, and demonstrated in spatial distribution maps. The variables air temperatures, maximum and minimum and relative humidity varied throughout the state for the rainy season between 22 to 27, 18 to 21, 25 to 31ºC and 64 to 82%, respectively, and in dry season is 23 to 27, 28 to 35, 19 to 23ºC and 49 to 76%, respectively. However, it is concluded that raising sheep and goats is viable in all mesoregions of the state of Paraíba in both periods


This paper introduces a plug-and-play on-chip asynchronous communication network aimed at the dynamic reconfiguration of a low-power adaptive circuit such as an internet of things (IoT) system. By using a separate communication network, we can address both digital and analog blocks at a lower configuration cost, increasing the overall system power efficiency. As reconfiguration only occurs according to specific events and has to be automatically in stand-by most of the time, our design is fully asynchronous using handshake protocols. The paper presents the circuit's architecture, performance results, and an example of the reconfiguration of frequency locked loops (FLL) to validate our work. We obtain an overall energy per bit of 0.07 pJ/bit for one stage, in a 28 nm Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) technology at 0.6 V and a 1.1 ns/bit latency per stage.


The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) will observe over 1,000,000 galaxies and extended Galactic sources covering the entire sky at wavelengths between 1 and 2 μm. Most of these galaxies will be newly cataloged objects. The survey catalog will have both high completeness and reliability down to J = 15.0 mag and Ks = 13.5 mag, equivalent to 1.6 and 2.9 mJy, respectively. Galaxies as small as 10″ are resolved, and those as large as ∼2.′5 are fully imaged. 2MASS will discover galaxies never seen before in the "zone of avoidance" caused by the obscuring effects of Galactic dust and gas, limited only by the extreme number of stars at very low Galactic latitude, especially toward the Galactic center. This paper describes the basic algorithms used to detect and characterize extended sources in the 2MASS database and catalog. Critical procedures include tracking the point-spread function, image background removal, artifact removal, photometry and basic parameterization, star-galaxy discrimination, and object classification using a decision tree technique. We introduce and provide examples of the types of extended sources that 2MASS detects across the sky, including galaxies, Galactic nebulae and resolved stellar objects, multiple stars and clusters, and, finally, artifacts arising from bright stars and transient events. A future paper will provide a full statistical analysis and verification of the completeness, reliability, and integrity of the first release catalog, as well as some of the basic scientific results of the catalog, including galaxy colors, number counts, and redshift distribution.


Fig. 1 Axisymmetric projectile for use in the UW facility, twodimensional projectile for use in the HU facility, and Q2D projectile for use in the UW facility. Shumann, T. E. W., ''Heat Transfer: A Liquid Flowing Through a Porous Prism,'' Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 208, 1929, pp. 405 – 416. Korkegi, R. H., ''Heat Transfer from a Cored Brick Storage Heater,'' Univ. of Maryland, Rept. AERO 96-1, College Park, MD, March 1996. Schlichting, H. Boundary Layer Theory, 7th ed., McGraw – Hill, New York, 1979.


For the study of microwave chemistry,it is necessary to develop a reactor with small-size and wide operation frequency band. This paper presents a novel microwave coaxial reactor. Its main part is a coaxial cavity,one end of which is coaxial port filled with PTFE,and the other end is a short circuit plane. Two orifices which are designed as cut-off waveguides for microwave are attached on the cavity as the passageway of sample solutions. The distribution of electromagnetic field and temperature field of this novel microwave coaxial reactor using for heating the heavy oil at 915 MHz,2450 MHz and 5800 MHz are simulated with finite-element method multi-fields coupling analysis. It is clear from the results that this novel microwave coaxial reactor could work properly over a wide frequency band. So according to the requirements of the experiments,we could choose the operation frequency over a wide frequency band to get the optimal reaction effect.


In this paper we report the development of a loadbearing outer surface that enhanced antenna performances, and is termed CSS for 'composite smart structure'. A CSS is a multilayer composite sandwich structure in which antenna layers are embedded. Two types of CSS are designed. One uses a direct-feeding stacked patch antenna and the other an aperture-coupled patch antenna for electrical performances. The design procedure is presented including structure design, material selection and design of antenna elements in order to achieve high electrical and structural performances. Antenna design is processed at a central frequency of 12.2 GHz and a bandwidth over 1 GHz. Honeycomb thickness under the outer facesheet is selected for the most efficient electrical performances. A high gain can be obtained by placing an outer facesheet at a resonance position of the radiated field, which is half the wavelength distance from the spot which the radiation originates from. Measured electrical performances show that CSSs have a wide bandwidth over 10% and a higher gain than the antennas before they are embedded, and no doubt they have excellent structural performances due to sandwich effects by composites and honeycomb cores. With the CSS design concept, antenna efficiency can be improved with structurally effective materials of high electrical loss. The CSS concept can be extended to give a useful guide for manufacturers of structural body panels as well as antenna designers, promising innovative future communication technology.


3,5-Diphenyl-1,2-dithiolium hydrogensulphate was prepared by the reaction of bis(thiodibenzoylmethanato)-nickel(II) with thionyl chloride in acetonitrile solution. The compound was characterized by X-ray structure determination (1261 observed, independent reflexions, R = 0,056). Crystal data: a = 543,1(1), b = 1605,7(1), c = 1678,9(2) pm; space group P 212121, Z = 4. By hydrogen bonding the hydrogensulphate ions form chains of weakly helical structure.


A cross sectional study was conducted from November, 2010 to April, 2011 in the Amhara regional state, Gondar town. The objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence of ectoparasites, determine associated risk factors and identify the most important ectoparasites species of dogs. Skin scrapings for mange mite suspected cases and collection of ectoparasites for lice, fleas and ticks was done using simple random technique. Age, sex, breed and coat color were considered as risk factors. SPSS version 17 (2004) was used for chi- square test and p 0.05). Ectoparasites were found more prevalent in female dogs (91.8%) than males (87.1%). For age groups of 8-18 months it was 96.6% prevalent and in local breeds it was found 90.3% prevalence. In conclusion, dogs were highly exposed to ectoparasites and hence ectoparasites were serious dermatologic problems in Gondar.


The paper was based on the character of rockburst in Cangling tunnel to summarize the relativity between rockburst character and the each influence factor.According to the analysis it concluded that the influence of lithology and crustal stress was the greatest,the medium rockburst was engendered in the great depth at the middle of tunnel.Simultaneity,the research found that the rockburst more frequently occurred in the abnormal or widened section and dry surrounding than the common section and the place that the ground water was abundant,and the occurring time and space of the rockburst in Cangling tunnel had some rules.And then concluded that the mechanism of rockburst was tension and shearing in Cangling tunnel.According to rockburst characteristics,some pertinent measures were taken to improve physical and mechanical properties of surrounding rock and the appropriate initial support system was adopted to prevent rockburst,and then using the rules of rockburst to forecast unexcavated tunnel and guide construction.


Introduction D.A. Mouat, et al. Effect of Mediterranean Shrub on Water Erosion Control V. Andreu, et al. Secondary Desertification Due to Salinization of Intensively Irrigated Lands: The Israeli Experience A. Banin, A. Fish. Surface Disturbances: Their Role in Accelerating Desertification J. Belnap. A Hierarchical Approach for Desertification Assessment G. Bergkamp. Properties and Erosional Response of Soils in a Degraded Ecosystem in Crete (Greece) C. Boix, et al. Identification and Observation of Desertification Processes with the Aid of Measurements from Space: Results from the European Field Experiment in Desertification-Threatened Areas (EFEDA) H.-J. Bolle. Where, Why and to What Extent Have Rangelands in the Karoo, South Africa, Desertified W.R.J. Dean, et al. Desertification Control: A Framework for Action H.E. Dregne. Policy Roots of Land Degradation in the Arid Region of the United States: An Overview K. Hess, J.L. Holechek. Use of Earth Observation Satellite Data for Land Degradation Mapping and Monitoring in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Towards a Satellite-Observatory J. Hill, et al. Desertification of the Eastern Karoo, South Africa: Conflicting Paleoecological, Historical, and Soil Isotopic Evidence M.T. Hoffman, et al. Government Policy Influences on Rangeland Conditions in the United States: A Case Example J.L. Holechek, K. Hess. Integrated Response Plot Designs for Indicators of Desertification R.O. Kuehl, et al. Desertification of Subtropical Thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: Are There Alternatives? G.I.H. Kerley, et al. Desertification in Australia: An Eye to Grass Roots and Landscapes J.A. Ludwig, D.J. Tongway. Regional Landscape-Ecological Planning and Desertification Control in Arid Regions of the Commonwealth of Independent States E.V. Milanova. South Africa's Arid and Semiarid Rangelands: Why Are They Changing and Can They Be Restored? S.J. Milton, W.R.J. Dean. Impact of Desertification on Temperature Trends in the Middle East H.A. Nasrallah, R.C. Balling. Satellite Monitoring of Desert Plant Community Response to Moisture Availability A.J. Peters, M.D. Eve. Implications of the Disintegration of the Former Soviet Union for Desertification Control T.A. Saiko. Monitoring Soil Productive Potential D. Tongway. Persistence of Desertified Ecosystems: Explanations and Implications W.G. Whitford, et al. A Field Study of the Influence of Land Management and Soil Properties on Runoff and Soil Loss in Central Spain A.G. Williams, et al. Desertification in Russia: Problems and Solutions (an Example in the Republic of Kalmykia-Khalmg Tangh) I.S. Zonn.


Reinforced concrete structures are susceptible to attack by elements of the environment including chloride and sulfate ions. Past attempts at increasing service life have generally focused on limiting the ingress of these deleterious elements by producing less permeable concrete. Lower water-cementitious material ratios and the addition of fine pozzolans such as silica fume contribute to a denser cement paste matrix. Such mixtures are often classified as high-performance concretes. However, these mixture modifications also typically contribute to an increased temperature rise and increased autogenous shrinkage, both of which increase the concrete's propensity to undergo early-age cracking. Thus, attempts to produce less permeable concrete can be compromised by the existence of only a few through-depth cracks. This work describes a new means of increasing concrete service life that involves the use of carefully selected viscosity modifiers to substantially increase the viscosity of the concrete pore solution and slow down diffusion through the pore solution. Doubling the service life of a specific concrete may be possible by doubling the viscosity of its pore solution. This approach has been termed VERDiCT (viscosity enhancers reducing diffusion in concrete technology).


The article is based on vast research of primary and secondary foreign and Russian scientific materials, qualitative interviews with foreign and home experts on the development of international medical tourism, as well as the analysis of the peculiarities of its development in Russia. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of current trends in medical tourism, mechanisms and models for the implementation of this type of activity, with an analytical focus on the situation in Russia. The article examines the main organizational and economic models of the development of international medical tourism. It will contribute to the development of effective mechanisms for carrying out organized and synchronized activities of all the parties involved, including stakeholders who arrange inbound medical tours, and promote Russia as a new major international destination for medical tourists from around the world. In order to be able to compete both with the new leaders of international medical tourism (Asia-Pacific region) and the traditional European players in this market, Russia must be actively involved in this sphere, develop the infrastructure for inbound and domestic tourism and increase and maintain a specialized pool of medical tourism facilitators. In our opinion, to develop a systemic approach to the integration of Russian medical centers into the international system of medical tourism and to attract incoming overseas patients, Russia must focus on the most successful models of the development of medical tourism. In particular, Models 3 «Medical tourism as part of the state healthcare policy» and 4 «Medical tourism based on the partnership between domestic healthcare providers with foreign hospitals, medical centers and private medical practitioners».


Objective: To evaluate changes in serum glucose values following administration of corticosteroids in women with gestational (GDM) or pre-gestational diabetes (PGDM). Method: Patients with diagnoses of pregnancy and GDM or PGDM from 2006-2009 who received corticosteroids for enhancement of fetal pulmonary maturity as an inpatient were identified following IRB approval. Fasting (FSG) and two hour post prandial serum (PPSG) glucose levels, and oral anti-hyperglycemic agents and insulin given were recorded. Day 1 (D1) was the day the first dose of corticosteroid was administered. The percentage of women with FSG > 95 mg/dL and the percentage with at least one PPSG > 120 mg/dL during each day were calculated. Data were analyzed utilizing SPSS v15. Results: Fifty-five patients met the study criteria. FSG was greater than 95 mg/dL in over 90% of women on Days 2 and 3 and remained elevated in 51% on Day 4. At least one PPSG was greater than 120 mg/dL in 81% - 98% on Days 1 - 3, and in over 60% on Days 4 - 6. The majority of women taking insulin received increases in doses that were less than double their regular dose (26 out of 33); the others received higher doses. Three of 6 patients who began the study taking glyburide were started on insulin. Of the 19 who began the study with diet controlled GDM, 11 were started on medication. Conclusion: Women with GDM or PGDM who are administered antenatal corticosteroids will experience prolonged serum glucose levels above the range associated with optimal pregnancy outcome.


The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of welfare of pregnant women before and after obtaining BPJS for Health Services. The research was a qualitative descriptive approach. It applied a focus group discussion (FGD) and structured interviews with a questionnaire. The samples were 24 pregnant women from the village of Goa Boma. The results showed that most pregnant women got the benefits of health services for giving birth and its recovering. Having this BPJS Health service, they could save the costs the medical examination and childbirth. These unpaid costs could be allocated for other household needs and / or to meet the needs of the baby who was just born. Even though they were treated in the second and third class, they calimed that the services were acceptable. class of health services they get is second and third class.

Keywords: Health insurance, economic welfare, pregnant women, FGD


In this paper Glass tempering process elaborates that how Glass is tempered with step by step process. The Glass Tempering Process helps to increase certain characteristics such as strength, transparency, durability, harness of the processed glass.. Glass tempering process is simulated using Petrinet simulation tool and the simulation results are validated by analytical and graphical methods. Analytical method used in this paper is invariant analysis and graphical methods used are evolution graph and Reachability graph.


Purpose –  The purpose of this article is to propose a regulatory model that allows the maintenance of the public interest in situations governed by long-term public contracts, through deliberative democracy tools, and the regulatory agencies have the role of mediation of the deliberative process.
Methodology/approach/design – This articles approach is based on the analysis of justifying theories of regulation by the public interest, of theories that refute this possibility (public choice), and of theories that turn to the regulatory design as a way of avoiding the distortion of the purposes of regulation, to assess the possible ways of deliberative regulation of long-term public procurement, as well as the role of agencies in this context.
Findings – It was concluded that by means of deliberative procedures, regulation can be constructed to assure the service to the public interest, as well as to maintain it over time, and independent regulatory agencies have the role of mediating the deliberative process between the social actors, public and private, interested. It was also found that deliberative regulation broadens the legitimacy of regulatory acts and reinforces its independence from other spheres of government, with positive results in terms of regulatory governance.
Practical implications – The conclusions propose new developments on the regulatory process, form, participants, democratic legitimacy, as well as on the role of independent regulatory Agencies in this process, being able to have immediate application in the modeling of the decision-making process in the regulation of long-term concession contracts.
Originality/value – The text is original, as it proposes a new debate in Brazil, about a real difficulty that is the regulation of long-term public contracts and their constant adaptation to the dynamic of variable public interests throughout the time, proposing ways to be followed to solve the issue.


For a local noetherian ring, a subset of a minimal system of generators of the maximal ideal is a regular sequence if the ideal it generates has finite projective dimension. We prove THEOREM. Let (A, m, K) be a local noetherian ring and {x1,.. .. X, x} a minimal set of generators for m. If the ideal of A generated by xl X . . , xr (r 1. We consider the change-rings spectral sequence E2 Tor AI(x) (N, Tor A(A/ (x), m)) =:> Tor A+q ) Received by the editors February 23, 1987 and, in revised form, April 24, 1987. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 Revision). Primary 13D05. ? 1988 American Mathematical Society 0002-9939/88 $1.00 + $.25 per page


Accepted May 10, 2008 ) The technical trend of solid lubricant rolling bearing and linear motion guide was reviewed. Especially, a newly developed oil-free solid lubricant linear motion guide by authors was also reported in details in this present. The rolling ball of the guide was coated by sputtering molybdenum disulˆde ( MoS 2 ) and some special transition metal simultaneously, while the spacer ball made of poly-tetra‰uoroethylene ( PTFE ) was also applied to the guide. By this way, a composite solid lubricant with excellent wear resistance properties was provided and there has been no any organic solvent and binder added, resulting in lower particle generation and low lever of out gas. It is expected that the oil-free solid lubricant linear motion guide could be applied to high temperature, high


A noise source detection system based on nearfield acoustical holography has been developed. This system consists mainly of a measuring section, a hologram section, and a reconstruction section. In the measuring section, acoustic waves radiated from sound sources are sampled simultaneously with both a scanning microphone in the measurement plane and a spatially fixed reference microphone. The hologram section obtains the hologram data set from the cross spectra between the two microphone signals at each sampling point. The reconstruction section processes the hologram data to reconstruct the acoustic wave field radiated from the original sound sources. In addition, three ways for acoustic image reconstruction, using evanescent wave components or plane‐wave components, or both, can be selected at this reconstruction stage. Sound source identification tests for sound sources, such as loudspeakers, were carried out using this system. The results showed that a good spatial resolution could be obtained, and th...


Optical properties of iron pillared clays (Fe-PILCs) were determined by using spectrophotometer measurements coupled with the solution of the radiative transfer equation (RTE). The specific absorption and scattering coefficients, as well as the phase function for scattering, were obtained as a function of the wavelength in the range from 300 to 500 nm. Optical properties of the Fe-PILCs are greatly affected by their iron contents which are ascribed to changes in their textural properties and are significantly different from those of two other iron containing materials, goethite and zerovalent iron. To show an application of the optical properties, the quantum efficiency of the heterogeneous photo-Fenton process with a Fe-PILC was determined. The results indicate that Fe-PILCs could be used as catalysts in large-scale photoreactors whose dimensions could be adjusted in a wide range according to the catalyst load and iron content to be used.


This is a book about the architecture of the speech-production planning process and speech motor control. It is written in reaction to a debate in the literature about the nature of phonological representations, which are proposed to be spatiotemporal by some, and symbolic (atemporal) by others. Making this choice about the nature of phonological representation has several fundamental implications for the architecture of the speech-production planning system, notably with regard to the number of planning components and the type of timing mechanisms. In systems with symbolic phonological representations, a separate phonetic planning component is required for speakers to plan the details of surface timing and spatial characteristics for each context. In contrast, the Articulatory Phonology system, which proposes spatiotemporal phonological representations, has a very different architecture, with fewer components. These contrasting assumptions about the spatiotemporal vs. symbolic nature of phonological representations have important consequences for how these two approaches deal with timing issues. This is because time is intrinsic to phonological representations in Articulatory Phonology, but is not part of symbolic phonology. These two proposals are evaluated in light of existing literature on speech and non-speech timing behavior. Evidence that challenges the Articulatory Phonology model inspired a sketch of a new model of the production process, based on symbolic phonological representations and a separate phonetic planning component to specify surface-timing details. This approach provides an appropriate account of what is known about motor timing in general and speech timing in particular. Keywords


On the rural side, it appears that the job potential in the agricultural economy has reached saturation level that leads to large-scale migration of workforce from rural to urban areas adding woes and strain to over-stressed civic infrastructure. Millions of unemployed young people, especially those from rural and semi-urban backgrounds who have not been able to access higher/professional education but who are oriented towards white-collar jobs, is driven to despair because they cannot find a job. It calls for the need for entrepreneurial ventures among the unemployed youth to encourage self-employment. In this context, this study aims at understanding the impact of Agricultural Employment Development Programmes offered by RUDSETI. Moreover, the study analyses how RUDSETI was able to motivate, instil technical knowledge, management skills, resource management, and handhold trainees even after starting their own agricultural business. For the study, the purposive sampling method was applied to collect the primary data from the trainees at RUDSETI. Descriptive method of research was adopted. The result of study states that training programme was key factor to start and successful running of their business. The hypothesis testing also proved positive that RUDSETI is acting as a catalyst towards growth and sustaining of the Agricultural sector.


This paper presents a case study of the structure, generative adversary network (GAN). The primary goal of this project is to apply the concept of GAN (Generative Adversary Network) to generate a group of artificial images with same theme, which are expected to give a realistic view to human eyes in final stage. This independent research mainly focuses on basic structure of GAN and the improvement of its quality via implementing a variation, DCGAN. Thus, it can offer solid foundations and help to our team to focus on exploring a possibility of this fair new technology.


This paper analyzes the financial regulatory struct ures of the US, the EU and several other countries from the point of view of information-flo w. Two central discussions regarding regulation of the financial sector have been develo ping simultaneously: one regards the role of financial regulators in crisis prevention and mitig ation, the other considers the efficiency of a consolidated versus a fragmented regulatory structu re. Within these debates, operational problems have been largely ignored. Economists have traditionally approached the optimal structure of financial supervision from a public ch oice angle, focusing on different types of inefficiencies, including agency problems, capture of the financial regulator, monitoring, and self-interested regulators. These valuable perspect iv s sidestep an equally important public administration problem, namely the problem of infor mation-flow in and among the financial regulatory authorities. This paper aims to fill in this gap by highlighting the operational side of information-flow, which should be taken into accoun t ahead of any change in the structure of a country's financial supervisory structure. The nove lty of this paper is that it approaches the optimal structure for financial regulators issue fr om the standpoint of organizational design and


Although children's well-being is an increasingly important area of interest for policy and research, it is still an under-theorized concept. This article proposes a theoretical framework regarding children's well-being that combines a capabilities approach with a social provisioning approach. The methodology used involved children in the conceptualization of their well-being and in validating a list of relevant capabilities necessary to have a good life. The data show how children express a multidimensional understanding of well-being and propose an agenda of priorities and concerns of their own different from that of adults.


The bare bones particle swarm (BBPS) is evolved from the canonical particle swarm optimizer (PSO). The velocity term of the canonical PSO is removed in BBPS and replaced by Gaussian sampling strategy. There is no parameter tuning and it is much easier to implement. In the paper, it is proven that the BBPS can be mathematically deduced from the canonical PSO and a more general formula of BBPS is also presented. The results presented in the paper represent initial results of an ongoing research project effort.


This is an attempt to establish a structural vector auto regression(SVAR) model which contains the four variables of the actual money supply,real interest rates,exchange rates and real national income,to estimate the effects of the monetary policy of China from 1995 to 2008.After the process of vector autoregressive analysis,Johansen Co integration Test,Granger causality test and impulse response analysis based on the quarter data of the variables that related to our model during the samples,we find that the effect of the monetary policy is much more effective in the short term than in the long term.The effect of real interest rates on the real exchange rate is at a low level,but has a negative impact on output;the real exchange has a negative impact on real output,too.Of these features,continuously carrying out the interest rate liberalization and appropriately loosing the fluctuation of exchange rate,will strengthen the effects of the monetary policies.


Patients with unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) treated with temporary injection laryngoplasty (IL) have a decreased rate of permanent medialization laryngoplasty (ML) compared to UVFP patients initially treated by observation. The aim of this study was to determine whether the lower rate of ML corresponded with improved quantifiable measures.


Existing methods for handling pointer variables during dataflow analyses can make such analyses inefficient in both time and space because the data-flow analyses must store and propagate large sets of data facts that are introduced by dereferences of pointer variables. This article presents equivalence analysis, a general technique to improve the efficiency of data-flow analyses in the presence of pointer variables. The technique identifies equivalence relations among the memory locations accessed by a procedure, and ensures that two equivalent memory locations share the same set of data facts in a procedure and in the procedures that are called by that procedure. Thus, a data-flow analysis needs to compute the data-flow information for only a representative memory location in an equivalence class. The data-flow information for other memory locations in the equivalence class can be derived from that of the representative memory location. The article also shows the extension to an interprocedural slicing algorithm that uses equivalence analysis to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Our empirical studies suggest that equivalence analysis may effectively improve the efficiency of many data-flow analyses.


Single Channel Analyzer (SCA) is a most common device used in today's nuclear world. Therefore, A SCA with microcontroller based controlled output has been proposed in this article. The system comprises of Lower Level Discriminator (LLD), Upper Level Discriminator (ULD), wide dynamic range, Fast Processing and Hysteresis. The Comparator LM339N used as the key component that performs the main function of the proposed nuclear module. The multi-turn potentiometers have been used as LLD and ULD for the incoming linear pulses from shaping amplifier. The system has also employ the Hysteresis facilities so that oscillations due to stray feedback are not possible. A lower pin and less housing PIC microcontroller (P16F676) has been used to control the width and time delay of the output pulses.


Design the late-model high capability little signal amplifier, which can solve the questions in the high-quality little signal amplifier design. The circuit adopts the operational amplifier, which produced by the ICL Company. We design a new circuit with simple configuration, low cost and superexcellent capability.


After analyzing and exploring a variety of image information hiding algorithms, this paper proposes a method based on intelligent multi-agent system to segment wavelet blocks adaptively according to different textures. This method can automatically adjust the embedding intensity of hidden information according to the difference of visibility JND and ensure the original image. Chip quality, and the use of chaotic sequence algorithm to properly encrypt the hidden information, so that the hidden information has better security, the design of information embedding and extraction algorithm, and on the platform of MATLAB to achieve. Simulation results show that this method not only maintains the high visual quality of JPEG images, but also has a high capacity of information hiding, which provides security for real-time image communication in the Internet environment.


According to the need of high resolution and VIS/IR composite image, the task requirements and the necessity of spectrum selection were given. based on the analysis of the imaging mode, the design route of VIS/IR composite imaging using off-axis linear field of optical system is determined. According to the aberration auto-balance optimization of optical design software, the two channel aberrations were initially balanced. The aspheric surfaces were introduced to correct residual aberration, and the compact requirement of the composite optical system is realized. An example of the design was given, The technical indicators: The VIS channel optical system focal length is 7800mm,F number is 11.73,field of view is 2.2°×0.2°,the operating wave band is 400~900nm, the modulation transfer function of the pan-spectral is above 0.30 all over the field of view at the Nyquist frequency of 71.4lp/mm, the modulation transfer function of the multi-spectral is above 0.80 all over the field of view at the Nyquist frequency of 18lp/mm. The IR channel optical system focal length is 2500mm,F number is 3.76,field of view is 3°×0.2°,the operating wave band is 3~5μm, the modulation transfer function of the system is above 0.32 all over the field of view at the Nyquist frequency of 33lp/mm. The system can achieved the resolution 0.45m/3m at 500km orbital altitude.


A large proportion of the South African rural road network consists of two-lane highways. Some of these highways are carrying relatively high volumes of traffic with the result that some roads are operating at low levels of service. Currently, the Highway Capacity Manual of the Transportation Research Board is used for the analysis of the operations on these roads. Concern has, however, been expressed that the methodologies described in the HCM may not be appropriate or adequate for South African conditions. An alternative model has been developed for the operational analysis of two-lane rural highways. This model utilises queuing theory to model platoons of traffic along a highway. The average platoon length is determined which can be utilised to determine evaluation criteria such as percentage followers and to predict travel speed. This model can also be used to model highways with wide shoulders where the shoulders are utilised by vehicles to provide passing opportunities. The Highway Capacity Manual uses "Percent time spent following" as the measure of effectiveness in the evaluation of two-lane highways. This measure has the limitation that it can not readily be observed in the field. It is therefore proposed that this should be replaced by "percentage followers", although a new measure termed "follower density" should be used for the evaluation of two-lane roads.


BY JAY WooDRUFF make ·a new recEDmlR IN CH!EP ommendation to the board, or he The administration will reconsider its could decide to decision to deny tenure to Michael Gilsustain the original bert. an assistant professor of German recommendation," and Russian, in response to a rally in his Gilbert was desupport that attracted more than 100 stunied tenure at the dents and faculty Monday afternoon beboard of trustees hind Reynolda Hall. meeting April 2. ThecrowdstoodbelowPresidentThoMichael Gilbert Theboardbasedits masK.HearnJr.'sofficechanting"Give decision : on Gilbert tenure," while senior Eric SurHearn's recommendation. Hearn's asface,anorganizeroftheprotest,metwith sistant, Carolyn Dow, referred all quesHeam in his office. tions concerning the decision to the proAfter his meeting with Hearn, Surface vost. told the protestors that he was not satis"I've decided that the reasons for the · _ tied with the administration's response · decision should not be given to the press to their concerns. "I really don't know if because of the confidentiality that should we did a lot of good, and rm really be involved in all personnel matters," disappointed that the university is not Brown told the OG&B. listening to its students," he said. However, during the rally Brown met bottom line is that Dr. Gilbert. as well as he related to us, could not find a way to relate to his co11eagues in the German department." . Timothy Sellner, the chairman of the German and Russian department, made the initial recommendation concerning Gilbert's tenure, which was reviewed by the dean, the provost and the president before it was sent to the board of trustees for a final decision. Sellner said he made therecommendationafterconsultingwith the department's two senior professors, Wilmer Sanders and Larry West. Sellner said Gilbert did satisfy the three main criteria for tenure: teaching, professional activity (such as research and publication) and service to the community. No one questions his qualifications in those areas, Sellner said.


Facing economic stagnation which will sap its strength, heighten political tensions and diminish its global role, Europe must dismiss 'muddling through' as an alternative to collapse. Only radical steps can avert a lost decade.


Taking Lake Dianchi Watershed as study area, the dynamics change degree of land use types in the watershed was analyzed based on interpretation data from TM image in 1990 and 1999. The direction of land use conversion was quantitatively analyzed by land use transfer matrix based on the Markov model. Meanwhile, land use change tendency of 2008 was simulated and forecasted based on land use conversion rules using multi-criteria evaluation method from GIS and combining with CA-Markov model. Compared with the interpretation data of 2008, Kappa coefficient of the simulated results was 0.7338, indicating that the simulated results were credible. The spatial patterns of land use change in 2017 and 2026 were simulated by using CA-Markov model. The results show that land use change is also active in this watershed and ecological restoration and reconstruction is still confronted with pressure. Farmland, forest, water and unused land will reduce from 2008 to 2026, while the grassland and construction land will continue to increase. Compared with the trend of land use from 1990 to 2008, the simulated result indicate that farmland, forest and construction land from 2008 to 2026 will keep the same change trend while grassland, water and unused land show the opposite change trend. Construction land will expand on the basis of the present and the change of water is little. Although forest resources will decrease in future, it is still the main land use types in watershed. Construction land expansion significantly increases the load of non-point source pollution in Dianchi. Unreasonable land use is one of the major causes of the water quality degradation in Dianchi Lake currently, and it is going to increase the pressure on the water environment and ecology of water basin in the future. Therefore, to maintain enough arable land per capita, lower fertilization strength, improve land utilization levels, keep a sufficient amount of ecological land, use construction land frugally and intensively, are some important measures to reduce the potential of non-point source pollution in the area. The research can provide scientific support for rational planning and management of land use, the policies formulating of ecological restoration and economic development.


Interviews with formerly salaried workers in the Public sector who have established their own businesses reveal a great diversity of situations, whether it involves the nature of the activity (services or manufacturing), organizational forms (independent enterprise or entreprenuerial network), or even the markets concerned (local, national or international). In this phase of transition, the institutions characteristic of the market economy (previously existing work units or official unions) continue to exercise a primary influence.


A workshop was held in Glasgow in September, 1989 on the topic of the Inter-Comparison of Radiocarbon Laboratories. The meeting was hosted by the University of Glasgow, Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre and the NERC 14C laboratory at East Kilbride. The scientific program of the workshop covered previous and current intercomparison studies of radiocarbon laboratories, as well as future developments in this field.


The aim of the thesis is to develop and produce a small, affordable open-source circuit. This circuit consists of a temperature and humidity sensor. It can switch a light on and off. It may be linked to the smart home system using wireless technologies. In this way it is possible to manage and inspect values of sensors. It is based on Open Source technologies and platforms. The central system is based on the Raspberry Pi and Arduino platform with open-source software. It contains mechanisms for connecting with the circuit, and thus the management of this circuit. Review of data and management of the node are possible via the web interface and smart phone. The developed software code and scheme are published and freely accessible on the web.


The utility model discloses a vertical type semi-continuous casting crystallizer with double-layer water cavities, which sequentially comprises an inner lining, a copper bushing and a water jacket from inside to outside and is characterized in that the water jacket comprises an upper water jacket and a lower water jacket which are independent from each other; a water inlet and a water outlet are arranged on the upper water jacket; a water outlet is arranged on the lower water jacket; and a water orifice is arranged at the inner side of the lower water jacket. The upper water jacket is of a double-layer structure. The crystallizer can enable exhausting and feeding effects of all regions of an ingot to be consistent and the thickness of kish of the ingot on the same cross section to be uniform. An upper water cavity and a lower water cavity are adopted for separating primary water and secondary water; industrial purified water is used as primary cooling water and does not scale in the service life of the crystallizer. Circulating turbid water is used as the secondary cooling water; the cooling effect of the ingot is not affected by the hardness of the secondary cooling water; and the equipment investment and the production and operating costs can also be substantially reduced.


Established in the character of network,this paper clearly expatiates on the newest challenge of moral education brought by network and brings forward some consideration to countermeasure.At the same time,it makes the discussion based on moral education concept,content,and mechanism and so on.It points out that enhancing the pertinence and actual efficiency,always updating university moral education and continuing inno- vation are all very important to accommodate with the great challenge nowadays.


We show that a variation of the timid/bold coding scheme for feedback communication can be used to improve the second-order coding rate for most discrete memoryless channels with a cost constraint, even in the simple-dispersion case for which the optimal input distribution is unique.


Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), a potentially fatal syndrome, is primarily caused by autoantibodies against the metalloprotease ADAMTS13. Most patients with aTTP harbor an immunoglobulin (Ig) G isotype in blood that targets the spacer domain of ADAMTS13. The precise epitopes of the anti-ADAMTS13 IgGs and the mechanism underlying their inhibition activity are not fully understood. We hypothesized that inhibitory IgG autoantibodies from aTTP patients achieve their inhibitory function by binding to a discontinuous epitope in the spacer domain of ADAMTS13. To test this hypothesis, we determined the binding epitope of one out of >100 unique human monoclonal antibody (mAb) fragments (single-chain Fv, scFv) isolated by phage display from aTTP patients. We developed a novel hydrogen-deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry technology (HX-MS) to identify the antibody binding sites at single amino acid residue resolution. Human ADAMTS13 inhibitory scFv 4-20 was expressed in E. coli Top10 cells and purified to homogeneity by Ni-chelating affinity chromatography. In the HX-MS experiment, the mAb was coupled to affi-gel 10 resin and used to bind recombinant ADAMTS13-MDTCS fragment expressed in a stably transfected Drosophila schneider 2 (S2) cell line. After exchange with deuterium (D2O) oxide for various periods of time, the reaction was stopped, the protein was eluted, and digested to peptide fragments with pepsin, and the peptides with or without deuterium bound were resolved and identified by fast HPLC and mass spectrometry. We find that mAb scFv4-20 binds to amino acid residues Arg636, Leu637, Arg639, and Leu640 spanning from Leu632 to Leu640 (in exosite 4) in the spacer domain of ADAMTS13. This sequence is highly conserved in the ADAMTS13 spacer domains from zebrafish to mammals. In addition, mAb scFv4-20 binds Arg660, Tyr661, and Tyr665 in exosite 3, previously shown to play an important role in substrate recognition and anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibody-mediated inhibition, as well as Lys608, upstream exosites 3 and 4. Apparently, mAb scFv4-20 inhibits plasma ADAMTS13 activity (IC50 ∼0.40 nM) by binding these non-linear surface residues in the spacer domain (Fig. 1A). In agreement, site-directed mutagenesis shows that complete deletion (Δ632LTEDRLPR639) or partial deletion (Δ632LTED635 or Δ636RLPR639), or replacement of these residues with alanines (632LTED635/4A or 636RLPR639/4A) abolished or dramatically reduced mAb scFv4-20 binding. A deletion or alanine substitution of the surface residues on exosite 4 also abolished or reduced ADAMTS13 proteolytic activity toward a fluorescein-labeled VWF73 peptide and multimeric VWF (Fig. 1B), indicating that the ADAMTS13 epitope for mAb scFv4-20 is also part of ADAMTS13's substrate recognition site. We conclude that anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibodies work by physically blocking the well-conserved VWF binding site on ADAMTS13. These results demonstrate the powerful use of HX-MS technology to determine both linear and non-linear antibody binding epitopes. The results provide valuable information concerning the mechanism of autoantibody-mediated aTTP that may be exploited to develop targeted therapy by reengineering ADAMTS13 to avoid autoantibody inhibition. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


The physico-chemical factors of water are directly related to their production. Though few research papers are available on hydrobiological studies of reservoirs in relation to phytoplankton in Marathwada region of Maharashtra. However, the knowledge regarding ecological aspects of phytoplankton is scanty and to fill this gap present investigation was carried out in Masooli reservoir in Parbhani district. Phytoplanktons are an important component of aquatic flora. They serve as food for many aquatic animals especially fishes and play a key role in maintaining proper equilibrium between abiotic and biotic components of the aquatic ecosystem. In the present investigation an account of occurrence of phytoplankton, their nature, number and seasonal periodicity have been studied to assess the state of the nature of water. The present study was undertaken by selecting three sampling stations to observe the seasonal changes in water quality and plankton population. The data on plankton in reservoir was collected seasonally for two-years form January 2006 to December 2007. In plankton flora, the green algae dominated over the other groups. The phytoplanktons identified are members of Chlorophycae, Bacillariophyceae, Cynophyceae, Euglenophyceae, Dinophyceae, filamentous algae, Oedogonium species, Cladophora glomerata, and Spirogyra.


Coastal zones are vital for their ecosystem services and socioeconomic value. Accordingly, several zones have been protected to limit anthropogenic development and to avoid environmental degradation. Nevertheless, some of these protected areas keep deteriorating probably related with anthropogenic contributions not considered in legislation. Specifically, submerged groundwater discharges (springs) could be releasing anthropogenic materials carried from remote inland areas to the coast. Here we evaluate the role and temporal variation of submerged groundwater discharges as sources of anthropogenic materials using the 5 -stanol C27 markers in the natural protected area of Dzilam de Bravo, Yucatan, Mexico. Results demonstrate that (1) submerged groundwater discharge flux velocity and direction vary between hydrological season, exhibiting higher flow rates in Nortes season contrary to dry season and (2) the presence of coprostanol and epicoprostanol (anthropogenic fecal matter markers) in sediments surrounding the submerged groundwater discharges provides proof of allochthonous anthropogenic fecal material in a protected area, probably from remote inland sites. Thus, it is vitally important that inland anthropogenic materials transported in groundwater and released in the coastal environment by submerged groundwater discharges be considered in protection plans, like protection perimeters, for coastal zones.


As the demands to the professional competence of the higher school faculty members increase so does the intensity of work, which is in the growing variety and volume of the intellectual and management activities as well as in the decreasing of time for the professional decision making. All these influence badly on the faculty member health in case their lifestyle is not healthy. The results of the stating experiment aimed at the finding of the faculty member point of view on the correspondence of their lifestyle to the healthy one are given. Also the factors influencing badly on the faculty member health are described. Special attention in the research is given to the finding of the behavior stereotype of following the safety rules when working with the information and communication facilities. Pedagogical assistance, aimed at the development of the higher school faculty member competence to lead to a healthy lifestyle in the framework of the additional training courses in the system of further training, is considered as a system including the diagnostic, information-orientational, activity-behavioral components. Keywords: healthy lifestyle, health, faculty members, higher school, additional training, further training, assistance, information and communication facilities.


Objective To assess the feasibility and safety of the one-lung ventilation with the improved disposable unilateral bronchial blockers( BBs) in Nuss operation. Methods Thirty-seven children age from 4 to 12 were randomized divided into improved unilateral BBs group( group BBs) and single-lumen endotracheal group( group SLT). The blood pressure( BP),heart rate( HR) and oxygen saturation by pulse oximeter( SpO2) were recorded before artificial pneumothorax,5,10,20min after artificial pneumothorax and after closed chest. The pulmonary collapse extent and incidence of postperative hoarseness were also analyzed.Results The pulmonary collapse extent were so much the better in group BBS than that in group SLT( P0. 01). Compared with before artificial pneumothorax,there were significant increases in HR at 10min after artificial pneumothorax( P0. 05),and HR was significantly higher in the group SLT than that in the group BBs at 10min after artificial pneumothorax( P0. 05). Conclusion The one-lung ventilation with the improved disposable unilateral bronchial blockers provide satisfactory operating field in Nuss operation.