Mutually-inversistic logic is constructed on analytic geometry.In spatial analytic geometry,a spatial curve is an intersecting line of two curved surfaces.When a variable is eliminated from the spatial curve,its projective cylinder is obtained.Likewise,in mutually-inversistic logic,the two conjuncts of the antecedent of a mutually inverse implicational proposition are two curved surfaces, and their conjunction is a spatial curve.If the projective cylinder of the spatial curve coincides with or is properly contained in the curved surface of the consequent,then the mutually inverse implicational proposition holds,otherwise it doesn't hold.


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Taman Sari Royal Heritage Spa (TSRH) Spa is a place owned by Mustika Ratu Group, TSRH has been build and running in almost all regions of Indonesia. TSRH is planning to open a new branch at Regatta building complex, Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jakarta. The design concept is combination of two elements, Javanese culture as Mustika Ratu brand image combined with Colonial style that expressed Regatta building. Therefore to equalize the elements, the concept of "colonial Javanese" has been chosen to develop into the interior design. Floor area to be built is covering 220m2 in one level area building. Leisure and width of the space has followed the standards set by the Mustika Ratu as the leader in this group.


This paper deals with propagation over irregular terrain and its resolution using integral equations. We describe several kind of integral equation models and we use three different softwares based on the following methods: Maclean and Wu, Ott and Hufford. The results given by the three softwares are compared to analytical solutions on simple terrain irregularity in the VHF Band. We use experimental results that are obtained at 61 MHz to draw a conclusion on the validity of each model. We show that the Hufford integral equation model seems to give the best results for this frequency band.


This paper investigates the interpretability of various machine learning models in the context of detecting SQL injection attacks. The models under investigation include decision trees, multi-layer perceptron, random forests, support vector machines, ADA Boost, naive Bayes, and quadratic discriminant analysis. Our main objective is to gain insights into how these models make decisions when classifying SQL commands as either legitimate or potentially malicious. To achieve this, we employ a set of commonly used features from the literature to train and evaluate the models. By prioritizing explainability, our aim is to uncover the underlying factors and decision rules that drive the models' predictions. Through this research, we seek to bridge the gap between model accuracy and human understanding, thereby facilitating the practical application of machine learning models in real-world security scenarios. The findings of this study contribute to the development of a case-based explanation system that provides valuable insights for cybersecurity practitioners and researchers.


SUMMARY Human milk has a bacteriostatic effect on Escherichia coli in vitro. The milks of 40 mothers were tested for this effect against E. coli isolated from their stools, from those of their own babies, and from those of babies not breast-fed. The milks had a direct bacteriostatic effect, not dependent on complement, on some but not all the strains of E. coli. Breast-fed babies receiving supplementary bottle feeds were colonized with milk-resistant strains, whereas bottle-fed babies and, surprisingly, babies completely breast-fed were colonized equally with milk-sensitive and milk-resistant strains, as were the mothers. These results suggest that the bacteriostatic effect of human milk, demonstrable in vitro does sometimes operate in vivo. The antibacterial activity of human milk is not influenced by the O, H or K antigens of E. coli and is effective against other Gram-negative organisms, e.g. Salmonella, Klebsiella, Proteus.


Mastering nanostructuration of functional materials into electronic devices is presently an essential task in materials science. This is particularly relevant for spin crossover (SCO) compounds, whose properties are extremely sensitive to size reduction. Indeed, the search for materials displaying strong cooperative hysteretic SCO properties operative at the nanoscale close near room temperature is extremely challenging. In this context, we describe here the synthesis and characterization of 20-30 nm surfactant-free nanocrystals of the FeII Hofmann-type polymer {FeII(pz)[PtII,IVIx(CN)4]} (pz = pyrazine), which affords the first example of a robust three-dimensional coordination polymer, substantially keeping operational thermally induced SCO bistability at such a scale.


This paper proposes an online data-driven approach for characterization of the power grid dynamic frequency response, implementable in practice with phasor measurement unit (PMU) data. The problem of system frequency response identification is posed as one of Bode Plot identification from a pair of control input and measurement output in a linear dynamic system. A suitable control input preference is proposed along with criteria for observed outputs. It maintains system stability and allows for reasonable linear approximation of a non-linear power grid. The performance of the proposed approach is tested in IEEE systems using synthetic PMU measurements.


The earth coordinate transformation algorithm is employed frequently to transform the measured data to uni-coordinate in airborne radar data processing system.Classical transformation algorithms have heavy computation burden and are hard to be implemented. An approximate algorithm of earth coordinate transformation is proposed to solve above-mentioned problems for the airborne radar data processing system with predefined accuracy requirements.Experimental results of Monte Carlo demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has small loss of accuracy and low computation burden.


ABSTRACT We tested Skinner's (1971) assertion that society accords dignity or worth only to those who voluntarily perform prosocial acts. The present alternative hypothesis is that society accords intrinsic dignity, for example, to newborn infants who could not have earned dignity through personal performance. American college students and direct-care providers at a state mental hospital indicated the criteria they would use to accord dignity to others by rating their agreement with direct statements. Results supported our hypothesis.


The article presents the essential features of higher education in Portugal as a part of the European area of higher education, with a particular emphasis on geographical and geological education. The research was carried out mainly on the basis of source materials obtained from Portuguese research centers, as well as statistical data from 2010–2014. Descriptive, statistical and graphical methods were used to present the results. The study covers all the districts of Portugal. Since the 1970s Portugal has made huge progress in the field of education. The level of illiteracy has been significantly decreased, the number of higher schools has multiplied several times and the number of students has increased over fourteen times. Over 380,000 students have attended about 300 higher education facilities in 2013. 5.6% of Portuguese GDP (2010) is spent on education. ECTS credits allow the Portuguese to spent a part of their studies abroad, as well as to receive foreign students. In 1999 Portugal signed the Bologna Declaration and thus committed to taking action in accordance with its terms. Nowadays, concluding their studies after 3 (polytechnics) or 4 years (universities) students can obtain a bachelor's degree (licenciado), and after further 1.5–2 years – a master's degree (mestre). Another 3 years of education completed with dissertation's defense give the doctoral degree (doutor). Geography and geology as fields of studies are available at several universities in Portugal, including the largest one in Lisbon and the oldest one in Coimbra. Courses related to geography are available at numerous other educational institutions, including polytechnics. Higher schools also run other courses of study, which in their programs include courses in geographical sciences as supplementary subjects, useful to students in mastering the knowledge of their field.


Text autoencoders are often used for unsupervised conditional text generation by applying mappings in the latent space to change attributes to the desired values. Recently, Mai et al. (2020) proposed Emb2Emb, a method to learn these mappings in the embedding space of an autoencoder. However, their method is restricted to autoencoders with a single-vector embedding, which limits how much information can be retained. We address this issue by extending their method to Bag-of-Vectors Autoencoders (BoV-AEs), which encode the text into a variable-size bag of vectors that grows with the size of the text, as in attention-based models. This allows to encode and reconstruct much longer texts than standard autoencoders. Analogous to conventional autoencoders, we propose regularization techniques that facilitate learning meaningful operations in the latent space. Finally, we adapt Emb2Emb for a training scheme that learns to map an input bag to an output bag, including a novel loss function and neural architecture. Our empirical evaluations on unsupervised sentiment transfer show that our method performs substantially better than a standard autoencoder.


This study aims to determine the implementation of Learning Discovery Learning model based on Numbered Head Together to improve students' mathematical communication. This research is a Classroom Action Research (PTK). Methods of data collection through observation, field notes, interviews and documentation. The results showed adannya increased student mathematics communication. This can be seen with the increase of mathematical communication indicator include: (1) able to answer oral math questions as much as 14.28% increased to 71.43%, (2) able to ask questions or idea orally 23.80% up to 76 , 19%, (3) can declare daily events in language or symbols of mathematics, images or graphs as much as 23.08% increase to 85.71%; (4) can change the form of mathematical repesentation and solve math problems as much as 19, 05% to 80.95%. Based on the description, it can be concluded that the implementation of Discovery Learning model based on Numbered Head Together improves students' mathematics communication


Our study was aimed to examine the status of plasma fatty acids (FAs), inflammatory markers and lipid peroxidation in patients with femoral neck fractures. Study included 20 patients (64-86 years) with femoral neck fractures, indicated for surgery, and control group of 17 elderly subjects, without fractures or serious chronic diseases. Plasma was obtained during the first 12 hours postfracture and presurgery, and 7 days postop. Compared to control, patients had significantly higher saturated FA (SFA) and monounsaturated FA, as well as increased TNF-α and IL-6. In opposite, levels of individual and total n-6 polyunsaturated FA (PUFA), individual and total n-3 PUFA, n-6/n-3 ratio and levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) were markedly lower in the patient than controls. On the 7th day after the surgery we showed a further rise in the SFA, oleic acid and TNF-α, and reductions of n-6 PUFA and IL-6. Taken together our results suggest that altered FA status, especially reduced PUFA, may influence hip fracture repair and even contribute to femoral fractures susceptibility in the elderly. Potential benefit from nutritional intervention with PUFA in prevention and/or fracture healing should be considered.


Conflict between broadcasting and telecommunication for convergence is not relieved. Fundamental reason of conflict is that broadcasting regulation is exclusive over special. In the background of that, this these purposes to investigate the principles and reasons of broadcasting regulation and it's influence for convergence between broadcasting and telecommunication. Firstly, Broadcasting regulation is societal basically. Therefore broadcasting and telecommunication is separated strictly in Korea. In the result of that, vertical monopoly structure - key station of terrestrial broadcasting, local network of affiliated station and cable TV - is sticked. And broadcasters in vertical structure opposites the new media enter the broadcasting sector. The typical example is the conflict for re-transmission of terrestrial broadcasting of skylife and TUmedia. There is" public interest logic"behind of the resistance. In spite of justness of public interest logic, it is used for the sake of protection of broadcaster's interest. In result, public interest logic emphasizing public ownership defend the entrance of strong rival broadcasters, foreign capital, conglomerate, newspaper cooperation and telecommunication cooperation etc.. It is needed for new broadcasting regulation philosophy matching with digital broadcasting paradigm.


Women who commit adultery in the construct of Jewish religious structures are not taken into account. This is because the role and function of adulterous women in society according to the Law of Moses is not correct. Women who commit adultery are judged to have no spirituality. Adultery women are in a discriminatory position. In this study, the researcher used qualitative research methods, in this case, literature review with socio historical analysis to examine it using Piedmont's theory of spirituality and found that the spirituality dialogue of Jesus or sharing spirituality with adulterous women is oriented towards the transformation of humanity. The author realizes that research into the spirituality of women who commit adultery in this text remains limited and requires further research.


Objectives: To determine the outcome of thrombolysis in patients with Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT). Design: A retrospective descriptive study. Setting: The intensive care unit of the National Cardiothoracic centre, Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. Subjects: 5 consecutive patients who were thrombolysed for 6 episodes of prosthetic valve thrombosis. Patients and Methods : Over a 3year period 5 patients underwent a total of 6 thrombolytic sessions. All the patients were symptomatic and diagnosis had been confirmed by echocardiography. Streptokinase was used in 5 of the session. 1.5 million International units (IU) was used in the adults and 750,000IU in the 13 year old. One patient had 2.0 million units of urokinase. The infusion was by the short course thrombolytic method over 90 minutes. Results: There were 6 episodes of thrombosis out of 142 (5.0%) valve replacements during the study period. The mean age was 29.5 + 11.2 years (range 13-48years). The time from insertion of prosthetic valve to thrombosis was 15.5 months (range 1 week – 2 years). The INR was sub-therapeutic in 5 (83.3%) of the patients. Streptokinase was used in 5 (83.3%) and urokinase in 1 (16.7%) of the patients. The overall success was 83.3%. Thombolysis was completely successful in 3 (50.0%) and partially in 2 (33.3%). There was no response to thrombolysis in one patient who died after 14 hours. Conclusion: Thrombosis of prosthetic heart valves is not common from our series. Thrombolysis using streptokinase should be the first line management as it is cheap and relatively safe in the management of such cases.


The set of piecewise-linear (PL) basis function described by Paul and Koch is generalized to a class of functions providing piecewise approximation with n continuous derivatives and generated by multiple integration of Walsh functions.


The article is devoted to the prosodic aspect of irony in British and American discourse. Special focus is given to the prosodic markers of irony in oral speech. On the basis of the analysis of various approaches to creating a unified model of prosodic realization of ironic statements, it is suggested that a complex approach to examining oral discourse should be applied. The article gives an overview of some observations made in the course of the research, aimed at the identification of prosodic parameters of irony in speech. The fragments of an American chat show "Chelsea Lately" and a British comic talk show "Chatty Man" are used as the material for investigation. The author gives an overview of the basic tendencies of prosodic realization of ironic utterances. The findings presented in the article give the author an opportunity to assume that prosody alongside with nonverbal means play an important role in the realization of irony, it serves as a cue which helps to detect irony. It also contributes to the adequate interpretation of the message.


The process of student understanding of mathematical concepts is still low, this happens to most students at SMP Nasional Bandung . Students and students experience obstacles in learning and understanding mathematical concepts, especially when the material provided is changed to different problems. One of the reasons students find it difficult to understand mathematical concepts is the use of conventional learning models. Therefore, the use of the Reciprocal Teaching learning model using experimental research methods is expected to make it easier for students to understand mathematical concepts, especially when the material provided is changed into various forms. Class VII students at SMP Nasional Bandung became the population in the study, while the sample was class VII-A and VII-E students who were randomly selected. The test used is the type of description as an instrument and will be tested on class VIIIA. After the analysis is carried out, produce the feasibility of all test questions worthy of being used in research. Analysis of the trial data is carried out using a t-test using the SPSS 23.0 (Independent Sample T-Test) application. The conclusion is the use of the Reciprocal Teaching learning model can improve the ability of students to understand mathematical concepts compared to conventional learning models. Therefore, the use of the Reciprocal Teaching learning model becomes an alternative for teachers when learning about students so that learning becomes more effective, active and enjoyable. Keywords: Mathematical Concept Understanding, Reciprocal Teaching, Mathematical Proficiency


A man of 42 yare, from Merga -Sur village (135km to the northwest of Erbil city, Kurdistan Region, Iraq) was complaining of the presence a small white fragments in his stool. Morphological examination of these piceces, macroscopically and confirmed that the patient was affected with the broad fish tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum which is cause diphyllobothriasis. He was treated with antihelminthes (praziquantel, 10mg / Kg single dose) in the hospital.


The nonlinear mathematical models of a single auxiliary gas room hydro-pneumatic suspension and a two DOF vehicle vibration model were built.A model of road roughness in time domain was structured by using Montecarlo method.A simulation in time domain was operated with MATLAB/SIMULINK.The simulation model was employed to study the effect of main parameters included the initial volume of the auxiliary gas room,main piston area,damping hole area on vehicle ride comfort and security performance,then the scope of the major design parameters was discussed.


This paper lays the foundations of the analysis of the relationship between gender equality and economic growth. The study of this long-run relationship aims at providing a better understanding of the mechanisms and determinants underpinning the development process which allowed economies to move out of a long period of stagnation into a state of sustainable economic growth. Our scientific objective is to check the validity of the central hypothesis that improving gender equality is a key ingredient of the demographic transition and of the process of socio-economic development.


Switzerland's federal constitution, adopted in 1848 after a civil war, was a compromise that sought to accommodate both the liberals (mainly Protestants) promoting a unitary state and the conservatives (mainly Roman Catholics) defending the former Confederation. In addition, the Constitution had to accommodate the linguistic diversity among the four official language groups. Based on a highly decentralized federalism, the Cantons (the constituent units of the federation) maintained their far-reaching original autonomy, now as self-rule within a federation, and continued to share their sovereignty with the federation. The constitutional concept of Switzerland's distribution of powers reflects a "bottom-up" construction of the federation and depends, finally, on the residual powers of the Cantons and, in some instances, even municipalities. As a logical consequence the Swiss Constitution does not distribute the powers between the Confederation and the Cantons in a final list, and it does not provide powers for the Cantons. In principle it determines exclusively the powers delegated to the Confederation. Where new powers are delegated to the federal government, they are formulated carefully so that, even within a delegated power, the Cantons still retain some part of their sovereignty. This chapter first addresses the basic constitutional principles behind Swiss federalism and the principal guidelines for the distribution of powers before taking a more in-depth look at the system of distribution of powers, including the autonomy of the Cantons and the specific powers of the Confederation, one of which (i.e., the fiscal system) has undergone important changes as a result of a referendum in late November 2004.


Masson's hemangioma, which is also called intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH), is a benign, vascular lesion that is characterized histologically by papillary fronds lined by proliferating endothelium. It is thought to represent an unusual form of organizing thrombus. It may deveolop in a distended vessel or in association with other vascular lesions. The main singnificance of Masson's hemangioma is its microscopic resemblance to angiosarcoma and possible misinterpretation as such. We report the case of a 42-year-old woman who had such a lesion in the left buccal mucosa and discuss the management of this lesion, with an emphasis on radiologic and histologic assessment and the differential diagnosis


Abstract In this study, the potential of infrared assisted freeze-drying (IRAFD) was tested for the production of shelf-stable edible insects: Protaetia brevitarsis larva (larva of white-spotted flower chafer). The IRAFD system was customized using an infrared lamp, K-type thermocouple, controller, and data acquisition system. The infrared lamp provided the sublimation energy for rapid freeze-drying (FD). The IRAFD conditions were continuous IRAFD-5.0 kW/m2 and IRAFD-5.0 kW/m2 at different weight reduction (WR) (10%, 20%, and 30%). The continuous IRAFD reduced the drying time to 247 min compared to the 2,833 min duration of FD (p<0.05). The electrical energy could be reduced by more than 90% through infrared radiation during FD (p<0.05). The Page model resulted in the best prediction among the tested drying kinetic models. In terms of quality, IRAFD showed significantly lower hardness, chewiness, and higher protein levels than hot air drying and FD (p<0.05). IRAFD better preserved the glutamic acid (6.30–7.29 g/100 g) and proline (3.84–5.54 g/100 g). The external product appearance after IRAFD exhibited more air pockets and volume expansion, which might result in a good consumer appeal. In conclusion, this study reports the potential of IRAFD in producing shelf-stable and value-added edible insects.


University students as the precious talent resources in our nation,to improve their quality in both science and humanity become the major task of talents cultivation in universities. In AHSTU,a university featured in cultivating applied talents,the idea combining"humanity spirit"with"technical skills"shall be put into curriculum system to optimize it in practice. Therefore,the optimized curriculum will enhance the characteristic development and improve humanity quality and professional levels for university students.


Students who like to read and study their Bible in the Greek and the Hebrew have a special interest in new translations. They know that every good translation, whether done by a scholarly individual or a group of scholars, brings new light to bear on many of the great truths of the Scriptures, and that no one version can transmit perfectly the full sense of the Biblical languages. The publication of the Revised Standard Version was awaited with keen interest and received with appreciation, both by scholars and the Bible reading public. No outstanding version has ever been presented to the public with so much publicity and celebration. Many will enjoy the purity and the simplicity of the English of this modern version, but time will be required for a careful study of its fidelity to the original language, its merits and defects, before a true estimate of its contribution to a better understanding of the Sacred Scriptures can be determined. The following observations are based on a careful reading of the Psalms in comparison with the King James Version, the American Standard Version, An American Translation, and Rudolf Kittel's Hebrew text. This is not an exhaustive study, but many of the observations are based on previous studies through years of experience in teaching Hebrew.


This paper studies the dynamics of identity and status management within groups in collaborative settings. We present an agent-based simulation model for group interaction rooted in social psychological theory. The model integrates a ect control theory with networked interaction structures and sequential behavior protocols as they are o en encountered in task groups. By expressing status hierarchy through network structure, we build a bridge between expectation states theory and a ect control theory, and are able to reproduce central results from the expectation states research program in sociological social psychology. Furthermore, we demonstrate how themodel can be applied to analyze specialized task groups or sub-cultural domains by combining it with empirical data sources. As an example, we simulate groups of open-source so ware developers and analyze how cultural expectations influence the occupancy of high status positions in these groups.


Over the past few decades, a relationship has emerged between intrapsychic factors and health outcomes in HIV-positive and other populations. We examined whether trait self-enhancement would correlate with immune markers and sexual risk taking in a sample of 54 asymptomatic HIV-positive gay men, most of whom were ethnic minorities. Participants completed a one-time assessment with regard to self-enhancement, psychological distress, and sexual risk taking, and provided consent to access information regarding immune status and other health-related variables. Both self-enhancement and minority status were significantly associated with CD4 counts, but the latter effect disappeared when looking at only white and African American participants. Neither factor was related to viral load, sexual risk taking, or psychological distress. More research with larger and more diverse samples is needed to further elucidate the possible salutary relationship between self-enhancement and critical medical and behavioral outcomes in this population.


The preparation methods of polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites were summarized,based on the research progress on the flame retardance of layer silicate(clay)reinforced polymer nanocomposites.It is pointed out that melt intercalation is a highly effective and environmental friendly production method.The flame retardance mechanism of layered silicates in nanocomposites was discussed in details from three aspects,including barrier effect,network structure and radical trapping,which produced by silicates in nanocomposites.At last,it is pointed out that there are still problems existing in the current flame retardance research of polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites,and the future development of flame retarded polymer nanocomposites is prospected.


Alas! A space, in this case the urban forest, primary considered as public domain which presence is potentially significant as the established-natural-ecology is read but a subject, or valuable entity by investors who want to take over the site to be used as a commercial enterprise promoting economic benefits. The former even tend to deny the historical values and issues on earth-conservation. The complexity of the struggle to win the dispute between the investors, brings the notion of the anthropocentric agenda with local inhabitants over an area which is home to scarce vegetation and indigenous animals, as well as water spring at the heart of Malang City becomes the main awareness excavated by Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim through her work, Lemah Tanjung. Through the perspective of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, the particular point presented in this paper is how Ecological Imperialism is narrated and presented in the novel? The discussion found several indications that Lemah Tanjung, the name of the disputed-place is attributed to and positioned as an alien or other which should not be maintained. It is exploited due to the 'development' by investors, teamed-up with the bureaucrat. The struggle to liberate Lemah Tanjung from the conflict of interest seems to be long and windy since there are unequal power relation due to lack of support from fellow dwellers around the forest thanks to the terrors conducted by the powerful.


It is of the same important status and the same academic value to the women's studies and other subjects in the higher education.The aim of getting the women's studies into the mainstream of the higher education is to make the gender equality consciousness permeate every specialized course,because modern university students should be qualified for the gender equality consciousness which will arouse the consciousness of the female students' self-supporting and self-emancipation.


An approach is proposed to solve a class of mixed-integer nonlinear programs based on the use of the Benders' decomposition partitioning scheme. This kind of problem contains continuous and discrete variables and is one of the most-difficult problems in mathematical programming because of the discontinuities in the feasible region, introduced by the discrete variables. Embedded in this problem there is a discrete optimization problem for which there are not general efficient techniques to this date. Benders' decomposition has been successfully applied to mixed-integer linear-programming problems and to mixed-integer nonlinear problems where the continuous and noncontinuous variables appear in separate terms. The class of problems considered allows the continuous and discrete variables to appear together in polynomial expressions. Geometric programming results are used to obtain separability of the variables and thus to apply Bender's scheme. The approach is an iterative one, that alternates between solving continuous geometric programming problems and linear discrete programming problems. The numerical efficiency of the method is assessed for a sample of test problems and depends on the methods used to solve these two derived problems. Several alternatives are studied.


We show that the upper bound for the central magnetic field of a super-Chandrasekhar white dwarf calculated by Nityananda and Konar [Phys. Rev. D 89, 103017 (2014)] is completely erroneous. This in turn strengthens the argument in favor of the stability of the recently proposed magnetized super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs. We also point out several other numerical errors in their work. Overall we conclude, based on our calculations, that the arguments put forth by Nityananda and Konar are fallacious and misleading.


Purpose: The objective of this research is to explore factors that influence interns' satisfaction (is) toward the e-internship program, an alternate adopted by management institutes in lieu of the regular summer internship amidst the global pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional research design with a self-reported questionnaire was conducted on business school (B-school) interns to rate the factors that contribute to their e-internship satisfaction Structural equation modeling was used to examine the responses obtained from 203 B-school interns with a diverse demographic background belonging to a government university of North India Convenience sampling was employed to get valid responses from interested respondents Findings: Results revealed that although all the four factors under consideration, faculty mentors' preparedness (FMP), industry mentors' preparedness (IMP), interns' readiness toward online internship and interns' Internet efficacy (IIE) are significantly related to IS, industry mentors' role was found to have a major impact on the IS The study unravels that industry mentors' interaction has a potential role in the successful implementation of e-internships Research limitations/implications: The study has implications for the university as well as the companies to ponder on factors that satisfy interns during the virtual internship and designing an effective internship program by having a collaborative approach Originality/value: There is a dearth of empirical studies on internships in general and e-internship in particular, so this study fills the gap and contributes to the existing literature and provides ways to satisfy B-school interns toward e-internship by addressing the key factors © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited


Abstract International tourism is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Understanding the variety of national and local impacts of this increase is of importance to a growing number of governments. Butler's resort cycle model (1974, 1980,; 1991) provides for several long-term possibilities as to the relationship between crowding and growth. McElroy, de Albuquerque, and Dioguardi (1993) focus on one of those possibilities. Specifically, using their penetration ratio, they predict that as tourist crowding continues for a group of Caribbean islands, the appeal of these islands decreases in the eyes of potential tourists and that, as time increases, the growth rate of the affected islands, actually decreases. Our article indicates that such a simple, straight-line relationship between increased crowding and a decrease in the rate of change may not be inevitable; indeed, diseconomies of scale may be avoided. The use of a curvilinear regression function reveals how both positive and negative scale economies existed in the Caribbean during the years 1992 through 1996.


We extend the definition of analytic and Reidemeister torsion from closed compact Riemannian manifolds to compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary (M,∂M), given a flat bundle F of A-Hilbert modules of finite type and a decomposition of the boundary ∂M = ∂−M ∪ ∂+M into disjoint components. If the system (M,∂−M,∂+M,F) is of determinant class we compute the quotient of the analytic and the Reidemeister torsion and prove gluing formulas for both of them. In particular we answer positively Conjecture 7.6 in [LL]


A rapid internet development and its function has become one of the most important technologies in the world since it is very influential for human life. Considering this, one of the paid television companies makes an integrated marketing communication using internet as a tool for promoting its product. This study aims to know the role and strategy of various digital marketing channels, including website, search engine marketing (SEM), online PR, display advertising, email marketing and social media marketing in promoting product. The methodology is descriptive qualitative using interview and participant observation. The data were collected through documents and literature which related to digital marketing. This study found that digital marketing strategy has important role in promoting product. The whole digital marketing strategy, either in its planning, implementation, or evaluation, has its own uniqueness. It showed that digital marketing strategy has been run well within the company.
JEL Classification: M31, M37, M39.


Introduction: Post-traumatic dysgeusia with conversion of the taste of eggs rotten eggs has not heretofore been described. Method: Case Report: A 60 year old right handed female 6 months prior to presentation sustained head trauma. Three days later she noted reduced taste and smell dysgeusia to eggs. Eggs tasted distorted, like rotten eggs. Raw egg whites had no smell or taste. Cooked egg whites had faint sulfur smell for 2-3 seconds and the taste of sulfur. Yolk of soft-boiled eggs, had no smell or taste. The white had no smell but an unbearable sulfur taste. Raw eggs had no smell. The yolk of hardboiled eggs had no smell and taste, the whites smelled and tasted like sulfur. Sunny side up eggs with yolk and white segregated had no smell but tasted, as they should. Sunny side up eggs with yolk and white mixed together has no smell but strong sulfur taste. Scrambled eggs had no smell but mild sulfur taste, which changed over time to a rotten egg smell and taste. With nose clips, scrambled eggs had 0/10 taste, without the nose clips the smell of sulfur was 3/10. Results: Olfaction: Normosmia to threshold and Retronasal Smell Index: 2 (abnormal): Gustatation : Normogeusia to all. Mild hypogeusia to sodium chloride. MRI: Multiple foci of periventricular and deep white matter demyelization. Discussion: Rotten egg smell maybe mediated through retro-nasal pathways, since nasal obstruction eliminated the rotten egg taste. Eggs can possibly be developed as a home device to assess chemosensory function.


Data mining of lattice and structure parameters with the aid of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database revealed a correlation between the abundance of parameter values observed and geometric features of interatomic distances. Working out this finding enabled distinguished lattice and structure parameters to be attributed to special bonds. The method is illustrated dealing with two examples of a hexagonal and a cubic structure type.


(C12H13IO4)n (MW 348.12)

(polystyrene-supported derivative of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene used in the oxidation of aniline,1, 2 oxidation of hydroquinones,3-5 oxidative spirocyclization,4 phenolic oxidative coupling,6, 7 oxidation of alcohols,4, 8 oxidative cleavage of diols,1 α-hydroxylation and α-acetoxylation of ketones,3-5 oxidative 1,2-aryl migrations of alkyl aryl ketones,3, 9 generation of carbonyls from hydrazones and oximes,5 oxidation of sulfides3, 5 and thiols,5 iodination of aromatic rings,3, 9 preparation of heterocycles,10, 11 preparation of diaryliodonium salts,12, 13 and the oxidation of triphenylphosphine,5 organotellurium compounds5 and organoselenides14)

Alternate Name: PS-I(OAc)2, poly[styrene(iodosoacetate)], polymer-supported (diacetoxyiodo)benzene, PSDIB, polymer-supported phenyliodine diacetate, poly-p-iodosostyryldiacetate.

Physical Data: loading ca. 2.0–3.5 mmol g−1.4, 5, 10, 11

Solubility: some solubility in organic solvents such as CH2Cl2 (DCM), EtOAc, and CHCl3; insoluble in Et2O and MeOH.

Analysis of Reagent Purity: iodometry and elemental analysis.3-5, 9-11

Preparative Methods: a solution of polystyrene (32 g, 0.31 mol), diiodine (32 g, 0.25 mol), iodine pentoxide (12 g, 0.04 mol), carbon tetrachloride (40 mL) and 50% sulfuric acid (60 mL) in nitrobenzene (400 mL) was kept at 90 °C for 39 h. The reaction mixture was cooled, diluted with chloroform (200 mL) and precipitated with methanol. Filtration gave poly(4-iodostyrene) (65 g) as a pale yellow powder. A mixture of poly(4-iodostyrene) (5 g) and peracetic acid solution [prepared from 30% hydrogen peroxide (25 mL) and acetic anhydride (90 mL)] was kept at 30–40 °C overnight. Precipitation with diethyl ether and filtration gave poly[4-(diacetoxyiodo)styrene] (5.7 g) as a white powder.1, 12 The loading is determined by iodometry or elemental analysis.3-5, 9-11

Handling, Storage, and Precautions: resin is best stored protected from direct sunlight and in a refrigerator, although no appreciable decomposition was observed at room temperature.4, 10


The invention provides a drive test data based network optimization alarm method which comprises the following: step one; mobile phone testing based drive test system reports measured PCCPCH RSCP of a service cell, PCCPCH RSCP of each same frequency inter-cell and PCCPCH C/I of the service cell on each drive test point; step two, index D is calculated according to a predetermined formula; step three, the index D calculated in the step two is compared with a preset threshold value, under the condition that the index D is more than the preset threshold value, alarm information that uncontrolled same frequency interference exists at corresponding drive test points is generated. In addition, the invention also provides a drive test data based network optimization alarm device. Through the technical proposal, the invention has the advantages that: network optimization work of large-scale networks is made to be more feasible and high efficient, and better quality is guaranteed at the same time.


The utility model relates to a light-emitting diode string light applied to an SMD (surface mounted device) process, comprising a first wire, a second wire and multiple adjacent first connecting sections and second connecting sections which are arranged with separation spaces. Each light-emitting diode is connected onto the first wire and the second wire in parallel in the SMD process, and a fire wire electrode and a ground wire electrode of each light-emitting diode are arranged on the first wire and the second wire in a staggered manner, thus multiple light-emitting diodes form a series connection type light-emitting diode string light by the first wire and the second wire which are arranged in parallel, and the light-emitting diode string light disclosed by the utility model has higher strength compared with the existing single line type light-emitting diode string light.


A two-component injection mold with 16 cavities for it was designed for the molding of a twocolor toothbrush handle,in which the head part was made of a single material while the handle was decorated with a soft and colorful material.A two-component injection molding machine with rotary shaft was adopted.The structure and working process of the mold were introduced in detail.Moldflow was used to the design resulting in a balanced runner system.The design points of its hot-runner plates were explained.


Hand-held computer are very useful devices for medico-legal tasks outside the institutes. They can be advantageously used at a scene of death for the estimation of the time since death instead of the temperature nomograms and the integrated chart as well as for the controlled reconstructive test cooling (dummy). They facilitate the calculation of the BAC at the court also.


As the traditional way of information retrieval is based on keywords that the computer cannot understand users' potential semantic and personalized query requirements, an ontology-based method of the enterprise content retrieval is studied in this paper. The architecture of the ontology-based enterprise content retrieval model is proposed and the retrieval process is discussed. Take the electronic products distributing company as an example, the enterprise ontology is set up and an ontology-based semantic retrieval algorithm is designed, which provides a reference for content retrieval in the enterprises.


The policy network theory,as a kind of newly arisen policy analysis type,still exists many immature and one-sided places.By analizing the developing process and the developing present conditions of the policy network theory,we can search for the problem and the blemish that it exists,and drawing lessons from the words theory produced by the empress modernism foundation,overcome the two difficult predicaments of policy network theory tools and values.


This report is created as the final deliverables in completion of 'Projek Sarjana
Muda' in partial fulfillment for Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Development)
at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. A web based system that would suit most small
business enterprise companies would be built. In this project, the dance industry would
be the focus. The system is entitled 'Dance School Management' . KK Dance School in
Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur will be the end user. This system is to allow better viewing
of information like the academy information, classes' information, teachers information,
and schedule. It also serves to support administrative operations like updating students'
information, the academy's classes schedule and fees paid by students. Plus, it is an
Internet based system which would result in a better administrative management and
more portable system as well as to provide capabilities for analyzing the progress of the
business with reports generated. Chapter 1 gives a brief idea on the system. Chapter 2
describes the development methodology and the literature review of the system. Chapter
3 captures the analysis of the current and proposed system. The user and system
,requirements will also be describe thoroughly. Chapter 4 defines the architecture view,
static view, user interface design as well as the conceptual and logical database design
for the system. Navigation flow and the data involved are also described. Chapter 5
describes the implementation stage. Chapter 6 describes the testing phase and Chapter 7
concludes the whole report and system. This system would be beneficial to KK Dance
Studio.


The 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) has come to a successful end in Boston, and I'd like to use this column to bring your attention to two upcoming, exciting conferences sponsored by the EMBS.


Objective -The primary objective of the study is to find out the effects of adding whole-body vibration therapy to conventional physiotherapy among chronic non-specific low back pain patients. Methodology:20 subjects with chronic non-specific low back pain patients were selected as samples. This study design is an experimental study and the study type is comparative. The duration of this study is 12 weeks within which whole body vibration therapy and conventional physiotherapy are given to the patients of group A and group B. subjects with chronic non-specific low back pain [ LBP], age group around 30 to 50, both males and females are included in this study. GROUP -A -Ten weeks of vibration therapy was provided to selected samples. All the subjects underwent baseline analysis and post-test analysis after ten weeks of intervention using the 3 selected outcome measures, namely the Roland Morris scale for pain, Oswestry disability index, and Visual analog scale. GROUP-B- was treated with conventional physiotherapy. Result: On comparing the between group analysis of the Roland-Morris scale, Oswestry disability index, and Visual analog scale. It has been found that there is no significant difference between group A and group.On comparing the within-group analysis, it has been found that there was a significant difference in the Roland-Morris scale of group A and group B of pre-test and post-test with the p-value 0.005. In Oswestry Disability index of group-A and group B for pre-test and post-test with ap-value of 0.005. In VAS of group A for pre-test and post-test with the p-value of 0.005 and group B with the p-value of 0.004. Conclusion: The study concluded that whole-body vibration therapy is more effective than conventional physiotherapy in treating with chronic non-specific low back pain


We have investigated the dynamics of dewetting and detachment of nanoscale platinum (Pt) films on graphitic substrates using molecular dynamics (MD). For the thinner Pt nanofilms ( 0.6 nm), nanodroplets are formed directly. Interestingly, the nanodroplets can detach from the substrate and the detachment velocity (vd) increases and then decreases as the film gets thicker. We have analyzed the dependence of the detachment velocity on the thickness of the nanofilm by considering the conversion of surface energy to the kinetic energy of a droplet. In addition, the effect of temperature on the dewetting and detachment behavior of the Pt films is also discussed. Our results show that vd increases monotonically with temperature. These results are important for understanding the dewetting and detachment dynamics of metal films o...


Polyvinyl chloride commonly abbreviated PVC is thermoplastic that is a polymer of vinyl chloride. Resins of
polyvinyl chloride are hard, but with the addition of plasticizers a flexible plastic can be made. The good
performance and low cost of rigid polyvinyl chloride commonly abbreviated PVC-U products make this polymer
very suitable for many applications. Pipelines in water and sewer systems are the most common applications of
PVC-U. Using PVC-U pipes in this study is a new and different from the common applications. The pipes will be
used here to sustain axial loads for sub-surface stormwater storage and infiltration purposes. This study was
conducted to investigate theoretically and experimentally the behavior and the capability of PVC-U pipes with
and without existing of radial holes (orifices) in its wall to sustain the axial loads. Behavior of PVC-U pipes was
investigated theoretically by modeling the pipe system using ANSYS Release 9.0 finite element code. The pipe
was modeled using Solid 3-D brick element available in the element library of the ANSYS commercial package
called SOLID45. The stress concentration around different orifice diameters at different locations from the pipe
bottom subjected to an axial compression load of 3.4 kN are calculated. Furthermore, the behavior of PVC-U
pipes specimens subjected to short-term uniaxial compression loads were experimentally investigated. Results of
the load-displacement tests on pipes of different orifice locations were recorded. The experimental test results
show that the PVC-U pipes have a tremendous capability of supporting the axial loads. Existing of radial
orifices in the pipe wall will reduce its strength of supporting axial loads by approximately of 14%.. The pipe
strength will be reduced also when the radial orifices becomes closer to the loaded pipe end.


For the next-generation aircraft, a new propulsion system using hydrogen fuel has been proposed. In the present system, hydrogen fuel injected from a stator surface combusts in the turbine passages, accordingly, the conventional combustor can be cut out. The advantage of this system is that we can design a lighter and smaller engine with low emission. We have demonstrated the realizability of this system by using the cycle analysis and the numerical simulations. Through the previous studies, it was confirmed that the rotor/stator interaction has to be investigated, because the hydrogen combustion phenomena within the stator passage is so complex, and thus it would highly affect the rotor performance. In this paper, we focus on the rotor/stator interaction for the detailed investigation of realizability of this system. The 2- and 3-dimensional numerical simulations are performed for a single stage turbine with hydrogen-fuelled combustion. In the 2-dimensional study, the effects of the injection position and injection rate on the flow structure, the static temperature over the blades, and the blade performance are investigated. Furthermore, 3-dimensional numerical simulation is performed. The general aspect of 3-dimensional flow field is demonstrated, and the effect of hydrogen combustion on the components of turbine, for example hub, tip and blade, are investigated.Copyright © 2003 by ASME


A method for rapid alignment of laser beams in optical systems is presented. It employs a Seward alignment module (SAM) to qualify both the spatial position and angular direction of the beam. Alignment procedures for turning mirrors and laser mounts are described. Application of the SAM on two complex laser-etching systems is presented.


Preface to the first edition Foreword Introduction Section One - Learning Section Two - State Section Three - Style Section Four - Structure Section Five - Memory The Way Forward Further Reading Index


Some rate data are reported for deuterium exchange between water and hydrogen using series of platinum–silica catalysts. Three different methods of preparing catalysts were used to give different series of metal particle sizes. Within each series, the particle size was increased by sintering batches in air, at temperatures up to 700 °C. These methods produced platinum particles ranging from 5 to 250 A in diameter. Metal surface areas and particle sizes were measured by hydrogen chemisorption, X-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy.The specific rates, i.e., rates per unit surface area of platinum varied by a factor of three within each series, reaching a maximum for sintering temperatures of about 500 °C. These maximum rates, measured at 127 °C with a water-to-hydrogen ratio of 0.31, varied from 1.9 × 10−8 to 5 × 10−8 mol D2 cm−2 s−1. Thus no effect of particle size on rate was observed, and the differences noted are ascribed to other effects of the methods of preparing the catalysts.


Currently in the secondary equipment maintenance process of intelligent substation, there are no GOOSE sending soft pressure platen and maintenance pressure platen between the fault recorder and secondary equipment. It cannot isolate the fault recorder and maintenance equipment through repair mechanism in the equipment maintenance process. Therefore, it will produce a large number of taped files and fault information in the fault recorder and cause interference and security risks to the normal operation of the substation. This article will focus on the mechanism of fault recorder and maintenance in the intelligent substation in order to achieve safe isolation between fault recorders and other devices in maintenance.


The successful insertion of a port-complex in a given commercial network is linked to its capacity to provide goods and services needed for navigation. By describing the potential demand generated by 386 sbips in the Ríver Plate between 1720 and 1778, as well as concrete data about the satisfaction of such demand, tbis article expects to show certain economic and social realities so far unexplored. Fü~t, it bighlights the demand for food including elaborated food that underlied both rural and urban economy. Second, it examines the services provided lo keep ships afloat, in arder lo illuminate the world of trades. Both anal y ses suggest that the majority ofthe local population enjoyed a relative prosperity. Along with evidence of a regular supply of food, these elements confirm the absence of typical "Old Regime crisis" in the context of the Ríver Plate space, Jeading to a review of further questions about the socio-economic structure during tbis perlad.


Objective: To promote the healthy development of hospital preparations. Methods:The actualities and existing problems of hospital preparations in China were analysed. Results:There were some problems in hospital preparations, such as deviated orientation, relatively old techniques and preparations, lagging operating system of administration, low profits, etc. Conclusion: Measures should be taken to adjust the structure of hospital preparations reasonably, enhance its quality, manage its development and application, and promote the transformation from special hospital preparations to new drugs. Relevant government department should pay more attention and give more help to the development of hospital preparations.


Background : Cell cycle progression is governed by cell cycle regulators and inhibitors such as the cyclin dependent kinases (CDK), , and p53. The purpose of this study was to correlate expressions of , , and p53 with the various clinicopathologic prognostic parameters of human breast cancers. Methods : The paraffin-embedded tissue sections from 102 patients with human breast carcinomas were examined by performing immunohistochemical staining. The primary antibodies used for immunohistochemical staining were mouse monoclonal antibody to human , , , p53, ER and PR. Results : The expression rates of , and p53 were 29.3%, 40.2% and 49.1% in breast carcinomas, respectively. In normal breast tissues, p34cdc2, p21WAF1/Cip1 and p53 were not expressed. The p34cdc2 was expressed in the cytoplasm of cancer cells. The expression rate of was 29.3% in breast carcinomas and 100% in normal breast tissues, so the loss of Kip1 expression in breast cancer was noted. The high expression of in neoplastic cells was associated with the p53 expression (p=0.03). The expression of was correlated with that of the progesterone receptor (PR) (p=0.04) and the expression of was correlated with that of positivity for estrogen receptor (ER) (p=0.04) and PR (p=0.04). No correlation was demonstrated between the mean patient survival and the expression rate of , , and p53. Conclusions : The loss of the normal cell growth cycle by the abnormal expression of cyclin dependent kinases and their inhibitors and the steroid hormones may play an important role in human breast carcinogenesis. The p53 dependent pathway, the protein loss and the cdc2 overexpression were important in development and progression of human breast cancer.


Retrofilling aged mineral oil (AMO) with ester oils is now being explored as an alternative option for the extension of transformer life. In transformer retrofilling, there is up to 10 % of aged mineral oil will be mixed with new oil. It is anticipated that the dielectric properties of the ester oil will be affected when the oils are mixed together. In this paper, synthetic ester (SE) oil was investigated in terms of its physicochemical properties after being mixed with various proportions of aged mineral oil. An accelerated thermal aging of mineral oil has been firstly prepared prior to the retrofilling with SE oil. The mineral oil was aged in a vacuum oven at 130 °C for 150 hours. There are three different proportions, i.e. 3 %, 5 % and 7 % were selected for use in the retrofilling process. Further, the retrofilled aged mineral-synthetic ester (AMO/SE) oil was tested for the moisture content and evaluation of degradation products through Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis) spectra. Based on the findings, it was interestingly found that the higher proportion of AMO has reduced the moisture content of retrofilled AMO/SE. In terms of UV-Vis spectra, the higher proportion of AMO has increased the absorbance with longer wavelength and it is in line with the concentration of dissolved decay products (DDPs). Overall, the moisture content and the concentration of DDPs of retrofilled AMO/SE has still meet the requirement as a new oil.


The Hatugou–Qingshuiquan–Gouli ductile shear zone recorded multiple cycles of orogeny in the eastern section of East Kunlun. The quartz c-axis fabric and microstructure of samples from the ductile shear zone were analyzed. We discussed the formation mechanism of subducted and crust extension-thinning of continental blocks in the eastern section of East Kunlun. Analysis results show that the deformation temperature of the ductile shear zone was between 380 ℃ and 650 ℃, which can be analogue with metamorphisms of middle-high greenschist facies to lower amphibolite facies. The differential stress and strain rate of the ductile shear zone are estimated at 173–509 MPa, 6.93×10–14–1.43×10–8 s–1, respectively, which suggest a possible origin of rapid subduction. Moreover, the deformation temperature, differential stress and strain increase toward the middle of East Kunlun fault zone, which is consistent with the fact that the middle part of the East Kunlun experienced the most intensive ductile shear deformation. The calculations of the kinematic vorticity values of the ductile shear belt show that the early transient kinematic vorticity(0.56–1.00) of ductile shear zone corresponds to the initial stage of the northward subducted southern parts of East Kunlun. In the middle to later stage, the kinematic vorticity(0.25–0.91) should correspond to the collision between southern and northern parts of East Kunlun. The latest C' instantaneous kinematic vorticity(0.19–0.51) corresponds to extensional stage in the post-orogenic setting. The quartz c-axis fabric and the structural characteristics show that the middle part of East Kunlun tectonic belt experienced at least 3 stages of tectonic movements, including the late Caledonian thrusting and left lateral strike slip shearing, the late Hercynian Indosinian thrusting and dextral strike slip shearing and the brittle ductile brittle–left lateral strike slip shearing in the early and later Yanshanian.


This paper introduces the activity for developing and use of a microsystem of an A.C. mixed system with D.C. link under present operation at the Systems and Electrical Networks Laboratory - Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. The model was achieved by means of similitude operating on a real system. For the on-line supervision of the microsystem a link with the process computer has been developed.


In this paper, we describe the details of our methods for the participation in the subtask of the ImageCLEF 2016 Scalable Image Annotation task: Natural Language Caption Generation. The model we used is the combination of a procedure of encoding and a procedure of decoding, which includes a Convolutional neural network(CNN) and a Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM) based Recurrent Neural Network. We first train a model on the MSCOCO dataset and then fine tune the model on different target datasets collected by us to get a more suitable model for the natural language caption generation task. Both of the parameters of CNN and LSTM are learned together.


The category of agama is mainly referred to the six recognized world religions in Indonesia while kepercayaan is a general terminology that is used to accommodate the Indonesian indigenous religions. The indigenous religions are excluded from the category because agama has been perceived in a very essentialist way making it being differentiated. Recently, the Constitutional Court Decision in 2017 allowing indigenous religions to put their religious identity in their ID Card has been considered as the most progressive changes in the politics of religion in Indonesia. In that regard, this work will deconstruct the problematic dichotomy as a form of transformative strategy for gaining recognition. This research uses Nancy Fraser and Kristian Stokke's frameworks of the problem of misrecognition and its affirmative and transformative remedies as the main theoretical frameworks. This research found that what has been done mostly so far in the effort of gaining recognition is arguably a part of affirmative strategy. By examining the specific case of the Marapu community, this work would also have significance to the Indonesian indigenous religions in general whose problem of recognition is also rooted in the dichotomy.


Background: Dysphagia is a common complication after stroke, which could lead to aspiration. Early and reliable bedside detection and intervention of dysphagia is necessary to prevent dysphagia-rel...


System uncertainties, such as modelling errors, external disturbances etc. can impede the fault detection process. Therefore a need arises for robust fault diagnosis, where complete disturbance decoupling can be achieved. The main contribution of this paper is the design of a parity relation for robust fault detection using right eigenstructure assignment. Up to date the left eigenstructure assignment technique has been used for the design of first order disturbance decoupled parity relations. In many cases complete disturbance decoupling is not possible when using left eigenstructure assignment. Therefore, the proposed method utilises the right eigenstructure assignment technique for the purpose of robust fault detection. The novelty of the developed scheme is to replace the traditional asymptotically convergent state observer by a state observer, which converges in a predefined time. The proposed method is demonstrated to be equivalent to a parity relation of a user predefined order.


Enhanced porosity and permeability in the Devonian carbonates of Alberta is commonly a result of dolomitization. Large-scale pervasive dolomitization, which converts limestones into massive dolostones, requires large-scale, regional fluid flow and hence requires the presence of a (paleo-) aquifer. Consequently, the characterization of massive dolostone bodies in terms of their size, average porosity and permeability, yields information about paleofluid flow. Furthermore, aquifers for dolomitization may be used by hydrocarbons and/or aqueous fluids later in a basin's history. Formation fluids postdating hydrocarbon migration often precipitate late-diagenetic carbonate (mainly calcite, subordinately dolomite) cements. These cements yield further clues regarding the paleohydrology of the system. is to determine the hydraulic integrity and continuity of the four major (paleo-) aquifers that comprise the Devonian section in Alberta In particular, what is the lateral extent of these aquifers and the intervening aquitards? Are aquitards missing or breached in of the study and if so, where? The results study aid in the interpretation of migration pathways for hydrocarbons, which aid in exploration for unknown traps, as well as in the development of known pools and fields. the late-diagenetic calcite and dolomite cements in of the Obed


Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) at 5 K in B-fields up to 7 T, we investigate the local density of states of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) created by Cs adsorption on p-type InSb(110). The 2DES, which in contrast to previous STS studies exhibits a 2D Fermi level, shows standing waves at B = 0 T with corrugations decreasing with energy and with wave numbers in accordance with theory. In magnetic field percolating drift states are observed within the disorder broadened Landau levels. Due to the large electric field perpendicular to the surface, a beating pattern of the Landau levels is found and explained quantitatively by Rashba spin splitting within the lowest 2DES subband. The Rashba splitting does not contribute significantly to the standing wave patterns in accordance with theory.


This study examines a hurricane prediction system that uses an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) to assimilate high‐resolution airborne radar observations for convection‐permitting hurricane initialization and forecasting. This system demonstrated very promising performance, especially on hurricane intensity forecasts, through experiments over all 61 applicable NOAA P‐3 airborne Doppler missions during the 2008–2010 Atlantic hurricane seasons. The mean absolute intensity forecast errors initialized with the EnKF‐analysis of the airborne Doppler observations at the 24‐ to 120‐h lead forecast times were 20–40% lower than the National Hurricane Center's official forecasts issued at similar times. This prototype system was first implemented in real‐time for Hurricane Ike (2008). It represents the first time that airborne Doppler radar observations were successfully assimilated in real‐time into a hurricane prediction model. It also represents the first time that the convection‐permitting ensemble analyses and forecasts for hurricanes were performed in real‐time. Also unprecedented was the on‐demand usage of more than 23,000 computer cluster processors simultaneously in real‐time.


L-pipecolic acid (L-PA) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid, however, it is an important precursor and a key ingredient of many pharmaceutically compound syntheses such as immunosuppressants and anesthetics. The production of amino acids via fermentation of microorganisms are getting attention, one of the widely used is an engineered�E. coli. L-PA production in the engineered E. coli uses L-lysine in its cell as a substrate. This research aimed to increase L-PA production by thrA knockout. The thrA encodes homoserine dehydrogenase I, the enzyme which draws the intermediate in L-lysine biosynthesis pathway to synthesize L-threonine. The group II intron insertion was used for disruption of thrA by specific insertion at the target gene. The capability of group II intron insertion for thrA in E. coli (E. coli BL21(DE3) ?thrA) was 65%. Moreover, pE22-LPC*D* was constructed and transformed into�E. coli BL21(DE3) (namely W-LPCD) and E. coli BL21(DE3) ?thrA (namely KO-LPCD). pE22-LPC*D* consisted of lysdh (encoding for lysine 6-dehydrogenase) from Acromobacter denitrificans, proC (encoding for pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase) from Bacillus cereus ATCC 11778, and homologous lysC* and� dapA* which encode for lysine feedback resistant aspartokinase and dihydrodipicolinate synthase, respectively. The highest L-PA production by KO-LPCD was 0.57 g/L when it was cultured in Ying medium containing glycerol as a carbon source at 198 hours after induction with 0.1 mM IPTG.�The specific L-PA production was 0.049 g/g WCW, which was 1.8-fold of that obtained from W-LPCD.


This article insists that taxes and corvee system is an important issue in studying the history of China's economy.Taxes and corvee in Song dynasty is more advanced than that of the previous Tang's since it made some significant adjustments in its system.It demonstrates that the balance of taxes and runners at state,local power and small farmers' levels is the key to maintain and develop national economy.The taxes and corvee game in Jiangnan East Road in Song Dynasty shows the importance of taxes and corvee balance from some aspects.


This paper attempts to summarize the disparities of Intemet development in China spatially-temporally. The major objective is to measure the differences between Eastern, Central and Western China. Methods of map presentation, correlation, Lorenz curve, Gini Coefficient and location quotient analysis are conducted in this study.For convenience, the indicator of regional Internet development is simplified as the number of domain names registered under .CN in each province. The data used are collected from the semi-annual surveys of the Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China since 1999. There are several findings: 1) The number of domain names in each province (city) declines gradually from the east to the west. 2) The gap between the highest growth provinces (cities) and the lowest ones is rather large. 3) Although the absolute differences between the eastern, central and western China have been enlarged, the relative differences in each province (city) have remained constant.4) Provinces (cities) are classified into three types according to location quotient changes, namely, rising type,changeless type and declining type. Compared with industrial and economic growth, Intemet sector in the eastern and western China is relatively ascending, while that in the central China is descending. 5) The number of domain names at provincial level is not statistically consistent with GDP.


This article anlayzes advantages and obstacles of the self-sustaining development of agriculture,in order to provide some references for the self-sustaining development of agriculture in west minority regions.


Some characteristic features of the writing source as an object of material culture arc discussed in this article. The methods and stages of surce studying and archeological studying are compared. The material for writing (the paper firstly) are the focus of attention.


In this paper, reference and extended command governors are developed for enforcing constraints in the air path of turbo-charged gasoline engines. These governors are add-on control schemes which protect the engine from violating pointwise-in-time state and control constraints, including compressor surge and actuator limits. Several design choices based on linear engine models at different operating points are compared in terms of response speed, sets of recoverable initial conditions, tolerance of disturbances, and computational complexity. The final design is implemented on the nonlinear engine model. Further, an approach to handle intake manifold pressure overshoot constraints, and a novel form of the extended command governor based on Laguerre's sequences are presented.


Recently, high dose gentamicin (GM) has started to be used for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Previously, since the intravenous infusion of GM for 1h once a week at a dose of 7.5 mg/kg/day had caused no significant adverse events in a course of therapy lasting 6 months, we decided to try conducting such therapy for four courses in the present study. We continuously assessed renal function by monitoring serum creatinine, serum cystatin C (Cys-C), serum urea nitrogen (BUN), urinary β2-microglobulin and urinary N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) activity. Serum creatinine levels were found to be much lower than the normal range, while, at 0.65 to 0.78μg/mL, serum Cys-C levels, were within the normal range and so was BUN, suggesting that the glomerular filtration rate in the DMD patients receiving GM therapy was being maintained in the normal range. Therapeutic drug monitoring of GM indicated that it was being rapidly eliminated from the systemic circulation though a slight elevation of urinary NAG activity in 1 patient indicated the possibility of impaired renal proximal tubules. It will thus be necessary to optimize our patient management strategy.


Growing cultural diversity is seen as important for innovation. Research has focused on two potential mechanisms: a firm effect, with diversity at the firm level improving knowledge sourcing or ideas generation, and a city effect, where diverse cities helping firms innovate. This paper uses a dataset of over 2,000 UK SMEs to test between these two. Controlling for firm characteristics, city characteristics and firm and city diversity, there is strong evidence for the firm effect. Firms with a greater share of migrant owners or partners are more likely to introduce new products and processes. This effect has diminishing returns, suggesting that it is a 'diversity' effect rather than simply the benefits of migrant run firms. However, there is no relationship between the share of foreign workers in a local labour market and firm level innovation, nor do migrant-run firms in diverse cities appear particularly innovative. But urban context does matter and firms in London with more migrant owners and partners are more innovative than others.


The B -> K(*)rho, K(*)omega decays are useful to determine the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) angle phi(3) = gamma. Their polarization fractions are also interesting because of the polarization puzzle of the B -> phi K-* decay. We study these decays in the perturbative QCD approach based on k(T) factorization. After calculating the nonfactorizable and annihilation type contributions, in addition to the conventional factorizable contributions, we find that the contributions from the annihilation diagrams are crucial. They give dominant contribution to the strong phases and suppress the longitudinal polarizations. Our results agree with the current existing data. We also predict sizable direct CP asymmetries in B+ -> K(*+)rho(0), B-0 -> K(*+)rho(-), and B+ -> K(*+)omega decays, which can be tested by the oncoming measurements in the B factory experiments.


The rare-earth elements (/LEE) do not fractionate during sedimentary processes, and their secondary remobilisation is not significant, therefore they provide information on the source area, since the sedimentary particles conserve the chemical record of the source (e.g. McLennan, 1989; Condie, 1991). In the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KTB) they can provide information on the source area and depositional conditions. We have studied different sequences that belong to the Betic Cordilleras (Spain): 'Agost' (A) and 'Caravaca' (CA), and Basque Cantabrian basin (Spain and France): 'Sopelana' (SO), 'Monte Urko' (URT), 'Zumaya' (ZU), 'Hendaye' (HY) and 'Biarritz' (B).


Dear Editor, Onychomatricoma is a benign tumor of the nail matrix, usually shows a yellowish and thickened nail plate and proximal splinter hemorrhage but sometimes present with longitudinal melanonychia. Longitudinal melanonychia has been demonstrated in diverse diseases. While onychomycosis is the common, malignant diseases such as subungual melanoma and Bowen's disease should also be differentiated. We herein report a case of pigmented onychomatricoma that mimics subungual melanoma and Bowen's disease. A 53yearold Japanese man visited our dermatology clinic with a 2year history of toenail pigmentation (Figure 1A). Physical examination revealed a dark brown pigmented band on the medial edge of the right great toenail. The involved area of the nail plate was thickened and rough. Onychoscopy showed longitudinal parallel white lines on the band of brownish homogenous coloration (Figure 1B). A potassium hydroxide (KOH) examination for fungi was negative. Under the suspected diagnosis of subungual melanoma or Bowen's disease, an excisional biopsy was performed. Histopathological examination of the proximal portion of removed nail plate showed multiple deep invaginations filled with digitated epithelial proliferations (Figure 1C). These digitated epithelia contained thick keratogenous zone in the apex. A resected papillary tumor of the nail matrix showed fibroepithelial projections with spindle cell proliferation in the stroma (Figure 1D, E). Immunohistochemical examination revealed that CD10 and CD34 positive cells proliferated in the fibrous stroma (Figure 1F). In addition, S100 and Melan A staining showed scattered melanocytes in the epithelium without evident proliferation (Figure 1G). PCR analysis using human papillomavirus (HPV) consensus primers, L1C1/L1C2 and GP5(+)/GP6(+), was negative (data not shown).1 From these clinicopathological features, we diagnosed as onychomatricoma. Five months followup showed no recurrence (Figure 1H). Onychomatricoma is a benign nail matrix tumor that was first described by Baran and Kint in 1992. Di Chiacchio et al. summarized 30 cases of onychomatricoma and showed the major clinical features including increased nail thickness, splinter hemorrhages, xanthonychia and transverse curvature of the nail. However, longitudinal melanonychia was shown to be less often.2 Pigmented onychomatricoma retains histopathological features of classic onychomatricoma, namely epithelial invagination filled with Vshaped keratogenous zone, abundant fibrillar stroma, and thickened nail plate with cavities occupied by papillary projections of epithelium. Immunohistochemically, CD10 and CD34 are positive for stromal cells.3 These results were consistent with our case. The differential diagnosis of pigmented onychomatricoma includes onychomycosis, traumatic subungual hematoma, Bowen's disease, and subungual melanoma.4 Pigmentation visible through the translucent cuticle like our patient was revealed to be pseudoHutchinson's sign.5 While Hutchinson's sign is common in melanoma, localized hyperkeratosis, dark dots, free edge nail pitting, and hairpinlike vessels are observed more frequently in nail squamous cell carcinoma than in onychomatricoma.6,7 Our case also resembled subungual Bowen's disease which was frequently associated with highrisk HPV infection.1 Since pigmented onychomatricoma often masquerades subungual melanoma and Bowen's disease, we should keep in mind of this rare but specific


Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has been experiencing a distinct warming trend, and climate warming has a direct and quick impact on the alpine grassland ecosystem. We detected the greenness trend of the grasslands in the plateau using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data from 2000 to 2009. Weather station data were used to explore the climatic drivers for vegetation greenness variations. The results demonstrated that the region-wide averaged normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) increased at a rate of 0.036     yr − 1 . Approximately 20% of the vegetation areas, which were primarily located in the northeastern plateau, exhibited significant NDVI increase trend ( p -value < 0.05 ). Only 4% of the vegetated area showed significant decrease trends, which were mostly in the central and southwestern plateau. A strong positive relationship between NDVI and precipitation, especially in the northeastern plateau, suggested that precipitation was a favorable factor for the grassland NDVI. Negative correlations between NDVI and temperature, especially in the southern plateau, indicated that higher temperature adversely affected the grassland growth. Although a warming climate was expected to be beneficial to the vegetation growth in cold regions, the grasslands in the central and southwestern plateau showed a decrease in trends influenced by increased temperature coupled with decreased precipitation.


Vehicles' exhaust particulate matter (PM) emissions have significantly decreased over the years. On the other hand, non-exhaust emissions, i.e., particle emissions from brakes and tires, have increased due to the increase in the vehicle fleet, traffic congestion, and the distance traveled. As a result, regulatory bodies are investigating the possibility of mitigating non-exhaust emissions. The Euro 7 proposal introduces specific emission limits for both brakes and tires for the first time in a regulation worldwide. The methodology for brake particle emissions sampling and measurement builds on the work of the Particle Measurement Programme (PMP) informal working group of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The recently adopted Global Technical Regulation (GTR) on brakes from light-duty vehicles up to 3.5 t prescribes the technical details. In this paper, we present the technical specifications for the measurements of PM. We also evaluate the penetrations for two cases with two setups for minimum and maximum particle losses. This study, using aerosol engineering calculations, estimates the maximum expected differences between the two setups, both of which are compliant with the GTR. This study also discusses the mass ratios of PM2.5 and PM10 as a function of the mass median diameters.


This study assessed some challenges faced by children with hearing impairment in acquiring the knowledge needed to make progress in school and community environments. It had as objectives; to investigate the influence of family knowledge of sign language on academic assistance before and after enrolment in school, the history of hearing impairment in the family and its influence on the acquisition of the sign language skill by learners with hearing impairment before enrolment in school, check the perception of the learners about the pedagogic approaches used to teach and the challenges faced in class. The study was both a survey and qualitative and made use of questionnaires and single group quasi-experimental designs respectively. A sample of 17 students from Buea School for the Deaf constituted the population of the study. A 7 cluster-34 items questionnaire was used to collect some data while some data was collected experimentally. Data was analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics (percentages and means) and inferential statistics (ChiSquare test). The results from analysis indicated that, there was a significant difference in performance between the students with background knowledge in sign language at home and who also received academic assistance at home and those who did not have some background knowledge of sign language before enrolment in school. The students approved the learning approaches used by their teachers and were comfortable in class hence faced minimal challenges in class. There was also a significant improvement between those in the experimental group who received the treatment and those in the control group who did not. This was indicative that with proper training and education, these learners with hearing impairment could achieve significantly in their academics.


The conditions of agricultural chemicals used in the planting industry of Chongming County were investigated,and effects of using agricultural chemicals on the ecological environment of Chongming were discussed according to the Chongming's characteristics of geography,climate and agricultural production.The ways and means of controlling agricultural chemicals were set forth in order to build Chongming County into an ecological island.


In this paper,we establish a 3-D FEM simulation model to analyze the local stress around an array of microvoids in a ductile material under dynamic tensile loading.This model is used to investigate the dependence of the material's dynamic failure strength on the strain rate and the relative microvoid spacing.The FEM simulation results indicate a sensitive relation between the local hydrostatic tensile stress and the relative spacing.A criterion of the dynamic material failure is thereby proposed using the relative spacing and the local hydrostatic tensile stress as the controlling parameters.Through this criterion,the dynamic failure of the ductile material can be well explained and the dynamic strength of the material has been numerically determined.


Abstract The objective of this research is to design the roller rig for the maintenances of high-speed train bogiesoperated on the tracks. Roller rigs have been studied and researched to develop the faster, safer and more efficient rail-way system. It is to reduce the time of testing vehicles and to make as wide a range of tests available as possible.Therefore, it is very important issue to check and evaluate the dynamic responses of high-speed train after severalyears of operation. This paper presents a study on the conceptual design and dynamic model to develop the roller rigfor the routine maintenances of high-speed trains bogies with maximum speed of 350km/h. ANSYS was used to ana-lyze the wheel/roller's contact behavior of driving axle and ADAMS was used to verify and analyze the dynamicbehaviors of roller rig. Keywords : High-speed train, ADAMS, Roller Rig 요지 본 연구에서는 고속 철도차량의 유지보수용 주행시험기에 대한 개념설계와 동적모델 제시에 대한 연구를 진행하였다 . 주행시험기는 철도차량에 대한 성능시험을 실제 레일 위에서 보다 많은 시간을 절약하여 다양한 시험을 실시할 수 있는 장비이다


The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the state of health systems all over the world. It can be observed that COVID tests are not being done even on mainstream and marginalized people, who are the worst sufferers of this pandemic. This is due to the fact, that the health care facilities are already unaffordable for many, and now it is out of reach altogether. Specifically, the unprivileged section of the society which is also referred to as shadow economy, these people are those who are not monitored by any government agency, does not comprise of any credit history to avail various government non-government benefits as well. IoT sensors and mobile technology prove to be a powerful tool for them to be financially included and creating a wave towards the transition to formality. So, these people can avail of healthcare benefits. In this research work, a sensor-based framework has been proposed so that people with no documents can also be trusted and brought into the mainstream economy with full fundamental rights. The paper proposes a methodology for computing trust and value without the use of financial instruments and collateral grantees, this is done by using sensors, mobile tracking, and data analysis from which a trust value is assigned to a marginalized individual. This trust value score will aid the beneficiary to avail various public and private sector facilities and become a case of inclusive development.


Background.—Approximately 60% of female migraineurs report experiencing migraine in association with menstruation, while 7% to 25% experience attacks almost exclusively with menstruation.


SimpleTones is an interactive sound system that enables non-musicians to engage in collaborative acts of music making. The aim of SimpleTones is to make collaborative musical experiences more approachable and accessible for a wide range of users of different levels of musical expertise. This allows them to actively participate in the social aspects of collective musical improvisation, something usually confined to trained performers. Players can participate with ease and in real time by operating physical sound controllers in tandem. By using play as a catalyst and setting novices free from the requirement of previous musical experience, participants are able to focus on the collaborative aspects of performance, such as synchronizing movements, discovering the system's functionality together and making collective decisions.


Abstract:The Chinese government created specialty mediation committees to settle profession-based disputes, including medical disputes, in the 2010s. Using data on medical dispute resolution collected from fieldwork from 2016 to 2017, this article examines why (and how) mediators have addressed social grievances. It argues that the specialisation of mediation institutions and a series of politicisation measures, as well as affective and bargaining strategies employed in the mediation process, have jointly led to a high mediation rate. The findings also reveal that several factors could shape mediators' strategies, including timing, disputes that may lead to group petitioning, and disputants' level of bargaining power. This article enhances our understanding of the advent of the specialty mediation committees from an institutional perspective and enriches our knowledge of the mediators' role in the process.


Revolution and women did not mix well, at least in the eyes of most leaders of the insurrection that swept Mexico in 1910-17. Moreover, common wisdom suggested that armies were no place for the "gentler sex" and hence the two kinds of women that did accompany men to the battleground–female soldiers and soldaderas–were generally regarded as marginal to the fighting and extraordinary, or strange, in character. Female soldiers received much notice in the press and arts during the revolution and in its aftermath. They were portrayed as fearless women dressed in men's garb flaunting cartridge belts across the chest and a Mauser rifle on one shoulder. But they were invariably shown in the guise of curiosities, aberrations brought about by the revolution. Soldaderas received their share of attention too. They were depicted as loyal, self-sacrificing companions to the soldiers or, in less sympathetic renderings, as enslaved camp followers: "the loyalty of the soldier's wife is more akin to that of a dog to its master than to that of an intelligent woman to her mate." But even laudatory journalistic accounts, corridos, and novels did not concede soldaderas a prominent role in the revolutionary process, much less in the success of the military campaigns.


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From the perspective of signal detection theory, different lineup instructions may induce different levels of response bias. If so, then collecting correct and false identification rates across different instructional conditions will trace out the receiver operating characteristic (ROC)—the same ROC that, theoretically, could also be traced out from a single instruction condition in which each eyewitness decision is accompanied by a confidence rating. We tested whether the two approaches do in fact yield the same ROC. Participants were assigned to a confidence rating condition or to an instructional biasing condition (liberal, neutral, unbiased, or conservative). After watching a video of a mock crime, participants were presented with instructions followed by a six-person simultaneous photo lineup. The ROCs from both methods were similar, but they were not exactly the same. These findings have potentially important policy implications for how the legal system should go about controlling eyewitness response bias.Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


We report a measurement of single top quark production in lepton plus jets final state using 7.5 fb−1 of pp̄ collision data collected by CDF Run II experiment. We select events in the W + jets topology consistent with the signature of a charged lepton (electron or muon), large missing transverse energy ( 6 ET ) from the W boson decay and two or three jets, at least one of them is required to be identified as originating from a bottom quark. We use the new POWHEG Monte Carlo generator for single top signal samples in s-channel, t-channel and Wt-channel, which are generated at NLO accuracy, with an assumed top quark mass of 172.5 GeV/c. The Neural Network multivariate method is used to discriminate signal against comparatively large backgrounds. We measure a cross section of 3.04 −0.53pb (stat+syst) and set a lower limit |Vtb| > 0.78 at the 95% confidence level, assuming mt = 172.5 GeV/c .


An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and a Bildprozess- or image processing device that is configured to image data of an image with the image forming pixels are processed such that a gradation of the image by a density of affected with toner pixels of the image forming pixels is represented per unit area of the image. Said image forming means further includes means for forming a latent image, which is so configured that it forms an electrostatic latent image of the image with the image forming pixels on the image bearing member, in accordance with the image data that have been processed by the image processing means, further, a developing means, which is configured so that it makes the electrostatic latent image of the image on said image bearing member into a toner image, and finally a transfer device which is configured such that it transfers the toner image on the image bearing member to a transfer member. lossy a diameter of a pixel toner image of each toner pixels of the toner image on the image bearing member is in a range of 20 mum to 50 mum and the transfer means includes a primary transfer member, a primary transfer device, which is configured so that the toner image on the image bearing member to the primary transfer part transmits, and a secondary transfer device which is configured so that the toner image on the ...


Some of the most important classes of surfaces in projective 3-space are reviewed: these are isothermally asymptotic surfaces, projectively applicable surfaces, surfaces of Jonas, projectively minimal surfaces, etc. It is demonstrated that the corresponding projective "Gauss-Codazzi" equations reduce to integrable systems which are quite familiar from the modern soliton theory and coincide with the stationary flows in the Davey-Stewartson and Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchies, equations of the Toda lattice, etc. The corresponding Lax pairs can be obtained by inserting a spectral parameter in the equations of the Wilczynski moving frame.