The study assessed the role of safety stock practice in achieving organizational efficiency in a computerized era in aluminum manufacturing firms in South East, Nigeria. Determining inventory level is one of the most challenging tasks faced by entrepreneurs and operations managers. The objectives of the study were to: ascertain the effect of safety stock on product availability, determine customer satisfaction and find the relationship between safety stock and sales volume. Survey design was adopted for the study. Questionnaire was used to obtain data which were presented in tables. The data were tested using Fdistribution. The result of the study showed that safety stock practice enhanced the availability of products in the aluminum manufacturing firms in South East, Nigeria (r = .738; F = 310.967; p < .000); safety stock practice promoted customer satisfaction in the aluminum manufacturing firms in South East, Nigeria (r = .899; F = 1099.647; p < .000) and safety stock practice increased sales volume in the aluminum manufacturing firms in South East, Nigeria (r = .789; p = .000 < 0.05). It was concluded that the adoption of safety stock practice had significant effect on the organizations" operations, particularly in ability to satisfy its customers, create higher sales volume and increased efficiency. It was therefore recommended that management of such firms should ensure adequate maintenance of safety stock of raw materials and finished products to assure uninterrupted productions and steady supply of the products to customers.


As a method of diagnosing ischemia non-invasively, the effective component of the ST-segment depression (STe) of an electrocardiogram is measured. A precise mathematical relationship between the values of the ST-segment depression, slope, and length of the ST-segment was defined and implemented, making it possible to compare any ST-segment morphology against a standard reference of horizontal depression.


Three insulin A-chain analogues with substitution by basic amino acia residues at A8-10 positions inside the intra-disulfide bonds were synthesized by the solid phase methods with Fmoc protection strategy.The corresponding insulin analogues obtained through reconstitution with the B-chain of porcine insulin showed definite activities in receptor binding,mouse convulsion test and antigenicity assays.It is suggested that this region inside A6-11 was not much concerned with biological activities,but rather more important antigenically in the binding to its antibodies.


Phased radiofrequency ablation with a single catheter technique, using a 9-electrode circumferential catheter, is a viable approach to pulmonary vein isolation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. However, creating effective transmural lesions with such technique, while avoiding serious complications like atrioesophageal fistula, can be difficult. This case illustrates a challenging scenario, where catheter maneuvers fail to allow safe radiofrequency delivery, due to esophageal temperature rise, despite extensive navigating maneuvers. Changing the bipolar-to-unipolar ratio of energy delivery, from 2:1 to 4:1, allowed the creation of effective lesions, avoiding excessive increase in esophageal temperature.


Airborne particulate material was collected on glass fiber filters with high-volume air samplers mounted aboard ships during July 1973, in the Ligurian Sea region of the Mediterranean Sea, and during February 1974, in the Pacific Ocean on a cruise from Panama to Ecuador via the Galapagos Islands. The filters were extracted with chloroform, and the lipid components of the extracts were converted to methyl esters for analysis by gas chromatography. Single fatty components in the range of 12–18 carbon atoms in length varied up to a maximum concentration of 50 ng/m3 of air when expressed as methyl esters. For the Pacific samples the concentration of total organic material extracted by chloroform ranged from 0.08 to 4.02 μg/m3 of air. In order to investigate the possibility of stabilization of fogs by organic chemical films, film pressure versus area isotherms were determined for the surface-active material recovered from each of the Pacific samples. There was not enough surface film-forming material found to coat the droplets of a hypothetical fog in the sampled air, but enough material was found to entirely coat the nuclei associated with a fog. Therefore the initial formation of a fog might be delayed because of a change in the wetability of the nuclei due to the surface film.


6'). Chapter 2 is entitled 'The History of the ''Eroica'' Sketchbook'; it consists of 215 words, excluding one footnote, and is arranged in two columns in the middle of an otherwise largely blank page 5.The simple, straightforward information it contains might itself have been consigned to a footnote, or easily absorbed into some other part of the introductory matter. This is merely the most glaring example of what might be felt to be a self-indulgent quality in the production values of this series. That said, there has at least been some reining in over the past decade: Kinderman's edition of Artaria 195 includes an entire separate volume of commentary, presented somewhat incongruously as Volume 1 of a three-volume presentation, facsimile and transcription being relegated to Volumes 2 and 3 respectively (Richard Kramer has referred to 'a lapse of decorum': see his 'To Edit a Sketchbook', Beethoven Forum, 12 (2005), 84). Even so, this text is shot through with repetitious material. The presence of seeming Masonic symbols in the margins of some pages of Landsberg 6 is of course not uninteresting; but on page 20 we are pointed towards Maynard Solomon's 'masterly discussion of Beethoven and Masonry' while on the facing page 21 we again encounter 'Solomon, whose well-documented study of Beethoven's connections to Masonry is among the most persuasive'. Likewise, Syer's proposal for the dating of the book manages to find its way into no fewer than four separate chapters (see pp. 7, 13, 30, and 52^3). A firmer editorial hand was needed here. In contrast, it would have been helpful to duplicate the inventories by page and work across both volumes, rather than consigning these to the back (pp. 189^219) of the facsimile volume only. The discussions of the sketches for individual works, most notably the 'Eroica', are likewise lavishly supplied with music examples and elaborate figures and tables. But whereas the text is on the one hand frequently verbose and overdone (see, for example, the laborious discussion of the relationship between the opening of the Op. 35 'Eroica' Variations for piano and those of the first and last movements of the symphony, pp. 42^3), on the other it frequently does not go far enough: several of these discussions are in effect proto-articles, adumbrations of just the sort of scholarship that the appearance of this edition of Landsberg 6 is presumably intended to promote. But they remain just that: adumbrations. In his Editor's Preface Kinderman makes much of this particular feature of his series:


CLP surfaces with orthorhombic distortion (oCLP for short) are a family of two-parameter triply periodic embedded minimal surfaces. We show that they correspond to the Weierstrass function of the form κ/√ τ 8 -(A+B)τ 6 +(2+AB)τ 4 -(A+B)τ 2 +1 where A and B are free parameters with -2 B, τ is complex with |τ|≤1 and κ real and depends on A and B. When B=-A, the oCLP family reduces to the one-parameter CLP family with tetragonal symmetry. The Enneper-Weierstrass representation of oCLP surfaces involves pseudo-hyperelliptic integrals which can be reduced to elliptic integrals. We derive parametric equations for oCLP surfaces in terms of incomplete elliptic integrals F (O, k) alone. These equations completely avoid integration of the Weierstrass function, thus making the use of the Enneper-Weierstrass representation unnecessary in the computation of specific oCLP surfaces. We derive analytical expressions for the normalization factor and the edge-to-length ratios in terms of the free parameters. This solves the problem of finding the oCLP saddle surface inscribed in given a right tetragonal prism, crucial for the modelling of structural data using a specific surface, and enables straightorward physical applications. We have comuted exactly the coordinates of oCLP surfaces corresponding to several prescribed values of the edge-to length ratio


We present the results of non-linear pulsation modeling of bump Cepheids in the LMC and SMC. By obtaining an optimal fit to the observed MACHO V and R lightcurves we can determine the fundamental parameters of each Cepheid, namely mass, luminosity, effective temperature, distance modulus and reddening. We are able to describe the mass-luminosity relation for core-He burning intermediate mass stars. The mass-luminosity relation depends critically upon the level of internal mixing during the course of the star's main-sequence evolution. Under the paradigm of convective core overshoot, our results enable us to place tight quantitative limits of the level of overshoot. We derive an overshooting parameter of \Lambda_c of 0.65+-0.03 and 0.67+-0.04l/H_p for the LMC and SMC respectively.


This thesis applies the Black-Litterman (BL) model on the stocks that makes up the Swedish stock index OMXS30 during the year of 2012. Public information in the form of stock recommendations from financial institutions has been used as views in the BL-framework. A method of estimating confidence in these views has been analyzed and further clarified. The testing consists of two BL-portfolios along with two Mean Variance-portfolios, allowing me to compare the performance difference that the BL-model has. The two portfolios differ in terms of short selling restrictions. Although the results show a difference in total returns in favor of the restricted BL-portfolio, no significant difference were found compared to the other portfolios or the stock market index, both in terms of returns and in terms of Sharpe ratios.


The dynamic polarization of F/sup 19/ was studied in polytetrafluoroethylene irradiated with 1-Mev electrons. Its value was determined for different concentrations of paramagnetic centers as a function of the exterior magnetic field and of the intensity of the polarizing microwave field. The saturation of the normal paramagnetic resonance was also determined. If the Abragam description of the effect is applied by considering that the paramagnetic resonance beam is broadened inhomogeneously and that the polarization is distributed in the material by the nuclear spin-spin interaction, a general expression of the polarization is found as a function of the microwave power, and of the value H of the stationary magnetic field. With respect to the order of magnitude, the effect calculated agrees with the experimental results. The variation, as a function of the field H, has, however, a disagreement which can not be explained with the aid of the model on which the calculations were based. (tr-auth)


alpha-Amino-beta-carboxymuconate-epsilon-semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD) [EC 220.127.116.11] is a key enzyme of niacin synthesis from tryptophan. In this study, we examined whether dietary linoleic acid alters the protein expression of ACMSD in rat liver. Antibody against rat liver ACMSD was prepared by injecting mice with the purified enzyme. With the use of this polyclonal antibody and analysis by two-dimensional electrophoresis, we studied the mechanism by which the level of liver ACMSD activity was varied in rats fed a linoleic acid diet. In the rats fed a dietary linoleic acid (L), ACMSD protein levels in the liver were strongly suppressed as compared with the rats fed a fat-free diet (FF). These results suggest that the expression level of ACMSD might be modulated by linoleic acid or their metabolites.


Take typical pattern of close planting Junzao in Alar reclamation area of Xinjiang as experimental material,the influence of different fertilization periods and fertilization amount of potassium and fertilization methods on photosynthetic characteristics and chlorophyll content of Junzao leaf was studied.The results showed that potassium benefited the increase of the chlorophyll content,net photosynthesis rate(Pn) and plant water use efficiency(WUE),the best result was obtained under the treatment of applying 30 kg/667 m2 potassium in fruit expansion period and 0.6% mass fraction of foliar fertilizer.There was less effect on photosynthetic characteristics of jujube leaves in different fertilizing period except the fruit setting period while the transpiration rate(Tr) was decreased and WUE was increased significantly.Meanwhile,the chlorophyll contents of Junzao jujube leaves and photosynthetic capacity have a significant and positive correlation.


The optimum harvest period of nanguo pear was studied in this paper. The results showed that the soluble solids content of fruits was low, their respiration rate was very high and there was a short storage whether ambient temperature or cold storage in early harvest period. The soluble solids content of fruits was increased according to the expand of harvest period and not fit to long storage. The optimum harvest period was around 9 th, Sep. The better index of harvest period was firmness, soluble solids content, index of seed change color.


Text data is one of the major types of unstructured data generated in the real world i.e. the data that doesn't have a predefined data model. It is already known that, the healthcare domain consists of the patient data in text type, which are available in the form of documents/reports. Especially, the hospital discharge summary document consists of the patient's details, medications, and clinical procedures. The major issue here is, when these documents are subjected to text analytics operations like summarization, which is a process of extracting or describing the important aspects of document data as a summary, by Third Party or In House Data Scientist there is a possibility of patients' privacy breach. To overcome the patient privacy breach, this research work has proposed a machine learning-based approach called sensitivity context aware privacy preserving text document summarization.


...................................................v CASE STUDY: SILICON VALLEY 3 4URBAN BIODIVERSITY PLANNING LOOKING FORWARD 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR BIODIVERSITY ENHANCEMENT IN CITIES 2 ..........................16 ..........................58 ..........................108 ..........................126 The Urban Biodiversity Framework is part of the Healthy Watersheds, Resilient Baylands project, which is funded by a grant to the San Francisco Estuary Partnership from the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund of the US Environmental Protection Agency Region IX. The report also received additional funding from the Google Ecology Program and the Peninsula Open Space Trust. We are deeply grateful to the members of the technical advisory committee for their guidance, technical advice, and enthusiastic contributions to the project: Myla Aronson (Rutgers University), Alex Felson (Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, University of Connecticut), Peter Groffman (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, The City University of New York), Nicole Heller (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), and Claire Kremen (University of British Columbia). We would like to thank Luisa Valiela (EPA) for her invaluable guidance and support throughout the project. We are also grateful for technical advice, review, and support provided by Darcie Luce and Caitlin Sweeney (San Francisco Estuary Partnership); Michelle Daher (City of East Palo Alto); Elaine Marshall, Melody Tovar, and Michelle King (City of Sunnyvale); Catherine Martineau, Elise Willis, and Michael Hawkins (Canopy); Kate Randolph, Ashley Muse, Audrey Davenport, and Kate Malmgrem (Google); Alex Von Feldt, Junko Bryant, and Claire Elliott (Grassroots Ecology); Steve Rottenborn, Dan Stephens and Rachel Visscher (H.T. Harvey & Associates); Andrea Mackenzie, Marc Landgraf, and Matt Freeman (Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority). This project has also benefited greatly from interactions with Google staff and design teams in applying the framework to the Google campus in Mountain View. Additional thanks go to interns Megan Wheeler (Arizona State University) and Nick Mascarello (The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University) for analysis, advising, and help with writing. Finally, we are grateful to the many SFEIASC staff members who contributed to this project, including Shira Bezalel, Katie McKnight, Amy Richey, Micha Salomon, Sam Safran, April Robinson, Pete Kauhanen, Gloria Desanker, Julie Beagle, Sean Baumgarten, Emily Clark, and Jen Hunt. § Acknowledgements


We aimed to examine the biophysical and psychological effects of two different types of forests on women with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Seventy-one middle-aged Korean women participated in a half-day healing program at either Saneum Recreational Forest (a wild forest) or Seoul Forest (a tended forest) depending on their preference. The participants' biophysical parameters and Profile of Mood States (POMS) were measured before and after the healing program. The two groups differed significantly in acute insulin responses, pulse rate, oxidative stress markers, and stress hormone level, suggesting better homeostasis in the wild forest. The POMS suggested that the mean vigor and confusion scores significantly decreased in the wild forest. Considering the significantly more favorable acute insulin reaction and levels of oxidative stress and the trend toward positive mood state in the wild forest, we recommend that middle-aged patients with MetS participate in healing programs in wild forests.


This quantitative study examines the relationship between MCQ,SAQ and T/F and reading comprehension abilities.The research design adopted in this study involved soldier student participants from Armed Police Forces Academy.The data were analyzed using inferential statistics(e.g.,Correlation and Regression).The present study yields the following findings: the three item types are all appropriate to measure test-takers' reading abilities.Compared with MCQ and T/F,SAQ is the most effective item type to test abilities of reading.


Literary Writing is one of the required courses for Chinese majors, and plays a vital role in the cultivation and promotion of university students' writing ability. This thesis aims to provide a scientific basis for breaking methods in the curriculum reform of Literary Writing about the "carnival between subjects of education" by viewing Literary Writing course in colleges and explaining and demonstrating "back to literature itself". The author thinks that, only if we trace the original source and strive to return to the literature itself can we find a relatively rational exploration on the road of reform in relation to teaching of "literary writing".


Optical behavior of waveguides can be tailored by suitably altering its geometry, medium and dimensions. Several forms of guides, composed of different shapes, geometries and media have been investigated [1–6]. In this stream, guides composed of metamaterials have many exotic characteristics [3–7] that are not found in ordinary mediums.


The high rate of mortality and frequent incidence of recurrence associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) reveal the need for new therapeutic approaches. In this study we evaluated the efficacy of a novel chemoimmunotherapeutic strategy to control HCC and investigated the underlying mechanism that increased the antitumor immune response. We developed a novel orthotopic mouse model of HCC through seeding of tumorigenic hepatocytes from SV40 T antigen (Tag) transgenic MTD2 mice into the livers of syngeneic C57BL/6 mice. These MTD2‐derived hepatocytes form Tag‐expressing HCC tumors specifically within the liver. This approach provides a platform to test therapeutic strategies and antigen‐specific immune‐directed therapy in an immunocompetent murine model. Using this model we tested the efficacy of a combination of oral sunitinib, a small molecule multitargeted receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor, and adoptive transfer of tumor antigen‐specific CD8+ T cells to eliminate HCC. Sunitinib treatment alone promoted a transient reduction in tumor size. Sunitinib treatment combined with adoptive transfer of tumor antigen‐specific CD8+ T cells led to elimination of established tumors without recurrence. In vitro studies revealed that HCC growth was inhibited through suppression of STAT3 signaling. In addition, sunitinib treatment of tumor‐bearing mice was associated with suppression of STAT3 and a block in T‐cell tolerance. Conclusion: These findings indicate that sunitinib inhibits HCC tumor growth directly through the STAT3 pathway and prevents tumor antigen‐specific CD8+ T‐cell tolerance, thus defining a synergistic chemoimmunotherapeutic approach for HCC. (HEPATOLOGY 2012;55:141–152)


The results of experimental research of doubleshear bolted joints of composite and metal plates are presented in this paper. The test results of single-row, two-row and three-row joints are given. Computational study of the stress-strain state of the specimens was carried out on the basis of the finite element method. The results of experiments with the specimens and the results of modeling of the stress-strain state in the area of the hole during contact interaction with the bolt were used to select a failure criterion that adequately describes the failure of the joint of metal and composite. The results of computational research of the influence of design parameters on the strength of bolted joints of metal and composite are also presented in the paper.


This article synthetically reviews the professional guarantee system and the social status of the United States civil service on politics,economy and society.The author points out that the professional guarantee system with the tenure,the higher salaries and the retirement funds of the civil service has gradually formed in the United States for more than a century.This system not only provides the professional guarantee in some aspects for the civil service,but also heightens their economic and social status.Meanwhile,some new problems gradually come out.


Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disabling and progressive chronic autoimmunedisease with associated burden intermsof workdisability. Objectives: To investigate the impact that RA associated pain and disease activity have on the level of work impairment patients experience, using data from the Burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis across Europe: a Socioeconomic Survey (BRASS). Methods: Data were extracted from BRASS, a societal perspective observational RA dataset across 10 European countries (EU5, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland and Romania). 476 RA specialising clinicians provided information on 4,079 adult patients; of these, 2,087 patients


The article emphasizes that russia's military aggression against Ukraine causes not only huge destruction of the domestic industrial complex, settlements, energy infrastructure, but also harms the environment and society. The author emphasizes that solid foundations for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine's economy on the basis of green growth are already being actively laid. It has been substantiated that the success of such reconstruction would depend on a number of factors and circumstances, which should be collectively taken into account within the scenario approach to assessment and forecasting. The author has proposed a list of key principles of scenario forecasting of the post-war development of the green economy in Ukraine. It has been emphasized that when developing scenarios, different approaches should be used and forecasting models should be developed. The latest usually differ in both the set of factors and their disposition. The dominant megatrends of Ukraine's competitive development in global coordinates which would affect the formation of scenario factors, have been characterized. Criterion features for the formation of green economy development scenarios have been defined. Four scenarios of the post-war development of the green economy in Ukraine for the period until 2050 have been substantiated. The description of the author's scenario of returning to the brown economy of the pre-war period has been given (the first scenario). The author sees the second possible scenario of the post-war development of the green economy in Ukraine as a focus on the development of the bioeconomy. The scenario of the post-war development of a circular economy model based on a zero ecological footprint in Ukraine (the third scenario of the development of a green economy) has been described and characterized. These scenarios have been compared with the fourth scenario related to the formation of a full-scale green economy in Ukraine. The author justifies that the most likely is the implementation of the third scenario in Ukraine – the development of a circular economy based on a zero ecological footprint.


IT HAS been known for many years that infectious hepatitis may occur in infants and small children.1Relatively few cases, however, have been reported, and the incidence of the disease in children under 3 years of age is said to be low.2Molner and Meyer,1efor example, in reporting on 194 children with the disease from Detroit, found only 5 between the ages of 1 and 4 years, but 77 between the ages of 5 and 9 years. Although this age differential may be due in part to residual maternal immunity or to the lack of exposure, it may also be the result of failure to recognize the disease. The degree of susceptibility would appear to be fairly high from Cookson's1hfinding that 20 of 66 children, mostly under 4 years of age, in a children's nursery acquired hepatitis with jaundice. Adequate descriptions of the clinical and laboratory findings in


ArF immersion lithography is considered as the most promising next generation technology which enables to a 45 nm node device manufacturing and below. Not only depth of focus enlargement, immersion lithography enables to use hyper numerical aperture (NA) larger than 1.0 and achieve higher resolution capability. For 193nm lithography, water is an ideal immersion fluid, providing suitable refractive index and transmission properties. Furthermore the higher refractive index fluid is expected to provide a potential extension of optical lithography to the 32 nm node. This paper describes the material design for immersion lithography with high refractive index fluid. We have developed promising high refractive index fluids which satisfy the requirement for immersion fluid by screening wide variety of organic compounds. The physical and chemical properties of this high refractive index fluid are discussed in detail. Also the topcoat material which has good matching with high refractive index fluid is developed. While this topcoat material is soluble into aqueous TMAH developer, it does not dissolve into water or high refractive index fluid and gives suitable contact angle for immersion scan exposure. Immersion exposure experiments using high refractive index fluid with and w/o topcoat material was carried out and its lithographic performance is presented in this paper.


Lung cancer is the malignancy with the highest morbidity and mortality worldwide. Approximately 60% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) presents driver alterations most of which are targetable. Nowadays, limited clinical data are available regarding the efficacy of epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with NSCLC harboring uncommon EGFR mutations, considering their heterogeneity. Herein, we report a rare case of EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma which has developed into squamous cell carcinoma with uncommon EGFR (Ex18) compound mutations and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase mutation receiving afatinib at the forefront.


The social effects of the introduction of a new drug into any society evades immediate recogni tion. This may be due to pervasive veils of secrecy because of its illegality, connection with organ ised crime, concealment by politicians, or an unwillingness of an insensitive population to recognise and accept its presence. Approximately 15 years ago, cocaine was introduced to Trinidad and Tobago. The Repub lic's strategic geographical location off the main


Most work on compliance or force control schemes in doing precision assembly has been insufficient to provide satisfactory performance, and therefore applications to manufacturing have been few. The remote centre compliance (RCC) device is the most famous of the passively compliant devices and has been already used in some operations. However, it is well known that the RCC has some limitations in flexible precision assembly automation: its characteristics (such as the position of remote compliance center and compliance at the point) are not variable. The device has not in fact been improved since its invention 20 years ago. To confer more flexibility to a robotic assembly line, we developed a cost-effective, compact, and lightweight variable RCC (VRCC). The invention of a simple but unique mechanism enabled the fabrication of the variable RCC. The device eliminates the need for an additional complex electrical control system or theory to cope with variation. Moreover, we have verified that a single VRCC duplicates the performance of a wide range of commercially available fixed-type RCCs.


Several classes of commercially important oxygenates, including acetaldehyde, ethanol, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate and acetic acid as well as C1–C3 alcohol/acetate ester mixtures, may each be selectivelygenerated from synthesis gas through the application of novel classes of ruthenium-containing bimetallic catalysts particularly those of ruthenium and cobalt (RuCo). A particular feature of these versatile catalysts is that all precursors are iodidefree. Products are formed through a combination of carbon monoxide hydrogenation, methanol homologation, methyl acetate homologation and methanol carbonylation reaction sequences.


—Competence and motivation of staff are the most important factors that ensure the competitiveness of modern organizations and require continuous development. The key rules and tools for developing a program for strategic development of personnel are analyzed, its structure is determined. The structure of the competency model is justified as the basis for determining the directions of professional development of employees. As an illustration of the proposed approach, the position of the head of the marketing department in the organization was selected. A competency model for the position has been formed, rating scales have been developed for each of the selected competencies. The gaps between the requirements of the position and the level of development of the competencies of a particular employee are determined. A technology for developing a professional development program based on building a profile of employees' competencies, identifying training needs and choosing methods for developing priority competencies is proposed, tools for its implementation are developed. Based on a comparative analysis of the methods for assessing the needs in the development of competencies, recommendations are formed on their application depending on the group of competencies (functional, cognitive, personal). To determine the priorities for the development of competencies, a matrix model of their ranking was constructed according to the criteria of importance and problematicness, determined by the size of the gap between the competency levels of the position and the employee. Criteria for the selection of personnel training methods are determined and their classification is determined according to the selected criteria. A model has been developed for choosing the most appropriate method for developing competence according to the criteria of effectiveness, cost and duration of training.


We report bulk GaInNAs p−i−n photodiodes lattice-matched to GaAs substrates, grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy with photoresponses out to ∼1.3 μm. The as-grown samples were characterized optically, structurally, and electrically. A low background doping concentration in the range of 1014–1015 cm−3 was obtained in the samples. One of the samples with a 0.5 μm thick GaInNAs absorbing layer gave a responsivity of 0.11 A/W for a band edge of 1.28 μm at reverse bias of 2 V.


This paper is devoted to qualitatively discuss the available data concerning artificially produced II'-mesons: the photo-meson production . from nucleon and deuteron, the scattering of meson by nucleon, the meson production by nucleon-nucleon collision, and the slow II'--meson capture by hydrogen and deuterium. We want to adopt here the phenomenological considerations rather than the current meson theoretical calculations. We shall predict some new results not yet observed, which are expected to determine whether our view-points are correct or not.


Polymeric pipes, such as unplasticized polyvinyl chloride pipe(uPVC), polypropylene random pipe(PPR) and polyethylene pipe(PE) are increasingly used for drinking water distribution networks. This work was designed to determine the TOC migration characteristics of three types of polymer pipes(uPVC, PE and PPR) into drinking water and investigate the influence of TOC migration on the chlorine decay in water. Migration tests were carried out under stagnant conditions with different migration times to simulate drinking water distribution in pipes. Experiment results showed TOC release differed significantly with different plastic materials. With the proceeding migration period, the amount TOC and TOC migration rate from uPVC pipe kept below 0.03mg/L and 0.04μg/(d·cm2), respectively. Moreover, both PPR and PE pipes showed an initial maximum migration of TOC(0.19mg/L and 0.25μg/(d·cm2) for PE; 0.07mg/L and 0.09μg/(d·cm2) for PPR), and then a decline trend over migration period to a relative steady level(0.03~0.08mg/L and 0.05~0.10μg/(d·cm2) for PE; 0.01~0.03mg/L and 0.01~0.04μg/(d·cm2) for PPR). During long migration times, TOC concentrations of different pipe materials increased over time, indicating that under long stagnant conditions the drinking water quality could deteriorate fast with the consistent migration of organic compounds and the dramatic consumption of chlorine to a very low level. The order of materials with respect to the ability of TOC migration was observed as PE PPR uPVC. Chlorine consumption during all migration tests followed the shape of TOC migration. Overall, this study presented an investigation of the organic migration of plastic pipes, which might contribute to the improvement of the national standards related with plastic pipes.


Researchers have found that extra-pair paternity prevails among socially monogamous birds and this phenomenon challenges traditional views of mating system by using molecular technology. Contrary to prior expectations, birds are very rarely sexual monogamous since extra-pair offspring has been found in approximately 90% of species. Even among socially monogamous species,over 11% of offspring are extra-pair paternity on average. Extra-pair paternity arises when female birds engage in extra-pair copulations with males other than their social mates,frequently resulting in broods with multiple paternity which contain offspring sired by the social male and offspring sired by extra-pair males. A large and solid body of evidence has impressivelydemonstrated that extra-pair paternity is the rule rather than the exception in birds( especially in passerines),and a number of synthetic contributions have reviewed this field with its various ramifications over the last decade. Extra-pair paternity is widespread in avian species so that the reason for the occurrence of extra-pair paternity and the influence has become the focus researches in the behavioral ecology of avian species. Based on the researches about avian extra-pair paternity over the past decade,this paper reviews the research progress and summarizes two major aspects on causes and effects of extra-pair paternity. Investigating the causes of extramarital paternity includes: 1,we explore the different sexes in the evolution of reproductive strategies from gender perspective. Male reproductive strategies are designed to increase their output; female strategies are proposed to ensure that female fertility hypothesis,the food supply hypothesis,the hypothesis of genetic benefits,etc.,but still controversial. 2,the genetic benefit hypothesis( "good genes"hypothesis,"genetic compatibility"hypothesis,the hypothesis of genetic diversity) proposes that extra-pair sires provide alleles of superior quality and / or better compatibility compared to the social mate,resulting in offspring of higher reproductive value. One frequently adopted approach to test this idea is to compare the performance of maternal half-siblings in broods with multiple paternities. However,results did not come to a conclusion,some studies failed to reveal any systematic differences in maternal half-sibling performance,even in the same or in closely related species. Furthermore,application of identical experimental protocols( e. g. the phytohemagglutinin test of cellular immunocompetence) in different species with similar extra-pair mating systems produced mixed results. The inconsistencies of results across extra-pair paternity studies may be caused by methodological challenges and / or reflect true and meaningful differences in the respective study systems. 3,non-genetic benefit-maternal effects influence the evolution of extrapair paternity. Some studies indicated that genetic quality,such as weight,body size,survival and immune responses,etc may be effected by maternal effects.We also summarize environmental factors affecting the occurrence of extra-pair paternity include reproductive synchrony,breeding density,habitat,etc. Different species have different environmental pressures resulting in the difference of extra-pair paternity rate. Finally,we make prospects for the future research. Despite nearly a decade of researches to further explain the phenomenon of extra-pair paternity in birds,a certain reason is still unknown. Experimental operation and the improvement of the theory are keys to reach a more comprehensive solution for these problems.


The competition among enterprises has gradually become the competition between supply chains, and it is more and more important for the cooperation among members of the supply chain to improve supply chain performance. Information sharing is an important way of cooperation among members of supply chain, which attaches great significance for the integration of the supply chain. With the development of information technology, inter-organizational information systems (IOS) have become an important means for information sharing among members of supply chain. IOS comes across organizational boundaries, whose investment and distribution of the income relates to the interests of all members involved in the supply chain, so the establishment of IOS includes many factors. From the perspective of game, the behavior that the supply chain establishes IOS for the establishment information sharing is analyzed. Through the creation of static, dynamic and incomplete information game model, it is believed that the prospects for cooperation, technological progress and the role of example is an important driving force for supply chain members' enforcing information sharing.


Those of you who read the report in Archaeology Ireland Vol. 2, No.3, on the Wexford Heritage Park, and indeed those who have already visited the area, might be interested to learn something more about the second most ancient (in real time) of the monuments in the Park, the round tower. This was erected long before the idea of a Heritage Park was conceived, is actually placed within an even earlier monument, and is the location of possibly the earliest 'time capsule' ever buried in Ireland. This tower is a replica of a monument type of the Early Christian period. Round towers are generally dated from c.A.D. 900 to 1200, although it is possible that some may date from the ninth century. Evidence for over 120 examples is known from the country as a whole, with the possibility of more still to be uncovered as some examples have come to light in modern excavations. They are found in association with monastic sites and never as an isolated monument type. Their main function seems to have been as belfries but they must have had other uses, perhaps for storage or for refuge, and they were an obvious prestige building, visible from a wide area around the monastery, particularly if the environment was not very thickly wooded. But the tower at Newtown Td., Ferrycarrig, was erected in 1857 to commemorate the men of Wexford who died fighting in the Crimean War of 1854-6. Most of the following contemporary reports of its erection come from the pages of The Wexford Independent of the time. The monument was not erected without a certain amount of local controversy. A correspondent, 'Observer', writing to the paper on 3 October 1857, complained firstly about the manner in which subscriptions ? View of round tower at Ferry carrig (Photo: Ger Leahy)


advised histological follow-up. Further histological specimens were obtained in 1981 and 1983 from abdominal skin and scalp. These showed collections of lymphohistiocytic cells in the papillary dermis with a slight tendency to epidermal invasion. Some of the infiltrating cells were large and hyperchromatic, suggestive of Sezary-Lutzner cells. The scalp biopsies showed, in general, a less-dense infiltrate but a marked reduction in follicle numbers. There was no evidence of follicular mucinosis. The most recent biopsy (1985) shows a heavy cellular infiltrate in an upper dermal band. There are a number of cells with hyperchromatic and convoluted nuclei, and the infiltrate extends focally into the overlying epidermis. The appearance is that of a pre-reticulotic eruption. (b) Cell marker studies. These confirm that the infiltrate is largely composed of T cells, the helper/suppressor ratio being 9:1. Treatment. The patient has been treated over the years with emollients, topical steroids and a course of systemic steroids. More recently, she has been given a course of PUVA without obvious change. Comment. This lady illustrates clearly that pre-reticulotic eruptions may begin very insiduously and that continued follow-up and repeat biopsies are essential. A most unusual feature, however, is the development of an extensive cicatrical alopecia. There is no mention of this possible complication of early stage mycosis fungoides in the major texts.


nitive decline (fast vs. slow cognitive decline: mean6SD: 1051.16178.7 vs. 1237.96274.2 pg/ml; p1⁄4 0.037) and show a significant correlation with the rate of cognitive decline during 1 year follow-up (r 1⁄4 0.315; p 1⁄4 0.048). Multivariate analysis revealed that SCF plasma levels (B 1⁄4 0.279; p 1⁄4 0.041), age (B 1⁄4 0.393; p 1⁄4 0.006) and MMSE scores (B 1⁄4 0.420;p 1⁄4 0.002) at baseline were independent predictors for the rate of cognitive decline. Conclusions: These results suggest that lower SCF plasma levels are associated with a higher rate of cognitive decline in AD patients. Thus, treatment strategies increasing SCF plasma levels could be useful for delaying the progression of AD. Further longitudinal studies are necessary to elucidate the kinetics and the potential role of plasma SCF as a surrogate marker of disease progression and treatment target in AD patients.


: Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum L. and Ricinus communis L. develop with a wide range of different final sizes due to leaf position and nutrient availability. The aim of this study was to investigate, on different organizational levels of leaf growth, which parameters are affected by external nutrient availability and which parameters are not affected and might thus be intrinsic, general patterns of growth that govern plant architecture. We found that leaf size and final cell size was larger with higher external nutrient availability, and that hexose concentrations in N. tabacum were lower with higher nutrient availability. Despite these differences, several dynamic parameters of leaf development were not affected by the nutrient treatment. Leaves of all sizes within a species exhibited the same relationship between relative leaf growth rate and relative leaf area (RLA), which is defined as the ratio of momentary and final leaf area. External nutrient availability did not affect chlorophyll concentration per parenchyma cell, which increased linearly with leaf development. Leaves of identical RLA exhibited identical cell density patterns within their interveinal tissue layers. This indicates a close connection between the kinematics of cell expansion and RLA and, hence, reveals that kinematics are an intrinsic property of growing leaves that can be scaled from the cell to the leaf level.


The invention relates to an oil film bearing bush for a plate and strip rolling mill, and relates to an oil film bearing for a rolling mill support roller. By the oil film bearing bush, the problem of how to improve the service life of the oil film bearing of the conventional plate and strip rolling mill is solved. The oil film bearing bush comprises a static pressure lubricating oil inlet channel formed along the axial direction of the bush, a static pressure lubricating oil inlet hole which is communicated with the oil inlet channel, static pressure oil cavities which are communicated with the oil inlet hole and are formed on the inner surface of the bush, a dynamic pressure oil cavity which is formed on the inner surface of the bush along the axial direction, a dynamic pressure lubricating oil inlet hole which is communicated with the dynamic pressure oil cavity and working surfaces which are partitioned by the dynamic pressure oil cavity, wherein the dynamic pressure oil cavity isa circumferential narrow oil cavity, and an opening angle of the oil cavity is less than or equal to 10 degrees; the static pressure oil cavities are three rows of narrow oil cavities which are symmetrical axially and are distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction; and the working surfaces are three, and wrap angles in a working area are 110 degrees. The oil film bearing bush is suitable for various large-scale modern rolling mills for middle plates, thick plates, ultra-thick plate, wide and thick plates, hot tandem rolling, cold tandem rolling and the like.


which by a majority, with Mr. Justice Singleton dissenting, supported the council. The Court of Appeal, however, agreed with Singleton.T., and reversed the decision. The ·council appealed to the House of Lords, and their Lordships unanimously npheld the Court of Appeal and Singleton, J. Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor, remarked that the same point could quite well arise after a doctor had brought an action for slander and the jury had found that the defamatory statement was justified, or after a doctor had been ordered to pay damages for seduction, or to maintain a bastard child. While, he said, the council may well treat the conclusion reached in the courts as prima facie proof of the matter alleged, it must when making "due enquiry" allow the doctor to challenge the correctness of the court's conclusion and to call evidence supporting his contention. The previous decision is not between the same parties; there is no question of estoppel nor of res judicata. The decision of the court may provide the council with adequate material for its own conclusion if the doctor does not challenge the facts; but if he does, it should hear the challenge and give such weight to it as it thinks fit. There is no analogy with the practice in the Court of Appeal; the council is not a court of appeal, and its standing orders lay down that, when the case against the doctor has been set out, the doctor "will then be called upon by the President to state his case and to produce the evidence in support of it." The council, in weighing the value of rebuttingevidence, is entitled to bear in mind that it is not given on oath, although it might have been brought forward under oath at the trial, and that the council cannot compel the attendance of other witnesses who might refute it. The Council will therefore be obliged in future, if requested, to hear evidence in rebuttal of the finding of a court against a doctor in civil proceedings. The Spackman case has aroused a great deal of attention and doubtless cost a great deal of money, but the point it decides is quite a minor one and does not in the least affect the Council's ordinary practice and authority. The Council has summoned Dr. Spackman again and reheard his case from the beginning; it found the charges proved but, in view of his good conduct since the offence was committed, decided not to erase his name.


There are various types of attacks on IoT devices, one of which is Mirai botnet that attacks a number of IoT devices such as web cameras, security cameras, and routers. Even it has caused internet downtime for the users in Europe and North America. Hence, it is deemed necessary to have a system to detect Mirai botnet attack using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model. This model becomes a solution to detect Mirai botnet attacks for having good generalization performance when the parameter is properly configured in modeling the training set (training dataset) and getting good classification results without a lot of training data. The results of the analysis from the use of the SVM model showed the accuracy of 92.91% with a linear kernel and max_iter 10000. Also, the performance of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model based on the precision parameter obtained a value of 94.13% with max_iter 10000 and the recall parameter resulted in a value of 91.10% with max_iter 10000.


The Tydeoidea as a whole (Tydeidae, Iolinidae and Ereynetidae) are analysed cladistically for the first time, based on a critical reappraisal of morphological characters. In addition to the chaetotaxy, solenidiotaxy and poroidotaxy, the following characters ale considered: form of dehiscence line; number of eyes; presence of a posterior trichobothrium; number of discs on genital acetabula; breadth of cis-acetabulal area; sexual dimorphism (indicative of true mating segmentation of legs and palps; presence and structure of ereynetal organ; shape of chelicerae and tarsus II and number of calyptostases. Special attention is paid to a comparative study of the segmentation and chaetotaxy of the palp within the superfamily. as well as to the presence of prodorsal eye-spots, variations of the posterior sensilla and the segmentation of femur IV during ontogeny. Three types of phylogenetic analyses are employed: phenetic, cladistic and ontogenetic. The phenetic approach reveals that the current classification relies heavily on overall similarity between taxa, especially in adults, supplemented by ontogenetic peculiarities, such as the calyptostatic nymphs of Speleognathinae. The cladistic analyses lead to a reorganization of the Tydeoidea into four families. The Meyerellidae, characterized by the presence of three prodorsal eye-spots, include the Meyerellinae and Triophytydeinae. while the Tydeidae are restricted to Australotydeinae, Pretydeinae and Tydeinae. The remaining two families, Iolinidae and Ereynetidae, form the informal group Procurvata, characterized by the procurved dehiscence line. The family Iolinidae is enlarged to encompass the subfamilies Tydaeolinae, Pronematinae and Iolininae. The Ereynetidae, characterized by the ereynetal organ and double genital discs, include the Ereynrtinae :senior synonym of Pseudotydeinae, transferred from the Tydeidae), Lawrencarinae and Speleognathinae. Minor discrepancies were found between the results for immatures and adults. These can be explained by ontogenetic trajectories that are not parallel and undergo a spectacular expansion into the character space as they extend. Within the Tydeoidea, diversification and adaptation have occurred through acceleration, with adult adaptations extending into earlier stases. Heterostasy is only expressed in the Speleognathinae, in which the nymphs are all calyptostatic. The monophyly of the Tydeoidea remains questionable, since the Meyerellidae might constitute a separate group, more closely related to the Eupodoidea. The Meyerellidae aside, the tydeoid mites seem to have originated from a group of free-living forms that colonized the soil and related habitats and underwent an early radiation, giving rise to three major lineages: the Tydeidae, Iolinidae and Ereynetidae. The Tydeidae are characterized by a low evolutionary rate combined with a high diversification indicative of a secondary adaptive radiation within the Tydeoidea. In contrast, the Iolinidae are characterized by a high evolutionary rate combined to a low diversification. The third lineage, the Ereynetidae, is highly diverse, showing high rates of evolution and speciation, linked to the adoption of endoparasitic habits. Different hypotheses to explain the success and diversification in Tydeidae and Ereynetidae are examined. (C) 2000 The Linnean Society of London.


The popularity of R is increasing in national statistical offices not only for simulation tasks. Nowadays R is also used in the production process. A lot of new features for various tasks in official statistics have been developed over the last years and these features are freely available in the form of add-on package.


The present field experiment was conducted at entomology research field, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur during Rabi, 2022-23, for studying the seasonal incidence of Diamond back moth in broccoli. The broccoli planted in plot size of 3x3.15 m in three replications with spacing of 60x45 cm during first week of November. First appearance of DBM in broccoli field was started in 49th SMW 2nd week of December, the pest population reached at peak in 2nd SMW 2nd week of January. The correlation studies showed that maximum temperature, minimum temperature is significantly negatively correlated to pest population whereas morning relative humidity showed negative non- significant correlation with the pest population, rainfall had non-significant and evening relative humidity had positively significant effect on the pest population.


Boroxol (B3O3) rings and relevant hexagonal B3S3 structural blocks are ubiquitous in boron oxide/sulfide glasses, crystals, and high temperature liquids. However, the isolation of an ultimate heterocyclic B3O3 or B3S3 cluster in the free-standing form, with as few as six atoms, has been unsuccessful so far. We report on computational design of the simplest case of such a system: highly symmetric D3h B3S3+ (1A1) cluster. It is the well-defined global minimum on the potential energy surface, following global searches and electronic structure calculations at the B3LYP and single-point CCSD(T) levels. Chemical bonding analysis reveals an ideal system with skeleton Lewis B3S3 single bonds and unique double 6π/2σ aromaticity, which underlies its stability. The cluster turns out to be an inorganic analog of the 3,5-dehydrophenyl cation, a typical double π/σ aromatic system. It offers an example for chemical analogy between boron-based heterocyclic clusters and aromatic hydrocarbons. Double π/σ aromaticity is also a new concept in heterocyclic boron clusters. Prior systems such as borazine, boroxine, and boronyl boroxine only deal with π aromaticity as in benzene.


defined on the image of g, is called the relative minima function. It provides a solution of the extremal problem f(·) → min under the constraint g(·) = q, where q ∈M . We call g the constraint mapping, M the parameter manifold, f the minimising function and the mapping (f, g) : N → R×M the pair -mapping. Only the case n ≥ m, when the relative minima function might be defined on the subset of full dimension m, will be considered. Relative minima function is, generally speaking, neither smooth nor continuous. Its singularities describe those of the boundary of attainability domains (for given time) of control systems, propagations of wave fronts, singularities of solutions of parameter depending extremal problems (for example, that of production of optimal mixtures) and so on.


This article joins the current debate over the many perspectives applicable to contemporary political thought, with the aim of incorporating a broader view that would have its origin in border areas such as Legal Sociology, Political Anthropology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary Biology or Neuroscience. Such prospects are requiring nowadays a cultural and political evolution of societies, in order to cope with the crisis of the existing model. After a brief summary of the paradigmatic shifts that are affecting the political thought, the article reflects on the need to expand the foundations of political analysis and political study sources. The author defends the need of maintaining the specific methodologies of each perspective, although integrated into a common epistemology. The paper concludes affirming that, contrary to any


Objective To explore the diagnosis and treatment of acute renal failure caused by retroperitoneal hematoma in patients with pelvic fracture by analyzing the treatment process of two patients suffered from such complication.Methods After successful anti-shock treatment,all the two patients were found retroperitoneal hematoma by CT examination and found no artery bleeding of the internal iliac artery and its branches by digital subtract angiography.Then oliguria occurred,at which time the intra-bladder pressure was 3.73 kPa along with a stable blood pressure(about 14~15.3/8.3~10 kPa).Bedside ultrasound examination showed progressively enlarged retroperitoneal hematoma and bilateral hydronephrosis.A double "J" ureteral catheter was placed in bilateral ureters to support the ureters and external fixation of the pelvis was performed.Eventually the two patients recovered with good renal function and further operation was performed to fix the pelvis.Results Renal function examination showed no abnormity 5 to 8 weeks after injury in all the two patients,and good fixation of the pelvic fracture was achieved.Conclusions Acute renal failure caused by retroperitoneal hematoma can be easily confused with that caused by hemorrhagic shock,and the diagnosis depends on the combination of clinical symptoms,ultrasound examination and CT.Combined measures including external fixation of the pelvic ring and ureteral catheter support is effective measurement under such circumstance.


We investigate the benefits of incorporating the semantics of the problem into the query processing algorithms in multicore settings. We present and evaluate three heuristics for processing spatio-temporal range queries in multicore settings, and demonstrate that significant speed-ups can be achieved, when compared to the (semi) naive approach which relies on the compiler to generate the multicore-compatible code.


We present a new nucleosynthesis process that may take place on neutron-rich ejecta experiencing an intensive neutrino flux. The nucleosynthesis proceeds similarly to the standard $r$-process, a sequence of neutron-captures and beta-decays, however with charged-current neutrino absorption reactions on nuclei operating much faster than beta-decays. Once neutron capture reactions freeze-out the produced $r$-process neutron-rich nuclei undergo a fast conversion of neutrons into protons and are pushed even beyond the $\beta$-stability line producing the neutron-deficient $p$-nuclei. This scenario, which we denote as the $\nu r$-process, provides an alternative channel for the production of $p$-nuclei and the short-lived nucleus $^{92}$Nb. We discuss the necessary conditions posed on the astrophysical site for the $\nu r$-process to be realized in nature. While these conditions are not fulfilled by current neutrino-hydrodynamic models of $r$-process sites, future models, including more complex physics and a larger variety of outflow conditions, may achieve the necessary conditions in some regions of the ejecta.


Article History: Received: 23/4/2020 Accepted: 19/5/2020 Published: Spring2020 The study aims to determine an existing pattern of living (lifestyle) in Erbil city and its reflection on architecture and dwelling unit components. A case study methodology has been approached, and 30 residential buildings have been selected to be analyzed in Erbil as the limit of the study. The buildings have been divided into three categories (Low, Mid, and High) based on the income of the families in the region of study. The observation and questionnaire methods have been conducted to reach the results. The observation factors were developed and have been applied to determine lifestyle patterns in Erbil city. A questionnaire has been developed to identify lifestyle patterns by asking people about their daily life patterns and how it was reflected in the architecture


Dimensional Self-Stability and Displacement in Field-Ordered Directional Alternations Maurice K. Smith The adjoining subject skeleton for (my) F O R M LANGUAGE WORKSHOP reviews the FACTS OF F O R M in major rubrics of (in case you can't decipher it!): I : F O R M A L ATTRIBUTES A: Form-Sphere (cf. Ostwald / Munsell's color-solids): Recognizes some 30 pure (diagrammatic) morphologic / geometric definition- groups located around equator in generative transformation. Toward North Pole, identified FORM-FAMILIES transform through the organic + surface-tension-bound—dissolving in snowy mists ( + Alexander Cozens blot ). In LANDSCAPE (+ geomorphology) Euclidean geometric clarity is abandoned. Toward South Pole, firm G E O M E T R I C characteristics are retained / predominate—in machines, crystals, architecture, etc. . . . B: Size: Some eleven, from microscopic through human-use ranges to telescopic. C: D: E: II: Categories: Thirteen, from inclusive landscape to building. Media: Six, from drawing through materials to light. Time: Here + now / historic, and Place: varied cultures / geographies. BEHAVIOUR / O R G A N I Z A T I O N SYSTEMS 1. Field Organization: Three Variable Territorial Packings A: DIRECTIONAL B: M U L T I D I R E C T I O N A L C: U N I F O R M 2. Territorial Control: Three References, A: CENTERS: Points + Lines Intensifications B: EDGES: 1. Registration 2. Mirroring 3. Lateral Displacement C: OPEN FIELD: (Containments Deployment) Rocks-in-the-Sand 3. Alternations / Self-Stability: Five Methods: Three ACTIVE A: D I M E N S I O N A L EQUALITY: Directions N O R M A L , Form in-COMPLETE B: RECIPROCITY: Directional EDGES Displaced C: LIGHT-DARK REVERSALS Two PASSIVE D: PROPORTION: Fractals, Golden Mean E: BALANCE: Composition, Resolved Weight The most habitable / associative (built) environments in I I : BEHAVIOUR / O R G A N I Z A T I O N include / exemplify I A, 2B + 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C. The following observations offer a brief introduction to some aspects of (only) one of those mutually sympathetic six topics: D I M E N S I O N A L SELF- S T A B I L I T Y — I I 3 A. Places / Volume 5, Number 2


The National Urban League is a national profes sional community services agency with local affiliates in seventy strategically located cities which seeks to break down dis criminatory patterns impeding the progress of the Negro pop ulation toward first-class citizenship. Founded fifty-four years ago to assist Negroes from the rural South migrating to large cities, it has grown steadily over the years. Today, its program concentrates not only on wiping out the last vestiges of racial discrimination, but on stressing the need for self-help among Negro and other disadvantaged citizens to better qualify them selves for the trek out of poverty and into first-class citizenship. The Urban League concentrates on changing discriminatory patterns by an interracial effort. Its officials seek to bridge the gaps between white and Negro communities, to promote racial understanding, and to enlist the support of men and women in positions of power for those whose heritage has been one of deprivation and denial. Each local branch maintains a volun tary interracial board of directors and a paid, usually integrated, staff. Implicit in the League's philosophy is the frank recogni tion that interracial co-operation is an indispensable prerequisite to the achievement of significant and lasting gains for Negro citizens. The League also stresses that the nation cannot perfect its democratic institutions until Negro citizens obtain their inalienable rights as Americans and human beings.


Activities are reported in a program to develop an improved denitrogenation catalyst for heavy coal-derived fuel oil. It was found that for denitrogenation of coal derived fuel, Ni--Mo is more effective than Co--Mo, and Co--Mo is better than Ni--W. Initial catalyst deactivation is caused mainly by carbon deposition. Higher temperature operation results in higher carbon deposition on the catalyst and gives poor performances in terms of denitrogenation, desulfurization, deoxygenation and 975/sup 0/F+ conversion.


The design of enotourist routes represents an opportunity for the sustainable development of rural territories. This qualitative study was structured in three parts to reach a cohesion model representing the academic literature, visitors, and winemakers. This research focused on the region of La Axarquía in Málaga (Spain) because of its wine and tourist tradition. In relation to the methodology, this study used content analysis techniques for the analysis of both the relevant literature and the questionnaires completed by all the winemakers of the territory, 60 tourists who visited the wineries, and the 10 most representative agents linked to the tourist development of this region. The findings provided a model with the elements to be taken into account in the creation of a wine route or itinerary in any destination of the world. The application of this model will contribute to the creation of new tourist policies that can move towards efficient progress of the region.


Objective To observe the effect of iodine tincture in surgery for pneumothorax caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) in the aged.Methods Seventy-eight patients were randomized to experimental group(40 cases) and control group(38 cases).The patients in both groups underwent thoracoscope assisted resection of bullae of lung.Upon completion of the surgery,inunction of iodine tincture was carried out on visceral and parietal pleura in experimental group,those in the control group,inunction of normal saline only.A comparison between the two groups was done in terms of the volume of chest drainage on the first day after surgery,hospital stay,the time of air leakage and the time of indwelling drainage tube.ResultsThe patients in experimental group had more chest drainage fluid than control group on the first day after operation,but the time of indwelling drainage tube,air leakage and hospital stay was shorter than that in the control group(t=3.81-12.39,P0.05).Conclusion Iodine tincture,as a fixing agent,to be used in surgery for the aged patients with pneumothorax complicated by COPD,the effect is certain,and with few side effects,which worth recommending clinically.


A new Test of Non-Verbal Auditory Discrimination (TENVAD) is described. Standardization, reliability, and validity data are presented from a sample of both white and black middle and lower socioeconomic children, 6, 7, and 8 years old. The data demonstrate predictability of reading achievement and potential applicability for teacher and clinician. TENVAD is group administered, yields fairly stable performance across socioeconomic levels, and seems to have promise for early assessment of potential auditory learning disabilities.


This paper contains the Law of Investigation with text and judicial precedents and tries to explains the aims and objects of investigation and the role with its limitations.


Breed differences in adult animals are determined during fetal development. If interventions are to be developed that influence growth of muscle and fat, it is important to know at which time during gestation breed differences appear and are fixed. The objective of this study was to characterize fetal development in cattle of different breeds. Pregnant cows of 4 cattle breeds with different growth impetus and muscularity were slaughtered under normal processing conditions and the fetuses were removed. German Angus, a typical beef cattle; Galloway, a smaller, environmentally resistant beef type; Holstein Friesian, a dairy type; and Belgian Blue, an extreme type for muscle growth were used. Fetuses of each breed were investigated at 3, 6, and 9 mo of gestation. Fetuses were weighed and dissected into carcass, organs, and muscles. Body fat weight was obtained using the Soxhlet extraction method. Fetal weight increased most rapidly in the third trimester of gestation mainly due to the accelerated muscle and fat deposition. The organ weight to body weight (BW) ratios decreased and the muscle and fat weight to BW ratios increased. At 3 mo of gestation, Galloway fetuses had the significantly smallest BW, half-carcass weight, leg weight, organ weight, muscle weight and shortest leg length. In contrast, Holstein fetuses had the significantly greatest BW, liver, kidney, and lung weights and significantly longest leg length among the 4 breeds, but no differences between Holstein Friesian and Belgian Blue were detected in half-carcass and leg weight. Indeed, Belgian Blue fetuses had the significantly greatest half-carcass weight, leg weight, and muscle weight at 9 mo of gestation, and Galloway had a significantly greater body fat to BW ratio than Holstein Friesian and Belgian Blue. These differences were not evident at 3 and 6 mo of gestation. These data show that the profound increase of tissue and organ weights occurred in later gestation in cattle fetuses even though breed differences were evident as early as 3 mo of gestation. Depending on the tissue of interest, impacting fetal growth likely needs to occur early in gestation before the appearance of breed-specific differences.


Silicon solar cells almost exclusively include a front side metallization using silver that is deposited by screen printing and fired in belt furnaces. In 2020, the industry was consuming approximately 10% of the global supply of silver, and recent calls to dramatically increase photovoltaic production will add to the module price pressures from this precious metal. The ideal replacement for silver is copper; however, oxidation during firing and diffusion of copper into silicon has kept the industry from adopting copper. In this talk we will present results from a copper paste that was formulated to be screen printed and fired in a belt furnace without the use of an inert gas. The data presented will include the oxidation of the copper after the firing and the SiN etching performance of the paste. LIV data for the cells will be presented along with data describing the durability of the cell in an accelerated test.


LLE Review, Volume 74 71 Laser-driven implosion experiments on the OMEGA laser depend on optical phase conversion to provide uniform irradiation onto a target. Phase errors that accumulate as a wavefront propagates through the laser produce a nonuniform irradiance when focused into the target far field. The distributed phase plate (DPP) introduces a quasi-random phase front that produces a high-spatial-frequency, uniform pattern with a controlled energy envelope. 1 DPP's are used in conjunction with smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD) and distributed polarization rotation to provide very smooth intensity distribution on the target when integrated over the full pulse duration of the laser. 2


Variable-depth tillage has the potential for economic and environmental benefits to modern crop production.
Varying tillage depth according to local soil conditions prevents the waste of energy and preserves soil ecology. A prototype
instrumentation system was developed based on a conventional implement for deep tillage. It was equipped with two load
cells and two sets of strain gauges for sensing the load applied to the implement during tillage. Two linear pressure distribution
models (full and redundant) were used to describe the change of soil mechanical resistance with depth. These models were
then used to compare estimates of soil mechanical resistance applied to the point of the deep-tillage implement based on predicted
and measured values. Field evaluation was conducted to illustrate the system's performance in two experimental sites.
In both cases, instrument predictions corresponded with soil profile measurements obtained using a standard cone penetrometer.
The developed system may become a part of variable-depth tillage equipment after an algorithm for a closed-loop tillage
depth control is developed.


in which all authors agree and that can be taken for guaranteed. In the following the influence of different para- meters will be discussed. The experiments cited were performed with PE sheets in direct contact with aque- ous salt solutions. The concentrations used were low enough to avoid a significant reduction of the satura- tion pressure of the solution, that would suppress or diminish the generation of water trees (13).


This paper identified the harmful of un-lawful medical care behavior and why it can not be prohibited. The paper analyze the reasons which produce the un-lawful medical care behavior. Besed on these analysis, it had provided the normative behavior of medical care, and some measures and strategies for the purpose further clean medical market.


In this paper we prove some fixed point theorems for Reich type contractions on cone rectangular metric spaces endowed with a graph  without assuming the normality of cone. The results of this paper extends and generalize several known results from metric, rectangular metric, cone metric and cone rectangular metric spaces in cone rectangular metric spaces endowed with a graph. Some examples are given which illustrate the results.


Deactivation Behaviour of Arenes and Heteroarenes. XI. The Evidence of Radiationless Deactivating Excimers by Resonance-Energy Transfer

Investigations of resonance-energy transfer in the systems of anthracene-/ and akridizinium ion/rhodamine B (BF4) show, that in the case of high concentrations of energy donors the amount of the relative fluorescence quantum yield is greater than one. This result demonstrates the existence of a further energy donor, the excimer. In the case of the N-methyl-acridinium ion/ rhodamine B (BF4)-system this fact cannot be observed, therefore a formation of excimers at high concentrations should be excluded. The existence (anthracene, akridizinium ion) and non-existence (N-methylacridinium ion) of excimers is in agreement with the ability of forming photodimers.


ABSTRACT It is interesting to determine the direction of arrival (DOA) of signals in the presence of impulsive noise for monostatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. Inspired by the robust statistics property of M-estimation theory and maximum likelihood estimation theory, a Cauchy score cost function is proposed to suppress the outliers, leading to robust DOA estimation. Firstly, the Cauchy score cost function for residual fitting error matrix of the radar data is derived. Then, an alternating convex optimisation algorithm based on the complex-valued Newton gradient descent is tailored to acquire an efficient solution for the Cauchy score cost function. Finally, using the signal subspace matrix obtained by the alternating convex optimisation algorithm, ESPRIT algorithm is adopted to provide a closed-form DOA estimations. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


The teaching of the experimental class on pharmacognosy,in which digital microscope is used in the lab,has put the modern information technology into the classroom of higher education,and has promoted the reform and development of the teaching model of pharmacognosy,which is the morphology course in modern pharmacy.Through this model,while the clear digital image is shared by the teachers and students,there is also verbal communication between teachers and students,and they can also store and process the image information and the like.This teaching process helps to eliminate the barrier between teachers and students on the micro image communication,to fully achieve teacher-student interaction,to enhance the teacher to efficiently instruct all or the individual student and it also plays a powerful computer function of image processing and preservation,which provides a highly efficient teaching method for the pharmacognosy experiment class.


Live video games,literature and logic analysis methods were applied to analyze the nine games of China Men's Basketball Championships at the 25th session.The results show that China's overall strength has shown a downward trend in men's basketball while basketball in West Asia raises rapidly which results in defeat by rivals.


1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline and Indoline as their lithium carbamates undergo α-metallation with a ButLi–KOBut mixture. The resulting α-metallo species react with carbonyl electrophiles to give the α-alkylated secondary amines in an overall one-pot procedure.


Modeling approaches started to be used in a large scale around 40 years ago, using simple diagrams. Still the main focus in modelling is for intermediaries to document the knowledge as held by different stakeholders for further use, rather than for people that has the core knowledge themselves to use modeling for their own needs. Although top-down modeling by experts is useful e.g. for enterprise architecture and systems development, for modeling to have a larger effect in the representation and reuse of knowledge in organizations, we propose to enable all knowledge workers to be active modelers. This paper provides an overview of interactive models for knowledge articulation combined with supporting knowledge maturing as an approach to support bottom-up modeling, and gives an overview of the how this can be supported in an existing enterprise modeling environment. We also discuss necessary future development to make this a reality on a large scale.


It is every patient's right to expect optimal pain management in relation to routine elective surgery. Dentistry is a profession predicated upon causing and/or managing pain in patients. Poorly man...


The demand for agricultural crops is moving at a slower pace compared to the human population. There must be increased agricultural productivity. Ongoing innovative advances have added to the ascent of exactness agribusiness, empowering farmers to settle on better choices with more data about their soil, water, yield, and local environment, yet has been generally restricted to popularized and production of cash crops. The objective of smart agribusiness research is to ground a dynamic emotionally supportive network for the management of farms. IoT is being used in agriculture to get to know the crop field by utilizing sensors for monitoring, controlling in the field. It is used to get to know the crop field by utilizing sensors for monitoring, controlling in the field, etc. Recent developments in IoT, comparison between traditional and smart agriculture, and the roles of IoT in agriculture were analyzed in this study. The articles were purposively inspected while the qualitative data gathered was dissected utilizing content analysis. Summarily, the rise of smart agriculture has lowered the practice of traditional farming, as it has enhanced it in no small way. The research likewise showed that the lacuna in agriculture can be filled with IoT. Scalability in technology should be encouraged without affecting the functionalities of the existing infrastructures.


The editors of this textbook have attempted to gather together a large amount of information on various environmental skin hazards in one volume of 66 chapters written by more than 100 authors. In the list of contributors, we encounter dermatologists, toxicologists, internists, environmental scientists, pharmacologists, oncologists, and microbiologists. For the most part, the contents are based on a conference held in Cardiff, Wales, in April 1991. The merits and weaknesses of this book can be easily derived from these basic facts. On the positive side, there is the broad variety of subjects covered and the cross-disciplinary approach to particular topics, such as the assessment and quantification of skin hazards induced by UV radiation or chemicals as well as the standardized article format of the chapters, which makes the book more pleasant to read than the average congress report. On the other side, an inevitable shortcoming is the lack of unity


A challenge facing organizations is that of amalgamating possibilities which do not exist in a transparent and concentrated form, but rather as dispersed individual cognitive 'pictures' or 'maps' held by managers embedded in business networks. Based on our research of business networks involving manufacturers of consumer goods, pharmaceutical companies, producers of semiconductors and telecommunication and utility service providers, we propose the concept of network insight, which does not consist of the subjective views of individual managers but is grounded in the practice of inter-firm exchange. We argue that developing network insight is a managerial challenge of amalgamating dispersed pieces of atomized network pictures through heedful multilateral interactions. Such a managerial activity is intersubjective and transcends the task-specific knowledge base of managerial cognition that leads to organizational learning for strategic positioning and acting within a business network. Managers that develop network insight are able to mobilize other actors and create a competitive advantage for their organization that is crucial for innovation and growth.


The teaching of entrepreneurship as an academic subject, as opposed to the apprenticeship route, is the subject of ongoing debate. The authors suggest that there is a middle road and that, by integrating the business world into teaching in a significant way, the best of both approaches can be achieved. In a similar vein, the credibility of some university interaction with small business has been called into question. The authors discuss how they have used the role of 'entrepreneur in residence' (EIR) to integrate and improve research, teaching and academic-business interaction. The paper describes the experiences of the EIR hosted at Lancaster University Management School's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (IEED) in the UK and examines the outcomes of his work and his perceptions of university life; how his presence challenged internal thinking; and how his fellowship led to service innovation in the host organization. Other formalized EIR activities within and outside the UK are also reviewed; and the authors conclude by proposing how UK HEIs might best make use of similar opportunities, with a challenge to non-management departments. The paper demonstrates one way in which the perceived gulf between entrepreneurship teaching and the business world can be bridged to good effect.


The strong uncertainty of renewable energy output and load demand makes the stable operation of microgrids a challenging and important issue. However, the scheduling methods based on deterministic models cannot accurately describe the influence of uncertainties on operation of microgrids. To address this problem, this paper proposes a two-stage adaptive robust optimal scheduling model (TSARO) that considers both source and load uncertainties. The model first adopts the dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) to perform cluster analysis and parameter estimation on massive historical data, and constructs a data-driven uncertainty set of source and load. Then, based on the uncertainty set, the TSARO model aiming at minimizing the microgrid operation cost is developed under the worst-case scenario. Finally, this paper solves the optimization model using column constraint generation algorithm (C&CG) to obtain the day-ahead power dispatching plan. Simulation results show that the proposed model in this paper has better economic benefits compared with several classical optimization models.


The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century.


Certain ammonium compounds applied at a concentration of o· 04M proved highly effective in terminating diapause in eggs of Acheta. The only obvious characteristic in common between the effective compounds was that all of them had an organic anion, whereas those with an inorganic acid radical were ineffective.


Egg incubation of Euscepes postfasciatus is a necessary step in the mass rearing of this species because its egg period is slightly long (mean, 8 days at 25°C). E. postfasciatus eggs tend to stick to each other during the incubation period. To ensure sufficient disinfection of the egg surface and an even distribution of the eggs on the artificial diet, it is necessary to separate the stuck eggs. The separation process is time-consuming; it can be shortened by ensuring, as far as possible, that the eggs are not in contact with each. The effect of the incubation condition on egg hatching of E. postfasciatus has not yet been examined; thus, we compared the parameters for hatching between eggs incubated en masse (the present method) and those that had been thinly dispersed (a newly tested method). The eggs could be dispersed easily by putting eggs on a well-strained nylon cloth and gently swaying the cloth in water. The hatchability, mean egg period, and variance of the egg period did not vary significantly between the two incubation conditions. The separation time of E. postfasciatus eggs can thus be shortened without any undesirable effects on egg hatching of the species.


With the development of economic globalization, shipping exchanges between countries are rapidly increasing and the container throughput of shipping ports has increased quickly, and the operation of most seaport terminals in China has reached a bottleneck which puts forward new requirements for the efficiency of container shipping terminal operations. Therefore, locating for export containers intelligently is of great significance for the development of terminals. This paper focuses on receiving containers intelligently, and establishes the export container locating model based on the principle of actual shipping terminal operations. The Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for export container locating problem was proposed and constructed. After examples, the algorithm can effectively solve the problem that meet the constraints, which further proves the practicability of the algorithm and the correctness of the model. The research shows that the method of locating for export container based on Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm can effectively solve the problem and maintain the green, energy-saving and sustainable development of the shipping terminal. The ideas and methods have certain academic value and reference significance for other NP-Hard problems.


In his 1977 book Progettare un edificio, the Italian architect Ludovico Quaroni dedicates some pages to describe the Space Effect. Through a first-person narration, he invites the readers to apprehend with their imagination the effects of movement and the experience provided by elementary volumes and spaces. After various explorations, which seem to drive the readers from the abstract to the material world, the route ends into a dome-covered cylinder, which gradually turns out to be the Pantheon. The text, which is inspired by literary techniques and cinematic visions, not only states the theatrical nature of architecture but also indirectly affirms the specificity of the written language both in mentally engaging the reader and in describing space even beyond the architectural representation's capabilities.


Polyphosphate (polyP) is a linear polymer of a few to many hundreds of phosphate (Pi) residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds (Figure 1A). This ubiquitous polymer is found in bacteria, protists, and mammalian cells, and it was likely present prebiotically [1]. In bacteria, polyP accumulates in volutin or metachromatic granules, which are equivalent to acidocalcisomes [2]. In eukaryotic cells, polyP is present in different compartments, including the cytosol, nucleus, lysosomes, and mitochondria, but is preferentially accumulated in acidic vacuoles such as the yeast vacuole and acidocalcisomes [1], [3]. In these organelles, polyP, which is negatively charged, is in close association of inorganic (Ca2+, Mg2+, Zn2+, Fe2+, Na+, K+) and organic (basic amino acids, polyamines) cations. PolyP also combines with calcium and polyhydroxybutyrate forming channels in bacterial membranes, which make them competent for DNA entry; in mitochondria, as part of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore; and in the plasma membrane, as part of the potassium channel and the calcium pump (reviewed in [1], [4]). PolyP is arbitrarily divided into two forms: short-chain (from 3 to ∼300 Pi) and long-chain (from 300 to ∼1000 Pi) polyP, based on the method used for its extraction. For the detection of polyP, several methods have been described and a few examples are shown in Figure 1B–F.

Figure 1

Methods used to detect polyP in cells.


Building the economic institutional model of traditional market is never free from conflicts such as high asymmetric information, high transaction cost, hidden actions (moral hazard and adverse selection), negative externalities, and diminishing trust. They certainly have automatically and instinctively been responded by concerning parties according to their respective characteristics of understanding rationality. As an old economic institution that has been serving for the people for centuries, traditional market has drawn the attention of researchers, making them eager to identify the performance of its actors in regards to the decline of its institutional tradition [1], Analogous to the findings of Thongpanya [2]. According to Fukuyama, social capital does not need any government participation because the characteristics of its approach is formal. Nevertheless, its absence in maintaining social capital has caused the failure of traditional market. Besides formal institution, the government must also strengthen informal institution in running its public policy to protect traditional market from the penetrating modern market [3] that represents the interest of capitalistic economy with higher economic


It is important to increase the reliability of machining system under the environment of digital manufacturing.The main influencing factor of reliability in machining system is analyzed.Reliability model based on hazard preventive maintenance is built.By way of computerized numerical control milling machine,reliability of machining system is conducted by experiment study.Cutting experiment is carried in variable machining conditions in order to analyze the machining reliability completely.Results indicate that optimizing the machining parameters and system reliability have correlative relations of mixed effect.Grasping the change rule of reliability can provide decision-making support for planning the job schedule and mainterance scheme.


Objective:To investigate the regulation of estradiol(E2)on LRP16 and its effect of LRP16 on ERalpha(+)ovarian cancer cell line.Methods:Northern Blot and Western Blot examined the expression of LRP16 RNA and protein.The growth trait of cells transfected with LRP16 or LRP16-siRNA was examined by growth curves.Results:In estrogen-sensitive BG-1 cells,E2 upregulated LRP16 expression.However in estrogen-insensitive SKOV3 cell line treated with different amount of E2,estrogen decrease LRP16 expression,ICI182 780 played inversely.LRP16 had slightly effect on the growth and proliferation of SKOV3 cell line.Conclusion:In estrogen-insenstive SKOV3 cell lines,the regulation of E2 on LRP16 and the function of LRP16 on the growth of SKOV3 were different from the results in BG-1 ovarian cancer cell line and breast cancer in vitro.It's hinted that in estrogen-insensitive serous ovarian cancer new mechanism may exist on E2 regulation to LRP16,which may explain the insensitivity of certain ovarian cancer patients to endocrine therapy.


An analysis of voting patterns in the lower houses of legislatures in nine southern and border states from 1968 to 1986 shows that the Republican party has benefitted from the use of single-member districting. The Republican ratio of seats to votes has been consistently higher in single-member than in multimember districts, though the magnitude of that difference varies considerably from state to state. The Republican seats/votes ratio in particular types of districts varies from state to state, however, depending on several other variables such as the size of the Republican vote and those factors that affect the slope of the regression between votes and seats.


Recently,the composite floor slab with the profiled steel sheet-concrete has been extensively applied to engineerings because of its big rigidity, good ductility,ease for constru-dtion,and good economic returns etc.Through the experiments for the 3 kinds of composite floor slabs total 27 profiled steel sheet-concretes.the influence on the ultimate bearing capacity of the slabs by the fac-tors of concrete thickness,sheet thickness,slab height and so on under different shear span ratio is analyzed.Proposed the calculation formula of shear-bond bearing capacity bythrough regressive analysis method was proposed and coefficients for this steel plate.


The Yugoslav League of Communists is currently undergoing a period of self-examination and change which may be as profound and important as the period which accompanied Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. Unlike the Tito-Stalin dispute, the current crisis in the Party does not have direct foreign policy or international security implications and does not pit a weak David - Yugoslavia - against a mighty Goliath ~ the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the discussions in Yugoslav society and in the Party about the proper behavior and role of the Party will have profound implications for the future development of the country and for its social stability.


Tissue hypoxia is a biological condition characterized by oxygen deficiency at the tissue level. Hypoxia has been seen to play a crucial role in tumor recurrence in head and neck cancer patients. The detection and assessment of tumor hypoxia plays a critical role in both validation and development of hypoxia modification therapies. Hypoxic cancers being more resistant to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, attempts have been made to improve the response of hypoxic cancers to radiotherapy through the use of radiosensitizers such as carbogen and others. Several techniques to assess the status of tumor oxygenation have been developed in the past, among which functional imaging techniques remain the most validated. Blood-oxygen-leveldependent magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD MRI) is a non-invasive functional imaging technique that can recognize hypoxic cancers which will respond to accelerated radiotherapeutic treatment with radiosensitizers. BOLD MRI employs a T-sensitive sequence which can detect a transient rise in signal during oxygen inhalation. This increase in signal intensity is caused by the reduced paramagnetic effect due to a decrease in the blood deoxyhaemoglobin level within cancer. Hence, BOLD MRI can detect reduced hypoxia in the malignant solid tumors and may pave the path for more conservative treatment approach for hypoxic head and neck cancers in future.


This study focuses on School Leadership and Lifelong Learning within the Primary School Teachers of Dungun District. The purpose of this study is to identify the best actions of school leaders in assisting teachers to follow LLL and to see the level of acceptance of interest in LLL among teachers. 306 samples were selected and 306 questionnaires were distributed among Dungun's primary schools. The results of the data collection showed that the headmaster level of leadership were on a high level but there was also an item that showed the mean of a medium level; in terms of financial management of LLL. For the level of acceptance of LLL interest among teachers, one item was in the moderate level; related to the lack of financial allocation, access to facilities and time constraints in carrying LLL. This shows that financial issues as well as access to facilities in developing the LLL programs among teachers were the obstacles in executing the LLL program. Therefore, as a school leader; headmaster, should take the most appropriate action to ensure the disclosure of financial management are given to the teachers. The headmaster should supply opportunities for teachers to engage themselves in lifelong learning. In addition, to ensure that the school leaders have a better understanding on the whole aspect of LLL, they are advised to engage in the whole process of LLL by furthering their study to the next level; either formal or informal. This is in line with the policy of the Malaysia Education Development Plan; Higher Education Blueprint (2015-2025); to involve people in lifelong learning and improve the mastery of knowledge.


Seasonal variations in the concentrations of two heavy metals:  copper (Cu) and lead (Pb) were determined in the liver and muscles of Mullus the two species barbatus and Siganus rivulatus fish from the southern part of Syrian Coast. The average concentrations of the metals in the fish tissues exhibited the following order: Cu>Pb. The statistical analysis revealed a significant seasonal effect P≤0.05 for Cu and Pb measured. The highest values of the metals were recorded in dry season. The highest concentrations of heavy metals were found in liver tissue of both fish species, while the lowest concentrations were recorded in muscles tissue. The values of the metals detected in the fish muscles (the edible part) were within the permissible limits