The invention relates to a flame-retardant glass fiber enhanced PA (polyamide)12/PA1010 alloy composition and a preparation method of the flame-retardant glass fiber enhanced PA (polyamide)12/PA1010 alloy composition. The alloy composition comprises the following components in weight: 20-41% of PA12, 20-41% of PA1010, 0-15% of complex flame retarding master batch, 20-40% of glass fiber, 0.1-1% of anti-oxygen agent and 0.1-1% of lubricant dispersant. The preparation method of the alloy composition comprises the following steps of: weighing the components according to the proportion; putting the components into a high mixing machine to mix for 2-5 minutes; discharging the materials; then, extruding the materials by a double-screw extruder; and pelletizing, wherein the processing temperature is 165-200 DEG C, and the rotational frequency of the screw is 30-40Hz. The composition disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the CTI (Comparative Tracking Index) value is high, the flame retardant precipitating property is low, halogen is free, environmental-protection is realized, and the overall performance is balanced, and can be widely applied to the field of electronic products such as contactors, leakage protectors, breaker shells, and the like.


Direct electrochemistry of hemoglobin (Hb) immobilized on dihexadecylphosphate (DHP)/polyacrylamide-capped cadmium sulfide nanoparticles (PAM-CdS) film modified Au electrode was investigated. The immobilized Hb displayed a pair of well-defined redox peaks with a formal potential of 0.0405 V (versus saturated calomel electrode) in the pH 6.0 phosphate buffer solution (PBS). Peak potential was shifted linearly in the negative directional with increasing solution pH from 5.0-9.0 (with a slope of -40.1 mV per pH unit). Electron transfer between Hb and Au electrode was greatly facilitated in the DHP/PAM-CdS films microenvironment. The interaction between Hb and ribavirin was investigated by electrochemical technique. The peak current is proportional to the concentration of ribavirin over the range of 2.80×10-5 to 1.10×10-4mol/L, the linear regression equation was I (μA)=3.7797-0.04251c(μM) with a correlation coefficient r=0.9962, and the detection limit was 9.20×10-6mol/L (S/N=3).


The two deadly earthquakes of December 26, 2004 and the follow-on tsunamis, which occurred in Indonesia's Sumatra and India's southwestern sea area, hit many Asian nations including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Maldives, causing heavy casualties. By January 31, 2005, about 234,000 people have been reported dead. Facing this natural disaster, the Chinese Government and its people demonstrated their humanitarian spirit, deploying an unprecedented cross-border aid campaign.


In this volume, the result of a conference panel held at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, ten established academics explore queer readings of a wide corpus of medieval literary and prescriptive texts produced on both sides of the Mediterranean. Although the editors, Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson, acknowledge that the medieval Mediterranean was a region frequented by a great number of peoples with varying cultural backgrounds, they chose to focus on Christian and Muslim societies in particular. In fact, this scope is narrowed even further as half of the contributions take the Iberian Peninsula as the starting point for their analysis. The general aim of this volume is to question the widespread assumption that different cultures each had distinct ways of labelling "the other" by means of sexual and moral codes. By looking at the Mediterranean as a transcultural region, the authors suggest that proximate civilizations in fact shared knowledge and had common experiences concerning topics that could be labeled as queer. The volume has the ambition to focus on the Mediterranean as an "impetus that puts into dialogue queerness and sexuality within the bordering lands that make the Mediterranean a unique aquatic space" (6).


Perhaps in no other stage in history has a rapidly changing pattern of economic life raised so many acutely disturbing economic problems as it did in England during the last decade of the eighteenth and the first few decades of the nineteenth century, even as there have been few periods in which the body of economic thought has been more enriched. The era that included the Napoleonic Wars (1793–1814) and the postwar period witnessed such historic events as the suspension of specie payments by the Bank of England, modification of the corn laws, industrial depression, widespread introduction of machine technology, and the Luddite riots. Little wonder that the brilliant minds of Malthus, Ricardo, James Mill, Bentham, and many others were stimulated by the troublesome issues of the day.


Speculative Execution. Speculative execution is a technique that is widely adopted for mitigating the performance degradation due to the fact that CPU and its cache are much faster than memory. Specifically, a single memory read operation could significantly slow down CPU computation, if the CPU has to wait a large number of cycles for the memory fetch to complete in order to proceed. To mitigate this issue, instead of waiting for memory operations to finish, speculative execution allows the CPU to guess execution paths and proceed speculatively. Take the following snippet as an example:


To the present invention generates a measuring current through the needle to form a parameter table having relates to the application of electric energy the method of body treatment site using the skin treatment device and the skin treatment device, and more particularly, to an electrical energy according to the desired temperature vivo the present invention relates to an impedance value, temperature value, voltage, and applying electrical energy method of human treatment site by measuring any of the current group with the skin treatment device and the skin treatment device for applying a predetermined electrical energy.


To the Editor: On July 25, 2008, I was seated on Qantas Flight 30 having flown from London en route to Melbourne, homeward bound again. After a stopover in Hong Kong, a new crew and approximately 45 minutes into the shorter of the two long haul flights, we were cruising at about 28,000 feet over the South China Sea. I had just been offered a drink before lunch and was contemplating which movie to watch. This routine is now very familiar to me having lived between London and Melbourne for several years. The relative calm was shattered by the sound and force of an explosion that seemed suspended. It was followed by a blast of freezing air and oxygen masks burstingfromoverheadpanels.Theseatbelt sign propelled stunned flight attendants and passengers to seats during the swift "controlled" descent to 10,000 feet. I was in an aisle seat (41H) above the wing on the right side of the 747. A flight attendant had rushed passed frantically announcing that a door had opened. She sat directly behind me, looking and sounding distressed. I suspected the door was likely to be in the next cabin from the intensity of the "explosion." I concentrated on using my oxygen mask. The sensation of a vice closing around my head was disturbing, as were voices from behind me—"The baby's going blue" and the changing engine sounds. Although the ballooning and bursting of the interior wallpaper was superficial, I did not know that at the time. I wanted to believe I was in a simulation of a midair explosion. I searched for cues that would negate what was really happening such as the passengers in front of me who did not use their oxygen. I convinced myself that if this were real then of course they would have put on their masks. I also kept waiting for a "time out" in which we might discuss what had happened and what we might do next, but there was none. Once traveling comfortably at around 10,000 feet, the crew eventually left their seats carrying portable oxygen checking passengers were secure. I do not remember much information being provided. Perhaps, there was little to give. The atmosphere in the cabin remained a controlled calm but was also charged. That is, I sensed that one more unexpected event might result in chaos. Before landing, we were not asked to take the brace position. Emergency vehicles and airport staff lined the runway pointing and taking photographs. Predictably, I experienced overwhelming relief as the wheels touched the runway, we steadily braked and stopped. On disembarking, I could see daylight through the cabin floor. The door had not in fact opened, but the cabin floor had been penetrated by an exploding oxygen cylinder, which had burst a hole in the fuselage about the size of a couple of aircraft doors. Ground staff confined us in the terminal. Passengers used their mobiles to phone, text, e-mail, and take photographs. The captain spoke to us although not audible to all. His calmness and competence were impressive. I left with the first group of passengers taken to a hotel. As complete strangers, we shared experiences and feelings unusually quickly. The bus ride was oddly comforting as we braked avoiding a collision. Everyone laughed perhaps reflecting a tiny sense of infallibility. Letters of support from the Australian consul were passed to many as we arrived at the hotel. Lavish dining accompanied a lengthy debriefing session. However, I found it all too reflective and preferred not to continually revisit what happened and what might have. Fortunately, within hours we were back at the airport bound for Melbourne. This time I was seated in 13B. The new cabin crewwassensitiveandhelpful.Mostpassengersslept.Theflightwasuneventful.Wedisembarked as we might in any flight, the intense sharing of feelings all in the past. I had three flashbacks within weeks of the event each triggered by an unexpected loud noise or traveling in a confined space. The flashback returned me to that suspended moment of the explosion and then to the emotional state associated with what might have been. A month later, I made the same journey again. I was surprised to be approached by ground staff at check-in asking if I was okay. I confidently replied that I was but on looking down I saw my hands were shaking uncontrollably, and my eyes were streaming.Inmyhead,I thoughtIwasabsolutely fine. I have now taken the same or a similar route (through Singapore) six times without incident. The purpose of sharing this experience is to convey how my professional life in simulation-based education shaped my response. Additionally, given the frequent reference to aviation in highfidelity immersive simulations, this was a surreal convergence of experiences. Postexplosion, I focused on observing systematically—the crews' behaviors, teamwork, communication, situational awareness, resource allocation, and physical environment. This distracted me from my own very personal feelings that were too intense to visit during lapses of concentration. However, there were differences with my usual facilitator role. My level of emotional engagement was acute, probably why I was unable to accurately recall some elements of the experience.Here, Iwaspartof thescenario, similar to a conscious patient (or relative) during a crisis. I felt powerless. I searched for cues to disprovereality. Iwasdesperatelyconcerned with the outcome. I was unable to call a time out or did I facilitate the debriefing. The airline has provided excellent follow-up support.


Much of the enthusiasm around the potential for GM crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Uganda revolves around the country's primary carbohydrate staple, the East African highland banana. Known locally as matooke, this banana is not eaten raw but rather peeled, boiled, mashed and then wrapped in banana leaves and stewed in a pot set over a fire, creating a soft mash with a vibrant yellow colour. Matooke is by far the most important crop in Uganda, accounting for more than a third of the country's daily caloric intake.


This paper focuses on the translation into vernacular and the transcription of Latin documents in the Nuova Cronica, a history of the world and of the city of Florence written in the fourteenth century by the chronicler and merchant Giovanni Villani. It studies the objectives and principles of translation adopted here, and highlights the political and social issues that led the author to receive, translate, and copy official documents (papal bull, exchanges of Chancery, or alliance treaty). It therefore aims to link these facts with the increase of vulgarizations of communal statutes, at a time when political communication in vernacular was becoming more widespread in the communes of Italy.


Swarm robotics is a new approach to coordinate the behaviors of large number of relatively simple robots in decentralized manner. This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behavior occurs. As the robots in the swarm have only local perception and very limited local communication abilities, one of the challenges in designing swarm robotic systems with desired collective behavior is to understand the effect of individual behavior on the group performance. Fault-tolerance is an important characteristic for robots to increase their reliability levels. It is observed that all known algorithms for chain formation of swarm robots are failed to handle a condition when any of the robot get faulty. So this paper dedicates the research on design and optimization of interaction rules for a group of foraging robots when there is some faults occurs in one or more robots. In this paper, I have proposed an approach that will detect the faulty robot in the chain of swarm robots and then reconfigure or restore the previous chain by tolerating that fault. Without wasting the time for making new chain and also performed various experiments with different number of robots. For this particle swarm optimization concept is used to tolerate the fault.


Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscessus) and Mycobacterium chelonae (M. chelonae) are two species of rapidly growing mycobacteria that are frequently associated with nosocomial outbreaks and pseudo-outbreaks. They are a type of non-tuberculous mycobacteria classified as rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM, group IV in the Runyon classification).M. chelonae and M. abscessus are commonly associated with skin and soft tissue infections. Infected patients often exhibit non-specific clinical symptoms that may lead to a delayed diagnosis. Few reports have described M. chelonae/abscessus complex infection, especially in patients without immunologic suppression. The present case we reported provides information that may assist clinician to understand the rare co-infection of M. chelonae/abscessus.


We study the effect of quantum memory in a four-player quantum Minority game. The Nash equilibrium payoff of the first player is investigated for different quantum memory channels. It is seen that different memory channels affect the game differently. It is also seen that the Nash equilibrium payoff is substantially enhanced in the presence of quantum memory. Therefore, memory controls the payoff reduction due to decoherence. It is shown that the curves for depolarizing and bit-phase flip channels overlap for maximum correlations. However, amplitude damping channel influences the game more heavily as compared to the other channels. That is the behaviour of amplitude damping channel is surprising one. Furthermore, the behaviour of phase flip channel is symmetrical arround 50% decoherence.


In the present work, low temperature impedance measurements were made on the pristine and Ag12+ ions irradiated 6H‐SiC samples. The conductivity properties were studied at low temperature. The activation energies were calculated from the Arrhenius plot of d.c conductivity and impedance relaxation time. The activation energy was comparatively higher for the irradiated samples and found to be electronic conduction. From the study we observe the lower conductivity values exhibited for 300 K irradiated sample due to severe damage than the 80 K irradiated sample. The damage production mechanism and the change in electrical properties are discussed.


Objective: To further study the physical and mental health of impoverished undergraduates,provide more scientific and effective theoretical basis for mental health education for them.Methods: Testing method was used to explore the physical and mental health,self-esteem,interpersonal relation disturbance and achievement motivation of 242 impoverished and 392 non-impoverished undergraduates in Xi'an.Results: Scores of eight physical and mental symptoms eg.respiratory system,skin,nervous system,total scores(P0.01)of CMI and total scores of mental items(P0.05)of CMI of impoverished undergraduates were significantly higher than those of non-impoverished group.Scores of Self-esteem of impoverished group was significantly lower than that of the non-impoverished.Scores of interpersonal relation disturbance and achievement motivation of impoverished group was significantly higher than those of non-impoverished group(P0.001,P0.05).Total scores of physical and mental symptoms,total scores of mind items of CMI of the impoverished group had significantly negative relation with scores of self-esteem,achievement motivation and positive relation with scores of interpersonal relation disturbance.Conclusion: The level of physical and mental health of impoverished undergraduates is significantly lower than that of the non-impoverished group,which has significantly positive relation with self-esteem and achievement motivation,and has significantly negative relation with interpersonal relation disturbance.


In the present study, the effects of harvesting time on color parameters and sensory characteristics of indica rice(early indica rice "Zaoxian 167" and late indica rice "Gan Wanxian 923") were evaluted, and the relationships between appearance quality and eating quality were established by regression analysis. The results showed that when the picking time was increased from the thirtieth day to the forty-second day after heading, the length, width and whiteness of the grain revealed a gradual increase, while the yellow degree was reduced. The eating quality as evaluated by hardness, stickiness, sweetness, deliciousness and overall judgement analysis of both rice cultivars showed that the early-harvested rice was better than the ordinarily-harvested rice, especially on "sweetness" and "deliciousness". According to correlational analysis, the width of the grain did not have signifi cant correlation with the eating quality, which had negative correlation with the length and whiteness, but had positive correlation with the yellow degree. As for the appearance indexes, the width of the grain had no signifi cant correlation with the length, yellow and white degree; the length had positive correlation with the white degree and negative correlation with the yellow degree and there were negative correlations between yellow degree and white degree.


According to the Technical Specification for PE Gas Pipeline Engineering(CJJ 63-2008)and the gas supply situation in Taizhou City,the lectotype of medium-pressure gas PE pipe is discussed from aspects of economic efficiency,gas transmission ability and mechanical property.


This action research aims to explore the impacts of Mobile–Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on freshmen's vocabulary acquisition as well as their perspectives towards this learning approach. Twenty-six students at Thanh Dong University, Hai Duong province, Vietnam, participated in the eight-week intervention in semester 2, the academic year 2020 – 2021. The researchers employed pre-test, post-test as well as delayed post-test, attitudinal questionnaire and semi-structured interview to triangulate the collected data. T-test and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were calculated via SPSS 25 to determine the validity and internal consistency reliability of the research. The findings indicated that the MALL-integrated classrooms not only provided a significantly enriched vocabulary achievement among participants but also promoted their motivation towards the use of MALL to enhance their lexical knowledge. Some pedagogical implications have been additionally recommended for educators in teaching vocabulary and in future research on the development of a MALL-enhanced framework for vocabulary acquisition.


This chapter relates some social aspects, such as playfulness, customer service, and citizen safety with one of the simplest multicriteria techniques to implement, matrixes of weighing (MOW, matrices de ponderación [MDP]). Taking as starting point the work matrixes of weighing and catastrophes, a brief review is made of the MOW, highlighting new applications of the same, as well as new concepts that have emerged from its use. The objective of this work will be to present some applications of the matrixes of weighing, while explaining what they are and how they apply, the multilayer matrix of weighing with multiplicative factors (ML-MOWwMf). To achieve this general objective and secondary objectives, this chapter will make use of the integrated-adaptable methodology for the development of decision support system (IAMDSS [MIASAD])


In this dissertation, four optimization problems in wireless networks are explored. The first two are to compute a schedule to maximize the sensor network lifetime which is measured by total time during which the network performs its monitoring duties without recharging batteries.
First, considering the wireless sensor networks where sensors are assumed to be on all the time, the previously proposed exact polynomial-time algorithm has O(n15logn) running time. We demonstrate an alternative approach giving a solution at least 1 – e times the optimum lifetime, with running time O(n3 1e 7 log1+e n), for any e > 0. Second, assuming a sensor network model in which sensors can interchange idle and active statuses both for monitoring and communicating, we propose centralized approximation algorithms for lifetime maximization. Also, a distributed Deterministic Energy-Efficient Protocol for Sensing (DEEPS) to prolong lifetime is proposed. The experimental results reveal an increase in the lifetime for DEEPS over known protocols.
Third, we study the problem of Relay Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks. Given a set S of wireless sensor nodes as a set of points in the two-dimensional plane, we must place a minimum-size set Q of relay nodes to connect S. The nodes of S can communicate to nodes within distance r and the relay nodes of Q can communicate within distance R. We improve the analysis of the 7-approximation algorithm based on Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) to 6 and propose a post-processing heuristic to improve the performance of the approximation algorithms.
Fourth, we study the Interference-Aware Broadcast Scheduling problem, where all nodes in the Euclidean plane have a transmission range and an interference range equal to r and stir for αr ≥ 1, respectively. Minimizing latency is known to be NP-hard even when α = 1. We present integer programs for the problem and compare the optimum solution to that obtained from our newly proposed heuristics. The experiments reveal that our best heuristics give the solutions 13-20% exceeding the optimums. We additionally demonstrate that an O (αD) schedule exists and therefore O (α) approximation algorithm is attained.


This case study examines how the product BEATS by Dre, entered pop culture and rose to success in the current market. Through a literature analysis and a review of the company's organizational structure, Beats Electronics is assessed due to its entrepreneurial prowess. The success of Beats by Dre addressed a critical problem in the marketplace, consequently, becoming the top premium sound model to entrepreneurs across the globe. Through the lens of Hip Hop, readers can observe the characteristics of effective entrepreneurship, which is essential for success in the business world. The result of this investigation is significant because the results can better assist scholars and practitioners in how to inject the entrepreneurial mindset in popular culture.


This study investigates the consequences cash flows and their impact on business financial success under firm's stability, liquidity and profitability which show the investment and its final outcomes. Three different consequences from stability, liquidity and profitability related paradigm are anticipated firm financial strategy, accounting and financial misconduct and investment consequences. These are in the business context found to practice from different strategy. Among the firm strategy, cost leadership heavily affect the strong positive cash flows. On the other hand differentiation strategy faces longer investment consequences and greater stability and liquidity of cash flows. Nevertheless, the investment consequence was ephemeral for any strategy. However portal point is sufficient cash flow need to be generating within the business unit. In the cost leadership or differentiate urged to fulfill investment criterion.


An analysis of the earlier seashell personal ornaments is made in order to know the origins, meanings and functions at the time of its appearance around 125.000 years ago. Their symbolic nature is possible.


The research programme of the philosophy of information (PI) proposed in 2002 made it an independent area or discipline in philosophical research. The scientific concept of 'information' is formally accepted in philosophical inquiry. Hence a new and tool-driven philosophical discipline of PI with its interdisciplinary nature has been established. Philosophy of information is an 'orientative' rather than 'cognitive' philosophy. When PI is under consideratio n in the history of Western philosophy, it can be regarded as a shift of large tradition. There are three large traditions at large, known as Platonic, Kantian and Leibniz-Russellian. In the discussion of the position of the possible worlds, we have modal Platonism and modal realism, but both of the theories are made in the framework of Western philosophy. In this essay, it is argued that possible worlds could be seen as worlds in information, which is then an interpretation of modal information theory (MIT). Our interpretation is made on the basis of Leibniz's lifelong connection with China, a fact often overlooked by the Western philosopher s. Possible world theory was influenced by the Neo-Confucianism flourishing since the Song Dynasty of China, the foundation of which is Yijing. It could be argued that Leibniz's possible world theory was formulated in respect to the impact of the thoughts reflected in Yijing, in that one of the prominent features is the model-theoretic construction of theories. There are two approaches to theory construction, i.e., axiom-theoretic and model-theoretic. The origin of the former is from ancient Greece and the latter from ancient China. And they determined the different features of theoretic structures between the oriental and occidental traditions of science and technology. The tendency of the future development of science and technology is changing from the axiom-theoretic to the model-theoretic orientation, at least the two approaches being complementary Received September 25, 2006; accepted November 30, 2006 LIU Gang ( ) Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China E-mail: email@example.com


SUMMARY The respiratory effects following the intravenous administration of chlordiazepoxide (1 mg/kg) and pethidine (0.5 mg/kg), both alone and as a mixture, were studied by means of carbon dioxide stimulus-response curves. Eight healthy adult volunteers demonstrated no statistically significant respiratory depression after receiving chlordiazepoxide. Pethidine alone caused depression for 2 hours, and in combination with chlordiazepoxide the duration was prolonged to 4 hours (the duration of the study period).


The belief that the hepatoduodenal ligament should only be clamped for 5-10 min, then the clamp released for a shorter or longer period, can no longer be upheld. The author's clinical investigations have shown that continous clamping up to 20 min can be tolerated by the liver without adverse effect. The authors consider a clamping time of 30-40 min tolerable particularly if the liver is cooled by pouring cold Ringer's solution over it. In one case, splenic capsule rupture was a complication of clamping the hepatoduodenal ligament.


The dramatic features in poems of Dickinson mainly include dramatic dialogue,dramatic soliloquy,dramatic scenery(including dramatic time,setting and characters),dramatic conflict,and dramatic situation(referring to dramatic plot). These dramatic devices effectively enhance the readability of her poems,and stress the theme of the poems and set a very deep impression on the readers.


Abstract In this paper, we investigate the problem of solving strongly monotone variational inequality problems over the solution set of the split feasibility problem with multiple output sets in real Hilbert spaces. The strong convergence of the proposed algorithm is proved without knowing any information of the Lipschitz and strongly monotone constants of the mapping. In addition, the implementation of the algorithm does not require the computation or estimation of the norms of the given bounded linear operators. Special cases are considered. Finally, a numerical experiment has been carried out to illustrate the proposed algorithm.


Background Arterial stiffness is well known as an important risk factor for coronary artery disease. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between carotid‐ankle pulse wave velocity (caPWV) and risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), and the interaction between pulse wave velocity (PWV) and other potential risk factors of CAD. Methods A community‐based cross‐sectional study was conducted for subjects living in Beijing, China. We collected 213 subjects with coronary artery disease and 1 266 subjects without CAD between September 2007 and January 2009 in a community center of Beijing. A multivariate Logistic regression analysis was carried out to assess the odds ratios of factors related to CAD. Results We found CAD subjects were more likely to have a higher body massindex (BMI), fasting glucose, uric acid, low‐density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high‐sensitivity Creactive protein (hs‐CRP), carotic‐femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and caPWV (P <0.05), and CAD subjects had a significantly lower HDL cholesterol levels (P <0.05). Moreover, the proportion of hypertension in CAD subjects was significantly higher than non‐CAD subjects. The multiple Logistic regression analysis showed that hypertension, higher uric acid, hs‐CRP, cfPWV and caPWV levels significantly increased the risk of CAD, with ORs (CI) of 1.47 (1.25–1.74), 1.17 (1.01–1.26), 1.35 (1.10–1.67), 1.15 (1.09–1.19) and 1.07 (1.01–1.15), respectively. Higher HDL cholesterol was significantly associated with reduced risk of CAD, with ORs (CI) of 0.58 (0.40–0.83). In addition, cfPWV had significant association with age, hypertension, LDL cholesterol, with Pearson's coefficients of 0.166, 0.074, and 0.030, respectively. Conclusions cfPWV and caPWV are independently associated with significant CAD, and cfPWV has significant correlation with age and hypertension. cfPWV and caPWV may be used as a practical tool for predicting the risk of CAD.


Abstract : Pursuant to provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S. Code 4321 et seq., implementing Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations, 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1500-1508, and 32 CFR Part 989, Environmental Impact Analysis Process, the U.S. Air Force (Air Force) conducted an assessment of the potential environmental consequences associated with the realignment of 2.9 miles of the VTRS Fiber Cable Installation route on South Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California. Vandenberg AFB is headquarters to the 30th Space Wing (30 SW), the Air Force Space Command unit that operates Vandenberg AFB and the Western Range. Vandenberg AFB operates as a missile test base and aerospace center, supporting west coast space launch activities for the Air Force, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and commercial contractors. Vandenberg AFB is located on the south-central coast of California, approximately halfway between San Diego and San Francisco. The 99,000-acre base extends along approximately 35 miles of the Santa Barbara County coastline. Vandenberg AFB is in the process of installing a basewide fiber optic network, commonly referred to as CITS (Combat Information Transport System). As described in the Final Environmental Assessment for the Combat Information Transport System Upgrade (CITS EA; USAF 2006), the VTRS fiber optic cable installation, described in the Final Environmental Assessment for VTRS Fiber Optic Cable Installation on South Base (VTRS EA; USAF 2004), is part of the CITS project. The Air Force considers CITS to be part of the national defense system by establishing critical communication sustainability for air and space programs at Vandenberg AFB. CITS will integrate existing data systems and provide the capability to integrate these systems with planned voice, video, imagery, and sensor systems.


This paper presents a new approach to scientific workflows based on the hypermedia design paradigm, the core of the REST architectural style. A Web resource model for workflow elements: tasks and data, is proposed. A workflow execution protocol based on the hypermedia-as-the-engine-of-application-state principle is also introduced. We compare the hypermedia model with one based on a workflow execution engine. Benefits and implications of the hypermedia approach for other important aspects of the workflow lifecycle, including provenance and mapping of tasks to resources, are also discussed. As a proof-of-concept of the hypermedia workflow concept, we implemented a simulator for execution of synthetic workflows based on the Pegasus workflow generator.


The usage of embedded online laboratories is frequent nowadays, because these include both the data acquisition and webserver functionality. This results in smaller implementation costs and other advantages. However, the local configuration and control of the embedded laboratory is challenging, because of the lack of peripheral devices (as the keyboard is to a PC). A novel concept for configuring embedded online laboratories (using an Android smartphone) was introduced in September at exp.at'13, in Portugal. This paper presents an implementation of this concept using the chipKIT Max32 prototyping platform. It focuses on several aspects including the challenges faced in order to achieve USB communication between the Android mobile device and the chipKIT Max32.


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We consider a simple Stackelberg model with demand uncertainty only for the first mover in order to compare the advantages of leadership and flexibility, and use an example to provide some discussion about the endogenous order of moves in the presence of demand uncertainty. We find that only when the realized demand is in an intermediate zone does the first mover preserve its advantage; when the realized demand is far from its expected value, the second mover obtains higher profit than the leading firm, as the leadership advantage is dominated by the benefit of flexibility when demand fluctuation is significant. Even with this risk of losing flexibility under significant demand variation, for some parameter values in our model the first firm still has incentive to choose Stackelberg rather than Cournot competition. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Background: Coverage of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella combined vaccine (MMR) has declined in the UK in recent years, following adverse publicity about possible links between the vaccine, autism, and Crohn's disease. This study attempts to explore patterns in the decline, and considers possible factors which have a causal effect on the uptake of the vaccine. Methods: An ecological study of immunisation coverage by second birthday, based on routinely collected data from 1997 and 2004 for England. Trends in MMR uptake were assessed in 100 Health Authorities for 1997 and 303 Primary Care Trusts for 2004. Both mapping and statistical analysis is used to explore patterns of uptake and the factors affecting uptake including socio economic status, ethnicity and lone parenting. Results: There has been a definite decline in uptake of the MMR vaccine and it can be suggested that this is resultant from the release of the Wakefield et al paper (1998) and the subsequent media frenzy. Statistical analysis showed no significance in the 1997 model whereas three out of the five variables appeared to be significant in the 2004 model and these included car ownership, lone parents and accommodation. Conclusion: Decline in MMR coverage now affects most areas of England, with outbreaks of measles becoming more and more apparent. Public health resources should continue to target inner city areas, as well as focus on the concerns of the better education about vaccine safety.


In this paper,magnetic and dielectric properties of the quasi-two-dimensional triangular-lattice system CuCrS2 and its B-site-diluted analogs CuAl1?xCrxS2(x = 0.01 and x = 0.02) are investigated.Antiferromagnetic phase transition is observed at about 38.5 K by magnetization measurement without shift induced by a small amount of doping Al.Magnetodielectric effect is found near TN in each of the three compounds.The dielectric constant decreases and the magnetocapacitance increases with the increase of substitution of nonmagnetic Al3+ ions for the magnetic Cr3+ ions.The negative magnetocapacitive effect reaches ~ 13% for CuAl0.02Cr0.98S2.


BACKGROUND
Interest is increasing around both the use of plants as functional foods and the agronomic techniques which can increase nutrients and phytochemicals. Nevertheless, little research has focused on the effects of light on accumulation of active compounds in root storage organs. Red beet was treated with RED (red/far red ratio: 1.29; transmitted photosynthetically active radiation: 66.9%) and GREEN (red/far red ratio: 0.43; transmitted photosynthetically active radiation: 25.8%) photo-selective films and changes in nutrients and biomass accumulation were measured.

RESULTS
Plants subjected to GREEN treatment had less dry weight accumulation both in storage roots (68%) and leaves (42%); moreover, soluble and structural carbohydrate concentration in roots was increased, as were the K, Mg and Zn concentrations (40.08, 2.95 and 0.023 mg g⁻¹ fresh weight, respectively). Conversely, GREEN lowered total phenolic concentration (0.33 vs. 0.47 mg g⁻¹ fresh weight) and antioxidant activity (0.65 vs. 0.94 µm Trolox equivalents g⁻¹ fresh weight) compared to CONTROL. Total pigment concentration was reduced by 20% and 48% with RED and GREEN treatments, respectively.

CONCLUSION
Red beet showed a strong plasticity in its adaptation to light availability. Some macronutrients (fiber, sugars, minerals) can be concentrated in roots by modifying the amount and quality of the light, principally with GREEN photo-selective films.


The present research allowed to make a study of the relationship between the intrinsic motivation and cognitive, attitudinal and previous knowledge processes in engineering students of the University of Cartagena. The sample was made up of nine hundred sixty (960) students between 2014 and 2016. The instrument for collecting the information was the Self-Regulation Inventory for Learning (SRLI) designed by Lindner, Harris and Gordon (1993). The relationship study was advanced by crossing the dependent variable intrinsic motivation with the independent ones: cognitive processes, attitudinal processes and previous knowledge which allowed to make the correlation bar diagram throwing statistical significance between the intrinsic motivation with the cognitive and attitudinal processes to a confidence level of 95% while with previous knowledge was not significant.


: The main focus of this paper was to investigate the customer preference between online and offline banking. Banking could be an extremely info-intensive activity that depends heavily on information technology (IT) to amass, method, and deliver info to all or any relevant customers. Banks used net technology as a strategic weapon to revolutionize the method they operate, deliver, and contend against one another. As a result, online Banking was introduced as a channel wherever bank customers may perform their money transactions electronically via their banks' internet sites. Today's world is one with increasing use of online access to services. One a part of this that is growing hastily is net Banking. to supply customers with a secure, consistent, sturdy online atmosphere to try online banking the banks ought to implement "best of breed" technologies to certify customers' identities once they log in, to ensure that their knowledge is transmitted firmly and systematically Bank ought to have best backup and contingency ways and may formulate best security plans and practices. This paper tries to explore many of the Technologies and Security Standards the various researchers have suggested to banks for safe net banking and a comparison of a variety of security systems supported by the recommendations given by these authors for secure online banking. During this paper, we have a tendency to conjointly value the impact of mobile banking on client expertise once victimization of mobile banking. This paper reflects the modification within the transaction mode of shoppers through mobile banking. This paper conjointly shares the initiatives taken by customers in their banking usage once change to mobile banking .


Zhang Henshui's An Unofficial History of Chun Ming,A Noble Family and Sadness and Happiness,a series of images of in social intercourse are presented,including Guanren,Kunling and female students.As common social reflection,these social women struggled for their liberation,but the subject is ambiguous.The subject of the popular novelists' narrative is in a dilemma and in their imagination the new is mixed with the old.The dilemma is the reality of common social women and Zhang Henshui played an irreplaceable role besides elite narrative.


This Article will first consider the various streams of past experience and then examine future implications. Much of our attention will focus on the American experience. In both evaluating U.S. experience and speculating on the potential for further growth in the European Community ("EC" or "Community") that this experience might imply, many European readers will say to themselves, "This may work perhaps for American or for common law judges, but never for Continental or Civil Law judges." Let me ask now that my reader willingly suspend disbelief in the comparability of American and continental judicial mind-sets until fairly late in this piece, where we can begin to address the actual European experience. Beyond this suspension of disbelief, perhaps it is enough to note post-World War II developments in European judicial review. Constitutional courts in Germany, Italy, and even in that seemingly unbreachable bastion of judicial self-restraint, France, as well as the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ"), and British courts reviewing administrative decisions have reached levels of judicial activism quite American in style. A plausible premise exists for European judiciaries to adopt more and more of the American style.


A triband circularly polarized (CP) crossed-dipole antenna is introduced for 2.4/5.2/5.8-GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. It employs a single feed and only two crossed trident-shaped dipoles as the primary radiating elements. To achieve a compact radiator size, two techniques are utilized, namely, insertion of a meander-line segment in the middle branch of the tridents and termination of all trident arms with arrowhead-shaped tips. The crossed trident-shaped dipoles are backed by a high impedance surface (HIS) to achieve a broadband characteristic and unidirectional radiation pattern at three bands. The measured impedance bandwidths, based on the -10-dB reflection coefficient values, are 2.21-2.62 GHz (410 MHz), 5.02-5.44 GHz (420 MHz), and 5.62-5.96 GHz (340 MHz), and the measured 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidths are 2.34-2.58 GHz (240 MHz), 5.14-5.38 GHz (240 MHz), and 5.72-5.88 GHz (160 MHz). The proposed antenna exhibits right-hand circular-polarized radiation with high gain.


Despite the counsel of Max Weber, W. F. Willoughby, and others,1 the field of public administration has an image of identifying almost solely with the executive branch. Indeed, at the 1972 annual meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, James J. Heaphey suggested that the field has specifically neglected legislative organizations;2 and Dwight Waldo agreed, explaining that public administrationists have generally seen themselves as "the President's men" and have viewed the legislature as "the enemy." James Sundquist recently echoed this theme in asserting that the field has for 40 years aggrandized the presidency at the expense of the other branches of goverment.3 With the purpose of providing a consciousnessraising forum, this article examines bases for these contentions and chronicles developments which may portend that the indictment is becoming anachronistic. Just how has the public administration field treated legislatures, and what is currently happening to suggest a different direction?


Background. Tuberculous infection in brain can cause microglia to secrete inflammatory factors like  Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-α) and Interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β) which will be shown as body immune  respons. Those inflammatory factors eventually can trigger microglia to secrete Matrix Metalloproteinase- 2 (MMP-2) which will regenerate necrotic or apoptosis cells because of inflammation process. MMP-2 has  been proven to have important role in brain tuberculous infection. Objective. To ascertain MMP-2 expression in mus musculus brain tissue with no infection, infection for 8 weeks, and infection for 16 weeks. Methods. This research used semiquantitative method to compare MMP-2 expression in 3 samples group. Observation of MMP-2 expression in mus musculus brain tissue were made by using immunohistochemistry colouration method which then would be observed in microscope with 400x magnification. Brain cell which express MMP-2 will become brown in cell nucleus, cytoplasm, and wall. Results. The result which had be obtained was overtime reduction of MMP-2 expression. Conclusion. MMP-2 expression didn't decrease after 8 weeks time of infection.


This study focused on the family history and boarding school experience of nine Native Americans in the state of Michigan. Primary questions were utilized to gain information regarding perseverance and problems still being faced as they tie to their boarding school experience. Interview participants were selected who attended the Mt. Pleasant and Holy Childhood boarding schools. These individuals reported both negative and positive recollections about their boarding school experiences. Themes were derived from the interview summaries and utilized for the analysis portion of this project. The results revealed similarities and differences between the experiences of those who attended both institutions. An extensive literature review was conducted. This thesis is designed to be useful for social workers, educators and others when implementing services and developing policy that addresses the unique challenges and strengths of Native American people. Advisor; Dr. Jane Swanson


At present, air transport is on the rise and with it are the airlines, airports and services they provide. Their quality is reflected in revenues as well as in the number of airlines using the airport. The aim of this paper is to evaluate what services are offered to individual airport customers, how to evaluate customer satisfaction with services and the last chapter focuses on evaluating the quality of services offered to airlines and crew, where a method of evaluating services provided by airports from the airlines based on an analysis of current ways of measuring the quality of these services. Finally, possible service improvements are described, which could streamline the operation of the airport.


Anodic aluminum oxide membranes consisting of a well ordered hexagonal array of bottom-up nanopore were created by a two-step anodization process. The AAO membranes with various diameters have be synthesized by charging applied voltage. We use the AAO membranes as templates to grow (Cu, Ag)/(Zn, Sn) nanowires/nanotubes arrays by electrodeposition method. Well aligned Cu and Zn nanowires have been successfully fabricated. In addition, a double-layered structure of Cu/Zn was synthesized, after oxidization which turns into a p-Cu2O/n-ZnO junction, and can be used for nanoscale light emitting devices.


Fuel cells are one of the most promising renewable energy sources. However, they are relatively expensive due to their use of platinum, a precious metal, as the catalyst. Much research has been conducted with the aim of optimizing fuel cell efficiency, including identifying alternative catalysts. In this study, we propose a new parameter known as relative bond strength as an indicator for the catalytic properties of a material. Relative bond strength is calculated based upon the relationship between bond length and bond strength. The results of this study provide evidence for the viability of this parameter through computational calculation involving different types of materials and cluster sizes.


In A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Kenneth Burke defines rhetoric as rooted in &dquo;the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols&dquo; (1969 ed., p. 43). We induce cooperation, according to Burke, through &dquo;identification.&dquo; Because &dquo;inducing cooperation&dquo; is usually a major purpose in business communication, Burke's theory can serve as a foundation for understanding, preparing, revising, reading, and acting on business documents. It can improve our business communication from the most routine memo to the most complex international report and indeed may help us work better collaboratively. Burke suggests: &dquo;you persuade or communicate with


Institute of Physics AS CR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany Institute of Physics PAS, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warsaw,Poland Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Bialystok, Lipowa 41, PL-15-424 Bialystok, Poland Ion Light Technologies GmbH, Lessingstrasse 2c, D-93077 Bad Abbach, Germany NSF ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering Physics, Czech Technical University, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic Warsaw University of Technology, Pl. Politechniki 1, PL-00-661 Warsaw, Poland


A majority of terrestrial and marine organisms use to fend off a wide range of microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi by employing "antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)" that are ribosomally synthesized from proteinogenic amino acids. AMPs are a primary component of innate immune mechanisms in marine invertebrates. In contrast, marine sponges seem to contain no AMPs, but often contain nonribosomal peptides consisting of unusual amino acids that exhibit potent cytotoxic and antifungal activity. Most of these peptides are considered to be of symbiotic bacterial origin. Similarly opisthobranch molluscs sequester unusual bioactive nonribosomal peptides from their prey organisms, cyanobacteria. However, roles of these peptides are unknown.


With the development of radio systems and wide applications of phased antenna-arrays, the problem arises of frequency bandwidth widening with the same or bigger scanning sector. Variants of construction of an antenna with electrical and commutation scanning are presented. Dependency of the directivity characteristics on the sector of scanning and frequency are considered.


Disclosed is a display device. The display device comprises a display unit, a storage unit which stores information on the activity of a user, which is performed in the display device during a preset time period, and a control unit which analyzes a pattern of the activity of the user based on the information on the activity, classifies the preset time period into a plurality of time periods based on the analyzed pattern, and conducts control to display the information on the activity in each classified time period.


Drought, high soil salinity, and low temperature are common adverse environmental conditions that limit crop productivity worldwide. Plants respond to these abiotic stresses partly by activating the expression of stress-responsive genes. The products of some of these genes can increase plant tolerance to the stresses. Understanding how stress-responsive genes are activated by abiotic stress will help us to breed or engineer stress tolerant crop plants. Genetic and other studies are revealing components that are involved in the signal transduction forabiotic stresses. The pathways that lead to the activation of stress-responsive genes and the network that integrates these pathways are being discovered in model plant systems. This chapter discusses some recent progresses in the elucidation of abiotic stress signaling mechanisms.


Seed Germination is ideal and most important for seed quality which has an impact on its production as well as its yield. Presently germination rate calculation is done manually with the help of trained persons which is a very tiresome process. Through this project, we present a system for computerized and automatic determination of germination rate using some high-level techniques in computer vision and machine learning. We analyze the germination rate of seeds by comparing it with a large number of datasets comprising of germinated and non-germinated samples using neural networks. This analysis is done by considering the root of the germinated seed. Therefore this method is known as Multi-Level Root Metric Ratio(MLRM) method.


Government as matchmaker. The multiphase programme builds on lessons learned during the previous stages. For instance, the evaluations found that people who were trained on the premises of companies were much more likely to be hired than those who were trained in trade schools or similar facilities. That finding was a cue for allocating more resources to in-company training in the new round.


The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effect of communication quality and quantity indicators on relational satisfaction and intimacy. Individuals were asked to record all of their interactions with their same-sex friend or romantic partner on a daily basis for a week. A total of 79 participants took part in the study. Results indicated that communication quality indicators explained more variance in both relational satisfaction and intimacy than did communication quantity indicators; however, quantity indicators explained significant variance above and beyond quality indicators for intimacy. Regarding individual communication quality and quantity indicators, the communication quantity indicator of total time in face-to-face interaction related to experiencing intimacy in a relationship. The communication quality indicators of satisfaction with interactions, smooth, and activity related to experiencing relational satisfaction, as did the communication quantity indicator of the total number of face-to-face interactions. Conclusions are drawn regarding the impact of quality and quantity communication in close relationships.


Abstract High-resolution diode laser spectroscopy was applied to measure absolute line intensities in the 9.8-μm ν 14 band of benzene 12 C 6 H 6 . A new data treatment had to be developed to derive single line parameters from the strongly overlapped lines. This procedure includes a self-deconvolution and an adapted fit technique for complete pressure series. The obtained data set contains absolute line intensities of 73 lines between 1017.31 and 1045.85 cm −1 with 9 ≤ J ″ ≤ 66 and 1 ≤ K ″ ≤ 66. These results for individual lines formed the basis for the calculation of the vibrational bandstrength S V 0 of the ν 14 band considering l -type resonance. In contrast to previous values derived from bandshape integration the deduced value of S V 0 = (17.0 ± 1.4) cm −2 /atm at 295 K is not affected by difference band lines.


Aiming at various initial deformations in oilfield derricks being in use, moved or mounted, this paper presents a calculating method to evaluate the derrick loading capacity with random initial deformation. For the derrick and its components with initial deformation, this method use Fourier series or simplify the equation to a half-wave sine curve for denoting the random initial deformation curve. Moreover, we have evaluated the loading capacity of derrick respectively according to the testing deformation data, and the conclusion is that the difference between the two results is small.


800x600 The paper presents the main causes of land degradation reducing fertility and agricultural production capacity of soils. The quality of the soil cover of the Republic of Moldova on the most agricultural land is poor, and on the part of land-critical. Expanding areas affected by erosion, landslides, dehumification, destructuration, compaction, alkalization, salinity, swampy processes and droughts. In terms of soil degradation the implementation of conservative technologies have more disadvantages than advantages. Given the fact that in the Republic of Moldova is excluded the cardinal remediation of soil quality (0.4 hectares of arable land per capita) is required to develop and test methods for correcting soil characteristics without interrupting the agricultural production process. Soil minimum tillage system for soil conservation is necessary to implement gradually, concomitantly with classical traditional tillage system and implementation of technologies combating soil degradation. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
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6110 Background: Therapeutic decision remains complex when a cancer is diagnosed in elderly pts. Our aim was to evaluate the frequency of CI in this population and its impact on therapeutic decision. Methods: An oncogeriatric evaluation including Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is systematically performed for all elderly cancer pts referred in our unit. We reviewed data of all pts assessed by geriatric oncologist at our institution from January 2009 to June 2011. Results: 378 pts were identified, among them a CI was noted in 87. Median age was 84 years (range 71 –94), 70 % ≥ 80 years. Most of the pts (78/87) were referred at the time of diagnosis. Metastatic disease was diagnosed in 32 pts (52%) and Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma stage III or IV in 21 pts (81 %). In 41 pts, CI was already diagnosed: Alzheimer disease (AD) (n=38) and Vascular Dementia (n=3). CGA help to identify CI in 46 additional pts: AD (n=36); Vascular Dementia (n=2) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (n=8). 45/87 pts (52 %) were de...


The article attempts to analyze the formation of a new work ethic in modern society through the prism of the post-operaist concept and the theory of "projective city". It is demonstrated that labor has undergone significant changes in comparison with the labor of the Fordist stage, as a consequence of which a new justification of justice and individual good was required, which would promote involvement in project labor. Drawing on the concept of post-Fordist labor, the emergence of such a rationale is examined. The article reveals the key points of post-Fordist theory that deal with the transformation of labor. conditions of postFordism. It is shown that, on the one hand, labor becomes immaterial, biopolitical, affective, on the other hand, such features contribute to the formation of new practices of ethical justification of labor. It is demonstrated that the organization of "immaterial labor" or biopolitical labor is formed as a network. At the same time, it is the project that becomes the value model that allows the formation of a new work ethic. Thus, the destruction of hierarchical structures leads to the formation of a network mode of labor organization, which does not allow an answer to the question of the fair distribution of material and symbolic goods. Then project work imposes a certain framework that allows us to restore the procedure of fair evaluation. Through the concept of "projective city" by L. Boltanski and E. Chiapello the logic of development of justification of individual benefits for a person included in hired labor is comprehended. It is revealed that justification is built through increasing the opportunities for selfrealization and the expansion of personal freedom. The article shows that the reliance on the concept of "projective city" allows to consider the contradictions associated with the formation of new ethical justifications and value structures. When the apparatus of argumentation of labor involvement in the "projective city" works with the principle of justice and individual good, the worker is offered the opportunity for self-realization and development of his own potential through practices of self-control. The conclusion is that the value changes described above are indicative of the emergence of a new ethic of labor relations.


This paper presents a rectangular-shaped printed monopole antenna with circular polarization for Wi-Fi (2.4–2.484 GHz) and WiMAX (3.3-3.7 GHz) bands. The antenna relies on asymmetric arrangement of the patch with respect to the microstrip feed, in order to generate circular polarization. Dual-band (Wi-Fi and WiMAX) operation is enabled by inserting a slit in the corner of the ground plane. Simulation results show a bandwidth increase of 15.9% (2.2–2.58 GHz) for Wi-Fi, and of 24.16% (3.13–3.99 GHz) for WiMAX applications. Furthermore, beamwidths at the axial ratio of 3 dB equal 48 and 51 for the x-z plane and y-z planes, respectively. Keywords—circular polarization, dual-band antenna, printed monopole antenna, rectangular slit.


Glioma is characterized by a high recurrence rate, while the results of the traditional imaging methods (including magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) to distinguish recurrence from treatment-related changes (TRCs) are poor. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) (US10815200B2, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, German Cancer Research Center) is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein overexpressed in glioma vascular endothelium, and it is a promising target for imaging and therapy.

The study aimed to assess the performance of PSMA positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) for diagnosing recurrence and predicting prognosis in glioma patients.

Patients suspected of glioma recurrence who underwent 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/MR were prospectively enrolled. Eight metabolic parameters and fifteen texture features of the lesion were extracted from PSMA PET/MR. The ability of PSMA PET/MR to diagnose glioma recurrence was investigated and compared with conventional MRI. The diagnostic agreement was assessed using Cohen κ scores and the predictive parameters of PSMA PET/MR were obtained. Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazard model were used to analyze recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS). Finally, the expression of PSMA was analyzed by immunohistochemistry (IHC

Nineteen patients with a mean age of 48.11±15.72 were assessed. The maximum tumor-to-parotid ratio (TPRmax) and texture features extracted from PET and T1-weighted contrast enhancement (T1-CE) MR showed differences between recurrence and TRCs (all P <0.05). PSMA PET/MR and conventional MRI exhibited comparable power in diagnosing recurrence with specificity and PPV of 100%. The interobserver concordance was fair between the two modalities (κ=0.542, P=0.072). The optimal cutoffs of metabolic parameters, including standardized uptake value (SUV, SUVmax, SUVmean, and SUVpeak) and TPRmax for predicting recurrence were 3.35, 1.73, 1.99, and 0.17 respectively, with the area under the curve (AUC) ranging from 0.767 to 0.817 (all P <0.05). In grade 4 glioblastoma (GBM) patients, SUVmax, SUVmean, SUVpeak, TBRmax, TBRmean, and TPRmax showed improved performance of AUC (0.833-0.867, P <0.05). Patients with SUVmax, SUVmean, or SUVpeak more than the cutoff value had significantly shorter RFS (all P <0.05). In addition, patients with SUVmean, SUVpeak, or TPRmax more than the cutoff value had significantly shorter OS (all P <0.05). PSMA expression of glioma vascular endothelium was observed in ten (10/11, 90.9%) patients with moderate-to-high levels in all GBM cases (n=6/6, 100%).

This primitive study shows multiparameter PSMA PET/MR to be useful in identifying glioma (especially GBM) recurrence by providing excellent tumor background comparison, tumor heterogeneity, recurrence prediction and prognosis information, although it did not improve the diagnostic performance compared to conventional MRI. Further and larger studies are required to define its potential clinical application in this setting.


The domestic use and industrial activity, especially in developing countries, produce large amount of wastewater. This wastewater when disposed into natural channels may lead to high pollution risk. There are different methods for wastewater treatment. One of them is Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), still it has some limitations. The present work has been concentrated on the degradation of real textile industrial effluent named as GOV. The said effluent was collected from textile industry from Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra state was subjected to photocatalytic treatment using two different photocatalyst such as Degussa P-25 TiO2 and Merck ZnO. GOV was analyzed before and after the treatment for their physiochemical parameters like color, COD, TOC and presence of inorganic ions. Throughout the study it was observed that, Degussa P-25 TiO2 effectively brings out the degradation of GOV than Merck ZnO. Hence, the photocatalytic degradation was found to be fruitful treatment for degradation of real textile industrial effluent.


Crack development on plaster specimens of sands from Calaca, Lobo and Laurel was investigated to evaluate the suitability of different cement-sand-water proportioning mixes. Specific gravity, fineness modulus and percent water absorption were measured for each sand specimen. Both qualitative and quantitative laboratory and field tests were conducted on specimens proportioned as per ACI and ASTM C-926 requirements. Specimens for laboratory and field tests were made for each workable proportion for each sand source. The lengths and widths of observed cracks were measured in the laboratory specimens subjected to various temperatures and in field specimens at various durations after installation. Results point to cementsand-water proportioning is the primary factor that determines the cracking behaviour of cement plaster; and to the 1: 4: 1 ½ , 1: 2¼ : 1 and 1: 3: 1 ½ as the best proportioning for sand from Calaca, Laurel and Lobo, respectively.


Viewgraphs on electrolysis performance improvement and validation experiment are presented. Topics covered include: water electrolysis: an ever increasing need/role for space missions; static feed electrolysis (SFE) technology: a concept developed for space applications; experiment objectives: why test in microgravity environment; and experiment description: approach, hardware description, test sequence and schedule.


The article analyses the views of researchers on digital literacy. It describes the meaning of the concept of digital capability. The authors summarize the common European standards and frameworks for teaching and evaluating digital capability. A model of the digital faculty of a university teacher based on the Jisc framework is described. It is adapted by the authors to the conditions of study at Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University (Ukraine). The article describes and analyses the author's` research on measuring digital capabilities of the teachers. The criteria and indicators for measuring the digital faculty of a university teacher are revealed. Methods of research using methods of mathematical statistics are described. The authors identified and explained the correlations between individual distractors for each element of the framework. Some survey results were paradoxical, so a new study is needed. Based on this research, the authors have developed a program to improve the skills of teachers and their lifelong learning.


Most of the existing opportunistic network routing protocols are based on some type of utility function that is directly or indirectly dependent on the past behavior of devices. The past behavior or history of a device is usually referred to as contacts that the device had in the past. Whatever may be the metric of history, most of these routing protocols work on the realistic premise that node mobility is not truly random. In contrast, there are several oracles based methods where such oracles assist these methods to gain access to information that is unrealistic in the real world. Although, such oracles are unrealistic, they can help to understand the nature and behavior of underlying networks. In this paper, we have analyzed the gap between these two extremes. We have performed max-flow computations on three different opportunistic networks and then compared the results by performing max-flow computations on history generated by the respective networks. We have found that the correctness of the history based prediction of history is dependent on the dense nature of the underlying network. Moreover, the history based prediction can deliver correct paths but cannot guarantee their absolute reliability.


The author's introductory work, i.e., The Capitalism/Socialism Cycle – Phase II (we refer to the work as the "First Article"), heralds the introduction of a more efficient form of capitalism or Thin Capitalism ("TC") , primed first by the Economic Recovery Tax Act ("ERTA") of 1981 and the simple indexation of tax brackets, and then triggered with the Great Recession of 2007-2009 ("GR"), which began a de facto untangling of the symbiotic relationship that exists between American business and the Federal Government and the beginning of the end for Fat Capitalism ("FC"). In Implementing The Capitalism/Socialism Cycle – Phase II – Melting the Excessive Executive Compensation Employee Stock Option Icebergs, [we refer to this work as "Iceberg"] the author zeroes in on twelve irregularities of employee stock options or ESOs, the workhorse of FC as suggested in the First Article, the correction of which are a starting point in the conversion of FC to TC. This paper is the second installment in a trilogy that will conclude with a third paper that will offer remedies to our economic system against the backdrop of the social and cultural values of the American Experience. There is a suggestion then in this offering that there is an extraordinary amount of direct and indirect information about ESOs that is unseen and therefore virtually unknown across the multiple disciplines attendant to this critical form of stock-based compensation. It also introduces the question of how so much important information necessary for the efficient and effective functioning of this important financial instrument of capitalism could be so conveniently overlooked. It is overlooked, in large part, because it is in the best interests of those plying their trade to overlook them. Iceberg discusses twelve of its own, i.e., important ESO issues that are there but whose existence currently enjoys some type of artful or elusive status. Briefly, they are: 1. ESO taxation at grant – the U.S. Treasury vs. the Taxpayer; 2. Robinson v. U.S. [2003] – a major retrofit of Internal Revenue Code §83 ("IRC§83"); 3. Insider use of listed, exchange-traded options ("LETOs"); 4. SEC Release No. 34-60126 [June 17, 2009]; 5. The Transferable Stock Option or TSO; 6. Listed Exchange Traded Options and the Charitable Lead Trust; 7. Listed Exchange Traded Options and the Estate of the Corporate Executive; 8. The Incentive Stock Option Planning Dilemma – The Married Put; 9. Senator Levin – The Ending Excessive Corporate Deductions for Stock Options Act; 10. LETO Use in Financial Reporting – ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation; 11. Emperor's [Employer's] Clothes-ESOs Don't Work So Well; 12. An IRS-Approved Grant-Based Taxation Protocol for ESOs. In Iceberg, the author zeroes in on the above irregularities of ESOs as a starting point in the conversion of FC to TC. This conversion will take place in a two-part process, the first of which is a need to make current forms of equity compensation more efficient by proper tax, regulatory and investment planning. The C.A.S.H. TM method planning protocol is introduced to do just that. The second part of this process is to introduce and implement new forms of equity compensation that are, by their very nature, more efficient and effective which will obviate the necessity for such planning greatly.


2015, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Purpose: It aims to identify the effect of five variables to score of the Korean Medical Licensing Examinations (KMLE) for three consecutive years from 2011 to 2013. Five characteristics of examinees were set as variables: gender, age, graduation status, written test result (pass or fail), and city of medical school. A regression model was established, with the score of a written test as a dependent variable and with examinees' traits as variables. Results: The regression coefficients in all variables, except the city of medical school, were statistically significant. The variable' s effect in three examinations appeared in the following order: result of written test, graduation status, age, gender, and city of medical school. Conclusion: Written test scores of the KMLE revealed that female students, younger examinees, and first-time examinees had higher performances.


The structure and function design of image-based traveling information monitoring system are put forward and it provide a practical method that can inspect the driving behaviors′ statue and the running environment of the mobile in real time,prevent the traffic accidents and strengthen the management ability. Moreover,this system can determine the barrier distance using image measurement and it reduce the distance measurement cost by lidar.


Cement of different fineness CEMII42.5N and CEMII32.5N (EN 197-1) are used, to make concretes with aggregates that had been originated from recycled concrete standard cubic specimens of three different characteristic strengths. Specimen had been produced, during approximately one year, in order to control the production quality of a ready mixed concrete industry. As a consequence, recycled aggregates are of different ages and different compressive strength, such as those which could be taken from a recycling centre. Characteristic cubic strength of origin concrete was 15 or 20 or 25 MPa, and new concretes were made either with all their aggregates recycled or with virgin sand and recycled coarse aggregates. Compressive strength at 20 0 C and at temperatures up to 550 0 C was estimated, by both destructive and non destructive methods. Results were compared to those obtained from concretes made with virgin siliceous aggregates. Curves of compressive strength versus non-destructive tests before as well as after heating to high temperatures are given.


The continuous steam-heating device can be used in varied material as a steam-heating device. It possesses following three features: steam-heating parameters could be adusted, being easily made up an automation production line and having low price. It specially adapt to automation production.


Lightning strikes can affect photovoltaic generators and their exposed installation sites as well as the sensitive electronics of the inverter. Therefore, it is necessary, to estimate the risk by lightning strikes, and to take these results into account for the design. IEC (EN) 62305-2 states procedures and data for the calculation of the risk resulting from lightning strikes into structures and for the choice of lightning protection systems. Actually, the technical guidelines for installation suggest protecting with SPD's (surge protective device) both the DC and AC sides of the PV plant. The aim of this paper is to estimate voltages due to lightning discharges and to determine the effective need of lightning protection measures on the basis of the risk analysis and the protection costs.


BAGCHI-SEN S. (1995) FDI in US producer services: a temporal analysis of foreign direct investment in the finance, insurance and real estate sectors, Reg. Studies 29, 159–170. Much of the expansion of FDI in the United States in the 1980s has been a direct result of the growth of FDI in the service sector. Dominant positions in FDI in services are occupied by banking and other finance-related services. In this study, the temporally varying effects of a set of location determinants on the location of FDI in finance, insurance and real estate sectors are examined. The literature on the location of service industries indicate that the location of producer services is affected by market pull factors, specialized labour pools and large diversified service agglomerations. The determinants considered in the state-level analysis of FDI are agglomerations of domestic employment in finance, insurance and real estate, the size of the metropolitan population, population growth and the value of commercial and industri...


Breast cancer was the most common cancer in women, mortality rate and morbidity continued to increase, cases of breast cancer found to be more severe and cause death. Peer education education could be used to improve the quality of life of breast cancer patients so that patients have the spirit to improve the health. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of peer education  on self efficacy, commitment and quality of life in patients with breast cancer.
The design of this study was quasy experiment researched with pre and post control group design with a total of 36 respondents. The research was conducted at POSA RSUD Dr. Soetomo Surabaya was divided into 18 respondents for peer education group and 18 for control group. The sampling method used was simple random sampling. Independent variable in this study were peer education while the dependent variable in this study were self efficacy, commitment, and quality of life. Data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by manova Results: The result of statistical test showed that there was influence of peer education on self efficacy (p = 0,006), there was no influence between peer education to commitment (p = 0,072), there was influence of peer education on quality of life (p = 0,001). In general, peer education education affect the self efficacy, commitment and quality of life when done posttest with manova (p = 0,023) .
Breast cancer survivors experienced an increased in self efficacy and quality of life in both intervention groups. This was related to verbal persuasion where the individual got the influence or suggestion and belief that she was able to overcome the problem to be faced. Researchers were further advised to conduct similar research by adding family empowerment to better engage the family.


The pentamethylcyclopentadienyl iridium complexes Cp*Ir(PMe3)(En) (E=S, n=4, 5 or 6; E=Se, n=2 or 4; E=Te, n=2) react with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give Cp*Ir(PMe3)[E2C2(COOMe)2] compounds which tend to lose the trimethylphosphine ligand; the molecular structure of the dithiolene derivative, Cp*Ir[S2C2(COOMe)2], has been determined.


Although hypertension and alcohol dependence have been linked by epidemiological surveys and clinical observations, their interactive effects on brain function have rarely been tested. The present study involved the recording of P300 event related potentials (ERP) from 106 middle-aged African-American adults assigned to one of four groups: normotensive/nondependent (n = 56), hypertensive/nondependent (n = 11), normotensive/dependent (n = 27), and hypertensive/dependent (n = 12). The numbers of Nicotine Dependence, Major Depressive Disorder, and Conduct Disorder symptoms were specified as covariates within a 2 by 2 factorial design. ERPs were recorded during separate visual and auditory oddball tasks. The major result was a synergistic effect of hypertension and alcohol dependence on auditory P300 latency: the combination of both factors was associated with greater slowing than the sum of their independent effects. Future studies should continue to examine the potential synergistic effects of alcohol dependence and hypertension with a view toward identifying and reducing neurophysiological decrements and stroke risk among middle-aged patients.


The traditional way is complicated and inexact to gain the information of replacement cost/stabilized accounting by adjusting the historical cost accounting records. The new accounting model combines replacement cost/stabilized accounting with historical cost accounting by changing accounting structure so as to report historical cost accounting and replacement cost/stabilized accounting information simultaneously.


Through a pioneer method in Brazil, the Brazilian side of Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline had its northern and south branches successfully purged and loaded. Pigs were not utilized in this procedure and the method is based on high injection flow rates of natural gas. Results proved this method to be suitable and safe for purging natural gas pipeline into service.Copyright © 2004 by ASME


The objective of the study was to quantify the direct and indirect incremental costs of epoetin alpha (EPO) therapy for anemia in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD). Using employer claims data from January 1998 to January 2005, direct (medical and pharmacy) and indirect (sick leave and disability) costs were compared between CKD-anemic patients treated with EPO before dialysis (n = 199) and those not treated with an erythropoiesis-stimulating therapy (EST) (n = 196). Among the results, incremental direct and indirect cost savings for EPO-treated patients were $1443 and $328 per member per month (PMPM) (p < 0.001), respectively, compared to non-EST-treated patients with anemia. After multivariate adjustments, direct and indirect costs remained significantly lower by $852 and $308 PMPM (p < 0.001), respectively, for the EPO-treated group. Direct costs during the first 6 months of dialysis also were significantly lower for the EPO-treated group (who received EPO before dialysis), by $1515 PMPM (p = 0.0267, in multivariate regression). In conclusion, anemic CKD patients treated with EPO before dialysis had significantly lower direct and indirect costs compared to non-EST-treated patients.


The effects of high ambient pre-irradiation heat treatment (125°C) on the trapping parameters of the various thermoluminescence peaks of LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-100) crystals have been investigated in detail by using computerised glow curve deconvolution methods. Deconvolution of glow curves to their individual glow peaks demonstrates that the application of a pre-annealing stage changes the trapping parameters significantly. Computerised peak shape analysis showed that the order of kinetics of peak I increases from 1.0 to 2.5 whereas the order of kinetics of other peaks remained constant during the heat treatment. After approximately 7 h of heating, a new peak as a shoulder on the low temperature side of peak 3 and a new peak at the high temperature tail of peak 5 were observed. Shifts of peak temperature of peaks 3, 4 and 5 to the high temperature side were also noted. Significant changes to the activation energies and frequency factors of all peaks, especially peak 4, start immediately and continue throughout the annealing period. These results indicate that important defect structure modifications take place not only in the glow peaks 2 and 5 but also in peaks 1, 3 and 4.


We consider a maximum entropy method of expert system construction. Simply stated, in cases where more than one distribution satisfies the constraints (knowledge) supplied to the system, we pick the one with maximum entropy. Viewing entropy as a measure of information, we pick the distribution that makes the fewest additional assumptions. Theoretically we show that this distribution is (typically) unique, and that its explicit identification amounts to solving a dual problem of minimizing a convex function which lies in as many dimensions as we have constraints. Unfortunately, in most interesting applications, the exact calculation of the gradients of this function proves computationally intractable. We construct and analyse a Monte Carlo method to overcome this difficulty. We test the method for an artificial system with known distribution. We calculate the system's statistics, use them as constraints, and then find the maximum entropy distribution. The Monte Carlo method proves successful. As our main example we consider the problem of character recognition. Sample letters are presented and features extracted. Sample statistics concerning these features provide the constraints for our system. The maximum entropy distribution lies on the space of features and labels, where the latter identifies the letter. Under this distribution we can find the most likely label corresponding to a set of features. The results prove encouraging for a range of typed letters.


Sleep studies are used to evaluate and diagnose a variety of sleep problems. A sleep study is very potential in controlling neurological, breathing and movement disorders. Some of the problems that may lead doctor to order a sleep study are snoring, sleep apnea, sleep walking, bedwetting, sleep talking, the feeling of being tired all day, sleeping during a day. A sleeping laboratory can detect these interruptions, analyse and record detailed information to help doctor diagnose problem and determine the best treatment. Light therapies and simulation of day-night environment have been recognized that can stabilize the patterns of delayed sleep phase syndrome and advanced sleep phase syndrome. In this paper we present sleeping laboratory based on smart glass controlled automatically by sensors, ccd camera and real-time pattern recognition environment. We present sensor network and real-time multiparametric algorithms sending signals to intelligent glass controller. For classification we used fast SVM classifier with new kernel method. Historical medical database is used as training set for automated classifier.


Using a technique that forms three‐dimensional brightness reconstructions of Jupiter's radiation belts, we analyze observations at the time of the comet Shoemaker‐Levy 9 impact with Jupiter in 1994. The 3‐D reconstructions provide far more information about an object than does conventional 2‐D astronomical imaging. Near Jupiter's magnetic equator, the 3‐D reconstructions of the comet‐perturbed state reveal that: i) the increase in brightness was localized near the longitudes of individual impacts or groups of impacts; ii) the brightenings did not start immediately after a given impact, but built up over one or two days; iii) the distance of the brightenings from Jupiter is related to the magnetic field lines where the impacts occurred; iv) the brightenings drifted little or not at all over the course of days; v) 10 days after the first impact, the brightenings were still observable, although with less intensity. These findings have important implications regarding the physical processes linking comet impacts to their effects on Jupiter's radiation belts.


It is 17 years since the foundation of this Society, and 15 years since I was privileged to be its President. Once again, I appear before you, as your Presidential Guest Speaker, and I am honored beyond words. I do sincerely thank you for this privilege. What can I say about this Society? From a wellintentioned but uncoordinated group of pioneers who were worried about the seeming lack of interest in the foot by orthopaedic surgeons, we appear today as a cohesive body of well trained, knowledgeable surgeons. From a scattered maze of questionable facts and "grandfather" information, we are slowly gathering meaningful statistics. These erase the shrouds of mystery in surgical performance, and the foot surgeon can now methodically plan his surgery with a predictable anticipated result. With the advent of our own journal, Foot & Ankle, carefully screened articles are dispersed and disseminated to surgeons throughout this country and abroad. Anyone who has had an article published in this journal knows about the journal's significant status in world orthopaedics, as evidenced by reprint requests from all over the world. Outstanding, well attended seminars on foot and ankle topics are presented by knowledgeable members in various sectors of these United States two or three or more times annually. International seminars have included a number of our members with outstanding presentations. Separate foot and ankle clinics are now commonplace in university and hospital orthopaedic locales. Pedorthists have come into being with a significant helping hand of this Society. A trained group of retailers saw fit to band together and to establish rigid rules of conduct and education-"The Prescription Footwear Association." About 400 exceptionally trained, certified pedorthists are available throughout


Aim: A coronary artery may partly become a half or one diameter larger than an adjoining normal one as observed on angiograms, which is called coronary artery ectasia (CAE). There is strong evidence that oxidative stress and inflammation may contribute to the CAE pathophysiology, potentially due to higher fructose intake. Our study aims to determine the effects of the amount of fructose consumed on isolated CAE. Material and Methods: The study group consists of the patients with stable angina pectoris who had coronary angiography (CAG) reports dated from December 2018 to April 2019. Based on these reports, sampling was made as follow: the patient or CAE group of 50 patients also with isolated CAE and the control group of 50 patients with normal coronary flow pattern (NCF). A comparative analysis was performed using the exact data of both groups including nutrient consumption. Results: The patient group with higher high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels (p = 0.029), greater platelet count (p = 0.015), and increased hypertension rate (p = 0.012) were observed to have higher energy in total (p = 0.008), carbohydrate (p = 0.003), and fructose intake (p<0.001). Multivariable logistic regression analyses demonstrated that rising Hs-CRP levels (p = 0.031), greater platelet count (p = 0.017), higher fructose intake (p = 0.029), and increased hypertension (p = 0.032) were individually associated with CAE. Conclusion: In the CAE group higher fructose consumption was observed and thus determined to potentially contribute to the CAE pathophysiology.


RATIONALE
Radiologic pattern has been shown to predict survival in patients with fibrosing interstitial lung disease. The additional prognostic value of fibrosis extent by quantitative CT is unknown.

OBJECTIVES
We hypothesized that fibrosis extent provides information beyond visually assessed CT pattern, that is useful for outcome prediction.

METHODS
We performed a retrospective analysis of chest CT, demographics, longitudinal pulmonary function, and transplant-free survival on participants in the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation patient registry. CT pattern was classified visually according to the 2018 usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) criteria. Extent of fibrosis was objectively quantified using data driven textural analysis (DTA). We used Kaplan-Meier plots, Cox proportional hazards and linear mixed effects models to evaluate the relationships between CT-derived metrics and outcomes.

RESULTS
Visual assessment and quantitative analysis were performed on 979 enrollment CT scans. Linear mixed effect modeling showed that greater baseline fibrosis extent was significantly associated with annual rate of decline in forced vital capacity. In multivariable models that included CT pattern and fibrosis extent, quantitative fibrosis extent was strongly associated with transplant-free survival independent of CT pattern (hazard ratio 1.04, 95% confidence interval [1.04, 1.05], p < 0.001, c-statistic 0.73).

CONCLUSIONS
Extent of lung fibrosis by quantitative CT is a strong predictor of physiologic progression and survival, independent of visually assessed CT pattern.


A digital image, or a segment of an image, may be represented by the moments of its intensity function. Image moments are used in image analysis for object modeling and matching. However, a large number of MAC arithmetic operations are required to compute high order moments; real-time processing is not achieved with nowadays general purpose computers. This paper proposes a new class of pipeline architectures for generating a single moment or a set of moments of an arbitrary order in real time. The architectures adopt wavefront processing techniques and floating-point arithmetic units. They only use a power core for generating all the required powers to compute the 2D moments and are easily scalable to achieve the desired speedup.


High levels of interior noise are commonly inherent to General Aviation aircraft. Two dominant sources of noise of a small piston engine aircraft are power plant (propeller and engine) and aerodynamics (airflow around the fuselage), which by air and through the structure penetrates the aircraft and generates field of annoying sound – interior or cabin noise. This study investigates interior noise of a light twin piston engine aircraft Piper PA-44 Seminole in non-standard aircraft attitude, also known as unusual attitude – or upset – flight (traverse, slip, asymmetric flight and slow flight with high angle of attack). The data collected, analyzed and presented in this paper show significant noise change in both the levels and spectra generally due to asymmetrical loading of the propeller blades during unusual attitude flight, compared to attitude in regular cruising flight.


The effect of low nocturnal temperature at 9℃ and 6℃ simulated by climate chambers on the active oxygen metabolism and Ascorbate-Glutathione cycle of tomato leaves was studied.The results showed that low nocturnal temperature treatment increased O-·2 production rate,H2O2,malondialdehyde(MDA) contents;inhibited peroxidase(POD),catalase(CAT) activities;and improved superoxide dismutase(SOD),ascorbate peroxidase(APX),dehydroascorbate reductase(DHAR),glutathione reductase(GR) activities as well as reduced-ascorbate(AsA),reduced-glutathione(GSH),oxidized-glutathione(GSSG) contents.It indicated that the enhanced SOD activity and scavenging activity of Ascorbate-Glutathione cycle did not keep pace with the rate of oxygen reduction since increased O-·2,H2O2 and MDA levels were observed throughout the experiment,especially in 6℃ treated plants.


This paper tries to analyze the development of waves of feminism. In the human civilization, "Feminism" is considered as a mass movement, which has commenced by women of all groups to remove all forms of feminist oppressions by men that are prevailing in a patriarchal society. The world has already experienced four waves of feminism that act against women"s abuse and oppression. The first wave of feminism arises in the United States and Europe during the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and concerns with the achieving voting right, equal opportunities, and other legal rights of women. Second wave of feminism has initiated by both white and non-white women of Western countries as well as in developing countries, starts in the 1960s and ends in the 1990s. It works for equal education and employment opportunities, maternity leave, birth control and abortion rights, etc.; and fights against domestic violence issues, marital rape issues, sexual harassment and rape, etc. Third wave of feminism presents a dynamic critique to the previous feminist political trends, and extents from the 1990s to 2000s. In this movement, women find themselves as strong and rebellious, and working women in various occupations are not subjected to a sexist patriarchy. Fourth wave feminism starts around 2012, which offers a new feminism that depends on online social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. After the development of waves of feminism, various laws have been established in many countries of the world to support the participation of women in all activities of the society. This study takes attempts to discuss aspects of four waves of feminism elaborately.