Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are among the cornerstones of the Indonesian economy that managed to survive the world crisis. The development of MSMEs also demands that owners be ready to compete with other MSMEs. This study aims to analyze whether business sustainability is influenced by financial literacy with financial behavior and financial technology as mediators. The research sample includes owners and managers of MSMEs in Indonesia, totaling 342 respondents. Data collection methods used are non-probability sampling techniques by distributing questionnaires. This study uses SEM analysis with PLS analysis tools. It was found that financial literacy does not directly affect business sustainability but affects financial behavior and financial technology. Financial behavior and financial technology are proven to influence business sustainability. Furthermore, financial behavior and financial technology mediate the effect of financial literacy on business sustainability. The results of this study show that financial behavior and financial technology can fully mediate the relationship between financial literacy and business sustainability. Moreover, financial literacy cannot directly affect business sustainability, which must be fully mediated by financial behavior and financial technology. This study also provides practical value regarding the sustainability of MSMEs. Thus, companies can survive in the long term not only with a robust financial literacy foundation but they must be supported by good financial behavior and also be able to choose the right financial technology in their business activities.


We investigate the scalability and performance of a novel optical wireless data center network (OW-DCN) based on passive diffractive optics and fast tunable transmitters. The proposed OW-DCN architecture consists of two parallel inter- and intra- cluster networks to implement a flat communication between the top of racks within the DCN with at most two hops. The proposed DCN operation, the transmission performance and the scalability have been experimentally demonstrated and assessed for different modulation formats (NRZ-OOK and PAM4) with different sizes of DCN. A DCN with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$8\times 8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> racks shows 20Gbit/s OOK error free transmission with a power penalty of only 1dB compared to the B2B performance. For a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16\times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula> racks DCN, experiment indicates 16Gbit/s PAM4 transmission at FEC-limit of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text {BER} < 2\times 10^{-3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Moreover, scalability investigations of the proposed DCN architecture with optimized passive optics indicate that a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$32\times 32$ </tex-math></inline-formula> racks DCN with spectral band around 1 nm per link is feasible.


Most of the IP network traffic today consists of video content. In 2015 the videotraffic was estimated to be 70% of the Internet traffic and it is expected to rise past80% by 2020. The demand for h ...


Caleosins are proteins that are components of plant oil bodies,and may be involved in the drought tolerance of plants.So far,the rice caleosin gene family remains largely uncharacterized.Using BLAST analyses against the rice genome database and other bioinformatic tools,6 members of the caleosin family were identified in the rice genome.The evolutionary relationships among caleosin genes from rice,Arabidopsis and other species were analyzed.In addition,fluorescent real-time PCR method was employed to analyze the expression patterns of the caleosin gene family in different organs such as root,leaf,and flower,and to examine their expression-level changes in response to drought or osmotic stress.The results suggested that some members of the caleosin gene family are involved in drought tolerance,thus providing important background information for further study on their physiological roles under drought stress.


Quality management systems (QMS) are widely acknowledged to be a strategic tool to rationalise and to improve industrial processes and product performances. One of the main reasons of this success may be mainly addressed to: 1) the measurement of quality performances with quality pointers; 2) non-conformities management. Yet, together with the need to guarantee customer's satisfaction, the attention for environmental sustainability of products and processes has raised the question to measure the environmental sustainability of a QMS. The objective of this research is twofold. First, we aim to investigate the impact of quality NC on product sustainability, seeking a measurement of environmental impact on a quality NC. Secondly, we address the development of an integrated method for NC evaluation encompassing production and economic parameters with the goal to have an NC ranking that may help the quality manager to address the most appropriate NC prioritisation.


Pagination and dates of publication for almost 2,000 separate issues of the journals that formed the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History are presented. These journals include: Magazine of Natural History (1828–1840), Magazine of Zoology and Botany (1836–1838), Annals of Natural History (1838–1840), the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1841–1967), and the Journal of Natural History (1967–date).


The existence of the great 'palace' which the Emperor Diocletian built for his retirement on the Dalmatian coast near his birthplace of Salona and which forms the nucleus of the present city of Split has been well known for over two hundred years. It was in 1757 that the celebrated Scottish architect Robert Adam visited Spalato, as it was then known; several years later he published his famous book of beautifully executed engravings of the ruins which, quite apart from its importance for the development of European neo-classical architecture in general and of the so-called Adam style in particular, first widely publicized the details of the palace in Europe. Since then the remains have deservedly been the subject of several complete studies and have featured prominently in many books on Roman architecture and on Dalmatia. With such a large amount of literature available in a comparatively accessible form, it is not my intention in this short article to provide either a complete historical account or a complete description of the place; it is rather to look briefly at its history from the time of Diocletian up to the point at which it stopped being a palace and started being a town, and to consider certain aspects of its architecture.


The mechanical behavior of MDYB-3(milled-polished directional) aeronautic PMMA(polymethyl methacrylate) was systematically studied in this paper,with the strain rates from 10~(-4)/S to 2×10~3/S,and the temperatures from-55℃ to 120℃.Tests were performed by MTS servohydraulic testing machine and the split Hopkinson bar,for low and high strain-rate tests respectively.For dynamic tensile mechanical properties,the specimens were directly adhered to the ends of incident and transmission bar,so that effective tensile results were obtained. The results show that the modulus and yield stress of MDYB-3 decrease with the increasing of temperatures at low strain rates.When testing temperature reaches to the glass transition point,the modulus and yield stress approach to constant values as the polymer chain segments change from "frozen" to "free".When the strain rate isn't less than 10~2/S,the dynamic compression modulus also approaches to a constant value at low temperatures.But at high temperatures the compression modulus doesn't approach to a constant value.The phenomena of plasticity flow and strain hardening are observed during dynamic tensile tests,whereas these phenomena are not observed during dynamic compression test.Finally,based on the detailed test results and published constitutive relation,a viscoelastic constitutive model is developed.


The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a multilayered material sheet comprising a unidirectional high-performance fibers, the method comprising the steps of parallel positioning of the fibers, and obtaining a monolayer consolidating the fibers, one single direction of the fibers in the layer, a step of stacking at least two monolayers at an angle α relative to the direction of the fibers in adjacent monolayer, the stack of at least two monolayers of at least 2 comprising seconds, after performing the pressure treatment and thermal treatment, to a temperature of 120 ° C. or less under pressure, and a fixing step by cooling. The present invention further relates to a multilayer sheet of material capable acquired in the process according to the present invention. The multilayered material sheet has a reduced liquid absorption.


In this paper, we analyze the determinants of maritime and road transport costs for Spanish exports to Poland and Turkey and investigate the different effects of these costs on international trade. First, we investigate the extent to which maritime and road transport costs depend on different factors such as unit values, distances, transport conditions, service structures, and service quality. Second, we analyze the relative importance of road and maritime transport costs as determinants of trade flows. The data on transport costs are drawn from a new database compiled from primary data sources. The main results of this investigation identify the central variables influencing road and maritime transportation costs: for both modes, transport conditions are strong determinants, whereas efficiency and service quality are more important for maritime transport costs, and geographical distance is more important for road transport. Road and maritime transport costs are important explanatory factors of exports and they seem to deter trade to a greater extent than road or maritime transit time when considered endogenously determined.


What will be the cutting-edge training technologies for expatriate managers and their families in the next ten years? A variety of approaches to the development of expatriates have been developed and new, innovative programs are currently on the drawing boards. Both current and future developments are discussed in this article. Three areas that are emerging for HR managers who work in the international HR area are: (1) In-Country, Real-Time Training; (2) Global Mindset Training; and (3) CD-ROM/Internet-based Training. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


(b) Answer: (i) Definitely full, (iii) Height larger by exactly 1. Explanations: Because the keys are inserted in arbitrary order, the tree containing the seven keys {1, 3, . . . , 13} can have pretty much any possible structure. This tree has exactly eight null pointers, and (because they alternate with the original keys) the newly inserted keys {0, 2, . . . , 14} create one new node in each of these null pointers. (This fact is not hard to prove by induction.) As a consequence, the new tree is full (since the internal nodes hold the odd keys and the even keys fill in all the null pointers), and the height has increased by exactly one. Since the original tree is arbitrary, the final tree need not be complete.


Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Human Rights After the Post-Cold War (Mark Goodale) Part I: Regrounding the Idea of Human Rights Chapter 2: Human Rights and the Politics of Contestation (Michael Goodhart) Chapter 3: Why Act Towards One Another "In a Spirit of Brotherhood"?: The Grounds of Human Rights (Michael J. Perry) Chapter 4: An Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights and Human Dignity (Ari Kohen) Chapter 5: The "Right to Have Rights" to the Rescue: From Human Rights to Global Democracy (Eva Erman) Part II: Human Rights and the Problem of the State Chapter 6: Prosecuting Human Rights Violations: Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Torture (Tobias Kelly) Chapter 7: Solidarity and Accountability: Rethinking Citizenship and Human Rights (Karen Faulk) Part III: Politics and the Practice of Human Rights Chapter 8: Whose Vernacular?: Translating Human Rights in Local Contexts (Daniel Goldstein) Chapter 9: Sacred Graves and Human Rights (Adam Rosenblatt) Chapter 10: Human Rights Monitoring and the Question of Indicators (Sally Engle Merry) Part IV: Confronting Pathologies of Power Chapter 11: The Paradox of Perpetration: A View From the Cambodian Genocide (Alexander Laban Hinton) Chapter 12: "Why We Care": Constructing Solidarity (Alison Brysk) Chapter 13: Historical Amnesia, Genocide, and the Rejection of Universal Human Rights (Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann) Part V: Reproduction in the Age of Human Rights Chapter 14: The Law's Legal Anthropology (Ronald Niezen) Chapter 15: Cutting Human Rights Down to Size (Harri Englund) Chapter 16: Acceptable Uses of People (Pheng Cheah)


Transition P systems and deterministic P systems with active membranes (see [4]) are simulated in various programming languages, and some of them are used to solve NP-complete problems as SAT, Subset Sum, Knapsack, and partition problems. P systems with active membranes, input membrane and external output are simulated in CLIPS, and used to solve NP-complete problems (see [5]). New variants of these simulators provide symport-antiport rules, and catalysts. A more complex simulator written in Visual C++ for P systems with active membranes and catalytic P systems is presented in [2]. It provides a graphical simulator, interactive definition, visualization of a defined membrane system, a scalable graphical representation of the computation, and step-by-step observations of the membrane system behavior. A parallel and cluster implementation for transition P systems in C++ and MPI is presented in [1]. The rules are implemented as threads. At the initialization phase, one thread is created for each rule. Since each rule is modelled as a separate thread, it should have the ability to decide its own applicability in a particular


Abstract: 50 of my short publications as of september 4, 2019 were found to be of 4 levels of importance : ( I note that 50 is a magic number of physics)


Double angle drills have recently been used to improve the surface finish in drilling. The double angle drill consists of lower edges at a large wedge angle and upper edges at a small wedge angle on the lips. The paper discusses the cutting processes of the double angle drill in analysis and experiment. A force model is applied to simulate the cutting force and the chip flow direction. The cutting tests are conducted to verify the force model in drilling of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and aluminum alloy (A7075) with a single and a double angle drills. The double angle drill is effective in control of delamination in drilling of CFRP due to reduction of the thrust force. Meanwhile, in drilling of A7075, the small wedge angle of the upper edges on the double angle drill is not effective in reduction of the thrust forces. The curved edge at the end of the lip, in turn, promotes burr formation in drilling of A7075. The effectiveness of the double angle drill depends on the workpiece material.


Streamline cab side-window on270km/h high-sp eed train is developed.Three dimensional modeling method is ap plied to the sid e-window and its edges/surfaces are described as NURBS curves/surfaces.A fea sible de-sign is presented and interference is tested.This new type side-wind ow can decrease the shaping difficulty,im prove aero dynamic characteristic and strengthen cab structure of high-speed train.


Supply chain (SC) needs to develop knowledge to gain competitive advantage. However, mere possession of knowledge does not guarantee an edge in competition. Knowledge management (KM) plays an important role in SC to create, build, maintain and utilise knowledge to achieve competitive advantage. The aim of this paper is to identify and prioritise the barriers of KM adoption in SC. It helps organisations to concentrate on high rank barriers and develop strategies to tackle them on priority. To do so, fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method is proposed in this paper. Also empirical study presented to illustrate the proposed method and demonstrate its usefulness. A total of 28 barriers were identified through literature review and expert's opinion. These barriers were categorised into five major criteria. The result of the study indicates that 'lack of top management commitment', 'KM not integrated in business processes' and 'lack of proper organisational structure to create and share knowledge' are the three most important barriers of KM adoption in SC. The case organisation should overcome these barriers with higher priority for effective KM adoption in SC.


Cosmetic or dermatological composition for topical use comprises a dibenzoylmethane UV filter and an amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone and does not contain p-methylbenzylidene camphor. Cosmetic or dermatological composition for topical use comprises a dibenzoylmethane UV filter and an amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone of formula (I) and does not contain p-methylbenzylidene camphor. R , R = H, 1-20C alkyl, 2-10C alkenyl, 3-10C cycloalkyl or 3-10C cycloalkenyl, or NR R is a 5- or 6-membered ring; R , R = 1-20C alkyl, 2-10C alkenyl, 3-10C cycloalkyl, 3-10C cycloalkenyl, 1-12C alkoxy, 1-20C alkoxycarbonyl, 1-12C alkylamino, 1-12C dialkylamino, optionally substituted (hetero)aryl or a water-solubilizing carboxylate, sulfonate or ammonium group; X = H, COOR or CONR R ; R -R = H, 1-20C alkyl, 2-10C alkenyl, 3-10C cycloalkyl, 3-10C cycloalkenyl, (YO)oZ or aryl; Y = (CH2)2, (CH2)3, (CH2)4 or CH(Me)CH2; Z = Et, n-Pr, n-Bu or i-Pr; m, n = 0-3; o = 1-2. An Independent claim is also included for a method for improving the UV stability of a dibenzoylmethane derivative in a cosmetic or dermatological composition not containing p-methylbenzylidene camphor, comprising associating at least one compound (I) with the dibenzoylmethane derivative.


Objective To explore clinical manifestations of severe hand-foot-mouth disease to improve the diagnosis and treatment.Methods Clinical data of severe hand-foot-mouth disease in 6 patients with vegetative nerve functional disturbance during February 2011 and July 2012 in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed.Results In the initial stage,6 patients had vegetative nerve functional disturbance signs such as vomiting,hidrosis,hypertension,four limbs trembling,hypermyotonia,alternate blush and pale face.Enterovirus 71 of aetiology examination was positive,and the hand-foot-mouth disease was confirmed.All patients were cured and discharged after dehydration treatment and reducing intracranial hypertension and pulmonary edema treatment.Conclusion The clinical manifestation of severe hand-foot-mouth disease is complex,so treatment of dehydration and reducing intracranial hypertension,pulmonary vascular resistance and returned blood volume should be performed when patients suffer from vegetative nerve functional disturbance,in order to obstruct neurogenic pulmonary edema and improve prognosis.


In this study I examine the ways that social policy and (step)family discourse are constituted by the cultural and legal priority granted to biological kinship ties. I call the discourses that perpetuate the primacy of biological kinship the politics of biology. The purpose of the study is to examine the ways that the politics of biology are constituted, expressed and challenged in Swedish late modernity. The methodological framework is inspired by discourse theory where struggles over meaning are central to the analysis, which is two-fold. Firstly, the politics of biology are traced in social policy and family law. I argue that even though late modern family forms come in a multitude of different constellations, the heterosexual, nuclear, first marriage family stands as a model and biological ties between parents and children are privileged over social ties. Secondly, I use interviews conducted with four young adults brought up in stepfamilies, with one or more social parents. The purpose being to examine tensions over the meaning of family and parenthood. These young adults share the experience of negotiating the language of kinship relations, possibly challenging hegemonic meanings of words and symbols associated with the family. (Less)


The need to develop and evaluate frailty-related interventions is becoming more pertinent as life expectancy increases. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMsare arguably essential in this field of research and can be defined as "any report of the status of a patient's health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient's response by a clinician or anyone else" (FDA 2009). Numerous validated questionnaires can be classed as PROMsbut seem inconsistently used, and of uncertain relevance to/for those living with frailty. This rapid review aimed to identify existing PROMsused in research with older people living with frailty.

 PubMed and Cochrane were searched (up to 24/11/22). Inclusion criteria were quantitative studies, use of a PROM, and either measurement of frailty or inclusion of older adults as participants. Distinguishing PROMsfrom questionnaire-based clinical assessments was necessary, and criteria were created to do this. 197 records were screened. PROMswere categorised according to the domain they assess, based on a standard set of health outcome measures for older people (Akpan et al, 2018).

 90 studies were included. 119 unique PROMswere used 289 times, most frequently the SF-36 (n=23), EQ-5D (n=21) and Barthel Index (n=14). The most frequently assessed outcome domains included "Mood and Emotional Health", and "Activities of Daily Living". Outcome domains with fewer usages included "Participation in Decision Making" and "Carer Burden".

 PROM usage in frailty research is highly heterogeneous. The most frequently used PROMsomit outcomes that are important to people with frailty (e.g. Akpan et al 2018, Herrler et al 2021, Mayo et al 2022). Further research should investigate the importance of specific outcomes (and thus identify particularly relevant PROMs to people living at different stages of frailty severity. More consistency of PROM use could facilitate evaluation of different frailty interventions.


Pancreatic cancer is a kind of digestive system cancer,known as highly malignant,rapid progression,low resection rate and poor prognosis.Patients often lose the chance of radical resection surgery because of late diagnosis.Radiotherapy,chemotherapy as well as other treatments are also not satisfactory.In recent years,with the development of intervention technology,minimally invasive intervention therapy has become a key research direction which can improve the quality of life and prolong the survival rate.Of those,the intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy,with its relative efficiency,safety,simplification,and lower complications and toxicity,has been one of the important treatments technique for unresectable patients.What's more,the new adjuvant chemotherapy mainly by intra-arterial chemotherapy has a remarkable significance in improving the resection rate and overall survival.Under the current hot point research on the tumor gene therapy for cancer,target therapy combined with intra-arterial therapy may be a promising direction for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.


Suicide is a major problem among transitional-aged youth, yet little is known about how this phenomenon impacts youth with disabilities. This exploratory study sought to glean


The extraordinary litigation in 1944 that enveloped Sir William Dobell, one of Australia's best known artists, ostensibly addressed whether his painting of a fellow artist, Joshua Smith, constituted a portrait or a caricature and thus whether it qualified for the prestigious Archibald Prize. However, there was much more to the litigation than a clash between modernism and traditionalism in portraiture. It constituted an archetypal example of the ways in which litigation can have counter-therapeutic effects for all who are party to it unless suitable prophylactic measures are taken or at least strategies are exercised to reduce its toxicity.


Charioteering as a metaphor for correct and balanced thinking has been written about since Homer. The Iliad presents the divine charioteering model as exemplified by Hera and Athena and examines how the fate of mortal charioteers including Antilokhos, Patroklos and Achilles is determined based on their ability to adhere to this model. Authors as diverse as Plato, Proclus, Pindar and Euripides build upon the divine charioteering model as they show examples of charioteers who, in varying degrees, follow this model. This paper will demonstrate that heroes who veer from the model of equilibrium and moderation provided by the gods, violate justice [dikē] with their hubris and incur agony [agōn] from the divinity they antagonize.


The type of film flow whereby the fluid flows in the form of many streamlets is typically called a rivulet flow. Whereas an individual streamlet bounded by two contact lines is called a rivulet. Special attention has been paid to rivulet flows because of their practical value for a variety of devices in power engineering and chemical technology, such as absorbers, distillation columns, evaporators, and heat exchangers for the liquefaction of natural gas. In the present paper the waves in vertical rivulet are investigated analytically. The Kapitza-Shkadov model is used to describe the wavy rivulet flow since it was well proven in the study of nonlinear waves in falling liquid films over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The equations of the wavy rivulet flow are derived on the basis of the weighed residual method. These equations turn out to be the projections of the Shkadov's model equations on system of basis functions, constructed in special way. Linearizing these equations results in the dispersion relations for plane waves. The stability criterion for rivulet flows is deduced, and the analysis of dispersion relations depending on dimensionless parameters is carried out.


Cancer is a malignant abnormal growth of cells, one of the most dreaded and complex diseases. It concerns with several tempo spatial changes in cell composition, which finally lead to neoplasia. Various types of cancers have been reported. Chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery may cure them. Herbal remedies are supposed to be harmless as they cause fewer complications and are less likely to habitual. Antioxidant compositions of therapeutic plants show the anticancer activity and therefore, use of different proportions of the active components to formulate various standardized preparation with single or multiple components for their synergistic effects play a crucial role in curing cancer. Evaluation parameters to assess the in vitro anticancer activity includes Caspase-3, Caspase-9, alamar blue, LDH assay, XTT assay, sulforhodamine-B assay, MTT assay, DNA fragmentation assay, neutral red uptake cytotoxic assay, tryphan blue assay. Evaluation of dried extract or granules includes bulk density, tapped density, Carr's index, Hausner's ratio, angle of repose while the tablets evaluated by drug-excipient compatibility study by FT-IR, stability studies, hardness, thickness, weight variation, friability, disintegration time and dissolution test.


where the inf is taken over all mappings φ: Υ -* R (or C), is called the precision of recovering / o n W from the information F. The problem of recovery of functionals was first posed by S.A. Smolyak in 1965. Much work has been devoted to it subsequently (see the survey by Micchelli and Rivlin [1]). In this paper we state some general results concerning problems of recovery, sharpen known theorems, establish the connection of these problems with other problems of approximation theory, and discuss several specific results.


The problem put under focus stems from cultivation of doctoral actions, reactions and attitudes of doctors already practicing in other areas and that resolve to migrate to the areas of Science and Math Education to take-on collaboration-training for new doctors formation in Science Education or Mathematics Education, in accord with North Regional Brazilian context claims. With this in mind, doctors professionally bound to higher education Institutions – Universities and Federal Institutes – as a NET located in Legal Amazon assume responsibilities which include taking on partnerships in order to increase the number of teachers held for the training of doctors in the newly created NET. Even already being doctors and working in the so-called "hard areas" or in related fields, these doctors seek accreditation in a newly created doctoral program, with desire and willingness to migrate to focus and share scientific-pedagogical training in a high positive quality new doctors in Education Science and Mathematics Education. The "migrant doctors" aim to establish themselves in this new/other program assuming new formative relationships in order to provide both the necessary visibility to this area in its region of insertion, and the production of positive and desirable responses for the academic, scientific and pedagogical advancement of higher education in the training of doctors. These doctors who are working in the NET for accrediting doctor trainers since two years in a developing regional programme will be investigated pursuant to investigative narrative mode of qualitative research, in the light of epistemological, theoretical and methodological foundations of teaching and research. So as, in their accession processes or proposed-resistance the migrating doctors will be investigated especially in relation to both (i) their participation as teachers-researchers held forming quality doctors for this century while generating academic production in the areas being focused on by the NET, and (ii) evidence of interest and commitment as doctors in exercise in the training of new doctors aiming both with the quality of higher education in which they act, and with the improvement of the quality of basic education, and scientific research in the North Region in which this NET works in Brazilian context. The results of this investigation other than to express joy in relation to the quality of the new doctors to be differentiated, certainly imply further efforts of the professors-doctors and researchers in particular, by the conditions of other migrants to the area of Science and Mathematics Education. The propositions and actions thus arising require knowing and awareness of theoretical-methodological and epistemological issues for this new professional area of expertise. This becomes especially relevant in order to overcome traditional assumptions of a positivist and fragmentary doctoral training position, largely present in these terms in the teacher training process of the last century (XX), but whose cultivation in this century (XXI) becomes essential to discard to abolish the two-tier and hierarchical vision between knowledge and teaching practices, replacing it with another vision put in a political and epistemological perspective


The discovery of N methyl D aspartate (NMDA) receptor and its role in the perception of pain lead to the attention of all the clinical researchers towards ketamine as a potent helper in the whole regimen of pain management 1. Studies regarding the effectiveness of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists for the management of post-surgical pain had been on the rise in the form of clinical trials since the last 25 to 30 years. Even after so many researches, there is a lot of debate over the advantageous effects of ketamine in the current settings. Also, ketamine comes under the group of psychotomimetic drugs and in turn, it mimics the symptoms of psychosis-like hallucinations, delusions or delirium. Due to this behaviour, its worldwide use in clinical practice is restricted. Schmid et al2 in 1999, in his study, concluded the efficacy of ketamine as an analgesic but the same study also concluded the diversity of the behaviour of ketamine in variable clinical settings. Due to such anomalous behaviour, researchers were unable to firmly calculate the risk-benefit ratio of the use of ketamine. Hence more and more studies in different clinical settings and with variable analgesic regimens are required to explore the possibility of establishment of ketamine as a safe analgesic and our study aims to address the same problems.


This study simultaneously assessed jump heights derived from a force platform and a Vertec as well as the reliability of each instrument. Twenty-one recreationally active adults performed 3 maximal countermovement jumps reaching to a Vertec that was placed above the force platform. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to assess differences between Vertec jump height and force platform derived jump height. Results revealed a 27% higher jump height when assessed by the Vertec, compared to the force platform. Intra-class correlations were used to assess trial-to-trial reliability. Both instruments displayed excellent reliability. Practitioners could use the following regression equation to interpret measurements from the force platform: Vertec jump height = force platform height (1.024) + 0.142m.


In order to increase the gross milk production and increase the number of breeding cattle in the farms in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), dairy cattle of Red steppe breed have been imported. Getting into the new climatic and economic conditions of housing and feeding, the body of imported cattle undergoes deep physiological and biochemical changes, goes through the process of adaptation. The purpose of the work was to study the nature of lactation of cows of Red steppe and local Simmental breeds under the economic conditions in Central Yakutia. The intensity and uniformity of lactation during the year has an important role in determining the value of dairy productivity of cows. The ability of cows to give evenly or sharply decreasing milk yields during lactation tends to be inherited, so it should be taken into account in breeding work. The lactation curve provides additional information about the potential of dairy productivity of cows and the impact of feeding, housing and operation conditions on the lactation process. It has been found that the winter ration of lactating cows contained 9,4 EFU and 1139 g of digestible protein, which amounted to 89,9 and 107,0 % of the feeding norm. In the structure of the ration, the proportion of bulky feed occupied 36 %, succulent feed 24 % and concentrated feed 40 %. The sugar-protein ratio was 0,43, which indicated a deficiency in the carbohydrate ration. It was found that under the same conditions of feeding and housing, the cows under study showed a two-vertex level of the lactation curve. In cows of both breeds the peak of the lactation curve occurred during the summer lactation period with the release of animals for summer pasture maintenance. Then, in cows of both breeds the lactation curve began to gradually decrease. Valuable are those animals whose leveled type of lactation and milk yield are housed at a fairly constant level. The indicator of lactation usefulness in cows of Red steppe breed was equal to 68,24 %, in Simmental breed 64,24 %.


Nowadays, when Romania is a full member of the European Community, it is necessary to implement a system for testing and diagnose the spraying machines. In order to do this, there are special equipments that can tell to operator what is fault in a spraying machine. The parameters that the test stand can measure are: distribution uniformity which is tested for the whole width of the machine; the nozzle flow and all the correlations between the nozzles; the pump nominal pressure and flow. Using this state of the art equipment was possible to study the uniformity distribution for EEP-600 mounted sprayer, equipped with IDK 120-02 nozzle, for different working pressures and boom heights.


A method of forming an alignment layer for a liquid crystal display device, comprising: Attaching a transfer film (100) on a platen, said transfer film (100) has a raised portion (105) with halftone dots of the first magnitude (120a), and halftone dots of the second magnitude (120b), wherein the halftone dots of the first magnitude (120a) are larger than the halftone dots of the second magnitude (120b), the halftone dots of the first magnitude (120a) in a central portion (103) of the raised portion (105) and the halftone dots of the second magnitude (120b) in an edge portion (102) of the raised portion (105), and sizes of grooves (125a, 125b) between the halftone dots (120a, 120b) corresponding to the sizes of halftone dots (120a, 120b) are proportional; Placing a substrate on a printing table; Providing alignment solution on a screen roller by using a stripping roller; and Transmitting the alignment solution from the engraved roll to the transfer film (100) and then coating the alignment solution on the substrate, so that an alignment layer is formed on the substrate.


A series of 2-hydroquinoneporphyrins and their metal complexes were synthesised by direct reactions of 2-nitro-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrins and their metal complexes(2-NO2MTPP) to hydroquinone.The results show that the yields of their corresponding Zn(Ⅱ) complexes are markedly on the low side,and the yields of their corresponding tetra(4-hydroxyphenyl)porphyrin are markedly on the increase,and the yields of their corresponding tetra(4-methoxyphenyl)porphyrin are markedly on the decrease.The coordinate bond of metallic ions in 2-NO2MTPP and structural feature of substituents on mesophenyl ring of 2-NO2MTPP have marked influence on their relevant reactions for the electronic effect,steric strain and reaction mechanism.


Sir, The Journal of Forensic Sciences recently published a paper in which Lockhart and Satya-Murti review the literature in both clinical and forensic decision making as it relates to strategies for reducing bias (1). The paper provides some interesting comparisons between how these two fields have addressed issues of bias to date. I am concerned, however, about the authors' presentation of some of the literature relating to bias in forensic science. In particular, the authors have cited several studies conducted by myself and my colleagues' (2–6), but have either misinterpreted our findings, or have misused the citations to support their point. The statements in question are in the following paragraph (p. 3):


In this paper, the magnetic domain formation process on a moving disk for Tb/sub 23/Fe/sub 77/ magneto-optical recording thin film under the magnetic field modulation recording was investigated by a new simulation method. The simulation results showed that the convex prior edge of the domain was instantly formed and pinned when the magnetic field changed from low state to high state. Then, the domain boundary was lengthened opposite to the disk moving direction without changing the width during the high state of the applied magnetic field. As the magnetic field changed from high state to low state, the concave posterior edge of the domain was simultaneously formed and pinned, and the domain became a closed chevron shape. Both edges closely resemble the Curie temperature contour. There existed a threshold applied magnetic field strength, and the domain could not be formed when the applied field strength was below the threshold value, The value of the threshold field was approximately the same as the demagnetizing field around Tc, but reversed in polarity, and it increased with the laser power. The domain width increased as the applied field increased above the threshold value, and it rapidly became saturated when the applied field was about 30 Oe greater than the threshold value, There also existed a threshold laser power, below which the domain could not be formed. The threshold power was 3.3 mW for Tb/sub 23/Fe/sub 77/. The domain width increased monotonically with the laser power for high applied magnetic field, and it increased (then decreased) with the laser power when the applied magnetic field was closed to the threshold value.


While competition among tourist destinations continues to grow, national, regional and local culture is increasingly becoming a mighty source of new products and activities aimed at attracting and entertaining tourists. In this, the role of gastronomy is taking on increasingly greater meaning, not only because eating is central to any tourist experience, but also because gastronomy is emerging as an inevitable component in building national and regional identity. Istria, Croatia' s most developed tourist region, accommodates more than 200, 000 tourists on a daily basis throughout the high season. The gastronomic offering of both its coastal and rural areas is highly developed. Based on studies carried out, the authors explore the prevalence of regional indigenous food and beverage offerings in the hotels and restaurants of coastal Istria and in catering establishments in rural Istria. Surveys have been conducted among tourists to identify their ratings of and opinions on the variety and quality of the local gastronomic offering. Despite the expansion of globalisation to gastronomy, food remains undeniably linked to its country of origin as part of a country' s wealth and heritage, and each country and region has its own distinguishing features that make it typical, while setting it apart from the rest of the world and other tourist destinations.


22 23 CaV2.1 Ca 2+ channels play a key role in triggering neurotransmitter release and mediating synaptic transmission. 24 Familial hemiplegic migraine type-1 (FHM-1) is caused by missense mutations in the CACNA1A gene that 25 encodes the α1A pore-forming subunit of CaV2.1 Ca 2+ channels. We used knock-in (KI) transgenic mice 26 harbouring the pathogenic FHM-1 mutation R192Q to study integration of inhibitory and excitatory 27 neurotransmission in the principle neurons of the lateral superior olive (LSO) in the auditory brainstem. We 28 tested if the R192Q FHM-1 mutation differentially effects excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission, 29 disturbing the normal balance between excitation and inhibition in the nucleus. Whole cell patch-clamp was used 30 to measure neurotransmitter elicited excitatory (EPSCs) and inhibitory (IPSCs) postsynaptic currents in wild31 type (WT) and R192Q KI mice. Our results show that the FHM-1 mutation in CaV2.1 channels has diverse 32 effects. Evoked EPSC amplitudes are smaller whereas IPSC and miniature IPSC amplitudes are larger in R192Q 33 KI compared to WT mice. In addition, in R192Q KI mice, the release probability is enhanced compared to WT, 34 at both inhibitory (0.59 ± 0.02 vs 0.48 ± 0.01, P = 10 -4 , Student ́s t-test) and excitatory synapses (0.72 ± 0.02 vs 35 *Manuscript Click here to view linked References


A chlorine doped titanium dioxide photocatalyst was synthesized by a hydrothermal process using silica gel as a carrier, Ti(SO4)2 as a Ti source, and NaCl as a Cl source. We discuss factors such as the doping ratio of chlorine to titanium, the calcination temperature, and the ratio of titanium to silicon, all of which influence the photocatalytic activity of the sample. We found that the best chlorine to titanium ratio (nCl/nTi) was 15%, the best calcination temperature was 750 益, and the best ratio of titanium to silicon (nTi/nSi) was 3颐1. The BET surface area of the chlorine doped titanium dioxide supported on SiO2 (CTS) was 60.8 m2 ·g-1. No rutile phase of TiO2 was formed in the CTS after calcination at high temperature indicating that the presence of silica inhibited the phase transformation of TiO2 from anatase phase to rutile phase. It also influences the structural and textural properties of the chlorine doped titanium dioxide (CT). A phenol degradation test showed that the photocatalytic activity of the CTS was better than that of the CT although the TiO2 concentration in the CTS was 0.7740 g·g-1, which was less than that of the CT.


the M negative twin pairs had a greater environmental source of variance operating than M positive pairs.2 The advent of gene probes to detect DNA polymorphic variation (gene deletions, mutations, and so on) will permit the twin method to explore the quantitative aspects of geneenvironment interaction in great detail. Although there has been criticism of relying on the use of the twin method alone in studying behaviour,1 these criticisms are probably not as valid in medical research where physical and chemical measurements are being made.


In lossy video coding, in-loop filter can improve the image reconstruction by reducing compression artifacts and distortions. Recently, several CNN-based in-loop filtering algorithms are proposed to improve HEVC. However, something deficient is still limiting their capability to further boost the coding efficiency. Specifically, things like prediction residuals and coding-unit boundaries, which is quite relevant to the compression artifacts, were usually neglected; moreover, the loss functions adopted in these methods usually haven't been regularized properly. To improve these inadequacies, we propose a deep learning based in-loop filter for HEVC to improve its rate-distortion performance. Firstly, prediction residuals, the compression of which is actually where the encoding noise directly results from, are skillfully considered to help filtering. Then, we unify a block-based measurement-reconstruction process and a neighborhood-based filtering process into one end-to-end all-convolutional architecture to catch the relevance between compression noise and the pixel's related position to the coding block boundaries. Finally, for network training, total-variation model is adopted to derive the loss function by MAP (maximum a posteriori) estimation for better regularization. Experimentally, our proposed in-loop filtering method brings average 6.5% and 4.3% BD-rate reduction under AI and RA configuration respectively.


Hyperthyroidism affects about 2% of women. It is often treated with radioactive iodine, but the long-term effects of this disease on mortality are not well known. This study compared mortality data for a population-based U.K. cohort of 7,209 subjects with hyperthyroidism, treated with radioactive iodine …


The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent public health journals, having maintained its role as the organization's "principal scientific organ", This dual focus has not sprung up overnight but has been the result of an evolutionary process over its 60-year history. Several changes to both its content and format and, crucially, the publication of several landmark articles have helped forge the journal's unique identity. When it was launched in 1948, as a deliberate continuation of the earlier Bulletin of the League of Nations Health Organization, the Bulletin was expected to have an important influence on medical opinion in the widest sense, and especially on the opinions of those responsible for formulating and guiding medical theory and practice: that is, medical scientists and teachers, and public health administrators. The first few issues of the Bulletin were distributed free to national health and research institutes, medical schools and faculty libraries, often in exchange for medical journals. Subscriptions were soon offered; in June 1948, there were almost 600 paid subscribers, though few were private individuals. The work of WHO'S Expert Advisory Committees--external international experts invited to advise WHO on specific subjects--was the main "inspiration" for much of the Bulletin's early content. The journal's main function at that time was also to publish studies relevant to the Expert Committees' work and to cover subjects for which there were experts within the WHO secretariat. The Executive Board believed the Bulletin should publish articles on the following six categories: * laboratory studies on topics such as biological standardization and communicable diseases, one of the main objectives being to encourage the use of uniform methods to obtain comparable results; * internationally significant studies of results achieved by specific disease control methods; * studies of the geographical distribution of diseases; * reports of surveys, especially those involving studies of relevant world literature and visits to countries; reports of original findings made in the course of field programmes; and * review articles based primarily on surveys of literature summarizing the present state of knowledge in different fields By October 1958, the Bulletin was mainly publishing articles on communicable diseases, especially malaria and tuberculosis. By this time, entire issues of the Bulletin dedicated to a specific topic had started to appear, ranging from plague control (1953) and environmental sanitation (1954) to occupational health (1955) and the serology of syphilis (1956). In 1963, the Bulletin started to publish supplements to the regular volumes, covering topics of interest to the public health community--often with a more public health than scientific focus. One of the first was devoted to meningitis in Africa. This balance between science and its application for public health purposes would continue to characterize the journal for decades to come. By the end of the 1950s, the Bulletin had established a clear international character. A report delivered to the 25th session of the WHO Executive Board in 1959 noted that 67% of articles published since the journal's inception qualified as "international or unrelated to a geographical area". The Bulletin's format was also evolving along with the content. In 1950, a bibliographical section (containing references relevant to the international sanitary conventions) was included and the Executive Board authorized the publication of a single edition containing articles in French or English, with summaries in both these working languages. In 1959, the format and the cover were redesigned, with a larger page size and smaller print with a double-column layout, facilitating the inclusion of more tables, graphs, maps and other illustrative material. …


This study aims to look at the variables that affect financial sustainability. The data used are banking financial statement data contained in the FSS in 2013 to 2017. The value used to measure financial sustainability is FSS. The value of FSS as the dependent variable is divided into two categories, namely banks that are sustainable and banks that are not sustainable. Response variables used are financial ratios consisting of ROA, ROE, CTD, LTD, DTA, and CTA. The analysis used is logistic regression. Based on the results of the logistic regression model that is formed, a significant variable influences sustainability is ROA and LTA. The odds ratio values for the ROA and ROE variables are 1.2 and 2.2. This means that there is an increasing trend of 1.2 and 2.2 times for better financial sustainability with each added value of ROA and ROE. In other words, the greater the value of ROA or ROE, the greater the possibility of banking for financial sustainability. Chi-square test shows the p-value of 0.27 is greater than alpha. This shows the model meets the goodness of fit.
Keywords: Financial Sustainability, Financial Ratio, Logistic Regression, Odds Ratio


Along with the rapid economic development in rural areas of Chongqing city,the species of invasive agricultural plants in this city have appeared an increasing trend.According to an extensive investigation,on the basis of original 46 invasive agricultural plant species which were surveyed in the year 2004,now Chongqing city adds another 18 species,belonging to 10 families,16 genera.The paper made a detailed description on the characteristics and corresponding control measures of various invasive agricultural plants in Chongqing.


The periphery is defined not just by race or economic status, but by the degree to which different groups have been assimilated into the Industrial Age mindset and power structures. Within organisations, this might mean young people still not socialised into the norms and mental models of the organisation or its market.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to formulate porridge using orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP), soybean and moringa ingredients that optimizes its nutritional quality and acceptability. Design/methodology/approach – A 16-run constrained D-optimal mixture design was used to evaluate proximate compositions and sensory acceptability of the products. Each composition and acceptability response variable was optimized separately, and then, the sweet spot that optimizes all was determined. Findings – The protein, fiber, total ash, carbohydrate, iron and carotenoid contents as well as major sensory quality indicators were significantly affected by soybean, moringa and OFSP blends. However, the influence of the mixture on fat content was weak. Sensory acceptability was high for porridges processed from high OFSP and soybean, but higher nutritional quality was obtained from higher moringa levels. Graphical optimization showed that blends containing 68-75 per cent OFSP, 17-26 per cent soybean and 5-8 per cen...


A numerical experiment is conducted on the decay of a sine-Gordon breather under simple dissipation. Both the spatial configuration and the (nonlinear) spectral configurations are measured numerically. The spectral configuration establishes that the breather is annihilated in finite time and that the annihilation process is accomplished by the generation of a long-wavelength packet of dispersive radiation. The nonlinear radiation density, which is measured numerically, is seen to be order 1 and is extremely well approximated by a sech profile in k space. Finally, a representation of the spectral configuration by ''resonance'' states is investigated.


Process improvements resulting in high film quality and reduced insertion loss have enabled improved performance thin film filters for DWDM applications. Thin film filters with 5 and 6 cavities offer wider passbands and reduced CD within a specified clear channel. Here we have shown that 5 and 6-cavity 100 GHz filters can be made with a clear channel significantly greater than 0.4 nm wide and maximum CD magnitudes in the clear channel below 30 ps/nm to meet the performance requirements of next generation transmission systems operating at 40 Gb/s.


Super carbon nanotubes (SCNTs) are of interest in material design because of their strength and weight characteristics. In this paper, we present a graph algebra‐based approach to model and construct SCNTs of arbitrary order. The SCNTs are represented by directed graphs with Y junctions as basic modeling element. A new data structure to store these graphs is proposed that capitalizes on the hierarchy within SCNTs and allows efficient queries for nodes and edges. Symmetry considerations for SCNTs are conducted and related to the graph algebra‐based modeling. We present an extended and improved algorithm for simulating the mechanical behavior of SCNTs. Compared with our previous work on level 0 SCNTs, the performance is improved by a factor higher than 2 when running in serial and a factor up to 4.4 when running in parallel on a 16‐core symmetric multiprocessing system. A new pre‐processing step exploiting structural symmetry and an improved proximity‐aware matrix‐vector‐multiplication routine make this performance improvement possible while only consuming little additional memory. We also now consider SCNTs of order 1 and 2. Experimental results show that our new solver is up to 1.4 times faster than a compressed‐row‐storage based reference solver, on order 0, 1, and 2 SCNTs, with and without deformations, while requiring only half the memory. Because memory is the limiting factor for the feasibility of such simulations, our new approach significantly expands the realm of feasibility for such simulations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Nowadays, the energy and agriculture sectors are united for financial efficiency, and it brought the question to minds "can be stored the electrical energy that used in agriculture with an agricultural product?". In this study, lavender essential oil, it obtained from Lavandula angustifolia, was used as a part of energy storage system. The essential oil was produced by distillation method. To energy storage performance analysis, the simple electrochemical capacitor was formed with platin foils and lavender essential oil. The capacitor application performances showed that the lavender essential oil can energy storage up to 4 Voltages (V). A capacity of 92 milli-Farad per cm2 (mF/cm2) was obtained with Lavender essential oil in the range of 0-4 V, and this value showed that lavender essential oil can be used in capacitors, as an electrolyte material. The results when evaluated in terms of agricultural economics, 1 million capacitors with a size of 1 cm2 can be produced with 1 ton lavender crops production per decare. Moreover, with lavender capacitors, the amount of energy required for a farm of 1000 hectares can be stored with 1000 capacitors of 10 cm2. Also, the stored energy is more than the farm's annual energy consumption, saving the farm ~534 USD annually on energy costs. In the case that all farm energy is produced with renewable energy sources, the annual profit is calculated as ~23697 USD. Also, the exploring of electrochemical capacitor electrolyte property of lavender essential oil could create an alternative sales pitch for agricultural producers.


Medicaments for endodontic treatrnent have strong disinfecting action, but they are irritating to living tissue and cause extensive and severe cellular injury. In pharmacological study there are few reports concerned with the relationship between their principal action and toxicities. In this study five preparations used for endodontic treatment, formalin cresol (FC), formalin guaiacol (FG), phenol camphor (CC), parachlorophenol camphor (PC) and phenol thymol (PT), were subjected to the examination of antimicrobial efficacy, cytotoxicity and inflammatory potential. Liquefied phenol (P) was used as a standard substance for comparison. In the first study, the antimicrobial effect was tested on five kinds of strains by the paper disc method, and the diameter of inhibitory zone was measured. In the second study, the cytotoxic effect on L cell tissue culture system was tested, and 50% inhibitory concentration for cell growth was examined. In the third study the inflammatory potential of rabbit dorsal skin was examined by Evans blue test and was evaluated according to the intensity of blue eruption forrnation and cauterization. The area of blue eruption was rneasured by a digitizing systern of a personal computer. The results obtained from the above were as follows: 1. Inhibitory potency ratio on the area of inhibitory zone to P is 1.310 for FC, 1.2-10 for FG, O,4-O.7 for CC, 1.0-1.9 for PC, and 1.2-3.2 for PT. 2. 0n the basis of 50% L cell inhibitory concentration, the comparative intensity of cytotoxicity is 16 times for FC and FG, O.2 times for CC, 3.0 times for PC and 8.0 times for PT,


A method and apparatus for extruding the first fluid foamable through a porous element to produce a first extrudate sparkling while simultaneously distributing a second liquid material preferably contains a particulate material adjacent the first extrudate.


With the foundation of the German Historical Institute in London more than twenty years ago 'the edition of sources', among other tasks and topics, was put on its agenda. However, not until 1994 did the Institute undertake to edit a selection of the British ambassadorial reports from Germany during the period 1816 to 1866. The editors hope that this edition will shed new light on official British perceptions of German states and German affairs in the decisive period of political transition from the German Federation to the German Empire, and thereby contribute to the history of nineteenth century British-German relations. The fact that we are now in a position to present the first of a series of four volumes is due to the help and generosity of many people. In the first place I should like to thank the Keeper of the British Public Record Office, Ms Sara Tyacke, for permission to print the text chosen from the vast collection of Foreign Office reports, and I very much appreciate the advice and support given throughout by the staff of the Public Record Office. At the same time I wish to express my gratitude to the Royal Historical Society, and here especially to its President, Peter Marshall, and its Literary Director, David Eastwood, for the interest they took in the project and for their generous support in agreeing to organise the publication as a joint venture I cannot think of a better place for this edition than the Camden Series. As far as the selection, preparation and annotation of the documents is concerned I am grateful to Dr Marita Baumgarten and Dr Andrea Hopp for their assistance and contributions, as well as Dr Anika Mombauer who scrupulously checked the transcripts against the originals. When annotations had to be translated into English we could always rely on Dr Angela Davies and Jane Rafferty. Above all, however, I am indebted to Dr Sabine Freitag who carried the bulk of the workload with neverfailing enthusiasm. This book is actually her book.


Desiliconization of a fine accumulative bauxite with low A/S value by flotation was studied.The results show that,because of the large proportion of slime,the separation efficiency of this accumulative bauxite is not good when following the traditional reagent system for sedimentary bauxite flotation.Using a newly-developed activator,TK,the recovery of aluminum minerals can be evidently increased,and the desiliconization by flotation process of fine accumulative bauxite with low A/S value is successfully realized.After flotation desiliconization,a concentrate with A/S value of 9.24 and with Al2O3 recovery of 69.91% can be obtained from an accumulative bauxite with a low A/S value of 3.23 from Yunnan Province.


In this paper, we present findings from a survey of technology needs and perceptions of older adults that differ in their life course and current level of care needs. By using a framework from the aging sciences that focuses on supporting abilities and caring relationships of older adults, we examine six technologies, ranging from health to communication and social to creative. Our findings indicated that, although similar in age, participants' needs varied in level of interest in technology to support biological needs to those of social and spiritual needs. This highlights a culture shift that should occur within the technology for aging sphere as well -- one that addresses varying needs based on life course and other 'person- centered' characteristics as opposed to simply age-based.


Studies of bond energies of diatomic molecules are of great importance in thermochemistry, astrophysics and combustion physics. The bond energies of diatomic molecules and various semiconductors are evaluated. The bond energies are experimentally verified by thermal mass and spectroscopic techniques. The present method is an improvement over Pauling's relation. The bond energies evaluated by this present method are in excellent agreement with that evaluated by other methods. For e.g., in the case of BN (Boron Nitride) the bond energy, DAB obtained by present study is 86.88 and that obtained by Pauling equation is 86.62. In the case of GaSb, it is 43.66 by the present equation is 43.66 by the Pauling equation it is 43.66. Also the average percentage deviation by the present study is 15.00, by the Pauling equation it is 14.20 and by Match et al it is 14.66. the studies of bond energies of various semiconductors taken up by the author are in good agreement with the evaluated equations proposed by literature, Pauling and Matcha.


The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of rooting promoters on the rooting and growth of Sedum takesimense cuttage. Results of underground part growth after treatment with rooting promoters showed that the numbers of roots after treatment with 250 mg·L indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), 500 mg·L IBA, and 500 mg·L NAA were 8 to 9, and treatments with 500 mg·L IBA and 500 mg·L α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) resulted in the longest root lengths of 5.3 and 5.4 cm, respectively. In addition, the plants treated with rooting promoters had 60% higher rooting percentage than those without the treatment. The rooting percentage of plants treated with 250 mg·L IBA, 500 mg·L IBA, and 500 mg·L NAA, in particular, was 95% or higher for about 5 days, indicating its effectiveness in root development. The aboveground part of S. takesimense plants treated with 250 mg·L IBA, 500 mg·L IBA, and 500 mg·L NAA had a longer plant height, greater number of leaves, and longer and wider leaves than those treated with other treatments. Accordingly, the survival rate of plants treated with 250 mg·L IBA, 500 mg·L IBA, and 500 mg·L NAA was higher than 90%, suggesting well-established roots and excellent growth of the aboveground parts. In addition, the physiological activity of growth was not inhibited even after cuttage treatment, and the maximum photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm) and NDVI and SR indices were within the normal range, confirming suitable concentrations of rooting promoters for S. takesimense cuttage. Therefore, the treatment with rooting promoters 250 mg·L IBA, 500 mg·L IBA, and 500 mg·L NAA is considered beneficial for the cuttage of S. takesimense, as they resulted in excellent growth and development of roots and showed a positive effect on the growth of the aboveground parts after cuttage. Additional key words: Crassulaceae, IBA, NAA, propagation, stem cutting


Examines the way in which works of generative computer‐based art, specifically those which reference Artificial Life, may gain aesthetic appeal through instilling a sense of "wonder" in a viewer. This idea is examined from its roots in our fascination with natural phenomena and the sublime, through its representation in terms of the basic elements of drawing off and on‐screen, and into the computational realm in which Artificial Life software finds its form. Further explores the artistic potential of the approach which takes computationally‐realized works with a single level of emergent organizational structure, to those capable of giving rise to interactions built yet again on top of these in an ever‐increasing hierarchy of added complexity. The difficulties of coding such software systems successfully will be briefly discussed.


This article has been organized on a field-work carried out in Colombia, with intercultural focal groups, during two years. Fifty authorities from fifty indigenous peoples and fifty judges and magistrates of the national judicial system who have intervened in judicial processes against indigenous authorities, participated in such groups. It is the purpose to present the jurisdictional coordination within an intercultural, ethnographic and processual perspective, in as much as that institution is central in the Social Work treatment of the intercultural, whenever two juridical systems are judicially related. The focal groups permitted to catch with method a glimpse of the difficulties and possibilities of the interculturallity between indigenous authorities and judges of the judicial branch, besides fixing anthropological, political and juridical positions of intercultural bearing. That we are prompt to present within the Latin-American vision.


The dynamic analysis of a vibrating rotor-stator rubbing in an inviscid fluid is studied in this experimentally paper. The unbalanced rotor system is widely used in rotordynamic, and unbalance-rubs coupling fault is essential and can occur simultaneously. An experiment is conducted on an RK4 rotor test rig partially submerged in a non-viscid fluid medium to extract and analyse its vibration characteristics. The dynamic responses under variable parameters such as rotational speed ratio, the initial clearance, mass eccentricity, and inter-shaft stiffness on the rotor system's dynamic behaviours are investigated. The model parameters' effects revealed a fractional frequency multiplication component and abnormal rotor trajectory due to the nonlinear rub-contact in both air and fluid medium through the experimental test. The Wavelet Synchrosqueezing Spectrum provides additional information to understand the influence of the fluid during the rotor-stator contact. Therefore, the proposed Synchrosqueezing method has proven to be effective in extracting and studying the characteristics of rubbing faults in a rotor-bearing system. The analysis result of the experiment shown a qualitative similarity with the obtained numerical results.


The invention discloses a foundation mounting way for a large-sized press. According to the foundation mounting way, a base, a running guide rail, a reinforced concrete pre-fabricated foundation and a mounting piece are adopted, wherein the reinforced concrete pre-fabricated foundation is provided with a pre-loading through hole I; the mounting piece comprises a bolt, a pavement plate, a through tube and a lower connecting piece; the pavement plate device is arranged between the reinforced concrete pre-fabricated foundation and the base; the through tube is inserted into the pre-loading through hole I for the passage of the bolt; the lower connecting piece is embedded into the reinforced concrete pre-fabricated foundation and is communicated with the through tube; the bolt passes through the pre-loading through hole I and a mounting hole in the base and is attached to the nut by locking so as to fix the base. According to the foundation mounting way for the large-sized press disclosed by the invention, the bolt is attached to the connecting through hole by locking, so that the aim of fixing the base of the press is fulfilled without secondary grouting, waiting of concrete setting after the secondary grouting is not needed, the foundation mounting time of the press is shortened greatly, and the working efficiency is increased.


The invention also surfactants and polyether-relates to the use thereof in to washing for a hard surface cleaner, and a hard surface comprising the phosphoric acid esters of the modified alkyl alcohol and to generate a gloss on the hard surface.


COMPLICATIONS by the protozoan infections toxoplasmosis 1 and pneumocystis 2 have been described in recipients of renal transplants. We report here a case of kidney transplantation complicated by malaria. Report of a Case A 27-year-old woman from Ghana had lived in New York for the previous six years except for a visit to Ghana in 1973. At that time, her husband had been hospitalized for a bout of malaria, but she had had no clinical illness. In 1972, toxemia developed during her only pregnancy; after three years of hypertension and renal insufficiency, a program of longterm hemodialysis was started in February 1977. On Jan 26, 1978, the patient received a renal transplant from her 43-year-old mother, who had come from Ghana one month previously for evaluation and subsequent donor nephrectomy. At the time of transplant, blood in the donor kidney was flushed out with a solution of lactated Ringer's with albumin


The function,technology and application of a new intelligent power module(IPM) are introduced.The new IPM contains IGBT,grid gate drive chip,overcurrent protected circuit,overtemperature protected circuit,and undervoltage lock-in circuit.The module has simple power supply,high switching speed,small deadtime and high driving efficiency.Several optimized measures on IGBT chip,FWD,driving circuit and encapsulation are used.It has high cost-performance ratio.


Self-timed circuits with an appropriate handshake control circuit (HCC) can be used to replace the global clock in a VLSI chip. The authors focus on designing a handshake controller with the highest frequency possible. The gain in speed results from the handshake protocol allowing certain constraints. The approaches taken in the two protocols, and the implementation, characteristics and constraints are discussed. The HCCs were rigorously tested by applying them to a bit-serial multiplier based on the modified Booth's algorithm. Some results on the delay measurements of the HCCs and simulation results of the multipliers are presented.<<ETX>>


Understanding the fiction of the West African Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma has remained a challenge to critics primarily due to his powerful use of African rhythm, register and lexicon to create a new French through Malinke, his mother tongue. Although language is central to the understanding of Francophone literature, the classical approach has consisted in narrowly focusing on language from a linguistic point of view. Arguing that literary criticism limited to the isolated meditation on textual or contextual parameters ignores the creative dimension of art in the novel, this paper attempts to adopt Bakhtin's poetics of the dialogical to Kourouma's novel, Allah is Not Obliged, to understand the living principle (of dialogic threads) that animates and binds the entire work.


The Bush Administration called the Iraq War an important part of the "Global War on Terror" (GWOT). In the hours after and ever since the attacks of 11 September 2001, it repeatedly used the threat of more terrorist attacks to push forward its Iraq agenda. The most senior official charged with terrorism recalled that President Bush, "grabbed a few of us . . . 'Look', he told us . . . 'I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way'." "But,Mr President," said Clarke "al-Qaeda did this." Bush responded ". . . Just look. I want to know any shred . . ." The Bush Administration tried to equate failure in Iraq to a failure in fighting terrorist strikes against the US and American interests. On the same day that Bush started the IraqWar, he told Congressional leaders that the war in Iraq was a "vital part of the international war on terrorism." In his 2007 State of the Union address, he again used the threat of terrorism to justify America's presence in Iraq. Failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States.The consequences of failure were clear. Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits. They would be in a better position to topple moderate governments, create chaos in the region, and use oil revenues to fund their ambitions. Iran would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. TheDirector of National Intelligence's Report entitled, "The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland," released on 17 July 2007, stated that terrorist threats were increasing rather than decreasing, in part because of the Iraq War. The report stated that, ". . . Al Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the homeland." Instead of seeing the war in Iraq as the cause of Defense & Security Analysis Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 289–304, September 2010


The present invention encompasses prostaglandin The present invention, wild-type, chimeric, CDR-grafted and a humanized antibody. Preferred antibodies, in vitro and in vivo, have a high affinity for prostaglandin E Antibodies of the present invention is a full length antibody, or may be this an antigen-binding portion. Methods of making and using the antibodies of the present invention are also provided. Antibody or antigen-binding portion of the present invention, to detect the prostaglandin E


Intercultural communication is indispensable for college English teaching.It is of much significance and cultural value to promote students' understanding of the traditional Chinese culture in college English teaching.The textbooks of New College English(Second Edition) have covered components of some elements of the traditional Chinese culture,which show concern for students' growth and development as well as the nature and society."The doctrines of self-cultivation embrace benevolence and righteousness." "One sould learn extensively,examine carefully,think prudently,distinguish clearly and practice sincerely the good way." "Man co-exists with Heaven and Earth,and in an integral part of the nature" to name only a few.


Abstract Sequences of single events form a time series with characteristics quite different from discretely sampled continuous processes. The events of the discontinuous sequence are summed over fixed sampling intervals called bins, whose duration thus determines the sampling frequency. The rate of the process or amplitude of the signal is estimated by the number of events per unit time. Techniques normally used to analyze continuous processes are commonly employed on these transformed series. There are several potential dangers in this approach. Using a computer model, we explored the effects of binning on subsequent data analsysis. The binning process acts as a digital filter which passes low frequencies. The numerically approximated transfer function is irregular, and interacts with the data to pass some frequencies preferentially. Spectral analysis is not enhanced by using arbitrarily small sampling intervals, as it would be with a continuous process. The result of employing excessively small bins is ...


Since its establishment,situation semantics has been categorized as a theory of natural language semantics or of logic grammar.Yet it has an outstanding pragmatic perspective,which consists in the theory's origination from distinct pragmatic studies or ideas,its consistence with pragmatics in study object and content,and its observance of the study tradition of formal semantics including pragmatic study and contemporary development tendency of semantic study.By a situation semantic representation of conditional statements in natural language,it can be directly seen that pragmatics elements widely exist in situation semantics and it is innately related to relevance theory and stereotypical relation study.


Motivated by current post-crisis discussions and the corresponding shift in regulatory requirements, this thesis is dedicated to the study of model risk in financial modelling. It is well-known that the majority of finance quantities that are involved in asset pricing, trading, and risk management activities are dependent on the chosen financial models. This gives rise to model risk in all financial activities. Even when the chosen model form is appropriate, model outputs are still subject to parameter estimation uncertainty. Therefore, among different sources of model risk, we mainly focused on investigating the impact of parameter estimation risk and model selection risk in different financial models. Models investigated in this thesis are key models in option pricing, credit risk management, stochastic process of security returns and hedge fund return forecasting.
We provoke a solution, which naturally stems from the Bayesian framework. Regarding parameter estimation risk, instead of focusing on point estimation value, it is possible to gauge the rich information about parameter uncertainty from the posterior distribution of parameters. Subsequent impact to model final outputs can be easily accessed by inserting the posterior distribution of parameters into the model. Depending on the related financial activities, model users may find it useful to adopt the estimated value at a certain percentile (e.g. 97.5%) of the posterior distribution as an overlay to the estimated mean value. While more than one candidate model is considered, posterior or predictive probability of a candidate model derived from the likelihood of the model output in fitting the data is applied for a model averaging exercise to account for model selection risk.


During the production and use of coal ,the metal elements in coal g et into the air,the water and the soil,causing environmental pollution,which is what people concern with.This paper analyses the distribution ,the content a nd the occurrence of nine metal elements ( Cd,Co,Cr,Cu,Mn,Mo,Ni,Pb,Zn) i n China coal.


Using a stereological method, the optical disector, we examined three inbred strains of mice (NZB/BINJ, DBA/2, and C57BL/6J) for morphological differences in volume, neuronal number, and density of the pyramidal cell and dentate gyrus granule cell layers of the hippocampus. We found significant differences in volume and neuronal number for both regions between the three strains at 9 weeks of age, but only modest differences in neuronal density. The left dentate volume was 90% larger in the NZB strain and 70% greater in the DBA strain (P < 0.0001), and the left pyramidal cell layer was 144% larger in the NZB strain and 150% larger in the DBA strain, than in the B6 strain (P < 0.0001). Neuron number in the left dentate was 81% greater in NZB and 37% greater in DBA (P < 0.001), and in the left pyramidal cell layer 118% greater in the NZB and 92% greater in the DBA (P < 0.01). Differences in neuronal density of the left dentate were not significant (P = 0.060, ns). For the left pyramidal cell layer, neuronal density was 14% greater in B6 and 34% greater in NZB than the DBA strain (P = 0.016). No significant differences were found in left‐right laterality, or according to sex. We found that strain accounted for 60% of the variance in hippocampal volume and 44% of neuron number. These differences thus mainly reflect genetic variation in hippocampal volume and may have important implications for brain evolution, behaviour, and human diseases where hippocampal degeneration is involved. J. Comp. Neurol. 408:560–566, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Congenital tracheoesophageal fistulas are not common. This is fortunate, for a child so afflicted rarely lives longer than a month after birth, usually succumbing within a few days. The condition is invariably accompanied by esophageal atresia, either above or below the stricture. The fistula that was found and eventually closed in the patient considered in this report was about ½ inch (1.3 cm.) long and located in the party wall of the trachea and esophagus. It was opposite the ends of the third, fourth and fifth tracheal rings. It was slitlike in appearance and a trifle to the left of the sagittal plane. At the beginning of the act of swallowing it was closed, but as the larynx receded there was dilatation of the opening, which could be seen from the tracheal side. There was a partial diaphragm of muscle and mucous membrane on the esophageal side, so that when


The latest release of the Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation (OTIS4) allows users to simulate and optimize aerospace vehicle trajectories. With OTIS4, one can seamlessly generate optimal trajectories and parametric vehicle designs simultaneously. New features also allow OTIS4 to solve non-aerospace continuous time optimal control problems. The inputs and outputs of OTIS4 have been updated extensively from previous versions. Inputs now make use of objectoriented constructs, including one called a metastring. Metastrings use a greatly improved calculator and common nomenclature to reduce the user s workload. They allow for more flexibility in specifying vehicle physical models, boundary conditions, and path constraints. The OTIS4 calculator supports common mathematical functions, Boolean operations, and conditional statements. This allows users to define their own variables for use as outputs, constraints, or objective functions. The user-defined outputs can directly interface with other programs, such as spreadsheets, plotting packages, and visualization programs. Internally, OTIS4 has more explicit and implicit integration procedures, including high-order collocation methods, the pseudo-spectral method, and several variations of multiple shooting. Users may switch easily between the various methods. Several unique numerical techniques such as automated variable scaling and implicit integration grid refinement, support the integration methods. OTIS4 is also significantly more user friendly than previous versions. The installation process is nearly identical on various platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux operating systems. Cross-platform scripts also help make the execution of OTIS and post-processing of data easier. OTIS4 is supplied free by NASA and is subject to ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) restrictions. Users must have a Fortran compiler, and a Python interpreter is highly recommended.


Importance The benefit of daily over thrice-weekly antituberculosis therapy among HIV-positive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) who are receiving antiretroviral therapy remains unproven. Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of daily, part-daily, and intermittent antituberculosis therapy regimens in the treatment of HIV-associated pulmonary TB. Design, Setting, and Participants This open-label, randomized clinical trial was conducted by the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, south India. Adults infected with HIV with newly diagnosed, culture-positive, pulmonary TB were enrolled between September 14, 2009, and January 18, 2016. Interventions Patients were randomized to daily, part-daily, and intermittent antituberculosis therapy regimens, stratified by baseline CD4 lymphocyte count and sputum smear grade. Antiretroviral therapy was initiated as per national guidelines. Clinical and sputum microbiological examinations of patients were performed monthly until 18 months after randomization. Adverse events were recorded using standard criteria. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome was favorable response, defined as treatment completion with all available sputum cultures negative for Mycobacterium tuberculosis during the last 2 months of treatment. Unfavorable responses included treatment failures, dropouts, deaths, and toxic effects among regimens. Results Of 331 patients (251 [76%] male; mean [SD] age, 39 [9] years; mean [SD] HIV viral load, 4.9 [1.2] log10 copies/mL; and median [interquartile range] CD4 lymphocyte count, 138 [69-248] cells/&mgr;L), favorable responses were experienced by 91% (89 of 98), 80% (77 of 96), and 77% (75 of 98) in the daily, part-daily, and intermittent regimens, respectively. With the difference in outcome between daily and intermittent regimens crossing the O'Brien-Fleming group sequential boundaries and acquired rifampicin resistance emergence (n = 4) confined to the intermittent group, the data safety monitoring committee halted the study. A total of 18 patients died and 18 patients dropped out during the treatment period in the 3 regimens. Six, 4, and 6 patients in the daily, part-daily, and intermittent regimens, respectively, had TB recurrence. Conclusions and Relevance Among HIV-positive patients with pulmonary TB receiving antiretroviral therapy, a daily anti-TB regimen proved superior to a thrice-weekly regimen in terms of efficacy and emergence of rifampicin resistance. Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00933790


Coastal flooding risks are increasing with the rise of sea level due to global climate change. Such risk presents different groups of residents with diverse vulnerability. Using a coastal city as the study area, this study quantitatively and qualitatively examines social vulnerability across different communities at risk of sea level rising. This study develops a novel social vulnerability assessment method that integrates principal component analysis (PCA) and analytical hierarchical process (AHP), inputting the advantages of each into factor analysis for social vulnerability quantification. Twenty-four socioeconomic factors are first grouped into four different themes. PCA is then performed to identify major components within each theme. We apply AHP to generate the weighting scheme for each theme. Therefore, the AHP-derived weights to those PCA components according to each theme are used to obtain an overall social vulnerability index. The thematic map of PCA–AHP SVI showed that minority communities with low income, mobile home, and unemployed populations aggregated in the East Tampa shore (over 69% of the total minority), compared with the West Tampa (31% of the total minority). Our findings provide insightful spatial information of the social vulnerability index (SVI) that allows decision makers to make optimal efforts to mitigate damages and unexpected impacts on different communities, especially those marginalized minorities due to sea level rising risks.


The status of research and development of ammonia synthesis catalysts are described with focus on the development and adding methods of new type promoter, the improvement of parent substances of the catalysts, and research and development of the spherical and ruthenium-based catalysts, etc.


In the contribution lattice‐type plates with hexagonal structure in plane 0x1x2 are analysed. The aim of the note is to apply a length‐scale model of lattice‐type periodic plates derived within the tolerance averaging method (developed for periodic composites and structures by Woźniak and Wierzbicki (2000)) to analyse vibrations of hexagonal plates. It will be shown that the derived model, taking into account the effect of the periodicity cell size on the overall plate behaviour, is represented by equations with constant coefficients in the form similar to equations for isotropic cases.


Law 21.778 sets forth the powers, procedures, and rights of state companies with respect to risk on contracts for the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. State companies can execute contracts concerning this subject matter. A contracting company must assume all the risks inherent in hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation although ownership rights and mining rights are not acquired by the company.


paradox, as our conception of an independent reality cannot be independent and therefore the very conception of an independent reality is rendered empty. He sees in Madhyamika an important contribution to man's rational struggle for the expression of knowledge. He then explains some further notions: vitanda as "refutation only" approach, prasahga as argument ad absurdum, and the notion of two levels of truth which he sees to be implicit in every metaphysical inquiry, but which in Madhyamika is the means to understand emptiness without postulating an ontological duality. The translator, a member of the Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Hawaii at Hilo, points out in his preface that the Treatise answers in the affirmative the question of whether Nagarjuna was a Mahayanist. In the essay on Nagarjuna and the spread of his teachings, he shows how influential the teaching was even in other schools of Buddhism which used aspects of Madhyamika selectively to develop their own teachings. On emptiness he says that, for Madhyamika, the word has no meaning by itself and is properly used only in the process of attaining nirvana. As to the text itself, the translator refutes any doubts concerning its authenticity by comparing it with Nagarjuna's main work, "The middle treatise", and showing that the two complement and illuminate each other. The translation is fluent and readable. The Treatise contains twelve sections or "gates" supposed to lead to a thorough understanding of the teaching on emptiness. It deals with the causal nexus and its connotations, the questions of identity and difference, being or non-being, refutes the idea of a creator and of creation, examines the role of time, and concludes by showing the logical impossibility of asserting any kind of production or origination. There can be no doubt about the importance of this first translation of the work for the study in the West of Nagarjuna as well as Mahayana as a whole. The assessment of its technical accuracy and philosophical adequacy will take some time. Some scope for improvement is immediately obvious in a few instances, e.g. the terms chosen for the six forms of life (see glossary, p. 127). There are also some misprints, e.g. "Madhyanika" on the dust-cover (twice), "samrti" (cor. samvrti) on p. 37, "origiantion" on p. 85, and a few others. On the whole, however, a most welcome publication, indispensable to a student of Mahayana.


Considering the influence on the manipulator caused by the inaccuracy of measurement and modeling,external disturbance,the strong coupling of states and other factor,a controller based on backsteping algorithm was designed.Simulation results proved that this controller can make each joint′s trajectory tracking error is very small,and also has a good robostness,so the proposed method is useful for protical use.


Sensor nodes have energy constraints which significantly reduces their lifetime. Compressed Sensing (CS) can be used to achieve compression and energy efficiency, thereby increasing the lifetime of WSN. However, signal components are projected in a random direction which produces poor performance on complex signals. In order to achieve efficiency, adaptive projection of signal components is necessary. Hence, block CS (BCS) with Haar DWT (HDWT) based image representation and Energy based Re-weighted Sampling (ERWS) techniques are proposed to extract the high energy components of the image. Analysis confirms that the proposed method outperforms conventional techniques even for fewer measurements and reconstructed image quality is greatly enhanced. Experimental analysis is done using Atmega128 of Mica2 mote. Execution time and energy consumed are computed in the hardware platform. HDWT based ERWS has approximately 34.5 % lesser energy consumption than DCT based BCS techniques.


In homogeneous poroelastic systems, the permeability tensor practically does not influence propagating seismic waves in the low frequency range (0–1000 Hz; see, e.g., Schmitt, 1989; Gelinsky and Shapiro, 1996). In this paper, we show that this situation changes in heterogeneous systems such as, layered or fractured sediments. Due to the heterogeneities of poroelastic structures, the attenuation of P-waves is influenced by the permeability in an enhanced way. We show, however, that such a "seismic permeability" can differ very strongly from the hydraulic permeability.


8 ASUBTITLE: PORT, EQUITY PARTNERS BELIEVE THAT WITH $1.2 MILLION WAREHOUSE, IMPORTING CHILEAN WINTER FRUIT WILL BE MORE THAN A DREAM.


Despite the academy's growing commitment to producing and publishing feminist interpretations of literary texts, insofar as feminist critics read Kate Chopin's The Awakening as a novel about sexual liberation, we read it with our patriarchal biases intact. Of course The Awakening's final scene is breathtaking; Edna Pontellier transcends her circumscribed status as sensual entity-as the object of others' desires-and stands before us as her own subject, as a blissfully embodied being: "... she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her."'1 It is because of this new dignity and visibility Chopin gives to women's desires that The Awakening has been celebrated as one of the great subversive novels-a novel belonging to the tradition of transgressive narratives Tony Tanner describes in Adultery in the Novel. But in this essay I will suggest that Tanner's ideas are inadequate to account for the real transgressive force of Chopin's novel. Instead, I want to locate this force in Chopin's representation of a language Edna Pontellier seeks but does not possess, in her representation of "a language which nobody understood."2 In Adultery in the Novel Tanner explains that eighteenthand nineteenthcentury novels derive a "narrative urgency" from their power to interrupt the status quo by representing characters or ideas which impinge on society's stability. While most bourgeois novels affirm marriage, the nuclear family, or genealogical continuity as the source of social stability, these same novels gather momentum by representing "an energy that threatens to contravene that stability of the family on which society depends": an energy frequently embodied in the adulterous woman.3 While prostitutes, orphans, adventurers, and other marginal characters dominate the early phases of the novel and


Is given convincing experimental proof of dependence of the sensitivity Michelson interferometer (MI) to the detection of velocity υ "aether wind" from relativistics structure of the refractive index n of the optical medium. Appeared, that sensitivity of instrument MI to detection υ is dependent from "inertial" of part of index (n2–1), induced by polarization particles. When in light-carrying medium MI is absent particles (n=1.), sensitivity to detection υ y MI is zero, since (n2–1)=0. Neglect of relativistic nature of the index (n2–1) in the interpretation of experiments on the MI cited (of those, who interpreted these experiments using the formula Michelson) to the underestimate the speed υ in 1./(n2–1.)1/2 times. For air (n=1.0003) the value υ always was underestimated of a ~ 40–fold. In this nobody noticed error Michelson (including Lorentz, Einstein, and all, who agreed with them in 1927 at a conference in Pasadena) is the essence took place in the 20th century of falsification experiments of Michelson type, as the alleged "negative". The latent of the form of relativistic structure (n2–1) still can not find a reasonable of classical of explanation phenomenon of the angular aberration of light rays in the experiment by Bradley.


Objective: Study volatility chemical compound hereditary poison in the air during decorating rooms. Methods: examine the volatility chemical compound hereditary poison in the air after decorating rooms using polychromatic RBC micronucleus test with bone marrow of mice and sperm deformation test. Results: The compound has obvious stimulating for the mice's respiratory system. The rates of micronucleus and sperm deformation have significant differences comparing the control group appearing negative with the groups using the poison dose of high, middle or low. Conclusion: after the rooms decorated, volatility chemical compound has hereditary poison in the air.