A light shelf is a horizontal or near horizontal baffle fitted part way up a window to control and redistribute incoming sunlight and daylight. This paper describes a computer program to analyse light shelves and other daylighting systems. The program agreed well with measurements made in experimental rooms at the Building Research Establishment. Experimental measurements had revealed that an internal light shelf could improve the uniformity of daylight in a room and provide some solar shading, but without significantly increasing illuminances at the back of the room. The computer analysis confirmed these findings and provided information on optimum shelf depth and the benefits of an exterior light shelf. Light shelves should be as reflective as possible, and to work best need a high ceiling. In relative terms light shelves perform best in rooms with external obstructions, when they can increase core illuminances by around 15%.


Abstract The ecdysone titer of larvae and pupae of Chironomus thummi was determined by radioimmune assay (RIA) and revealed a concentration of about 150 ng/g fresh weigth in late third instar larvae and a peak of more than 450 ng/g fresh weight just preceding pupation. The ecdysone titer curve shows a high degree of correlation with previously observed puffing activity at the ecdysone sensitive chromosomal site IIIdl. Further, β-ecdysone is the only endogenous ecdysone detected by high pressure liquid chromatography during larval-pupal development. It was also observed that developmentally arrested Chironomus contain less ecdysone than "normal" larvae.


Objective To determine the impact of the cause of death on the residents' life expectancy. MethodsFulfillment index analysis,introduced by Prifhis Das Gupta and colleagues,was employed to summarize the data on causes of death of residents in Wenling city,Zhejiang Province in 2008. Results The greatest impact on potential years of life was exerted by neonatal diseases and congenital anomalies in the 0-year-old group,the Fulfillment index being 54.40 and 47.86,respectively; high Fulfillment index was also noticed when accidental deaths were excluded among 1-to 39-year-olds,reaching up to 65.69 in the 20-year-old group,followed by a downward trend. The Fulfillment index remained high in the 40-to 69-year-old age group,deaths due to malignant tumors excluded,and declined after the age of 70. Annually gradual increase of the Fulfillment index was seen associated with cerebrovascular diseases in the age group older than 35,which slightly declined after the age of 80. The index,when related to respiratory diseases and heart attacks,also generally increased every year since the age of 45. Conclusion Fulfillment index could be utilized to interpret the extent to which a variety of causes of death exert an impact on the longevity in each age group,eliciting the remarkably crucial period for possible control and prevention of certain diseases in order to improve the life of the residents.


Highly conductive bipolar plate for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) was prepared using phenol novolac-type epoxy/graphite powder (GP)/carbon fiber filament (CFF) composite, and a rubber-modified epoxy resin was introduced to the phenol novolac-type epoxy resin in order to give elasticity to the bipolar plate. The cure condition of the neat epoxy system, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was carried out and the DSC data were introduced to Kissinger equation. And tensile and flexural tests were carried out using universal testing machine (UTM) and the surface morphology of the fractured specimen and the interfacial bonding between epoxy matrix and CFF were observed by a scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Kissinger expression showed that the activation energy for the cure kinetics of novolac epoxy (9.3g)/rubber epoxy (1.0g)/curing agent (9.6g)/accelerator (0.1g) system was 76.8 kJ/mol and the pre-exponential factor was 1.73 × 1010 min−1. As was expected, electrical conductivity increased with increasing total carbon content, and the value increased with increasing CFF content at the same carbon content. Tensile strength and flexural strength linearly decreased with increasing epoxy content, however at the same carbon content, these values increased with increasing CFF content. It was because the CFF acted as electrical conductive pass and the good effect on the mechanical properties was due to the strong bonding between CFF and epoxy resin, which was confirmed by the SEM.Copyright © 2013 by ASME


"Common variants in MODY genes increase the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus" Diabetologia, 2006, Issue: April 26. Abbreviations DBS dried blood spots ESM Electronic Supplementary Material GDM gestational diabetes mellitus GCK glucokinase gene HNF1A hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 α gene HNF4A hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 α gene OR odds ratio 3 Abstract Aims/hypothesis Impaired beta cell function is the hallmark of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and MODY. In addition, women with MODY gene mutations often present with GDM, but it is not known whether common variants in MODY genes contribute to GDM. Methods We genotyped five common variants in the glucokinase (GCK, commonly known as MODY2), hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-α (HNF1A, commonly known as MODY3) and 4-α (HNF4A commonly known as MODY1) genes in 1880 Scandinavian women (648 women with GDM and 1232 pregnant non-diabetic control women). The rs2144908, rs2425637 and rs1885088 variants, which are located downstream of the primary beta cell promoter (P2) of HNF4A, were not associated with GDM.


The idea of making use of the metal zipper on the handbag to serve as an off-body antenna is proposed, and the simulations together with measurements have been carried out. The feeding point can be located at the bottom of the zipper, and to be more specific, around one of the teeth. The excitation at certain tooth of the zipper would bring variations in the reflection coefficients as well as the radiation patterns. No matter the zipper is totally closed, quarterly opened, half opened, or is even totally opened, the antenna can operate with acceptable performance, though the common status of the handbag zipper is closed. Thus, it is to some extent reconfigurable, especially for radiation patterns. A fractional bandwidth of 4.92% at 2.44 GHz of the industrial, scientific, and medical band with a gain of about 5 dBi has been achieved. The impact of the human body has been evaluated. It is noticeable but affordable. The measured results indicate reasonable agreements to that of the simulations in both the matching performance and the radiation feature for the zipper antenna, which seems to be a promising candidate for body-centric wireless communications and the Internet of Things.


Modified polypropylene (PP) is regarded as a potential eco-friendly insulating material. Blending modification, grafting modification and nanoparticle doping have been used to improve the performance of PP with the inevitable introduce of impurities. Copolymerization is a prospective way to reduce impurity in PP, which deserves further research. In this paper, isotatic polypropylene (iPP), PP copolymer based on iPP (PPC) and cross linked polyethylene (XLPE) were compared through differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized optical microscopy (POM), conductivity and AC breakdown test. IPP and PPC show higher melting temperature and breakdown field than XLPE, indicating that PP cable can withstand higher temperatures. The results of conductivity show that the current density of PPC is smallest under same electric field and the transition field strength of PPC is highest, indicating that the deep trap level and density of PPC may be higher than those of iPP, which might be caused by the structure defects observed in the results of POM. Therefore, PPC shows better performance than iPP and XLPE, suggesting that copolymerization of PP is a feasible way for future eco-friendly cable insulation.


It is an important symbol of the progress of human civilization and the center of the production, accumulation and dissemination of social material and spiritual wealth. The construction of digital city is convenient for people to maximize the sharing and rational use of information resources, and can better understand, construct, transform and protect cities. Establishing a unified urban geographic information spatial framework benchmark will realize seamless connection and integration of multi-source data, ensure the consistency, compatibility and convertibility of geospatial data, and realize the integration and sharing of information resources according to geographic space. In order to organize and manage massive basic geographic information data, it is necessary to establish a standardized and normalized spatial-temporal database of urban basic geographic space. This paper discusses the idea of sharing spatial data resources in digital city, including database, service system, function, operation and maintenance, and makes a systematic study on sharing spatial data resources in digital city based on random forest algorithm in machine learning.


The dynamic business environment is ingrained with high levels of competition eulogizing the need for salient functional strategies to stay afloat. Thus, the management of the manufacturing industry must formulate and implement functional strategies which would guarantee their competitiveness. However, after years of policy mending through strategic framework and government interventions the sugar factories in Kenya are still under- performing with low productivity culminating to low competitiveness and massive indebtedness within the industry. It is in this regard that the study was designed to assess the effect of functional strategies such us financial, marketing, production, human resources on competitiveness of sugar industries in western Kenya as moderated by government interventions. The study relied on institutional theory, Porters generic theory and resource-based view theories. In a bid to effectively achieve this, the study adopted a cross-sectional study design based on samples drawn from across the sugar industry in western Kenya. The study relied on all heads of departments and supervisors of all the five sugar firms which are 98 purposively selected. Data was collected by use of a questionnaire from the respondents and analyzed by use of both inferential and descriptive statistics using SPSS version 25. From the study findings correlations among the functional strategies and competitiveness were significant. With a moderator the variables jointly explained 66.6% (R2= 0.666) variation in competitiveness of sugar industry with a significant F change at ρ<.05. In conclusion government intervention significantly influences the relationship between functional strategies and competitiveness of sugar industry. The management of sugar industry should formulate and implement functional strategies in line with government interventions to effectively enhance their competitiveness.


A 24-year-old man developed a papular eruption on his hands after butchering sheep. Viral cultures and serum antibody levels confirmed the diagnosis of orf. The clinical features, histologic findings, and diagnostic criteria of orf are described.


Developments discussed in this paper point toward decreased opportunities for cooperation between university agricultural economists and agribusiness officials and economists. The basis for cooperation is becoming substantially lower. In the future operators of small and medium-size agribusiness firms will need larger amounts of technical assistance to incorporate essential new management techniques. Although this would involve controversial firm specific work, we argue that university agricultural economists should help to provide the technical assistance required by these firms. This cooperative effort should produce public benefits, healthier small and medium-size agribusiness firms, and support for the agricultural college. Joint effort is needed to improve agribusiness training programs in universities.


The objective of the research was to examine the influence of the effectiveness of the government internal control system and the understanding of government accounting standard on the quality of local government financial review. The research employed the causal comparative research method. The population was all government internal supervisor apparatus and employees who review at the Inspectorate of Aceh Tamiang Regency, Pidie Jaya Regency and Langsa Municipality. There were 91 employees taken as the samples by employing census technique using SPSS software. The results of the research showed that simultaneously the effectiveness of effectiveness of the government internal control system and the understanding of government accounting standard significantly influenced the quality of local government financial review. Partially, effectiveness of the government internal control system did not significantly influence the quality of local government financial review and the understanding of government accounting standard influenced the quality of local government financial review. Partially, the indicators of understanding such as the financial statement presentation, assessment and error correction influenced the quality of local government financial review while the indicators of environment control such as risk assessment, controlling activity, information and communication, monitoring, understanding of the components of financial statement, declaration of financial statements and consolidation report did not influence the quality of local government financial review.


Alang, ship breaking yard situated on north-west edge of Gulf of Khambhat. It is famous for ship breaking yard and contains very harmful heavy metals. Lead contamination is highest in Alang. To decrease the concentration of heavy metals many different physical, chemical and biological methods are available but they are harmful to nature and waste more quantity of chemicals. So, bioremediation is the best method to remove pollutants. A low concentration of heavy metals is required to plant for their growth and metabolic process but at higher concentration, plants do not survive. With the use of microbes, we can survive plants at certain levels. During this work, heavy metal tolerating microorganism was isolated from sea water of Alang and purified. Various tests were performed for identification and primary screening. in vitro examination in the different plants like moong, wheat, peanut, kidney beans and mat beans under 500ppm Pb concentration.


Introduction: Intestinal adenomatous polyps are precursor lesions of colorectal carcinoma (CRC), one of the most common types of cancer among men and women. Screening and appropriate treatment of polyps is able to reduce incidence and mortality by CRC. Objective: To identify the factors associated with high-grade neoplasia in adenomatous polyps of patients 50 years of age or older who underwent colonoscopy for CRC screening. Methods: Case-control study with 216 individuals with adenomatous polyps who underwent colonoscopy in private practice in Florianopolis, separated in two groups according to the presence or absence of high grade neoplasia. Data obtained from electronic medical records. Statistical analysis SPSS 18.0, Chi-square test, and p≤0.05. Oddis Ratio (OR) with 95% CI. Approved by CEP UNISUL. Results: There was no statistically significant relationship between sex; Age; Genre; Family history; Previous polypectomies; Number of polyps; And high-grade neoplasia. Weak association with non-polypoid morphology (OR=2,875 and p=0,051) and statistical significance with polyp size ≥1cm (OR=26.147 and p<0.01), villous or tubulo-villous histology (OR=7 and p <0.01) and location of the polyp in the left colon (OR=37.766 and p<0.01). Conclusion: The factors associated with high-grade neoplasia in colon adenomas include polyp size greater than or equal to 1 cm, villous or tubulo-villous histology, the location of the polyp in the left colon, and non-polypoid morphology.


Models are like our eyes and ears as they provide the basis for making very important design decisions in engineering. They give predictions that help engineers to foretell or foresee a system's behaviour in real life. Validation ensures that these models give proper or accurate representation of the real system. In this study, a model equation derived for predicting the end deflection of a tapered width, constant height cantilever beam was adopted for validation. This equation was derived using the Finite Element Method's Rayleigh-Ritz principle and the virtual work concept.  Using a finite element model developed in ANSYS as the representation of the real system and a basis for validation, this study aimed to validate the equation. Validation was achieved by the comparison of the load-deflection curve, the height-deflection curve and the end deflection of the model equation to that of the finite element model in ANSYS. Though the model equation was verified to really foretell deflection, the predictions of the equation was not in good agreement with that of the finite element model. The accuracy of the equation dwindled as the parameters of the tapered cantilever beam were varied. It gave an average percentage error of 30% higher than the allowable error of 5%. Though the equation was derived using the appropriate fundamental numerical principles as it basis, it's accuracy can be exponentially increased by modifying it to include a larger number of discretized elements and a higher degree of shape/interpolation function.


Surface-wave components have demonstrated performance capabilities in the VHF/UHF range which are available with no other filtering technique. The major advantages of the filters are their small size, high reliability, low cost, high Q, good reproducibility, temperature stability, wide dynamic range, and linear phase response, as well as special characteristics relevant to specific applications. Surface-acousticwave (SAW) devices are used for bandpass filtering [1], matched filtering for radar pulse compression [2], [3] or spread-spectrum signal processing [4], delay lines [5], and frequency control elements [3], [6]. Within the context of communication systems' applications, this paper reviews the state of the art for SAW components from high-performance fixed-tuned devices to tunable or programmable filters. Major technological advances discussed include unidirectional SAW filters [7] which eliminate bidirectionality loss and simultaneously suppress in-band spurious responses to achieve an insertion loss below 1 dB with a 0.04-dB peak-to-peak ripple. A novel surface-wave sub-system [8] which offers revolutionary signal processing functions through transform processing is also described.


A process for preparing a high concentration b -glucan product comprising: forming an aqueous slurry of b -glucan-containing grain product having a relatively low concentration of b -glucan; adjusting the pH of the aqueous slurry to alkaline pH; holding the pH-adjusted slurry to extract b -glucan thereform; thereafter acidifying the slurry; separating from the slurry while at said acid pH a b -glucan rich supernatant fraction. Also disclosed is a food additive derived from grain and comprising agglomerated particles of b -glucan of specified size, and a method for making a food product by adding said food additive. Further disclosed is a food product comprising a b -glucan food additive in amounts such that the b -glucan present in the food is 0.1 to 20.0% by weight of the total food product.


AIM
The aim of this study was to analyse the level of compliance measured by patients, their families and psychiatrists.

METHOD
2009 patients who suffered from schizophrenia, 1791 members of their families and 203 psychiatrists were studied. They answered a questionnaire about the level of compliance and the factors which influence it.

RESULTS
The level of compliance in schizophrenia was evaluated by psychiatrists as 48%, families--73% and patients--85%. The psychiatrists assessed that 60% of the schizophrenic patients did not have the sense of illness. 11% of the patients said that they have no benefits from pharmacotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS
The level of compliance is the least in doctor's evaluation. The patients evaluation of the level of compliance was the biggest. The level of compliance was related to patients' insight, negative attitude to pharmacotherapy, cognitive deficits. Women were more cooperative with medication than men.


A ternary association complex [MIn+1]-[MB]+, which were formed by metals (Mn+), iodine anion (I-) and basic dye methylene blue (C16H18ClN3S-3H2O, MB), was applied in the preconcentration of trace heavy methylene blue (Ag, Cu, Cd, Pb) in complicated water samples, such as high salty solution, by gas flotation. The ternary association complexes was floated and absorbed into 5 mL of toluene, and the toluene phase was directly determined by the flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Several parameters, including flotation pH, volume of KI and methylene blue solution, and selection of organic solvent were studied. Under the optimum conditions, the enrichment factor for 200 ng/mL interest elements almost equal to the ratio of the aqueous solution volume to organic solvent volume. The detection limits for Cu, Pb, Cd and Ag were 0.9, 0.8, 0.5 and 0.4 ng/mL, respectively. The interference of coexist elements to the determination were also studied. The developed method was applied in the determination of trace Cu, Pb, Cd and Ag in artificial seawater, the average recoveries of interested metals were about 89.1%-92.9%.


There has been an exponential increase in planned lunar missions with the advent of commercial missions and future manned missions. Understanding the lunar environment is crucial to providing information for future missions that will land on the moon and other celestial bodies. The necessity to navigate freely, without loss of sensing capability is paramount to many of these explorations. Some of the vehicles that will pioneer these missions will encounter various natural hazards and awareness challenges–such as lunar dust and regolith. Due to their electrical and mechanical properties, the constituent particles will tend to adhere to the surface of the exploratory craft and the on-board equipment. This behavior poses a significant threat as the charged dust can cause vital electronics to short or render experimental instruments unusable due to accumulation and electrical discharges, as experienced by the Apollo crews on each visit to the Moon. This paper will focus on the design and experimentation of an autonomous control system that will detect regolith using the deep learning computer vision architecture MobileNetV2, and remove it using an electrodynamic dust shield covering a camera lens. This entire system provides an active method to detect optical obstructions, assess, and then remove them in order to regain navigation and/or scientific capabilities.


The adoption of e-commerce is essential in today's dynamic business environment to optimize the overall firm performance of manufacturing SMEs. This research investigates the influence of environmental and technological factors to promote e-commerce adoption and subsequent firm performance in manufacturing SMEs. Technology usage for sustainable production is becoming a global phenomenon, though it seems less prevalent in emerging economies. Fewer studies address technology adoption issues to enhance corporate performance in Pakistani manufacturing SMEs. The present study adopted a resource-based view with the diffusion of innovation theory to formulate a research framework. We chose a stratified proportionate random sampling method to collect data by selecting four heterogeneous strata. Out of 800 distributed questionnaires, 368 top- and middle-level managers of textile, leather, sports, and surgical SMEs of Pakistan returned the questionnaire. This study employed PLS-SEM for empirical analysis. The results showed that both the technological factors' relative advantage and technology readiness have a significant positive relationship with the use of e-commerce. However, environmental factors, i.e., competitive pressure, have an insignificant effect on e-commerce usage. Nevertheless, the government support has a significant positive effect on e-commerce usage in SMEs. Overall, e-commerce adoption depicts a positive association with firm performance.


The channel between innovation and industry regulation constitutes a non-lasting debate among the economists and researchers within the recent years. Despite the significant contributions on this field, mostly made from the empirical standpoint, the existing literature is still incomplete. This might be attributed to the fact that existing studies fail to combine a strong theoretical framework with the empirical scrutiny in order to exemplify and decompose the relationship between regulation intensity and innovation activity. We attempt to shed light on this limitation by theoretically modeling the telecommunications sector, in which access regulation impacts the non-separable activity in process and product innovation. We then empirically test our model by deploying an efficient panel threshold technique along the lines of Hansen (1999). Our balanced panel dataset comprises of 32 OECD countries over the period 1995-2012. The empirical results unveil a non-monotonic relationship of an "inverted V-shaped" form between regulation and innovation. We argue that beyond certain thresholds increasing the regulatory stringency further results in decreasing sector innovation. Our findings survive robustness checks after the inclusion of two alternative threshold variables (market structure and entry regulation) incurring significant implications for the policy makers and government officials.


BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sphingosine kinases (SK) catalyse the formation of sphingosine 1‐phosphate, which is a key lipid mediator regulating cell responses such as proliferation, survival and migration. Here we have investigated the effect of targeted inhibition of SK‐1 on cell damage and elucidated the mechanisms involved.


A number of calculations and experiments within the program of developing a subsonic wind tunnel with flow speed pulsation in the test section were carried out at TsAGI. The wind tunnel was designed to perform aerodynamic tests of models in regularly fluctuating flows within the Mach number range up to 0.9 with the fluctuation amplitude up to 40% of the mean flow velocity and the frequency of pulsations up to 20 Hz. One of the possible concepts of developing a wind tunnel with flow speed pulsation was used. Speed pulsation is generated using rotating elliptic shafts located parallel in one of the wind tunnel cross sections downstream of the test section. The air is injected into the wind tunnel from the atmosphere by means of an ejector. The results obtained were applied for designing a wind tunnel prototype with the 0.4 (W)x 0.7(H) m test section. Special attention in developing the wind tunnel was given to the problem of obtaining the velocity pulse shape in the test section close to the sine curve. For this purpose special correcting devices were introduced in the wind tunnel structure. Investigation showed that shock waves can be generated in pulsing flow at transonic flow velocities.


The main goal of e-government implementation is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of public service delivery using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, its success is dependent on the provision of information security goals such as confidentiality, integrity, availability and trust. Therefore, cybersecurity is vital for the successful adoption of e-government systems. This paper presents an assessment of cybersecurity practices, cyber threats and other factors affecting effective implementation of cybersecurity program in government organizations in Bhutan. Selected cybersecurity practices included in the study were cyber policy, risk management, training and awareness, and access controls for protection of network including mobile computing devices. Out of 280 potential respondents, 157 respondents completed the survey. The results show that, in many organizations, there is very limited use of or a lack of formal cybersecurity policy, risk management, awareness, or incident management practices. The results also indicate that many organizations have either suffered from, or been affected by, cybersecurity threats such as malware, hacking and phishing scams. The study recommends both managerial and technological practices to improve cybersecurity posture of government organizations and to improve people's level of trust and confidence in e-government services.


During the periodical inspection of the crane's metal structure,cracks were often found at the weld of the transition arc region at the end of the main girder.So,it is necessary to consider the fatigue performance about this area in the lightweight designing of the main girder.A new optimization method which employs the hot spot stress method to evaluate the fatigue properties about the transition arc region at the ends of the main girder was proposed.The related hot spot stress concentration factor formula was obtained by finite element simulation.Taking the mass of the structure as the design goals and the fatigue strength of the transition arc segment of the main girder as a new constraint,together with conventional constraints like the static strength,the stiffness and the stability,the optimization model for the box main girder was established.The computing experiments based on Matlab show that the result will get higher reliability in the lightweight optimization design with fatigue properties considered.


The radiation field in an annular, slurry photocatalytic reactor has been modeled and verified working with a pilot-plant reactor. A suspension of titanium dioxide in water flows through the annular reaction space, which is irradiated with a tubular, UV lamp placed at the central axis of the system. Two different types of titanium dioxide have been used:  Aldrich and Degussa P25. Using a rigorous model, it is possible to precisely evaluate the radiation intensity at each point inside the reactor. The radiation distribution was verified by computing the forwardly transmitted radiative fluxes going out of the reactor walls at different axial positions and compared with radiometer measurements ("point" measurements). Predictions of the same fluxes were also verified with homogeneous actinometry employing potassium ferrioxalate (providing an average measurement of the outgoing fluxes over the reactor external surface). When predictions from the theoretical model are compared with experimental data, good agree...


within the theoretical system he devised – he argued for "qualified experience" that involved close attention to the effects of particular therapies, and also argued that the healing powers or virtues of plants could be determined, in part, by their taste and odor. In this way, is it not possible that experiential medicine constitutes a component of many medical traditions, and that that of the Caribbean constitutes a unique example but also was perhaps part of a larger whole?


The article represents an effort at reconstruction of Max Weber's views on education based on segment of his texts that are eligible for reading in perspective of philosophy of education. The resulting concept of education consists of two parts. First one can be considered as historical and sociological. It combines a number of Weber's statements on education as historically stipulated social phenomenon. Second part of Weber's concept of education relate to his statements made about professor's tasks and ends in process of modern specialized academic education. These statements bear distinctive moral implications.


Visual surveillance has been a very active research topic in the last few years due to its growing importance in security, law enforcement, and military applications. Detection of moving objects in video streams is the first relevant step of information extraction in many computer vision applications. Aside from the intrinsic usefulness of being able to segment video streams into moving and background components, detecting moving objects provides a focus of attention for recognition, classification, and activity analysis, making these later steps more efficient. In this work three methods as background subtraction, frame difference and SOBS methods are used to detect moving object from input video and report experimental results. The experimental results show the most suitable method that runs quickly, accurately and fits for the real-time detection. Keywords— Frame separation, Background subtraction, , Frame subtraction , SOBS, Motion


The utility model discloses a hydraulic pressure type compressed natural gas adding device which comprises a gas resource unit, a hydraulic pressure type power unit and a control unit; the hydraulic pressure type power unit comprises an oil box which is stored with hydraulic pressure medium at a constant pressure state; a closed pump used for providing pressurized hydraulic pressure medium for the gas resource unit, and the closed pump is provided with a first oil port, a second oil port and a swash plate for controlling the working state of the oil ports; a reversing valve for converting the position of the swash plate; an oil supplying pipeline, the first and the second oil ports of the closed pump are respectively connected to the oil tank by the oil supplying pipeline; a first hydraulic pressure pipeline connected between the first oil port and a first oil return line, and a second hydraulic pressure pipeline connected between the second oil port and a second oil return line. Compared with the existing hydraulic pressure type compressed natural gas adding device, the device fully utilizes high-pressure energy in the oil return hydraulic pressure medium, and the power consumption of a hydraulic pressure pump is greatly reduced when the natural gas adding device works.


This is not a big story about big successes. This is a modest story, about a small special library, doing modest things but doing them well.


This article outlines the background and planning for a South American workshop on marine biodiversity in Concepcion, Chile, 28–30 October, 2002. This first CoML/POGO effort in the Southern hemisphere, pursuant to the Sao Paulo declaration began with presentations in all major coastal states and brings together key South American researchers to take advantage of new research concepts emerging from the Census projects.


Discussed here are fighting, sorcery, and gossip among the Wik-mung- kan, an Australian aboriginal tribe. The frequent use of violence, nowadays as in the past, invalidates recent suggestions that there is little violence among hunters and gatherers. The occurrence of violence among the Wik-mungkan is by no means a recent social phe- nomenon, though it may have become more frequent in modern times. In Wik-mungkan thought, sorcery and gossiping about a person, and especially mentioning the person by name, may cause illness. Such sickness is treated by native medical practitioners who ob- tain their healing powers from Taipan, the mythical Rainbow Serpent. The success of the native doctor, it is argued, may stem from his psychoanalytical method and skill. The fact that the patient's private symbol is also a well-known public symbol enables the native doctor to understand the meaning of the private symbol of the patient in Question. (Australia, Violence, Black Magic, Symbolism)


TM 30-340, Handbook on USSR Military Forces, was "published in installments to expedite dissemination to the field." TM 30-430, Chapter V, 1 November 1945, "Tactics," is a detailed discussion of Soviet tactics for using particular types of forces and for particular types of operations and conditions. This chapter is illustrated with numerous maps, diagrams,


Solutions are presented for the interaction between a cold airstream and a growing ice surface. The ice is uniformly wetted by a thin water lm created by the impact of small water droplets. The cold airstream causes an instability of the ice surface, leading to roughness elements whose size and shape are controlled primarily by the level of supercooling. Properties of the roughness are examined in two dimensions.


Without being affected by the variation in sensitivity of the microphone devices, from a mixture of source signals emitted from a plurality of sound sources mixed well, it makes it possible to separate the sound source signal from the source object. Beamformer section 3, by multiplying the weighting factors in the relationship of complex conjugate with respect to the output signal from the spectrum microphone (10, 11) after the analysis, two microphones (10, 11) of the sound source separating device (1) the repair of a straight line connecting the beam former performs the processing for each attenuating sound source signals arriving from directions symmetrical. Power calculation unit 40 and 41 calculates the power spectrum information, objective sound spectrum extraction unit (50, 51) is based on the difference between the power spectrum information extracting the spectral information of the target sound source. Microphone, the spectral analysis unit, the beam former, a phase extraction unit, a power calculation unit, an object sound spectrum extraction unit, time waveform deformations


Northeastern Mandarin is syntactically close to the standard Mandarin. Concerning interrogative sentences, their distinction consists principally in the fact that in certain types of interrogation such as total direct interrogation, we use the interrogative morpheme 吗 ma in standard Mandarin whereas in Northeastern Mandarin, 不 bu (without tone) is used frequently, while吗 ma becomes its contextual variant, appearing only in the interrogative-negative sentence. It is interesting to see that in standard Mandarin as well as in Northeastern Mandarin, 不 bu pronounced in descending tone is an adverb of negation. In fact, 不 bu "interrogative" is related to 不 bu "negation". We will show that in total disjunctive or implicit interrogation, 不 bu is an interrogative marker with its negative trait, while in other types 不 bu loses negative meaning completely by becoming a simple interrogative marker.


In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. In addition to value evaluations of existing reading widgets, the value framework developed in this dissertation provides insight into the design of future reading widgets. This chapter presents several guidelines and recommendations for designing for adults with reading disabilities. First, some exisiting design recommendations are described. Then, a set of value-informed guidelines generated through a technical investigation are presented. Because of the unique needs and situations of people with disabilities, designing assistive technologies can pose many challenges. As such, some technology researchers have developed guidelines to aid in this task. King (1999) in particular developed a framework of what he denoted as essential human factors that should be accounted in the design of any AT device. Although King considered all disabilities, other researchers have focused on specific disability groups. For example, both Robertson and Hix (2002) and Dawe (2006) discuss designing technologies for adults with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities/mental retardation. In the case of reading disabilities, such efforts have focused primarily on the design of texts. Venable (2003) provide a comprehensive overview as to how complex texts may be simplified to reduce the difficulties commonly experienced by K-12 students with RDs/LDs. Their work is unique in that it concerns a wide range of texts, including books, magazines, and newspapers. Other design recommendations for texts tend 196 Chapter 10 to focus on website design. Powell, Moore, Gray, Finley, and Reaney (2004) synthesized a set of twelve recommendations about the format and content of websites for dyslexic students. Other efforts have made recommendations for designing pages to be accessible for users with cognitive disabilities (Jarrett & Grant, 2010; WebAIM, 2010). Such efforts unfortunately concern the full range of cognitive disabilities, and thus the user is often assumed to be low or limited general intelligence which is not true of reading-disabled users. When it comes to design recommendations for actual reading widgets and not just text design, the …


Genetic algorithm is broadly applied in solving the nonlinear programming problem in recent years.This method is advanced in this paper according to the characteristic of a nonlinear programming problem and a genetic algorithm combined with natural searching method is presented.When applied in larger scale network,the calculation results show that this algorithm has advantage of reducing the complexity and raising accuracy.


Possible to achieve both mechanical properties and flame resistance, and provides a more stringent heat conductor flame retardant resin composition in the required characteristics can be satisfied, and an insulating wire using it, the flat cable, the molded article such as heat resistance. As a thermoplastic resin, a polyfunctional monomer, the flame-retardant resin composition containing an organic phosphorus-based flame retardant, the thermoplastic resin, the carbon-for the resin having a resin or a carbonyl group having a carbon unsaturated bond in the entire thermoplastic resin and containing at least 5% by weight, the organic phosphorus-based flame retardant, the phosphinic acid metal salt, phosphoric acid melamine compound, an ammonium phosphate compound, and is at least one member selected from the group consisting of polyphosphazene compounds obtained by ring-opening polymerization of cycles phosphazene, the content of the organic phosphorus-based flame retardant the relative to 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin 5 to 100 parts by mass, and the content of the polyfunctional monomer based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin 1 and 20 parts by mass the flame retardant resin composition.


Power quality has an essential relevance for industrial economies. Server farms and highly accurate automation processes are directly dependent on the power quality of the power grid. To guarantee a standard of quality, power is measured by power quality monitoring (PQM) units. However, standard PQM systems using servers for data processing are too expensive for the installation on small power plants, which is especially a problem for the increasing number of small scaled renewable energy power plants. Thus, there are several embedded approaches using microcontrollers or FPGAs, but they are insufficient in terms of performance or flexibility. This work presents an application-specific instruction set processor (ASIP) architecture for PQM implemented on a low-end FPGA. ASIPs include customized operators, which are optimized for algorithms of specific applications. This weak programmable architecture leads to a flexible system delivering sufficient performance for handling multiple different PQM tasks in parallel. Moreover, a comparison with the embedded processors ARM Cortex-A9 and Epiphany III (E16) shows, that PQM algorithms can be executed up to five times faster even for only one measurement channel.


This paper analyses the development of the e-learning strategies that have been introduced into Malaysian public universities since 1996. Using two case studies of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), the research examines how Malaysian public universities planned to introduce e-learning strategies into their undergraduate programs. This analysis uses some 25 interviews with the teaching and administrative staff at UKM and UTM. A critical view of the problems that these universities face in implementing their vision statements is also presented. However, testing the vision statements against the experience and opinions of teaching staff is a significant task, because ultimately it is the teachers who will drive the e-learning strategies. If teachers are not supportive of these programs, e-learning will struggle to become established.


Among Renewable Energy Sources (RES), wind energy is emerging as one of the largest installed renewable-power-generating capacities. The technological maturity of wind turbines, together with the large marine wind resource, is currently boosting the development of offshore wind turbines, which can reduce the visual and noise impacts and produce more power due to higher wind speeds. Nevertheless, the increasing penetration of wind energy, as well as other renewable sources, is still a great concern due to their fluctuating and intermittent behavior. Therefore, in order to cover the mismatch between power generation and load demand, the stochastic nature of renewables has to be mitigated. Among proposed solutions, the integration of energy storage systems in wind power plants is one of the most effective. In this paper, a Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) is integrated into an offshore wind turbine generator with the aim of demonstrating the benefits in terms of fluctuation reduction of the active power and voltage waveform frequency, specifically at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC). A MATLAB®/SimPowerSystems model composed of an offshore wind turbine interfaced with the grid through a full-scale back-to-back converter and a flywheel-battery-based HESS connected to the converter DC-link has been developed and compared with the case of storage absence. Simulations were carried out in reference to the wind turbine's stress conditions and were selected—according to our previous work—in terms of the wind power step. Specifically, the main outcomes of this paper show that HESS integration allows for a reduction in the active power variation, when the wind power step is applied, to about 3% and 4.8%, respectively, for the simulated scenarios, in relation to more than 30% and 42% obtained for the no-storage case. Furthermore, HESS is able to reduce the transient time of the frequency of the three-phase voltage waveform at the PCC by more than 89% for both the investigated cases. Hence, this research demonstrates how HESS, coupled with renewable power plants, can strongly enhance grid safety and stability issues in order to meet the stringent requirements relating to the massive RES penetration expected in the coming years.


Pancreatic cancer is characterized by alterations in several key signalling proteins, including increased expression and activity of the Src tyrosine kinase and focal adhesion kinase (FAK), which have been linked to its chemoresistance. Sustained Src inhibition reactivates survival pathways regulated by the transcription factor STAT3, also leading to resistance. Therefore, simultaneously targeting Src/FAK and STAT3 signalling could provide an important strategy for treating pancreatic cancer. Recently, we described novel quinazolinediones that increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and were cytotoxic in pancreatic cancer cells. Here, we have investigated effects of our lead compound, QD232, on Src/FAK and STAT3 signalling.


According to the characteristics and the problems existing in the teaching process of General Entomology course,a series of effective measures were adopted in this course to improve the quality of teaching. In the theoretical teaching,reform teaching method and teaching means,adjust curriculum system and teaching content. During the process of practice,strengthen the experimental and practical teaching. At the same time,reform the examination system and improve the quality of teachers. As a consequence,we have achieved ideal teaching results.


Purpose: This study tries to examine the effects of hand moxibustion and press pellet by applying them to male manufacturing workers with low back pain, and use them to develop nursing interventions for workers. Methods: The data were collected from August to October, 2018, and the subjects were 60 men, processed by using SPSS/WIN 21.0 to perform homogeneity test with x2-, t-, and hypothesis tests with repeated measures, ANOVA and Scheffe test. Results: Hypothesis 1 that "the experimental group provided with hand moxibustion and hand press pellet would give lower scores for low back pain than the control group" was supported (F=78.71, p<.001). Hypothesis 2 that "the experimental group provided with hand moxibustion and hand press pellet would have a wider range of motion than the control group" was also supported (F=17.44, p<.001). Hypothesis 3 that "the experimental group provided with hand moxibustion and hand press pellet would give lower scores for depression than the control group," again, was supported (F=16.95, p<.001). Conclusion: Hand moxibustion and hand press pellet are effective in relieving low back pain for male workers, in increasing the range of motion, and in decreasing depression.


A DNA polymerase has been assayed from chloroplasts of petunia plants cultured in vitro. The enzyme activity depends on the presence of DNA and Mg2+ and is stimulated by K+. A single DNA polymerase band of 75 kDa was shown by SDS–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using a DNA-containing gel followed by in situ renaturation of proteins and incubation of the intact gel in a polymerase assay mixture. The enzyme activity was inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide (59% at 1 mM) and dideoxythymidine triphosphate (25% at a ratio ddTTP/dTTP 1:1).The inhibitory effects of flavonoids on the DNA polymerase activity were studied. The glycosylation of hydroxyl groups on the flavonoids resulted in compounds that behaved as gradually weaker inhibitors with increased size of the substituent. The degree of inhibition decreased in the following order: quercetin > quercetin-3-L-rhamnoside > quercetin-3-rutinoside. Similarly baicalein-7-D-glucuronide was less active than baicalein. On the other hand, the number and position of hydrox...


Although multiple studies have revealed a close association of skipping breakfast with cardiometabolic diseases, few studies have reported its association with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Furthermore, there is scant reporting on the clinical impacts that skipping lunch and dinner has on cardiometabolic diseases and CKD. This retrospective cohort study, including 5439 female and 4674 male workers of a national university in Japan who underwent annual health checkups between January 2005 and March 2013, aimed to assess an association of frequencies of breakfast, lunch, and dinner with incidence of proteinuria (dipstick urinary protein ≥1+). The incidence of proteinuria was observed in 763 (14.0%) females and 617 (13.2%) males during the median 4.3 and 5.9 years of the observational period, respectively. In females, skipping breakfast as well as skipping dinner, but not lunch, were associated with the incidence of proteinuria (adjusted hazard ratios of breakfast frequency of "every day", "sometimes", and "rarely": 1.00 (reference), 1.35 (1.09–1.66), and 1.54 (1.22–1.94), respectively; those of dinner frequency of "every day" and "≤sometimes": 1.00 (reference) and 1.31 (1.00–1.72), respectively). However, no association was observed in male workers. Skipping breakfast and skipping dinner were identified as risk factors of proteinuria in females, but not in males.


Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a treatment option with curative intent for selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). CRS and HIPEC have been implemented in Denmark at a single centre since 2006. Six years of data on these patients were analysed.


This paper reports an experimental validation of the feasibility of cooperative approach for extending the coverage of vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication using our software platform named Airplug. Although the access time between a vehicle and a roadside unit (RSU) providing Internet access is limited in the real-world condition, our field trials demonstrate that it is extended by just passing by an RSU with forming a convoy of five vehicles installed Airplug. An overview of our software design and experimental setup is described, and discussed together with results using a WiFi access point (AP) as the RSU. Our field results show that the minimum of increased access time of our cooperative approach is always longer than the maximum of the access time of the single-vehicle case, even though the coverage varies.


This paper analyzes input current's harmonic characteristic of the high frequency rectification circuit,and makes some improvement on the basis of the high frequency rectification circuit,by adding the parallel resonant circuit and low pass filter.Construct the simulation model with Multisim,circuit's parameters of the simulation model is giving,the simulation result is obtained.The simulation results show that an improved design method of the high frequency rectification circuit,can effectively suppress the input current's harmonic of the power module.


The thermal stability of metal nanoparticles is discussed in both melting thermodynamics and interface thermodynamics. Emphases are put on the size and shape dependence of melting temperature, critical size and vacancy‐formation energy of both freestanding and embedded metal nanoparticles. The melting temperature depression and superheating phenomena for reported nanoparticle systems are explained. Critical sizes of Fe, Co, Ni metal nanocrystals that the crystals keep their crystallinity are calculated and the corresponding minimum melting temperatures predicted. The vacancy‐formation energies of Fe, Co, Ni small particles are also calculated as a reference. Theoretical predictions are consistent with experimental results. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Hydrolysis of dodecanal dimethyl acetal and dodecyl silyl ethers in MeCN–H2O was examined using a catalytic amount of π-acceptors such as 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQF4), and chloranil (CA). Cleavage of dodecyl triethylsilyl ether with TCNQ and CA was caused by room light. By application of DDQ-catalyzed deprotection of acetals to hydrolysis of tetrahydropyranyl ethers, the corresponding alcohols were obtained in quantitative yields.


This paper making an experimental exploration of Foucault s
currents (eddy currents) through a rotor magnetically coupled to
computer hard disc (HD) that is no longer being used. The set-up
allows to illustrate in a stimulating way electromagnetism classes
in High Schools for mean of the qualitative observations of the currents which are created as consequence of the movement of an
electric conductor in a region where a magnetic field exists.


"Chinese Norwid" and the thought and poetics of Polish Norwid studies Review of Krzysztof Andrzej Jezewski, Cyprian Norwid a myśl i poetyka Kraju Środka [Cyprian Norwid and the thought and poetics of the Middle Kingdom]. The review discusses main research questions tackled by Krzysztof Andrzej Jezewski, the author of a comparative essay that juxtaposes selected aspects of Chinese culture and aesthetics with Cyprian Norwid's works.


SETTING
Contact investigation resulting from specimens sent to the Scottish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory.

OBJECTIVE
To characterise patients and types of exposures associated with transmission of a prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype in Scotland.

DESIGN
A combined approach using molecular epidemiology and semi-structured patient interviews for social network enquiry.

RESULTS
We investigated social connections between 64 patients diagnosed between 1994 and 2004. Fifty-five per cent had > or = 1 identifiable contact. One third (n = 14, 32.6%) of the 43 epidemiological links detected were discerned as a result of patient interviews and were not previously recorded on surveillance reports, nor recognised by nurse specialists (all were non-household contacts). Sixteen putative sites of exposure were identified, 11 were public houses. Rather than a single-source outbreak, eight pockets of transmission were identified, the largest involving UK-born alcohol-misusing males frequenting several public houses.

CONCLUSIONS
Using a standardised approach to explore themes around which individuals may have been exposed to TB resulted in the detection of previously unrecognised epidemiological links. Epidemiological data obtained from cluster investigations, e.g., risk and social behaviours that increase the risk of infection and sites of putative exposure, can enhance the development of more appropriate questions for the contact tracing interview.


Abstract The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2020) indicates that 30.6% of middle-aged and older adults were physically inactive. Whereas marital status is linked to physical activity (PA), it is increasingly common for couples to cohabitate, making it important to capture these relationships. The stress/social support theory(Burman & Margolin, 1992) highlights the importance of relationship quality in long-term relationships, but this hasn't been cohesively examined relative to PA. This study investigated whether partnered living status (married/cohabitating) and partnered living quality (support/strain from partner, partner disagreements) were associated with PA in middle-aged/older adults. Data were from a nationally representative longitudinal study, Midlife in the United States(waves 1–3; Nf1113; aged 49–93). Subjects were categorized into four groups based on partnered living status over the three waves: partnered living at all waves (57.9%), non-partnered living (separated, divorced, widowed, or never married) at all waves (17.6%), change from partnered living to non-partnered living (20.8%), and change from non-partnered living to partnered living (3.8%). Regressions were conducted to test the effect of partnered living status and relationship quality on the frequency of moderate and vigorous PA at wave 3. Subjects who changed from non-partnered to partnered living had the highest moderate and vigorous PA levels. Partner support was positively associated with moderate PA (β=0.50, p < 0.01), and partner disagreements was negatively associated with vigorous PA (β=-0.27, p < 0.01). Results suggest that relationship status and quality can influence PA among the aging population. Public health educators should provide additional social support to older adults to promote PA.


Focused on canto I of Inferno and the frame narrative of the Vita Nova, this essay examines the medieval cultural traditions and techniques involved in careful reading. These derive from two bodies of traditional education, ancient Greco-Roman and early Judeo-Christian. These were enhanced by reforms from the twelfth century, many disseminated from the abbey of St Victor by Augustinians and other monastic orders, and later by friars including St Bonaventure. Reading, remembering, and imagining are interdependent activities in the practices of contemplative thinking. Such reading has three characteristics. It is forcefully engaged and intense, not detached and objective. It is frequent, in the sense of being often re-visited, for creative meditation begins with something familiar and expands on it. And it is profoundly social. Medieval meditational reading is a set of continuing conversations, not intended to close off interpretation but to stimulate fruitful reflection and contemplation.


Objective To establish a reversed phase high pressure liquid chromatography(RP-HPLC) method for the determination of dauricine concentration in human urine.Methods Alkalified urine samples were extracted by diethyl ether solvent with internal standard of protopine.A Diamonsil C18(4.6 mm × 200 mm,5 μm) column was used with mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile-4% acetic acid solution-triethylamine(70∶300∶1.2,v/v/v) at 1.0 mL·min-1.The column temperature was 35 ℃ and the detect wavelength was 282 nm.Results Endogenous urine impurities did not interfere the determination of dauricine and internal standard protopine.The linear range of dauricine was 40.00-4 000 ng·mL-1.The extraction recoveries at low,middle and high levels were 82.9%,79.8% and 84.6%,respectively.The lowest quantitative limit of dauricine was 40 ng·mL-1.Conclusion The reliable,simple and sensitive RP-HPLC method can be used to determine dauricine in human urine.


Within the last decade, several bacteriophages have been isolated (Gardner and Weiser, 1947; Whittaker, 1950; Hnatko, 1954; Froman et al., 1954) which possess lytic and virus-reproducing activity on saprophytic and pathogenic mycobacteria. Investigations of the mycobacteriophages (Hnatko, 1953; Froman et al., 1955; Hnatko, 1956) have largely dealt with phagetyping and mycobacterial classification. A survey of the literature has failed to reveal data which quantitatively define mycobacterial phage-host relationships. The recent discovery of phage D29 (Froman et al., 1954) made available a suitable phage-host system for such studies. The object of this study, therefore, is to present standard quantitative bacteriophage techniques to establish such undefined characteristics as adsorption behavior, latent period and burst size of the mycobacterium-phage system.


The invention discloses a method for controlling humidity of a respirator. The method comprises the following steps: judging whether a patient is in an inhalation state currently or not according to the respiratory airflow of the patient, outputting an inhalation control signal if yes and outputting an exhalation control signal if not; entering an inhalation mode according to the inhalation control signal and outputting inhalation humidification power or entering an exhalation mode according to the exhalation control signal and outputting exhalation humidification power, wherein the inhalation humidification power is greater than the exhalation humidification power. Thus, the method is capable of controlling the output power of a humidifier according to an inhalation state and an exhalation state and ensuring that the inhalation humidification power output by the humidifier during inhalation can meet the requirements of the patient; meanwhile, the exhalation humidification power output by the humidifier during exhalation is low; the usage cost of the respirator is reduced; the waste of the energy is reduced. In addition, the present invention also discloses a device and a system for controlling the humidity of the respirator.


Nanocomposite thermoelectric compound of bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) with 5 at. % germanium nano-inclusions was prepared via mechanically alloying and sintering techniques. The influence of Ge nano-inclusions and long duration annealing on the thermoelectric properties of nanostructured Bi2Te3 were investigated. It was found that annealing has significant effect on the carrier concentration, Seebeck coefficient, and the power factor of the thermoelectric compound. The systematic heat treatment also reduced the density of donor type defects thereby decreasing the electron concentration. While the as-pressed nanocomposite materials showed n-type properties, it was observed that with the increase of annealing time, the nanocomposite gradually transformed to an abundantly hole-dominated (p-type) sample. The long duration annealing (∼500 h) resulted in a significantly enhanced electrical conductivity pertaining to the augmentation in the density and the structural properties of the sample. Therefore, a simultan...


The Voronoi diagram is a graph-based commonly used technique for creating the initial feasible path sets of an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV),whose edges are the perpendicular bisector of the two closest threat sites.It does not take the threats' effective range into consideration,thus certain paths may go through some of the threat zones.To overcome the drawback of the Voronoi diagram,an important structure in computation geometry,Laguerre diagram,is introduced.It is proved that the generated initial paths will fall inside the interspaces of two closest threat zones when they do not intersect.Since the construction algorithm is difficult to implement,a new approach to build the Laguerre diagram based on the Delaunay graph is developed,whose time complexity is O(nlg n).Simulation results demonstrate the validity of the Laguerre diagram for path planning,and verify that the runtime of the construction algorithm can fulfill the requirement of on-line planning.


The microporous polypropylene(PP) separator has been widely used in Ni-MH secondary batteries. However, the PP separator has some problems that it shows low affinity to aqueous electrolyte and poor interfacial compatibility with electrode surface. Many studies has been progressed to enhance affinity to aqueous electrolyte of the separator. In this work, commercial hydrophobic PP non-woven was modified by electrospinning method including the hydrophilic polymer poly (acrylic acid)(PAA). The modified PP/PAA separators were investigated physical properties by SEM and UTM measurement. The electrochemical performance of Ni-MH battery with the PP/PAA separators was also evaluated.


In Indonesia the problem of drug abuse and illicit trade continues to increase, worrying and endangering people's lives. Based on "Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics which supersedes Law Number 22 Year 1997", it has been regulated regarding the prohibition on the use of narcotics which are carried out without permission. In the case of narcotics abuse there are law enforcement officers who handle one of them, the police. The police as the executor and law enforcer have the duty to safeguard security and prevent and eradicate criminal acts as stipulated in the "Republic of Indonesia Police Chief Regulation Number 14 of 2011 concerning the Professional Code of Ethics of the Republic of Indonesia National Police". In fact, there is a case in Decree "Number 1057 / Pid.Sus / 2018 / PN.Jkt.Tim and Decree Number 906 / Pid.Sus / 2018 / PN.Jkt.Tim". where members of the police commit criminal acts of narcotics abuse. What is the mechanism of the legal process? and What is the criminal responsibility for members of the police who commit criminal acts of narcotics abuse? The author uses the normative juridical legal method and uses interview data as supporting data. The results reveal that the legal process for police officers who commit narcotics crimes similar to justice for ordinary people is in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code, the difference is that if there is a process within the police, the police must take into consideration the profession as law enforcement in incriminating matters.


The introduction of 1,2-bis[(o-anisyl)-(phenyl)phosphino]ethane (DiPAMP) as a P-stereo-genic ligand for rhodium(I)-catalyzed hydrogenation by Knowles et al. came after their evaluation of several diphosphines. However, no in-depth study was carried out on incorporating various substituents on its P-o-anisyl groups. In this work, we have prepared a large series of enantiopure and closely related DiPAMP analogues possessing various substituents (MeO, TMS, t-Bu, Ph, fused benzene ring) on the o-anisyl rings. The new ligands were evaluated in rhodium-catalyzed hydrogenation of several model substrates: methyl α-acetamidoacrylate, methyl (Z)-α-acetamidocinnamate, methyl (Z)-β-acetamidocrotonate, dimethyl itaconate, and atropic acid. They displayed enhanced activities and increased enantioselectivities, particularly the P-(2,3,4,5-tetra-MeO-C 6 H)-substituted ligand (4MeBigFUS). Interestingly enough, 88% ee was obtained in the hydrogenation of atropic acid using the Rh-(4MeBigFUS) catalyst under mild conditions (10 bar H 2 , room temperature) versus 7% ee using Rh-DiPAMP. Conversely, the ligand possessing P-(2,6-di-MeO-C 6 H 3 ) groups proved to slow down considerably the hydrogenation. X-Ray structures of their corresponding Rh complexes are presented and discussed.


THE present invention relates to a process for CONTINUOUS COLOR THREADS BASED cellulose fiber with reactive dyes as well as a device for carrying out this procedure. THE PROCEDURE IS DEFINED IN SUCH A WAY THAT ESSENTIALLY COVERS THE FOLLOWING STEPS: impregnating the wound THREADS QUICKLY CONTINUING THROUGH ONE OR MULTIPLE SUPPORTS (1) and performing on one or multiple platforms (3) with at least one dye FIBER REACTIVE aQUEOUS SOLUTION AND ALCALINO least one active agent aQUEOUS DYE AS WELL AS FIXING solution. The invention is usable especially in the field of coloring of cellulose fibers.


On the basis of analyzing the application flow of enterprise sales contract,the paper constructs a data model based on ERWin.The paper specifies the entities and relationships involved in the model,and imparts it's logical model and physical model.At last,the paper gives a demonstration integrity constraint about how to validate the product required serving whether the product in the contract and the product whether in the serving deadline.The paper may offer some references for the database application developers who want to effectively and rapidly establish the information system data model.


When " modernized bill of the financial service " of USA was adopted in November of 1999, the financial regulatory system with brand-new structure, Umbrella type regulatory system, is implemented. With the development of enterprise holding different financial branches, financial regulatory system faces the challenge. Our future financial regulatory system can draw lessons from U.S.A. umbrella regulatory system in order to take precautions against risk effectively.


Automotive exhaust emissions were studied from the standpoint of urban traffic conditions. Auto traffic data were obtained in Tokyo, Japan. Eleven different kinds of traffic patterns in Tokyo were identified which seemed to most closely represent urban driving conditions. Forty-eight motor vehicles, consisting of 1971 to 1976 model year passenger cars, vans and trucks (gasoline and diesel), were driven on a chassis dynamometer to measure emissions under the eleven patterns mentioned above. The characteristics of NOx, HC and Co emmissions and fuel consumption by vehicle type and model year were obtained and correlated with vehicle speeds. By combining these analyses of emissions as a function of vehicle speed with estimated present and expected future traffic data in Tokyo, the total emissions and fuel consumption by vehicles in the Tokyo metropolitan area were estimated. Calculated fuel consumption coincided well with fuel sales data. It was found that the 10 mode Japanese official test method would underestimate total emissions in an urban area.


An external method based on a serving end and an external buffer system for a computing device, and a device implementing said method, comprising: at least a serving end buffer device (S) connected via a high-speed or multi-channel data transmission device (L) to an accelerated computing device (C). L may be of a wired transmission type or a wireless transmission type. S provides C with a relatively high-speed write buffer (R layer, such as RamDisk) and a random read buffer layer (D layer, such as a phase change memory), and buffers files frequently used by the system and programs and frequently read and written files for C, transfers I/Os directed at the C hard drive, and provide computational support to C via a virtual layer (V). When L is of a wired type, L may be an optical fiber, a transmission line above USB 3.0, a CAT5E network cable, or other high speed wired transmission devices. When L is of a wireless type, L may also be a wireless network card supporting the WiGig technology, or a C base or an external device connected to S by means of wireless transmission.


The purpose of this article is to investigate the social assessment of patterns of code selection in interlocutor interactions. It examines particular strategies of code selection which have been mentioned in Speech Accommodation Theory (SAT) framework. Speech Accommodation Theory introduces a theoretical framework for the investigation of language behavior in conversational situations which permits the researcher to combine local interactive factors and socio-psychological in the same analysis.


Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning (TMLL) has been proposed as a general estimation methodology that can, in particular, be applied to draw causal inferences based on marginal structural modeling with observational data using either a point treatment approach (all confounders are assumed not to be affected by the exposure(s) of interest) or a longitudinal data approach (some confounders may be affected by one of the exposures of interest). While formal development of TMLL has included road maps for applications in longitudinal data approaches, real-life implementations have been restricted to studies based on a point treatment approach. In this article, we illustrate the application of TMLL using a longitudinal approach to investigate the comparative effectiveness in delaying onset of AIDS-defining cancers of two clinical guidelines regarding "when to start" combination antiretroviral therapy based on a patient's evolving CD4 count level. The analysis is based on observational data from the Kaiser Permanente electronic medical record to fit a non-parametric dynamic marginal structural model with the so-called inverse probability of action weighted-reduced data-targeted minimum loss-based estimator (IPAW-R-TMLE). The estimator is developed using formal results from previous, theoretical articles on TMLL before providing details on its implementation for this analysis.


Abstract A theory of exciton quasi-molequle (formed from spatially separated electrons and holes) in nanosystems that consist of germanium quantum dots synthesized in a silicon matrices is developed. It was found that the binding energy of singlet ground state of exciton quasi - molecule, consisting of two germanium quantum dots is a significant large values, larger than the binding energy of the biexciton in a silicon single crystal by almost two order of magnitude.


An equation for the energy of the one particle mode and the energy gap of nuclear matter is directly solved in the momentum space for the realistic soft- core potentials without introducing ambiguities entering in the transformation to the configuration space. (C.E.S.)


In experiments of Perkins, Kinsey, Asch and Frederick (1993 Genetics 134:729-736), new chromosome rearrangements were recovered with a frequency of 10% or more among mitotically stable transformants of am strains, whereas rearrangements were rare (< 1%) in cultures from untransformed regenerated protoplasts of the same strains. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. This regular paper is available in Fungal Genetics Reports: http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol40/iss1/27 New chromosome rearrangements from conidia of Neurospora wild type OR231VA. D.D. Perkins and J.A. Kinsey Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5020 and Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City KS 66160-7420 In experiments of Perkins, Kinsey, Asch and Frederick (1993 Genetics 134:729-736), new chromosome rearrangements were recovered with a frequency of 10% or more among mitotically stable transformants of am strains, whereas rearrangements were rare (< 1%) in cultures from untransformed regenerated protoplasts of the same strains. Rearrangement frequencies have also been determined for Oak Ridge wild types, although these were not the strains used for transformation and were therefore not appropriate as controls. Isolates were examined from regenerated untransformed protoplasts or from unprotoplasted conidia, with the results shown in Table 1. Surprisingly, 14 translocations were found in 278 isolates (5%) in five experiments with strain OR23-1VA (FGSC 2489), which has been used for many years as a standard laboratory wild type. Several apparently spontaneous translocations have been recovered in progeny from OR23-1VA during this time, but there has been no reason to suspect instability of the magnitude observed here. The translocations isolated from OR23-1VA all have different breakpoints. Stocks of OR23-1VA from three different independently maintained sources were used in the various series. In contrast, only one translocation was found in 520 isolates (0.2%) with the other untransformed strains that were tested. No rearrangement was detected in 57 regenerated protoplasts from ORS6a (FGSC 2490), and none in 196 from strain QNS-6 nit-2 leu-3 caf-1 at a (FGSC 5381; described by Perkins et al. 1986 Genetics 114:791-817). Previously, when the same QNS-6 strain was crossed with several normal sequence strains, 714 single-ascospore cultures were tested without finding a single rearrangement (V. C. Pollard and Perkins, unpublished). The Oak Ridge strain of a mating type, ORS-6a, is a product of 13 successive backcrosses to OR23-1VA or to its vegetative precursor OR23-1A (Newmeyer, Perkins, and Barry 1987 Fungal Genet. Newsl. 34:46-51). The OR A and a wild types should therefore be nearly isogenic (except for regions close to mating type), yet the A strain seems markedly more prone to rearrangement. The cause of instability in OR23-1VA is unknown. Published by New Prairie Press, 2017 UK17 and UK18 are untransformed control experiments from Perkins, Kinsey, Asch, and Frederick (1993 Genetics 134:729-736). Tested cultures in all the experiments were derived from single untransformed, regenerated protoplasts except for experiment UK19, in which they were from untransformed, unprotoplasted single conidia. Cultures were purified by serial transfer. Breakpoints are different in the two I;VI translocations. http://newprairiepress.org/fgr/vol40/iss1/27 DOI: 10.4148/1941-4765.1418


The mechanism of catalytic action on oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane over nio has been investigated by means of o-2 - tpd, pulse measure, in situ weiss magnetic methods and tap(temporal analysis of products) experiments. it is found that the oxidized ni is maintained in the course of odhe reaction. the exchange between gas phase oxygen and nonstoichiometric oxygen (alpha ,beta oxygen species) is reversible, and the beta oxygen species (possibly o-),which exists both on the surface and in the bulk of the catalyst, shows higher selectivity towards ethylene than the ar one (possibly o-2(-),o-2(2-)) which just exists on the surface of the catalyst. the mechanism is proposed that the ethylene, which is not only the product but also the intermedium of forming co2, forms from the reaction of the o- with ethane on the catalysts' surface, and the co2 forms by the reaction of ethylene and/or c2h5 with o-2(-),o-2(2-) and o-2(,)the catalyst is reoxidized with the help of the reaction between oxygen vacancy, lattice oxygen and oxygen adsorpted.


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The Brotherhood of St Laurence Community VCAL (CVCAL) program is designed to encourage young people to remain engaged in education through the provision of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning in a non-school setting. It caters for students in the Frankston Mornington Peninsula region who have left mainstream schooling prematurely—often through expulsion—and/or those who are deemed to be 'at risk'. This report provides a condensed evaluation of the 2012 program. It ranges across key areas of its operations, and is part of an ongoing assessment of the program's approach to catering for the needs of young people in the region. The 2012 program represented the third full year of VCAL provided by the BSL, following a 'Taster' version in late 2009 (see Table 4, which shows the program's growth, as well as previous evaluations, Myconos 2010, 2011, 2012.


During sports activities, acquisition of whole body 3D kinematics in ecological conditions is challenging. Although optoelectronic systems are the most accurate solution, they are not used in these conditions because of experimental constraints (e.g. variation of light conditions, size of the volume calibrated, etc). These difficulties dramatically increase in the case of aquatic sports, such as kayaking and rowing. Recently, Begon et al. (2009a) have solved an important technological lock by placing an optoelectronic system on a rolling frame. In this way, they increased the volume of measurement while keeping a good accuracy of 3D kinematic reconstruction. Estimating joint kinematics of a human chain model using a classical approach such as a global optimisation method (GO; Lu and O'Connor 1999) with a large number of markers remains time consuming. Moreover, in our case where some segments are hidden and closed loops on the feet and the paddle must be respected, the use of kinematic constraints may be helpful. To estimate the joint kinematics of a chain model, the extended Kalman filter with kinematic constraints (EKF), based on the Kalman filter and adapted to nonlinear systems, showed promising results in biomechanics (Halvorsen et al. 2008). The comparison between GO and EKF methods has already been assessed (De Groote et al. 2008). However, these authors did not evaluate the effects of the marker number on kinematics reconstruction. The purpose of this study is to compare an EKF algorithm to a GO algorithm using three sets of skin markers and closed-loop constraints.


We study the set of minimal periods of holomorphic self-maps of one- and two-dimensional complex tori. In particular, we characterize when the set of minimal periods of such maps is finite. In fact, we have an algorithm for doing this characterization for holomorphic self-maps of an arbitrary dimensional complex torus.


This report contains sections on the reaction of chlorine atoms with 1,1,1,2-terafluoroethane, abstraction reactions by thermal chlorine atoms with hfc-134a, and chlorine atom reactions with vinyl bromide.


Over time programming languages develop, paradigms evolve, development teams change. The effect of this is that test suites wear out, therefore these also need to evolve. Mutation testing is an effective fault-based testing approach, but it is computationally expensive. Any evolutionary based approach to this process needs to simultaneously manage execution costs. In this conceptual paper we adopt immune systems as a metaphor for the basis of an alternative mutation testing system. It is envisaged that through monitoring of the development environment, a minimal set of effective mutations and test cases can be developed - a 'vaccine' - that can be applied to the software development process to protect it from errors - from infections.


The study traced the graduates of CEMBA, CEMPA and MSc. Industrial Mathematics programmes in the distance learning mode at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi from 2010 to 2012. The descriptive survey method was used to assess the large and scattered graduate population. The main instrument used in gathering data was a questionnaire. A face to face interview with employers was also conducted in order to support data from graduate respondents. A total of 450 graduates participated in the study. The SPSS statistical software was used to generate results from the acquired quantitative data. The findings revealed that majority of the graduates in the three programmes were employed in the public sector, and mainly in the field of education. The Graduates found the content of their programme relevant to their career. The results also showed that job performance of graduates improved after their study. Work supervisors rated the graduates very high in terms of job performance indicators such as 'improved work competence' and 'team working ability'. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the Institute of Distance Learning and the Department of Mathematics utilise the findings/result of the study to review their curricula to meet workplace demands. Keywords : IDL-KNUST, graduates, tracer study, job performance, relevance.


Presents results of the surveillance for 1976 in 3 sections: a summary overview of the vital events (migration marriages divorces) recorded in 1976 with a descriptive analysis of the results; a study of marriage and divorce patterns in 1975-76; and selected cross tabulations of the recorded events. (Authors)


We consider these questions in the context of a real effort task that builds on DellaVigna and Pope (2018) and that we run in May and June 2018. In this 2018 experiment, we run the same group of 16 experimental treatments repeatedly, in different version. Across the different version, we consider different demographic groups, and we vary the task used, the measure of effort, and whether subjects know that the task is an experiment. We examine how much the experimental results change in response to these changes, compared to a pure replication. We also elicit which of these changes experts believe will have the most impact.


perimeters seem to be admirably adapted for the delimitation of scotomata. Many years ago (1888)Dr. George Mackay, also of Edinburgh, exhibited at the Glasgowimeeting of the British Medical Association a large circular perimeter, -hlich perhaps fulfilled to some extent the purposes of a large tangent screen. As has been shown, the ordinary .circular perimeters often fail to reiveal importanit defects in the field of vision, which at once become apparent when the more reliable tangent screeni metlhod is used. Those who have used screens for the investigation of the centre of the field, say from zero -tp to 50°, lhave no doubt of their superiority for that purpose. In using tangent perimeters, for the reasons above stated, it is desirable to have the patient at a considerable distance from the centre of the screen. At the distance of onlylhalf a metre the tangent perimeter does not possess miuch advantage over a circular perimeter with a radius of curvature of half a metre. If the distance of the patient's eye be a metre from the fixation point on the screen, then for 450, as the tangent of 450 is unity, the screen must in all directioins extenid to one nmetre from th&ecentral fixation point. For a distance of two metres a sereenwould, require to measure, for an angular opening of 450 in all directions, at least 200 cm. from the fixation point. That, of course, at once slhows the limited use which can be made of tangent screens, because, even with a spacious room, it is impossible to get 70 inches between the fixation point and the floor; moreover, the patient's eve should be as nearly as possible on a level with the fixation spot. For the thorough examination of the coentre of the field of vision the tangent perimeter will be fbouid to be most serviceable. In the usual forms supplied for recording perimetric examinations there is the same distanice between zero and the circle represeniting 450 as there is between the circle representing 450 anid that representinig 900, also the same distanice between zero and 300 as there is between 300 and 600 and as there is between 600 and 900. So long as the examiner recognizes the fact that he is dealing with polar co-ordinates and can trans-late their meaniing then no great harm will accrue. But one advantage of tangent perimeters, where applicable, is that they give the field of vision without any need of interpretation. Dr. Sinclair of Edinburglh, and probably othier workers, have availed themselves of tangent scales. A tangent scale can be easily prepared for any radius, such as that of a nmetre or of two metres, or any other nieasurement that may be required; but I think that nothing more is necessary than to take a note of the field given by a tangent perimeter in ordinary rectangular co-ordinates. The screen perimeter I use is black, and on it are traced in black tape the ordinary x and y co-ordinates. There is nothing to prevent the whole screen being divided up bv suich pieces of tape into little squares, the length of the side of each little square being two inches or even less, according to the breadth of the tape. In the first quadrant both the abscissa and the ordinate are positive; in the second the abscissa is negative andl the ordinate is positive; in the third quadrant both the abscissa and the ordinate are negative, and in the fourth the abscissa is positive and the ordinate is negative. Now with such a perimeter all that has to be done is to note accurately the values for x and y of every point taken in the boundary of a scotoma. There is no need whatever to transfer it to polar co-ordinates. Of course, should any such need arise, the calculation is of the most simple kind provided the distance at which the patient was placed from the fixation point has been accurately noted. This simple method seems to avoid a considerable amount of trouble, and has the advantage that no special diagram requires to be made for the recording of the results; ordinary ruled paper, such as is commonly used for graphs, is all that is necessary.


The cash waqfis one of Islamic economic instrument to collect charity fund from the
society to be used for public interest, but this potencial charity resource fund is not
benefited by Indonesian Moslems optimally yet, especially in the are of productive
economic activities. Contrary with other Islamic countries like Egypt, Jordan and
Bangladesh that improved it to develop their productive economic activities to alleviate
poverty from their country. The cash waqafis new waqf mechanism to save property
from individual interest to be used for public interest in order to gaining ridlo of
Allah. One of Cash Waqf character is making people easy and cheaply to do waqf,
because the people can buy waqf sertificate as akhirat investment depend on their
ability based on their intention. This mechanism makes unrich man possible to do
waqf.


ABSTRACT The roles of the two ldh genes of Enterococcus faecalis were studied using knockout mutants. Deletion of ldh-1 causes a metabolic shift from homolactic fermentation to ethanol, formate, and acetoin production, with a high level of formate production even under aerobic conditions. Ldh-2 plays only a minor role in lactate production.


The application of the alternative mechanisms of resolution of criminal conflicts, currently constitute instruments of special relevance, because they allow a reduction of the punitive sanction, with the active collaboration of the accused, which avoids the pernicious effects of the prison, privileging the early indemnification of the victim and the procedural download. Likewise, these mechanisms of procedural simplification allow a much more famous criminal process, generating a citizen perception of prompt and effective justice.
The Anticipated Termination is a special criminal process and, in addition, a form of procedural simplification, which is based on the principle of consensus.
In the Peruvian criminal procedure reform there is a clear tendency to use accusatory models (quick and effective solutions to criminal acts), therefore, one of the objectives is this research, circumscribed to the theoretical and practical field, it is therefore, to demonstrate that THE ADVANCE TERMINATION AS A MECHANISM OF PROCEDURAL CELERITY IN THE CRIME OF ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE LEGAL DISTRICT OF LORETO -IQUITOS- 2017 is interpreted correctly, in accordance with the norms and principles that inspire the Code of Criminal Procedure. It is essentially a criminal transaction, to avoid an unnecessary process. It should also be noted that the Prosecutor in the process of early termination advances his accusatory decision in order to reach an agreement of punishment and civil compensation with the accused and his defender. On the other hand, the Judge of the Preparatory Investigation, analyzes the proposal that is in the agreement to examine its sustenance, to do control of the legality and then to make judgment within the forty-eight following hours on the base of the acted and agreed by the prosecutor and the parties. With regard to the immediate process this stands as one of the procedural speed alternatives proposed by the New Criminal Code and is one of the special processes.


A beverage container assembly, comprising a first beverage container, said beverage container comprising a first body a first container, the first container body having a first base, said first base having a first perimeter and a first side wall, the first side wall connected to the first base, wherein said connecting member comprises a first sidewall. First beverage container comprises a first rim, the first rim away from said first seat defined on said first side wall. The assembly further comprises a second beverage container, said beverage container comprising a second body of a second container, said second container body having a second base, said second base having a second perimeter and a second side wall, the said second sidewall is connected to the second base. The sidewall comprises a second engaging member, said engaging member engaged with the connecting member such that the first beverage container is attached to the second beverage container.


In the period of "The Eleventh Five-years", military hospital will face many new condictions and questions. To realize the continuous development of military hospital, we should deal with some relations in the development of hospital with the guide of scientific development view, strengthen the construction of medical professional' moral, medical subject and informatization, improve the quality and efficiency of hospital, develop the hospital with the principle "High Quality and Efficiency, Low Cost".


Due to the reform of the management of company,the requirement for the human resources management talent has greatly changed in the job quality and the core skill.At present,however,because of the unreasonable system and content of the current curriculum,the immaturity of the teaching method and the incompetence and inexperience of teachers,our undergraduate students of HRM are weak in handling real business and they cannot meet the requirements for the related positions of enterprise.In order to solve this problem,colleges should re-position the goal of HRM education,adjust the curriculum,innovate the teaching methods,pay more attention to students' practical ability to carry out the double-diploma training and establish the "double-type" teacher teams,etc.,so that the education system which produces practical HRM talents can be realized.


Quite often a translator of poetry has to deal with difficult texts, which appear almost impossible to translate. A careful, modest and sensitive translator feels (or should feel) a sense of inadequacy when facing this kind of poems. This feeling leads him to a clear awareness of the limits of his "poetic" power, and of the objective and sometimes unbridgeable differences between the languages and cultures involved in the translation process. The upshot is a state of despair, dejection, or melancholic impotence. Moving among digressions, hints for translation therapies and homeopathic remedies, the essay tries to offer a bit of advice to literary translators. It deals specifically with the Italian versions of two texts composed by the American poets e.e. cummings and Billy Collins. The first is characterized by the ambiguous choice of words and its graphic composition; the second by the specificity and cultural importance of its images and figures. Billy Collins then, as in a hall of mirrors, retranslates a second "cultural" Italian version in English.


To compare and contrast the clinical presentation and treatment outcome of patients with papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma and to study the pattern of practice of treatment of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in Hong Kong.


In a time of life where the body is often dematerialized, de-centred and fragmented and the material world seems exhausted, the practice discussed in this article investigates the potential of choreography as a strategy for coming together and an attunement to place and time. Practice-led creative research is presented as a series of sonic choreographies that resituate choreography through thresholds of body, place and prosthetic technology. The participatory nature of the choreographies discussed in this article challenge the notion of the spectacle through a recovery of listening and processes of collaborative encounter. The language of the threshold as it meets headphonic sound, language and the body is considered as a theoretical context for thinking through the dispersed, disembodied and accelerated social conditioning of digital infrastructures.